Nick Hardy's Skunk Works #1 10 Strains 18 Solo Cups 4x4 HPS/CMH: Thailand!

[Greenvein]

“You’re really starting to get on my wick, Nick!”
- My Dad every time I annoyed him as a kid.

SIP DESPAIR.jpeg

• NickHardy
• Jul 28, 2023
• hulkberry root problem sip

So this pesky SIP with the temerity to think it can quietly quit on my watch can go do one. Its making the rest of the tent look bad. The semi repot didn’t seem to work.

Enraged accepting that plant care, empathy and love are required to grow plants successfully I furiously gently removed the plant from the pot and with a little shake a bare stem with a tap root was all that remained.

But where there’s fresh root there’s life. Bathed in H2O2 water, slathered in cloning gel, SIP cleaned thoroughly and serviced I repotted it in fresh coco and @DYNOMYCO layered per usual with perlite and plonked her back in the SIP and thence in the tent.

Live goddamnit, yer yella leaved hussy you! I want the other monster Hulkberry for the main grow not hanging out here . That’ll go 300g upstairs.

Nicky Nursey

 

[NickHardy]

Evening feed. And the Hurty McHulkberry took 30-40ml into the res which was full about 6 hours ago. That seems very promising.

Need get topping tomorrow. Then bring in the last of them and remove the extras. A couple are going to finish in the main grow. A Purple Kush, Hulkberry and 3 CBD Warlock with a Tropicana Poison I have ready will join 7 Indy and 6 Strawberry. Plus the biggest Mimosa x Orange Punch.

Its a mess in there already which I’m blaming on the over population issues. A trim and a top and some cables will sort that out.

Below its Red for the Mimosa x OP, Blue for the twisty Tropicana Poison and Pink for the Strawberry Auto on Day #15

Nick

 

[Jon]

“You’re really starting to get on my wick, Nick!”
- My Dad every time I annoyed him as a kid.

SIP DESPAIR.jpeg

• NickHardy
• Jul 28, 2023
• hulkberry root problem sip

So this pesky SIP with the temerity to think it can quietly quit on my watch can go do one. Its making the rest of the tent look bad. The semi repot didn’t seem to work.

Enraged accepting that plant care, empathy and love are required to grow plants successfully I furiously gently removed the plant from the pot and with a little shake a bare stem with a tap root was all that remained.

But where there’s fresh root there’s life. Bathed in H2O2 water, slathered in cloning gel, SIP cleaned thoroughly and serviced I repotted it in fresh coco and @DYNOMYCO layered per usual with perlite and plonked her back in the SIP and thence in the tent.

Live goddamnit, yer yella leaved hussy you! I want the other monster Hulkberry for the main grow not hanging out here . That’ll go 300g upstairs.

Nicky Nursey

Wow. You are one committed dude. With all those plants it would be easy for me to blow her off. Not Nick. He’s gonna save her!

 

[Jon]

Evening feed. And the Hurty McHulkberry took 30-40ml into the res which was full about 6 hours ago. That seems very promising.

Need get topping tomorrow. Then bring in the last of them and remove the extras. A couple are going to finish in the main grow. A Purple Kush, Hulkberry and 3 CBD Warlock with a Tropicana Poison I have ready will join 7 Indy and 6 Strawberry. Plus the biggest Mimosa x Orange Punch.

Its a mess in there already which I’m blaming on the over population issues. A trim and a top and some cables will sort that out.

Below its Red for the Mimosa x OP, Blue for the twisty Tropicana Poison and Pink for the Strawberry Auto on Day #15

Nick

Those Tropicana Poisons are only on day 15?? Omg!

Also - Hurty McHulkberry?

 

[NickHardy]

The 3 Mimosa x Orange Punch and the Strawberry Cheesecake are Day #15
The Tropicana Poison is a clone off a 6 month old clone.

The bigger ones, 12” of plant most easy in the tent are about 25-35 days I think. Two waves of 7 and 14 plants. About 10 days apart. I need to do some notes when we up pot tomorrow.

But yeah these two are very cool.

Its the Mimosa Evo crossed back with Orange Sherbert by @Barney's Farm

Nick

 

[NickHardy]

Figured out the dates

Black - only 2x CBD Warlock, Green is Hulkberry and Orange is Royal Gorilla

24th June - Day #35

3x Purple Kush (Purple) 2x Blueberry Light Blue
2x Slurricane and 4x CBD Warlock potentially mixed (Yellow & Black)

2x Wedding Crasher White

1st July - Day #29

The MxOP - Red Strawberry Cheesecake - Pink plus clone Tropicana Poison - Dark Blue

14th July Day #15

Cool I have some records! The harvest window looks nicely aligned too. The longer sativas followed by hybrids and Indicas and then some fast finishers.

Mostly. They should finish mostly together. Sorta
Nick

 

[Carmen Ray]

Figured out the dates


24th June - Day #35


1st July - Day #29


14th July Day #15

Cool I have some records! The harvest window looks nicely aligned too. The longer sativas followed by hybrids and Indicas and then some fast finishers.

Mostly. They should finish mostly together. Sorta
Nick

You have some really cool strains. I am looking at Herbies atm and my mouth is watering at the selection!

 

[NickHardy]

Quiet day. Gave them a mini flush this morning. Just some Cal Mag and Ph 6.

This evening repotted the final phase to their final resting places.

Removed 3x CBD Warlock, Hulkberry, Purple Queen to the main veg tent.

So now the final 18 are in. Topping and trimming a few tomorrow. Yawn. Lazy day!

Sunday evening and the plants can get new lights soon.

Nick

 

[NickHardy]

Up potting the spares from this grow for the main grow this morning. This is a Royal/Purple Queen above ground 37 days ago.

Solid roots, non? The others were all similar, even those younger.

Nick

 

[NickHardy]

Tomorrow morning I will hand water for the last time. Irrigation system arrived. Yay.

Nick

 

[Jon]

Up potting the spares from this grow for the main grow this morning. This is a Royal/Purple Queen above ground 37 days ago.

Solid roots, non? The others were all similar, even those younger.

Nick

Yea, sexy roots.

 

[NickHardy]

The little runt I swear is perking up. Didn’t feed her thisnmorning but felt like she’s done about 6-70% her res since last night. Not really showing in much growth yet though. “Critical but stable” I think covers it.

Irrigation system nearly done. Just need to cut the irrigation pipes to length and feed them into the tent, pop the drippers in the solos and done. Push button watering in solo cups achieved.

The other picture shows the piping from the nute tanks/Co2 tanks location past the ballasts for the HPS/CMH and drivers for the @Mars Hydro FCE4800’s we use for Veg. Its getting a bit crowded in there. Be glad when 400L of coco peat vanishes into Airpots in a couple of weeks - we have about 600L on hand at the moment and access to this tent is a pain.

Nick

 

[StoneOtter]

Nice irrigation Nick! Easier life on the way!

 

[NickHardy]

Irrigation is in. AC is connected.

15 emitters run with identical pipe lengths and skewered into the pots. Waters in about 3 minutes. Yayayayay YAY!

AC - not sure if this will spark debate cold sinking, warm rising. But cold is going on the bottom here.

I have run 6” duct from the AC to the lower, front right tent intake. In the upper rear left corner I have a vertical 6” inline sucking airflow from low to high and exiting the tent into 4” ducting that returns in a reasonably closed loop (builders can do properly as its on their list) but opposing corners in and out in the tent for max airflow.

The idea the cold air enters the bottom at plant level and sure it warms but it will also cool as its sucked up to light level.

Its a bit messy still. But seems to be working at the moment.

So now its just Co2 and change the lights over. Should be able to get both done today.

Nick & Co (her help was invaluable - we didn’t bicker nor squabble!)

 

[Absorber]

Irrigation is in. AC is connected.

I zoomed in to see what this fancy blue air-conditioning unit is and realised you have built a box over head unit of split system how did you seperate the suck from the blow on head unit that must have been fiddly.
Its coming along, looking forward to maiden voyage.

 

[NickHardy]

How do you know where you’re going if you don’t know where you came from?

Still warming up when that was taken. Think I’ll be playing with angles for a bit to get best coverage. At 30” from the canopy. Which is what they recommend which means I have only 6” more to play with

Co2 is on but acting up a little bit. I hate fk’in bubbler regs which is what I have this time.

Told ya I’d do it .

Taking it back old school, screw LEDs - these are light and a breeze to move around.

Nick

 

[Carmen Ray]

Congratulations and high five So exciting. Now the grow proper, begins!

 

[NickHardy]

how did you seperate the suck from the blow on head unit that must have been fiddly.

The builders put the lower one which is screwed into the wall. That fits tight over the bottom half that exhausts the cool air. I built the scruffy bit yeaterday while the AC guys were servicing it. That’s a bit rough. Will probably swap it for upstairs where it can exhaust the warm air out of the dehumidifier. Get a neater one made for here. It was working while I had the LED in there.
Check the temps in a minute to see how its doing after a while with 1315w of old school lights in there!

Oh watering takes as long as it pressing the button and walking round to see they’re all watered to run off

I’ll change the filter in the manifolds to slow it up there. 3 minutes is the aim not 20 seconds!
Nick

 

[NickHardy]

I don’t get it.

Never had humidity that low. There’s a quarter inch of water on the floor.

40 degrees C, 104F, toppy? Yeah sure. But the humidity worries me more. Got the temp down to 33C in ten minutes. Just turned the AC way down. 33C is sweet for me.

Co2 is pumping. Need to move the EC up first thing in the morning. 2.6 target.

Plants look OK.

The plants look mad. Honestly don’t know what to expect in the morning. They just took another full feed. SIPs included. They’ve been on 24hr light. Timer cable issues. Now a sharpish shock to 18/6. Oops. I’ll just have remember them as they were a few minutes ago. Rich green and praying, serious growth in the 3-4 hours or so the gas and lights been on. Wowsa.

Nick

 

[NickHardy]

Humidity still an issue - a decent 70%+ with temp 23c overnight. But lights on - back to 31c (fine) 40% Rh - too low. I want 70%.

What a weird problem to have here

Girls look banging though. Greedy hoaries.

Fed them breakfast at 5.8 and 2.55. Can see them going to 4 feeds a day.

I wonder what I can get the yield to? Went an oz off the Strawberry solo but that’s very beatable. Average that its over a pound. Average 1.5 oz x 18 is 27oz or 750g

But average 2oz - imagine that? 1kg out of a 4x4 in solos. That might even pay my electricty bill for the next two months

Ah the dreams you have in veg

Nick