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When shit kept hitting the fan... An example on how not to do it.
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Xaliuz
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Questions
-I do not want to move plants at all with the nanner problem, is it possible to only give fresh PHed water for the last 2 weeks without runoff instead of flushing the normal way?
-How far away from finish would trained eyes forsee?
-If they finish before the 5th, can I cut the main cola off and lower the light to match the height of lower buds letting them mature abit? Would also open for splitting up the trim job into two sessions.
-I do not want to move plants at all with the nanner problem, is it possible to only give fresh PHed water for the last 2 weeks without runoff instead of flushing the normal way?
-How far away from finish would trained eyes forsee?
-If they finish before the 5th, can I cut the main cola off and lower the light to match the height of lower buds letting them mature abit? Would also open for splitting up the trim job into two sessions.
oldjarhead100
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what sound does shit make when it hits the fan( MARIIINE)least that what the squids used to say lol at least you sense of humor is ok. had a ballast go a couple of grows ago dam what a pain. The experiences Ive had with Hermies. uv t5 will cause them if left on 12/12, but they gifted me with some great seeds(witch are usually female) I have some growing now. I havn't had any hermie seeds that Iv'e grown rehermie(if that makes since haha)maybe this will give some hope to a grow gone bad(could be a movie tittle Rouge grow gone bad) haha . keep the faith and you'll make it( the faith being start with good seed and you"ll end with good bud) the Pictures are fantastic though
oldjarhead100
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without aa close up to see the trichs I cant tell if there is amber in there, I like to see about 30% before I start flushing . I have to say what a great post read the entire thing with all the comments glad to hear your enjoying the smoke . I asked Nebula if I cut the main cola would the smaller ones fill out she said yes so I was going to try it this grow. from this point on you will never have to smoke poor weed again
NebulaHaze
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1.) If you don't want to move the plant at all, you could do that and it would be okay 
If you live near a Home Depot they also sell a Bucket Head for about $20 (it's more expensive online, but only $20 if you get it at Home Depot in person). You can attach it to any 5-gallon bucket (which they also sell for $5) and have an instant wet vacuum. That's how I removed the runoff under my plants so I didn't have to move them. I'd just suck up all the water with the wet vac
2.) It looks like all the buds I could see still have plenty of straight white pistils, which means they need at least a few weeks left (but that's awesome because it means they're still going to get a lot bigger)! Are there any buds where most of the white pistils have already darkened and curled in?
3.) Yes, lots of growers harvest their plants in parts! It can make things a lot more convenient and with some strains it's very common for either the top or the bottom buds to be ready to harvest before the rest of the plant
If you live near a Home Depot they also sell a Bucket Head for about $20 (it's more expensive online, but only $20 if you get it at Home Depot in person). You can attach it to any 5-gallon bucket (which they also sell for $5) and have an instant wet vacuum. That's how I removed the runoff under my plants so I didn't have to move them. I'd just suck up all the water with the wet vac 2.) It looks like all the buds I could see still have plenty of straight white pistils, which means they need at least a few weeks left (but that's awesome because it means they're still going to get a lot bigger)! Are there any buds where most of the white pistils have already darkened and curled in?
3.) Yes, lots of growers harvest their plants in parts! It can make things a lot more convenient and with some strains it's very common for either the top or the bottom buds to be ready to harvest before the rest of the plant
Xaliuz
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Thank you for the tip Nebula, that's brilliant Can't get my hands on a vaccum pump in time but it's on next rounds shopping list! Yea there are mostly darkened curled up pistils but the camera light illuminates and tweaks picture color a bit, will focus on thrichomes, more and more cloudy every day. And if parts finish before 5th I'll now know it's doable with a sequenced harvest. By the way, should the wound be coverd with for example ductape?
Can't get my hands on a vaccum pump in time but it's on next rounds shopping list! Yea there are mostly darkened curled up pistils but the camera light illuminates and tweaks picture color a bit, will focus on thrichomes, more and more cloudy every day. And if parts finish before 5th I'll now know it's doable with a sequenced harvest. By the way, should the wound be coverd with for example ductape?
NebulaHaze
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If you see a big wound that looks like it needs to be covered up, it can't hurt, but overall I don't think that would be necessary
Xaliuz
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'Allo 'allo, ladies and gentlemen, Sir's and Ma'am's, hippies and hippistresses! It's my pleasure to introduce you all to the endgame challage: The Slightly Immature Harvest! Staring as stoner, farmer, grower and plantlover; a wildcard we all thought would derail months ago, give a warm welcome while exhaling your sacred herbal smoke, to... Xaliuz.
Will he finaly get to the bottom of the cat piss scent?
Where did all the exstension cords go?
Is it the same thief that stole the rolling papers?
Has this wasted embezzler lost his mind?
Which LP will set the mood for the scene?
And.. has he allready gotten high on his own supply? - Stay tuned to get some of the anwers in today's series of episodes! We'll be right back after the commercial.
Will he finaly get to the bottom of the cat piss scent?
Where did all the exstension cords go?
Is it the same thief that stole the rolling papers?
Has this wasted embezzler lost his mind?
Which LP will set the mood for the scene?
And.. has he allready gotten high on his own supply? - Stay tuned to get some of the anwers in today's series of episodes! We'll be right back after the commercial.
Xaliuz
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Hello and welcome back to The Slightly Immature Harvest! Round One - Quick Update
First of all we'll take a look at this cute little popcorn. We've put it in the oven to maintain moral
Plants had 24 hours of darkness before harvest. The climate is very dry, with an average of 35% some extra leaf mass is left to help slow things down. Finished with the 7 small ones in 1 gal pots. There's 8 big ones left in 2gal pots. The plan for now is to take many breaks and many samples and push through til the end. No awnsers given at this point.
Hello and welcome back to The Slightly Immature Harvest! Round One - Quick Update
First of all we'll take a look at this cute little popcorn. We've put it in the oven to maintain moral
Plants had 24 hours of darkness before harvest. The climate is very dry, with an average of 35% some extra leaf mass is left to help slow things down. Finished with the 7 small ones in 1 gal pots. There's 8 big ones left in 2gal pots. The plan for now is to take many breaks and many samples and push through til the end. No awnsers given at this point.
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Xaliuz
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Breaking News! Our on-site reporter has dug deep into this urgent matter and tracked down a key person that got favorable intel on the operation
So Xaliuz, as we know you started harvesting your crop. Can you elaborate on why we haven't got any follow-up reports over the last three days?
- Yes Ma'am, while and after the night trimming the plants a huge operation was initiated to ensure sufficient quality assurance. We sampled many samples over the last few days, this project has taken all our time. I'm proud of the workethic and dedication my companions have displayed, coundn't have asked for better teammates.
What's status quo?
- We've harvested 15 plants, all trimmed up and hung upside down, kept leafage with lots of trichomes. The drying station is at 43% RH and 64 degrees F which isn't optimal but it'll have to do for now
Did you get the anwsers your were looking for?
- Not at all! After several days of investigating and sampling even more questions arose to our attention and confused us. The Alice Coopers LP - Welcome to My Nightmare didn't help either
We've noticed that you experienced quite a steep learning curve. Can you sum up what you've learned?
- I'll try
First I learned not to over water and how a heavily overwatered plant can look like. And made a note to self: Water carefully after early repotting
At the time I thought i had 34 photoperiod plants and Nebula explained what conditions best promotes females. 65-75F, 50-70% RH, 14-18 hour days, blue light, plenty of N, preventing stress and not overwatering is the notes i got written down on the subject.
Found out that 33/34 of the plants grew white pistils while on 24/0 and learned about auto flowers and possible scenarios of how bagseeds could be of the feminized autoflower kind.
Curing trim before using it is beneficial.
Timer for the heater broke and mended the problem with seaweed/kelp extract which seemingly worked as advertised. Plants drank big ammounts of water and actualy presented itself with nitrogen clawed leaves in mid flowering.
A week or so after the flowering started the ballast fried itself and was stuck with 2x250W CLFs for the 9 days it took for the new one to arrive by mail. This let me experience a wild wild sativa strech. Added this 125w outdoor light as a supplement. Learned that it's smart to have backup gear! The manifacturer replaced the broken ballast after testing it, but bought a new one aswell to get the growroom illuminated asap.
Studied and experimented with how much light plants could take and what parameters involved in this. Scorched them a few times, for sure.
Enviromental tweaking has been a topic throughout the grow. Buildt, rebuildt and added components to the ventilation system as more and more light were introduced. Going overboard on this let me lightbleach the plants without them showing signs of heatstress.
Identifying plant gender and hermaphrodite traits is something i've got quite good at. Also been working on diminishing sucsessfull polination by herms with quite positive results. Note to self, start with good genetics.
After countless bumps in the road, mistakes and some bad luck I wanted study and experience how high doses of nutes they could take and how to correct it with a flush and see the recovery
Because of time problems I switched lights to 10/14 and noticed how this sped up the flowering process.
Tryed smoking premature buds and learned and felt the effect change as the plants matured.
US messurements. A table spoon is 15ml, teaspoon is 5ml. 30ml per oz.
Now trying to tune in the drying enviroment. Got all the equipment for curing each plant in individual containers to keep it all separated.
That was all we had time for tonight, any last words?
-This whole grow has been a journey. Learned so much, if it wasn't for the help and guidance that's been given here I'd only been smoking tobacco right now. Because of all the problems up til this point i knew this wouldn't be medical grade product and felt there wasn't too much to loose by experimenting with max levels of light/nutes. Also switched 1x600W HPS to 600wMH the last week. There's probalby more mistakes and learning opportunities that slipped my mind. After trimming i was left with 2.2 lbs of wet buds on stem. Thats not many grams / W when dried. Anyways. This will be a good summer Will add a few pictures of the harvest and some to show the progress. Thank you all.
Breaking News! Our on-site reporter has dug deep into this urgent matter and tracked down a key person that got favorable intel on the operation
So Xaliuz, as we know you started harvesting your crop. Can you elaborate on why we haven't got any follow-up reports over the last three days?
- Yes Ma'am, while and after the night trimming the plants a huge operation was initiated to ensure sufficient quality assurance. We sampled many samples over the last few days, this project has taken all our time. I'm proud of the workethic and dedication my companions have displayed, coundn't have asked for better teammates.
What's status quo?
- We've harvested 15 plants, all trimmed up and hung upside down, kept leafage with lots of trichomes. The drying station is at 43% RH and 64 degrees F which isn't optimal but it'll have to do for now
Did you get the anwsers your were looking for?
- Not at all! After several days of investigating and sampling even more questions arose to our attention and confused us. The Alice Coopers LP - Welcome to My Nightmare didn't help either
We've noticed that you experienced quite a steep learning curve. Can you sum up what you've learned?
- I'll try
First I learned not to over water and how a heavily overwatered plant can look like. And made a note to self: Water carefully after early repotting
At the time I thought i had 34 photoperiod plants and Nebula explained what conditions best promotes females. 65-75F, 50-70% RH, 14-18 hour days, blue light, plenty of N, preventing stress and not overwatering is the notes i got written down on the subject.
Found out that 33/34 of the plants grew white pistils while on 24/0 and learned about auto flowers and possible scenarios of how bagseeds could be of the feminized autoflower kind.
Curing trim before using it is beneficial.
Timer for the heater broke and mended the problem with seaweed/kelp extract which seemingly worked as advertised. Plants drank big ammounts of water and actualy presented itself with nitrogen clawed leaves in mid flowering.
A week or so after the flowering started the ballast fried itself and was stuck with 2x250W CLFs for the 9 days it took for the new one to arrive by mail. This let me experience a wild wild sativa strech. Added this 125w outdoor light as a supplement. Learned that it's smart to have backup gear! The manifacturer replaced the broken ballast after testing it, but bought a new one aswell to get the growroom illuminated asap.
Studied and experimented with how much light plants could take and what parameters involved in this. Scorched them a few times, for sure.
Enviromental tweaking has been a topic throughout the grow. Buildt, rebuildt and added components to the ventilation system as more and more light were introduced. Going overboard on this let me lightbleach the plants without them showing signs of heatstress.
Identifying plant gender and hermaphrodite traits is something i've got quite good at. Also been working on diminishing sucsessfull polination by herms with quite positive results. Note to self, start with good genetics.
After countless bumps in the road, mistakes and some bad luck I wanted study and experience how high doses of nutes they could take and how to correct it with a flush and see the recovery
Because of time problems I switched lights to 10/14 and noticed how this sped up the flowering process.
Tryed smoking premature buds and learned and felt the effect change as the plants matured.
US messurements. A table spoon is 15ml, teaspoon is 5ml. 30ml per oz.
Now trying to tune in the drying enviroment. Got all the equipment for curing each plant in individual containers to keep it all separated.
That was all we had time for tonight, any last words?
-This whole grow has been a journey. Learned so much, if it wasn't for the help and guidance that's been given here I'd only been smoking tobacco right now. Because of all the problems up til this point i knew this wouldn't be medical grade product and felt there wasn't too much to loose by experimenting with max levels of light/nutes. Also switched 1x600W HPS to 600wMH the last week. There's probalby more mistakes and learning opportunities that slipped my mind. After trimming i was left with 2.2 lbs of wet buds on stem. Thats not many grams / W when dried. Anyways. This will be a good summer
Will add a few pictures of the harvest and some to show the progress. Thank you all.
