4 plant Hempy bucket.48sq.ft. Now 3kW HPS! 4/6/8wk Veg.

SW1 Day 12
Got a few pictures under regular lighting. I'm really happy with coloration and overall performance from the Mega Crop. I will be sticking with it from this point forward. Dropped nutes to 800ppm and added 1Tbsp/gal of Epsom salt. I started to see a bit more yellowing than I liked at this point and I know I have almost no Mg in my tap water.

Happy with the results from the defoliation. She's starting to fill in.




SW2 Day 5

Very nice!!!! and so clean and organized.

Good work mate nice setup

I did another defoliation on SW1 along with 2-5. Noticed what I'm thinking is a bit of light burn so I raised lighting to 18" in both flower and veg. I'm trying to keep roughly the same amount of Lux with the MH and HPS throughout later veg. All plants have been topped a couple times. SW3 that is getting flipped on 2/1 had to also have some super cropping done yesterday.

SW1 hasn't stretched all that much but I'm starting to think she was stressed because the others look like they are really going to get some height on them if not watched closely.

Flower switched to just 1- 1000w hps until the next plant is flipped.


SW1 Day 18




SW2 Day 11


Veg tent


SW3


SW4


SW5 (aka The Clone)

Just got word some of my new seeds are arriving Thursday so we will be popping one of each this weekend.

Thank you Attitude Seed Bank!
Now to decide which ones to pop...

.Smoke said:

Thank you Attitude Seed Bank!
Now to decide which ones to pop...
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Nice selection there Smoke!! The decision is never easy.

1 Zkittlez Glue and 1 Phantom Cookies Domina in the drink. I think my last one I will pop until my first plant (SW1) is harvested will be the MK Ultra from ILGM. I should have them tomorrow.

I'm hoping I see the same germination results placing the cups up on the light again. I was able to plant in 24hrs using this method the last time. In my basement it takes 2-3 days normally for tap root to show with no extra heat.

Anyway, fingers crossed

*edit* (cups are covered during germination to keep 24hr darkness during the process. Tap water ph'd to 5.8 about 1/2 inch deep so I get heat transfer from the lamp.)

Compliments on your setup. I'm curious why you invested so much into your gear to grow only a few plants? That looks like an air line running to your reservoir. I added air stones to 2 buckets previously and there was no appreciable difference between those 2 plants and the rest of the hempy buckets in the garden. It really blows my mind that you are running 3000 watts of power to grow a few plants. What gives? Line 'em up wall to wall man. You're wasting your electricity.

jonnynobody said:

Compliments on your setup. I'm curious why you invested so much into your gear to grow only a few plants? That looks like an air line running to your reservoir. I added air stones to 2 buckets previously and there was no appreciable difference between those 2 plants and the rest of the hempy buckets in the garden. It really blows my mind that you are running 3000 watts of power to grow a few plants. What gives? Line 'em up wall to wall man. You're wasting your electricity.

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Thank you!

The line you see is the water line. No air being used.

Reason for the setup is I will eventually have 4 plants constantly in flower that have had very long veg times. All harvest dates are spread out. When one plant is harvested another goes into flower and a new seed is popped. So plants will have anywhere from 8 - ? weeks of veg so I'm figuring 4 in a 4x8 doesn't seem too unrealistic.

After the 5 Skywalkers are done, all strains will vary.
In fact, I just finished up putting the Zkittlez Glue, Phantom Cookies Domina, and an MK Ultra seed in their buckets.

A couple quick pics. Flower is coming along nicely and the new seeds are in the veg tent. Thanks to a piece of repurposed cardboard they're right at 9-10k lux.

mk ultra, Zkittlez glue, phantom cookies domina

.Smoke said:

A couple quick pics. Flower is coming along nicely and the new seeds are in the veg tent. Thanks to a piece of repurposed cardboard they're right at 9-10k lux.
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It sounds like you have a well thought out plan. Your girls look healthy and beautiful. Very nice work! What EC and fertilizer do you run? I've been using maxi grow, maxi bloom, and floralicous plus. Seems to be the simplest mix I can find. I tried jack's 3-2-1 with less than stellar results before I went back to the maxi line. I feel GH's product is priced high for what it is, but it works and causes me zero issues. Hempy buckets rock

Here's my current garden of gg#4 and 1 maui wai in the middle. Can't wait to see the harvest pics of your ladies. You've got a very nice grow going there!

jonnynobody said:

It sounds like you have a well thought out plan. Your girls look healthy and beautiful. Very nice work! What EC and fertilizer do you run? I've been using maxi grow, maxi bloom, and floralicous plus. Seems to be the simplest mix I can find. I tried jack's 3-2-1 with less than stellar results before I went back to the maxi line. I feel GH's product is priced high for what it is, but it works and causes me zero issues. Hempy buckets rock

Here's my current garden of gg#4 and 1 maui wai in the middle. Can't wait to see the harvest pics of your ladies. You've got a very nice grow going there!

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I switched from GH nutes to Megacrop this round and love it. Much easier than having to mix the feeds.
Ppm is 400 in veg and 750 in flower atm.

Your garden looks awesome. Best of luck!

Flower tent is filled now.

Day 24

Day 17

Day 3 (6wks veg)

Day 3 (6wks veg)

Those flowering girls are looking great! What's the defoliation all about?

jonnynobody said:

Those flowering girls are looking great! What's the defoliation all about?

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Thank you.

I don't like leaving anything on that doesn't get direct light.
The oldest one on the left had about the same thing done to her at the end of wk 1 flower and you can see how she's filled out. I left some fan leaves on the one next to her to see if there's much of a difference in yield.

I defoliated the last 2 a few days before going into flower to let them recover just a bit before going into 12/12.

***Edit. You can see the difference 1 day has made.

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Veg tent update.
100% seedling success rate and clone is humming along.



Plan is to try and get 4 main colas on this one..topped many times...

So,
Fuck it.
We're filling the tents.
1- Gorilla Glue #4
1- Blueberry Gum
1- 710 Mango
1- Blue Dream
Seeds dropped in the drink minutes ago.
Same process as last time.
Let's do this...

.Smoke said:

So,
Fuck it.
We're filling the tents.
1- Gorilla Glue #4
1- Blueberry Gum
1- 710 Mango
1- Blue Dream
Seeds dropped in the drink minutes ago.
Same process as last time.
Let's do this...

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Now your talking Smoke....let’s fill these tents!! I just dropped 6 seeds in water too to fill my tent.

The circle of life man. Maui waui clones from a plant that's been flowering for 3 weeks in the clone bucket. 6 hash plant feminized seeds in the veg tent along with 3 random unknown (hopefully) females. And the flower room with 7 gg4 clones and 1 maui waui. The gg4 cut I'm running grows top shelf flower, but they're very branchy plants I will not run it again because it's screwing me hardcore on yield. The maui is a short squatty indica dominant strain. The leaves are turning a beautiful purple which the breeder has advised me is an attribute of the strain and is not a deficiency. I'm really hoping the clones root and the cuttings go back into veg without issue. It's just a gorgeous plant and the smell is unique like flowers with citrus.