FastBuds 420 Auto Grow - Blue Dream And Blackberry

[StoneOtter]

Not sure but I'm also not planning to find out ha. I'll be leaving everything stateside. It will be my.first week.without weed since I worked at Bank of America almost 20nyears ago ha

Best way to go!

Blue Dreams have a while as they still have mostly white pistils. However, I did scope them for the heck of it and never seen so many amber tricomes with white pistils. No.way she's done this soon as they haven't even swelled yet. It wasn't just one or two buds from say an accidental touch....it was every cola. Interesting.....any ideas?

I had an auto do that before I grew here. The grow shop folks told me to back the light off, that it was causing premature ripening. I don't know how true this is. I did it and the plant did fruit in a more proper time. I was really blasting with ceramic halide.

 

[Timhomegrow]

Best way to go!

I had an auto do that before I grew here. The grow shop folks told me to back the light off, that it was causing premature ripening. I don't know how true this is. I did it and the plant did fruit in a more proper time. I was really blasting with ceramic halide.

Thanks! I may give that a try. While my lux is 42-50k....I feel like the light is pretty intense.

 

[StoneOtter]

Thanks! I may give that a try. While my lux is 42-50k....I feel like the light is pretty intense.

Have a look. That looks like 800 ppfd PAR on the high end. Not overboard, just right really but maybe the plant is sensitive.

 

[Timhomegrow]

Have a look. That looks like 800 ppfd PAR on the high end. Not overboard, just right really but maybe the plant is sensitive.

Perhaps, but I think you might be on the right track. I read an article on grow weed easy, and he claims too much light can cause premature ripening. Also claims a LUX meter doesn't work with LEDs like it does with other light types.

I lowered the intensity a little, saw where some here do that the last 2 weeks of flower anyways.

Here are some pics from today

 

[InTheShed]

Cloudy is looking good but there's enough clear that I would ignore the amber!

Thanks! I may give that a try. While my lux is 42-50k....I feel like the light is pretty intense.

Have a look. That looks like 800 ppfd PAR on the high end. Not overboard, just right really but maybe the plant is sensitive.

Besides the PPFD, the DLI might play a role as well. My lights are on 24/0 and I discovered my DLI was up around 90, or twice what it should be in flower!

 

[Stunger]

You're on the home run now Tim, spectacular colouring of the Blackberry colas!

 

[StoneOtter]

Cloudy is looking good but there's enough clear that I would ignore the amber!


Besides the PPFD, the DLI might play a role as well. My lights are on 24/0 and I discovered my DLI was up around 90, or twice what it should be in flower!

DLI may play too.

 

[Timhomegrow]

Besides the PPFD, the DLI might play a role as well. My lights are on 24/0 and I discovered my DLI was up around 90, or twice what it should be in flower

DLI......I have a new term to research tonight ha. Thank you and @StoneOtter

You're on the home run now Tim, spectacular colouring of the Blackberry colas

Thanks!

 

[InTheShed]

DLI...start here!

 

[Timhomegrow]

DLI...start here!

You just made my night!!

I found a calculator to convert LUX to PPFD. It gave me options of "high CRI LED" and "low CRI LED". Not knowing the difference ece I tried both and had a PPFD of 837 and 894 respectively. The DLI calculator put that at 54 and 57 DLI respectively.

So it looks like my light at 100% is too much. I've had suspicions the last four grows but the LUX has well within limits from what I've seen. Makes sense the autos are most effected as its 18hrs a day.

I'm so excited for the next grow learning this piece of info!!!

 

[InTheShed]

I've been to that website and never know which to use either! But the difference between 54 and 57 probably isn't enough to make a big difference compared to knowing that you're hitting them with more than they can use. If you have a lux meter and the Photone app, you can calibrate the app and use the "LED Full Spec," which should get you pretty close to an accurate number (from what I've heard anyway).

I did need to calibrate the app on my Samsung because it was way off from my actual lux meter.

 

[Timhomegrow]

As always...thank you! I noticed during one grow where I had a late sprout in my older tent, it grew really good until mid flower when I moved it to the big tent that
was now empty. She went yellow, mag deficiency look, within a week. Justnusing LUX, it contradicted my thought I had too much.

 

[Timhomegrow]

And it's the second time growing autos in this tent/light. I noticed with this grow, if I went above 75% on the light it got a little "off". Eventually turned that sucker to 100% and let it fly ha.

with the photos, The DFI wasn't as noticeable because of 12 hrs of light. But maybe that is my " mag deficiency " issue I can't seem to shake. Shed, @StoneOtter you both nailed it! Thank you. Can't wait until May for the next round

 

[Timhomegrow]

Day 70 above ground, day 44 flower

tomorrow is the last day to harvest the Blackberry before my trip to allow time to put into the dark for 2 days, dry, and trim. It's all cloudy tricomes for the most part, but no amber. Perhaps the purple strains don't amber...last grow.with this strain didn't but I had lots of issues that grow.

If I don't harvest tomorrow, it will be February 4th before I can hang. I think that might be too late.....thoughts?



Blackberry #1

Blackberry #2

 

[InTheShed]

tomorrow is the last day to harvest the Blackberry before my trip to allow time to put into the dark for 2 days, dry, and trim. It's all cloudy tricomes for the most part, but no amber. Perhaps the purple strains don't amber

My purple-black DDAs all went amber so I don't know if that's universal, but I also know there's no consensus on the benefit of extended dark time before harvest, so my thought is to let it go another two days for a better idea as to whether to wait until you get home.

 

[Stunger]

If I don't harvest tomorrow, it will be February 4th before I can hang. I think that might be too late.....thoughts?

Hmmm.. I dunno, but her buds are looking beautiful!

 

[Timhomegrow]

Yea, I was thinking that too...just not sure if 2-3 days will make difference.

I feel like they could go another 7-9 days...so say Jan 20th, cant do because they will be hanging while im.gone. If I wait until after the Japan trip it would be Feb 4th, so 14 days later. Would I lose much potency in that 14 days?

 

[InTheShed]

They can't hang while your gone? If the RH is in the 60s they can have for weeks!

 

[Timhomegrow]

They can't hang while your gone? If the RH is in the 60s they can have for weeks!

Is thatnif I.hang the whole plant?

Hanging branches typically takes 6-9 days in my basement. It's in the shorter spectrum during winter when the heat is in. Dry room is 56rh and 68temps. I'm abroad of them over drying.

But hanging the whole plant will go longer I'm sure.

 

[InTheShed]

If the RH is low then hanging the whole plant will definitely slow down the drying, but if you can add a little moisture (4%?) to that 56% you would be fine to hang until you cure.