DirtyNerds Grow Journal

DirtyNerd said:

Day 47 Flower 12/12

Hello all just a little update missed the damn light again! so sorry for the photo got the first one on the bubblegum then it turned on RAGE! but apart from that things are going well at the moment i have been feeding the girl 100% nutrients 5 feeds then drop it down to 50% then 25% then back up to 100% to stop any build up as i can't move them anymore thanks to the tops being to heavy not saying that's a bad thing but just remember you can't just keep feeding at 100% unless you can get a good run off and making sure the run off is the same or close to what your putting it or you will run in to trouble later on down the track

Also the Black Russian in veg is going nuts i still need to lollipop her and will do tomorrow once i get some new blades i once again supper cropped her as i need to keep her from stretching to much in flower... i hope or ill run out of height! almost thinking i need to put her in to flower but a part of me just wants to keep her going in flower she will double in height

One thing i do love about super cropping is how fat they make the stems really fattens up the weak stems and turns them in to strong ones once again thanks for looking and i hope you enjoy

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Straight killing it bro!!! Love how you got that tent filled to the max with buds!!! All of them are nice and chunky too. No wasting of space there really nice work. Looking forward to the finish line gonna be a nice harvest for you.

akhiymjames said:

Straight killing it bro!!! Love how you got that tent filled to the max with buds!!! All of them are nice and chunky too. No wasting of space there really nice work. Looking forward to the finish line gonna be a nice harvest for you.

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Thanks my brother it is packed in there wall to wall frosty goodness that huge tower fan takes up to much space but the again it's not meant to be in a small Area and even on low I can't point it on the girls or it will break them

So I bounce it off the tent wall and on the rebound they get the air really can't wait to try all the new strains the tent is amazing all the smells trying to fight to be the best it's heaven well my kind of heaven

I think the blue dream will 100% need to go a full 9 weeks she's still mostly white and still packing it on

Bubblegum will be coming out soon that will free up some space so I can spread the blue dreams out and get them under some better light so they can put on some more weight

I must say the super skunk seemed like she was going to be a beast in veg super tight node spacing never seen anything like it but once I change to flower she got her stretch on and she is in the best place right under the light and she's for the 2nd smallest colas very odd can't win them all she's still a nice plant

I was just hoping she wound be a little better in the yield but you never really know till chop and cure as the buds might be as hard as A rock but I haven't touched them so I have no clue

Thanks for dropping in bro always good to have your support

IndicaAngel said:

Looking fantastic as usual ! I'm sorry I haven't been by in awhile, in and out of the hospital and damn dr's.
But I'm making time today to catch up on everyone.
Keep up the great work my friend!

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Hello angel

Don't be sorry you got a lot going on right now and it's understandable you don't have the time for posting and catching up on all the crap talking we do but at the same time it's always great to see you

Thanks for dropping in

doogey420 said:

Very nice.!

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Looking fantastic. Day 47...them crystals should start packing on now. You've already got the size...these are going to finish huge, I can tell!

Hot Diggity Sog said:

Looking fantastic. Day 47...them crystals should start packing on now. You've already got the size...these are going to finish huge, I can tell!

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Yeah bro they are packing it on now i love the final weeks the change is crazy one of the black Russians is really packing on some huge! colas when i seen it yesterday i was amazed i didn't really notice as it was hidden behind the tower fan and the great thing is its far from being finished still all white so i would say at least another two weeks kind of sucks as she was meant to be a 56 day strain.... but you can never really trust the benders when it comes to finish time!

And the blue dream is going to have some huge colas as well i just wish i put her under the light as the super skunk is not going to be a big yielding plant maybe 2oz but i will not be running her next time apart from my seed project

Next run is going to be all Blue Dream only 4 ill veg them till they are a good size then flip this way i can spread them out! and fill the room with frosty goodness

(Seed Project)
In other news with the Super skunk has been spray 3 times a day as they were only under a T5 lighting but that has now change i put them under a 250 HPS and they will be getting there first 12 hour sleep and it will be flower time i am going to spray 2 times a day now till i see balls! and will keep things up today in the last 4 days i have used 100ml/3oz i only have 400ml left so that should give me around 16 more days of spray maybe more now that ill only be doing it 2 times a day if anything changes ill post looking forward to seeing if this works

Will save me a lot of money on seeds thats for sure and there is something about making my own crosses that sounds like fun.


The best is still kicking ass and i am still yet to trim her yet because after watering i can't be stuffed but i need to do it soon and i need to top her or something to control this beast in flower i don't know what i am going to do about the height i think once i get the scrog net up should be fine

Thanks for looking

Hello All just a quick post on the Vegging beauty i gave her a trim not everything but some to get some air moving below i will do another big trim a couple of days before i flower her can't wait to see how she turns out in flower this time i wont get the Cal-Deficiency as i can control what she eats

Thanks all

Nicely done bro, looks very clean underneath

What a beast your gonna have bro. Simply amazing and nice trim job too. I'm like you I don't like taking a lot off mines but I will remove all tiny shoot that really won't produce much. How long you planning on vegging her for? She's gonna kill the game once she starts really playing

eastcoastmo said:

Nicely done bro, looks very clean underneath

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Thanks brother ill 100% need to do more once she gets flipped i don't think ill run this strain again after this but i took one very nice clone just in case Thanks for dropping in

akhiymjames said:

What a beast your gonna have bro. Simply amazing and nice trim job too. I'm like you I don't like taking a lot off mines but I will remove all tiny shoot that really won't produce much. How long you planning on vegging her for? She's gonna kill the game once she starts really playing

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Hey bro yeah shes going to be a monster ill be vegging her for another 3 weeks...... shes under a 400W Metal Halide! i might flower her sooner but i need to get the scrog screen up but i need to mode it a little and add a second layer screen so they have support once i flip

She will be flowered under a 600 Watt hps hoping to hit the pound+ with her but only time will tell going to pull bubblegum over the weekend she is done i pulled most of her fan leafs off yesterday to make trim easier and will keep putting them off till i chop i can't wait to get her out and move the blue dream under better light the one blue dream cola that is right under the light is huge! and shit its heavy

I can't wait to do a full blue dream run next time lol the funny thing is the phenotype #1 looked better in the first 4 weeks of flower but now Phenotype #2 is kicking ass! lucky i kept both! next run will be 2X Phenotype #1 - 2X Phenotype #2 that way they can get better lighting and ill be running 2x600 or 1 600 per 2 plants but because there in only a 4.5-4.5 tent they will be using both lights


Thanks for dropping in bro

Hello all well shit!
i went to put a Tap in on the run off pipe....... and look what i found rapunzel was hiding in my pot!

@akhiymjames - @Hot Diggity Sog

So what i wanted to know is should i cut that tail.... ? its gone a little brown as it was running down the pipe the rest was a amazing and white photo doesn't do it justest i have been using Rhizo at 4ml/Liter - 16ml/Gallon

Lucky i went to put that tap on or it would of turned in to a DWC if it made it back to the res lol i placed Hydroton Clay at the base of the pot before adding the perlite but that didn't help i now put some mesh over the tap to hopefully stop this from happening again i did damage some of the roots from removing it from the pipe but topped it up with some more Rhizo to help with any stress

I will be dropping the Rhizo back as i can't have the roots keep growing at this rate! back to 1ml/l - 4ml/g If you haven't used Rhizo before when your girl is in veg smash her with the 4ml/Liter - 16ml/Gallon and you will be amazed at the root growth never seen anything like it before

Tap is fitted and i just rolled that long root up back in to the pot let me know what you think this girl is going to be a beast! perlite gives your girls so much room to grow!

Thanks for looking

DirtyNerd said:

Hello all well shit!
i went to put a Tap in on the run off pipe....... and look what i found rapunzel was hiding in my pot!
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WOW BRO!!! What root growth you have. Is that a 50L pot? If it isn't you gonna need one for that girl as she's growing very very fast. I never had roots like that before and I've never pruned roots either so I wouldn't know what to do. I would say if they are dead then cut them but if they look like they're still alive then keep up. You will def get a pound from that girl. I may have to get some of that Rhizo for root growth and mix with the Cyco when I get mines going. Keep up the great work bro. Can't wait to see this beast flower!!!

akhiymjames said:

WOW BRO!!! What root growth you have. Is that a 50L pot? If it isn't you gonna need one for that girl as she's growing very very fast. I never had roots like that before and I've never pruned roots either so I wouldn't know what to do. I would say if they are dead then cut them but if they look like they're still alive then keep up. You will def get a pound from that girl. I may have to get some of that Rhizo for root growth and mix with the Cyco when I get mines going. Keep up the great work bro. Can't wait to see this beast flower!!!

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Hey bro yeah it's insane I couldn't believe my eyes so I had to get a photo

The crap thing is becuase I didn't know how this test was going to go I only put her in a 30L pot I didn't think the grow rate would be so much faster and I don't think it will be safe to try transplant her as the drainage holes are not very big maybe the size of a small pinky finger each and a lot of them so I think I'll just need to up the watering as it's looking for water I was watering once every 12 hours then change it to once every 6 hours but I might need to change it to once every 3 hours now I hope the mesh stops it from trying to go down the pipe again

If I did start her in a 50 litre she would be even bigger I can tell you this bro I am 100% sold that perlite is the way to grow I just needed to see it first hand once I get some more clones going off the blue dream she will be next and going in a 50 litre won't need to run many plants if there going to get this big bro


Thanks for helping bro get that hydro girl going and use rhizo you will not regret it

DirtyNerd said:

Hey bro yeah it's insane I couldn't believe my eyes so I had to get a photo

The crap thing is becuase I didn't know how this test was going to go I only put her in a 30L pot I didn't think the grow rate would be so much faster and I don't think it will be safe to try transplant her as the drainage holes are not very big maybe the size of a small pinky finger each and a lot of them so I think I'll just need to up the watering as it's looking for water I was watering once every 12 hours then change it to once every 6 hours but I might need to change it to once every 3 hours now I hope the mesh stops it from trying to go down the pipe again

If I did start her in a 50 litre she would be even bigger I can tell you this bro I am 100% sold that perlite is the way to grow I just needed to see it first hand once I get some more clones going off the blue dream she will be next and going in a 50 litre won't need to run many plants if there going to get this big bro


Thanks for helping bro get that hydro girl going and use rhizo you will not regret it

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Yea growth rate in perlite is very fast the fastest I've seen in any medium. I would love to run a lot more plants this way but it would have to be only one strain as running two in a system like that is asking for trouble. Yea I wouldn't dare try to transplant that girl now she's way too big. Just gonna have to ride it out but that's fed why those roots are growing that way too. They def are searching for water I'm sure that helped her grow fast too. Good idea on watering them about every 4 hours now. During lights off in veg and flower I only water once jut to keep things moist when they're sleeping and wouldn't be super thirsty when lights kicked on. You could run about 3 or 4 of those with one plant and would have a major harvest. If I wasn't running so many strains I would run at least a 4 pot system.

akhiymjames said:

Yea growth rate in perlite is very fast the fastest I've seen in any medium. I would love to run a lot more plants this way but it would have to be only one strain as running two in a system like that is asking for trouble. Yea I wouldn't dare try to transplant that girl now she's way too big. Just gonna have to ride it out but that's fed why those roots are growing that way too. They def are searching for water I'm sure that helped her grow fast too. Good idea on watering them about every 4 hours now. During lights off in veg and flower I only water once jut to keep things moist when they're sleeping and wouldn't be super thirsty when lights kicked on. You could run about 3 or 4 of those with one plant and would have a major harvest. If I wasn't running so many strains I would run at least a 4 pot system.

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Yeah I think perlite is as you fast as you can get apart from dwc

running one strain is the way to go in a 4 set up

Shout out to @flowamasta thanks for showing us this way of growing i know you didn't come up with it but damn bro you made it your own and killed it

Also @akhiymjames bro watching you kill it with the blue dream it gave me the mojo to give it a go myself

I know I am not finished this grow as the fun is yet to start when she is flowered and a lot can Go wrong If I push her to hard but at this time I'll enjoy the ride and what it brings

Hey bro, I wouldn't be too worried about trimming some of the roots, they are mostly the fine roots anyway. I had the roots coming through into my res the first time as well. The roots stop growing about a week after flowering. Perlite rocks hey, I use it and coco now. If i was to run a full hydro again though, I'd go straight perlite!
I had mine in only 10L pots too bro and I still pulled about 7oz out of her. With a 30L pot you should be sweet

DirtyNerd said:

@akhiymjames - @Hot Diggity Sog

So what i wanted to know is should i cut that tail.... ? its gone a little brown as it was running down the pipe the rest was a amazing and white photo doesn't do it justest i have been using Rhizo at 4ml/Liter - 16ml/Gallon

Lucky i went to put that tap on or it would of turned in to a DWC if it made it back to the res lol i placed Hydroton Clay at the base of the pot before adding the perlite but that didn't help i now put some mesh over the tap to hopefully stop this from happening again i did damage some of the roots from removing it from the pipe but topped it up with some more Rhizo to help with any stress

I will be dropping the Rhizo back as i can't have the roots keep growing at this rate! back to 1ml/l - 4ml/g If you haven't used Rhizo before when your girl is in veg smash her with the 4ml/Liter - 16ml/Gallon and you will be amazed at the root growth never seen anything like it before

Tap is fitted and i just rolled that long root up back in to the pot let me know what you think this girl is going to be a beast! perlite gives your girls so much room to grow!

Thanks for looking

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It's funny you posted this because in finalizing my octagon design I have risk of this very thing. The way I'm transitioning row to row is with 1.25" hose. I've been concerned that if the roots grow into that, and it's almost certain they will, will it block water flow. Have you noticed that water is still flowing through that just fine?

eastcoastmo said:

Hey bro, I wouldn't be too worried about trimming some of the roots, they are mostly the fine roots anyway. I had the roots coming through into my res the first time as well. The roots stop growing about a week after flowering. Perlite rocks hey, I use it and coco now. If i was to run a full hydro again though, I'd go straight perlite!
I had mine in only 10L pots too bro and I still pulled about 7oz out of her. With a 30L pot you should be sweet

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Thanks Bro yeah i'll leave the roots for now but ill check on them in a few days see if the mesh is doing its job! i didn't think trimming the roots would do much but i still don't want to if i can help it! 7oz from 10 liters is a very nice yield did you find the flowering time change in perlite i always noticed with @flowamasta his flowering time was always fast might of just been the cyco i don't know but will soon see also perlite is awesome i don't know why i didn't try it sooner i always have done a 50/50 coco/perlite and i still will but i think ill keep a monster going in 100% perlite as well Thanks for the help bro

Hot Diggity Sog said:

It's funny you posted this because in finalizing my octagon design I have risk of this very thing. The way I'm transitioning row to row is with 1.25" hose. I've been concerned that if the roots grow into that, and it's almost certain they will, will it block water flow. Have you noticed that water is still flowing through that just fine?

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Hey bro i found the water was still flowing fine but i think maybe it might have blocked if left but i would of noticed roots in the res! and tripped balls that's why i had to put the mesh over the run off plug on the inside of the pot it shouldn't be able to grow in to it and then grow backwards like how the smart pots works


I also gave her a good flushing last night to make sure there is no salt build up i want to flower this girl so bad not long now only 2 weeks maybe a little longer

I think if you put some kind of fabric or mesh in to stop the roots growing past that point it will help as they will keep looking water unless you leave the water running 24/7 and they will not have the need to reach out as much!

Sweet as bro, don't be afraid hey, its a weed after all lol.