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Chopped the Carnival. A little early and probably would have gotten more of the cherished ‘gooey texture’ if left longer, but I was overall definitely happy with it.

IMO all my harvested flowers have taken a very satisfying leap forward since I started digging bunny turds into the pots for flowering. Whether it is because the poo is adding a bunch of organic life processes to the equation, or it just says something about how screwed up my mix of packaged/bottled nutrients is, I don’t know. Both maybe. But I’m fully convinced that the buds are much stickier and smellier and overall better since I started giving them the turds.

There has to be a lot of Thai in this strain, no?
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My latest guess is that Carnival is Santa Maria x Nevils Haze C ...

They took a great sativa from Brazil and crossed it in Holland with a sativa Haze. It has a definite Nevils feel to it.

:Namaste:
 
Graytail said:
I'm still trying to figure out why your plants always finish the way they do. Could it be temps? Do you have a wide swing? (The temps, not you
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I guess I never answered your question either. No I don’t think there are wide temperature swings. It definitely doesn’t get too hot as my fan is way larger than I need. Maybe a little cool at night -possibly down into the low 60s sometimes. I got lazy about monitoring it because all my digital thermometers were saying different things.

What do you mean about....the way they are? Floppy?
 
Yes, they're usually full of foxtails - far more than I ever get, or see from other growers. You've admitted that you just let 'em go until you have time, and it's usually longer than usual, but it seems they all turn out that way.

So I'm thinking to myself - what causes that - anything else? :hmmmm:
 
Maybe his constant high RH up there cause all the FTs? Now that you mention it, I too can think back and the majority of your pics have FTs on the buds.
 
I don’t know. I guess I can think of a few theories. I do feel like my feeding mix is screwy. High P and very high K. It’s something I struggle with and constantly plan to change when I get the opportunity.

I just put some batteries in the only temperature gauge that I actually trust a bit and I’ll test a few different spots- higher/lower in the room, as there aren’t a lot of fans mixing things around in there- and bound to be hot spots under the bulbs.

Another dream is to get another one or two of those QB LEDs, so I can turn one entire half of the flowering room LED. Currently the LEDs I have are being used to grow vegetables, and not doing a very good job at it as they don’t put out enough heat to make things happy in the room they are in. I’m interested to see the difference in the bud produced.

If I can get enough LED to replace one 600 I will swap them and use the 600 to grow veggies.

Edit. Yeah - high humidity.
I’ll check that as well tonight. Not too much can be done in that dept though.
 
It's more a matter of curiosity for me. You get a crap ton of trichs! The buds just grow differently. I think I remember that like a 20 degree swing in day/night temps will elongate the nodes, so I thought that might be adding to it. It's consistent whatever the cause.
 
Thanks GT. It is an interesting subject to me at the moment because of the recent criticism about how ‘the buds are too fluffy dude’. It would be fun to grow some ‘rock hard dense buds’.
Just to see if I could, dude.
 
I can relate a lot to this fox tail discussion. I keep thinking my soil is outta whack.

its been multiple grows and genetics I get quite the elongated tips and foxtails. But I keep soldiering forward changing small things at a time. Last thing on the list is my soil. gotta test it or Im just grasping at straws
 
I set up an array of thermometers and hygrometers around in the flower room and was a little surprised to find that the maximum temps were higher than I thought, running just shy of 90°F. That was with my thermostat set to about 77.
So it has been regulating temps at around 10° below what it says on the dial. I cranked it down to 70 and now my max temps are around 81°.

I’ll see if that changes things. I can’t get the song Foxy Lady out of my head now when I look at them...

I spent my grocery money on an order of Mega Crop.

I’m trying to sprout a few more seeds in the quest for the ‘dense rock hard buds’. I’ve been killing a whole lot of sprouts and seedlings lately though so no point naming names yet.

I harvested another P Chunk.

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Hey guys, reading through the discussion about foxtailing, this is a subject I looked into a while back as I had a indoor Cluster Bomb foxtail and have grown that strain multiple times and not had it foxtail before. I even grew a clone of that same plant last grow in the 4x8 tent and it didn’t foxtail.

Here are a few points I came across that can cause foxtailing:

- Sativa strains and Sativa dominate strains are more prone to foxtailing than Indica.
- too much blue light and/or too much deep red (730 nm and higher) can cause stretching and maybe foxtailing
- light stress (too intense) can cause foxtailing

And that was about all I could find about the subject.

From my own experience with that grow, I decided that environmental factors play a major part in plants foxtailing and is likely the combination of multiple factors rather than a single one.

From that grow:

- strain was Cluster Bomb which is about 50% sativa
- using 3200k white LEDs which are quite intense in the top 12” was running about 420w in a 3x3
- cool temperatures of about 70 daytime and 55 night time
- I also remember that I goofed making that batch of soil, not sure but I think I got the Mg/K ratio wrong, ie I had the potassium levels higher than the magnesium.

I suspect that these factors combined created the “perfect storm” for foxtailing and aside from genetics, the intense light coupled with low temperatures were the main factors. I’ve not had it occur again and it was the only plant of 4 (all different strains) that foxtailed.

RC
 
Thanks for the thoughts Celt. More or less in line with my guesses on the matter. I’ll be interested to see if the Mega Crop diet changes anything in the foxtail dept. I’d also be happy if my plants became any less floppy on a new diet. If not, then more fans and silica might help.

La Niña was starting to get quite foxy too so I chopped her for that reason, at exactly 10 weeks. Once the tails start growing they grow very fast.
A very lovely plant, this one. A Shantibaba creation- Thai/Colombian crossed with White Widow. I very much like plants that grow spread out like this. All the buds get a chance to develop nicely.

Well- she was spread out nicely. Hard to tell
from the pics as the limbs got quite droopy in later flowering. Much sexier looking in real life.

Going places a sativa was never meant to go...
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I smoked a tiny bit of the finger hash and my impression was that it’s very strong. The high is extremely even and focussed- like being on autopilot. Like ‘Wow I’m super high but I can see my arms and legs moving and I think they’re even doing what they’re supposed to do. Oh -where are we going now...?
I’ll just relax and watch.”
 
Enjoy that finger hash buddy!
 
I started using emulated Megacrop last night minus the micros because I amended those into the dirt. 5 grams of MC with 5 grams of Greenway calmag returns the following;

NO3 - 137
NH4 - 6.5
P - 35
K - 185
Ca - 115
Mg - 45

Si - 0.9

Obviously 6 grams of MC will change those slightly, but at least you get an idea of what the regimen offers. Do you plan to add a bunch of silica like Farside and them use?
 
Weaselcracker said:
. Like ‘Wow I’m super high but I can see my arms and legs moving and I think they’re even doing what they’re supposed to do. Oh -where are we going now...?
I’ll just relax and watch.”
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LMAO! Nailed it! :rofl:

Been there many times. "Just relax and watch". :cheesygrinsmiley:

I consider it to have been very good practice for old age. I'm so smooth now ... no one has a clue whenever my brain isn't working all that well. :slide:
 
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Skybound said:
I started using emulated Megacrop last night minus the micros because I amended those into the dirt. 5 grams of MC with 5 grams of Greenway calmag returns the following;

NO3 - 137
NH4 - 6.5
P - 35
K - 185
Ca - 115
Mg - 45

Si - 0.9

Obviously 6 grams of MC will change those slightly, but at least you get an idea of what the regimen offers. Do you plan to add a bunch of silica like Farside and them use?
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Thanks for the numbers dude. How’s it going over there? It will be a little while before my mega crop gets here in the mail, things being the way they are with the postal system. I didn’t really have any plans one way or another with silica. It’s something I have quite a few bottles of. Sometimes I use it for a month or two and then I fall off the wagon. Some people say it’s the best thing since sliced bread, but other than tougher stems I haven’t noticed massive differences, and it plays hell with my ph. I’m also not really the best judge of any ‘fine-tuning’ aspects of the grow though, since I haven’t even gotten past the ‘rough tuning’ part.


I dragged the Durple Pream out today, determined to chop her. Ten weeks flowering today. I went back-and-forth for a long time about whether to harvest her or not. In the end I decided to put her back in the flowering for a little while longer. I’m not really expecting a lot more colour to show, but still..... this is my best chance to find out if she will eventually turn more purple or not. Whether or not she does she is a very pretty plant.

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This Chocolope that I treated with STS is finally starting to show signs that it’s producing a few grains of pollen.
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Weaselcracker said:
Thanks for the numbers dude. How’s it going over there? It will be a little while before my mega crop gets here in the mail, things being the way they are with the postal system. I didn’t really have any plans one way or another with silica. It’s something I have quite a few bottles of. Sometimes I use it for a month or two and then I fall off the wagon. Some people say it’s the best thing since sliced bread, but other than tougher stems I haven’t noticed massive differences, and it plays hell with my ph. I’m also not really the best judge of any ‘fine-tuning’ aspects of the grow though, since I haven’t even gotten past the ‘rough tuning’ part.
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I'm the same way with silica, on and off. I've read that it improves flexibility as well as disease resistance, yet it's not an element that plant needs, so one can go either way with an opinion. I presume the package will touch down before the Megacrop, and with the MKP you ordered will enable to formulate your own MC with c/m and Si. I also presume the silica going into the peat moss will be a good thing and the acidic peat will buffer the nutes coming in. I once reverse engineered Farside's regimen to see what's under the hood and found that he uses about twice as much Si as what GH uses, and all his chops look aces to me.
 
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