Finally a New Grow Area

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Finally an update - Winter 2025 has not been a kind winter!! - Roof issues, Grow issues !

Original group was (SD/OZ/CCK) they grew out nicely and trained well but every one was Male! The SCXXX cross was germ twice. They started off really nice then by the second week BAM...started going down hill..First I thought it was a cal mag buffering issue but I buffered all my coco, then I thought it was maybe a coco issue, so I ordered different coco and started over. The issue remains with the SCxxx - Third suspect was maybe the calmag was not up to par because it was old and at the end, so I ordered two 1 GH calmag and 1 sensi grow calmag - O and I ordered some Cannah Coco but have not started using it.

The GLF was messed up and unable to train the way I need it, so it was pulled.

Finally we have 1 SCxxx comming along - (few seeds left) and we started some of the generous donation from F.... We have SDxBJ and SDxOZ.

Sorry Bluey I really wanted to see how that SDxOZxCCK cross would turn out, lots of regular seeds to try again. maybe outside grow just to see..

Usually I grow with regular beans and have never ever had all or most turn male...Math Improbability, perhaps an environmental issue..My RH is in the 40s - low 50s - temps run around 76 -77 when lights are on..Happy with the temps after tent mod. Last winter they temps were in the upper 80s and had to leave door open...

Thinking about some autos for the summer run and wife wants 1 BigAss plant...maybe give her a sdxozxcck after we germ a few and find a female. Better get on with that.

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Left to Right Pic - 1)scxcckxbb 2)sdxozxcck All Male 3)Puppers 4)sdxbj 5)sdxoz - No cupping on the sdxoz Yet

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Came across a inter-mitten timer and thought that might be ideal for drying in the tent - One can program it to cycle the exhaust fan on and off. I do not think the exhaust fan needs to run 24 hr when drying in tent but to have it come on every 1/2 hr or so to exchange the air might be ideal.

[Bluey]

If you can keep humidity and temps where they should be without that sort of air movement thatd be the way I'd go

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The intermittent timer would be programmed to run the exhaust for a few min every X. That could be 1 hr, 10 hr whatever is needed. Wont be an issue for me this time since they ended up being staggered, but it they were all harvested same time then the tent with intermittent timer would be better option then just cool dark place.

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Bluey I Will have to try again with the new cross. I would expect the cck to bulk up the buds on the sd x oz.

[Bluey]

The sd x oz and the ww x sd both turned out to be of the highest grade weed, really strong and beautiful tight little buds. Being able to keep temps down under 75⁰F or 24⁰C with that low humidity around 40% I reckon is key to these things....and all the light they'll take of course.

420 in a couple of days...time to give the vape the big clean up

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Bluey the SDxOZ is coming along,but it is a few weeks behind. If you look you can see it in background.

Little update with the girls that finally got straightened out this winter grow.. The scxcckxbb is finishing up and flush has been started. Note this stain with or with out bb genes has always produced a lot of frosting but not this time around. Curious, for the mean time adding molasses to the flush in hope it will take on more resin.

[Bluey]

All coming along nicely bro. How many days veg on those girls?

Is this your 2nd grow of the SD x OZ?

Would like a smoke report once properly cured. It's exceptionally well liked here, glad I got more than a few jars.

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2nd grow with sd x oz. I started out with the sd x oz x cck cross but all of them went male! Wasted time etc resorted to fem seeds from Mr Franklin "in the wind". ??

We have 3 stages the sc cross has entered 10 week of flowering and just trying to flush her for a few days, then lights out for 2. Strange, this strain has always produced a lot to tric s but this time not so. I was hoping the molasses in the flush would produce more resin.

I veg them all long enough to set them up for smurf tent - They get topped 3 rd or 4 th node depending on plant and once that starts to grow out; I start to tie them down. I prefer to leave them under cfl long enough to top and let them start to recover before moving them under leds. Usually 3 weeks in cfl veg, then a week or two under led in veg. They need to be pretty mature before flowering. I guess my target weight is around a pound of cured bud.

The sd x oz is the tallest and I have started to s.c some of the stems with finger roll and bend if I did not tie them down.

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This sd x bj is super sticky..I think this is going to be a winner...

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note: There is almost always a splitting issue at the stalk. You can see tape on both. Perhaps I need to top much higher at he node to help circumvent the stalk splitting. It would not be an issue if just manifolding but since they get aggressively tied down they split.

[Bluey]

I look at my plants wrong and they just shed limbs to piss me off. I think it was a ww x sd and I kept bumping it and limbs just kept tearing off....some snapped right off but still saved them with the good old teflon tape if I caught them in time. I always top directly under the next higher node but still get splits.

Letting them veg longer will produce a higher THC % bud on a per gram measure and if your up around 8 weeks veg time a pound gets real...

Lack of trichomes I'd put down to maybe a slightly higher humidity.

You haven't started using synthetic plant growth regulators have you? They kill trichome production, and those that smoke them. Very bad stuff. Often sold as bud boosters and other bullshit marketing speak. I used to use natural ones when I grew outdoors, mostly kelp based. They don't hurt you, will pack on the buds but trichome production drops off.

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O - Have been using kool bloom, but it has been used in the past with no issues. I did suspect q.c issues with nutes this time, with all the trouble experienced trying to get the winter grow going. I was even trying to run down product labels on g.h trio. Ended up replacing coco, bloom, and cal mag at different times...

I have slit branches in past and they went un noticed until it was pretty much to late.. Might think about wrapping that first node up in tape before it even has a chance to spit next time..