Auto dwarf grow...

Blue mystic auto? I need to check that out! I love blue mystic.

Hey dope... I bought my ballast from a hydroponic store on ebay. Good prices as well on name brand stuff.

Ok so im going out of town unexpectedly today and wont be home for awhile. I cut the Taigas about 3 days early.

They are super sticky sweetness! Even the stems are loaded with trichs. The room stunk of skunky grapes.

I would have never thought they would be as nice looking as they are... One was a mutant that never really grew, one stretched out like a grove of palm trees, and the last one was always a tiny single cola plant. I am happy with them so far. I wonder if they have a Taiga regular non auto...

The blue mystic and other "P.R." get a transplant today before I leave. I transplanted the bigger one that has been flowering a few days ago to a 5g bucket. The tent will flip today as well. Cant wait for the big buds now...

Pic 3 - is that mutant plant.


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So this grow was the most challenging for me yet. From baja mexico temperatures to high humidity at night. Mixing different nute ratios for different plants...even burnt the taigas a little bit. Moving a plant in and out of a dark tent as well...

Learned alot...

Thanks for everyone who stopped by. I will continue the log here with the non autos starting when I get back.

hey getthisordie were did you get your ballast at?

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This is the seller I bought my HID package from. Lumatek digital balast with 600w hps and mh. 6" Aircooled hood.

thanks man again great grow:thumbsup:

Here are some pics...

The budding one is 2 weeks old and the others are at like 5 days 12/12.

Had to raise the light a few inches again because of the tall top on one plant.

All three are doing great...

Pic 1,2 - "P.R."s
Pic 3 - Blue Mystic

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This plant has some of the longest hairs ive seen... some of them are a solid inch in length...

Pic 3 - shows a bud with some hairs that are rolled up like little balls. Weird...

Nice work, Man!!!'

u HAB GRATE SKILZ :jointsmile:

UPDATE

The "P.R." that has been 12/12 for 3 1/2 weeks now looks amazing. Buds are noticably bigger every day. Sweet smell so far.

The other "P.R." and the blue mystic have been 12/12 for over a week now and are just now showing signs of buds. The other pr had a huge stretch the first week and is now bigger than the tall one thats been flowering.

The blue mystic actually topped itself if that makes sense. One day was growing a single stem the next there was a tight mass of vegetation... then two thick main stems now... very strange.

Everything is going good.

Pic 1 - group shot... the two "p.r."s are left and back right. blue mystic in the front right.

Pic 2 - blue mystic self topped.
Pic 3 - nice cola.
Pic 4 - more nice colas.

more pics.

check out pic 4... great lookin shot in my oppinion.

Also dont have any idea on the finishing time of the two mystery plants... so will need to keep watching them. Hopefully the first is done in about 4-5 weeks.

If all goes well there will be a definite jungle of buds in my tent. :thumbsup: :stoned:

looking great....are you still runin at 400 watts? and what size pots are you using.....also what was the weight on the one you cut down again great thread:thumbsup:

thanks

The autos got me a tad over 2oz dry. Wanted more but the one was a mutant and didnt give much. Plus one of the Taigas the buds were real whispy but potent. I feel that I could have gotten much more from the autos if I didnt have such high temps. Temps are good now that the light is only on 12 hours a day.

Still at 400w and the two big plants are in 5g buckets and the smaller one is in a 3g.

Had to add another small fan for lower plant air circulation... its getting cramped in there so it should be fun when they are all budded up.

Are you going to leave them in the three gallon buckets? Can you talk a bit more about your experience 3 vs. 5 gallon pots. I know the theory and the general rule of thumb - 1 gallon per foot of plant. What is your take / experience?

I am going to leave the smaller blue mystic in the 3g.

From my experience that rule has worked well. Ive tried bigger plant smaller pot and vise versa. Foot per gallon seems the best... The thing I dont like about the 5g buckets is that is creates an air tight seal with my tent floor so they dont drain well. I had to make little trays with rocks inside to sit the buckets in for drainage.

I also like the 5g buckets for their stability. With some 3g buckets it is very easy to topple it over with a bigger budded plant in it. So what I will do is fill 5g buckets with soil to a level thats good for the size plant im putting in it. Not too small of course!

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lookin good dude

i personally leave my plants in 3 gal. buckets and have amazing results with white fire o.g., casey jones, white dog, d.u.d., and respect o.g.

Rather than threadjack I started my own thread. Comments appreciated!

You can find the thread "3 Gallon vs. 5 Gallon Buckets" here.

Didnt want to but had to tie a top down on the big plant in the back. Raised my light as high as it goes... she seems about done with stretching, maybe a few more days.

Hopefully she does ok with it... shes going to have alot of bud.

good stuff gethis:rastasmoke:

alot of bud is never a bad thing

had to tie some more branches down... going to be cutting it close!

Let me make this clear... such a pain in the ass to have to mix different ppm nute formulas for different plants. Then when you try to take a shortcut one of your plants gets a tad bit burned...

hope I dont run out of vertical space

Also added the LED back in... I had taken it out for awhile because of space issues.

pic 1,2,3 are 4 weeks

last pic is the big plant a couple days past 2 weeks.

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looking great man hey how much do you think you will yeild?

If i were to have to make a guess I would say about 2.5-3oz's dried on the budded up one. She has some thick buds down low and a big mass at the bottom of her main cola.

The others are still early in 12/12 so its hard to tell. The blue mystic is smaller so im hoping for 1.5-2oz from her. The big one I dont know. Considering how hard she stretched and the bud structure so far, she seems to be maybe a sativa dom hybrid. So her buds might be smaller...

Hopefully I can get a decent amount so I can pack up the tent for a few months and relax.

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Ok so it wasnt an issue with the nutes. I think I know what happened.

I use several jugs for water storage that are exactly the same. I think I might have used one that hadnt been PHd yet or somehow got them mixed up. So i think they got watered with 8.8ph water... Should be fine but I got a few crispy leaves and the budded one has some yellow spots and canoed spears.

Tip of the day... dont medicate before you go take care of your plants!

Ok so the ladies are a couple days from 5 wks ("p.r."#1) and 3 wks ("p.r." #2 and blue mystic). Had a slight issue with accidental watering with non ph corrected tap water at 8.8ph. Got a few crispy leaves and some spots but other than that they are fine and budding up nice.

The 5wks girl smells like high grade for sure. Decent amount of trichs so far. Also getting orange hairs now.

The other two seem to be done with the stretch. They look like they will have some nice dense colas from the bud structure so far. They are both starting to frost up already but the blue mystic more so.


Hopefully these ladies are done in a timely fashion as I would like to pack up the grow before the hurricanes start.

Since I have no idea how long the two unknowns will take I will be watching closely. I think the first one has maybe 3 more wks to go. What do you guys think?

Heres some shots. :thumbsup:

Ok so the blue mystic and the big lady got pretty crispy from my ph mishap. I was sad until I checked them this morning... the buds are starting to get bigger and the BM is getting super frosty. Even with all the damage on them. Hopefully they are going to pull through and finish!
They both look like they are going to be full of buds.

Also this blue mystic actually smells alot now. I chose the strain for its lack of odor and have grown it out a few times without strong odor... this time is different. Different smell and taller bush this time around. The smell is very cat piss like in nature... thats the best way I can describe it lol. It stinks... but it stinks so good.



The other lady is getting closer and filling in good. Lots of short fat buds all over and the big main cola thats getting thicker. Should be 2-3 more weeks by the looks of it. Next week I will start flushing.


I will post pictures either tonight or tomorrow of the crispy girls :(

Nice grow bro, sorry i tuned in late. But i am in til the end:) I am thinking about trying some auto dwarfs. Looks like they yielded great for you. keep up the good work!

UPDATE

The budded one is almost 6 weeks old and is coming along nicely. Her buds are starting to get so fat and heavy the main cola is starting to sag over. Need to get a support stick... The smell is just of high grade bud. Looks great. Some of the lower bud branches are budded thick as hell almost all the way down to the main stem...excellent.


Now on to the other two. Now I have a few theories on what might have happened to these ladies... but its hard to pinpoint which it was because the taiga really puts me out of my mind and I cant remember... I was not able to give them proper flushes because its just too hard to pull them out and get them to a place where I can do it. I did water them as much as I could letting it drain into the waterproof bottom of the tent then cleaned it up as best I could. They got a mini flush I suppose. The big one in the back was damaged the most and lost alot of fan leaves. The buds keep getting bigger on them though so I have hopes of them finishing. The blue mystic is getting real frosty. These two plants are almost 4 weeks. The damage might have set them back a week but if they make it that far I will gladly give them extra time in the tent to make up for it.




On to the snaps... Dont laugh too hard at the poor girls :(

Here are some pics of the budded up one...

Dont mind the cat hair because I do pick it all off. Very slowly and carefully... pain in the ass for reals but I wouldnt get rid of the cats for anything!! I guess its on my clothes when I check the plants and it floats off and into the tent from the suction of air.

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damn dude those buds are gettin pretty fattt what ya thinking atleast 2.5oz off that "pakistan ryder"

Thanks for the comment... thats exactly what I was thinking. Great number for me from what was supposed to be a small auto.

Just tossed one of the lower popcorn buds in the microwave (i know..).
Got me and the wife pretty relaxed. I want to give it at least 7 more days before I chop.

Heres a few pics of the one that is getting close.

Checked on them yesterday and her main cola was leaning into the other plant and some of her lower buds were hanging almost down the bucket.

Had to take some heavy duty twine I had and tied all the buds up.

Hopefully no more than 14 days.

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Pic 1 - one of her bigger buds that fell over.
Pic 2 - main cola tied to the tent.
pic 3 - some of her buds that were hanging down under the canopy of the big plant at bucket level. Had to bring them all up and tie them.

great stuff ya got there:thumbsup:

Thanks for the comments guys...



The buds are swelling even more now and I hope to have a good harvest soon.

i would say at least two weeks left it still looks like those buds still got some room to get fatter but from what i've heard its the last two weeks that they do get fatter so ur in good shape cant wait for a smoke report after you chop good luck

Ya from the way the buds look I would guess at least a week more but the trichs are about 90-95% milky today before they went to sleep. I prefer all milky but im not the only one this medicine is for so I might give it some more days.


I did clip me off a bud though and its air drying as I type...

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Solid grow man. We use a lot of the same products and techniques. Happy harvesting!!!! :rastasmoke: