HYDRO My first post and my first grow!

[NickyChicks]

Roughly 36hrs since I defoliated. The white widow is the shining star right now.

 

[Farmall]

We have that same sofa cover in blue...! And for trimming...if you really find dry is better, maybe I missed something. But that real ‘boutique” style trim after the Fiskars, I use a fine point sheers to go deeper into a good bud and dry doesn’t seem to do as well....thanks!!

 

[NickyChicks]

Here we are 4 weeks full weeks into 12/12, all the girls are pushing out flowers. I can definitely see a noticable development of trichomes and it's a beautiful thing. The green crack in the center of my tent had been the most vigorous growing during veg but it always seemed a little lighter in color. Now that it's been a few weeks into flower, the light green color is much more noticeable, whereas all of the other plants are a nice color of green. Also, that plant drank a considerably larger amount of water this past week than all of the others. The plant looks healthy just light green. I just finished doing the water change and I added 3/4 dose rather than 1/2 dose of Floralicious plus and liquid Kool bloom. Not sure if that's the right move but I really couldn't find any definitive answer on the interwebs. My thinking was that based off of how explosive it grew during veg, and now seeing how much water its drinking that it could possibly be asking for more nutrients. Other than that, my little flowers look nice. It's so weird how the chocolate kush looks nothing like an indica, it looks more like a sativa more so than the green crack and white widow. I'll know when I smoke it in a couple months lol.

 

[LurkingInTheGrass]

I would agree with your analysis (she looks hungry)


GREAT LOOKING TENT!!

 

[NickyChicks]

LurkingInTheGrass thanks!! Hoping for a bountiful harvest when the time comes.

I'll give her a few days and see if she responds to the upped nutes. If I don't see a change I should be able to add a full gallon in 3-4 days and I'll go full strength, she what she says then.

 

[NickyChicks]

Day 36 of 12/12. Another water change, I upped all the nutes on the GC in the center of the tent to 3/4 this week. After bumping up the Floralicious plus and LKB to 3/4 1 week ago and then I added 1 gallon of full strength nutes on Thursday. I definitely see an improvement with the overall color of the plant, but the top fan leaves still have a light green color to them. I'm not too concerned, it's producing nice looking buds and the roots look great.
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All the plants are looking real healthy from what I can tell. I'm guessing when a breeder talks about flowering time, they're talking about how long it takes to harvest from the start of when you would first see signs of flowering, not the switch to 12/12. Is that logic correct? Ive been in 12/12 36 days but I didn't really see pistils until about 10-11 days in. I'm guessing I'll be harvesting somewhere close to the end of April. The alaskan purple and green crack have the longest flowering time of 63 days.

​​​​​​Also, thinking about lights and about trying LED. Thoughts on what I would need to cover my 4x4 tent? I was looking at Vipar Spectra but I'm really not sure what I'm looking at honestly. I would even consider supplementing 600w MH/HPS with smaller LEDs but that would mean more energy use and I'm not trying to do that unless I need to in order to effectively light my tent.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Good afternoon everyone here may say differently on timing flowering. I do believe the breeder gives that "63 days" from first sign of hairs off pistils. This is what I go by not from when I started 12/12 I count when I see first hairs even on the face of bud site.

 

[NickyChicks]

SoOrbudgal that makes sense to me. Do you believe the same applies to autos?

 

[JohnEmad]

Most autos are from germination so 65 days to harvest is 65 days from the plant poking its head above soil in a near perfect growing environment.

 

[NickyChicks]

Thanks JohnEmad, good to know. As soon as i harvest these girls, I'm going to start some autos.

 

[Farmall]

NickyChicks LATELY, my last harvests had gone about 3 weeks beyond their breeder date. It does make you question whether or not you have gone off the path particularly when your relying on specific maturity checks to guide your plan. Your plants look terrific and the tent is filling up. Personally, I like it and believe you may find another 6 weeks if you are at 5 weeks in those pictures but that’s my thinking. I remember you said something about a deadline...hope this falls within it

 

[NickyChicks]

Your memory serves you right. However I lucked out and there is no worries of a time constraint now, well not really. I actually just found out today I will have some family visiting but not until mid September. I should have enough time to try my hand at growing a few autos after this and harvest those before September. As long as these girls finish up within a reasonable amount of time.

 

[Farmall]

Whew!, nice news in a way. Since our families are not nearby, never visit and our 2 extra bedrooms have been turned into non-bedrooms, we don’t see anyone

 

[NickyChicks]

Day 43 of 12/12. I think I over did it with the nutes last week, nothing major but I was going too heavy with the Floralicious plus. I cut back a lot on the water change I did this morning. The plants were all dark green and the GC in the center had some nitrogen claw going on. Idk how I messed up the measurements on it but I was giving full strength to all the plants and full strength + another half to the GC. The F+ is high in N which is probably why I'm seeing what I'm seeing! Other than that, all is good. Hoping to see the buds start bulking up from here on out.

The white widow smells amazing, Alaskan purples in the solo cups smell even better IMO. The smaller one growing in coco has leaves starting to show purple, I think she's gonna be a good looking little plant. It was sunny but cold yesterday so I took pics of the solo girls outside, today I took the Northern Lights and the Green Crack from the center out and brought them upstairs to try and get a decent picture in natural light. It's not sunny today like yesterday, no today it decided to snow. So the pics aren't as nice I wanted but they still look great to me.

Also my Grove Bags came in, I ordered the case of 50 1oz pouches. I'm excited to give them a go and see if they're all they're cracked up to be.

 

[NickyChicks]

Start of week 6 flowering. Nothing new this week just more buds! Did some thinning out , mostly the bushy green crack in the center of the tent. Also tied down the branches to space them out also to keep the plants from tipping, a couple are get a little tipsy.

Ordered UVB t8s from Solacure today. Hopefully those show up quick but i won't hold my breath. I would like to put them to use on this grow even if it may be a little late, but I shall see.

I posted a few weeks back on this thread that I ordered auto seeds. Well I ordered more. Variety is the spice of life right?? 25 seeds for $111 shipped, 10 of those seeds were free either from seedsman for spending x amount of $$ or they were on promo from the breeder. Let me know if you you've ever grown any of these from my new order, and/or feel free look back at my update when I posted the pic of my last seed order.

Dutch Passion
Daiquiri Lime Auto
Brooklyn Sunrise Auto
Meringue Feminized
Banana Blaze Femizined
Expert Seed Bank
New York Diesel Auto
Sweet Seeds
Bloody Skunk Auto
Seedsman
Blueberry Femizined
Gelat.OG Femizined

Hope everyone is doing good during these crazy times. Stay physically healthy and just as important, mentally healthy. Pet your dog, they don't know what's going on. Mine usually goes to doggy daycare 5 days a week for almost 10hrs a day. He definitely misses his friends and my girlfriend and I are both "essential employees" so he hangs out with my girlfriends son all day. He loves his walks and he's getting extra now but he misses his friends at daycare. Stay healthy everyone 🙏

 

[Farmall]

NickyChicks yep... the Bluberry feminized , Dutch Passion Cheese and the Gelato.... ranked in that order ....did them in soil and in hydro as my first rodeo. And it was a wild ride for a dried total in 9 plants of 3.6 lbs. so, ENJOY!!!!

 

[NickyChicks]

Awesome! The bloody Skunk piqued my interest because of the red poison in it's lineage. I saw mcubed's red poison plant and was all like ooooh ahhhhhhh. I have some gelato that I'm smoking right now, just from my usual guy and it's quite delicious. Danky smell.

 

[NickyChicks]

UVB bulbs from Solacure arrived today, super quick shipping. $25/ea if you buy 4 or more. Hopefully I see some good results. I snuck a quick pic before I got out of the tent, don't want to be exposed to it too much or at all for that matter.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

How interesting at least you'd be sterile LOL

 

[NickyChicks]

😂😂 that's not what I was going for but I think that's a bonus!