Big Buddha Cheese

Thanks, 'weird" things are happening on 420 magazine for me, I'm sure it's a java issue! When I go to the home page for 420 now, I only get text .. which takes met to the forums, then in your posts up till now .. there is just a text link to a picture.

As I say Weird. but I can see the pix now, thanks.
 
Day 56

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Big Buddha Cheese
 
Update: Week 8 Day 56

Just a few days to go, may harvest a couple of them this weekend, then the rest on day 63.

Day 6 of flush, began adding RO and just Drip Clean, 0.6 ml daily @ 3 gallons per day. Each days last of 4 irrigation cycles get whatever is remaining in the rez (approx. 0.5 to 1 gallon) and I refill with RO and Drip Clean. EC of today's solution is < 0.014 and rinsate is also < 0.1 so by the time I harvest I expect somewhere around 0.01, pH of the rinsate is a very steady 5.8 to 5.82.
I know the reason for the curled and burnt leaf tips, little flushing during the grow and the EC is off the scale. I believe this is due to lack of runoff during the cycles and the KoolBloom, both liquid and dry. Prior to adding them there was no build up in the root zone and I got away from my normal 400 ppm of Canna A&B, increase to 600 ppm prior to adding remainder of additives, around 1.2 EC. The EC then jumps to > 1.4 - 1.5 when adding the additives and dry KoolBloom. Will be working on this in future grows.
 
Hey GR! I'm happy to say I have no idea what your talking about, ha! Doc Buds High Brix Blend, aka "Kit" user for life. No ph'ing no flushing, no checking ppm just high quality organically grown produce. It's not for everyone but if you want any more info, let me know!

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DOC BUD's HIGH BRIX BLEND
 
Well started harvest today, one plant, took way to long.
Total wet weight of trimmed smokable buds was 881 grams, so at .25 wet to dry should be around 8 zips. The smokable buds are heavy, hard and tight. Did not trim a lot of this plant because about 1/3rd of the plant was covered by canopy so quite a bit of lite and fluffy. This plus the trimmings and shake will go directly into making FECO as soon as it drys. Should dry out at around 6 to 7 zips. Want to get about 24 zips, off all 5 plants, of trim and shake to go into making FECO.
Here is a pic of the harvest about just over half way through. Took forever to harvest this plant.
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Side bud.
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Have decided to harvest just about the same on the other 4 plants, so will have plenty for making FECO.
We shall see how it all comes out. May do one tomorrow, but will probably wait till after New Years.
By the way Happy New Years to you folks, may you harvest be great and the quality be the best.

GR
 
Here is #4 prior to harvest.
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And after.
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I would say I trimmed about of this plants total growth for smokable buds.
Thinking I need new 315W bulbs also. They have been used for both veg and flower for the past 6 grows, between 13,000 and 15,000 hours. Have probably lost more that half grow power. That could be why the lower parts of all of this grow are weak. Not sure but replacing both bulbs before I start this next run.

GR
 
Did not realize I did not have them spread even, but they are above head height, so took the drying rack down and rearranged them.
First pic is the trimmed smokable buds.
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The untrimmed buds and trim shake.
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Happy New Years too y'all!
May this years grows be plentiful and poignant.

GR
 
I'm curious if it helps you control the plant height. I'm going to be starting a new tent grow in a 60" height with a hps hood. I'm worried about height issues
 
Dankman_420 said:
I'm curious if it helps you control the plant height. I'm going to be starting a new tent grow in a 60" height with a hps hood. I'm worried about height issues
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It is all up to when you want to flip. I attempt to arrange the screen so that at flip they will not grow much above the screen. You want to fill the screen at least 3/4 full prior to flip. I normally veg for 6 plus weeks to get it to the flip point. If you plan on going horizontal with this grow I would suggest you keep the plants around 1/2 the height you want them to finish. That way if needed you can use LST, Super Cropping, and staking to control your final height.
It takes practice to properly fill the screen and I did not do a good job on this grow. My next vertical grow will be with unknown (have not grown this strain before) genetics so I am unsure how long it will take me to fill the screen.
This grow was screwed when we went to Florida, I had planned to flip the day after we left and had my grow setup for that day but being gone for two and allowing two more weeks of growth prior to flip cost me big time. Way too much over growth and I did not do a very good trim job on the third week of flower causing just a mass of leaf growth covering bud sites and too lazy to constantly trim them. Growing consistently for two years has taken it's toll, I need a break and will get one after I complete this clone SOG grow which begins tomorrow when I get back home. Will be taking cuttings for the new cloning machine and getting them started, so should be going into flower withing the next three weeks, giving me a late March to early April harvest date. Then I plan on taking at least 6 months off and do some traveling.

I am amazed that I got the volume I got off this first plant, so this harvest may not be as bad as I was expecting. Had I trimmed this plant like I normally do I would have added at least a couple of zips to this plants total. I will harvest the other 4 plants starting Wednesday, and if they hold true like this plant I should do fairly well. Get me enough smokable buds to add to the oil and plenty of untrimmed buds and shake to complete the FECO.

Hope this information helps, if you have more questions just ask. I am always willing to help anyway I can.

GR
 
OK, today starts the cloning process. Not really sure what I am doing but here goes.
Here is the cloner in operation, will begin taking clones soon.
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So, 14 Big Buddha Cheese Pheno #3, 10 - Pheno #5 and 10 - Pheno #2
20 seconds every 3 minutes to start with.

The cloning compound does not stay on the clones very long. I guess it gets into the rez solution and supplies the acid that way. Will be checking pH regularly to make sure the solution does not get out of wack with the cloning compound in it.
 
Full Plant Extract Cannabis Oil

I use it daily, am doing two grams a day maintenance/wellness dose. I also share when I have some extra with my vet's for their PTSD and pain management. So this batch I will be making from this crop will be shared as I expect to have more than I can use till my next grow. Oh yeah, I do not sell anything! Don't even ask for monies to purchase the 99.9% Alcohol to make the FECO.
 
@ Dankman,
I am a vet and when I got out in 70' I had PTSD, they did not call it that but later learned that that was what I had. I did a lot of crazy shit because of it, got very heavy into drugs but that did not help, blurred a lot of shit but did not help. Love was the largest help, my wife and son got me through it. Lots of trouble but they helped.
Had I of had FECO then it would have been fine.
 
OK, everything is harvested, drying and I am already bored. So playing with my next setup, a 24 plant SOG. One gallon Smart Pots with coco.
Have plants hanging in the tent and have not cleaned up from last grow yet, but here is what I think it will look like.
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I will try a more compact area as I will be running two 315W with reflectors in a horizontal grow. Thinking I will play with light placement to get the best coverage.
 
Plants are dried and in jars for curing. Dried weights..

Trimmed smokable buds - 645 grams, 23 zips or just over 1 gram per watt.
Untrimmed buds, fans removed but not trimmed for smoking - 175 gram, 6.25 zips
So total grow, 29.25 zips.
The untrimmed will go into making FECO along with somewhere around 5 zips of smokable buds and the trim. Should end up with around 16 zips for making FECO.

Not all that happy with this grow as I let it get away from me. w But it is what it is! Waiting over two weeks after I was ready to go into flower cost me. Plants at stretch reached the top of the tent and did not get the light needed, also my lamps need replacing, the lower lamp just did not have the penetration power and along with the overgrowth cause them to be light and airy. Most of the 6.25 zips came from the lower part of the plants.

Well it will make some good FECO and give me some smoke. Don't believe the quality is as high as the LSD grow. So may use more of this to make the oil and save the LSD for smoking.
 
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