6:30 Buds: The Perpetual Grow

[KingKush]

Day 45
Sometimes leaves are more beautiful than flowers. Going with the theme of the newsletter this week:


This contains many of my favorite hues & shades of green, all in one picture. Should be some good tasting nugget, clean and pure.

[D.A.A.S.69]

KingKush, man, those are beautiful,
That supercropping, does wonders on plants. Most all our outdoor plants get worked over, pretty good,lol. It's even fun, and plants love it, to be kinda mean to them.
I sure love to see those lower leaves, turn yellow, and start going up.
You gonna have some fine smoke, nice.

[KingKush]

D.A.A.S.69
Thanks for the thoughts!
This place has helped with patience and thoughtfulness. GWE, Nebula, and all the great members on the forum provide quite the respectable source of growing information. No hogwash, or false teachings. And people like you always make it fun to be on here, thanks for stopping by

[KingKush]

Day 48
I love pictures
(and so do you)

Pre98 Bubba Kush

Below: Pre98 Kush Blend Bagseed



Smells good in here

[KingKush]

#NewBulbs #Hortilux #SuperHPS #1000watts #BudSites
Wow, looking PREMIUM!

Pre98 Bubba Kush

Same Plant


She is soaking up the new bulb, loving the rays.

[KingKush]

I love how the focus is on one plant, with all those other lovely ladies just patiently waiting for their turn at the spotlight.....

[D.A.A.S.69]

Thanks Man, that was nice of you.
But beautiful plants and pictures, and you can honestly tell when one plant feels left behind, almost like pouting, lol.
Yours look gorgeous.

[freddyyola]

how much wieght do you yield at the end and how big is the area you have 1 hps light over like 4x4 light coverage? im just wondering cause i wanna get a 1000 watt hps too and i use the same soil..

[KingKush]

Day 49
7 week harvest

Bruce Jenner




A little early, but good enough. Could have been worse, will Help me appreciate some good genetics.

[Chefbjy]

Shims alright 😆. Still looks like some tasty nugs.

[KingKush]

Day 49
7week harvest
Trainwreck





Choo Choo!!
Got a weeks worth of chores done in 3 hours, turned dishwashing into cardio, cooked up dinner for the whole weekend.... first day testing the batch, these were taken 5 days ago
#Sativa

[Campesino]

Certainly look tasty!

[KingKush]

TURBO MODE
-FTW


Yea, we're gonna go THAT way.

My bulbs don't squeal hardly at all, just warmup, on Turbo. Otherwise on thousand, all the bulbs are 'noisy'

[Chefbjy]

I'll have to try that with my shop grow 😉.

[KingKush]

Nugget, Buds, Dank, Smoke, Pot, whatever you want to call it...

Trainwreck


OG Kush Mix (bagseed, but this was a clone)


Both are great

[Chefbjy]

Nice nugs...nice lighter 😆. My friend does that too all his lighters have resin and ash on them. No one ever asks him for a lighter anymore.

[Campesino]

LOL, I use the other end of the lighter

Well both ends - one end for lighting the other end for snuffing.

[KingKush]

Harvest Day 52
Pre98 Bubba Kush
Petite plants. This and the ones in veg are the same "age" but I forced a couple into flowering because of impatience (I really want to smoke this strain soon!)
So Pretty

[KingKush]

High Five!

[KingKush]

[KingKush]

How do your nugs compare? Post some pics!

[Campesino]

Here you go KingKush My closest comparison...

My Best Gorilla Glue #4 from the last harvest

[KingKush]

Campesino
Seems like some wonderful chronic, like $15 a gram at the store or more!

[Campesino]

Yeah, it was/is great! Almost gone now ... Rationing.
I got 3oz off that plant and it was all great, but the other two GG4s were meh. The good stuff is almost gone!
I will always be nostalgic about that first really good GG4

[KingKush]

Kush Love

[Campesino]

Nice structure!
A PBS Beaut!

[farmerjim]

lol - yea PBS!!

[KingKush]

farmerjim
Thanks for coming up with PBS, it sounds good, way less confusing than supercropping

[Redwasp]

Campesino I know we talked about how my yields went up by having fewer plants per space. I know you have limited space but give it a try. I get really sad if im not getting at least 4 ounces per plant and aim for 10 per plant. I crowded my tents when i started and was lucky to get 2 ounces a plant. I have one plants this time that im aiming for much higher than 10. But it was in veg for 8 weeks.

[Redwasp]

I think you will be very happy with 4. Im guessing with 4 you will hit your goal.

[KingKush]

Redwasp Campesino
Veg time is a fun topic. Right now I grow in soil in 5 gal buckets, so there is a limit to how long to veg. But my plants all seem to be 3-4oz of the nugget I'm looking for.
I'm still no where close to 1g/watt , barely breaking .5 for right now but at least the quality is going up.

[Campesino]

So much depends on training!

With Manifolds, I really think there is a time to flip... or at least a week... When each cola has 4-7 nodes
With a scrog too, you have to plan it to fill the scrog.
Number of plants affects me with manifolds primarily because it limits my ability to supercrop and keep them low.

I suspect the length of veg time is going to be a hot topic during the first 42 days of the DHGC!

[KingKush]

Before and After

Exploring plant training techniques, this time it's Manifolding with an early Flip. At Flip, looking downover her, she didn't even cover all the dirt on the bucket with her leaves. But she filled out nicely, a testament to manifolding.
"Manifolding adds time" - it does if you wait until the Manifold tries to re-bush like your other control plants, the Manifold plants will never be as large or bushy during veg, but that is okay, cause when you flip, all that "drive" goes strait into stacking tall colas, and literally nothing else. It does gain leaves like usual but just to power big thick buds. It is a bud building technique, and doesn't have to cost any extra time.
-In fact, Manifolding SAVES TIME, well at least during trimming haha

Im not a big proponent of this technique, because it's too easy to do harm or time it wrong, but I can definitely attest and support the idea of creating larger colas, less waste, easier trimming, and 'prettier' grows. Im glad to have grown comparison, less trained plants too, side by side, to provide a good idea about things.
From this

To this 5 weeks later

[Campesino]

I appreciate and really agree with your thoughts. Except... I am a big proponent!

Thanks for sharing your experience!

#Manifoldlove

[RosettaStoned]

I'm always amazed when i visit. Very nice

[Redwasp]

I dont really manifold. But after trimming everything i have over the next 3 weeks I may become a staunch supporter. 15 plants in 2 to 3 weeks is too much. The smallest plant is down. Did it while while watching movies on my daughter's 21s birthday. My wife helped some. I will miss the 2 ounces of popcorn bud I pull out when people o dont.like as much come over. Lol

[KingKush]

Week 5

Pre98 Bubba Kush


more Bruce Banner Bagseed, 2nd run