5x5 - Mars Hydro FC-E6500 DWC pollen chuck

Full set up below:

Veg (seedlings, clones, mom), 1.5 x 2.5 x 5.5 tent
BP 1000 90 watt qb (pulls ~87 watts from the wall)
3.5 - 5 gallon bucket depending
4" ventilation, no carbon filter

Male Flower, 4x2x5 tent
Roleadro M/1000 (Draws ~127 watts from the wall)
4" inch ventilation, carbon filter

Female Flower, 5x5x8 tent
Mars Hydro FC-E6500 (~650 watt, dimmable)
6" inch ventilation, carbon filter
8" active intake (AC infinity)

Current Strains:
Germinating: 4x Big Bud, regular seeds, will flower male and female

Veg:
2x Mango F1 re-veg clones. Taken at 3 weeks of flower and re-vegging, A taken 6/18, B taken 6/19
1x Golden Nugget F1 Female from seed, germed 6/8
2x "Reserve" F1 clones, took clones 6/7

Male Flower:
None

Female Flower:
1x Mango F1 (Phenotype #1, long, stretchy, slow flowering, sativa dominant. Day 35 / Week 5 flower, 27 Gallon tote
1 x Golden Nugget F1- Sex unknown, day 8 flower
2 x Lemon Skunk F1 - Sex unknown, day 8 flower
1 x Mango - Male F1 ("The Dude"), day 12 flower, male pollen stud - mango smell in veg and flower, very short, very compact, very bushy
1 x Reserve Male F1, going to cull
1 x Reserve Female F1, Day 3 flower, will flower but not breed

Parents have been labelled, but not selected. Reserve male and female are exhibiting genetic mutation indicating inbred line. I don't want to continue or propagate this inbred trait, especially not knowing what other negative genetics traits have been inbred.

Reserve is bagseed from a friend. Noticing inbred traits and will not be breeding with either male or female.

Will make female seeds from select genetics, and make regular seeds with select genetics. Enroute is Feminized Gelato and Girl Scout Cookies (S1s).

Mango 27 gallon tote.
Showing signs of heat stress and cal/mag deficiency.

Veg tent and BP 1000

Reserve, female

"The Dude" - Mango male pollen stud

Lemon Skunk, sex unknown

Golden Nugget, sex unknown

Female Flowering Tent, Mango 27g notes

Supplementing with calmag throughout, but I believe the PH has been too high. 6.0-6.3 I believe cal/mag is available at lower ph in DWC. Lowering the PH to 5.8 from here out.

Dimming the light to decrease heat stress, still ~850-960 PPFD.
Air temp 76.5 - 77.5 F, 60-62% RH
Lung room 73.6 F, 62%

I believe the "problem" of the bud-leaves beginning to droop to be genetic. Girl Scout Cookies also does this. The plant is otherwise completely healthy only showing signs of magnesium deficiency. I thought it was light stress so I raised the height and decreased the intensity. Didn't really make a difference. No classic signs of heat stress, no canoeing or cupping. What do you think?

Temps stay below 80 degrees (77º-79.5º F, 25º-26.38º C), RH between 55-61%, the light sits 18 inches above the plant on ~80%. Measuring 870-1005 PPFD throughout the canopy top, ph 5.8, 770ppm (1.51 ec) - very little to no ph drift.

Feeding: Connoisseur A+B, B52, SilicaBlast, Sensizym, Bud Candy, Big Bud at around 1/2 strength, ph down (SilicaBlast raises ph high)

There are some signs of tip burn starting to show. Doesn't like above 750-770. Will begin to lower ppm/ec this until flush.

Day 37 flower. Smells of faint astringent Mango

Left: "Reserve," early flower
Right: Mango, Day 39 Flower



Found 2 males and now, the 1.5x2.5 is the Male Flowering Tent. Room for one more
Left: Golden Nugget
Right: Lemon Skunk



Veg tent is now the 4x2.

Left: Mango re-veg clone
Middle: Golden Nugget mother candidate
Right: 2x Reserve clones, 2x Big Bud seedlings


I've started my plants in the small net pots in 1" rockwool. The roots take days to hit the water instead of weeks growing through a 6" net pot. I won't go back to 6" net pots ever.

This sativa-dominant Mango pheno (slow flowering) is a light feeder, like most Sativas. I've backed off the nutes but there are signs of burn and lockout as a result. This pheno did not like 1000PPFD, the tips began to foxtail, so I backed off the distance and the intensity. Smells very astringent, and something in this tent smells fruity and sweet. Not sure if it's this Mango, or the next one you'll see.



Dude looks like a lady. What I thought would be male has shown female flowers. This Mango pheno is very short, very bushy, very squat. Topped in veg and now LST to spread out the canopy. Leaves and structure is beautiful. Much more photogenic than the sativa-dominant.



Lemon Skunk female. This is in a 5-gallon tote. The tote is very short and so is this plant. Raised onto a 5-gallon bucket. Having troubles keeping PH in range in this 5-gallon tote. Not sure why. Looks a little light after defoliating large fan leaves.



This is "Reserve" bagseed female, before a major defoliation. This one smelled like some sort of candy in veg.


Lemon Skunk Male beginning to flower and stretch.



Golden Nugget male


This Golden Nugget Male pheno blushes a yellow-ish gold


Mango - sativa-dominant pheno. Not the prettiest, but beginning to fill out. This is before a final light defoliation before flush.


Mango. You can see the start of stretchy-fox tailing from light stress. Not heat stress, no signs of heat stress. Temps stay below 78° (Down from 80 produced by the low light). Also visible nute burn and lockout. This plant is recovering from this. You'll see in the next update.

What I mistook for a cal/mag deficiency was actually nute-burn and cal/mag lockout. I did a rez change with lower nutes and been topping off with only PH'd water and there are signs of recovery, but I don't think the plant will repair the bronze/copper spots.

The Lemon Skunk Male has tight pollen clusters and nice plant structure. The stem-rub smells like pickles. A few pollen sacks have dropped a fine yellow powder. I've taken some of this pollen and placed it on the Mango in the 27 gal tote. Only 1 single lower bud. I've marked it off. I can harvest the whole plant and leave this bud and seeds to ripen. The cross will result a Lemon Mango Skunk which will be Indica/Sativa hybrid leaning more towards Indica. This Mango mom is sativa-dominant, stretchy, slow flower, smells like astringent sweet fruit.

Golden Nugget Male stem-rub smells like Chinese Food with soy sauce and fresh greens - it's pretty crazy. Pollen sacks have not ripened and this male has stayed shorter than I expected. It's nearly the same height as the Lemon Skunk Male.

Pics coming soon.

Lemon Skunk (pickles) x Mango (Sativa-dom pheno) pollinated bud. Day 49



Lemon Skunk male (Pickles), top cola. Day 21 flower


Lemon Skunk female - Day 21 flower


Mango female - Short, compact, bushy, (not sure if slow or fast flowering pheno, yet). Day 21 flower


Mango female - Short, compact, bushy, (not sure if slow or fast flowering pheno, yet). Day 21 flower

Boy, do I have an update for you.

Mango, pheno 2, is fast flowering. I wish I had a clone. But, we'll breed her with fast flowering Lemon Kush for something special.

"Reserve," which is bagseed from a friend, turns out to be Autoflower. I cloned Reserve, which you'll see in past and future photos. And now, Reserve is flowering in 18/6, which means, to me, that she is an autoflower. Reserve is one of the few strains I've seen praying HOARD to the light - the plants reach to the light 90 degrees. Pics to follow.

Also, a new introduction to the flower tent on 7/21, Golden Nugget. This plant has been in veg for almost 8 weeks (June pics to follow. Golden Nugget is bushy, just now throwing pre-flower pistils, blushes during new growth, and smells like fresh greens covered in soy sauce.

July 23 is my next flowering window and it coincides with Full Moon. Lucky me. Germinating Gelato, GSC, and Artemisia Vulgaris - common mugwort - but don't ever call mugwort "common."

Happy growing.