yup, crissy do you think we should use a Cal/mag if we arn' seeing any cal or mag problems?
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yup, crissy do you think we should use a Cal/mag if we arn' seeing any cal or mag problems?
I would even just at half doses, apparently they really need it, my Afghanis rarely showed def signs but really picked up after getting it. I'm just buying a few new products every few months and following their nute calculator.
we harvested Mud Bud two days ago, no pics tho cause it was done quickly and hastily sorry:( we got 21 grams off her, so close to the yield of our previous girls. the next plants to be chopped are champagne and dutch treat, both showing a few amber trichs so last feeding will be tonight, with a flush to come in the next few days. champagne is looking nice and fat, and dutch treat is sooooo frosty! the top leaves are white with trichomes!! will take pics soon, but internet has been down so we'll see how it goes
Soooo, I somewhat feel like weâ??ve been misleading you.
We havenâ??t been having a harvest every 10 days, gosh were is our creditability
This is because weâ??ve been in a lil dry spell and in the next twenty days (till 4/20)
Weâ??ll be harvesting 5 plants. Or at least thatâ??s what my schedule is telling me
We chopped the last plant who had a lot of stress, it wasnâ??t too impressive. Dutch mentioned it. So here are some pics of the up and coming harvests.
Iâ??m very happy with them, they each have their qualities.
1â??This is the Muti plant pot, which was a very successful experiment (champagne)
2,3-- I call her frosty (dutch treat)
4,5â??(Mud) It is only on week 6.5! and has already produced the biggest bud yet
oo and i posted under a false identity
Beautiful looking plants, folks!
Shovelhandle
So heres a good story,
yesterday dutch was feeding the plants and, click. the MH turns off So she unplugs it, allows a few min for the cooling cycle, then plugs it back in and it begins turning on. (poor story so far)
when she came home from work, light was off again. so i fiddled around with it, and nothing.
luckly i'm holding my buds 400W mh ballast, so i switched up the ballasts.
and still nothing (good, our ballast is fine)
so we assumed it was a burnt out bulb.
got a new bulb.
still nothing...
after this long process of elemination that left only the wiring between the ballast and the bulb.
took all that apart and found one of the wires had melted and caught fire.
somewhat concerning.
But we invested in all that saftey stuff and it all worked and no problems
any ideas how the wire could carry enough current to melt?
heres a pic
power surge. do all of your lights come on at the same time? if so, you may want to consider staggering them by five minutes, to allow the amperage to level out...
other than that, i don't know...
no our lights come on 6 hours apart.
And we've only got two 400Wers
but we dont really know when it happend as dutch was at work.
what else could cause a surge, could our ballast be F'ed?
should i not worry about it?
the only other possibility i see is that the wire connection may have been loose, and cause an arc/spark, that fried the wire. when you rewire, make sure those suckers are permanently secure...
so by cutting a few leaves off i can get he to produce more resin?
when i multi top, i make my first top at five nodes, i top the top two after two node, and top the next imediately, making a plant that looks like ten, all on one stalk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abattoir Dream
Hi there everyone.
I have to ask something. Why would you cut away the fan leaves to let light hit the buds? Buds are the Fruit of the Plant. Apples, Tomatoes, Grapes, Strawberries.. and so on, and so on. Do not have any Photo sythesist abiliities.. This is why the plant has Leaves. My self, I can care less if the buds get light. But I do like, my inside small leafs to get some light. But I try my best to never cut away fan leafs. I think of these fan leafs like the Bears fat stores for the winter time. When the plant thinks winter has hit, it will suck out what it can from the fan leafs. But if there is no fan leafs,, it goes hungry.
Just my thought. I am just another idiot trying to grow a plant. :stoned:
We do not cut away the leafs to allow light to hit the buds,Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Dangly Bits
I personally donâ??t believe it matters what part of the plant the light hits.
The purpose of the leafs is to photosynthesizes, so let them do their thing.
I havenâ??t found a single person who would recommend that, too stressful.
And yes they need the stored nutrients for when you cut off fertilizer near the end
What we were talking about is cutting the fan leafs off in the last few days, to make the plant think it is being eaten and have a self defensive reaction (produce resin)
We plan to test this thought out next year with a suitable sample size.
Ps- Buds arenâ??t fruit they are the flowers. Cannabis doesnâ??t produce fruit just seeds
And fruits, apples tomatoes grapes, do photosynthesizes when they are green.
Wow guys I am so happy to see that things are safe with that wire all melted, shit, that's scary.
Where'd you get those lights?
Is there a ground wire?
Did you have them on a GFI circuit?
What causes heat is high resistance in the line...and that can come from more current than the smallest (in terms of maximum load.. determined by material and diameter of the conductor) part of the circuit can carry... for example a bad solder connection or a pinched wire.
If the burned point is within the light, having your lights come on staggered will do absolutely nothing for you. That would be the fix if you were popping breakers, or were concerned about questionable (for example knob-and-tube or 1940's style aluminum, scary!) house wiring.
Problems within the light- you[re going to have to troubleshoot it, crap.
Hmmm what else... oh yeah! Calmag!
My girl Foxy was having major problems with her last run of clones and I talked to the fertilizer guy about it.
Despite bleaching the prop trays etc and using sterile tools, the slips started developing necrotic patches within days of coming off the plant, and this despite a nice mist of copper fungicide 2x a day.
Guy said that it sounded like a Ca problem and showed me his cucumber and melon plants, which are VERY heavy feeders and seem to need extra Ca indoors, and they had been showing pretty similar problems... parts of an otherwise healthy leaf just going brown and papery while the rest of the leaf stayed fine... weird.
Anyway she's starting to prep her moms with calmag now and we'll see how the next run goes.
BTW this became a problem when she switched my old moms to coco when she took them over. Very interesting. I had always assumed our city water had plenty of dissolved Ca in it...
Ima go repost this in her log too.
How to know if nutrient companies love you...
and
some seeds that just germinated.
my friend grew them cross : Columbian Red x Grapefruit
ps- Stinky, should the accutal socket be grounded too? My understanding is that it shouldn't as it isn't electronic and i've never seen a light bulb with one
the ballast is grounded
Damn another log to fall in love with. Those are some nice buds.
thanks,
ps
this log will soon become an indoor/outdoor log
the seeds are for the outdoors mainly
See that's weird; I have always believed the socket SHOULD be grounded! The Sun Systems 10s I have DO have grounded sockets, But my Inside Sun lights don't have grounded sockets. And YES I bitched to the owner about it. WTF.Quote:
Originally Posted by harris7
Maybe that's a Q for the geeks in indoor lighting.
Big Bud was missing in that pic Harris. lol.
Anyways, the next few months shall be exciting! We are intensfying our grow to prepare for our move into a house in the summer. We are eventually gonna tear down the middle wall in our closet, and make the whole area a flowering chamber, and do any other vegging under our T5. So we are going to be harvesting a lot of plants really soon, and putting a whole bunch into flower really soon! Exciting stuff!
3 plants are getting ready to be chopped, in eventual order of appearance: Dutch Treat, Mud Bud, and Champagne. They should all be cut in the next week. They were taking longer to flower than expected, so we need to check for light leaks.
Ohh three more chops on the way. I'll have to check back soon.
I dont know what the connection was like. it was wired by the "grow store guy"Quote:
Originally Posted by Scarlet Sky
i'll make sure i do it right when i do it
thaks
heres a pic of the nice plant i put into flowering yesterday
our flowering room is packed to the rafters with 8 plants!
i crammed this one in because were moving in 9.5 weeks so it should be finished by then. and we wont have to move it
we might be putting a plant into 24 horus darkness tongiht b4 the chop
i'll update when i get home if we are.
harris
so this marks the end of the multiplant experiment
unfortunatly we will learn little because we added a bloom fert. near the end
so if it yields well we wont know why 100%
so we copped it and it's been drying for a day now.
the buds are much denser and heavier than b4
and heres a pic of the many seedlings we have
So we've been chopping and trimming left and right. I'll go through all the pics we took and post some good ones ASAP.
but right now were dealing with a little problem with some seedlings
see pics
Dutch thinks it might be bug damage. I think it's because they're growing so fast it's causing deficiencis. As some are light green and the damage is working it's way up from the lower leafs.
sounds like a moblie nute problem. BUt, they are still too small, IMO, to be having nute problems. I have them 1/4 strength Fert today. We'll see
what to yall think?
I don't really know what it could be...but to be honest I don't think the plant would already be having nute defs this early in its life...how long since they broke the soil?Quote:
Originally Posted by harris7
not long they grow Very fast under the T5 maybe 7-10 days
The T5 is such a good light (and on 24/7) its been common in our grow that clones would grow so fast they'd get N def. Even with good amounts of Fert added. The problems disapear once put under 18/6 MH
Hey, harris7 and dutch.lover (who I haven't seen on in a while). It was nice looking at this log. Its a bummer that things didn't work out as planned, but we always learn, right. Hope you get a hold of that LYD asap. Looking forward to your new setup and more great stuff from you guys. Enjoy those meds, friends. :)
The Fog :rastasmoke:
HOLY FUCK.
You know that mythological hermi that only produces 1 pollen sack.
you never find out about it but it seeds all you girls...
well, this little plant came pretty close. A hermi producing less than 6 pollen sacks hidden within all her nice buds
quite upsetting. But, on the bright side many of the sacks werenâ??t mature and the larger ones looked deformed so Maybe,,,, just maybe no pollen
im an optimist
I trimmed a plant a few days ago and noticed what appeared to be a male pollen sack buried in the bud also, as it was all dried up it was hard to tell. We possibly had light leaks in the flowering chamber a while back so that could explain it.
I think we are manicuring a plant tonight so if the internet is still working (its working this morning, keep your fingers crossed!) we will post pics! Keep checking back, sorry I am not around to post more often.
Ouch, hopefully no pollen is right, what a pain.
That's what Arjan (The King of Cannabis) does to his plants a few weeks before flowering. Well somewhat. He removes quite a few nodes and their lateral growth at the bottom. His reasons are: better airflow, it makes it more difficult for any small animal to clime into the plant, and he says it focuses the energy into the main colas, which become extremely bushy. Arjan's company Greenhouse Seed Company has many documentaries following many of his strain's life, until harvest. They are available on YouTube. Just search for "Greenhouse Seed Company".Quote:
Originally Posted by Abattoir Dream
what about transpiration that would directly affect the branch and whole plant the plantsneed the big leaves to pull water up the plant i think generally leave the fan leaves if u can especially if there real healthy and gettin plenty of light
most likely loose wire connection and using a heavier wire size is good and an inline fuseright at the ballast is also good icehouse beer is good gfci protection is also good but sometimes a pain recommend it tho
Any recent Pics?