Newb Closet Coco Grow, 400w MH+HPS

I feel ya on the rep... Ill take my rep in smoke than you very much!!!!

hey Mared,
when are you going to flush? I bought some kind of flushing medium that will make the flushing better. And I bought some canna PK 14 that worked really well. You should try it next time, you give it to the plants one week during flowering, and I swear the buds grew twice as fat in just three days.
Those buds look sooooo tasty



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So I finally picked up that magnifier at Radioshack. Turns out that after fooling around with my camera for half an hour I can get a better view from the pics. Still, I'm not very experienced with what I'm looking at. What does everybody think about my trichs? I don't see any amber ones. I do see that my buds are fattening up, especially my big cola on the untopped plant.

I stand corrected. The magnifier offers a really nice closeup if proper patience and steadiness is practiced. I see a sparse number of trichs beginning to go amber at the base with the color climbing towards the orbs at the tips. I would say about 30% remain clear with the rest being cloudy.

Ok so wtf kinda setting you find on your camera, cause I want to find it on my mine!!!!! Those pics are fucking great!!!! I wanna be able to my camera to pic up the trichs so well!!!!!! And yea looks like you still got a lil while.. I know some folks say they like to harvest when they have milky, but I want that potency that the amber is supposed to bring!! Looks great man!!!

hothousemary said:

Ok so wtf kinda setting you find on your camera, cause I want to find it on my mine!!!!! Those pics are fucking great!!!! I wanna be able to my camera to pic up the trichs so well!!!!!! And yea looks like you still got a lil while.. I know some folks say they like to harvest when they have milky, but I want that potency that the amber is supposed to bring!! Looks great man!!!

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I set the camera to portrait mode which is a little flower symbol for my camera. Then I zoomed all the way in and minimized the exposure time to reduce the loss of focus from the shakiness of my hands. Wish I had figured it out a while ago but it took some trial and error.

I'm going to harvest when I get 50/50. I like being super couch stoned and all but I smoke 24/7 and need to be able to function after I, say, smoke on the way to work. Yes, that's right. I burn fatties on the way to my internship. No one's the wiser. Axe body spray and Visine are my best friends

I hear ya! I smoke all day brotha!!! Actually just had a thought of harvesting one plant earlier than the rest for some work bud....

Yeah man, I may even harvest at slightly different times and keep the buds separate to actually see for myself the difference in the effect. My last job was so shitty I would call in sick if I didn't have any bud to smoke during lunch, lol. Customer service jobs suck. I'll never go back to retail, god willing.

I hear ya there!! I tended bar and managed restraunts for years in new orleans, would have killed if I wasn't high the whole time..

are you going to use any kind of flush products when you flush or just water?

I think just plain water. I've been wanting to keep this grow as basic as possible since the beginning. I've only used three things the whole time. Monkey Juice, Overdrive, and Calmag. This grow will be my baseline or control. And then next time I can experiment with things like flushing agents to see the difference.

I was thinking of using a final flush, but bfq made a lot of sense to me and Im gonna go with water... Ive used general hydroponic bloom, flora, and micro..

hothousemary said:

I was thinking of using a final flush, but bfq made a lot of sense to me and Im gonna go with water... Ive used general hydroponic bloom, flora, and micro..

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Yeah, I just stopped by your thread and realized bfq said almost exactly the same thing I did, at least about the baseline concept. I have seen several people report good results with Final Phase but it was unclear whether they were actually comparing flushed to non-flushed plants or it just their perception that it helped their buds.

Im gonna do just like bfq and you said and judge it by this harvest with just water... If i dont taste any problems Ill not think of it again...

mared juwan said:

So I finally picked up that magnifier at Radioshack. Turns out that after fooling around with my camera for half an hour I can get a better view from the pics. Still, I'm not very experienced with what I'm looking at. What does everybody think about my trichs? I don't see any amber ones. I do see that my buds are fattening up, especially my big cola on the untopped plant.

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I saw'em, nice carpet.

This is considered a white strain right ??

I grew White Rino a few years ago, tric's would not turn amber for sh!t,good bud though.

I'd say you want more milky than amber, in a white strain, I'd go a few more days with nutes, little heavy on the P-K, that helps resin production.

I always look at your journal, even if I don't comment, if I see something I'll tell.

Wait, are there any white pistils ??

I don't see any, no white pistils, you might want to start flushing.

TetraHyC said:

I saw'em, nice carpet.

This is considered a white strain right ??

I grew White Rino a few years ago, tric's would not turn amber for sh!t,good bud though.

I'd say you want more milky than amber, in a white strain, I'd go a few more days with nutes, little heavy on the P-K, that helps resin production.

I always look at your journal, even if I don't comment, if I see something I'll tell.

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Thanks so much for that. I'm getting a little newb anxiety towards the end. I might be leaving town Aug 9 which leaves plenty of time for harvest but I wanted to have some dried by then so I could try it before I go. But I will keep nuting for a few more days and will also keep the trich shots coming. I really like taking those trich closeups. They can be quite beautiful. And I certainly don't want to make you feel obligated to comment every day. Your help and guidance has been THE most important factor in my success.

TetraHyC said:

Wait, are there any white pistils ??

I don't see any, no white pistils, you might want to start flushing.

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I'm sort of confused about how to describe my pistils. At the very tippy tops of the plants all pistils are brown. But less than an inch from the tops some white hairs are still mixed in. Then as you go further towards the bottom, the hairs are more and more white until they are still 100% white at the very bottom.

Here's some info.

What'cha think, boss.

It takes a few consecutive grows with the same strain to work all the bugs out.

Over 18 months with SG, it kinda boring, hard to get rid of a fast heavy producer though.

mared juwan said:

I'm sort of confused about how to describe my pistils. At the very tippy tops of the plants all pistils are brown. But less than an inch from the tops some white hairs are still mixed in. Then as you go further towards the bottom, the hairs are more and more white until they are still 100% white at the very bottom.

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A few days of nutes then, reevaluate then, the bottom buds never get a ripe as the top.

So do you like topping or not, I like one big one better than two smaller ones.