I am pretty confident this strain will yield more. hopefully its as potent as the yoda og. still smoking on the Yoda , its very strong and taste great.
I saw you post in my journal and wondered why I didn't see your journal on my cp. There's a new one!
Your plants look great. I agree with making the top screen larger. Kinda like how tomato cages get bigger on top.
Since I know you don't mind questions, here's a bunch
What prompted the switch from beneficial to sterile?
You stop CO2 during stretch to minimize stretch?
Will you turn it back on after stretch?
What is the Reverse for?
I'll second the Capn on AK48. That's one of the strains I'm working with. It's a great growing plant. Clones well. Huge yielder, Beautiful bud structure. Awesome trichs. Great smoke! I plan to pop some more of my seeds here soon, but for at least the next couple crops, that strain will be well represented.
I posted the link in your journal , I guess you missed it.
hey there Hiker , glad you made it over
I really like the Capn's idea to make the top screen bigger. easy to do
the reason I switch from bennys to sterile in flower is because of the high D.O. levels in my system.
in flower when I use bennys and other products like heavy 16 prime enhancer and botanicare Sweet raw it creates a microbe breeding explosion. which in turn causes fast ph fluctuations. also now the plants roots are competing for O2 with the exploding microbe population.
by the time I get to flower (usually 45 - 60 days veg) the root systems are very large.
so in order to use my additives I have to take the benny's out of the equation.
the zone does that for me and also cleans up the system.
today I'm doing a res change and instead of zone I'm going to use cannazym to clean up the roots before the plants deal with their heavy feedings. then I will go back to zone to the end.
yes I stopped enriching co2 to limit my stretch and I will begin enriching again when stretch is over.
reverse is a product to help keep male flowers from forming on female plants. two foliar doses , once 7 days into flowering and again 10 days later.
I use this product because I grow from feminized seeds.
really glad to see your new additions and led panels really nice job
Thanks for the detailed responses you always provide. I really appreciate it.
That makes a lot of sense about bene vs sterile. At first you're tryign to build a lot of roots, then you just want them to do their job well without any competition. I totally get it. My buckets are only ~2g, so I get away with sterile the whole grow. I love DM Zone. I do plan to build, or maybe buy, a 5g based system. I'm considering something like yours, but I'm probably gonna go with the flood drain style I have now, just bigger.
I run Hygrozyme all the time. Sometimes I question it since it's the most expensive ingredient I use. It does go pretty far, but it's over $100 a gallon! I think Cannazyme is pretty similar. Makes sense to use it for one res change to clean things up a little. I know I can use Zone with Hygrozyme. You might be able to use it with yours too. Are you letting the roots have a last little taste of the microbe poop? lol
I thought that's why you stopped the gas. I'm just going into stretch and had the same thought, but I haven't even been gassing yet as I just got my room sealed back up. I have been trying to dial it in to ~1000ppm, but I keep seeing max readings waaaay too high so I turned it off last night. Will you run your CO2 for the rest of the duration?
hmmmm... interesting on the Reverse. I know I saw someone talk about it once before, but I thought it had something to do with making feminized seeds. So it's sort of a preventative measure? Would it worked on regular females too? I kinda like the idea of hermie insurance!
Funny you mention the LEDs... One of my bulbs went out this week, and LEDs are so cheap now, I'm having trouble justifying the bulbs. Since one went out, I know at least one other will be right behind it. $200 is a big chunk of the cost of new LED panels. Of course that was based on what my shop sells them for ($120). I can get them for $30-60 online I think. Anyway, I think I'm still going to take out my HPS and finish the whole area in LED now. ssshhh don't tell anyone yet since I haven't pulled the trigger.
Your roots look fantastic as always. Now that my build is settling into flower, maybe I'll get time to take some root pics.
