The Great and Secret Garden of Ganja Ged - Indoor-Ebb&Flow-LED-2 Tent Perpetual

[oldjarhead100]

good morning GG hope you are doing ok

[GanjaGed]

Thanks OJH. I'm here and alive, lol.

I'm weaning off the steroids currently and each down dose puts me in more pain. I'm only half way off them at this point. looking forward to getting on the replacement med because this is miserable. I'm still adjusting to the increase of my other meds a bit and some of those increases are being dragged out by the insurance company. Between that and smoking pretty heavy for pain I'm sleeping a lot, well, too much actually.

It'll all come around, just gotta get past this new rough patch.

I'll have an update today at some point

[oldjarhead100]

the VA put me on prazonin supposed to help with the ptsd but it wakes me up all night haven,t slept good since I started on it and it gives me a headache , I have an appointment next week going to tell her to change it

[Mr.furley]

Definitely pulling for you ganjaged, hope you're feeling well soon.

[GanjaGed]

TY sir.

[GanjaGed]

Let's see:

Tent A

10/20 - Sprouts into rooters in prop tray on heat mat, same solution. Under 2 normal bulb LED's.

10/21 - Fill reservoir to begin charging LECA. Sprouts straightening out and reaching up. Solution in res = 10gal RO, 15ml ProTeKt, 30ml KLN, 20ml Foliage-Pro

Sprouts still in prop tray with seedling solution. Cotyledons are not quite open yet but working at it, E&F is running on normal schedule to pre-soak LECA with light nutes and watch for any problems before everything's set.


Tent B

Day 33 from switch


Honestly just cruising to harvest. Tent is a damned jungle and totally overgrown, lol. The Northern Light just went crazy in the stretch and just ate up all the real estate. It easily tripled in size, which with 4 plants and 3 strains has been insane. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to harvest in 2 or 3 layers.

Some pics



Northern Light




Wonder Woman

(Forgot to get one of the Candida







It's CRRAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZYYYYYYYY in that there tent!


Got me one of these (black) and loving it!

[abadtrip]

I am watching you wonder woman real close they are 12 days ahead of mine so real nice to know what to expect. Thanks again for all the info u provide.

[GanjaGed]

TY Tika

[GanjaGed]

badtrip:

Ty but let's face it yours are beautiful under the ScrOG! But that's ok, Tent A is gonna be ScrOGolicious too!

I really like the Wonder Woman strain and am looking forward to growing more.

[oldjarhead100]

wow did she fill the box looking good Ganja ged, what is a leca GG ?

[D.A.A.S.69]

I think it's growing material, OJH, similar to those pebble looking things used in hydro, but I ain't sure.
PS, I sure hope your new medicine will work out for you whenever you get it Ganj.

[GanjaGed]

Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate

A lot of people call it Hydroton, which was actually the company name of the primary maker before they got shut down or something. Kinda like Xerox, or even more like Perrier for those old enough to remember when they were synonymous with bottled water before the contamination disaster.

Also called clay pellets or balls, expanded clay, coco puffs etc.

[Tika]

Cool image...thanks

[abadtrip]

Hydroton is still around I use it, love it bought 2 bags yesterday.

[GanjaGed]

The company that made it is out of business or at least out of mfg Hydroton, it was a secondary product. Hydroton is a trademark bought by Mother Earth.

A different company bought the old Oketau foundries in Germany and makes a similar product called Cyco Hydro Clay

[GanjaGed]

The stuff is really trippy. basically they take clay balls and run them through a rotary kiln at 1000+ degrees. They quickly form the outside shell and the gasses and moisture mace a micro honeycomb structure inside.

Being inert you eliminate so many pest problems.

Many people will tell you it doesn't wick or retain water but they are incorrect.

You can't over water with LECA, but you do have to keep them damp so hand watering would be a bitch but an auto system like E&F is great. My pump cycles on every 3 hours for a half hour.

Because there is no sitting water trapped and extensive air flow to the roots, root rot is virtually eliminated.

[oldjarhead100]

cool I like learning something new and in about 3 days I can learn it again lol

[GanjaGed]

If I didn't keep an extensive and labeled link system I'd forget most of it by the end of typing it, lol.

One of the coping mechanisms I use for my disease is to use my computer as my memory storage.

[GanjaGed]

Busy day and didn't get everything done I wanted to. I'll have a Tent update tomorrow since I didn't get to move the seedlings today.

So what was I so busy doing? Sifting and shopping! I did my first ever dry ice sift today and it was awesome. Didn't get as good of a return as I probably should have, about 10%, but considering it's something that would have normally gotten trashed it's great. This was from fresh frozen trim from the Death Star grow.

Sorry for the poor quality just used the old Ipod for the pics. The difference in shades is very clear in real life the 72 micron is soooo blonde




72 micron bag






120 micron bag





220 micron bag

[abadtrip]

Man now I need a hash pipe that's a nice looking peace of glass. Oh yea and some hash. Looking awsome gg.

[oldjarhead100]

hey abadtrip I find the long stem is cooler to smoke than a short one my pipe is in my avatar picture

[oldjarhead100]

very nice GG I mixed my two lower bags couldn't tell the difference and will making the next batch next week(Maybe)lol its 430 am I'm bringingg my sister into the airport in Boston evry time I do this drive I wonder how I did it for 24 years lol

[alltatup]

You can still buy the original German Hydroton on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KYYZ9DE/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_11?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

[GanjaGed]

Tent A

10/24 - Moved Sprouts into E&F

10/25 - Set up LEDs, install ScrOG

[oldjarhead100]

hey GG sounds like you had a good day glad to hear it

[GanjaGed]

Tent A

Letting seedlings run as is to develop roots. They are under the LED's now With the cut off pots I didn't need to add an extra empty rooter to wick. Will up to veg nutes in about 4 days and it'll be full on veg time. They look good, 1st set is out.

Tent B

Everything running good, plants are looking frosty and nice. The NL is beginning to get orange hairs. The poor Candida is trying to hold her own but the NL is just master of the tent currently. I'll hold off on harvest for her probably to clear out the others and give her some premium light time. Next time I grow her I'll either run her by herself or 1/2 a ScrOG with a Wonder Woman on the other half, I think they'll grow nice together that way.

10/27 - Added 5gal RO, 15ml Cal/Mag, 20ml Micro, 35ml Bloom. 10 days since last reservoir change.

Couple of quick pics

[alltatup]

Looking lovely, GGed!!

[Tika]

LOVELY! Really nice Ganja!

[GanjaGed]

Thanks all!

If it wasn't for the over-growth this has been pretty much picture perfect, except for getting everything started and having to lose the White Widows, though in the end losing them was a blessing.

I really love the E&F, And not changing the res weekly has worked out beautiful for me. No deficiencies, no burn, just smooth a silk, and I suspect that will only get better as I dial it in for each strain. My big concern currently is if the Dyna-Gro will work as well as Flora Trio doing it this way and of course how well it preforms in comparison over all.

Because of the way the grow has gone I'll be harvesting in phases, so I'll be doing another water cure experiment as well as a "cut flush" where I'll try flushing the early harvest using a vase like container and treating the colas as cut flowers.

These are the best looking plants I've grown to date, part is the up tick in genetics, part having a grow under my belt, and mostly from the info on GWE and here on the forums from all of you. I'm still aspiring to get to your levels.

[oldjarhead100]

Good Morning GG those look great I have a NL auto with 2 white widows they are all growing about the same pace well canopy is the same height lol

[GanjaGed]

Yea I still got WW seeds and will get to them in time. While it's a good thing I pulled them I really did want to see them grow.