CA215 Indoor #3

[RainStacks]

Damn they are beasting! RH is a little low, I had to add some clean moist towels to the area, that seems to do the trick. Awesome work manipulating those tips under the screens!

 

[CA215]

Today will mark the start of darkness for these babies.
Light unplugged 2 hours earlier than when they would have shut off. So they just acquired around 16 hours light instead of their normal 18. I am going to leave it dark until tomorrow morning around 7, so they will have 22 hours of darkness to prepare them for their flowering phase

After this post I am going to start contemplating a beginning flower tea and getting that bubbling asap.

Turning out to be quite the little project in there
Gonna look amazing when they straighten themselves out in the stretch.
You must love looking inside the tent.
I do too.

It is Les! And I really do haha, just seeing nice clean healthy plants makes me happy as heck, I am very proud that I have kept these girls so healthy compared to my first two indoor grows.. just keeping my fingers crossed for that to carry over through budding Definitely working a lot nicer than what I was anticipating, at this point I am getting very anxious and psyched out as they have a mad amount of tops.. really want to start training these girls through flower, so... After checking on my cloning equipment, it hasn't even shipped yet and it is supposed to be here today? So with CA's plans always changing, there are going to be no clones taken off these girls as I got impatient I really don't have a very safe steady place to raise these young ones and don't want to attempt to only see the outcome that will be dead clones, or stolen, lost clones. I can always purchase beans and search for these phenos grr..
Definitely keeping a bean or two of each strain in my stash for a rainy day when I feel like I am missing these strains. Thanks for droppin in Les

CA,man you are killin it.I I do a dark period before flower,never had any problem's with transition at all.I am more excited to see you flip then I was for myself.There gonna be sexy beast.

Thanks much Jimmy The butterflies are accumulating Definitely wanting to see these girls start filling the tent up, I gave in this morning and went for the jump! Hopefully these girls can abide by my rules and produce heavy resinous chunky yields like their breeders say Thanks for the kind words brotha!

they are all so beautiful healthy and bushy! I love how they are crawling through the screen now, how a proper scrog should take place.

Thanks b these girls are showing me the love back, a light feeding hand is definitely proving to be better than a heavy hand FOR SURE I'm glad these girls are turning out to be on track to a good harvest appreciate the kind words b.real

Damn they are beasting! RH is a little low, I had to add some clean moist towels to the area, that seems to do the trick. Awesome work manipulating those tips under the screens!

Thanks RS rH is definitely low, a little hard to keep it higher or at a steady rate as this tent is definitely not the best thing to grow in I no longer do the rag in a bowl trick as my first grow produced some PM and I was thinking that could have been a factor adding to it. I saw a humidifier at wallyworld that was around 15 bucks so if these girls really do need some extra humidity through flower ill pick that up. It should start raining here again soon and my levels should be up in the 50-60% so hopefully I will be able to save the electricity Thanks for making a stop by the thread rainstacks

 

[CA215]

I mixed up a sock with dry goodies, added the liquids to 2 gallons~ which is currently bubbling.

Liquids:
5mL microbe fruit enhancer
5mL microbe nourishL
5mL an voodoo
2mL an sensizym
1/2 tsp unsulph mollass

after it has bubbled for an hour or two I will be adding in the sock:

pinch of azomite, sp90 humic powder, 4 pellets of Peruvian bat guano, pinch of earth juice high phos guano, pinch of reg worm casting, and a handful of vf soil. Adding another 1/2 tsp mollass tonight before bed. After typing everything out it looks like I might dilute about, 2:1; tea:water.

This is going to bubble until tomorrow morning @ 7 when hid flicks on for the girls to get a tanning.

 

[Mono]

Lovely looking ladies as always CA, they are going to explode after the extended darkness. Have you been noticing any strong sativa looks from the sage n sours? Mine look pretty much the same as the indica dominant strains in the tent haha.

That tea is going to work wonders my friend! Can't wait to see how these girls look at lights on. Keep it green my friend.

 

[CA215]

Lovely looking ladies as always CA, they are going to explode after the extended darkness. Have you been noticing any strong sativa looks from the sage n sours? Mine look pretty much the same as the indica dominant strains in the tent haha.

That tea is going to work wonders my friend! Can't wait to see how these girls look at lights on. Keep it green my friend.

I definitely have two different phenos for the sages. In what I see I have the indica dom which is a lot more squat and tigher node spacing, it is the sage without the screen. She was slower growing but has since seemed to catch up as the sativa dom girl. The sativa dom is a hell of a lot more lanky with more node spacing, she has a lot more branching, she is growing quite wild, for the smell the sativa dom is less potent but more cheesy, as to the indica dom has a very sharp potent sweet distinct smell that comes through that cheesiness. That is all I have really noticed between the two, keeping my fingers crossed for some completely different characteristics between the two when it is said and done

 

[shottafire]

I am not sure about the sp 90. Whenever I use that stuff the tea seems off balance and leaning to the fungal side I like a good balance bacteria/fungi until week 3 flower. Then I start going more fungal dominant. Im curious to see your results. We should make a thread where we post recipes and bounce ideas off of each other. I have not used the so-90 in a tea for some time and I have gotten better results. Just an observation and I read on the teaming with microbes site that it is not really a necessary ingredient like they used to think.

Garden looks great though and whatever your doing is working so don't listen to me. just keep up the good work.

reps ca215

 

[CA215]

I am not sure about the sp 90. Whenever I use that stuff the tea seems off balance and leaning to the fungal side I like a good balance bacteria/fungi until week 3 flower. Then I start going more fungal dominant. Im curious to see your results. We should make a thread where we post recipes and bounce ideas off of each other. I have not used the so-90 in a tea for some time and I have gotten better results. Just an observation and I read on the teaming with microbes site that it is not really a necessary ingredient like they used to think.

Garden looks great though and whatever your doing is working so don't listen to me. just keep up the good work.

reps ca215

So don't listen to me you say, oh you got my attention

I will keep an eye on them thanks for the pointer shotta. I think I have read something along the lines of that somewhere in my tea research, definitely will keep that in mind though. Might just hold on to this stuff for some soil amendments (fyi, my vf supersoil mix has still yet to be mixed, I am lagging). I only added in a very small pinch as the microbe life products contain a lot of humus in them already along with other goodies.

Are your thoughts based on the post-activity of your plants, or is this more of a view on the foam head type deal?

I think they will enjoy it either way, might just experiment with this mix and see how she rolls and will see how she flips! I am not really sure what to expect now haha.

But I really do think a Beneficial/compost tea thread would be freaking awesome and I would probably spend half of my time on it trying to learn more into these teas. I have definitely made them harder than they should be by over thinking everything I add into the tea LOL.
But as I know little to nothing I will wait for someone as of your stature to get the thread going and I will gladly input what I have used and results! I think with the overwhelming amount of people trying teas, it would be a freakin' hit amounst 420mag members

I just checked on the tea and it looks like so:

So you got me wondering shotta, I don't have that "thick scummy bubble" (which is good in mind) look to my foam head, very clean and clear looking. Mind you this has only been bubbling since around tenish this morning.

Anyone feel free to chime in on the tea talk... there we go... that's the title for the thread shotta, "Tea Talk"

I will post another picture tonight right after adding another 1/2 tsp of molasses & another in the morning pre-watering.

CA

 

[shottafire]

I like the name of the thread and we should definitely start that up. I am not saying i am right or wrong. I was using it before. When research led me to believe the unimportance of it in my tea I stopped using it and I seemed to get a more active tea and my plants would respond better than the tea with the so-90 just observation though. Now later in flower I am curious to try some in a late flowering finishing tea. that is where the most benefit would come it seems.

I am no pro ca215 I just thought I would share. Your tea could blow doors all over my tea who knows and surely if i see yours blow up you better believe i will try sp 90 again. I have it here so eh why not??

Get that soil cooking. a haha. I Know what a pain it can be!!!

 

[CA215]

I like the name of the thread and we should definitely start that up. I am not saying i am right or wrong. I was using it before. When research led me to believe the unimportance of it in my tea I stopped using it and I seemed to get a more active tea and my plants would respond better than the tea with the so-90 just observation though. Now later in flower I am curious to try some in a late flowering finishing tea. that is where the most benefit would come it seems.

I am no pro ca215 I just thought I would share. Your tea could blow doors all over my tea who knows and surely if i see yours blow up you better believe i will try sp 90 again. I have it here so eh why not??

Get that soil cooking. a haha. I Know what a pain it can be!!!

Okay good stuff shotta, we will observe how it treats these babies. I will keep up my research and try to keep the bacteria up pre flower and mid, and then hit them with that fungal action. From what I have read I am not adding fish emulsion. My view on this was keeping that smell away from my tent and plants, and I felt that smell was going to keep me from smelling it and seeing if it smells like a good tea (from what I have read). SO, I feed the tea with molasses instead of fishy bi products, but I really need to experiment and try some other things. Definitely going to make 30 minutes, getting off 420mag not to mix that dang soil. Appreciate the quick response there brotha will keep an eye out for this tea talk journal if I don't see it soon ill start it up, when time persists buddy keep up the diligent work

 

[Jimmy6000]

I have been interested in tea's for some time now.I use tap,so I'm not sure it would work.Tea-Talk would be nice.I think we need a new tea thread.

 

[skunkpilot]

Is it soup yet?

 

[CA215]

I have been interested in tea's for some time now.I use tap,so I'm not sure it would work.Tea-Talk would be nice.I think we need a new tea thread.

I used tap for my first couple teas and it seemed to work out OK, the girls seemed to enjoy it. Although, with RO my girls are looking a lot healthier, that 0ppm is something to reckon with.. The leaves don't have that pale green look that I would always seem to get they are actually a nice dark green with some lime hints for once My tap runs at around 300ppm give or take, and with bubbling my tea in those additives it will be around 250, so when my girls were pretty small they were pushing round 550ppm which from what I have read is ok for soil, but it wasn't for my girls! This RO/DI unit I picked up is awesome, if you are in the market for one let me know and i'll link you up jimmy! It was around 180 bucks but I bought a spare filter as well and some other goodies. I need to look into getting an intro to the Tea-Talk thread

Is it soup yet?

Howdy there skunk! It is getting there buddy
I ended up forgetting to throw in the 1/2 teaspoon of molasses I did this morning 30~ minutes ago. It seemed to knock down the foam head that was formed. Still seeing "clean" looking bubbles without the scummy look, wondering if this could be the difference between a bacteria or fungal dom tea, or perhaps I undershot on my materials. Not enough air from the pump, too many things I can think about which i'm tossing to the side, we will see how it affects the girls are roll from there.

Here are some snaps of the tea.
Last night

this morning

after about 30 minutes of adding the extra molasses

my girls at first 12/12 light. Im kind of on the fence about the whole 24 hour before flip. I am seeing a hell of a lot of stretching on the sage n sour, I mean atleast an 1" of extra node space! BUT, one of the freedoms is actually pushing out female preflowers with cindys needing about a day or so to be definite fems. So in my eyes, with this extra dark time before flowering.. I am seeing more stretch but early signs of sex. Good or bad again still on the fence about this so we will see how much extra stretching these girls are going to have, then I will make my decision on continuing this technique or not. Some pics
Right when I plugged in the timer and flicked em on

And then after pulling them out to water and fixing some stretching tops (sorry if the pictures suck, I am trying to find a decent setting on my camera to deal with this hps)

Day one flower yipppeee! I plan on taking these girls to 70 days

 

[shottafire]

looking good my brotha.

I am excited to start up the tea talk thread just trying to find the time. I am doing a sulfur burn right now.


Been really busy lately.

 

[Jimmy6000]

I'm excited about tea talk and even more the flip.It's gonna be wicked full of bud's.The one time I tried a tea it did not froth and it was a simple tea compared to what you guy's doing.Heisenberg tea.

 

[CA215]

looking good my brotha.

I am excited to start up the tea talk thread just trying to find the time. I am doing a sulfur burn right now.


Been really busy lately.

Totally understandable there shotta I feel ya buddy. It will get started when it can Hope that sulfur went a o k for ya brotha will check in on your page and see if ya updated. This tea was a little iffy today.

I'm excited about tea talk and even more the flip.It's gonna be wicked full of bud's.The one time I tried a tea it did not froth and it was a simple tea compared to what you guy's doing.Heisenberg tea.

Hell yeah im doing as much tea research as possible to get ready for this thread hah really interesting and I think it would be awesome to see what people are using and the results they are getting, im sure eventually we can break it down and come up with a complex veg pre flower and flower teas when it gets going. Definitely was in need of some room and my falling was fulfilled hahaha.
Today after seeing that one of the freedomhazes had shown preflowers (already..? definitely thinking its that 24hour dark period) I gave the rest a look see and came up with one definite male sweet cindy and a couple others that im giving awhile longer to be sure. Both sages are both showing fem preflowers also. Was a little trippy to see preflowers so quick, last couple grows it was a good week waiting period until I noticed something.. A day turn around has my mind blown. Anyways, some shots for ya:

In the first three pictures I was getting a very weird reaction to the tea, the newest top shutes were all pointed straight upwards, and the fan leaves just below were bending downwards with force, they weren't limp like with over watering, you may be able to see in the first couple shots.

Identified male and the consequences in my garden.

Tired to get some shots of what I was seeing, 5mp is no bueno.

And the consequences remember to use a little shot of lemon juice while juicing fan leaves and your fruits, tastes like damn candy!

Hope you enjoy those random shots. Not really sure on an update sqedule, will probably take shots as I see fit every few days or so. Stay well & feel free to discuss or ask questions

 

[shottafire]

How soon after did you take the pics after tea?

What did you dilute your tea to? 1:1 or?

 

[CA215]

How soon after did you take the pics after tea?

What did you dilute your tea to? 1:1 or?

Those shots were taken 4~ hours after the tea, she was the only one reacting that way also the rest look absolutely stellar at the moment.
& I didn't note that, I did not dilute the tea as the pH was right about spot on and I didn't want to add any pH down. I feel like pH down in a tea is sketchy. Do you pH your tea?

 

[shottafire]

I dont ph anything anymore. My hanna combo meter crapped on me. Its been about four months maybe five now.

If everyone else looks stellar than it sounds spot on. That one might just need a moment and might be full. lol

 

[trichomes]

AWESOME! great OOG Ocean Of Green

 

[RainStacks]

That training looks better and better all the time. Can it get to dense?