The Hexapus's Garden

WC: The plant with all the buds and dying leaves looks like typical harvest-time conditions. You CAN flush them good, then give bloom nutes, but if you are within a week or two of harvest, just go plain water, and let her use up her leaves. In the wild, that is what she would do anyway.

But then, you know all this.

It is true, however, if you are used to soil, you might not get the hang of feeding and watering hempys. I was not very good at it, and my soil grows produced 20% larger plants with more yield, in a side-by-side grow. Tead knows I gave it a good effort, but just didn't have the knack for it.

I DID come away from the effort with using a 50/50 perlite soil mix, instead of just the soil mix. The soil is much lighter, and the plants seem to enjoy it. I do have to water more often, however.
 
AK if you mean the last/third photo in that last post- it's nowhere near finished. It should be just starting- it's only a few weeks into flowering.
I'm not sure.... I can usually pin all my problems on ph. Lol. But not this time. I'll either have to wing it and decide to feed more, or feed less. I'm not sure which.
Keep in mind that this plant, Violetta, is the one that was so sickly a few weeks ago. But she was looking nearly fully recovered by the time I put her back into flowering. Also- the other two I put into flowering at the same time are looking less than healthy as well. So I don't know....
These are all full indica strains- and should be able to take a good feeding.
I think what I will do is- I'll just try doing whatever Tead does with his plants. He seems to be doing well with it. Maybe I don't need to be searching around reinventing the wheel here. (Though I still think if I can just get the wheel perfectly square it will perform.)

Tead can you remind me how often you feed/water, and how much?

I'll go ask on his thread...
 
~Malawi~

I harvested my only flowering Malawi tonight. It was the one I posted a series of photos on for Spitz. It was a bit large for the screen but I crammed it in there. This is what it looked like the night I put it into flowering.
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Here it is 95 days later.
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I'm never as happy with photos taken under artificial light but that's about the only kind we have here this time of year. This was a very well packed screen. Buds piled on top of buds- though it's hard to see in the photo. Wet weight was 580 grams. If it dries to its usual 25% will be 5oz which would be by far my highest yielding Malawi yet. I expect it to be less than 5 oz but still my highest yielding- mainly because it was an overgrown plant to begin with, crammed into a small screen.
 
I'm developing a theory about the hex plant deficiencies that I was whining about.
It occurred to me last night that the weak nute mix the res currently contains, is about 1/3 grow and 2/3 bloom. So not only is it a weak mix, it's even weaker in the bloom nutes than I thought. That is, before I remembered I had a mixed grow/bloom mix in there, leftover from early flowering.
So- I'm thinking that it may just be a straight up deficiency from lack of certain nutes. Accordingly I remixed the res.

Yeah I know... it's boring as hell reading this stuff but- that's partly what these journals are for. Dirty laundry.
Sometimes it's boring dirty laundry.
 
Been off for awhile (off the rails lol it's my birthday week) but all caught up again Weasel, it does look like a Potassium/Phosphorous deficiency I had the same awhile back due to lockout by overfeeding calmag. You didn't try any of your concoctions on her did you? It was a simple fix for me, chop chop and replace with the next poor suckers...not sure how that helps your situation though so I'll help by passing this while I ponder the answer to the question which I forgot :thumb:

*edit: Forgot to pass :passitleft:
 
Kriaze said:
due to lockout by overfeeding calmag. You didn't try any of your concoctions on her did you?
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hahahaha,,


sorry friend,, just plain funny

on a side note,, weaseley,, that lemon skunk plant you did not praise so much about, i had one and put to flower a few days ago,, and to my surprise, it is a male,, aargh

another side of that same note,, my mamathai/thaistik that i have been waiting for sexing,, confirmation that is,, i have been 99.9% sure of the sex for a while now but my early sexing methods are still immature, and in the testing stage,, tho near perfect results so far as soon as the tiniest sex bud appears, anyway,, it finally confirmed sex, the weeist of hairs, at 51 days old,, sheesh,, i got grayer waiting for this thing to show,, but confirmed, yay

cheers friend,, now, a clone of it,, oh boy,,
 
Right on Nivek. :thumb: Praising the lemon skunk is still on my to-do list. There are a couple other threads and things I started and never finished on that list as well. Sigh.

No Kriaze, I got 'real' calmag now and threw out the concoctions- though I do think they would work for soil. Ph wasn't right for hydro.
BUT- you just did me a big favour because you inadvertently jiggled my memory and I realized I never added calmag to the res mix I made last night. Will fix that whenever I get back to the res... Thank you! :passitleft:
Will be back...
 
Weaselcracker said:
Right on Nivek. :thumb: Praising the lemon skunk is still on my to-do list. There are a couple other threads and things I started and never finished on that list as well. Sigh.

No Kriaze, I got 'real' calmag now and threw out the concoctions- though I do think they would work for soil. Ph wasn't right for hydro.
BUT- you just did me a big favour because you jiggled my memory and I realized I never added calmag to the res mix I made last night. Will fix that whoever I get back to the res...
Will be back...
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I don't think that a man who's up for all three OTY awards need sigh in frustration that he had some threads go by the wayside. I think such a man should be very pleased with how delicious the year turned out for him on this site. His dedication to the joyful art has paid off. :hugs: :Love:
 
You're most welcome AB. Enjoy the seeds.

Yeah Sue you're so right. I'll try to control my sighing problem. Now that I take a second look at my 420 daytimer I see that I actually am doing just fine. All three contests in six months.
A couple things I have left half finished, but what the hell...I don't hear screaming masses of deprived readers calling for my head over it, besides Nivek I mean.
I'll get there...
Yes -that's right. Complete world domination. That's my goal. Mwaaa ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
 
Bit late for current affairs but I recon I could learn some from this thread it'll take me a month to get thru it but here goes Johnny come lately subbed!!


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ramstimple said:
Bit late for current affairs but I recon I could learn some from this thread it'll take me a month to get thru it but here goes Johnny come lately subbed!!

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:welcome: to the mag. Weasel is one heck of a guy. Enjoy your stay.
 
ramstimple said:
Bit late for current affairs but I recon I could learn some from this thread it'll take me a month to get thru it but here goes Johnny come lately subbed!!


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Hey mate no need to catch up on anything, unless you're just reading cause you want to, this is just a continuing...whatever it is. Not sure what it is but it's continuing. Welcome.
 
Whar would you grow to cover yield but with the high as the main focus, but to yield, lol... Racy high..
 
I don't know what it is with me. Everything I grow seems to end up yielding about the same in the end. All those scrogged plants. Mama Thai, PC, Blueberry, Critical Cheese, Malawi, Pineapple Chunk, all about the same weight no matter how different they look in size when they're growing. It's generally about .8 grams per watt when they're healthy and grow well. Not the same as saying that it's 'generally' about .8 grams per watt - because it's not. They usually aren't healthy and usually don't grow well -but when they do I tend to get the same amount of bud per surface area. It's not a major concern of mine- just something that I've crunched the numbers on a couple times because it's easy to do when I'm dividing up the space into set screen areas like that.
I guess the main difference between strains would be the flowering time. Even there though I seem to usually end up flowering around 100 days for most strains which seems pretty long for something like the PChunk. Maybe I'm just not used to the concept of harvesting sooner (which is true- I'd have a hard time getting used to harvesting something after only 8 weeks flowering).
I'm curious to see how that last Malawi turns out for weight. I thought I might have hit the 1 gram per watt mark with that one.
It's kind of a crappy measurement though if it doesn't take flowering time into account.
I don't weigh everything usually- just when I'm curious. But I have a feeling that the best yields I've had were from the untopped and unscrogged plants.
The solo cup Critical Cheese, 12/12 from seed, blew away everything else in terms of yield/time.

Just shy of 1.5 ounces, in a cup. 101 days start to finish.

Since then I've only harvested one CC from a different seed, and it had some grower induced trauma. I think there's much more potential with that strain.
Convoluted answer Grizz but maybe that one is your best bet. Not quite a racy high but it us 'up', and it is good and strong.
 
How do you figure grams per watts? And do you have to adjust the math for differences such as hps to led lights? Just curious.
 
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