Skywalker OG, Hempy Bucket Grow, Area-51 LED's

hey jela ive decided to do another round of the skywalker & im doing away with the dirt pheno#4 is my favorite #3&1 are identical going over to a friends today to clone from moms i gave him im gonna be growing 9 plants in 3 gal smart pots with 3'' rockwool in the bottom & filled the rest with coco/perlite & in a e&f tub that measures 30 x 43 inside diameter im gonna widen my room from 3x4 to 4x4 & go back to my 1000w hps these mods will be done using existing stuff i have laying around my babies are getting super sticky & have recently gave me a change of heart about doing away with the strain im actualy starting to like the stuff now its time to kick it up a notch

Indoor Sun King said:

looking awesome as always Jela

I noticed the tips of your leaves are brown, what do you believe is the root cause? is this any concern to you?

I have the same issue with my current grow and my previous hempy bucket......in my case, I think I have been using too much Cal-Mag (5ml/4 litres)...I recently started to lower that to about 3ml

PS: my nutes have been very consistent at 7 grams of GH MaxiGrow/MaxiBloom per 4 litres

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ISK, good question...it doesn't concern me at all, simply because it happens on all my grows. In particular week4 is when I start to see this and it coincides with the increase in nutrient per my Canna feed charts. I look at it as the sign of pre-overfertilization. The next stage of over-fert would be the "eagle claw" and we all know what the next stage is. When you think of all the ingredients in today's nutrients, the chances of just one ingredient being a little "hot" compared to all the others is probable when you run by the charts. pH I'm sure is key too. I would imagine someone running 50% to 75% what the charts say would never see the brown tips. With your situation, running 7g Maxibloom per 4L is a tad hotter than 7g/gal (I'm a fan of the Lucas formula and 7g/gal Maxibloom is his suggestion). I wouldn't change a thing you are doing however, your natural sun girls look awesome!

horribleherk said:

hey jela ive decided to do another round of the skywalker & im doing away with the dirt pheno#4 is my favorite #3&1 are identical going over to a friends today to clone from moms i gave him im gonna be growing 9 plants in 3 gal smart pots with 3'' rockwool in the bottom & filled the rest with coco/perlite & in a e&f tub that measures 30 x 43 inside diameter im gonna widen my room from 3x4 to 4x4 & go back to my 1000w hps these mods will be done using existing stuff i have laying around my babies are getting super sticky & have recently gave me a change of heart about doing away with the strain im actualy starting to like the stuff now its time to kick it up a notch

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Hherk, your medium selection is a winner and the smart pot & E&F tub should produce some monsters. Glad you like this strain and are exploiting it as it should be. I smoked a popcorn nug last night that I dried for 24hours...nice buzz. It moved in slowly but was a little wet still, so it was like vaping. It did the job with a little time. Seemed like I smoked that dammed nug all evening long.

thanks for the feedback Jela....one thing I hate about the imperial system is difference between US & UK gallons, because now I'm confused .....is Mr Lucas talking US or British gallons?

I assumed he was talking US gallons, so 4 litres would be more volume than one US gallon, thus my 7 grams would actuality be a tad under

If my assumption is wrong and Mr Lucus was talking British Imperial gallons, then I am a tad hotter than his recommendation

1 US gallon = 3.78 litres
1 UK gallon = 4.54 litres

Indoor Sun King said:

thanks for the feedback Jela....one thing I hate about the imperial system is difference between US & UK gallons, because now I'm confused .....is Mr Lucas talking US or British gallons?

I assumed he was talking US gallons, so 4 litres would be more volume than one US gallon, thus my 7 grams would actuality be a tad under

If my assumption is wrong and Mr Lucus was talking British Imperial gallons, then I am a tad hotter than his recommendation

1 US gallon = 3.78 litres
1 UK gallon = 4.54 litres

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You are exactly right ISK....you would be a tad under....thanks for correcting me. I run between millimeters and inches all day at my job with ease....time to get my liters vs. gallons straightened out. It would be nice with two huge neighboring countries like ours, if they could find a common unit of measurement for volume. You'd think the US would switch to Liters so they could sell us less for the same price. Maybe that's why soft drinks come in 2L containers?

jela10 said:

You are exactly right ISK....you would be a tad under....thanks for correcting me. I run between millimeters and inches all day at my job with ease....time to get my liters vs. gallons straightened out. It would be nice with two huge neighboring countries like ours, if they could find a common unit of measurement for volume. You'd think the US would switch to Liters so they could sell us less for the same price. Maybe that's why soft drinks come in 2L containers?

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they killed us when converting to metric, a quart of milk became a litre which is a tad smaller so they charged 2 cents less but soon these allowances evaporated.
Our GM/Ford/Chrysler cars have both metric and USA, got to carry two set of wrenches/sockets.

In Canada we were the British imperial system, but most Canadian don't know how many fluid ounces are in a British imperial gallon, they think US fluid ounces
1 US/UK gallon = 4 quarts
1 US/UK gallon = 8 pints
1 US gallon = 128 US fluid ounces
1 UK gallon = 160 UK fluid ounces

USA is the only country not using metric, even Britain converted some time ago.... I love the imperial system but metric is the world wide standard because it's simple and is consistent.

enough ranting ....cheers jela

jela10 said:

You are exactly right ISK....you would be a tad under....thanks for correcting me. I run between millimeters and inches all day at my job with ease....time to get my liters vs. gallons straightened out. It would be nice with two huge neighboring countries like ours, if they could find a common unit of measurement for volume. You'd think the US would switch to Liters so they could sell us less for the same price. Maybe that's why soft drinks come in 2L containers?

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Then you really don't know many Americans. The liter has made the most progress here but if it wasn't for the soda bottle I doubt it would have. Metric is a much better system and everyone else uses it for a reason.

hey jela i cloned yesterday from the moms i sent to a friends house & got to see some offspring of the ace of spades i gave him last year its absoulutely gorgeous huge sugar frosted lavender buds every subcool strain ive grown has produced good results for me but for now my focus is on skywalker & getting it to produce i cloned pheno#4 & #3 ive been doing coco & smart pots for awhile & rockwool before that i really like your method of mixing the 2 & i do e&f because its reliable & besides bubbleponics is the only hydro ive ever done in the future im gonna downsize to 2 gal smart pots my pepe le dank has been reluctant to sprout but ive got my hands full with the skywalker & at some point im gonna do superlemonhaze again

57 days 12/12, started a week of flush. The trich's are milky and as Brother Dawg would have it, they are "swaying" or bending over. No ambers yet but I'm sure they will populate over the next week. Red pistols are on every top now. The smell is "ripe".

jela10 said:

57 days 12/12, started a week of flush. The trich's are milky and as Brother Dawg would have it, they are "swaying" or bending over. No ambers yet but I'm sure they will populate over the next week. Red pistols are on every top now. The smell is "ripe".

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Brother jela Sounds Like You Will be Chopping Next Week


As For Yalls Leaf Tip Browing.Thats Indeed A Sign Of Over Fertilizing Your Plants.I Dont Worry When This Happens It Also Informs Me That Im On The Ragged Edge Of My Nute Program.

Right....never seeing it is another concern too.

JD

Javadog said:

Right....never seeing it is another concern too.

JD

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JD, you're sooooo right, I'd be wondering what the hell I was doing wrong if I didn't see some little brown tips.....will try to throw up fresh pics tonight although they are getting ragged looking.

View attachment 2811247hey jela im right behind you @36 days of 12/12 not a producer of large buds thats the little v-8 can mine are starting to look a little ''ragged'' too i think its normal for this strain theyre getting that o.g. smell

jela10 said:

JD, you're sooooo right, I'd be wondering what the hell I was doing wrong if I didn't see some little brown tips.....will try to throw up fresh pics tonight although they are getting ragged looking.

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thanks jela, Dawg & Javadog....I'm not going to worry about a few brown tips anymore....pedal to the metal

Day 57....not much to report but one plant is yellowing up faster than the other....2 days of flush so far. Can't wait to get these in jars

Mine is a foot tall and still in Veg. I hope to do that well.

Thanks for sharing.

JD

Here's the pair that will replace these two SK OG's in the flower tent. These are G13 Blueberry Gum's....looking cute during start of week 4 of veg. I FIM'ed them a couple of days ago. Hoping since I have a "screen" now I can veg them a little longer and do some weaving. Maybe I should have topped for that purpose alone but I do well with FIM's, will see what happens. When I FIM'ed (by pinching) them I sniffed my fingers (yes I do that) and what a delightful hit of sparkling lemoncello. These are gonna be awesome girls and maybe a nice departure from my current super-stretchers.

they do look awesome Jela....I'm going to enjoy watching these girls become ladies

Nice dense structure. A little stretch will do them good.

Carry on!

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JD

hey jela those look nice i like the overall quality of the skywalker but being somewhat of a strain junkie im looking at the dna genetics cannalope kush & eye balling some of the new subcool stuff conspiracy kush & mickey kush & jesus og although they dont come feminized sub-cool has always performed for me i dont think my ggg stuff is gonna pop be sure & post how the skywalker cures & smokes as its gonna be my flagship for now & pheno #4 is the direction im leaning

very nice work bro