Perpetual Grow Among Other Things!

[Bamalabrat]

Welcome Back! I knew you were busy, you had said you would be. I had worried about your grow while you were gone. Nice to see it made it through pretty well! If you only lose one plant after all that, then that is a win. As far as yield and excess go, something I am planning on doing is only a part time perpetual. I will grow three maybe four times a year. Probably just three. My stuff will just get a nice long cure until I start up again. Like you, I really am interested in trying a bunch of different stuff so for a while just grow different things unless I find something that I just can not live with out. I am dieing to find out your smoke report on PC. That is on my short list. Anyway looking forward to a great recovery and a new harvest. It is awesome that you could have another harvest in just a couple of weeks! That is an efficient use of space!

 

[Far East Buds]

Welcome Back! I knew you were busy, you had said you would be. I had worried about your grow while you were gone. Nice to see it made it through pretty well! If you only lose one plant after all that, then that is a win. As far as yield and excess go, something I am planning on doing is only a part time perpetual. I will grow three maybe four times a year. Probably just three. My stuff will just get a nice long cure until I start up again. Like you, I really am interested in trying a bunch of different stuff so for a while just grow different things unless I find something that I just can not live with out. I am dieing to find out your smoke report on PC. That is on my short list. Anyway looking forward to a great recovery and a new harvest. It is awesome that you could have another harvest in just a couple of weeks! That is an efficient use of space!

Thanks for being you Bama!

Things are great really overall and yah after over 5 zips of pc... well if I want a variety then I will be a little overstocked...

The PC is really good... Instant buzz in the head.. settles after 15 minutes in the arms and legs then you get a little snoozy... i have been exhausted so it hasn't helped.. That being said most of that i feel is when I harvested and the trics really. I can't give a good report as i didnt get much for final tric checks... The PC is not even started curing really... It all went into jars too wet... I knew i did that.. kinda needed too tho... So i have been running the jars open 12/12 and it has been drying better... I am just about ready to close them and start really the beginning of cure... There is an odd smell in the jars but it has zero presence in the smoke. not mold.. chemical drying sorta.. well not chemical hard to say...It smoked great as soon as dry and the 1/2 zip i open dried burns very slowly and long and well really potent. Clean ash... the smoke does expand quite a bit and it makes you cough.. not from harsh as it is not at all.. very sweet tasting. it just expands and I have been learning how to smoke it... I will say if i need a good coughing quick buzz.. no problem getting that last over doing it hit... good review so far and I will continue clones for now...It is the only strain though I have 1 single seed and not femmed so... If i don't keep it going I will lose it.. that being said I will definitely be adding it to a future seed order. And seeing as everyone likes colors right now i may need some new seeds soon to try


Have a good friday!

FE

 

[Bamalabrat]

Thanks FE! That PC is going to be on my next order. I do not know when that will be but it will be next year. I loved the way it grew for you, plus it is a very generous plant with the yield and looked and sounds like it is a very strong smoke. Congrats on that! You have a couple of more heavy hitters coming up now, so you will def be able to compare a few strains. I hope they are all great smoke, but it will be interesting to smoke them side by side like Cronichemphog and find one or more that you really like. Anyway, have a great weekend! BTW you should take a look at the pics I have been posting. I expect to start seeing Xgamers on snowboards in there any day now! So frosty!

 

[Far East Buds]

Yah that frosting is amazing... Makes me wonder if I will get the same on my WW and TW's.. PC had a sticky gunky frosting... Buds stick to everything... Yah i so do look forward to side by sides... Right now i have two strains but really it isn't a fair fight... If I get a canna machine then I will make some tinctures and stuff as well if things progress as they have Probably some day when I can get a plant or bud to win a contest some day
ok i better just buy one..



FE

 

[Bamalabrat]

LOL I know. Everytime I dream of putting a plant in for POM, I look at what is being put up and just wake up! LOL. I have never in my life trimmed a bud so I do not even dream of NOM.

 

[Far East Buds]

No Name Post!

11-23-2015

So the current sitch!


I'll throw up some stats...

Still been super busy so some stuff has been off....

Couple days in there.... Last night I didn't have a chance to even check the stats.


So things are decent overall no crisis stuff.. I did have some deficiencies going on and it actually made sense. I was 43 days over due on the res change for the girls in flower.... and close to due on the veg dso i changed everything tonight. So all the stats are after the change on tonight's stuff.

lets see some pics of flower where it showed...

So the TW and WW are still weeks away. I am not sure why I thought it was closer... Flush in just under two weeks. So one of the issue's the leaves show is a potassium deficiency. I don't believe anything I have been adding had enough. I have been misunderstanding what Bud Candy does. So I am using liquid cool bloom but I will switch to the powder when this small jug runs out. I dropped the amount of bud candy in half so the PPM's won't rocket. When the bud candy runs out (I just got a new bottle) I will switch to BigBud. But still use the Kool bloom and mix the PPM's. I want to see if there is a difference in these strains without the BC sugars.

So the DCC and the BK look great... Though they are not really compatible. The DCC is tall the BKK is a bush... May need to do something... I am debating when I harvest The TW and Ww to put them in their own tubs to finish. They will still have a long way to go still so they will be good to spread out.. Could really do it now.. We'll see..

Not perfect but other than some slight leaf issue's pretty good. Hopefully fresh nutes for all will solve all that.


So over in Veg....

The clones are doing well. But fresh stuff for them tonight. PH 6.0 decent temps are key. Fogger is doing its thing. The two DCC clones have roots I just need them to get stronger and they are next for veg. The Bk's just got clipped but soon roots will happen!

I am pretty sure...

New Humidifier and it does seem to help. Maybe not perfect as it is a little smaller than I thought it would be, But it works decent. I needed a boost and so far it seems like it is doing the trick.

Two Tw's one WW and a PC. They all have roots into the res so the danger zone should be over for them. Other than sometimes they don't like the fresh nutes. Let's see what they do...

So I guess that's about it for now thank you for looking!!



FE

 

[Far East Buds]

Things are moving along!

11-28-2015

So a few days since a post. Lets see if we can pop one in there...

stats! for a few days

So things have been pretty good overall... I have been having some partial PH lock out's so I have been working on new goal of keeping PH under 6.0
I guess anything over 6.0 it won't be able to take in potassium. So that I believe is the cause of leaf issue's on the WW. It hasn't stopped growth or anything just discoloring the leaves...
let's take a look!

The DCC is taller than anything else in the tent and I will need to start some LST on it or the BK will get dwarfed. I debated moving them into separate tubs.. We'll see..

The TW and WW are not far from harvest.. 1 week to start flush.they aren't ready but are not far away... No serious stench yet either. But I am expecting that part is just a matter of when.

So over in Veg things have picked up quite a bit.. Well the stability is back...

Sorry the only two pics that came out decent. The PH correction and the humidity fix have made a difference in veg most definitely. The latest iteration of my grow is.....

Now that after these four go through flower I have a decent mix of first runs. I have a sour diesel batch of seeds and some afghani non fem seeds.. but have popped a sample of all of them besides those two. From here I plan to only put 1 plant in each tub and focus on just 3 in flower at a time.... one in each tub.

It will grow and expand my Veg...cloning set up as I will constantly be cloning and recloning.... I just need to be able for them to grow alone in each tub for flower.. Veg is fine but two per tub in flower would only be ok when I am running the same strain in tub... No mixing... That I may continue to do... DCC decided that for me... it stretched! and stretched.... I think it still is... The BK fell way behind....It was apparently a week behind in growth. Thinking back the clones.. size.. etc all a week back from the DCC. No big deal but I will probably harvest a week apart if needed...

So the other things that is interesting! Magical Butter machine coming today. I have 1OZ of n1 buds and 1 oz of n1 trim soaking in 2 cups of everclear awaiting it's arrival.! Tincture here we come! Stay tuned as I will post more about it soon I am sure... My latest adventure! E-Liquid!

I want to try to make some for travel purposes... E-pen with e liquid. I have the e-pens just eventually want some disposable heads. So I will make a batch of Vegetable Glycerin with PC trim and buds later this weekend... mix that with a little PG and E liquid arrives... I'll post some results and pics I am sure...

Gotta run have a good day everyone!



FE

 

[Far East Buds]

Update!

12-2-2015 Update!

So a few small changes since I last posted.

I am not going to post the stats as much or at all because I have been getting busy with the upcoming holidays etc. So most of it i am monitoring and adjusting on the fly but trying to cut down some time.

So I decided to proceed with plants entering flower in their own tubs for the immediate future. They will be able to grow more evenly and larger I am sure. The solo PC yielded well and is now really hitting a great stage in the cure.

the BK has now its own tub and just overnight seemed to expand and gain some more height. Fresh nutes for everyone so they are all eating it up.

The DCC

oooohhhh that DCC . It is huge.. The stock is THICK! ok so I had to separate them or the BK would have been engulfed. This so far seems like a hearty strain. The clones did well. The plant is seeking new heights! Update... I tied that top cola down after pics... It has to think again what cola is in charge!

The TW and the WW are a starting flush this weekend so a little over a week away to chop! Harvesting two strains at once will be fun! I will then really start getting a variety going. Thats the plan Stan!

Five- six weeks later another 2... Solo plants from there but I will be stocked at that point so I can be more selective on what flowers at each time and closer on the times too...

So all of flower is doing well... The WW and TW well mostly WW has bad leaves from potassium earlier so i heavy defoled after pics too... A week away I am willing to take some damaged stuff off... Plant looks cleaner at least now.. lol

So in Veg

Things are pretty good... Veg tub is full but all healthy
Slight chopping of lower leaves over last few days.. They where all lower damaged leaves... I think the cloner is just ok with Fog as i did more research and I believe they need more air less fog.. Still testing.. One of the two clones has roots and other soon.. But it is 10 days.. not less than any clones for me ever... BUT... I didnt use a thing.. Small nutes and root enhance in water and nothing but clip and put in cloner.. no scraping or anything .. no gel powder.. etc..

Still testing... I will be cloning and vegging a lot with the new plan so I will get this worked out. I don't care what method. Just overall cost and efficiency.

Hope all is well with everyone and hope Thanksgiving was good to all...



FE

 

[CronicHempHog]

Plants are looking great FE
sorry haven't been around much but the jobs done but I got sick and still trying to get over it
so I'm slowly going through subs but I will be able to get this weeks update up
I already got it uploaded but I'm gonna try and get through all the subs first
Have a Great Week

 

[Far East Buds]

Plants are looking great FE
sorry haven't been around much but the jobs done but I got sick and still trying to get over it
so I'm slowly going through subs but I will be able to get this weeks update up
I already got it uploaded but I'm gonna try and get through all the subs first
Have a Great Week

Thank you Cronic.. I have missed you but knew you had that big few week job... Sorry to hear you got sick at the tail end.. hopefully the cash makes it worth it .. I as well have been busy with work.. holidays and all but still have managed to keep the grow going well.. I'll throw and update up in a few min... Thanks for sticking with me Cronic. You helped me a lot in my first grow.. Your a good person and I like having you around... Look forward to meeting you ... someday..



FE

 

[Far East Buds]

Focusing on Goals...

12-8-2015

So things are going along well on the growing front... Things are lined up good for a first run through the majority of my strains.. But we'll get into that in a sec....

I renewed my med card today and have to say.. as much as I appreciate the fact I live in a state I can get one... It really is a scam. Expensive and blah blah... But we'll leave it at that... I am mostly appreciating the worry free ability to grow cannibus in my state...

So lets look at the grow then....

This is veg Mister and all... Looks small and like it is quiet... well it is but it really has good stuff going on...

OK so two TW's, a DCC, BK, PC and a WW. and still one BK clone I could plant but no room and it really is not needed....

Sorry on the bad pictures I guess I am out of practice.

I am not sure what will be ready maybe one of the TW's but I need to get a plant in flower after the harvest this weekend. Speaking of that ...

Lets look over in flower

Really on the up and up... No bag juju at all... Any leaves with problems are all from prior stuff... I did defol some of it but this grow was when I realized I had deficiencies in potassium.. bam too late damaged leaves.. Oh well I will get this down...

Sorta do as the results are still strong....

This plant the DCC is a tall one i have been LSTing the top cola for a week at least... It wants to win bad... I will!

look...

So the BK odd enough was into flower at same time but obviously was behind some... I will let it run a week longer if needed as recently in it's own tub it has been thriving...

It is healthy and hearty... the stocks on the DCC and the BK are huge .. bigger than I recall any others.. but maybe just cause it is current. Feels that way....

So lets get to the juice!

These two.. WW in the back and TW in the front.. Are fattening up. These are not going to yield as much as the others. They are sharing a tank. I will make sure they fatten as much as possible but the WW is brown haired and looks ready...not large as i like yet.. but a little ahead of the TW.. 3 days into flush so getting there. Remaining leaves seem to be showing it..

So if they do as I expect I will chop them this weekend. This will be cool as I will then have fresh bud and more trim to play with... Did i mention I have been working on a method of making oil's into Ejuice? well the method is out there but trying to get it figured out. Results have been promising. So the trim etc will be more useful than hash to me...

Hopefully I will get it figured out and will post about it.. Still need more runs on my magic butter machine as well.. Still figuring that out but have some tinctures made with it... ok so far .. we'll see...

Anyway thats it for now i guess be safe!



FE

 

[CronicHempHog]

Still Looks Great
this damn congestion just wont quit but
I couldn't hold out any longer took a couple hits tonight

 

[Bamalabrat]

The tents look great FE! I am envious of your little bloom space. I am 3 days into trimming and I still have a ways to go. I have to say I think I like your method better.

 

[Far East Buds]

Ok time to post!

I know it's been awhile time to post....

12-18-2015

So not sure where I left off last ime well i do it was right before a harvest... So here is what they looked like 15 minutes before i chopped...

Train wreck and a White Widow came down! The yield was very small but not weighed yet... they are almost dry here is the pics 5 days after cut...

there is another tub above not in pics with some loose buds of TW as well.. Overall the two plants my guess.. 3 zips? well not bad for both in same tub and i realize they went in too early and same tub is just not the way to go for flower. It has been awesome in Veg and working excellent. These plants also only had 1-1/2 x 2 ft to grow in. So that is always going to be a limiting factor for now. For now....

The expansion is going to happen and maybe even in the near future... Just going to add a similar room as my grow room is now to make a veg room. The both room now will be all flower.. so running the HPS on some and the LED on others i can flower 6 with room to spare in there... even back in 5 gal pots if I wanted.. Not sure on that yet but....
I will be redoing a lot. I don't need much for a veg room but it will be big enough to work on my other various activities I like... I have been making tinctures with a magic butter machine and e-juice with some old BHO i had. Interesting stuff to have BHO on the go in vape form.. um yah! But that is for another post as I need more batches to make more BHO to make more juice so I can master it and do A good post on it cause I couldn't find crap on it anywhere!

Now i know I can't post how to make BHO here... I mean from there to the juice.. no butane just some mix and a little double boil stuff...

So off course here.. back on course .. the new flower set up is this...

There is another TW in there... It is way too small to flower... But I will have way too many empty spots if I didnt throw something into flower.. It was the most developed... 3 weeks from now I will have a bigger plant to throw in but in that time the TW will only be in there.. So I said heck I just harvested a TW lets run a quick nother through... Soon I will be running more plants in flower since I will have space...

The Bk in there went in at same time as the huge DCC that i supercropped the tops well some of em... it is easily a week behind so i will run it an extra week and do the DCC first.. those two in there own tubs are showing it. The BK i have never seen fans that big.. they are huge!

I am going to make stuff for awhile like tincture etc.. So my plans on low yield .. well those projects really use that stuff up fast so I will yield for a bit... See what the future brings for yields later.. Still want to rotate strains through and keep the varieties going...

Just a side note the PC cured is so amazing tasting .. The first 3 hits are so smooth and the nugs burn tooo long... I over pack i guess... Such a sweet fruity aftertaste..It was never bad tasting but those first three hits really have a neat new taste cured...

So in Veg lets get to it.. becoming a record post... guess it happens when i am gone awhile....

I have been running the small humidifier and it works well actually.. smaller than i thought and needs to be filled daily but it works and it digital. easy to set... I dry bud in my veg room so it helped with humidity at 60 right where i wanted it... 2 more days buds come down.. much better dry so far than the PC that was good in the end but botched because i went away.

The cloner has one clone from 4 moms or what ever they are in veg there... I cut the top off the four and those are the clones... If they all take the moms go away,,, but the BK in veg is next. It has had a real good veg so far and has a full 3 more weeks to veg or so.. It should be better yield etc than the one i harvest soon..

I still run 800-900 ppm in veg and 1k in flower...
PH goal is 5.8 now and anything over 6 i ph down.. the plants definitely have liked it better..I use to let it ride high and that was a mistake in all my prior grows so far... No discolor in any plant on any leaf in my grows right now so fingers crossed it is working... I will see some soon cause that DCC is 5 inches from the light but it happened with the PC and it was fine so screw it.. Next run I will HST it lower for sure... I am still learning.. and each grow harvest in.. I am getting better and more brave... but have my rules and stuff to keep it good..

So I guess that is it.. Hopefully I won't be gone as long after the holidays...

Thanks for reading



FE

 

[Far East Buds]

Cloner Update.

Cloner Update.



I wanted to mention some of this in my last post but it got too long winded...

I have been running 100% on clones for awhile now but it does take always atleast 10 days or more.. In an effort to decrease this time with out all kinds of extras like powders etc.. I have been playing with the set up.

So anyone who has followed my posts has seen my cloner has gone from a huge bubble cloner to a small Bubble to a small fogger to now.... Both.. A small fog.. bubble cloner..

So in my haste to get the fog rolling in it and my cheapness.. I bought a cheap fogger/mister... Still working great and it bubbles some as it mists.. all good... except...

I didn't research enough... The type of fog has to have enough air mixed with it... oxygen. if it doesn't it will choke the roots. So for awhile i left it open to let air in but I decided why not an air stone... why not do both fog and air... That way it will push out enough fog to keep oxygen level up. Well that's how i theorize it...

So far so good it seems to be working. I see zero ill effects to it when i pop a clone into cloner... Eventually the lower leaves yellow but it is the plant feeding on it self until it get's roots. If i can get them faster I can avoid that stuff but i always clip leaves later after so doesn't really matter from that angle.

Another cloner factor. PH PH PH 5.8 is current goal on all my plants and clones... In my research I have found anything over 6.0 starts to block some nutrient intake in hydro. I was running up to 6.2/3 without correcting it and I do believe it has slowed things down.

I feel like the issue's I have mostly run into with all my grows are almost always PH related. Cal deficency? where's the PH? Pottasium? wheres the PH? That being said I think only now am I adding the right blend... I was lacking still in flower and recently corrected it.

So thats where I am at with the cloner....

I'll update the results on this batch as it is the first run with both the air stones and fogger. Eventually I will find the set up I like and be done with it but it is fun playing with and I haven't hurt results yet so it's been good. Maybe i'll try and Aero next...

thanks for reading



FE

 

[Bamalabrat]

Nice man. This time of year it gets hard to concentrate on anything. So much going on. Love to see what your girls are doing though. Have a great weekend FE!

 

[Far East Buds]

Nice man. This time of year it gets hard to concentrate on anything. So much going on. Love to see what your girls are doing though. Have a great weekend FE!

Thanks Bama I am truly glad you still visit. Have a good Christmas Bro!

FE

 

[Far East Buds]

Final Harvest Report on the TW and WW yield. They got canned today for curing. 42G on the Ww and 50G on the TW. LOL sounds like they are so low...but... I did it..I nailed it.... Home Run!

See..... I have limits on allowed flower in stock due to my state reg shit... er stuff... So goal is 3 zips per plant... that being said these two ran in same tub so that puts the total at 92g approx. with a goal of around 3 zips and just barely going over.. like i said home run...

Future I am working on more variations in intake methods so I am going to be a little risky and bump the yields and just make other products on a regular basis to keep the limits sorta in check.

Initial smoke report on the WW and I did grow the shit out of it.. meaning it is as sticky and gooey .. well just say it is finely produced. It can't make me cough really. so much smoother than the PC. That being said.. The PC can hit me faster and harder. The WW doesn't make me stare at the screen and wonder what I was doing... Just initial thoughts... The PC is not harsh it is just known as a strain that tickles the lungs...

So there yah have it...

Have a good Sunday peops...

FE

 

[ShiggityFlip]

Just in time for frosty Nuggs and harvest pics! I'm in.

 

[Bamalabrat]

FE

I am really thinking about getting that PC. What do you think I could get for yields growing it as big as I grow mine? Did it have a unique taste? How long did the high last? I am looking for something that is fun and generous that last a while. Do you think the PC fits that?