New City Grower 1.0

[Dennise]

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From what I've read the LO setting reads around the right ppms, not sure if .5 or .7, what model do you have Dennise? I can look around on the net and try to help.

I'm sorry Mrflinstone.... I have no idea what you are talking about.....

 

[MrFlintstone]

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Ahhhh makes sense, well either way lol which model do you have Nockestona?

Lol yeah using a phone I went based off of her avatar instead of the name, tiny print and blood shot eyes, need to look a lil closer next time!

 

[Dennise]

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Never mind I should have kept reading MrFlintstone........

 

[MrFlintstone]

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I Obviously don't know either Dennise lmao!

 

[Nockestona]

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LOL, too funny! I changed my avatar so we aren't 'twins' anymore Denise

 

[trichomes]

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Nice jump in Cult with the shooting powder I was a little baked to remember the exact timing for its use. Many thanks for sorting

Finally LOL! honesty is good plant karma LA! Great share Cultivator!

 

[CronicHempHog]

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Happy Munchday BAR

 

[B A R]

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PHOTO SHOOT​

Jan. 28, 2014​

THE TENT

QUEEN THAI (Wild Thailand) Day 4

The close to the light method seems to be working after the initial stretch of the stem.

KUMIKO IV (Honey Haze) Day 52 / Flower Day 24

She received a FIM job on the tallest branch this morning & also a few of her deformed leafs are falling off which to me seems to be a good sign.



Before

After

A couple of the fallen deformed leafs

LAVERNE (Re-Veg) Day 111 / Flower Day 44

This morning she received a good 3X her pot size flushing. As always, there's really not much to say. LAVERNE never gives me any problems. This second run is going to be astronomical compared to her first run.

STACK A. DOLLAR (Delicious Cotton Candy) Day 122 / Flower Day 44

She also was flushed this morning. Her buds are beginning to get pretty dense.

Footnote: I count the flower day from the date I flip to 12/12.

 

[Lester Freeman]

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Sweet update!
Looking really good. + Reps

 

[Dresney]

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Beautiful girls, Reg.

I love Laverne's woody stems. I think revegged plants look so cool. Can't wait to see one of mine like that.

And Stack A. Dollar is beastly! She is really starting to pack it on.

Why did you decide to FIM Kumiko? Was that spot not a beginning bud?

Queen Thai is looking very happy too... I see she has a lady-in-waiting with her.

 

[Jaga]

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High BAR
just drove by to say hello but looks like I popped in at tthe right moment you are surely packing some nice stuff there mate

 

[Muskrat]

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Those girls are looking great reg. Laverne is a lovely, sparkly girl that really deserves her 2nd life.

 

[B A R]

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Hey guys

just read through last nights show and i just want to pick up on a few things. I'll prob forget some stuff but here goes:




This is true but it doesnt work for every medium and its not a true flush. The strain hunters use rockwool as their medium and they flush at around 0.6-0.8ec. this removes excess salt from the media but doesnt starve the plant completely. Doing this boosts the plants metabolism and therefore u will get an explosion of growth after the next full strength feed. Be warned, this is an advanced technique and its all in the timing, u can do more harm than good if timed wrong. when growing in hydro, u want nutrients available all the time until the very end when u flush.



So to clarify what 'flushing' a plant is. it seems there are misconceptions of what the definition of a flush is, from what i am reading it seems most think its a case of drowning the plant with water to wash out the medium. A true flush means to clean out the medium with water and allow the plant to use up any nutes it has stored up. I would put water through till there was about 20% run off at first, then over a 2 week period only add water. U could add a product like drip clean or canna flush to help dissolve the salts and u could also continue to use cannazym or similar during the flush as it will further help the plant use up the last of the nutes.


Light addict mentions using shooting powder during the flush period. Shooting powder is a powerful bloom booster and can do wonders to ur yield. However its very powerful and it must be used with caution, a base nute of 1.2ec or less is esential if u dont want to bake ur plants to death, also u must flush after using this product. shooting pwder is used last 3 weeks of flower, ur flush time is after that.



Pruning buds is pretty simple. Being a commercial grower i dont have the time to cut out every single little bit of leaf and to fair i dont think thats necessary. Try trimming 100-200oz every week or 2 and u'll understand my meaning. As long as the fan leaves are removed and larger sugar leaves its fine. I trim around the bud with my snips, i then cut of the stem and chop in to smaller nugs then place on a drying rack for up to 2 weeks in humidity of 35-40rh with a gentle fan blowing, after that they go in paper bags and are left a few weeks and when they come out they are compact and hard, i then vacuum pack to preserve and distribute. Vacuum pack will preserve the bud as long as its not sitting in light and it will control any odours while transporting bud to final location. The main thing with getting compact bud is making sure ur bud is dense as poss when harvesting, whispy bud never drys compact like that.



As for EC in hydro there is no set rule really. it depends on the type of hydro set up, for example rockwool will have completely different needs to recirculating DWC and regular DWC diff needs to recirculating. Then u have to figure out what the strain likes. Many people grow a new strain and dismiss it first time around, thats not a good idea. It is usually grower error that makes the strain not work, of course everone has preference on what they like but i would normally give a strain at least 2 attempts before dismissing it. As a basic rule u could follow this and u shouldnt go wrong, seedlings 0.4 e.c, young cuttings 0.6/0.8 ec, vegging plants upto 1.6ec, flowering plants upto 3.0 ec. Its more important that u dont over or under feed very young plants, large plants will handle just about anything. The nutes u use will also have an effect and u will have more control and better results with 3 part nutes as opposed to 1 part base nutes, that is when u figure out how the plant responds to feeds and understanding how to use a 3 part correctly. Remember the instructions on the bottle are just a basic guide, its up to u to figure out what works best for ur plants.




Great show, im sure ive missed out loads. The best thing for any grower to do is read the advise, check what the grower is growing to see if they are backing it up with results then maybe try some of the stuff they talk about. Changing too much at once can mess things up, and everyones advice is open to challenge, there is no steadfast way. Ive been told many things are wrong and dont work, usually by people who copy and paste and havent even tried the techniques, and ive proved otherwise but again its down to many things. In growing the most important thing is 1 get good lighting 2. set ur environment correctly. Do those 2 things and u will have success.

Great stuff Cult!

Sweet update!
Looking really good. + Reps

Thanxx Lester. I don't have to tell you I learned more than a few things from you.

Beautiful girls, Reg.

I love Laverne's woody stems. I think revegged plants look so cool. Can't wait to see one of mine like that.

And Stack A. Dollar is beastly! She is really starting to pack it on.

Why did you decide to FIM Kumiko? Was that spot not a beginning bud?

Queen Thai is looking very happy too... I see she has a lady-in-waiting with her.

Thanxx Partner. The only reason I Fimmed KUMIKO (Honey Haze) was to slow that branch down a little so the other two can catch up. I've put the LED spotlights (minibulbs) right on top of the other two branches this morning. As I said before, they work like redbulls for bud sights.
QUEEN THAI (Wild Thailand) is feminized.

High BAR
just drove by to say hello but looks like I popped in at tthe right moment you are surely packing some nice stuff there mate

Those girls are looking great reg. Laverne is a lovely, sparkly girl that really deserves her 2nd life.

Thanxx guys...

 

[Dresney]

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QUEEN THAI (Wild Thailand) is feminized.

I know - I was talking about her companion plant!

(Queens have ladies-in-waiting... that wait on them... you know... )

 

[latinbudder]

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Nice picture Bar. Keep up the good grow.

 

[B A R]

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Lol ok Partner...

Thanxx LB

 

[Dresney]

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There's a little weed in there growing with her!

I'm not crazy, I swear!

 

[latinbudder]

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I took your advice and started posting to my blog. Nice way to file good info for later. Thanks BAR.

 

[latinbudder]

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Hey BAR how many megapixels does your camera have? I think that will be my next purchase as my phones camera does my buds no justice.

 

[B A R]

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There's a little weed in there growing with her!

I'm not crazy, I swear!

LMAO Nah, those little things sprout up & die from Mommy's Special Tomato Soil.

I took your advice and started posting to my blog. Nice way to file good info for later. Thanks BAR.

Yep LB, I go back to them on a regular. We seem to forget more of the info we remember on 420 so it makes it easier to find when you need it. Also other members can look through your blog & find info you consider relevant.

Don't really know but it's an old HTC G2. I only can take good pics when I'm well medicated. Otherwise they're blurry. Just one of the many things I'm not too good at sober.