Locrian99s 2nd grow

[Campesino]

Yes, great write up!
Coco for the WIN... Get an auto-watering system! Makes life almost too easy.
You won me over to tomato cages and I really agree about silica.

Hurry up and move now so you can get growing again!!!

[NV099]

Great recap, this is good info for other growers.

[Locrian99]

Thanks felt long winded. Lol

[JimmyPapaya]

Great recap!

[Locrian99]

I wanted to do kind of a grow recap more or less for myself so I can see things I’d change from this grow to the next. Since I ran two tents under two different light setups I’m doing two separate ones since really I feel like I had two grows. The aurora indicas are jewel into curing so here goes.

Aurora Indica (nirvana)
32”x32”x63” tent
viparspectra PAR 450
5 gallon fabric pots (smart pot brand w/handles)
fox farms ocean forest
fox farms trio + GH calmag, raw silica, boomerang, wholly mackerel, kelp me kelp you, bembe, open sesame, big budz, cha ching
tomato cages cut to be 14” above soil with a 14” top ring
nebulas manifold, defoliation, lollipopping a few super crops
final yield 2 plants 101 grams
12 and 10 gauge coated wire and twist ties for lst
6” in line duct can for exhaust with a reducer hooked up to 4” ducting
2- 4“ passive intakes
clip fan for circulating

This strain was very easy to grow. Was a bit sensitive to nutes had some burn early compared to other strains when I fed it too early in the OF I think. Never really fed more than 50% of the feeding schedule, perhaps I should’ve tried pushing it a bit more. Stayed very short and bushy 18” tall. Has an amazing smell while flowering sweet with a bit of spice to it. I’d find myself burying my nose in there and just inhaling. The buds look great very crystally and am looking forward to trying it once the cure sets in. I’ll post my thoughts in OJH’s strain review thread and here once I have a good cure on it.

Things I would change...
i think I should’ve pushed the light distance a bit. I was concerned about the footprint and burning so I kept it 18-20” throughout flowering. I think this may have hurt my yields some. I wasn’t expecting 4oz plants from the one led but thought I’d get at least 2-3oz. Little disappointed there. If I was to flower two plants in this tent again I think I would get another light, I think ideally I should’ve gone with two 300w reflector series would be cheaper, larger footprint, and more power than the 1 PAR 450. I’m guessing better results. All that said I purchased this with the idea of it being a veg setup and maybe an auto so I won’t be flowering photos in this setup again.
Being a shorter bushier strain this is one I would be interested in just topping and LST and not manifold. I will define fly try that in the future perhaps a side by side manifold vs not under the HPS I have a suspicion with this strain yields could be better not manifolded as nebula states shorter strains don’t take full advantage of the manifold
I should’ve been a bit more aggressive in my lollipopping I had lots of lower lard and some of the side branches I let go produced very little and was more of a pain to trim than it was worth (this could also be tied to light height though)
not really specific to this grow but looking forward to trying coco as a medium next grow. Not looking forward to daily waterings but I was waiting 5 days between waterings for the medium to dry out and I’d notice a jump of growth right after watering, but not seeing signs of droopiness.

things id keep the same:
tomsto cages, love these things. Easy to train do lst with built in support for the colas (though I don’t think I need it much). They made hand watering a bit more challenging but not terrible.

Silica love this stuff. Branches were strong and I had no issues from WPM bugs etc. not necessarily because of the silica but it didn’t hurt.

Overall this was a pretty easy grow kept waiting for something to happen and nothing ever did just wish they would’ve bulked up a bit more but 3 oz should be plenty for what I’m guessing will be our go to night time smoke.

If if you made it through all that thanks for reading lol

[Locrian99]

Lol ojh. It happens for sure.

[oldjarhead100]

hey Locrian where do you think the term man cave came from cause anything we wanted to do we had to do in the garage or cellar lol, but every now and then we get pay back like tracking mud on the clean floor lol
nice plants great job looking forward to the next one

[Locrian99]

We have one that rarely gets used. My wife insists on having them all professionally cleaned seems like every 6 months but it’s probably longer. I get to be my clutter happy messy self in the garage and basement. 😀

[Campesino]

Sounds and looks good.
I wish I had a carpet shampooer, but you know for um shampooing carpet

Yeah, the GG is good! ...So much better with age, too

[Locrian99]

Everything jarred has been burped down to at least 64% now they are just getting the daily burp, I was going to try some of the AI tonight but the wife was smoking the GG so I just hit that.

[Locrian99]

Lol it’s like a closet rack thing. WW2 is taking up the rest of it still drying. I was running out of spot to hang so I tied the string to the carpet shampooer and moved it across the room. The random storage and drying room lol

[Campesino]

Great trim! Great looking Buds!
I like the racks
Waiting for the weigh-in

Another successful grow in the books my friend, now its just a dry and cure!

[Locrian99]

And the last plant is now hanging. Wonder Woman 1

[Campesino]

Ah, well Happy Harvest Day! I look forward to the pics

[Locrian99]

I hadn’t taken them off the others I was curious, and I had side branches all tangled up in there. They did some weird growing on that plant. Finding the light.