I start at 5.6-5.8 and let it rise, you could start it at 5.5 for an even greater range.
Hyena's Never-Ending Adventures In Growing
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I use the basic guardian model. None of the logging or wifi or whatever. That stuff wasn’t of interest to me for what I was looking for.
It was around $350 or there about.
JollyRodger
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I’ve got the same model. Works well except, and maybe it’s just mine, it won’t read anything below about 70 ppm. I even contacted blue lab about it, and they said it’s within tolerance so there’s nothing they will do about it.
It measures the calibration fluid spot on, but my well water is below 70 ppm so it just reads 0 until I start adding nutrients.
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I always start at 5.8. Depending upon how much gets used up sometimes it drifts much higher over the week, other times stays around 6. I have had nothing but good performance from Bluelab meters.
Peace, Hyena
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Howdy!
It's a bud-porn-filled HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update!
Rolled a fatty and rolled north to the grow house and what did I see? Buds and buds and buds...!
I'm in awe of the rapid and ultra-DENSE development in this room. In awe of myself I guess.
Seriously, though, this might be my finest grow ever. From stem to stern. So nuggy, I busted out the microscope thinking I might find half ambers since it all seems so mature, but to my relief no magic advancement has occurred and my goal of giving it almost two more weeks seems intact. 95% clear still with just a couple random cloudy. I can't imagine how big these buds will get in another 2 weeks.
But it all might be at its most photogenic right now. Plants seem to start looking homeless in the last week+ of life and while there's still beautiful leaves everywhere it's time to take some final portraits of some very pretty ladies.
Here's a few:
Gonna really, really enjoy killing, dismembering, and eventually smoking these beauties. Perverse the way I put it but you understand.
I'm getting amazing development way down the branches.
Cut a couple humongous chunkers because I will need a lot to smoke soon as I kill myself chopping and trimming this room.
They will be dry by the time I hack the hedge, now less than two weeks away. That shit is amazing.
I smoked a couple half-joints of a sample bud I cut last visit...with it all still being clear trichs it's that super head buzz that makes you feel kind of speedy and a little bit anxious. I'm driving home at 80 and alternating between paranoia and Mario Andretti. Taste was fresh, and not even cured it was delicious. Glad I lived.
Peace, Hyena
It's a bud-porn-filled HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update!
Rolled a fatty and rolled north to the grow house and what did I see? Buds and buds and buds...!
I'm in awe of the rapid and ultra-DENSE development in this room. In awe of myself I guess.
Seriously, though, this might be my finest grow ever. From stem to stern. So nuggy, I busted out the microscope thinking I might find half ambers since it all seems so mature, but to my relief no magic advancement has occurred and my goal of giving it almost two more weeks seems intact. 95% clear still with just a couple random cloudy. I can't imagine how big these buds will get in another 2 weeks.
But it all might be at its most photogenic right now. Plants seem to start looking homeless in the last week+ of life and while there's still beautiful leaves everywhere it's time to take some final portraits of some very pretty ladies.
Here's a few:
Gonna really, really enjoy killing, dismembering, and eventually smoking these beauties. Perverse the way I put it but you understand.
I'm getting amazing development way down the branches.
Cut a couple humongous chunkers because I will need a lot to smoke soon as I kill myself chopping and trimming this room.
They will be dry by the time I hack the hedge, now less than two weeks away. That shit is amazing.
I smoked a couple half-joints of a sample bud I cut last visit...with it all still being clear trichs it's that super head buzz that makes you feel kind of speedy and a little bit anxious. I'm driving home at 80 and alternating between paranoia and Mario Andretti. Taste was fresh, and not even cured it was delicious. Glad I lived.
Peace, Hyena
I spy a couple calendar contestants. 
Looking stellar, per your usual.
It's kind of funny how really, really great things can become the norm and ho-hum until you stop to really contemplate it all.
Looking stellar, per your usual.
It's kind of funny how really, really great things can become the norm and ho-hum until you stop to really contemplate it all.
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I spy a couple calendar contestants.
Looking stellar, per your usual.
It's kind of funny how really, really great things can become the norm and ho-hum until you stop to really contemplate it all.
Yeah you're right on. I do stop sometimes and it just hits me how far it has come...
But a lot of hard work and time pays off.
"Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted...he lived happily ever after." -Willy Wonka
Some calendar shots for sure.
Peace, Hyena
Yes it does. Pays off really well with a great end product.
I love handing a bowl to a friend and seeing their reaction (then, and after a bit.) “Damn! You got some nice stuff going on. Your guy got any more?”
Always puts a smile on the face, ya know?
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A HYENA'S GROW HOUSE supplemental update...
Change of plans. Going up Monday to chop.
I just feel like I want the rocket ride dope. This last crop has received such insane reviews from so many folks who have smoked it and just got their heads blown off, I feel like 8 weeks is enough and I want to pull everything down while the trichomes are 80-90% still clear. Even if it makes a 5% difference in the final weight whatever, it's about quality and there's already so much I dread cutting and hanging it.
It's ready...
Huge chunkers even hanging down to the floor...
So probably 40 hours of no-shit work coming up. Then a relaxing long Labor Day weekend with wifey in Northern Michigan. I just decided I'm getting this done before the vacation. I don't want to spend those four days thinking about how much the harvest will suck. I'd rather spend it happy because the hard part is already finished.
And to replace them, there is a WHOLE NEW STRAIN!
Yes, we finally have 12 growing girls, so let me introduce the first generation of the newest cross in the marijuana world: SATURN 5!
This new strain is a cross between INCREDIBLE BULK and DELHI FRIEND, both of which have been proven to be amazing for the last several grows. The herb is incredible and the buzz is your friend. So in the first grow from seed a random, never-found pollen emitter created about a hundred seeds between six of the plants, with the majority being from one lower branch on one plant. I weighed each plant when I harvested, and the two that produced the most were the two I used seeds from, 5 each, with 2 additional seeds from another plant just for random interest.
Took a few days to get 12 of them sprouted and up completely.
Today they went into big rockwool cubes to start growing properly and get ready for the ride up North.
So they will get going for the next few weeks in these. The attic lab hits over 100 degrees in the afternoon but it doesn't bother little cannabis sprouts...they love it. A new variety, with likely some different phenotypes and all kinds of new stuff to observe and learn. Will this new strain be as good as either of the parents? That would awfully good indeed, yet it is quite likely, and the excitement I feel looking at these little first-of-their-kind and imagining that this could be a new super strain is making everything new again.
Sampling a fatty of their grandmother, checking out another Summer sunset.
Life is gooooood. Exhale.
Chop hell starts Monday.
Peace, Hyena
Change of plans. Going up Monday to chop.
I just feel like I want the rocket ride dope. This last crop has received such insane reviews from so many folks who have smoked it and just got their heads blown off, I feel like 8 weeks is enough and I want to pull everything down while the trichomes are 80-90% still clear. Even if it makes a 5% difference in the final weight whatever, it's about quality and there's already so much I dread cutting and hanging it.
It's ready...
Huge chunkers even hanging down to the floor...
So probably 40 hours of no-shit work coming up. Then a relaxing long Labor Day weekend with wifey in Northern Michigan. I just decided I'm getting this done before the vacation. I don't want to spend those four days thinking about how much the harvest will suck. I'd rather spend it happy because the hard part is already finished.
And to replace them, there is a WHOLE NEW STRAIN!
Yes, we finally have 12 growing girls, so let me introduce the first generation of the newest cross in the marijuana world: SATURN 5!
This new strain is a cross between INCREDIBLE BULK and DELHI FRIEND, both of which have been proven to be amazing for the last several grows. The herb is incredible and the buzz is your friend. So in the first grow from seed a random, never-found pollen emitter created about a hundred seeds between six of the plants, with the majority being from one lower branch on one plant. I weighed each plant when I harvested, and the two that produced the most were the two I used seeds from, 5 each, with 2 additional seeds from another plant just for random interest.
Took a few days to get 12 of them sprouted and up completely.
Today they went into big rockwool cubes to start growing properly and get ready for the ride up North.
So they will get going for the next few weeks in these. The attic lab hits over 100 degrees in the afternoon but it doesn't bother little cannabis sprouts...they love it. A new variety, with likely some different phenotypes and all kinds of new stuff to observe and learn. Will this new strain be as good as either of the parents? That would awfully good indeed, yet it is quite likely, and the excitement I feel looking at these little first-of-their-kind and imagining that this could be a new super strain is making everything new again.
Sampling a fatty of their grandmother, checking out another Summer sunset.
Life is gooooood. Exhale.
Chop hell starts Monday.
Peace, Hyena
PGA Caddie
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Taking care of business first makes fun time a lot more fun.
The Saturn 5 will be fun to watch
425jesse
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That’s great, thanks as always for the report! Looking forward to the chop updates!
LandoC
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The Saturn 5 will be fun to Launch...good name! To the moon Hyena, to the moon!
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LandoC
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Of course! The Llanic Spice Run!
LandoC
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Found it on an old map!
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Twas the night before harvest
And up in my lab
Were a dozen new darlings
All lookin' so fab!
Yes, the new SATURN 5 babies are cool. But as I watered them tenderly today I caught a glimpse of something in the water drop...it magnified the leaf surface and suddenly I could plainly see...these one-inch plants with only two leaves are covered with trichomes!
Do all sprouts have trichs on their first set of leaves? I've never noticed it, but that doesn't mean it isn't common. Doubtful though, because I notice everything.
It's clear there are tiny trichs everywhere. I don't know if that means anything but in my view that can't be bad!
Okay going up in the morning. Harvest time.
Peace, Hyena
And up in my lab
Were a dozen new darlings
All lookin' so fab!
Yes, the new SATURN 5 babies are cool. But as I watered them tenderly today I caught a glimpse of something in the water drop...it magnified the leaf surface and suddenly I could plainly see...these one-inch plants with only two leaves are covered with trichomes!
Do all sprouts have trichs on their first set of leaves? I've never noticed it, but that doesn't mean it isn't common. Doubtful though, because I notice everything.
It's clear there are tiny trichs everywhere. I don't know if that means anything but in my view that can't be bad!
Okay going up in the morning. Harvest time.
Peace, Hyena
MagicJim
Creme de la Creme Photos: Sept 2016
Yep....apparently it got by you somehow. They are there.
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Well, here it is.
The harvest report in this HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update!
Well, harvest is hell. No way to sugar coat it. This time it was 34 hours of actual trimming (Yes I kept exact track). Plus all the other hours of bullshit including cleaning and reconditioning the grow tent from disaster area to pristine. I rolled in and rolled up my sleeves...
The decision to chop this week instead of next was a very good one...I don't think these top colas could get any bigger and I was starting to think about bud rot since the humidity in this chamber is quite high. Here's how it looked:
As I dug into the first plant, I saw these colas were very dense and heavy, even at the second level, with real production even down into the third level. This means it could be extra huge. A typical cola:
So each plant got chopped, sectioned, and trimmed, about three hours apiece to do the whole process and hang it in the dry room. The cola stacks were amazing.
The new girls get used to real lights over the first few days, as I gradually slaughter their grandmothers.
Every plant is an endless pile. I can't believe how much there is.
At last, only one to go...
Before:
After:
So many hundreds of these...insanity became a real possibility somewhere along the way.
For most of the four days time loses all meaning and I gradually become a strange hobbit-ninja with a 2-inch pair of scissors, slashing my way to Mordor through an endless wall of green. But finally, the sky clears, and I gazed in amazement at the finished bounty...
Yes, it left me speechless. And chunky like I've never seen so the weight will be huge. And after four days up in the Great North with wifey (a very deserved getaway!) I hit the GH again on the way home to buck everything, weigh everything, and bag it up. I hope you are sitting down...
FIVE POUNDS TEN OUNCES. Plus three bags stuffed with live frozen lower-growth buds, to make awesome hash and live rosin! You may be wondering how such a thing is even possible from a 10x10 tent without CO2.
So am I. But it happened!
So here I sit, tired and happy, back home again, the grow house just a memory again in another place. Hard to believe the future could hold anything better.
But Tent #2 has some amazing stuff going on...
Only 5 or 6 weeks to doing it all AGAIN...Yikes!
And the brand-new strain called SATURN 5 is just beginning its journey...
What new reaches of the Cannabis universe will we reach? I don't know, but stick around and we'll reach it together.
Thanks for being there!
Peace, Hyena
The harvest report in this HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update!
Well, harvest is hell. No way to sugar coat it. This time it was 34 hours of actual trimming (Yes I kept exact track). Plus all the other hours of bullshit including cleaning and reconditioning the grow tent from disaster area to pristine. I rolled in and rolled up my sleeves...
The decision to chop this week instead of next was a very good one...I don't think these top colas could get any bigger and I was starting to think about bud rot since the humidity in this chamber is quite high. Here's how it looked:
As I dug into the first plant, I saw these colas were very dense and heavy, even at the second level, with real production even down into the third level. This means it could be extra huge. A typical cola:
So each plant got chopped, sectioned, and trimmed, about three hours apiece to do the whole process and hang it in the dry room. The cola stacks were amazing.
The new girls get used to real lights over the first few days, as I gradually slaughter their grandmothers.
Every plant is an endless pile. I can't believe how much there is.
At last, only one to go...
Before:
After:
So many hundreds of these...insanity became a real possibility somewhere along the way.
For most of the four days time loses all meaning and I gradually become a strange hobbit-ninja with a 2-inch pair of scissors, slashing my way to Mordor through an endless wall of green. But finally, the sky clears, and I gazed in amazement at the finished bounty...
Yes, it left me speechless. And chunky like I've never seen so the weight will be huge. And after four days up in the Great North with wifey (a very deserved getaway!) I hit the GH again on the way home to buck everything, weigh everything, and bag it up. I hope you are sitting down...
FIVE POUNDS TEN OUNCES. Plus three bags stuffed with live frozen lower-growth buds, to make awesome hash and live rosin! You may be wondering how such a thing is even possible from a 10x10 tent without CO2.
So am I. But it happened!
So here I sit, tired and happy, back home again, the grow house just a memory again in another place. Hard to believe the future could hold anything better.
But Tent #2 has some amazing stuff going on...
Only 5 or 6 weeks to doing it all AGAIN...Yikes!
And the brand-new strain called SATURN 5 is just beginning its journey...
What new reaches of the Cannabis universe will we reach? I don't know, but stick around and we'll reach it together.
Thanks for being there!
Peace, Hyena