Kushtie - Multiple Strains - 600W HPS & NFT

[Glasgrow]

Am liking the rrf the more i smoke it. As for weekly flushes with nft - no need. Just change the tank once every 7-10 days and just keep an eye on EC and PH, add fresh nutes as you go along. The only flushing is at the end for the last 10-14 days with plain tap water, obviously leave it sitting out for chlorine to evaporste for 24 hours or even just over night.

Mind to store your trim in the freezer till you get a chance to bubble it and get rid of the stems and big fan leaves, they will just ruin your bubble. I didnt do that the first time i did bubble and ended up with a majorly contaminated product, also i beat the crap out of it. There's a good video on youtube that shows a great way how to do it. Do a search for "subcool apollo 13", the video is just over 31 mins long, an gonna follow his method for bubble later this week. And if you dont get bags kushtie then you know that i will happily take it off ur hands and put it to good use Will even cover your petrol costs to drop it off and there plenty of places near me to walk a dog - cycle path down the river is a good place and i not too far off the motorway, even for a country bumpkin like yourself.

 

[Glasgrow]

Ps - a week off work and gettting baked - sounds good.

 

[Kushtie]

As for weekly flushes with nft - no need.

Meant weekly res changes. They don't do any of that and the MF still looks as healthy as can be....it coped with the heat close to my 600 and seems to be doing well outside in the cold. Only thing it doesn't seem to like is growing in a peat bog where it can't find nutes. Seems like a pretty bullet proof strain to me.

The VK was the other end of the scale but not sure how much of that was due to low pH issues and a deficiency early on. Trying very hard to avoid those issues this time. And not putting anything else in the grow room that will crowd it out. Will try to keep this lot under 1m tall too.

Yield wise I suspect the MF gave more with half the veg time the VK got.

 

[Kushtie]

Outdoor pics.....

Thought it was windy enough to keep the worst of the flies at bay but turns out I was way wrong and they were worse than ever. When it's raining heavily seems to be the only time I might be able to visit without getting attacked by a swarm of blood sucking flies....getting soaked is far preferable to being driven nuts by those wee bastards!

Time to try and sort out the indoor room now.....

 

[Kushtie]

Just checked weights on some kitchen scales....5.6oz of the MFs and 7.4oz from the VK. Added to the estimated 10oz off the RRFs I make that 23oz off my first run from seed.

That's only counting the stuff I have in tubs for curing too.

Only one word for that result I reckon....Bitchen!

 

[CCOiler]

Yes indeed..............Bitchen

 

[Kushtie]

Cheers bud. Been trying to work out how I got so much but I think it comes down to lucky timing. ...the RRFs autos might have crowded out the VK a bit during veg but came down just after the switch to 12/12 and then some of the VK stretched into the space the RRFs were in so some of my room effectively got used twice.

 

[Glasgrow]

That a nice haul that you got. Now got the mf curing in a jar. No idea on RH for it so am just opening it once a day for 10 mins and give the buds a stir. Ran through the rrf with the bubble bags and have a very nice yeild. Gonna leave it till tomorrow night then roll the different grades into wee balls and weigh them. They will then join the mf in that jar for the curing process. Got a big kiln jar so plenty of room in it and very little risk of anything becoming mouldy. Should have my new bubble bags tomorrow so still gotta run the frozen liquid from yesterdays run through the 25m or 45m bag. Then will get working with the frozen mf, approx 100g of trim so hoping to get around 10g from that.

 

[420Amard]

I tried black bomb hash was made with black bomb by philosophers seeds They have a seed kit called the Philo mix i want to try

Philo Mix

Philo Mix gives you the complete collection of the marijuana seed bank Philosopher Seeds.

Philo Mix contains:

2 K13 Haze
2 Amnesika 2.0
2 Gokunk
2 Tropimango
2 Heaven's Fruit
2 Black Bomb

Seeds come in packs of 2 units per strain in a plastics tube, protected from light and moisture by a silica gel.

This family of seeds was used to create PhiloHash, which got the 2nd prize in the Resins Category at the 2012 Expogrow Cup.

 

[Kushtie]

That a nice haul that you got.

Aye, rather chuffed with that

Here's a couple of pics I posted already in the eye candy thread ( Come on folks let's see some eye candy! Here's some for ya )....

Should keep me going a wee while I reckon.

Next plant coming down is a Shortstuff seeds mix that is the same age as the first lot of autos I put outdoors. There's not much to it (pics tomorrow hopefully) because I only had room for it under a 125W CFL veg light for ages and then when I could fit it under my 600W HPS it was on 12/12 to flower photos. Buds look a load less fluffy now but am still thinking it'll be about a half ounce. Hopefully it'll taste nice though.....it's been grown with Plant Magic soil and nutes which say organic on them.

 

[Glasgrow]

That a haul of mf? Thought it was the vk. Or is that still drying at the moment? Mind i'll be wanting some of the vk once it ready.

 

[Glasgrow]

Final dry weight of the mf was 15.4g. It wont lose any more in the curing jar, just hoping after a month or 2 it will lose that hay like smell. The bubble from the rrf is sitting at a nice 6.8g in total, will start curing that from tomorrow. Rolled it into nice wee blocks, the 160u is the top one, the nice marble looking stuff is the 73u and the last 2 are the 25u. Hope to do the mf trim over the next couple of days. Also washing my bags out with iso. Left that sitting in a bowl to evaporate outside, should leave me with a nice bit of oil, happy days.

 

[Kushtie]

Good stuff bud. Looks like you got enough out of that to make it worthwhile.

Have managed to get cold in the middle of summer somehow so at the moment I can't taste anything and my head too stuffed up to feel stoned. Nae guid!

Still not done pics of the indoor autos but have got the VK seedlings in their final tanks with nutes and under the HPS. Blue touch paper lit! Hoping for over 20oz from 4 of them in 2 tanks and looking for them to occupy about 1.2m2 without getting more than about 80cm tall.

 

[Glasgrow]

It no good having a cold in the middle of summer. The cure on the mf and bubble is really kicking in now. Opening the jar a bit more often. When i open it this wall of weed smell just hits you, cant wait till oct when i start to smoke it properly but gonna leave the bubble for as long as i can (heard a 3 month cure will make it the bees knees)! Getting trim and now been doing bubble for a while always makes it worthwhile. Shame i dont have a car otherwise i would pop over and collect your trim as soon as it done, put it to good use.

20 oz from 4 plants is well do-able. Look forward to seeing them progress. At least my plants seem to be doing a bit better, updated my grow journal yesterday with some pics. Take a wee look kushtie and see what you think.

 

[Kushtie]

The cure on the mf and bubble is really kicking in now.

Aye, the MF has gone a darker shade of green now.....much less bright so hopefully getting ripe for smoking. I still can't taste anything though.

Did some pics yesterday too......

The scraggly auto at the back will be out of there soon and then the WW auto will go at the back and the light will move over the 4 VKs.

Think I might have had the flow rate too high on my wee tank as the one that was closest to the pump outlet wasn't looking too happy...

The others seemed fine though and they seem to be doing well in their new home. They all seem to have grown a bit already

The WW auto:

And the mix auto which I should be harvesting soon:

 

[Mono]

What a haul mate! VERY well done indeed

 

[Kushtie]

What a haul mate! VERY well done indeed

Cheers bud. Wasn't expecting as much from any of the strains so I certainly can't complain. Need to work on my drying and curing though....way too warm and dry where my drying rack is.

Been thinking about getting some Ionic SuperDrive and using it in at least one of the VK tanks to see if that makes a difference. Should be easy enough to have different solutions in each of the two tanks as the SuperDrive goes in with weekly flushes and between flushes it's the same as I've been doing either way.

 

[Kushtie]

One day and a few hours later....

 

[The Dealer]

Subbed. Awesome journal nice job!

 

[Kushtie]

Subbed. Awesome journal nice job!

Cheers bud, welcome aboard