Yes it is.
I'm going to milk this plant for everything it's got!
I'll definitely post a wrap-up over there, along with a few pics.Looking good LK! Post up a few of those glamour shots over in #SIP Club. They certainly are drool worthy.
Thanks. The buds are really coming along
Your buds are gorgeous and awesome and well explained update. Yes, I’ve seen others here do the “rescue drink” thing with success in droughting. I’ve been too chicken to try it yet myself. You already have tons of trichs on these buds, I guess she’ll have to start stacking trichomes. Lol!Date - 12/12/22 - Day# 96 (W14D5), Flower Day# 65, Drought Day# 1
Strain - Herbies Seeds - Fruit Punch Auto Fem (Heavyweight Seeds)
Grow space - The 'Playpen' - a 32x32x60 tent outfitted with the VIVOSUN Smart Grow System
- AeroLight - The world’s first 100W LED grow light with an integrated circulatory fan
- AeroZesh - 6" Ultra powerful automated exhaust fully programmable through the GrowHub
- Growhub - Controls all tent equipment simultaneously
All controlled through the VIVOSUN App
In -Flowering- Mode
- Light - 13" away, 450-500PPFD, 35-40DLI
- 00:00-04:00 OFF
- 04:00-24:00 Spectrum:Flowering, Intensity:100%, Simulate Sunrise/Sunset
- Circulation Fan
- 00:00-24:00 Natural wind
- Exhaust Fan
- 00:00-04:00 - AUTO Temp 74f Humidity 45% Speed 1 Default:OFF
- 04:00-24:00 - AUTO Temp 78F Humidity 48% Speed 1 Default:OFF
Nutrients - Geoflora Bloom, Purpinator, Sweet Candy, TPS CalMag, Hydroguard / Great White
Medium - 5g SIP container with Sohum soil amended with Dynomyco and GeoFlora Nutrients
Other - 8" Floor Fan, 6" oscillating fan
Water - Carbon-filtered well water (100ppm)
Pebbles had her res filled on Friday morning. By Sunday morning, there was still a little bit in the bottom. This morning her res is dry. I'm sure she still has plenty of moisture in her soil... for now. She's also pretty big, at 20" tall and 30+ inches across. I expect it'll still be a few more days until I see her really start to feel the drought.
From what I understand about droughting, the plant needs a few days to signal that there's a water shortage, and a few more to act upon that information. A longer drought (up to 11 days) is more effective than a shorter drought (under 7 days). I consider today to be drought day# 1. I'd love to extend this drought for at least 7 days from today, and up to 11 days.
My previous droughting experience was with 5g cloth pots, and they dried out quickly. The only way I could extend the drought was using 'rescue drinks'. I'd water the top 2-4" of the soil, letting the bottom stay dry. I'll do the same for Pebbles if it looks like she needs it, using a sprayer to wet the top few inches of soil. For now, I'm watching the leaf wilt angle on a couple of leaves to see how she's handling it.
Pebbles is already drawing from her reserves. I'll pick off a few dried up leaves every day now as the lowers and inners yellow, then dry up and fall off. She's fading a bit sooner than I like, but it's all going to be over in two weeks at most. She's got plenty of bud in there now. Hopefully she's putting all of her remaining energy into coating them with nice plump trichomes!
#VIVOSUN #SmartGrowSystem #LoveWhatYouGrow
Thanks Jon. It's harder for me to drought in RDWC, so I jumped at the chance with this girl in soil. And I'll take more trics, bigger trics, longer trics... whatever she's got
Always looking on the bright side!
If you look at the top picture on this page, you'll see the Vivosun temp probe and a Govee hanging on the right side of the tent about 2" above the canopy.
Thanks man. I'm starting to do that math on her harvest date. Assuming her drought goes 11 days, two days to rehydrate, then chop. That puts harvest right around 12/24. It looks like Santa may be extra busy on Christmas eve this year
Budman is the rehydrate just watering once to run off?Thanks man. I'm starting to do that math on her harvest date. Assuming her drought goes 11 days, two days to rehydrate, then chop. That puts harvest right around 12/24. It looks like Santa may be extra busy on Christmas eve this year
Hey BM isn’t 96 days kind of a lot for a auto? Idk? CLDate - 12/12/22 - Day# 96 (W14D5), Flower Day# 65, Drought Day# 1
Strain - Herbies Seeds - Fruit Punch Auto Fem (Heavyweight Seeds)
Grow space - The 'Playpen' - a 32x32x60 tent outfitted with the VIVOSUN Smart Grow System
- AeroLight - The world’s first 100W LED grow light with an integrated circulatory fan
- AeroZesh - 6" Ultra powerful automated exhaust fully programmable through the GrowHub
- Growhub - Controls all tent equipment simultaneously
All controlled through the VIVOSUN App
In -Flowering- Mode
- Light - 13" away, 450-500PPFD, 35-40DLI
- 00:00-04:00 OFF
- 04:00-24:00 Spectrum:Flowering, Intensity:100%, Simulate Sunrise/Sunset
- Circulation Fan
- 00:00-24:00 Natural wind
- Exhaust Fan
- 00:00-04:00 - AUTO Temp 74f Humidity 45% Speed 1 Default:OFF
- 04:00-24:00 - AUTO Temp 78F Humidity 48% Speed 1 Default:OFF
Nutrients - Geoflora Bloom, Purpinator, Sweet Candy, TPS CalMag, Hydroguard / Great White
Medium - 5g SIP container with Sohum soil amended with Dynomyco and GeoFlora Nutrients
Other - 8" Floor Fan, 6" oscillating fan
Water - Carbon-filtered well water (100ppm)
Pebbles had her res filled on Friday morning. By Sunday morning, there was still a little bit in the bottom. This morning her res is dry. I'm sure she still has plenty of moisture in her soil... for now. She's also pretty big, at 20" tall and 30+ inches across. I expect it'll still be a few more days until I see her really start to feel the drought.
From what I understand about droughting, the plant needs a few days to signal that there's a water shortage, and a few more to act upon that information. A longer drought (up to 11 days) is more effective than a shorter drought (under 7 days). I consider today to be drought day# 1. I'd love to extend this drought for at least 7 days from today, and up to 11 days.
My previous droughting experience was with 5g cloth pots, and they dried out quickly. The only way I could extend the drought was using 'rescue drinks'. I'd water the top 2-4" of the soil, letting the bottom stay dry. I'll do the same for Pebbles if it looks like she needs it, using a sprayer to wet the top few inches of soil. For now, I'm watching the leaf wilt angle on a couple of leaves to see how she's handling it.
Pebbles is already drawing from her reserves. I'll pick off a few dried up leaves every day now as the lowers and inners yellow, then dry up and fall off. She's fading a bit sooner than I like, but it's all going to be over in two weeks at most. She's got plenty of bud in there now. Hopefully she's putting all of her remaining energy into coating them with nice plump trichomes!
#VIVOSUN #SmartGrowSystem #LoveWhatYouGrow
Yea, for her I'll probably just fill the res with well water. She'll get one last good drink before the chop.
Yea it is, the breeder said 80 days from germination. I'm good with her running long, though. She's finally starting to show signs that she's finishing up... maybe one more weekHey BM isn’t 96 days kind of a lot for a auto? Idk? CL
Welcome to the site KC.
I start my seeds directly in a EZGro plug without soaking or sprouting. A lot of people do exactly as you describe, though, so that all sounds good.
SWEET! I think you're going to love that!
I'm not sure it matters. They don't need light until they sprout. I usually turn the light on a 20/4 schedule as soon as the seeds go in the plugs, though. If nothing else they can feel the heat from the light.
Looks like a nice setup you have. If you decide to set up a journal, tag me so that I can follow along. Good luck with your grow.
Shes stunning budman those buds look tastyDate - 12/19/22 - Day# 103 (W15D5), Flower Day# 72, Drought Day# 8
Strain - Herbies Seeds - Fruit Punch Auto Fem (Heavyweight Seeds)
Grow space - The 'Playpen' - a 32x32x60 tent outfitted with the VIVOSUN Smart Grow System
- AeroLight - The world’s first 100W LED grow light with an integrated circulatory fan
- AeroZesh - 6" Ultra powerful automated exhaust fully programmable through the GrowHub
- Growhub - Controls all tent equipment simultaneously
All controlled through the VIVOSUN App
In -Flowering- Mode
- Light - 13" away, 400-450PPFD, 30-35DLI
- 00:00-04:00 OFF
- 04:00-24:00 Spectrum:Flowering, Intensity:75%, Simulate Sunrise/Sunset
- Circulation Fan
- 00:00-24:00 Natural wind
- Exhaust Fan
- 00:00-04:00 - AUTO Temp 72f Humidity 42% Speed 1 Default:Speed1
- 04:00-24:00 - AUTO Temp 76F Humidity 48% Speed 1 Default:OFF
Nutrients - Geoflora Bloom, Purpinator, Sweet Candy, TPS CalMag, Hydroguard / Great White
Medium - 5g SIP container with Sohum soil amended with Dynomyco and GeoFlora Nutrients
Other - 8" Floor Fan, 6" oscillating fan
Water - Carbon-filtered well water (100ppm)
Pebbles is more than halfway through her drought now. Yesterday I began giving her 'rescue drinks'. This is really just a cup or two sprayed across the top. I try to wet the entire top of the bucket and that's it. Then I cover her back up to try to keep as much of that moisture in as possible. It's really nothing more than some morning 'dew'.
Pebbles is definitely feeling the drought now. I've watched most of her lower fans, especially on the outside, go limp, shrivel up, go brown and fall off.
You can see it progressing up the plant. The middle fans are nearly horizontal now. Her upper fans are still pointing up, though, even if not as much as before. She has a few ugly leaves up top too, but for the most part they're still going. I'll keep giving her daily rescue drinks now to try to get her to 11 days without those top fans going past horizontal.
She's finally showing signs that she's finishing up. There are still a few rougue white pistils in there, but most have gone orange and shrivelled up. I'm starting to see the calyx swell a bit now, and a few pistils getting swallowed up by the calyx. Smell is definitely increasing. I still haven't taken any micro shots, but from what I can see her trics are clouding up nicely, with an occasional amber.
I turned the @VIVOSUN AeroLight down to 75% yesterday, decreasing the light even further in her last week. I also turned the maximum temperature down to 76f, which runs the exhaust more and keeps it even dryer in the tent. And while Pebbles is slowly dying, she's doing everything she can to protect her buds. She may be starting to look a bit ugly from afar, but up close her buds are looking spectacular!
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