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I live in the north side of Pennsyltuky (wink) and yeah it gets super cold here, and yeah, my veg plants at least are dragging ass, though bloom is going about as well as it can, with the Cheese that is. I'm chopping a Kush in a few days that isn't doing so hot, but that strain/pheno has been giving me grief for the year and a half I've been growing it. Once chopped, that strain is gone. I'm stoked to have actual buds again, and if the smoke tastes like the smell, I'll be super pleased. I have a super low tolerance, so literally, one, maybe 2 puffs of the nastiest Mexi brick weed will face plant me. Stoners are jealous cuz I can stretch an 1/8 for better than a week if I want.

As to the damage I saw, I'm just chalking it up to deficiencies or wind burn. I didn't really see any major symptoms of either, but if not mites, I was fresh out of ideas. It's not happening anymore now so it can't be mites unless it's possible to get one or two mites only, and they eat till they die w/o multiplying?
 
Dude I'm jealous... My tolerance is off the charts with weed.. Alot has to do with all the painkillers I take... But but 40+ years of growing with unlimited weed on hand didn't help....

Dude mites unchecked will cover buds with webs by harvest. I don't think is such thing as 1 or 2 mites... They are very prolific breeders. But I didn't see might damage on the acouple pics I seen that looked like mites.... Yea it gets cold in your neck of the woods'. But, try to keep the pots off the ground,, they sure will whick up cold from the ground.. A piece or two of carpet cut to the size of the grow area placed underneath your tent helps alot in the cold weather..... And keep the pots off the ground........ Here's a pic off thenet of the SOB's

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GL and Keepem Green
 
EEK!! Damn, them buggers are what, twice the size of a trichome? I would've definitely saw those with the 40x. FYI, my grow is in a 2nd story, with carpeting, then OSB, then poly film, then a reservoir, then the potted plant on top of that. It's all fairly insulated and the super cold only creeps in when it's super cold out. We got about 10" of snow 2 days ago and that melted down to about 1 inch already, so the real cold aint get here yet. Aside from the speeds I was into a decade ago, I was always a light weight with bud, even back in my teens when brick weed was pretty much the only thing around. then I did a 5 years stretch and came home to the new weed called "nuggets", "nugs" or "BCs" which is what we grow, but on my side of the map, growers were not commonly found in the early 2000s. First time I smoke that shit, ooo wee. It ripped my fucking face off. The girl that smoked me up, I was supposed to take out dancing that night and hopefully to a telly after that. Instead I made her drive me home before I sent her on her way, lol. I can stretch an 1/8 far, but damn if I get into competitive smoking. It just floors me each and every single time.

Edit - everything I grow is Fems. I start a bean, then clone it out for better than a year. I'm finishing my OG stint now, and replaced that with the Cheese which is a month in. I also have 2 Pineapple Chunks that are just about out of the seedling stage, so I'll have some pretty decent genetics to keep me busy for another year. And also have plenty of strains in my stock pile, but only a couple beans of each.
 
The Pineapple Chunk leaves look way more indica than Triple Cheese. Thankfully they both survived and are now beginning to thrive. All's well in the grow otherwise and I am finally rid of that low yielding Kush. 2019 looks bright. FYI, the 2 PC's are the bottom 2, and the top ones are TC cuts.

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Symmetry is nice
 
Skybound said:
A trait I wish I can preserve through cloning because it's nice to top the plant and produce 2 even shoots.
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I have that thought too. But I have to even out the pie if it's not right too.
 
stoneotter said:
I have that thought too. But I have to even out the pie if it's not right too.
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How are you able to preserve the paired node trait in your cuttings? I've tried to take clones from varying sites of the mom, yet they all quickly mature and grow alternating nodes.
 
Skybound said:
How are you able to preserve the paired node trait in your cuttings? I've tried to take clones from varying sites of the mom, yet they all quickly mature and grow alternating nodes.
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Never on a clone I think. I've only topped from seed for double tops. On a clone topping encourages branching and keeps height where you want it. Clones start alternating nodes.
 
some bud shots of the first Triple Cheese on deck for chopping and the tric profile. I know, I know, about a week too early, but exigent circumstances determined I chop this one a bit soon.

The other just finished transitioning and is about to explode into stretch with lots of room on all sides.

The one upside down is being potted up to prep to replace the one coming down. Perfect root development for that pot size. Just the right amount of root bound IMO. After the next Cheese to go in, Pineapple Chunk will follow 3 weeks later.

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Those clubs look dangerous! Don't turn your back in there.
 
The Pineapple Chunks are both doing great. I have 2 cuts of each, plus 2 cuts of this marvelous Triple Cheese in the tote pushing roots. All 3 bloom loaded up with cheese and when the 3 way perpetual begins in a month, the larger pineapple is going into bloom. I can't wait to see if the PC can outdo the TC. The TC set the bar pretty high as the weight is about what I wanted, but the odors are that of Boo Berry Cereal from the early 1980s. Such a sweet smell and I attribute that to the Epsom salt, 100%!

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Skybound said:
The Pineapple Chunks are both doing great. I have 2 cuts of each, plus 2 cuts of this marvelous Triple Cheese in the tote pushing roots. All 3 bloom loaded up with cheese and when the 3 way perpetual begins in a month, the larger pineapple is going into bloom. I can't wait to see if the PC can outdo the TC. The TC set the bar pretty high as the weight is about what I wanted, but the odors are that of Boo Berry Cereal from the early 1980s. Such a sweet smell and I attribute that to the Epsom salt, 100%!

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Boo Berry huh? That's a blast from the past. So you have experience with epsom? Does it generally make weed taste sweet? Berry? Interesting.
 
I doubt it will taste like Boo Berry, but it sure smells of it. I smoked some fast dry last night and it did taste sweetish, but had all of the other common notes of earthiness, a bit of musk and something like sinsin. I only flushed for 5-6 days, so the final result won't be as smooth as hoped for.
 
Sorry been awhile since i did one of them Drive-bys.. But,,,,,,,, wanted to drive by and wish you and yours a Merry Christmas,, and a Great New Year... Keepem Green
 
Merry Christmas Wood!
 
Tead said:
Is that perlite chunks or rockwool chunks in your pots?
I forgot about rockwool as a medium. Perhaps it's time to kick those tires.
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Rockwool 1cm cubes. I also recently began using the Grodan Chunks which are just larger, maybe a cubic inch each. It's not cheap, and aren't all that recyclable, but they do perform well. There were quite a few times where I forgot to plug a pump back in or set the valves correctly so the pump is feeding the plant and not recirculating to the res, but later discovered my mistakes days after the fact and no damage is done. It's nice having the roots in the flavor savers, lol.

If I wasn't such a dunce, I'd switch to perlite for recycle-ability, but my dumb ass would forget something and kill a plant quickly. I need the safety buffer that I get from rockwool.
 
Next up to bat is the first of the Triple Cheese cuttings. She only vegged for 6 weeks and has been in bloom for 36 days. Apologies for the color variances, I've never delved into my phone's camera settings, so I was just in there clicking buttons hoping to squeeze out a good shot. FYI, due to the blue collar work I do, my phone frequently shares my pocket with dirt, rocks and other small dbris so my lens is pretty scratched up which makes for shitty pictures. Maybe at the end of it all, I'll get 8-12 ounces from her. Her mom gave me a few grams shy of an even 16.

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I'm really not liking this small veg space. My 2 Pineapple Chunks (from 10/24) are huge and I won't have another space in bloom for 3 or more weeks. By then those clones will be stretching outwards as well. I was hoping to be able to bloom both of the larger seed plants, but I honestly don't think I can contain both, plus 6 fast up and comers behind them. I already plant to cull one from each pair of cuttings, but that's still going to be 5 mature veg plants in this little 2.5' x 3.5' space. These are good problems I suppose? Them PCs are definitely going to be productive when they eventually get to bloom!

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