BrixNewb's First Grow & Beyond

Tead · Mar 8, 2019

BrixNewb said:
A press gives you rosin which is generally better than shatter, it's solventless. I have some shatter still, a bit actually.

Sue and I were actually just talking about that. I took my Northern Lights from a Hempy and put it into an Octopot last night and was very surprised by how small the root mass was. So I am going to start letting them go quite a bit drier and see how that plays out.

hehe.... I knew full well it was technically incorrect when I wrote it... but it's just cooler to say "shatter". I'll curb my disinformation for entertainment's sake ways in the future... don't wanna spread bad data after all.

You let me know when you wanna refill the rosin supply... I got da toys!
My next area of discovery will be 'live rosin'. It's basically pressing green trichomes. It's supposed to be much better than pressing dried material.
I've a ton of buds and 4tons of sugar-leaf trim. There will be much experimentation.

Tead · Mar 8, 2019

Oh... I forgot.
I'll grab a rootball photo next opportunity and we'll compare.
I saw small ones during my 5gal attempts in the old garden space, but since plant size is up, so are root masses. It could simply be that you're not creating a large enough plant to really fill a 5gal.... perhaps a 4 or 3 gal is a better fit.

Jgrowlove · Mar 8, 2019

Tead said:
Bring it on by... the DabPress machine is out for delivery at my place today. We'll get some instant gratification outta some shatter from it.

I'm on a 4 day schedule on the 5gals. Tho the idea gets lost often, plants enjoy a dry-wet cycle. At 5 days you'll start to see drooping.

I water my big hempys every 3 days so I'm right in between. I don't want them to wilt in flower bt in veg I probably watered them every 4 or 5 days. I check for how heavy the pot seems

Rooster1 · Mar 9, 2019

Shatter ?

Tead · Mar 10, 2019

Tead said:
I'll grab a rootball photo next opportunity and we'll compare.

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Tead
Mar 10, 2019

Not the same

BrixNewb · Mar 10, 2019

Tead said:
TD20190310_151046.jpg

Tead

Mar 10, 2019

Not the same

Looks like a nice big root ball! I am starting to let my Hempys dry out quite a bit more. I have one a little over halfway through bloom and one just into bloom. The rest are in veg, so I have time to get them nice and dry aside from the Devils Carnival that's finishing up, but I suspect that she has some decent roots. Definitely not disappointed for my first run in Hempy.

Tead · Mar 10, 2019

If you're monitoring them daily, you can use weight as your guide. It'll be WAY obvious when they're running dry. I can lift a dry 5gal easily with one hand.

BrixNewb · Mar 10, 2019

Tead said:
If you're monitoring them daily, you can use weight as your guide. It'll be WAY obvious when they're running dry. I can lift a dry 5gal easily with one hand.

Yeah, that's how I gauged when to water my DBHB plants, so I am doing it with the Hempys and erring on the side of too dry.

Tead · Mar 10, 2019

Many new hempy growers can't seem to shake ideas of watering the plants. It's pretty easy to find subtle sings of overwatering in the new hempy grower crowds. One has to fully embrace the hydro ways even tho, functionally, it looks pretty much the same as a soil plant. Think 'flush' rather than 'water'.

BrixNewb · Mar 10, 2019

I just lifted my Hempy that's about to finish and I could tell that the weight and heft she had was above the soil line and she was LIGHT below, so I tossed her some water. Interested to see how these 5 gallon Hempy plants work out. I have a low yielder in there right now, going to put a heavy hitter in next round.

SweetSue · Mar 15, 2019

Speaking of light.....

Brix and I determined that his veg tent was in need of an auto zone and I had that nifty Cree COB unit sitting unused.......

Lighting upgrade

SweetSue
Mar 15, 2019

Added a Timber 200 Watt Vero29 (2) COB Fixture (3500K)

More Light!

SweetSue
Mar 15, 2019

Brix’s Auto Zone

SweetSue
Mar 15, 2019

Dark Devil Auto

SweetSue
Mar 15, 2019

The chief reciepient of the lighting upgrade.

Beauty by BrixNewb

Auxiliary beneficiaries

SweetSue
Mar 15, 2019

No more shadows in the back corners! Yahoo!

Much better. :blunt:

SweetSue · Mar 15, 2019

Tead said:
Many new hempy growers can't seem to shake ideas of watering the plants. It's pretty easy to find subtle sings of overwatering in the new hempy grower crowds. One has to fully embrace the hydro ways even tho, functionally, it looks pretty much the same as a soil plant. Think 'flush' rather than 'water'.

Good point Tead.

Doob may have shown us how important it is to get that flush in. He’s using Mega Crop 2.0 like Brix and I are, and he wasn’t making sure to flush. It’s all speculation at this point, but it appears he had a good case of nute burn running in his garden, possibly caused by a buildup of excess nutrients in the reservoir.

His experience has me being sure to get a decent runoff on the hempies at every watering.

SweetSue · Mar 15, 2019

Brix pulled the dome off the Northern Lights and damn if she isn’t becoming the prettiest little thing!

Northern Lights internal structure

SweetSue
Mar 15, 2019

Beauty by BrixNewb

She’s also displaying warning signs that she’s reached her tolerance for the nutrients. She’s showing both the curve of the leaf from center....

signs of reaching nutrient tolerance

SweetSue
Mar 15, 2019

...and the slight hook at the tip.

Signs of reaching nutrient tolerance levels

SweetSue
Mar 15, 2019

Brix is feeding her New Millennium nutrients, and he realized she’s at 80% right now, and in an Octopot that’s waaaay too high. Her roots haven’t hit the reservoir yet, so a watering or two with plain water should straighten it out. He wants her at 50% on the nutrient strength in this closed system.

SweetSue · Mar 17, 2019

A Sunday morning delight for your viewing pleasure

Brix has one of those DC “box of chocolates” too @Graytail. I’m overwhelmed by this one. She stands almost as tall as me, buds the size of my fist smelling for all the world like a grape Jolly Rancher. :woohoo:

This past week she decided to show us her real colors.

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