Ase's Perpetual Fun With Coco

Great cola shots, Ase, they look awesome. Headlights sounds like it should be a great smoke.

Headlights is one I've looked forward to the whole time. Headband is one of my favorite strains and I've seen nothing but good things from people growing anything with Northern Lights in it. Usually bulky colas. My Aurora Indicas were that way. I should grow those again now that I know what I am doing. Would be fun to see the difference now.
 
Ase you are killing it bru. I wanted to ask you a question right, so I see you refer to your NPK ratios and how you need to balance them in flower, is this correct and how can I go about working this out of sorts?? I see Skoondawg does it but he is super busy the last few weeks so haven't gotten time to talk to him yet about it. Can't wait to see the Headlights chopped, those buds are lit :passitleft:

The first two weeks in flower are known as transition weeks and this is when they stretch. I've heard the more nitrogen you give them in this stage the more they will stretch and if you cut it a little it will make stunt growth. I like a nice 1-1-1 NPK for this point so the plants can get whatever possible nutrient they need. You just have to add all the information up from your feed (each bottle should say the ratios of N-P-K). If one bottle is 5-0-1 and you use 5 ML of it in your batch then you have 25-0-5. If the other bottle is 0-5-4 and you use 5 ml of it then it is 0-25-20. When you add them together you get 25-25-25 or 1-1-1. It all depends on your nutrient line.

Skoondawgs plants really look healthy and green. Does he use my feed schedule? So far my photos have shown no signs of any issues so far so I am very happy with it. There are some good YouTube videos really explaining nutrients that are fun to watch and I learned a ton from them. It's eye opening looking at the bottles as just numbers and manipulating them to your advantage. The generic schedule on the bottle is usually not the way to maximize the plants. Did I answer your question?

I was thinking about chopping the Headlights today or tomorrow but so far just milky trichs and no amber. Probably will flush a few more days and pull her down this weekend. That is when the youngest girls will likely need up-potted anyways.
 
The girls look awesome!! Them headlights are crazy. Makes me want to check to see if I can get them where I am.

Best looking auto I have grown. The Cherry Bomb is big but the buds on the Headlights is just gorgeous to me. Can't wait to chop it and jar it.
 
The first two weeks in flower are known as transition weeks and this is when they stretch. I've heard the more nitrogen you give them in this stage the more they will stretch and if you cut it a little it will make stunt growth. I like a nice 1:blushsmile:1 NPK for this point so the plants can get whatever possible nutrient they need. You just have to add all the information up from your feed (each bottle should say the ratios of N-P-K). If one bottle is 5-0-1 and you use 5 ML of it in your batch then you have 25-0-5. If the other bottle is 0-5-4 and you use 5 ml of it then it is 0-25-20. When you add them together you get 25-25-25 or 1-1-1. It all depends on your nutrient line.

Skoondawgs plants really look healthy and green. Does he use my feed schedule? So far my photos have shown no signs of any issues so far so I am very happy with it. There are some good YouTube videos really explaining nutrients that are fun to watch and I learned a ton from them. It's eye opening looking at the bottles as just numbers and manipulating them to your advantage. The generic schedule on the bottle is usually not the way to maximize the plants. Did I answer your question?

I was thinking about chopping the Headlights today or tomorrow but so far just milky trichs and no amber. Probably will flush a few more days and pull her down this weekend. That is when the youngest girls will likely need up-potted anyways.

Yes bru shot very much appreciate it alot, you did answer my question. So I would then just multiply the amount of ML used by the NPK ratio. Makes perfect sense now. Do you add calmag in this also? Not sure the calmag I have indicates the NPK levels but I can always go and peek. Yes he said he uses your schedule, I would love to also see it though since I am chugging along towards flower and want to be prepared rather than be caught with my finger in my butt. That sounds dope bru I am excited to see how the buds turn out from that HL :party: for my range I am just going to use BioBloom for flowering, not sure I can add FishMix to that too
 
Yes bru shot very much appreciate it alot, you did answer my question. So I would then just multiply the amount of ML used by the NPK ratio. Makes perfect sense now. Do you add calmag in this also? Not sure the calmag I have indicates the NPK levels but I can always go and peek. Yes he said he uses your schedule, I would love to also see it though since I am chugging along towards flower and want to be prepared rather than be caught with my finger in my butt. That sounds dope bru I am excited to see how the buds turn out from that HL :party: for my range I am just going to use BioBloom for flowering, not sure I can add FishMix to that too

I base every water with 175-200ppm calmag to start. My calmag has a little nitrogen in it (1-0-0) so I have to account for it but I never change how much calmag I put in. I adjust the other nutrients accordingly. I don't always get the perfect ratio hit either. Sometimes I am a little off here and there but I feel like if the NPK ratio in the ballpark then it will be just fine.
 
I base every water with 175-200ppm calmag to start. My calmag has a little nitrogen in it (1-0-0) so I have to account for it but I never change how much calmag I put in. I adjust the other nutrients accordingly. I don't always get the perfect ratio hit either. Sometimes I am a little off here and there but I feel like if the NPK ratio in the ballpark then it will be just fine.

That is what I aim for bru
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I am currently sitting on 175ppm of calmag :rofl: spot on hey?! Shot man I will go check how mine is looking at home. Atm just doing silica, biogrow and the calmag. Hoping I can afford the fishmix
 
Hey Ase. I was wondering where you'd disappeared to. Happy to see your lovely girls were left with a capable sitter. I totally agree - that Headlights nug is very fetching! It immediately made me think of Amsterdam for some reason. Perhaps it should be a contestant in Augusts NOTM?
Ase, I appreciate you explaining what those 3 numbers on nutrient bottles refer to and how to work with them. Thank you.
P.S. I'm looking forward to seeing your new sweet baby girls grow up. I'm particularly curious about Purple Envy! I've asked my teenage son to help me make a Scrog frame for my Grow No.2. Unfortunately, he's not any better with DIY than I am but I figure just asking for his input might be a self-esteem boost, at least! And really, how hard can it be?
 
Hey Ase. I was wondering where you'd disappeared to. Happy to see your lovely girls were left with a capable sitter. I totally agree - that Headlights nug is very fetching! It immediately made me think of Amsterdam for some reason. Perhaps it should be a contestant in Augusts NOTM?
Ase, I appreciate you explaining what those 3 numbers on nutrient bottles refer to and how to work with them. Thank you.
P.S. I'm looking forward to seeing your new sweet baby girls grow up. I'm particularly curious about Purple Envy! I've asked my teenage son to help me make a Scrog frame for my Grow No.2. Unfortunately, he's not any better with DIY than I am but I figure just asking for his input might be a self-esteem boost, at least! And really, how hard can it be?

I'm not 100% sure on how the contests work. Since I won in May for POTM I thought I was excluded for all contests for 3 months. However maybe it is just the POTM contest. I've never really submitted anything else in the other ones. I think I am going to chop it tonight. It is almost 90% milky with just a few specs of amber but I need the space and it's been flushed for exactly a week now.

Truthfully this is the part of my grow that I knew would slow down. It's easy to do every other day posts when plants are in veg or in stretch but budding and fattening is harder to tell if anything has changed so since I really don't have anything going on and I am not doing any training, I probably won't be updating as much. I had a lot going on when I started this and having autos finish every two weeks is exciting. Things are going to level out now that I won't be growing any auto's. I feel like the methodology and the feeding schedule is pretty good that I came up with too so I am just going to use it again. Likely I won't be going into as much detail on that stuff either since it's already earlier. Why fix something that isn't broken right?

Anyways I'll still probably do updates every few days and I'll answer questions in a timely manner ;). I don't think people will be too disappointed that my thread won't always be at the top of their subscription list anymore, likely a little relieved.
 
Autos Day 81 - Photos Day 25

If you followed the comparisons in pictures when these girls stretched I really was nervous they wouldn't stack all that well. They all had a healthy stretch but the Amnesiac and the Tangerine Dream went kind of crazy. I feared the buds would be spaced out too much and they wouldn't stack. As I look at them now I see that I was wrong in my first judgement. They do look like they are stacking pretty well and the hairs on all the girls are a bright white. The White Castle is showing just a few little signs of new growth green but she has almost stopped now, right even with the Jack Herer. Worked out perfect as I could keep that light a little lower for those two.

I should really rotate them again now that they are stronger and getting harder but they are in the same order; White Castle in the back left and going counter clockwise, Jack Herer, Amnesiac and Tangerine Dream.
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The Cherry Bomb seems to be gaining more green color back into the leaves and the curling has seemed to have not gotten any worse but for the first time in a while she was not fairly dry when I checked her today. You would think that if she was looking healthier that uptake would be better but i'm just trying to make sure she has what she needs to finish strong.
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To fill out the veg tent is the 4 babies and all of them are doing pretty well. Likely going to put them in their 3 gallon pots this weekend.
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So you may have figured out that I decided to take the Headlights down today with it not being in the veg tent anymore. I had a pretty frustrating day at work and I blared some music, smoked some Gorilla Glue and got to trimming. I figured the trimming would help me relax and forget about things and I could channel my frustrated energy on trimming instead, usually a task that feels like a chore that I would rather put off. It worked like a charm and I felt really good when I was done. The Gorilla Glue high really gives me this energy and focus that makes it one of my favorites. I used to smoke it and get a lot done back when I purchased from a dispensary. I think this has been cured for a week and dried for a week. It will only get better but it is already pretty potent. It tastes and smells exactly like Gorilla Glue and the effects are the same too.

The Headlights had a sweet smell, just like my Aurora Indica did. It was fun to trim this girl. Fattest nugs on a plant I've grown yet. I'm not sure what the yield be but I couldn't get my hand around a number of the colas. I don't have big hands but still...
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I was really impressed with the way this looked from above. I feel like I really nailed the training for this girl and the timing of everything. Since I was kind of guessing with all the autos I'm very happy how she turned out.
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Trimmed and now time to hang. I will say this, since I hang the plants whole now I don't have buckets large enough to bud wash. Last time I bud washed in coco I didn't get as much oil and gunk out of it when I bud washed with soil. I still like the idea of bud washing and need to look into larger containers but for now I have stopped. The last two plants I didn't bud wash and I didn't notice a huge difference in smoke from the times I have. I also would be more prone to bud washing in the wetter times of the year to prevent mold but in the summer it's on verge of too hot and dry all the time so I'm not as worried.
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Funky chunky purple colas. It looks amazing right Penny?

Yes they do

Lol, what's he going to say... No? PW is too nice to say no even if it was a wreck...Thanks guys.

BTW I fixed the double post of the Cherry Bomb picture so now you can see what is actually going on in the flower tent. Glad I caught that.
 
Fantastic shots Ase, great job!

I've been tempted to buy a nice camera for both hiking trips and taking pictures of these girls. The iphone does good enough but I'd love to get more professional looking pictures.

Outstanding .

Thanks Suntana. Your stuff has been looking quite good yourself!
 
I've been tempted to buy a nice camera for both hiking trips and taking pictures of these girls. The iphone does good enough but I'd love to get more professional looking pictures.
The challenge then is that you need 2 separate lenses as well - one for macros, another for longer shots - whereas your iPhone can do both capably and with far less hassle. SLRs are great but phone cameras have come a long way.
 
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