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Day 116 - Flower Day 55 - Day 62 from Flip
Well well well... I could dribble on for a minute, but I'll wait. Let's get to the good shit, eh?
In the past week, the Durban Poison has started fattening up her buds, the Strawberry Lemonades are about a week behind her, and just starting to think about the swell. Blue Dream? Meh, who knows what's going through her mind. Typical woman, so whatever it is I'm sure it's being over analyzed and blown out of proportion.
A closer look at the DP's corner. She's close. Damn close. I'll break out the scope and give her (and the rest) a look over later today.
A look into the corner of batshit crazy. Er, I mean the Blue Dream corner. Yeah, that's it.
She's humming along, but obviously taking her sativa traits to heart and taking her sweet damn time. That's alright. If we aren't used to waiting on a woman to get ready by this point, well, I don't know what to tell ya.
A closer shot of SL #2. (This is the one that went into the setup initially.) She's getting there, but just lagging behind the DP a tick.
Tighter in on SL #1. (1 and 2 is just positional reference, and this is the one that replaced the GDP when she was a runt.)
She's started to really eat herself up now, and may be behind her sister at most 2 or 3 days. Of course that's visually, not by the trichs. Either way, I see them probably being ready at the same time.
Closeup of a DP flower.
One of SL2's.
One from SL1
And now Blue. Her sugar leaves are long, thin, and loaded with sticky trichs to the tips.
Now for the stuff you've come to depend on for lining your bird cage, mkay? (Mkay Mr Mackey.)
Today being Saturday, time for a res change. Over the week I've observed (again) a rising EC, lowering water level (from the top-off) and a slowly falling pH. What's the handy dandy chart say??? Yep, lower the damn EC.
You may recall that last week we dropped from 6g/gal of MegaCrop to 5g/gal. While that curbed the rise a bit, it still went up from 1.55ish to 1.65ish (about 70ppm on the 700 scale).
All this being the case, I dropped it to 4.5g/gal this week. This put me at an EC of 1.41 (which includes about 20% tap water, and 1.5ml/gal of Protekt silica) or right about 990ppm on the 700 scale.
We'll see how it goes. Still have food, just a little less. Regardless, one thing is certain. Blue is going to finish last.
The Harvest Watch starts on Monday, so yeah, I need to get a peek at the trichs to get a better handle on planning. Wait, not like I got other shit to do in the evenings now.
On another front, I'd like to jump back to December and the little deal with the light (GC ROI-E680.) At the time I was ok with it, but now I'm not so sure. Yeah, it's fine, but I've had issues with the controller not wanting to "wake up" now and then. It happens about once a week, and is to the point where I make sure to check on it to make sure the light comes on in the morning, and then make sure it's not froze up before lights out. Combined with the "gift package" that never showed up after I called up their support (since I was willing to work with it instead of doing a return/replace), I think I'm going to say fuck it and send the light and controller back. I'm not 100% sure whether I will go for replacement or refund yet. I'm tempted to go for the refund and pick up the 500w Budget LED panel and call it good. That will still leave me with some leftover after that light, and just happens to be enough to pick up another 250w series 3 panel. Or maybe 3 of the 250w series 3 panels instead. Hmmm... Might not be a bad option, and I'd save 200 watts on that tent's usage while I'm at it.
Don't get me wrong, I really do love what the ROI-E680 does. It does it damn well, and the results are great. However, I could do just as well with the Budget lights, and maybe just a tick better?
Anyway, that's where my thoughts are on it at the minute. I get that the first run of those lights had a minor issue. Fine, whatever. But their controller has been around for a bit. Even with adding in a little bit more for LED's, they still shouldn't have a damn issue with waking the controller from sleep. There's no call for that, and I wake it up at least twice a day. So it isn't from sitting idle for any length of time, it just happens when it happens. I think the real kicker is I was cool with the initial deal, and when they offered up some accessories and swag for willing to do so, that was fine. Then when that never showed up (not that I really cared about the actual gear, but it's the point of the matter), and the controller having issues, yeah, I'm done with the whole "work with it" shit. Not 100% sure if I'll go for replace or refund, but whatever. They're back ordered all over the place right now, so they're probably cranking them out like mad. That being the case, their QC may not be up to snuff at the moment. It may be, but just sayin. Guess I'll see what the deal is when I finish off this run in a couple weeks and get back in touch with them.
Well well well... I could dribble on for a minute, but I'll wait. Let's get to the good shit, eh?
In the past week, the Durban Poison has started fattening up her buds, the Strawberry Lemonades are about a week behind her, and just starting to think about the swell. Blue Dream? Meh, who knows what's going through her mind. Typical woman, so whatever it is I'm sure it's being over analyzed and blown out of proportion.
A closer look at the DP's corner. She's close. Damn close. I'll break out the scope and give her (and the rest) a look over later today.
A look into the corner of batshit crazy. Er, I mean the Blue Dream corner. Yeah, that's it.
She's humming along, but obviously taking her sativa traits to heart and taking her sweet damn time. That's alright. If we aren't used to waiting on a woman to get ready by this point, well, I don't know what to tell ya.
A closer shot of SL #2. (This is the one that went into the setup initially.) She's getting there, but just lagging behind the DP a tick.
Tighter in on SL #1. (1 and 2 is just positional reference, and this is the one that replaced the GDP when she was a runt.)
She's started to really eat herself up now, and may be behind her sister at most 2 or 3 days. Of course that's visually, not by the trichs. Either way, I see them probably being ready at the same time.
Closeup of a DP flower.
One of SL2's.
One from SL1
And now Blue. Her sugar leaves are long, thin, and loaded with sticky trichs to the tips.
Now for the stuff you've come to depend on for lining your bird cage, mkay? (Mkay Mr Mackey.)
Today being Saturday, time for a res change. Over the week I've observed (again) a rising EC, lowering water level (from the top-off) and a slowly falling pH. What's the handy dandy chart say??? Yep, lower the damn EC.
You may recall that last week we dropped from 6g/gal of MegaCrop to 5g/gal. While that curbed the rise a bit, it still went up from 1.55ish to 1.65ish (about 70ppm on the 700 scale).
All this being the case, I dropped it to 4.5g/gal this week. This put me at an EC of 1.41 (which includes about 20% tap water, and 1.5ml/gal of Protekt silica) or right about 990ppm on the 700 scale.
We'll see how it goes. Still have food, just a little less. Regardless, one thing is certain. Blue is going to finish last.
The Harvest Watch starts on Monday, so yeah, I need to get a peek at the trichs to get a better handle on planning. Wait, not like I got other shit to do in the evenings now.
On another front, I'd like to jump back to December and the little deal with the light (GC ROI-E680.) At the time I was ok with it, but now I'm not so sure. Yeah, it's fine, but I've had issues with the controller not wanting to "wake up" now and then. It happens about once a week, and is to the point where I make sure to check on it to make sure the light comes on in the morning, and then make sure it's not froze up before lights out. Combined with the "gift package" that never showed up after I called up their support (since I was willing to work with it instead of doing a return/replace), I think I'm going to say fuck it and send the light and controller back. I'm not 100% sure whether I will go for replacement or refund yet. I'm tempted to go for the refund and pick up the 500w Budget LED panel and call it good. That will still leave me with some leftover after that light, and just happens to be enough to pick up another 250w series 3 panel. Or maybe 3 of the 250w series 3 panels instead. Hmmm... Might not be a bad option, and I'd save 200 watts on that tent's usage while I'm at it.
Don't get me wrong, I really do love what the ROI-E680 does. It does it damn well, and the results are great. However, I could do just as well with the Budget lights, and maybe just a tick better?
Anyway, that's where my thoughts are on it at the minute. I get that the first run of those lights had a minor issue. Fine, whatever. But their controller has been around for a bit. Even with adding in a little bit more for LED's, they still shouldn't have a damn issue with waking the controller from sleep. There's no call for that, and I wake it up at least twice a day. So it isn't from sitting idle for any length of time, it just happens when it happens. I think the real kicker is I was cool with the initial deal, and when they offered up some accessories and swag for willing to do so, that was fine. Then when that never showed up (not that I really cared about the actual gear, but it's the point of the matter), and the controller having issues, yeah, I'm done with the whole "work with it" shit. Not 100% sure if I'll go for replace or refund, but whatever. They're back ordered all over the place right now, so they're probably cranking them out like mad. That being the case, their QC may not be up to snuff at the moment. It may be, but just sayin. Guess I'll see what the deal is when I finish off this run in a couple weeks and get back in touch with them.
