Alien NLX Flowering day 30

Florakleen is only used to flush nutrients out of the plant. So there is virtually no reason to use it for more than the final week.

Now on the bottle, it says you CAN use a little before you change your res, but I think the only time you might is if you have some serious nutrient overferting or something very unusual.

If you used it at every res change, you'd be basically in a cycle of sucking everything out of the plant, then replacing it from square 1. I'm not sure how the plant would like that. If you had tons of salt buildup or some signs like that during grow, then yeah someone might recommend to flush it as good as you could to save it.

Well I'm at day 58 of flowering now, still haven't harvested. Still taking small snips of tric covered leaf and inspecting. More flowers have browned, but tric's are still maybe 80% cloudy, 15% clear, rest amber. Damn close I'd say. The samples I've tried have been very good.

I noticed a small leak somewhere around the rim of my growtub and popped the edge of the lid to peek in. The water was higher than it should be and was dripping out from a hole I made for the drip tube. I removed some water from the res to let it lower, but I think my drain tube is root clogged.

In the future, I'd use 3/4" tube (not 1/2), and also add a filter to help block roots from travelling all the way down the drain hose. In my case, the hose runs back to the res to give it recirculating ability. I was worried about this happening in the middle of the night and waking up to a huge emergency, lol. So if you're reading this and planning a system, take note.

PICS PICS PICS :thumbsup:

OK, here's probably the last pics before chop chop.

pic 1) Using a lighter for scale. Main cola on 1 plant.
pic 2) View over the tops. You can see the lighter in same spot on the left.
pic 3) A side view of some branches.

I'll take more pics after harvest when things are cleaned up.

dude, that is some nice work you are doing, some of the better looking plants seen in here, in quite awhile :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by MisterE

pic 1) Using a lighter for scale. Main cola on 1 plant..

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Beefcake! BEEEEEEEFCAKE!!!!!!
:D
Nice work!

Thanks for the props :thumbsup:

It's hard to be patient, but it's all flushed now (ppm is currently 20), and so it looks like it's time to gum up some clippers, lol.

Wish I could get better pics, but my camera is a first generation digital, and thats the best possible quality that I can get.

MisterE

Impressive my friend. Thanks for posting some pics B4 the chop. When you get those budsicles cured and trimmed will you take pics of them under a Floro light or something that will really bring out the color. Also would like your description of how the most potent of the buds made you feel after smoking. Did you use a Bloom enhancer?

Peace :thumbsup:

Where do you live Mr E? Because looking at those I AM IN LOVE!!!:cool:

Weedhound, you just love me for my big thick bud! hehee:D

GodBud, I used Awesome Blossoms. Did a res change with RO water, added the stuff according to the bottle, then added GH nutes until I was at 1500ppm, then adjusted ph after it had time to circulate a little while. I did that a couple of weeks in a row.

In process of clipping yesterday and today, and probably through the whole weekend. I'm about halfway done with one plant. I just trimmed up a branch that weighed 2.9 oz wet. I'm sure that'll drop quite a lot when dried though.

The smaller fluffy stuff I'm putting in a cardboard box, and I'll try to turn it gently over daily. The larger branches I'm hanging whole. Not really trying to weigh everything wet, just a couple out of curiosity. When it's all dry I'll try to get a total per plant before I jar and cure as much as I can.