GroErr Grows...

Wholly crap, not feeling bad having no energy for skiing/boarding, not a good time to be outside this weekend, check out the temps (Celcius but C & F meet at -40 so not far off with the wind chills). Unusual for it to snow when it's this cold but we've had a foot up here in the last couple of days and still going! Bless those kids looking to make a buck shovelling snow

Got a little work done on the F2 pheno hunt. Have 4x fems identified, 3 at the front from the right and 1 right-back corner. 2 are from the BR1 sat-dom seeds and 2 from the BR2 indi-dom seeds. The smallest one is a runt I had almost culled and brought it back to life, smells dank Got 3 of them into 2gal pots, have to thaw out some soil overnight that was sitting in the garage to continue up-potting - lol

They've been in the 1gal's for 13 days, not doing bad at all. Almost all are very dense/tight nodes and branchy. Started getting some clones off the fems. Setup a new cloner, grabbed one of those King cloners off e-bay, very compact but 36 sites, seems to be working well. Cloning time is something I'm looking at closely, the F1's including the 2x fem phenos and 1x male clone easy, hoping that trait carries through.





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Minus 40*f, i can't imagine it being that cold... We're having a bit of a warm up here... mid 70s*f this entire week... Being about 50 miles east of Death Valley.. we run about 15*f cooler than DV in the summer... Did have a few cold nights in low 20s*f, for a couple weeks... I guess that's summer weather for you....
Running two ss315s over on 4&20....See DrFish... Gotta say they'er the best hid lights I've used... My 600s were passed to friend... Been reading your threads, your 315s are killing it...

mytwhyt said:

Minus 40*f, i can't imagine it being that cold... We're having a bit of a warm up here... mid 70s*f this entire week... Being about 50 miles east of Death Valley.. we run about 15*f cooler than DV in the summer... Did have a few cold nights in low 20s*f, for a couple weeks... I guess that's summer weather for you....
Running two ss315s over on 4&20....See DrFish... Gotta say they'er the best hid lights I've used... My 600s were passed to friend... Been reading your threads, your 315s are killing it...

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Thanks for stopping in, that's type of cold where your nose hairs freeze when you breathe, not good We get huge swings up here, this winter's been relatively mild other than last few days. In the summer we'll get into 90's, it just doesn't last long so for outdoor it's all about timing to be able to finish a decent crop.

Glad to see another LEC convert, nothing but LEC's or COBs for flowering over here, they rock it. Cheers

Pulled the "small" 10gal Blue Ripper 2 at Day 57, well done and more dense than the 7gal I pulled a few weeks back. Time to change the bulbs, this one was under the newer 210w bulb and it's quite a bit more dense. Not bad though, first bulb change in ~ 1 1/2 years. I had ordered the 315's but got the wrong one's shipped so have to wait until they exchange them now $#%! Not bad, 30" cube of bud and not much popcorn.



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Did some more sexing on the Blue Ripper pheno hunt in the Veg Tent yesterday. Have only confirmed 4x fems, there's definitely 5x males. The remaining 4 are potential fems that haven't thrown any hairs yet but looking like fems, at least no clear pods showing up yet on them.

Cloned the remaining 4 potential fems and flipped the lights in the veg tent to 14/10 last night. This will get them pre-flowering in a few days and let me confirm the balance before flipping them. Don't want to chance pollen flying around in the flower room and I find pre-flipping them to 14/10 keeps the overall cycle time close so I don't lose much time. They show flowers within a few days at 12/12 if they've been at 14/10 for about a week.

Couple of sample males and fems below:

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Fems:



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Do you prefer the 1 gallon smart pots over plastic? I found that the roots adhere to the fabric and it makes transplanting a pain.

DesertGrow89 said:

Do you prefer the 1 gallon smart pots over plastic? I found that the roots adhere to the fabric and it makes transplanting a pain.

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Yeah, I like them better. I think that sticking to the pot happens when the soil is too wet or dry, in between/damp I never have problems, In veg, I keep some in 1gal's for a while sometimes. I can keep them in those 1gal fabric pots for weeks without worrying about getting root bound, less transplanting/medium. I find if the soil is damp, not wet or too dry, I can push them up from the bottom and peel them back/out, grab the stem and dump them into the next pot.

Blue Ripper indi-dom, blueberry perfume pheno with a couple of weeks cure. Terps on this pheno are awesome, when I open the jar it's like a wave of blueberry perfume coming at you. Looking like it was dipped in sugar Instant body stone with this one, should make some nice caps for muscle/joint pain.



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IR shot of the Blue Ripper 10gal sat-dom pheno bud ball at Day 19. IR highlights a bunch of nice looking colas coming in. It's basically a 40" ball, lights are within a few inches of the maximum height, ~20-22" above canopy, should be a good one.



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Take some zinc (zicam brand). Zinc blocks viruses from spreading.

91 degrees here today!

I finally finished the last screen on the curved wall of the screen room:





Cheers,
Mo

Mohican said:

Take some zinc (zicam brand). Zinc blocks viruses from spreading.

91 degrees here today!

I finally finished the last screen on the curved wall of the screen room:

Cheers,
Mo

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Too late now I think but thanks for the tip, just starting to feel human again. Human enough to hit a branch of Blue Ripper x Fireballs last night

Nice job on that screen room Mo, almost there! RE: Door options on your thread, think outdoor "pocket doors", should be fairly easy to frame with castors on the bottom so they slide kind of like a sliding glass door but much lighter. I've seen that style used a lot for barn doors. Cheers!

61* here on the hill...spring conditions ...
Godzilla el nino my ass..
Hope ya kick the cold soon growerr.

Cheers Bob, getting better thanks. @BobBitchen hit a good size side branch on that sat-dom 10gal Blue Ripper in the flower room last night with that super-stinky Fireballs P2 pollen. Looks like it took well ~5 weeks to some Ripped Fireballs




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Sounds killer GroErr . Put me on the list ...
Got some beauties there.

BobBitchen said:

Sounds killer GroErr . Put me on the list ...
Got some beauties there.

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Got some of these set aside for you, your grows turned me on to these Fireballs

GroErr said:

Wholly crap, not feeling bad having no energy for skiing/boarding, not a good time to be outside this weekend, check out the temps (Celcius but C & F meet at -40 so not far off with the wind chills). Unusual for it to snow when it's this cold but we've had a foot up here in the last couple of days and still going! Bless those kids looking to make a buck shovelling snow

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Ho hum, fifties and sixties here... that's ABOVE zero. In Colorado? In February?!

GroErr said:

Cheers Bob, getting better thanks. @BobBitchen hit a good size side branch on that sat-dom 10gal Blue Ripper in the flower room last night with that super-stinky Fireballs P2 pollen. Looks like it took well ~5 weeks to some Ripped Fireballs

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Ball ripper. It's too good to pass up!

ttystikk said:

Ball ripper. It's too good to pass up!

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I like it, Ball Ripper it is!

Pic of the lonely 10gal at Day 22, running just the one light until I get the Blue Ripper 2gal F2's in there on the weekend. It's building some nice colas with decent size buds all the way down. Very healthy and thirsty plant, getting a full watering ~3gal every 2 days right now, has a good strong root system going. One is a normal bud and second one is a pollinated bud (Fireballs male) on one of the side branches.






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