KingKush grow #2 - 3000w Bruce Banner in soil

[KingKush]

Feb 22
Flip Day
1st entry into the Bloom Room

Plants are still showing leaf tip curl, slight nitrogen toxicity
-still zero apps of nutes, im amazed....
Freeze snap last night, room got cold I'm sure and that's why the leaves look a little droopy.
So here's my power estimation for Veg:
kWH = watts/ 1 x hours
kWH= 1000/ 1 x 18 for 50days (equals $2.16/day)
= 900kWH @ $0.12 equals
$108.00 roughly just to power my light for 7 weeks

Now I'm at $2.40 per day for Bloom (more light but less hours)

I turned off my veg light for a while sheesh!!! That thing is a power hog. Out of all the inefficiencies, I don't need 1000w for veg most of the time. It's nice the last few weeks but otherwise it's overkill.

 

[KingKush]

Feb 23

Manifolding-
Here is a side-by-side comparison on the exact same strain grown in the exact same environment. Only 1 variable was changed in a singe pruning technique. Two plants were manifolded, two were grown in my regular fashion (topped once). The rest has been the same-same. These ladies are all the same age, 7 weeks old from sprout.
If manifolding increases yields, then I either timed my pruning inappropriately, or something else major went awry.
-Good thing I kept this journal for all you manifolders out there to school me up.

This is only the halfway point, there is still a chance for better impressions with the manifold as buds start developing. However, I am greatly discouraged by this *costly* experiment so far.

Hey you two, perhaps these observations will be insightful.
DANGERDANCampesino

 

[Campesino]

KingKush Sorry I haven't been following this journal till now...
What is it that you are concerned about? It looks good to me. As the stretch progresses you should see that the manifolded plants all produce similar size colas. The Manifold helps to equally distribute the plants resources so that it is more efficient. I'd say it's to early to come to any conclusions. I am happy to follow along with the experiment!
What is all over the leaves?

 

[KingKush]

No worries, trying to keep it clean and concise so that it reads like a photo timeline so I'm not concerned if anybody notices or not.
We had talked about pruning recently and so I was directing some interest towards a half decent comparison. I definitely would like to see 8 soda-bottle-buds that are all a half ounce each (dried)! I'll see these girls through to fruition and do them justice.

The spots on the leaves are sulfur. Literally just sulfur dust mixed with water from the last foliar spray app. I went heavy. It's the old timers trick for growing buds in 100% humidity at 55°F here next to the ocean. Some true OG (Ocean Grown) stuff. Prevents nearly all powdery mildew attacks in bloom, and it knocks down thrips and gnats fairly well. I do it right before any budlets get formed so all my nugs grow without it. It stays on the large shade leaves. It's labeled for edible garden veggies. And stays out of the buds if you do it this way.

 

[Campesino]

Ahh the trials and tribulations of humidity.
Almost everyday I am reminded how lucky I am with the weather here. Today it is cool 54 degrees and Dry 20%.
Cool trick though!
I predict that in the next couple of weeks you will start to see the benefits of the Manifold... we'll see!

 

[PRIMO]

If you have a grow room and a flower room in the garage why not insulate them and get a dehumidifier? Problem solved?

 

[KingKush]

March 5
day 11 of flowering

Sex revealed, all females. Wasn't sure because these are from seed.
Manifolded plants are looking great, too bad one lost an arm a few weeks ago it woulda filled out nicely. Looking more promising but still don't think I will try this technique again.
Just plain tap water straight outta the faucet, no nutes yet.

 

[KingKush]

All that costs money. And sealing the rooms means airflow management with intakes and exhausts and filters and etc.... it's endless! I'm a grower not a builder meaning I'm just trying not to kill my plants for 12 weeks and get some bud.

 

[KingKush]

Here's for all those who despise HPS yellow pictures. Got a shot in the dark just for you.

 

[Chefbjy]

Yeah I'm doing it on clones and it's taking some time for them to progress. But that's what I get for trying on clones lol. I think they look very healthy can't wait to see some nugs.

 

[KingKush]

March 10
Day 16

1st nutrient app. 2tsp Buddha Bloom to everyone.
Always looking droopy!
-could be from 'underwatering'
-root mass could be preventing water from wicking into the center so it may only be getting water from a certain % of the roots? Tomorrow I will poke some holes from the top, into the middle of the root mass and give some plain h2o to get things nice, wet and dirty; my favorite way to spend time with my ladies. And hopefully more perky because I'm done with them being saggy.

Manifolding update: outlook improving and learned some new ideas. Overall they are doing great.
1)Read that "older plants produce more THC," whether true or not it sounds logical to me. So perhaps a manifold plant you could grow older and still fit into a small space.
2) I can fit more manifolded plants into a given space.
which would benefit growing more and more strains. If I had to grow many different strains I might try more manifolding to keep everyone at the party.

 

[KingKush]

March 10
Veg Room & Rooting

Well a major overhaul on the Veg area. Transplant all
my clones out of the solo cups and into final containers.
Re-modeled my 24w t5 light into a reflected hood monster haha it seriously puts down some light now. I want to put two cfl on each corner of the hood that will be coming soon. Like 8 extra 6500k 32w cfls on splitters hanging from each corner.

Trying to keep my kilowatt hours down on this grow. I feel that's a good step in the right direction.

2 Trainwreck
2 OG Kush
1 OG Kush or Bruce Banner (FU@&ING kidding me boss? Nice label job ya hack!) lost the label lol

 

[Chefbjy]

I don't care for the plastic pots anymore. I use fabric pots for final containers. Hope you get them perky again.

 

[Campesino]

I think the benefits of manifolding will continue to reveal themselves over the next several weeks... happy that outlook is improving for you.
Hope you solve the droop!

 

[Campesino]

Well at least you'll probably be able to determine its identity at some point since you are growing to other OG Kushes!

 

[Locrian99]

I was kicking around the idea of doing a diy cfl Hood. Thought about taking one of those long trays they use to hold drywall mud line the inside with some foil or some reflective material put some holes for sockets in it. Trying to hang clamp lights annoys me lol.

 

[Locrian99]

Seriously I was just looking at your recent pics thinking wtf is all that in the lower leaves lol

 

[Locrian99]

Might you have slightly split the stems doing the manifold, I did on one of mine and it’s the runt of the bunch. She’s bouncing back but side branching isn’t nearly as good and I don’t expect nearly the yield out of her. I’d be curious to see a good comparison of manifolded vs. just a good top and lst’d plant. My wife always comes down while I have the plants on the operating table and asks me how I’m breaking the plants today. She’s convinced I’m going to kill them. Lol

 

[Campesino]

Locrian99 did you split the main stem by pulling the arms down, or did you split each side branch as a result of supercropping or LST?

 

[Locrian99]

Each branch. I didn’t notice at first either. My GSC 2 I did it to