Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

dungeontrees

dungeontrees

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StinkBud said:
The height of a plant is the factor of many things.

1) Time - let any plant veg long enough and it will get big.

2) Plant Strain - some types of plants grows ultra fast, some strains take forever to grow big.

3) Conditions - light, nutrients and air all play a huge amount in how large your plants will get.

By State law I have to keep all my clones and veg plants under 12" wide and high.

This actually works out well. If I take the plants into flower any higher than 12" they will end up so tall that none of the light will reach the lower buds.

Here is a shot from this morning to wet your wistle...
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NICE! an saweeeeeeeeeeeeet!
 
dungeontrees

dungeontrees

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StinkBud said:
Have you ever smoked pot that has that smelled like freshly mowed lawn clippings and had a burning after taste? Did it snap, crackle and pop like a bowl of Rice Crispies?

You just smoked pot that wasn't flushed properly.

Flushing is one of the most important aspects of my grow. Some will argue that it is not needed. Don't listen to them! Trust me on this, flushing really helps improve the smell and flavor of your bud.

I start my flush 2 weeks before harvest. I drain the rez and fill it with tap water.

I let the pump run constantly for about an hour to wash out any nutes hanging around.

Then I drain the rez and refill it. I add 150ml of Clearex and let the pump run normally for 24hrs.

After one day I drain the water/clearex and run just straight water for the next two weeks.

I always keep my PH at 5.8

I check the rez every couple of days. If I see the PPM climb more than 50 PPM I'll do another rez change

Your plants will start to turn colors during the flush. This is good. It means that the plant is using up all the available nutrients.

I've seen purple, red, yellow and blue during the flush.

At the end of 2 weeks your plants should be ready for harvest.
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Over there in CA what does your tap come out in terms of PPM an PH?
 
StinkBud

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I have a couple of freaks of nature going right now. One of the phenos is fox tailing like crazy! At first I thought it was heat but the Blueberry Muffin is looking pretty normal so it must be genetics.

Another pheno has these little tiny ball shaped calyxes. The first time I grew it I thought it was seeds! I'd open up the little cluster and it was empty, just layers of bud, like an onion. It's completely covered in crystals so we call it Sugar Pops.

Everything is finishing up really nice. Most of the plants have started turning yellow. I am slightly torn about when to pull the plants. They looked done so I gave them another week just to be sure. Then they pushed out another whole set of flowers! Each fox tail has new white hairs and still growing. Check out the photos.
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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StinkBud said:
I have a medical marijuana card and I am also a provider for several cancer patients. I lost my father and aunt to cancer. My mother has also lost a breast to cancer. I'm on a mission!

If a patient needs medicine and it takes 12 weeks before their first harvest, what do they do in the mean time? That's where I come in...

I can have 6 mature plant and 18 plants under 12" per patient. I can also have 1.5lbs. of dried material per patient.

This is the main reason I always keep my veg plants under 12" high.

It's my destiny to help others and I do what whatever it takes...
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Retired RN headed back to Alaska to grow strains useful in treating seizures in pediatric patients. Finding no backers but WTF, right? Working on the legislative efforts to establish the regulations as we speak. I admire your mission.
 
joey green

joey green

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Hello to all the Stinkbuddies!
I am soo glad I found yall, I am a member of the old site but hadn't visited in a few years, I was terrified to find out no one was there because Ive recently put myself in position to give the stinkbud system a try. Using what I learned and the files I saved from the old site, I designed my own setup and put it all together, then went searching for some desperately needed advice from the pros only to find a forum full of knowledge with no teachers, but thankfully a google search of stinkbud 2015 got me here, and just by reading the last year of posts ive already learned ways to improve my design, all in all just wanna say I'm very happy you are all here still sharing the knowledge about stinkbuds system and helping rookies like me achieve success, it is very much appreciated.
 
joey green

joey green

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hope its ok to jump right in with some questions....
I built an SB system with 4 rails holding 9 plants total. 3 of the rails are 4FT long with 2 plant sites in each spaced 20" apart, the 4th rail is 5 feet long with 3 plant sites also 20" apart. the plant sites stagger so each plant is basically 10" away from the other. i only have one unit and my strain flowers in 50-60 days so my veg plants will stay in the veg unit that entire time... my questions are: if i start my clones in one unit and leave for a month, then thin the crowd leaving my 9 best and move 4 of them into another veg unit ( try to figure out a portable scrog net i can attach to net pots) and grow these 9 for another 20-30 days, then take my cuttings for the next run, cycle the 9 into flower for about 2 months and continuing that way, does that sound ok? and since I'm vegging almost 2 months is my 20" plant spacing appropriate or could i add some more sites, say 1 every 10"?. i read here kush may take longer to root and ill be growing 8Ball kush so that might take up some of the vegging time....
Thank you to anyone with any input.
 
letdown shifty

letdown shifty

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@joey green as far as your system goes. You'll just have to find what setup works for the grow you are trying to accomplish. You may end up changing things as you go, and you may end up loving everything from the get go. As far as Kush clone rooting time, I've successfully cloned both Pineapple & Critical Kush. Both took between 7-10 days to root. Hope that info helps, and good luck with the endeavor.
-Shifty
 
Alaric

Alaric

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Hello Stinkbud,

I'm 549 pages late to the party.

"1 pound (16 zips) every three weeks"

If I did the math right-----that extrapolates to 5.3 ozs per week----or 2.65 lbs for an eight week finisher.

I read the first few and last few pages but didn't see how many watts were used for flowering?

Something you said in one of your later pages:

"Flushing is one of the most important aspects of my grow. Some will argue that it is not needed. Don't listen to them! Trust me on this, flushing really helps improve the smell and flavor of your bud."

I agree if you're running at 2000 ppm---absolutely required if decent smoke (taste) is required.
IMO, that is just a waste----especially running with no medium.

I run medium less aero also at 1000 ppm (.7 conversion) and never have to flush and here's why I don't:

I did flush once for two weeks just to see if I (and others) could tell a difference.

Nope

A~~~
 
GringoLoco

GringoLoco

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Not sure if Stink is still recommending the Botanicare line. I had much better success with Cutting Edge Solutions, but I always maintained nutes below 1000 ppm (.7), usually closer to 750-800. In hydro they feed just fine as long as the nutes aren't locked up.

If you've never heard of Cutting Edge and are looking to try something new, I HIGHLY recommend them. They are priced closer to the GH lineup but perform amazing and truly help to bring out the maximum aroma, flavor, and potency from your genetics. And of course, no flushing needed, smoked bud produces the cleanest white ash and I feed straight up to harvest.

http://www.cuttingedgesolutions.com/#
 
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OldSoul777

OldSoul777

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StinkBud said:
After 3 weeks the best 14 plants move to the veg system.

I use a dual container aeroponic system. The roots grow straight down which makes the plants easy to transfer to the flower room when the time comes.

The plants are under a 250W MH light set to 18/6.

Again, all my systems are on the same timer set to 1 minute on and 5 minutes off. This gives the roots the maximum amount of Oxygen without letting them dry out.

I run this nutrient formula for vegetative growth:

Botanicare Nutrients:
126ML Cal-Mag Plus
180ML Liquid Karma
540ML Pure Bend Pro Vegetative Formula

I start at 1500 PPM and bring it up to 2000 PPM by the second week of veg. I change the nutrients every 3 weeks with each new crop.

I adjust my PH to 5.8

Stay tuned for more...
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I do an lb every 6 weeks or so it seems in a 4x4 600w tent. I have two tents 600w each and do my initial cloning in a bubble cloner , After harvest the clones veg for 2 weeks then flip the bulb to do a 60 day flower.I alternate sides to harvest every 6 weeks a new crop goes in. I grow indica dominant hybrids. Does my yield sound about right? Been growing for about 2 years now.
 
sky rocket

sky rocket

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OldSoul777 said:
I do an lb every 6 weeks or so it seems in a 4x4 600w tent. I have two tents 600w each and do my initial cloning in a bubble cloner , After harvest the clones veg for 2 weeks then flip the bulb to do a 60 day flower.I alternate sides to harvest every 6 weeks a new crop goes in. I grow indica dominant hybrids. Does my yield sound about right? Been growing for about 2 years now.
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Nice. with just 2x600's yeah that's good since you say you are getting a pound under a 600 water. Are you flowering with stinkbud units and how many sites or plants under each light?
 
OldSoul777

OldSoul777

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sky rocket said:
Nice. with just 2x600's yeah that's good since you say you are getting a pound under a 600 water. Are you flowering with stinkbud units and how many sites or plants under each light?
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Correction last time I did 4 and vegged for 3 weeks not 2. It fills the 4x4 area. this time I am trying 12 @ no more then two weeks. I am not sure what to expect. I did a SCROG with the 4 but think I will just top and LST where i need to with the 12. I attached a pic of how I am cramming them in there. what do you think? If need be I have a harvest coming out on the other side in about 2-3 weeks so I will be able to throw half of them in there and just put both side of the tent in flower at the same time if u think 12 is too much. Oh the 3 in the back are going to serve as mothers and will be removed before flowering in case you were wondering.
 

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sky rocket

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OldSoul777 said:
Correction last time I did 4 and vegged for 3 weeks not 2. It fills the 4x4 area. this time I am trying 12 @ no more then two weeks. I am not sure what to expect. I did a SCROG with the 4 but think I will just top and LST where i need to with the 12. I attached a pic of how I am cramming them in there. what do you think? If need be I have a harvest coming out on the other side in about 2-3 weeks so I will be able to throw half of them in there and just put both side of the tent in flower at the same time if u think 12 is too much. Oh the 3 in the back are going to serve as mothers and will be removed before flowering in case you were wondering.
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Funny because I'm experimenting with doing 12 under a 600. I'm on day 8 of veg. I'll probably veg for 14-18 days and then put into flower. But what's up with the wood in your tent?
 
WeedFreak78

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I'm running (2) 12 site units under a single 600W in a 4x4 area, so 24 plants total. Put into flower at appx. 10-12" finish height around 24". Coverage is decent and I'm looking at right around a LB. I had some big issues, first run and all...so my yield is lower than it ideally should be. I trying to decide if i want to go with a 1000W over 2 systems or get another 600 and give each system it's own light, probably going to go with 2 600's. Future runs will have larger plants going into flower, i still had 24+ inches of height to use so I'm going for bigger plants next time, would like to finish around 36-40"
 
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