My 8hr flowering experiment

You sure know how to pack a tent mister.

zoic said:

You sure know how to pack a tent mister.

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Thanks z
But time and enough plants can make anyone look like they know what they are doing.
Still learning and getting better everyday hopefully

This ft is smelling amazing and unlike anything I've grown. Excuse the tip burn

This is the second lucky charms but she seems to have extra frosting maybe it didn't get the less then 10hr potency memo.


Doing a heavy defoliation this afternoon and clones from the tent.
Fun times

So I took clones from the big plants in the tent in case any of them are magical keepers.
Started thinking and got curious....anyone wanna make a guess on a good over/under line for the grams per watt out of that tent?
Figure it's ideal for showing just how ridiculous a measure that metric really is.

The tent is roughly 3x2x6
There's 2 22" pcb board leds from china with Samsung lm561's
Only on a 130ish watt driver.

There's 5 3 gal plants roughly 30" tall with a min of ten tops each.
And 7 2gal plants (testers) roughly 10-18"

As plants in my main cabinet finish I'll be taking the bigger plants and moving them but the testers will stay til they are done

Should be interesting

The landos are up a few inches and have big ole fat leaves.

whitebb2727 said:

The landos are up a few inches and have big ole fat leaves.

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Landos and rku were both Indy dom so they should be nice n dense too.

torontoke said:

Landos and rku were both Indy dom so they should be nice n dense too.

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I need to get a pic up of my flower cab. No more screwing around. I got it full and thick canopy.

Tallest bushiest plant in the tent was a field trip and he got the snips today.
I expected a few of these to be male anyway just by statistics but it sucks that it had to be the biggest plant by far.
Oh well a lil more room for the rest to spread out.

Cool that it only took 2days from flip to see balls all over it already.
I expect the testers to show any day now.

torontoke said:

Tallest bushiest plant in the tent was a field trip and he got the snips today.
I expected a few of these to be male anyway just by statistics but it sucks that it had to be the biggest plant by far.
Oh well a lil more room for the rest to spread out.

Cool that it only took 2days from flip to see balls all over it already.
I expect the testers to show any day now.

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I normally have good luck on female ratio.

I had some outdoor plants get taken late in the year and I planted about 10 back the were about a foot tall. I go back a month later and one female. The rest males.

I just filled my cabinet up and every one of them was female.

Somehow I managed to grab all males for the outdoor. Lol.

whitebb2727 said:

I normally have good luck on female ratio.

I had some outdoor plants get taken late in the year and I planted about 10 back the were about a foot tall. I go back a month later and one female. The rest males.

I just filled my cabinet up and every one of them was female.

Somehow I managed to grab all males for the outdoor. Lol.

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Ahhh the old male'd pack
I've had a few of those.
$100 and u get 9males 1 runty female lol
So far with all the bodhi gear I'm running it usually balances out 50/50
Tho I am due for a few all fem runs

torontoke said:

Ahhh the old male'd pack
I've had a few of those.
$100 and u get 9males 1 runty female lol
So far with all the bodhi gear I'm running it usually balances out 50/50
Tho I am due for a few all fem runs

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Lol, unless you're looking for a male, then the ratio turns to 9:1 females

GroErr said:

Lol, unless you're looking for a male, then the ratio turns to 9:1 females

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Yup
I see you've met my friend Murphy and his law of opposites lmao
I'm almost convinced from now on to just cull the tallest plant right away and not get my hopes up

torontoke said:

Yup
I see you've met my friend Murphy and his law of opposites lmao
I'm almost convinced from now on to just cull the tallest plant right away and not get my hopes up

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Lol, hate that SOB Murphy most of the time. Once in a while though you get males like these guys and you can tell that Murphy guy to go f'himself

GroErr said:

Lol, hate that SOB Murphy most of the time. Once in a while though you get males like these guys and you can tell that Murphy guy to go f'himself

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Those do look good
Always nice to flip Murphy the bird

torontoke said:

Those do look good
Always nice to flip Murphy the bird

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Cheers, will find out soon enough, both are about a week into flowering and looking/smelling good.

GroErr said:

Cheers, will find out soon enough, both are about a week into flowering and looking/smelling good.

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Is that the rks u were breeding?

torontoke said:

Is that the rks u were breeding?

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No that one is about 10 days into flowering with a small Blue Harley clone for some open pollinated BX1's, that male is my Blue Ripper rks male. The one's in the pics were 1) Blue Harley F1 2) Sand Storm (killer smelling, stronger than the strongest smelling female I pulled)

Here's the rks male (bottom) with the Blue Harley clone from last night. I rubbed the stem last night to see if/how it had changed in smell once it started flowering, like skunk piss from a road kill the night before

My yields and potency have both gone up since I went 10/14. Maybe 15%-20% heavier on almost all strains so far. I never would have thunk it but flower times and yield and potency are all improved on shorter lighted period. My plants do get a lot of photons at about 50 watts a sq/ft. All high end led and COBs.

I was hoping to just maintain quality and yield with shorter hours. Win,win,win,win!

hillbill said:

My yields and potency have both gone up since I went 10/14. Maybe 15%-20% heavier on almost all strains so far. I never would have thunk it but flower times and yield and potency are all improved on shorter lighted period. My plants do get a lot of photons at about 50 watts a sq/ft. All high end led and COBs.

I was hoping to just maintain quality and yield with shorter hours. Win,win,win,win!

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Do you think the benefits come from the extra hours of dark? Or could they still produce the same with only 10/12. Saves 2hrs a day and still allows enough of a dark period to maintain flowering?
I'm dying to know if we can shorten the flowering cycles!

hillbill said:

My yields and potency have both gone up since I went 10/14. Maybe 15%-20% heavier on almost all strains so far. I never would have thunk it but flower times and yield and potency are all improved on shorter lighted period. My plants do get a lot of photons at about 50 watts a sq/ft. All high end led and COBs.

I was hoping to just maintain quality and yield with shorter hours. Win,win,win,win!

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interesting..i have done 10/14..never checked increase in weight..but it did grow em well..i use c obs/leds too

thanks