First grow Heavyweight Fruit Punch

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highspeed6

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update~ heavy weights fruit punch~ Herbies
my ladies are now in week 6 of flower :), so far they stretched atleast 1 ft. (after i flip 12/12) before maxing out on growth around 3 week mark. week 3-4 was mainly just bud development, week 5 the plants got frosty and buds are connecting, forming nice colas.
ill post pics tomorrow.
growing with t5 pioneer jr 216 watt for 20,000 lumens.
fox farm soil & nutes.

even though im using t5 lights im curious to see how all of our harvest compare too! figgy using 600 watt, apple 400 watt, me 216 watt. lol its safe to say ill have the smallest yield.
 
applejohnny

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It's not just about yield but yield vs time, and factoring in electricity costs and how maintenance intensive the garden is also. What I find interesting about Figgy's grow is how much faster the plants seem to grow in hydro vs soil - or perhaps it's the difference between 600w vs 400w. It's just difficult to be patient on the first grow - it's going to take me about 5 months from seed to harvest in the end. Anyhow, it's not a race and I hope we can all learn from each other.
 
Figgy

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It's good to have as much info on the strain as we can. And I knew hydro grow much faster and larger than soil. I just want the best smoke, and I hear that's in soil.

An update on the grow: Buds are really starting to grow. There was noticeable growth overnight. I'll be upping the feed next time to help with the this growth.

I think I have fungus gnats. Found and killed a couple small black gnat things. Put a top layer of sand and some sticky traps (Vaseline on yellow plastic sheets) out. I think Im going to top the pots off with perlite as well. Hopefully that will keep them in check.

Smoked some of this. Was really wanting just to see how immature bud smokes as this is the first time doing it. Got lit. Tasted and smoked like garbage, but that was expected. At almost 4 weeks though, it did the job. Really excited to smoke this cured,
and have another strain going.
 
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applejohnny said:
It's not just about yield but yield vs time, and factoring in electricity costs and how maintenance intensive the garden is also. What I find interesting about Figgy's grow is how much faster the plants seem to grow in hydro vs soil - or perhaps it's the difference between 600w vs 400w. It's just difficult to be patient on the first grow - it's going to take me about 5 months from seed to harvest in the end. Anyhow, it's not a race and I hope we can all learn from each other.
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yea its def not a race, I vegged my plants for 7 weeks before flipping the switch... but at the end of the day yield/quality is what im growing for. I don't have to really worry about my elec bill since im using t5 its not much of a diff. but like I said the yields from us three is interesting to see since everyone always say this and that about different lights and such.. well I just rolled me a fatty and gonna get lifted.. heres some pics of my fruit punch :).
oh yea, I had those damn fungus flies flyin around earlier in my grow also figgy and the sand worked great!
I posted a pics of the main cola growth and 1 pic of the whole plant, overall im happy with what im seeing at this point off of a 216 watt t5 lol.
note~ I water about every 3-4 days as needed.. 5 gallon pots
 

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Update: day 29 flower

Got a little nute burn. Just enough to let me know where I am on nutes when feeding. Just did an EWC tea. Everything just moving along slowly.

So I smoked some of this early to see how immature bud smoked. I also left a small bud out to dry on its own, and smoked that last night. This bud smelled like Fruit Stripes gum when it dried! I wasn't expecting such a strong fruity smell, but I see why they gave it the name.

And here are day 29 flower pics. Group shot, cola shot, and a bud/frost shot.image.jpgimage.jpg image.jpg
 
applejohnny

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Figgy, hope you don't mind me posting in your thread, but there's not much out there on HWFP and this keeps things in 1 place. Like you, 1 out of 4 seeds I planted never thrived. So my plan of filling the 3x3 space with 4 plants changed. Now I'm doing a bit of LST to try and get a good coverage in my grow area, keep the canopy even and get some greenery into the sweetspot of the light. Plants still in veg - about 1ft tall after tying down but going to flip soon. (pic taken through sunglasses).

Learning a lot first grow. Next grow I'm planning on changing the orientation of the light and SCROGing.
 
Figgy

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All good Apple! That was the purpose of this journal. I'm glad I'm down to 3 plants now. It's damn crowded in there now.

I'm currently dealing with the Earth Juice not being able to handle the N requirements. I'm loosing fan leaves along stems, and some of the main fans are starting to yellow. I'm adding extra EJ Grow to try and stop it. Hopefully it will work.
 
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hey figgy and apple...great thread...I too am trying the HWFP seeds from herbies. Like apple, I am using 4 T5 4 foot tubes (envirogro). Had reasonable luck with bag seeds over the winter but now with summer in full swing in FL the temps shot up to 90+ (house is ~80 ambient...winter it was ~70) under them...even with 3 80mm pc fans hanging off the lights, 3 120mm pc fans along the bottom of the space and two 6" clip fans just above the light pulling air from the back of the space. With the high temps, I misread the 2 I started in mid march and seriously overwatered them (went straight into 5 gal pots). Finally gave up after 2 months with only 4 leaf sets and 4 in height. Actually got a small portable AC :cuss:Started these 2 on may 16 and they popped out may 19. today (may 26) they are a little over 1" tall and second set is well under way. From figgys early pics it looks like I am on track. :clap: I am also using Sunshine Rainforest soil and canna terra nutes. Sunshine says on site to start feeding regimen within 14 days...so yesterday I gave them 50ppm nutes with the RO water I am using (ppm=3). Later this week I will kick that up to ~150ppm per canna grow schedule.

Thanks for the info guys...it is comforting after the expenditures for seeds/AC to see I am again having some success
 
Redvenom03

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Hey bud, awesome thread I just read through all 6 pages and had a quick question for you.

How's that 400cfm hydro farm exhaust fan work for the smell now that your into flower? Would you say it completely masks the smell?
 
Figgy

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Redvenom03 said:
Hey bud, awesome thread I just read through all 6 pages and had a quick question for you.

How's that 400cfm hydro farm exhaust fan work for the smell now that your into flower? Would you say it completely masks the smell?
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Yeah the 400 is on 24/7 with the Phresh filter and zero smell. It's exhausted into the framework of the home through the ceiling. When the tent is open that's another thing.
 
Figgy

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lemonogkush said:
Well I've been curing my HW Fruit Punch for about a month now and the smell has changed.. I keep them with the 62% packs in Ball jars .. The smell is very Lemony...almost like a leamonhead candy. I have 2 other strains that smell more fruity than this. It has more of a Lemon smell than my Lemon OG Kush which is weird and I never had a strain that was soo much like a lemon. It didn't have a lemon smell until it cured.. I like it. I haven't smoked it yet but I will later this week , from the smell it should be killer.
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Lemon, how was the smoke?
 
Figgy

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Update: Day 35 flower

Lots of fan leaves yellowing and falling off. I just fed straight Earth Juice Grow to see if I can get some N in there. Also have a topdress of EWC. The tallest one's pistils have started to change. I'm guessing this is a fast and tall pheno. She looks at least 1-2 weeks further along, but her buds aren't as large. I'm hoping she swells up and keeps growing, but we'll see. Overall they are still doing pretty well. They smell pretty damn skunky with the fans blowing, but have a skunk/citrus smell when fans are off, and have some decent resin production as I get a little sticky when brushing up against them. Trichs are looking really nice when I zoom in on the pics. I definitely won't be needing a scope since the camera zooms in wonderfully. Sony RX-100 camera. Pics...DSC01321.JPG DSC01322.JPG DSC01316.JPG DSC01317.JPG
 
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So I cut off a tiny popcorn bud, and this bitch is purple! I'm not sure if it's due to it being early or what. Can't see it under the hps, but under normal light it's awesome! And this is off the medium sized girl who is in the front pic of the tent the past couple weeks (last pic from above). Check this out...
 

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@Figgy - Great postings. I'm sure this thread took you some good time and I really appreciate that. I am currently 8 days in flowering with the Heavy Weight Fruit Punch Seeds. I will post some pics in a few days of how they looked along the way.
 
Figgy

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So I'm having a lot of leaves turn yellow. I have no clue what it is. I think this Earth Juice just can't cut it. Looks kind of like a bad N deficiency. I know people say it's normal, but now I'm seeing the larger leaves surrounding the buds start to turn. I'll be switching to a soilless grow with Jacks Classic nutes next run. Just sucks seeing these kind of stall out and yellow so much.
 
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highspeed6

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figgy, leaves turning yellow could mean anything, too much heat stress, too many nutes, low nitrogen.. if leaves aren't curling then its prolly not nutes. any pics? would help a lot.
 
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