Nick Hardy's Skunk Works #4 Mars Hydro FC Evo 12x OG Kush Solos 4x4 - Viva Voce Grow

[Jon]

Dry Ice Hash Update

So after I’ve cleaned the pre press and straightened the sticker, I’ll line the pre press with grease proof paper, same you normally press roisin into, then planning on pressing for about 12 hours, recrank a little, 12 hours and maybe another alter than.

The hash making guy I met earlier in the year made oil with back from India and said try that. Then place 1g in a pot and see if anyone wants to buy it.

The 120m pictured. Thinking about just blending all 2oz.

Thoughts?

Cool little press you got!

 

[NickHardy]

Growth and drinking slowed a little since topping. They’re ready for flip. Gonna turn the light down tomorrow - to 25% say and give them their first flower nutes.

See what happens. Balances my inherent fear of seeing ball sacks in the morning when I wake up at 8am in the morning.

What did you?!!!

Nick

Not gonna lights out these. Production plants in there. Maybe next time.

Some look thirsty, some look like a nee pot would be handy. Worry about clawing on some. Need to get them out for repot and see what looks best for full flower. To save coco the upstairs ones gonna under fill the pots so they’re actually more like 4 gallons than 5.

The Autos below. Some way off for the white OG Kush for sure. The Panty Punch looks close. Think I’ll need to dry in the freezer. Still drinking. Both took 3 litres today.

 

[NickHardy]

So last night after lights out I flicked the dimmer to OFF. Click. I pulled the trigger on 36 hour darkness thing.

Went and did my usual 8:30ish check. The light was on. Dimmer zero. Light a plenty.

I adjusted the dimmer a bit and seemed not to be doing anything. I’be see this before when I tried using RJ11 daisy chaining. Needed full power cycle.

The manual was literally by my feet, ai’d been using it to check fan flow speeds last night.

Opened it, because why not? Well colour me dumb… Turns out its got Bluetooth and Wifi. And an app!

The Bluetooth range is incredible. I opened the app from upstairs about 10 metres away. Piked up the light instantly. Wifi setup a bit annoying it doesn’t search for the network you have manually type the name good possibility you have spaces in your SSID won’t work but yeah. I didn’t need to reset the driver (3 twists of the dimmer from 0-50% and back) connecting it to the app seemed to fix the dimming issue, guess as the states synced.

Cool - I mean I’m not sure the app needs to do much for ne other than 100% but nice to have. Probably scenes and stuff too I guess.

 

[Jon]

Growth and drinking slowed a little since topping. They’re ready for flip. Gonna turn the light down tomorrow - to 25% say and give them their first flower nutes.

See what happens. Balances my inherent fear of seeing ball sacks in the morning when I wake up at 8am in the morning.

What did you?!!!

Nick

Not gonna lights out these. Production plants in there. Maybe next time.

Some look thirsty, some look like a nee pot would be handy. Worry about clawing on some. Need to get them out for repot and see what looks best for full flower. To save coco the upstairs ones gonna under fill the pots so they’re actually more like 4 gallons than 5.

The Autos below. Some way off for the white OG Kush for sure. The Panty Punch looks close. Think I’ll need to dry in the freezer. Still drinking. Both took 3 litres today.

Don’t be scairt! Lights out them! Someone has to do it so I can see what happens. Why not you?
Lmao!!!!

 

[NickHardy]

Don’t be scairt! Lights out them! Someone has to do it so I can see what happens. Why not you?
Lmao!!!!

Yeah I'm going to do it. 2am tonight. Lights back on Monday 8am. I got the app for it now!

Alexa Set Scene - ResDog 36 Hour Power Flip™ !

 

[Jon]

Yeah I'm going to do it. 2am tonight. Lights back on Monday 8am. I got the app for it now!

Alexa Set Scene - ResDog 36 Hour Power Flip™ !

I’m so excited to see!!! 36 hours. Don’t cheat and look! Share the real moment of surprise with us after 36 hours!

 

[NickHardy]

I’m so excited to see!!! 36 hours. Don’t cheat and look! Share the real moment of surprise with us after 36 hours!

We need to rearrange them as well - the time to do this makes sense sort of 11am tomorrow. We have a gang arranged to do the up pot. The Lad - I think he quit his job (its a fluid subject) and is off on Monday morning, if he is then we could do then. If not we will have the tent open for 20 minutes or so redoing the irrigation. Other wise I'll be straight up with it - no peeking. I'll water them occasionally blind - I know how long they need for X ml of water. Easy enough to hit the button a couple of times a day for little top ups.

They're looking mighty so I'll be gutted this goes wrong! Picked Sir Anthony and TS Eliot!

A note - they were getting watered - see the droop the greedy guzzlers.

 

[Greenvein]

So last night after lights out I flicked the dimmer to OFF. Click. I pulled the trigger on 36 hour darkness thing.

Went and did my usual 8:30ish check. The light was on. Dimmer zero. Light a plenty.

I adjusted the dimmer a bit and seemed not to be doing anything. I’be see this before when I tried using RJ11 daisy chaining. Needed full power cycle.

The manual was literally by my feet, ai’d been using it to check fan flow speeds last night.

Opened it, because why not? Well colour me dumb… Turns out its got Bluetooth and Wifi. And an app!

The Bluetooth range is incredible. I opened the app from upstairs about 10 metres away. Piked up the light instantly. Wifi setup a bit annoying it doesn’t search for the network you have manually type the name good possibility you have spaces in your SSID won’t work but yeah. I didn’t need to reset the driver (3 twists of the dimmer from 0-50% and back) connecting it to the app seemed to fix the dimming issue, guess as the states synced.

Cool - I mean I’m not sure the app needs to do much for ne other than 100% but nice to have. Probably scenes and stuff too I guess.

That's us both on blast bro

Only because mine a crying over nothing. Main reason for this post is I do not trust the timer settings. If you test it please be vigilant and keep me updated but mine didn't go to plan so never risked it again.

 

[Jon]

We need to rearrange them as well - the time to do this makes sense sort of 11am tomorrow. We have a gang arranged to do the up pot. The Lad - I think he quit his job (its a fluid subject) and is off on Monday morning, if he is then we could do then. If not we will have the tent open for 20 minutes or so redoing the irrigation. Other wise I'll be straight up with it - no peeking. I'll water them occasionally blind - I know how long they need for X ml of water. Easy enough to hit the button a couple of times a day for little top ups.

They're looking mighty so I'll be gutted this goes wrong! Picked Sir Anthony and TS Eliot!

A note - they were getting watered - see the droop the greedy guzzlers.

Your willingness to guinea pig yourself on our behalf is much appreciated. Lol.

 

[NickHardy]

That's us both on blast bro

Only because mine a crying over nothing. Main reason for this post is I do not trust the timer settings. If you test it please be vigilant and keep me updated but mine didn't go to plan so never risked it again.

Oh no way am I using their timer!

We have proper magnetic contact switches on timers. Couldn’t use both together - the wifi one maybe doesn’t rejoin when the power come back on or whatever.

Kinda fun I guess. And the driver dimmer likely tripped out/crashed because of the extra tech

The entering the wifi network name manually is really weird. The setup process even down to the code sign up and 60 second countdown is like off the shelf Chinese standard to connect IoT things. But they never need that. Bit odd.

To do this 36 hour thing I’m definitely doing it the old fashioned way!

 

[Greenvein]

Oh no way am I using their timer!

We have proper magnetic contact switches on timers. Couldn’t use both together - the wifi one maybe doesn’t rejoin when the power come back on or whatever.

Kinda fun I guess. And the driver dimmer likely tripped out/crashed because of the extra tech

The entering the wifi network name manually is really weird. The setup process even down to the code sign up and 60 second countdown is like off the shelf Chinese standard to connect IoT things. But they never need that. Bit odd.

To do this 36 hour thing I’m definitely doing it the old fashioned way!

Best way! I used to have two boards per tent and modified one of those magnetic contactors to run them all on two time zones but it was just too bulky and I hated the noise it made when it switched

 

[NickHardy]

We have two of these my Sparky made. The 3 stop twist switches keep failing. Basically they only get twisted every 2 months in theory. AUTO for 8-9 weeks. Switch to OFF end of grow. There ends up being occasional maintenance or power cuts with generators but all the time. The one on the right is broken again. Tested yesterday. Sparky coming to replace tomorrow. Reckons he has a new one. Please not be the Chinese shite all the stores have near us!

 

[NickHardy]

So so finally got round to trying it. I was hoping to get two bricks - although Ingots is a better word perhaps!

We used all the 120 micron and maybe 80% of the 220 micron stuff.

32g I guess - we had 14g and 28g of those. The 73 micron I uh forgot! 6-7g left of that.

After the first photo we added about half of what remained in that box.

So yeah filled and hand squashed then cranked up to as much as I could and will crank a little more. Each day. My commercial guy, he of the 1kg bricks in Amsterdam m, reckons if in no hurry give it two full days.

No heating applied. Gonna keep it a reasonably warm place. As in our house! I wonder if a little blast of higher heat might decarbox it or more importantly help it bind.

I don’t really know what I’m expecting to be honest!

He reckons the best stuff is pollen and resin, Pakistani. Moroccan is just pollen. I’m rationalising using the greener matter as that presumably has resinous stuff in as well? We used pure best grade bud only. No trim.

100 grams.

This should be the bees knees I hope!

Nick

 

[NickHardy]

So so finally got round to trying it. I was hoping to get two bricks - although Ingots is a better word perhaps!

We used all the 120 micron and maybe 80% of the 220 micron stuff.

32g I guess - we had 14g and 28g of those. The 73 micron I uh forgot! 6-7g left of that.

After the first photo we added about half of what remained in that box.

So yeah filled and hand squashed then cranked up to as much as I could and will crank a little more. Each day. My commercial guy, he of the 1kg bricks in Amsterdam m, reckons if in no hurry give it two full days.

No heating applied. Gonna keep it a reasonably warm place. As in our house! I wonder if a little blast of higher heat might decarbox it or more importantly help it bind.

I don’t really know what I’m expecting to be honest!

He reckons the best stuff is pollen and resin, Pakistani. Moroccan is just pollen. I’m rationalising using the greener matter as that presumably has resinous stuff in as well? We used pure best grade bud only. No trim.

100 grams.

This should be the bees knees I hope!

Nick

Wooow! I just cranked it almost as much again after 2 hours!

Its gonna be like a pancake thickness at this rate - oh right! I think I know now!

This is I think - d’uh ! “Flat Press”

Dark outside - wonder that was the tea. Pale greeny yellow middle. Forgot that.

@Roy Growin am I imaging that? From back in the day. Like not hard soap. Real.

 

[NickHardy]

Your willingness to guinea pig yourself on our behalf is much appreciated. Lol.

Sorry missed this earlier.

Look - Imma gonna say its for the good of the community at large, I’m a humble community loving kinda guy!

But c’mon what if I could not just out yield the “Auto Guy” which you say everyone expects. But what if, I could do it quicker?

Everyone knows Autos are quicker, right?!

So yeah, double bubble

Plus there’s boring reasons like it saves me a week extra on lights

Its like Rocky IV ? The Russian Drago is in the science lab, like you strain, light and pot picking. I’m running the hard yards up to the statue (Is that the one when the horse runs next to him?) with a new trainer, new but old tricks up his sleeve…

No rabbit in the hat tricks,
Just act classic,
Perhaps you’re from Jurassic… Fiiiive!

Hehe,

Nick

 

[Carmen Ray]

We need to rearrange them as well - the time to do this makes sense sort of 11am tomorrow. We have a gang arranged to do the up pot. The Lad - I think he quit his job (its a fluid subject) and is off on Monday morning, if he is then we could do then. If not we will have the tent open for 20 minutes or so redoing the irrigation. Other wise I'll be straight up with it - no peeking. I'll water them occasionally blind - I know how long they need for X ml of water. Easy enough to hit the button a couple of times a day for little top ups.

They're looking mighty so I'll be gutted this goes wrong! Picked Sir Anthony and TS Eliot!

A note - they were getting watered - see the droop the greedy guzzlers.

Is the video set to private, or is it just a limited audience? It tells me I don't have viewing rights.

 

[Roy Growin]

Wooow! I just cranked it almost as much again after 2 hours!

Its gonna be like a pancake thickness at this rate - oh right! I think I know now!

This is I think - d’uh ! “Flat Press”

Dark outside - wonder that was the tea. Pale greeny yellow middle. Forgot that.

@Roy Growin am I imaging that? From back in the day. Like not hard soap. Real.

Thin, slightly glossy on the outside, blonde in the middle, fluffs up like candy floss - that's like Slate isn't it?

I've made rudimentary shoe hash [from the grinder] and love it - dunno which is the best way to make more tho
Got about 16oz of herb to play with and I'm not fucking about with ice, ISO or butane

 

[NickHardy]

Thin, slightly glossy on the outside, blonde in the middle, fluffs up like candy floss - that's like Slate isn't it?

I've made rudimentary shoe hash [from the grinder] and love it - dunno which is the best way to make more tho
Got about 16oz of herb to play with and I'm not fucking about with ice, ISO or butane

Slate that was it I think! Just cranked it some more not sure what’ll be left!

It tells me I don't have viewing rights.

Meh that’s a bugger. I ripped Anthony Hopkins reading The Love Song Of J Alfred to use a soundtrack. When you upload your own soundtrack it messes with the allowed settings. I’ll remove the audio

 

[NickHardy]

Try again

 

[InTheShed]

Thoughts?

My first thought was that jars with narrower tops than sides are shite.

I pulled the trigger on 36 hour darkness thing.

So I have a thought here as well: in nature, the hours of daylight peak on June 20th and ever so slowly (minutes/day) work down to 12/12 on Sept 22nd. In a tent, we slam from 18/6 or 20/4 or whatever down to 12/12 overnight. I would think that would be enough to "shock" the plant into flower rather than having to go all the way out to 36 hours of dark, which never occurs in nature. I'd love to see someone take a pair of matching clones and start one at 12/12 and one at 36/0 and then run them side by side to see if there is some gain in harvest timing. Maybe I should add that to my list of things to keep me busy in retirement...