Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spectrum

Re: Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spect

So today's update entry is called "The Unexpected Visitor"


The Veg Tent (budmaster COB)

So I was looking at my veg tent the other day and my plants and noticed that I had 2 seedlings pop up in my pot that my Tangie #6 is potted in. I was pretty stoked to see this, however I am clueless about what strains these are, as about a month ago I dumped about a 1/2lb of my old buds dating back about a year or 2 into my soil to compost. I was going to use the old bud for butter, but I've learned that using old bud for butter, the degradation of THC into CBN really makes the butter turn out with a huge couch lock effect, I mean sleep a whole day or 2 type of couch lock. Even though it is great for pain or someone with insomnia, I didn't like how it would pretty much make me useless for a day or 2 after ingesting the butter, so I dumped all my old bud out into my soil. Therefore the seeds could be tangie, which did seed and I dumped all the trimmings in, but it could also be 1 of many strains that I have grown in the past year or so that maybe popped an unnoticed seed. I probably will keep them for now just to see I can recognize the plants strains by their leafs, however most likely I wont keep them because they are probably high potential for hermies.

Other than that the veg tent is looking good and the plants now are growing fairly well. I gave them another watering of just plain R/O water with epsom salt to help correct any soil issues and the plants have responded well. I still see that they will take some time to really thrive and be healthy again but we are on the right path :)

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The flowering tent (budmaster GOD):

The flowering tent today is on day 38 of flowering, and things are looking very good. Growth has slowed down slightly over the past few days but the plants still are packing on girth and trichomes so I know they are about to hit that stage where they just explode in weight :) For only using 340W of energy total in this tent, I am pretty impressed with how many buds are of good size at this point, which I was not expecting originally for the low wattage draw. I definitely could use 1 more light to really max out the size of the buds, but for only 340w they are doing extremely well in my garden :) The buds are forming extremely dense and very very frosty which I love, and I think this harvest should definitly come close if not top my Gram/watt charts so far (hopefully) when all said and done :) Needless to say the lights are doing a great job so far for the lower wattage and I expect a good finish in the coming month :) I also gave the girls a heavy feeding/flush the other day to refresh the soil from any buildup of excess nutrients which the plants seemed to really like, and my next feeding will be in 2 days and will be an earthjuice tea.

Yesterday I also removed about a grocery bag worth of leaves, as I did a minor defoliation to help open up the dense canopy allowing more light to reach the lower nodes. I also re positioned many of the branches that have been supercropped to allow for excellent penetration and coverage making sure that all buds were getting good intense light.

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Re: Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spect

Hey Icemud things are looking fine and dandy around here. Congrats.

Just wondering if you have any guiding words about keeping a mother plant fed and happy being just a mother.
 
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For the watts used, your killing it. It's great to see success using small watts in a flower tent. Rep +1

Cheers
 
Re: Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spect

Hi icemud,

Fantastic brother! I'm super glad those budmaster lights are working out for you. Makes me feel a little better about my purchase. Those colas look solid for sure. I'd really like to see what you could do with another 4 panel. I'm sure you'd be very happy. Loving this grow my friend! :circle-of-love:
 
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I agree with everyone else, it looks like you have some excellent results going on in your tents. Also, all of the info being shared on soils could not be more timely for me. Just really dig this sight and all of the cool information being shared. :thanks::Namaste:
 
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The girls in veg under the COB have really picked up well over the last couple of weeks & those epsom salts have worked wonders !

Well what can i say about the girls in flower & the GOD panels, looking very sweet :green_heart:
 
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Kudos and Reps for this fine post Icemud! I love the photographic record of your grow. You are really making those Budmasters do their thing. Your buddy in Cannabis Awareness :Namaste:

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Hey Hozana! Thanks for the rep and the good kudos!! I'm really digging how things are looking right now, should be a nice finish to this grow :)
 
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Hey Icemud things are looking fine and dandy around here. Congrats.

Just wondering if you have any guiding words about keeping a mother plant fed and happy being just a mother.

Hey SBG! Thanks for the good words my friend.

Well mother plants I've done alright with, definitely not as good as I could be as I have kept a few for a couple years but also lost a few really amazing strains too. I would say for me what works is just feeding them lightly, as I use earth juice and hydrolyzed fish for the most part. I usually feed them less often that I do for my current grows as I just want them to maintain and not thrive, I guess if that makes sense.

After the plants get large and bushy I just trim them back, usually cutting a significant amount of the plant up. I do this to promote branching but also keep the size in check for my grow area.

If I notice any plants that aren't doing well I try to address the problem, and if things turn for the worse then I immediately take clones of it (lesson learned from ones I lost). Just in case it decides to die then I still have the genetics around with the clones. Sometimes I just do this when a mother gets too old and decrepid looking, I will clone it, make sure it roots, and then flower out the mother, as I am right now with the Ogiesel in my flowering tent. This also allows me to give new soil and keep the plant health up.

I'm not sure if this really helps as I am not the best at keeping mother plants but these are some of the tips I have learned while doing it my way..lol :)
 
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For the watts used, your killing it. It's great to see success using small watts in a flower tent. Rep +1

Cheers

Thanks Millertm!!! I definitely can say I am very happy with how things look right now, they are really starting to fill in, and smell amazing right now :) I'm wondering how my Gram/watt will be? I'm hoping for around 1G/w but we will see :)
 
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Hi icemud,

Fantastic brother! I'm super glad those budmaster lights are working out for you. Makes me feel a little better about my purchase. Those colas look solid for sure. I'd really like to see what you could do with another 4 panel. I'm sure you'd be very happy. Loving this grow my friend! :circle-of-love:

Hey DrCannabi!

I'm really stoked to be using the Budmasters too, and they definitely are doing their thing :) I think next time I use the GOD's I really have to make sure to flip my plants earlier to keep them shorter as the GOD's really are intense and meant to be much further away from the plants than I have them right now.. I've supercropped my canopy so much there are buds laying everywhere..LOL
 
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I agree with everyone else, it looks like you have some excellent results going on in your tents. Also, all of the info being shared on soils could not be more timely for me. Just really dig this sight and all of the cool information being shared. :thanks::Namaste:

Hey Bangabong :)

Thank you for bringing some good vibes along and I appreciate ya! I appreciate all the convo on the PHing and soil as well as I hardly even think about PH but I think if I did pay more attention to it, I may even see better happier plants :) I loved 420 magazine when I came here like ..IDK maybe like 4 years ago. I wanted to grow, did my research but still really needed guidance to put all the info to practice. I absolutely killed my first grow, and met so many amazing people here, all sharing their stories, knowledge and just support for all that enjoy this awesome plant. Since then I pretty much look forward to always posting and chatting it up with everyone like minded to all help better our own grows and experiences. Glad that you are enjoing the community and happy I can be a part of that enjoyment :)
 
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The girls in veg under the COB have really picked up well over the last couple of weeks & those epsom salts have worked wonders !

Well what can i say about the girls in flower & the GOD panels, looking very sweet :green_heart:

Yep, I'm so happy that the plant health on the older plants is coming back, I've been giving them pretty much just water and epsom salts as the deficiency is Mg I'm almost certain on, and so I was reading that I think I may have locked out the mg due to excessive calcium, which is in both humbolt equillibrium and bloom which I have been using for both. So I may have to limit it to one or the other per feeding to prevent this from now on. I'm going to now hit them all with 2 round of compost tea and we will see how they do :)

The flowering tent is definitely doing well, I'm impressed. I can't wait to be done with this grow so I can finally taste the fire og and black diamond og which I have had for a while in veg, but never flowered :) Also will be happy to select which tangie pheno I will keep out of the 4 which will open up room for either new strains or to start my seed project. :) I'm debating whether to put back up my 3rd tent or not to get it going, but I'm also loving the extra room it gives me in my place...lol
 
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Today makes for day 41 of flowering under the GOD's and things are looking amazing so far. I gave the girls a watering yesterday of epsom salts and water, but before I did I sprinkled some TandJ biominerals on top of the soil. Tonight I am preparing a nice compost tea consisting of some of my recycled soil, some biovam (mycos/bacteria) some yucca extract and some hydrolyzed fish which I will be giving the girls in 2 days or so.

I also added my 2 milk jug fermentation CO2 jugs to the flowering tent, and took them out of the veg tent as I didn't realized I had the room for them in flowering. Not that this will add much to the room, but I figure any little extra CO2 helps. I emptied out the jugs, filled them with water, added sugar, yeast and into the tent they went. :)

Well here are today's photos :)

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Re: Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spect

Great seeing a felo GOD grower doing such good things and apparently enjoying it :)

Thanks LA! I'm definitely a believer in the GOD :)
 
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Looking good Brotha :thumb:
 
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Hi Ice , your tents look great and the growth in the flower tent looks mint :thumb:
How do you think four of the GOD's would do in a 4x4 tent .

Hey SonicDlf!

Thanks for the compliments!!! I think 4 of the GODs would do amazing in a 4x4, given you have at least 14-18" of vertical height between the canopy and the lights. The COB panels are awesome too, I would suggest getting 2 of each, and then swapping out the modules so you have combo panels (1/2 cob, 1/2 god) which would give you best of both worlds. That is the next adventure I plan on after these current grows are up :)
 
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Looking good Brotha :thumb:

Hey Cronic brotha!!! Happy Mondaze!!!
 
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