Rght on.... which reminds me... summer time is TOMORROW hear on the east cost.. temps @ 90F for the rest of the week. Time for a horsetail fern + IPM spray.
Hey KB ... I'm a big reader.... selective but always reading a book or 3. The Rudolf Steiner stuff is some crazy shit... amazing too, some good solid growing advice but hey... we can modernize a little.
They do some hokey-pokey and dance it all about when we probably can skip a few steps there! hahaha burying under a compost pile for six months in a Steer horn... and all that... I actually might try it! I'm certainly crazy enough and I have some compost piles.
On to some growing news:
Changed the lighting in our flower room to all COBs now. What made me realize the change and work is worth it. I have 4 Citrus Berry plants ... they are very similar or the same Phenos. Actually this is the closest to a stable strain I've grow from the Exotic Genetix tool box. Anyway, ran 2 under a VERO 29 V7 linear COB array, and 2 under a regular LARGE 5w CREE LED (600w) so same wattage. Results are the 2 Citrus Berry plants grown under the COB array are 2x the height and probably more that 2x the dry weight... I haven't harvested yet but getting REAL close. Pics are coming up. Looking at bud pics they all look the same except the size of the plants difference its not subtle.
So all COBs in flower as of yesterday. Another thing is I had 2 linear array COBs in VEG I moved into the FLOWER room. My clones all went crazy and now are monsters getting ready to go into flower.
The plants that I had from seedlings under the COBs in VEG are all turning male. I think the light was too intense in VEG. Didn't realize that until 3 males in flower... had to cull, then one seedling plant turned male in VEG... I have another male plant in FLOWER now... showed his balls this morning. So out of 9 seedlings, 4 so far were male.
Maybe just unlucky.. but I've never had that bad of luck with males. I'm thinking the COBs @ 3K even turned down were too intense for seedlings, but for clones.... wow... the clone plants look like they would be 14' tall outdoors easily trees. They are turning into trees inside in flower already have 1 plant tied down with burnt tips and another just put into FLOWER yesterday she's going to be huge too. I have 3 or 4 more clones in VEG that are just as big now.
The thing that made me want to move the COBs from VEG into flower besides the male issues, is the weather coming this week. Tomorrow and for the rest of the week we are looking at a heat wave of sorts. Going to be 90F for the rest of the week. The COB arrarys are running fairly cool even with passive heat sinks and no fans. The power supplies are warm to the touch as are the heat sinks, with all lamps turned up to max output.
Ordered a few more clip fans to point at the top of the COB arrays .. with the rest of the fans we should be good.
Ok so here's my post to they "Eye Candy" thread last night.. pics of the Citrus Berry ready to harvest:
Yeah so males in the house and in the FLOWER room for the last 3 weeks.... right beside all the big ripe ladies! Probably explains all the new pistols!!
I wait until the ball sacs drop out from the stems then, chop. Man that has to hurt... I threatened the last plant going into flower if she grows balls I'm going to burn her in a fire..... I said it in a kind way with soft tones.. pretty little girl, balls go in the fire.
Here's some more pics I took after changing the lighting:
Citrus Berry that was flowered under COB lighting... you can't tell here but those 2 main colas are easily 20" long. I might have to get a tape measure out! They are huge... and both of the Citrus Berry plants that grew under the COBs are like that, the other 2 are 3' bushes. Not complaining but the difference in height alone is substantially in favor of COB lighting.
I broke the top thats tied up ... hit it on the ceiling when I moved her ... she was getting too tall for the COB she was sitting under and I had the lights up as high as I could go.
Here's the other Citrus Berry grown under COBs - she's tall as well.
Chendawg the Big clone from Chemdawg the Tall clone from Chemdawg the Purple from last year. So clone of a clone of a clone.. this one is actually turning purple already. Some fan leaves were purple this morning.
There was another clone that went into flower in there somewhere that was nothing special...
The original plant; Chemdawg the Purple was from 1 seed I took out of a 10 pack of reg seeds from Humboldt...just got lucky, got a purple female pheno. She lives on and cloned again! Already tied and staked up with more roping coming. Going to get in there with some trimmers and thin her out in the middle and take more clones!
Can see the VERO 29 V7 there on the upper left, the COB from Amare that has CXB3070's but tighter spread than the VERO COB arrays. My VEROs are from TImber Grow lights so shout out to Dan @ Timber for building these lamps for me. I'm getting some more! Timber rocks. I cut off the Timber tree logo and stuck it on my pickup truck window!
Here's Chemdawg the Big's twin sister, just put her into flower yesterday during the lighting change. Staked but not roped yet. She will need some thinning ... I don't like the idea of thinning a plant in flower but I'm worried about mold later on down the road. Chemdawg is medium resistance to PM/mold so need to IPM for that, thin and get the air moving.
Citrus Berry top bud...
Citrus Berry lower down nug.
Non-COB Citrus Berry
another Citrus Berry non-COB version.
.. looks loke a nice yeild too... You have a favorite Citrus Berry yet?
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