Input welcome, old dog new tricks.

[marzig]

They are looking very nice Those Chen dogs are ice and tidy but I like the open structure of the lush, nah I don’t have sediment issue, and I don’t worry about agitating. The big tank is fine and the little one cycles every hour anyway. If your getting sediment in unused nutes its probably precipitation from chems that don’t like each other.

Sediment may have been the wrong word. There's really no solids just some slimy gunk which I wiped out with a couple paper towel when the res was empty.

 

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Sediment may have been the wrong word. There's really no solids just some slimy gunk which I wiped out with a couple paper towel when the res was empty.

Yep, cleanliness is next to godliness.
Man those plants look lovely

 

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So you got a male to make some pollen? Cool. I got a hermie from that last auto. I thought i picked off all the balls but you know how that goes. Musta missed a couple cause i got about 40 seeds. Might be worth trying later. I just harvested my scrog closet again. I trimmed those suckers back alot. I used cheapass soil that i tried to amend but they got a bad ph imbalance i just couldnt shake. These buds are much nicer than before even so. I still have 2 BBHP clones i lacked room for. Toughest plants i ever grew. Shitty soil, nutes and terrible maintenance and they still produced some strong weed. Ugly, but strong. This auto is over 4 ft tall. I started it in Pro-Mix on Ph perfect, but it turned yellow and was about dead. I switched to a 7g container and preamended the FFOF i transplanted it into. Other than the 1 that turned photo male last year, this is my biggest auto so far. If she stays healthy it could be a 6 zipper. If i had started it in this medium and container she could be a half pounder. It takes the whole new light i bought. I outta scrog it in the closet.

How’s this auto looking now?

 

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Looking a bit frazzled in places but coming along nicely..

 

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Looking a bit frazzled in places but coming along nicely..

Simply awesome!!

 

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Day 58 from sprout and I finally chopped the the little mutant for several reasons. It just wasn't doing anything but putting out leaves faster than I could cut them back with very little sign of flowering. It was taking up room that another plant needed and I couldn't move it because it was in a dwc bucket with solid drain plumbing. It was so dense that there was no airflow through it which I figured was a perfect breeding ground for nasties. When I was cutting it it reminded me of a head of broccoli.

Little one on the right was the mutant.


Now the 4 remaining, 3 autopots and one dwc, have a lot more room and I was able to even out the lights.

 

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Day 58 from sprout and I finally chopped the the little mutant for several reasons. It just wasn't doing anything but putting out leaves faster than I could cut them back with very little sign of flowering. It was taking up room that another plant needed and I couldn't move it because it was in a dwc bucket with solid drain plumbing. It was so dense that there was no airflow through it which I figured was a perfect breeding ground for nasties. When I was cutting it it reminded me of a head of broccoli.

Little one on the right was the mutant.
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Now the 4 remaining, 3 autopots and one dwc, have a lot more room and I was able to even out the lights.
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It’s so neat and tidy in there.. I swear I can hear classical music playing to them through the picture . Well pity for the mutant but I agree it certainly makes the rest look more organised.

 

[marzig]

It’s so neat and tidy in there.. I swear I can hear classical music playing to them through the picture . Well pity for the mutant but I agree it certainly makes the rest look more organised.

Wish the rest of my house was the same, lol. Always classical, some days it's Bach and Mozart other days AC-DC and Ted Nugent.

 

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Just thinking out loud on here.. I was reading a thread about foxtails on buds earlier, this bloke was getting cranky about foxtails shooting up off the tops of his buds so he trimmed them off which resulted in the bud then shooting multiple new foxtails out of the side of the flower..
This got me thinking about how we top plants to get more lateral growth, I wonder if I were to cut the tips of actual buds as they develop if it would encourage more lateral bulking and lead to heavier flowers?

Just daydreaming.. interesting thought though.

 

[marzig]

Just thinking out loud on here.. I was reading a thread about foxtails on buds earlier, this bloke was getting cranky about foxtails shooting up off the tops of his buds so he trimmed them off which resulted in the bud then shooting multiple new foxtails out of the side of the flower..
This got me thinking about how we top plants to get more lateral growth, I wonder if I were to cut the tips of actual buds as they develop if it would encourage more lateral bulking and lead to heavier flowers?

Just daydreaming.. interesting thought though.

I had a Blue Dream auto, which is sativa dominate, that foxtailed like crazy. It got up into my lights that were as high up as they could go. I had to cut them down several nodes and more and more bud sights below foxtailed. More than half of the dry weight was really long ugly foxtails which smoked great but I ended up washing it into some fantastic bubble.

I did some reading on it and found lots of conflicting info. Some people think it's all from stress, others believe genetics has a lot to do with it. Sativas tend to produce looser buds and supposedly are more susceptible to stress. The old debate of which came first the chicken or the egg I guess.