My First Journal, Kanno 26: I Will Grow 6 Critical Plants From Royal Queen Seeds

[Jon]

And one more thing today I bought a new fabric flower pots for future plants and I bought 15 liters are about 4 liters bigger than the ones I use now. So I think that they will be there like it.

That's the way to do it @Kanno26! I use only those. The roots like them way better than plastic pots. Much more air gets to them. I even poke holes in the sides of my starter little plastic one gallon pots to try and make them more like an air pot.

 

[Jon]

Thanks @Jon, how much does such a microscope cost?

$40 on the Zon. The handheld ones like I already have work exactly the same way, they're just almost impossible to hold steady and snap a good picture at the same time.

 

[Kanno26]

$40 on the Zon. The handheld ones like I already have work exactly the same way, they're just almost impossible to hold steady and snap a good picture at the same time.

Thanks @Jon, I'll just look for some, we don't have ZON. And I'll see what others have to say.

 

[Jon]

Thanks @Jon, I'll just look for some, we don't have ZON. And I'll see what others have to say.

You don't have Amazon? Seriously? I thought it was global. Well, you should pay around $40 American for a half decent cheapie hand held or one like mine. They're easy to find. Don't get sucked in by a $20 ultra cheapie, they'll break on you in a week. These $40-ish ones are still cheapies by microscope standards obviously, but way beyond adequate for our purposes.

 

[Kanno26]

You don't have Amazon? Seriously? I thought it was global. Well, you should pay around $40 American for a half decent cheapie hand held or one like mine. They're easy to find. Don't get sucked in by a $20 ultra cheapie, they'll break on you in a week. These $40-ish ones are still cheapies by microscope standards obviously, but way beyond adequate for our purposes.

Sorry @Jon, of course we have Amazon, I just didn't miss the Zon shorts. I look there thanks to I'm an idiot sometimes

 

[Jon]

Sorry @Jon, of course we have Amazon, I just didn't miss the Zon shorts. I look there thanks to I'm an idiot sometimes

LOL. I was gonna say.....ok, now that we're on the same page, look there. There are a ton of them. Just keep in mind that if you buy one that sits on the desk only and doesn't give the hand held option, you will have to cut a bud off the plant to put it under the scope. No big deal to some. I prefer to keep them on the plant. Lol.

 

[Kanno26]

LOL. I was gonna say.....ok, now that we're on the same page, look there. There are a ton of them. Just keep in mind that if you buy one that sits on the desk only and doesn't give the hand held option, you will have to cut a bud off the plant to put it under the scope. No big deal to some. I prefer to keep them on the plant. Lol.

I personally would rather have some that I can have in hand or some connect to the phone would be great.

 

[Azimuth]

Greetings to you all, I have a question for you, @Bill284, @Jon, @Azimuth, @BubbaKush909, @Verbalist, now we are interested in the question, what do you use to control trichome?

I just use a 40x hand held loupe, and it is just a cheapie from the Rain Forrest, maybe $10 US. But then again, I don't take any pretty pictures with it, so there's that... You do need a steady hand with it though. I just use it to admire the thrips and mites on the plants and to check trichome colors.

And one more thing today I bought a new fabric flower pots for future plants and I bought 15 liters are about 4 liters bigger than the ones I use now. So I think that they will be there like it

HaHa, typical grower. Never satisfied.

 

[Kanno26]

I just use a 40x hand held loupe, and it is just a cheapie from the Rain Forrest, maybe $10 US. But then again, I don't take any pretty pictures with it, so there's that... You do need a steady hand with it though. I just use it to admire the thrips and mites on the plants and to check trichome colors.



HaHa, typical grower. Never satisfied.

Thanks @Azimuth, you're right that a person is not satisfied through here but really wanted to try.

 

[Jon]

I personally would rather have some that I can have in hand or some connect to the phone would be great.

Yeah they all do that. You'd be hard pressed to find one that doesn't connect to all the phones and take pictures.

 

[Verbalist]

@Jon Hey, here are the promised photos of everything that got in the tent.

One odor filter

2 ventilation

Pipe 3 to the window

4 dehumidifiers

5 fan

6 fan

7 fan

8 passive air

Thanks to all for your tipi how to improv e or to improving.

Ahh the filter setup and ducting looks good! Didn't know you actually had them operating.
Duct fan seem to have different speed options(?) I guess it's set to low if your RH tends to climb over 50% - So you should be able to set it in higher speed/to draw more.
You seem to have a big filter also so you need enough draw power through the filter to get the air to change in the tent properly! Your passive intake should work fine as long as you duct the exhaust air outside. As @Azimuth said if you duct the air into the same room then you'll just recycle the hot moist air, not ditto.

Setting the duct fan on higher draw speed can and will reduse your tent temperature and humidity.
General rule is you'd want to change your tent volume (m3) x 3 times per hour.
Also if you open up a second tent flap for the passive intake then you double your intake capacity. Setting the duct fan on higher speed will also control the amount of passively intaken air. The more your exhaust duct fan draws the more it also passively draws air into the tent. This situation should create a nice little negative pressure inside the tent - which should make controling the environments esier.

So far I have observed a few yellow leaves on only one plant and on one I am sowing new growth.

They still would go for the next 14 days, easily.
Yellowing on the new growth is usually sign of a micro nutrient deficiency. Which is normal as they getting old. They might even turn into purple/pinkish.


- V

 

[Kanno26]

Hi everyone, today I have a 50 day flowering at my critical plants, according to genetics I should be approaching the goal. According to my estimate, there is a maximum of two weeks left, but I think it will be sooner. Here I wanted to show you my attempt to take a picture of Trichome. Thanks to everyone for your insight and advice.

 

[Kanno26]

Ahh the filter setup and ducting looks good! Didn't know you actually had them operating.
Duct fan seem to have different speed options(?) I guess it's set to low if your RH tends to climb over 50% - So you should be able to set it in higher speed/to draw more.
You seem to have a big filter also so you need enough draw power through the filter to get the air to change in the tent properly! Your passive intake should work fine as long as you duct the exhaust air outside. As @Azimuth said if you duct the air into the same room then you'll just recycle the hot moist air, not ditto.

Setting the duct fan on higher draw speed can and will reduse your tent temperature and humidity.
General rule is you'd want to change your tent volume (m3) x 3 times per hour.
Also if you open up a second tent flap for the passive intake then you double your intake capacity. Setting the duct fan on higher speed will also control the amount of passively intaken air. The more your exhaust duct fan draws the more it also passively draws air into the tent. This situation should create a nice little negative pressure inside the tent - which should make controling the environments esier.


They still would go for the next 14 days, easily.
Yellowing on the new growth is usually sign of a micro nutrient deficiency. Which is normal as they getting old. They might even turn into purple/pinkish.


- V

Hi @Verbalist, thanks for stopping, I've already increased the exhaust to change the air more, and I have two open air pulls that three so I can still work with it and change the settings. And on your turn, I dimmed the lights to 75% and the temperature dropped about 3 degrees.

 

[Verbalist]

Hi @Verbalist, thanks for stopping, I've already increased the exhaust to change the air more, and I have two open air pulls that three so I can still work with it and change the settings. And on your turn, I dimmed the lights to 75% and the temperature dropped about 3 degrees.

Well done! You nailed it

 

[Jon]

Ahh the filter setup and ducting looks good! Didn't know you actually had them operating.
Duct fan seem to have different speed options(?) I guess it's set to low if your RH tends to climb over 50% - So you should be able to set it in higher speed/to draw more.
You seem to have a big filter also so you need enough draw power through the filter to get the air to change in the tent properly! Your passive intake should work fine as long as you duct the exhaust air outside. As @Azimuth said if you duct the air into the same room then you'll just recycle the hot moist air, not ditto.

Setting the duct fan on higher draw speed can and will reduse your tent temperature and humidity.
General rule is you'd want to change your tent volume (m3) x 3 times per hour.
Also if you open up a second tent flap for the passive intake then you double your intake capacity. Setting the duct fan on higher speed will also control the amount of passively intaken air. The more your exhaust duct fan draws the more it also passively draws air into the tent. This situation should create a nice little negative pressure inside the tent - which should make controling the environments esier.


They still would go for the next 14 days, easily.
Yellowing on the new growth is usually sign of a micro nutrient deficiency. Which is normal as they getting old. They might even turn into purple/pinkish.


- V

Nice @Verbalist, and I'm with you all the way except for this:

General rule is you'd want to change your tent volume (m3) x 3 times per hour.

You're referring to how often the total volume of air should be 100% replaced with new air in a given hour, correct? This is way way less and slower than my understanding or how I ever set my tents. I go for a recycle every 3 to 5 minutes. Once every 20 minutes (your 3x/hour) allows way too much time for condensation to form if you're using AC. I have found with AC, unless you want to intentionally lower the temp and pay the price on humidity/condensation, you need to keep the exhaust fan going fairly hard and recycle that air asap. In my experience, you can't really OVER do the fan output (exhaust) but you definitely can UNDER do it.

Just my two cents and a different perspective on what you said. Thanks.

 

[Kanno26]

Hi everyone, today I have a 50 day flowering at my critical plants, according to genetics I should be approaching the goal. According to my estimate, there is a maximum of two weeks left, but I think it will be sooner. Here I wanted to show you my attempt to take a picture of Trichome. Thanks to everyone for your insight and advice.

What do you think of trichomes on me plant @Jon? I think she'll have it about a week to go.

 

[Jon]

What do you think of trichomes on me plant @Jon? I think she'll have it about a week to go.

Hi @Kanno26 - wow. I think that those are a very thick blanket of trichomes and that weed is going to get you super high and probably taste like a dream, that's what I think. I'm jealous.

Hehe. To your question, you know I'm going to tell you it's personal preference. But you are right, it's definitely way early yet. You're looking at, as best I can tell, about 60/40 milky to clear or so? You at the very least want to wait until they are all milky white, then just tune daily to amber. Here's a thought that might help you augment yet even more knowledge to add to the pile you grabbed on this grow: you have five plants and plenty of sweet buds. Everywhere, all five girls are sweet. You also have several colas that are much closer to the light than the "canopies" or "rings" of lower buds around them. In my experience, the buds that are closer to the light finish faster than the buds below. What you *might* want to do is an experimental staggered harvest, maybe pick one plant to try it on. All you do there is take the colas that tower over the other buds when the trichomes are where you want them on those specific colas, and leave the lower buds, your "canopy" of buds it looks like in a few cases there, for longer and let them ripen up to match the colas you took first. You just check the ones you didn't take every day and when they show trichomes like you want, take them too. When I first did that it really helped me understand better how and when buds ripen based on their proximity to the light. I may end up taking the whole top of Titan and let the lower ring go a few more days, as an example. We'll see how the lower buds look when the uppers are ready in terms of the trichomes. Does that make sense? Lots of people here do it at one time and for one reason or another, I think I picked the idea up from Virgin Ground who suggested it to me one time and it made a lot of sense.

 

[Kanno26]

Hi @Kanno26 - wow. I think that those are a very thick blanket of trichomes and that weed is going to get you super high and probably taste like a dream, that's what I think. I'm jealous.

Hehe. To your question, you know I'm going to tell you it's personal preference. But you are right, it's definitely way early yet. You're looking at, as best I can tell, about 60/40 milky to clear or so? You at the very least want to wait until they are all milky white, then just tune daily to amber. Here's a thought that might help you augment yet even more knowledge to add to the pile you grabbed on this grow: you have five plants and plenty of sweet buds. Everywhere, all five girls are sweet. You also have several colas that are much closer to the light than the "canopies" or "rings" of lower buds around them. In my experience, the buds that are closer to the light finish faster than the buds below. What you *might* want to do is an experimental staggered harvest, maybe pick one plant to try it on. All you do there is take the colas that tower over the other buds when the trichomes are where you want them on those specific colas, and leave the lower buds, your "canopy" of buds it looks like in a few cases there, for longer and let them ripen up to match the colas you took first. You just check the ones you didn't take every day and when they show trichomes like you want, take them too. When I first did that it really helped me understand better how and when buds ripen based on their proximity to the light. I may end up taking the whole top of Titan and let the lower ring go a few more days, as an example. We'll see how the lower buds look when the uppers are ready in terms of the trichomes. Does that make sense? Lots of people here do it at one time and for one reason or another, I think I picked the idea up from Virgin Ground who suggested it to me one time and it made a lot of sense.

@Jon thank you for your tip and if you do not harvest at twice the risk hermaphrodites he cut off half and gave the other half go?

 

[Jon]

@Jon thank you for your tip and if you do not harvest at twice the risk hermaphrodites he cut off half and gave the other half go?

Your question came through a bit garbled, but I think you are asking if doing the staggered harvest will increase the chances of hermie? The answer there is no. By the time you harvest the colas, if you were to try this, I don't think there's anything you could do that late to make them hermie if you wanted to. No fear there of that whatsoever. We're only talking about a few days to leave the lowers go longer, not a long time. Longest I let them go in a staggered harvest has been five extra days.

 

[Azimuth]

And, even if they did hermie, meaning to generate male flowers, there would not be enough time for the male flower structure to mature enough to produce pollen, much less pollinate a flower and then the time to mature the fertilization into a seed therby taking energy away from the buds.