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[MrPNW]

Thank you SoOrbudgal and yes I figured I’d give it a go without and see what happens. At worst I’ve read I would be out a few extra grams. I’ve always been a nature guy, worked at a nursery/landscape when I was young, had a bonsai collection and a small vineyard/orchard on an acre. Plants talk to me and I too them. I’m looking forward to creating bonsai mothers.
I have worked with technology for 33 years and love my hardware/software. I’m a couple years from retirement and look forward to having a raised bed garden. I’ve been reading about plants/vegetables that are naturally compatible with cannabis.

Today I noticed they are starting to get those wispy leaves on the tips. Any day now. I did one thing two days ago, I hope is fine. I swapped my 12 hrs dark from the daytime to night (10pm-10am). So the shop is in total darkness and I could visit my plants in light during the day. I started the 18/6 with the dark during the day, due to utilizing it’s heat for when it’s coldest. But now that I’v stabilized the heat I’m not too worried. It’s did well when the temps were into the mid 20Fs last month.

 

[YYCannabis]

That scope is garbage. I had bought 2 of them and would not recommend. They are built very poorly and caused a ton of frustration trying to get good quality look at trichs.
Better option is a jewelers loop or one of the little clip-on magnifiers for cell phones.

 

[gbauto]

The specs on the sf4000 state it outputs 1217 umoles/sec.
A 4x4 is 1.5 square meters in area.
That means it will be able to provide enough photon output to achieve a ppfd average of 800 over the canopy(1217/1.5=811.3 umole/s/m2)
A 5x5 is 2.32square meters. That same 1217 umoles spread out over that area would net a 524 average ppfd across the canopy.
It's a big difference in intensity. The plants will respond better to more light.

 

[gbauto]

The two testers in that pic are Primal Punch f2's from medgrower. I have my upstairs room running a mono-crop of the pheno on the left.
Gonna be outrageous.

 

[gbauto]

Holy crap! Is that one of yours?
how long did that veg for?

I think that was about 7 weeks.

 

[Wolfe0420]

Ha ha I have to jump in on this one! Happy for the basil plant it is identifiable now. Really tho great job your wife is probably really happy.

 

[MrPNW]

I took it downstairs last night and when she saw the leaves as big as the palm of my hand she was stunned. I said I’m glad your happy because now I’m going to cut it up to clone it many times, LOL. She wasn’t amused.

 

[MrPNW]

Wireless Digital Microscope Handheld USB
HD Inspection Camera 50x-1000x Magnification with Stand Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy, Android, Mac, Windows Computer

I’m not sure what was wrong with YYCannabis’ two usb microscopes but this thing is AMAZING! It was uncharged out of the box so I plugged it in and by the time I read the instructions I turned it on, selected it in the Photo Booth app per instructions, turned the LED light all the way up, set it on my desk and turned the focus until it was.
My desk top is a resin with an ash wood look.
WOW and I haven’t even got started. My hands are a bit shaky so I’m going to adapt it to my small tripod to set next to the buds. I can’t wait to show this to my 3 yr old grandson.

This is a photo of a display. Once I figure out how to manage the screen captures I’ll add some images of the direct shots. Click the image to see the larger version.

 

[MrPNW]

SUNDAY, 10 JAN 2021
My flowers have started!

I love wearing my Donegan headband magnifier whe looking over my plants
I use them for leatherwork and they’ve been fun to wear in this grow.
The close ups are by laying my iPhone 8 on the lenses frame so those are subjects of shaky hands.

 

[MrPNW]

SUNDAY, 17 JAN 2021
I gave them a watering of compost tea yesterday. I’ve started a regiment of watering with ph adjusted water, 6.00, compost tea now. They are really greening up again after going a bit yellow with the 12/12 flip, increased light and lowering of rh/temp on the 1st. I think the seaweed extract it helping with some stress they experienced.

Anyhow here they today.

 

[MrPNW]

Did my first defoliation today.

 

[MrPNW]

Man did these girls like their new hairdo! They look like cactus and normally they are on the verge of needing water and a bit droopy, not much. I’ve got some compost tea thats ready.

 

[MrPNW]

Woohoo

I went to Nature’s Living Soil to ask about top feeding and compost tea for my flowering plants, using their autoflower soil instead of the original soil I’ve been using. I bought 10 lbs of each back in October. I have photoperiod plants and figured it would be a stronger boost. They answered yes it was OK.


BUT, then I saw this new product! It was as if the universe was calling to me.

NLS Girl Flower Power

Made with all natural ingredients including the meat from the heart of hemp seed, coconut water powder, pumpkin seed meal, bat guano, fish bone meal, alfalfa meal and other essential vitamins, amino acid and minerals specifically formulated for the needs of a flowering plant. We also have added microbes that do an amazing job of converting phosphorous.

Directions:

Top Dress- Apply a thin layer on top of soil and water as normal.

Compost Tea- Add two (2) tablespoons of GFP and two (2) tablespoons of unsulphered molasses per gallon of water

I’m ordering today.

 

[MrPNW]

Crystals!

 

[MrPNW]

Sunday, 24 January 2021

 

[MrPNW]

After I did the first defoliating on the 17 day, I look for leaves with dark purple stems. Cutting them off, right where the leaves all meet the stem, and it gives me plenty of room to get in there without damaging the delicate parts of the flowers that are showing up everywhere.. The long stem left on the branch eventually dies and falls from the branch.

These pruning scissors are awesome!. Pack of 5

 

[MrPNW]

I’ve ordered this to replace the Original NLS when making compost tea. Every 3 day they get compost tea. The color is really coming back.


Arrived - time to make some compost tea to water them tomorrow and top feed.

 

[MrPNW]

Sunday, 7 Feb 2021

Man did these babies like that Girl Flower Power compost tea I gave them a few days ago! They went from a green-blue color to a green more like when they were in veg.

The one in front I did some more defoliating which exposed the smaller bud sites below. I took off most of the large fans leaves with 5 fingers. What’s left are really packed into the buds. I still need to do the other two bud man is it time consuming trying not to damage any buds. The small bonsai pruning scissors are amazing for this type work. They came in a set of 5 so as they get sticky a just grab another, then clean them all at once later.

 

[dropinbiking]

Awesome grow man! I enjoyed starting at the first post and going along with it. Nice work! Will follow along

 

[MrPNW]

Thanks. I finished defoliating the other 2 this afternoon and gave them a second watering of GFP compost tea. I’m anxious to see how they look by this weekend.
With all the large fan leaves out of the way I think its a perfect time to try my new macro lense.