Vetsmoke's Micro Growing Shenanigans

Red Leader is on full strength nutes now. 4ml Grow, 4ml Bloom, 4ml Topmax and 0.5ml calmag. She's just had a litre and Red 2 has had a drink of her mix, 2ml Grow, 2ml Bloom and 1ml Topmax. Red Leader is 7.5 weeks old now and should be a couple of weeks away from the chop. Red 2 is 4 weeks old today.
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Done a little work on the flower/drying tent this morning. Lighting and extraction hooked up. Used the side of an old vegetable rack resting across the upper support bars to hold up the carbon filter, and I can also use that to hang drying buds from. Need to order some adhesive zips for the mylar front panel, a USB fan for the air intake, and wire in a circulation fan. Shouldn't be too long and it'll be ready for testing.
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Ran the DIY tent for 5 hours with the extraction on and intake passive for now. Temp was at 27.9C with 45% RH. Looks like it will do the job. Got a few bits left to do on it still but once Red Leader is chopped I think I'll sprout a Cream Mandarine, Jack Herer & Gorilla Glue. Veg them for 2-3 weeks in the cabinet then transfer them to the tent and see how it performs.
 
New plan already. :laugh: I want to learn as many growing techniques as I can so I'm now planning to start a gorilla glue mother plant in the cabinet once Red Leader is chopped. I'll use her to practice cloning. Any clones that survive will go into the flower tent in a mini SoG type grow. I'm thinking 4 at a time in 1L air pots. I've got a little propagator that I think will take 6 cuttings. Can't wait to get started.
 
Red Leader is on full strength nutes now. 4ml Grow, 4ml Bloom, 4ml Topmax and 0.5ml calmag. She's just had a litre and Red 2 has had a drink of her mix, 2ml Grow, 2ml Bloom and 1ml Topmax. Red Leader is 7.5 weeks old now and should be a couple of weeks away from the chop. Red 2 is 4 weeks old today.
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Aloha Vet! Right on my Braddah! Love the purple buds! Stoked your son is better and on the mend!! My pure CBD is staying short for a auto as well so I’m thinking these genetics are just that way.

I’m gonna run a few more while I veg some photo strains. The smoke is good for sleeping without the sensation of your brain trying to beat its way out of your skull which is pleasant option before bed time.

Hope all is blessed my friend and look forward to your next grow endeavor!

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Aloha Vet! Right on my Braddah! Love the purple buds! Stoked your son is better and on the mend!! My pure CBD is staying short for a auto as well so I’m thinking these genetics are just that way.

I’m gonna run a few more while I veg some photo strains. The smoke is good for sleeping without the sensation of your brain trying to beat its way out of your skull which is pleasant option before bed time.

Hope all is blessed my friend and look forward to your next grow endeavor!

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Thanks buddy. Yeah they may not be the most vigorous genetics but they do give some pretty buds that's for sure. I could sure do with some good CBD now, I've been struggling to sleep since being in the hospital. Probably some anxiety and stress.
I'll drop a gorilla glue seed over the weekend and start her tucked in the corner of the cabinet. Advertised as a mainly indica strain so should work well for my plan. Really looking forward to giving cloning a go and seeing how the DIY tent performs. Fingers crossed I get lucky and she's a strong mother plant.
Are you planning on doing a photo run next go then? Will be great to see what you can do with those. Smashing your current auto run, they are growing beautifully. The Cinderella Jack is really impressive. Have a blessed day friend.
 
Had a giggle this afternoon. Went to the hydro shop to buy a few bits. Chatting away as the guy is putting my card through and suddenly he goes, oh shit I just charged you a fuck ton of money. Put in £430 instead of £43. Refunded and gave me a further £3 discount on top of what he'd already knocked off. :laugh: No receipts though so just hoping he did the refund right and the money is back in my account tomorrow. Moral of the story, don't distract the owner with growing chat while they're putting your payment through.

Went for an ONA block and some boveda packs. Ended up getting more than that of course. Think the carbon filter is losing some of the scrubbing power now after 4 grows. Decided I'll just leave it for now as the cabinet will only be used for vegging and clones after this grow. Should still work well enough to handle those. New filter will go in when I decide to do autos in there again.

Few pics of the girls from this morning. Red Leader is particularly stinky now.
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Ok, great info.

What will round it all off will be a different strain under the same growing conditions :nomo:
Yesterday was her first dose of calmag so maybe it's that. Although adding that to Red Leader didn't seem to slow the problem down.
 
Yesterday was her first dose of calmag so maybe it's that. Although adding that to Red Leader didn't seem to slow the problem down.

On my side of things, I've resigned to not being able to diagnose the problem this grow.

I actually called Canna yesterday and unfortunately the guy did not know much better than me, so looks like I'm on my own!

Gonna try to be patient and slowly test things one by one. But I think it will take another grow to nail down.
 
On my side of things, I've resigned to not being able to diagnose the problem this grow.

I actually called Canna yesterday and unfortunately the guy did not know much better than me, so looks like I'm on my own!

Gonna try to be patient and slowly test things one by one. But I think it will take another grow to nail down.
Frustrating but all part of it I guess. First time I've ever had any real problems so I'm inclined to say this strain is picky about something but I can't figure out what exactly.
 
Frustrating but all part of it I guess. First time I've ever had any real problems so I'm inclined to say this strain is picky about something but I can't figure out what exactly.

Yeah that's still a possibility for me too. Well, at the end of the day, so long as we can both finish with some decent flowers, I think it's a win no matter what!
 
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Yeah that's still a possibility for me too. Well, at the end of the day, so long as we can both finish with some decent flowers, I think it's a win no matter what!
Exactly mate. Just get them to the finish line. Yours is still fattening up nicely.
 
I can't take any credit for that :laugh: Have to agree they are nice looking buds. I've got 2 more seeds of this strain so I'll have another crack at some point.
Nothing better then when they start getting colorful and you haven't done anything for it
 
Well I chose the strain I guess :laugh: The advert pictures were a funky pink colour but I'll take the colour I got. Same on both plants too. Winner.
See you can take credit, you seen they were colorful in the pic and you bought em :ganjamon:
 
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