Welcome to the Vivosun Bud Factory, a Vivosun 5x5 (60x60x80) advanced grey tent equipped with a custom Vivosun Smart Grow System (SGS) with a Vivosun VSF6450 and a 45g 4-site RDWC system.
Vivosun Smart Grow System settings: ** Late Flower Mode **
- Light - Vivosun VSF6450
- 20:00-08:00 OFF
- 08:00-20:00 Spectrum:Flowering, Intensity:60%, Simulate Sunrise/Sunset
- Circulation - Vivosun AeroWave E6
- 00:00-24:00 Speed 10 oscillating
- Exhaust - Vivosun 6" AeroZesh
- 20:00-08:00 52% RH, Speed 6, Default off
- 08:00-20:00 High 82F / 60% RH, Speed 8, Default speed 1
Other Equipment:
- Vivosun 13" Air Circulator oscillating horizontally and vertically on natural wind mode
- Vivosun AeroWave A6 on natural oscillating
Date: 8/14/23 Day# 117 (Flower Day# 70)
Strains: Banana Pudding (BP), Mango Mousse (MM),
Apply Betty (AB), Forbidden Fruit (FF)
Nutrients: Prescription Blend, Hydroguard, z7
Medium: 8" Netpots with clay balls in RDWC system (5x13g buckets)
Friday afternoon (8/11, flower day# 67) it was time to harvest Mango Mousse. First I had to transfer all of the FF branches from the big clips on the plastic hangers to the smaller clips on the wire hangers. They were smaller and lighter after drying for 8 days already, so they fit on the smaller hangers now. I'll need to do the same thing when it's time to harvest BP.
I hadn't opened the
@VIVOSUN Bud Factory in a week and MM looked pretty fried. Most of her upper leaves were brown and crispy. It's just her and BP in there now (and some FF larf I left to ripen) and they've been quarantined for a couple of weeks due to spider mites in another tent.
I spent about 10 minutes cleaning her up, though, and she looked totally different. It was just the very top leaves that were brown, and underneath she looked pretty healthy. And you can see she has some really nice buds, too. I took some tric shots and she looks ready to be. Her trics are ripe and gooey
She had a few buds with foxtails, but I didn't find any nanners or seeds (yet). The bud was dense and sticky and cleaned up fairly easily. Still, for a 'small' plant she had a lot of bud. It took the two of us about three hours to clean her up and get her hung up in the drying closet.
FF has been harvested for about 11 days now. I left her lower larf in the tent to mature, and it has. When I harvested 11 days ago it was mostly white hairs and not much bud. It's done a great job of ripening up over the last couple of weeks. I'll take it off today or tomorrow, it should fill a shelf in the drying rack.
Then it will just be BP in the Bud Factory. Her top leaves were pretty yellowed as well.
I cleaned her up a little today, getting rid of the yellowed top leaves. Now she's all foxtails and nanners. Pretty much any picture you take is a 'Wheres Waldo' of nanners. She's never looked normal, though, even going back to veg. She's always had these huge fans with super-long petioles, so much that all you see is fans. Her buds have looked like re-veg the entire time. I've always expected her to throw nanners.
That makes two out of the four plants that threw nanners. I also had foxtails on all of them, pointing to too much light. Then again, AB was the first to throw nanners and she was never within 30" of the light, at about 35DLI. I'm not sure how I can blame her nanners on too much light.
The other culprit is the nutrients. I only did one res change this grow, when they started flower. I managed the res at around 2EC by adding water or full-strength nutrients based on the PPM rise/fall. This kept the PPM in the correct range, but the NPK mix may have changed drastically. What if all the signs of reveg are too much nitrogen? I really didn't see any other signs of N-tox, though.
I'll get BP out of there soon. I need to get FF out of the drying closet to free up some room (and hangers) first.
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I hate to say it, but I think your experience just nixed me running it.
but one of the things I love about 420 Magazine and the grow journals, is they give me the chance to see a few grows of the same strain to help me decide on what to grow.
Growing only one strain in the tray, I'd better be sure it's something I want to consume for a year.
Mango Mousse has been in there for 10 days now, and I'll probably let her go another 4-5 days. Because I keep putting fresh bud in the closet the RH is staying above 60%. It lets me go a full 14 days of drying without worrying about over-drying.
some thick juicy nugs over there 
