Another Brix In The Wall: Sweet Pink Stink & Coked Out Girl Scout

Here are a few. I'm not sure if/how to post a video, got a couple cool ones. Some of my favs were the coral, note the urchins in the purple fingers pic. The pic does not do the Carribean reef squids justice, they were really cool. Saw lots of stuff I didn't get pics of like sting ray, puffer fish, grouper, parrot fish and more.
Nice clear water I need that in my life.
 
Nice clear water I need that in my life.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind it on the regs. If I hit the lottery which I won't since I don't play, I'd have a place in the Carribean. I was watching one of those stupid shows where they show you 3 houses and you pick one, this episode in the Dominican Republic had a 3200 square foot home, beautiful, OCEAN FRONT! For less than 300k! In my mind I'm selling a bunch of stuff and moving there!


Haha Doogs! Yes, I forgot to mention the great white that attacked me and I punched it in the snout and it took off. Haha, :rofl: Sorry brother, I had to! :surf:
 
Thanks bud! It is crazy how colorful she is getting so early on. The only other plants I have ever grown that purpled like this were Dark Devil Autos. Never before has any photo done this for me. The curled leaves are a little funky, not sure what is going on there. Hopefully it wont effect things and she will cruise for the rest of flower. :)
 
I wonder if the curling leaves are a trait of SP, mine being the most pronounced ever, ha! My clones will probably get the axe, the COGS have some 1 and 3 bladed leaves so do my blooming cogs but the SPS does not so wonder if that is a trait of the cogs....? These 3 will be the last for a while. Tightened the bondage on the girls, BCP is one of the best looking plants I've grown to date, canopy is very level and so is Crinkle puss. star pupil is one freaky chick! SC2 is tall and lanky and her stem is hollow, I gave her a nice SC about 2 hours ago and she popped right back up.







Have a rockin weekend all!

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Hey Ween, all caught up here.

**Hey Van! Great to see you round these here parts!

Didn't see anyone really address your perpetual issue so allow me to attempt, but I will need to ask you a few questions to get a feel for what you are working with.

**Thanks! See below.

1. Do you have a plant limit? And how many plants are you thinking about growing at one time?

I know you are talking about dropping down to 7s.

**My limit is that I need to keep it reasonable, not go over board. I feel like my space limits me to 4 veg, 4 bloom in the two 4x4 and then seedling/early veg in the 2.5x3.5.

2. How long are you wanting to veg each plant? (very important for factoring time between popping beans)

**I'm using the kit so it's advised to get a very Healy root mass before flip which is somewhere in the 8-10 week range.

3. Do you need to reduce plant counts during the summer due to heat?

**im thinking I may need to consider this due to my current bloomers that are doing ok but could be much better, been struggling with high rh but think I have it under control, still I don't think having a 4x4 jam packed in this heat and high rh is a good idea.

4. What is your lighting situation?

**i have a Perfect sun Goliath which may soon become my veg light, making room for a new addition of an even better light. I also have two 600w HIDs with both MH and HPS bulbs, 2 Mars Hydro LEDs 205w 96 LEDs.

If you give me those basics, I can give you what my recommendation for you would be based off my experience in perpetuals.

*Thanks, much appreciated!

Garden is looking great my friend!

Thanks again Van! Looks can be deceiving sometimes, I'm concerned about my flower girls flopping everywhere, hope I can limp to the finish line!

Ok, so perpetuals. Lots of things to consider and even then you can only use baseline info that breeder provide us. The first thing you will need to figure out is what your high limit on plants is going to be. For me, I have a 12 plant limit so I used a 2 to 3 week as baseline for each new seed drop. I run a week in the seedling phase and then generally about an 8 week veg but I have gone as low as 6 weeks (for the Stankberry) and as long as 12 weeks for the main lined White Widow but that was more of a space limit.

Sounds like you will be vegging about the same amount of time. So depending on how many plants you intend to have going and if you plan on taking and growing clones, will depend on how much time between dropping seeds. For regular seeds I generally drop 2 seeds at a time.

Generally I have 4 plants in Veg and 4 or 5 in flower (I tend to get in trouble with clones which is what I have going on now). I find that using a 10 week flower time works for a scheduling, with the understanding that some will be faster and some will be slower but unless you are running a bunch of pure Sativas....you should be good using the 10 week flower time.

You have a lot more flexibility in your set up with that third tent. I think maybe with me, I would be vegging in one 4x4 and flowering in one 4x4 and then you can use your smaller tent for either vegging clones or smaller seedlings, or for running autos or even smaller shorter plants in flower. Most likely I would use it for additional flower since thats where you generally want more room.

So if you wanted 8 plants......and you are vegging an average of 10 weeks (I always lean toward the higher number) you would probably want to drop new seeds every 3 weeks and when a plant hits that 10 week mark, you move it to the flower tent and drop a new bean. Discipline is really the key to not having a perpetual getting out of hand. Its a real struggle to not drop a new shiny bean that I see someone else growing out. Essentially when you get it rolling with the perpetual, you want to drp a new bean about the time you are harvesting a plant (or two if you are dropping regs). Harvest a plant and drop a bean.

Understand that the plants work on their schedule and not yours. So you might have the best laid plans but if you have a plant that grows crazy fast or tall or takes forever to finish flowering, there isn't much you can do and you have to just roll with it Thats where that 3rd tent of yours gives you so much more flexibility. You can change the lighting hours real quick and go from extra veg space to extra flower space.

So to summarize.....the main things you have to decide are:

How many plants you want.

How often would you like to harvest.

Stick with your 8-10 weeks of vegging. I think that is about perfect. Be prepared to deal with plants that have a mind of their own. When you answer those two questions above......that will determine the best way to run your perpetual. Very interested to see what you do!
 
Hey Van! A big thanks for all the great info! I really want to do this but I'm going to need a new, insulated grow space. I thought about building a room in my garage which will probably be the least expensive and easiest but I'd much rather have a grow shed, ditch the tents. Giving it some thought. Your post will help me when I get it going. Thanks again!

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Hey Lady and Daj! :passitleft:

So I was away all week. Got home late last night and went to check on the girls, breaker had tripped, grrrrr, it was at 11pm but not sure if it was last night or the night before because the last time the boss checked on them was Wednesday (my mistake!) Reset the timers to what they were at and went to bed. Had stuff to do today and did not get to check them til 830 and the breaker had tripped again last night at 2am, grrrrrrrrr! Nothing has changed, why is it tripping!? Am I screwed as far as light stress and hermies? I will keep an eye on it and check as much as I can, it's just odd that it wasn't tripping before. Veggers look great. Bloomers look pretty good but a handful of leaves have been dying.

They're +51, should I consider chopping soon or see what happens? These strains were taken at 68 days last time.

So floppy, I will add stakes and tie colas to them. SPS is standing on her own.

They areas frosty as can be!





Star Pupil!


 
Hey Lady and Daj! :passitleft:

So I was away all week. Got home late last night and went to check on the girls, breaker had tripped, grrrrr, it was at 11pm but not sure if it was last night or the night before because the last time the boss checked on them was Wednesday (my mistake!) Reset the timers to what they were at and went to bed. Had stuff to do today and did not get to check them til 830 and the breaker had tripped again last night at 2am, grrrrrrrrr! Nothing has changed, why is it tripping!? Am I screwed as far as light stress and hermies? I will keep an eye on it and check as much as I can, it's just odd that it wasn't tripping before. Veggers look great. Bloomers look pretty good but a handful of leaves have been dying.



I had a breaker start doing that once I think it may be a sign of failure, Mine finally tripped the final
time and it would not reset only slip back to off. Changed it out and never an issue since
 
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