SomeGuy's LED & Other Grows. 2014-15 Season

Sounds like a great cross. The 9lb grows nice

actually I just started germing jurple too. I have more lights coming in a couple days so.....

@hyroot. awesome. Did you purchase or testing fixtures? replacing others or adding to it?


Here is the led tent. I have been "zapping" them with @Mohican red kessil for 30 minutes. So they get red about 15 minutes before lights out and it last till 15 min after lights out. It does seem they are setting buds a little bit quicker. It is not even a week into flower right now. The hempy smart pots are working good. I think I can get away from perlite and just go with an absorbing clay. This way my media is reusable. I used to do organic hempies... long time ago.. I think I am working towards using some of those strategies with the smart hempies. The growth really is pretty good and better than a normal bucket hempy. Things are greening up too now that I am winning the bug battle. You can see the no pest strip right next to the dog plant. LOL seems everything likes the dog. Its first infected and last healed.

I was looking back at my first grow... ahhh... good memories.. And dang.. it was a good one. That was back in winter 2008, so going into winter 2015 will be 7 years growing for me. My how it has flown by. Ive had little breaks from the growing here and there during that time but nothing prolonged. I look forward to all the strains I will grow in the future.

Nice all around as always SG!

I want to see how these smart hempies turn out. Do you find yourself watering these more than reg hempy?

Thanks doc! I think I just needed to feel them out a little and listen. They are happy now that I'm paying attention.

Mo! So far they are awesome. All the stalks of new growth are hollow like I remember in dwc. The older stalks are like wood. Growth seems fast. Right now watering is same. I think it will be every other day as they progress. Deeper red pan would fix it or a medium that holds a bit more water.

I'm exploring using oil absorbent. AKA DE clay that is medium and course. It can support absorption of nutrient and organic goodies. Its also reusable and inert... Plus maybe give more plant support than straight perlite. When dry the smart Hempy is rather light. Even w hydroton in the rez.

Nice. I didn't know if you would get any more evaporation with the cloth pots or not. I'm running my first coco hempy now. No issues with the ph in coco that I read others having, so far pretty good. Considering doing some airpots with coco next round just to try it out.

@SomeGuy - If you get a chance, could you please post some pics of the red kessil on the Kessil thread?

Thanks,
Mo

SomeGuy said:

Finally, the LED tent. I am gonna let these veg another week or so maybe before flip.
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Wow. Impressive arrangement!

How are you liking the LEDs? I just got going with a couple and making the adjustments has been irritating. LOL IE: I've read that for LED it's best to keep the temp around 80-84 and from my experience with HID that's unhealthy, without lots of light and supplemental co2. So just curious...what are the vitals that you're trying to keep in your LED tent (temp/humidity)?

About a week flowering and they already are setting. I would say the red is working.

My enviro is between 65 and 75 during the winter usually... sometimes lower... sometimes a little higher. Its allll good... LOL

75? That's where I'm at. My growth seems a little slow...trying to figure out if maybe that's because my humidity is lowish (35%).

Mine even drops lower than 65 sometimes. If you are in soil it will be slower regardless. Hempy is pretty fast growing as is but these smart hempies seem to be better. I can tell you I will be sticking with the smart hempy.

Have you checked for pests? slows my growth way down when I have pests.

I've been really lucky so far...I haven't had any pest problems in my few grows. That's really lucky because I live in an area where spider mites are everywhere. But I guess I'm so stealth they don't even know...lol

SomeGuy said:

anyone heard of this:

http://www.420magazine.com/forums/harvest-preparation-curing/200881-bud-washing.html

interesting idea

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I haven't heard of that, read the post and I'm thinking "what the fuck do people write about?"
Last time I swirled a branch of buds in ice water I kept the water and made some bomb-ass hash from all the trichomes that fell to the water.

Your grow looks good
How high are you keeping those LEDs?

Vegg chamber. Did some work today and these were taken last night so its even different now.. but what they heck..LOL

Here are shots from the 400w CMH tent. Its at like 2.5 weeks flower. That Ak 47 is looking chunky already too.

LED Tent. I added a few small yins to fill it in.. Like it will need it but I cant resist... more is more... LOL This is about a little more than 1wk flower. close up is of 9lb

@Mohican

Just red buddy.

Everything is looking Killer !!! @SomeGuy
Damn ya got a lot goin on...lol
keep at it bro