The Grow II (Shining Silver Haze) W/LED Illuminator- Soil to Dwc Grow

Flo Grow said:

Nice to see you are happy with your learning process !
This will pay off exponentially ! I promise !
You most def did the lil one right.
She is looking good too.
Now the big girl................SHE is a beast !
If the stretch has stopped, I suggest trimming EVERYTHING under the screen.
EVERY leave, stem or bud that is not at screen level.

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Damned. I missed this one! So I should trim everything below the screen? All the fan leaves and everything??

I put in some pics of the"bush". It looks cleaner underneath since I've already been trimming alot


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Pure said:

Damned. I missed this one! So I should trim everything below the screen? All the fan leaves and everything??

I put in some pics of the"bush". It looks cleaner underneath since I've already been trimming alot


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No doubt bro !
All that shit HAS to go.
It will mold and rot from lack of light and circulation, and that will work it's way above the screen not to mention the pests and critters that will come to feast !!
Your plant is also wasting TOO much energy on that shit, instead of using it for the canopy.
ANY branches or stems growing off the main branches, that aren't at the screen, must go.
You have a lot, so I would remove it over 3 or 4 days so as not to shock her too much.

Flo Grow said:

No doubt bro !
All that shit HAS to go.
It will mold and rot from lack of light and circulation, and that will work it's way above the screen not to mention the pests and critters that will come to feast !!
Your plant is also wasting TOO much energy on that shit, instead of using it for the canopy.
ANY branches or stems growing off the main branches, that aren't at the screen, must go.
You have a lot, so I would remove it over 3 or 4 days so as not to shock her too much.

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Thanks Bro... I'm On it...


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Sup Dudes,

I'm still trimming. A lot of the rest of the stuff are like growing spindly bud spots and there are a bunch just reaching the screen so I'm not chopping those, nope, refuse to do it .

Should I take out most of the fan leaves? I have a gang (gangs) of small ones. Here are some before and afters not sure you can really see the difference but there is one....
Here are earlier pics.. (these are all pics of Little Boy


This is after trimming the bush!!



In the pic you can see how small Fat Man is compared to Little Boy!!

Little Boy is on the left. yep all that on the left. That little dark kid you see up on the top right is Fat Man.



This is Fat Man..
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But THIS is Fat Man also. She now to be called Small, Dark & Lovely
She started to develop trics first!

The pic below is from NOV 10th, about the start of my Pistil time. So I've been really showing signs of flowering for about 4 weeks.



And these are from last night..


Even though some of the pistils are changing color. Some of the red we see is LED RED, not mature pistil RED. So i figure I have another 2-3 weeks. What do you guys think? This totally blows my vacation plans in more than one way...

Plus i can see my yield wont be breaking any records!!!



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EVERY leaf and bud site below the net, bro !
The stretch phase of bloom is over and that is what you now have to work with.
Trust me, those buds below won't be getting light and will be used as food and die with every leaf down there too.

OK
ok i'll do it! Breaks my heart but. A man's gotta do what a mans gotta do....

Thanks again Bro....



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Change of res today. I'm anticipating another month of flowering I guess. And the only way I can take a 3 day vacation is if I change this res out.

change from 12L capacity with 9L of Nute Solution to a 25 L capacity with 18L of Nute Solution


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Merry X-Mas all,

So I'm running the flowering marathon into week 12 (Oct 5th - Present). I have to admit though I took them through hell and high water, and they are still alive and going to produce!! They look good to me just frustratingly long...... so consider that this plant was on its way to being bigger than this one here.
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But ??? I did something wrong so this is the big one now

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Anyway I figured it out from Trial --> Error --> Recovery. I can say that I believe my problems came from the advanced nutrients product line confusion on the market. Because it simply isn't clear what to get with regards to all the labeling out there! But when I dialed in what i needed to do, the plant recovered and is doing cool. Unfortunately i didn't catch the old big one faster...

At the end of it all i used:
Sensi A&B Grow - Voodoo Juice & B-52 for Vegging
Sensi A&B Bloom - B-52 - Big Bud - Overdrive & Bud Candy for Flowering

I wont mind this once they combine Sensi A&B!!!

This is the final stretch and I think I'll be real fuckin cool with the outcome!! The buds are taking on more and more weight and Girth.. Nice.. Cool.. fucking cool... Plus some pistils are starting to turn,
but there are a lot that need to turn. May take up 2 harvests <Just to let the bottom bud sites continue to grow for another 1-2 weeks.


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Looking dam good man, and merry Xmass back at ya.

Merry Christmas to you also, the grow looks great and you have certainly earned your stripes on this grow, along with Mrs. Beautiful.
I posted on your thread and then came and read your entire journal, whew you have really had some battles. Definitely be around for the finish.
+rep on the grow and persistence to your girls.

Hey Canefan,

That really means a lot to me my friend... It really does... I was thinking that maybe I didn't write it down well enough or maybe i wrote too much, since no one seemed to sympathize with this struggle. Not that i was looking for sympathy but damn!!!! So I really appreciate the few of you that have notice the stress/experience this grow has added to me...


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So my girls are rounding their final turn and about to bring it home. The little girl is maturing fastest. That's strange since it was burned worse.. I still need to get a jewelers loupe on Tuesday so i can look at the trics,. I also need to get some final flush!!!

Her are pics of the little one and the big if you really wanna call her that ...


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I'm checking tricomes now. still pretty clear on the big one. The little one already has some milky but the majority are clear. Will take her off nutes maybe next week, and I'll do a straight water flush!!!


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Nice to see a led grow from start. Have been contemplating the UFO for a while. A friend of
Mine uses these huge 300 watt led panels n gets v nice results but they r around £800. How much did u pay
For the UFO?
Keep up the good work!
Can't wait ti see the end results

Ahhh,

But dude, Dont forget i had to fire up my 400W HiD. If you look at the size of my canopy my 1 90W LED would not have cut it... It would have only been good for vegging!!

Now for vegging I give it an A++, at least until i see how my strain vegges under the HiD...


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gom said:

Dam I like your new cloning hiddyhole. That's the shiznik there. Your ph seems a little high to me. Here is a chart I use to keep it straight. I can never remember the right ph for soil and the right one for hydro( I'm old. So I need notes). Don't know if you need it but here it is. It helps me keep my little garden happy.

Keep up the good work, and say hey to the wife.

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LOL thanks for the chart gom.. Better late than never eh???

Funny how I've grown in knowledge since then even !!! wow!! my next push should be fucking awesome!



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Ok I see. I hav a ssh mother but hav not cloned it yet. Really looking forward to the final pics befor harvest. Doin sum bluecheese in my own home made nft system at the mo. Then I'm on to heavy duty fruity as I already hav clones ready. Then ssh lol. Also considering crossing the ssh with heavy duty fruity as I hav a heavy duty male growing outside. How many UFO do u reakon u would need to do the full grow with?

Buns said:

Ok I see. I hav a ssh mother but hav not cloned it yet. Really looking forward to the final pics befor harvest. Doin sum bluecheese in my own home made nft system at the mo. Then I'm on to heavy duty fruity as I already hav clones ready. Then ssh lol. Also considering crossing the ssh with heavy duty fruity as I hav a heavy duty male growing outside. How many UFO do u reakon u would need to do the full grow with?

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Honestly, unless you are really watching your electricity bill. I'd invest in the higher wattage LED's my UFO is good for a mother, clones, and seedlings. It can also be used to veg! but because of the growth during flowering you'll need better dispersion of the lightover a wider area. The UFO's are limited there. Plus in flowering "penetration" is super hyper important. A 90Watter doesn't penetrate !!! So my next move will be much higher wattage LED's.... My UFO is great when used inside it's capabilities. So I'd keep that SSH mother and maybe another mother under the UFO the branch out with some larger square systems

That being said the SSH is going to yield pretty good i think. Especially considering the stress she experienced. Sorry no pics till store open!!! Dropped camera in Reservoir with nutes. Maybe it'll flower some little sony camera's.....


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Lol thanks for the info very helpfull

Well the big plant is steadily but slowly putting on girth. The majority of the trichomes are still clear. Except on the little one which has a nice qty just starting to become cloudy. No way to take pics as I said. Gotta get a new Camera. Unfortunately blooming nutes dont work on Sony cameras!!

Bummer!!


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