Super Lemon Haze in a Phototron

For some reason the RIU system doesn't like my document that I have my journal on, so I copied it and here it is:

Closet Aliens

Soil:
CocoTek expandable coco
1 mil Dutch Pro Grow A+B
1 gallon vermiculite
1 gallon perlite
2 gallons of PUR purified tap water ph'd to 5.5
All were combined and let to soak overnight and then put into a 5 gallon fabric shopping bag and placed in The Tron.


November 30 Ripley popped.

December 3 Fed both Ripley and Nancy with half strength ( 1 mil/liter {948 mil PUR purified tap water}) Dutch Pro Grow A+B and Horomex.
December 4: Gave 50 ml of 5.7 water to each
December 5: 948 ml of 5.7 water and moved light 3 inches above canopy of Ripley.
December 7: Transplanted Ripley to center of Tron; gave her 200 ml of 5.8 water and discarded rockwool and seeds in it.
December 9: 120 ml Great White 1/2 strength (sample pack 1Tblspn? Mixed 1/2 of that with 1 gal of purified tap water. PH:6). Removed cup as clear dome and adjusted light to 2". Ripley looks bleached.
December 10: 946 ml 5.8 water; no runoff.
December 11: 946 ml 5.8 pur water. Runoff: 6.6 ph; 620 ppm.
December 12: 946 ml 5.8 pur water.
December 14: Removed four bottom leaves; 2ml grow A+B;1ml Horomex in 946 ml pur water at 5.8 ph.
December 17: 2ml grow A+B, 1ml Hormex,1.5 ml Multi Total in 946 ml pur tap at 5.8 ph. She has shown four internodal sprouts in the past two days but still has not developed.
December 19: 946 ml Pur tap water at 5.8(?) ph.
December 20: moved light to 4" above canopy
December 21: 946 ml 5.6 ph (?) with 2ml grow A+B, 1ml Hormex. She grew 1.5 inches in 8 hours (?).
December 23: vented The Tron using the sock on the right side of the tent. I think I noticed significant growth after doing that. I will take measurements tomorrow to confirm.

Thanks again for everyone's input and advice and again a very Merry Christmas to all of you!

looking awesome UniDragon! Everything looks and sounds right on!!
maybe instead of keeping the door open with a sock use a ruler.
I take a ruler to prop open my phototron panels then put a fan infront of the door.
When she is ready to go to sleep I put the panel down, fan off and cover the one panel that I didn't spray paint black with a custom fit thick plastic garbage bag material with Velcro on the ends that goes right over that one panel to keep out light leaks.

With the heat up in the room the Cuvee is looking much better, healthier and greener.

merry chrimbo to you and everyone else as well.

the cuvee is so weird looking really bizarre little thing.


with some very strange abnormalities
fuck I must have acciently delete the pictures!! SHIT!! there was this long yellow pistil shooting straight out. inbetween her FAN Leafs!! and this little bud sites she is producing are really bizarre as well. I need to get some close ups.

Heres a shot with the door open with the ruler, UniDragon. I started feeding her Crystal Burst, a nice high 0-15-15!!!! SO looking for explosive buds in the future.

Sometimes I just pull the panel all the way up and leave it bent for even more breeze.



in the new closet I have a baby Smelly cherry. I picked one of the purple seeds this time!!
and a Bubbleblomb in the Bubblebomb hydo mini waterfarm. This is my second seed, my first one wasn't bugding.

Mmmm cuvee!

Dr.Amber Trichome said:

looking awesome UniDragon! Everything looks and sounds right on!!
maybe instead of keeping the door open with a sock use a ruler.
I take a ruler to prop open my phototron panels then put a fan infront of the door.
When she is ready to go to sleep I put the panel down, fan off and cover the one panel that I didn't spray paint black with a custom fit thick plastic garbage bag material with Velcro on the ends that goes right over that one panel to keep out light leaks.

With the heat up in the room the Cuvee is looking much better, healthier and greener.

merry chrimbo to you and everyone else as well.

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I didn't explain that right: The Tron is in a tent. The tent has vents that look like windsocks that you would see at a airport. I opened the nearest vent to blow air on The Tron. I propped open the panel closest to that vent to create airflow and it made a huge improvement. Words cannot describe how good it makes me feel to know that a Master Phototron grower has reviewed my grow journal and pics and approves of and is agreement in what I have done with my current Tron project. I'll have a Merry Christmas now! Thanks Doc. I hope your Christmas is as good as you just made mine!

I love your Positive Vibes!
Keep you r head up
just because I'm a Master Phototron Grower dosent make me unsusceptible to balls.
Like my last 2 plants turned out to be boys,,, Just look at this deformed pathetic runt of Cuvee.
This cuvee has had problems from the get go and took me a really long time to find out its a boy.
Just like that Culture club song. I will tumble for you.

The Chrimbo Cuvee Chrimbo Tree.

Dr.Amber Trichome said:

I love your Positive Vibes!
Keep you r head up
just because I'm a Master Phototron Grower dosent make me unsusceptible to balls.
Like my last 2 plants turned out to be boys,,, Just look at this deformed pathetic runt of Cuvee.
This cuvee has had problems from the get go and took me a really long time to find out its a boy.
Just like that Culture club song. I will tumble for you.

The Chrimbo Cuvee Chrimbo Tree.

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Y'but, still, to get approval on my current project from a Master Phototron grower is still invigorating! This is a AlienXTriangle auto that I am working on now. This also happens to be my inaugural Tron grow so needless to say I am doing alot of this blind and working on instinct alone. I may need your advice, when the time comes, so I can LST her. My plan, so far, is to LST her on the first day of budding/flowering. I have seen youtube videos where all people have done is tie or tape the plant down to one side. That would be fine except Ripley has so many alternate branches now that I don't think that simply bending her over and tying her down with the single piece of string will do the job. While she is still in the veg stage, should I remove the fan leaves on her? I have read over and over again to NOT trim her at all. HT (High Times) did an article on autos and their advice was to simply remove the fan leaves in the early stage of veg, which I did. But, according to HT, that is the only time you can cut or trim an auto. When you LST your plants, is that all you do, tie a piece of string to the top branch and lean her over to where she is level with the soil or do you tie other branches as well to keep them away from the light and if so how? Sorry for saturating this post with questions but I am still pretty new at this and so far you are the ONLY person who has offered me any advice per The Tron.

let me answer on question at a time for you..
First. I suggest to simply TOP her by pinching her top budding site. This way you will get 2 new main colas instead of one.
This can be done and I always do it BEFORE flowering. IF you do it now, it would be perfect timing. And one topping like this is enough for a plant in a phototron. You do not want her to get anymore horizontally wide.

Do not remove any fan leaves unless they are ill looking or damaged.. completely unnessasay in the Tron system

In my opinion High Times is not a good reference for growing tips. I have read so much bull shit in that magazine.
I suggest obtaining a copy of Jorge Cervantes Bible. It covers all the basics.

Don't try fimming it, its very tricky.. Topping it is much easier and works very well.
Cutting Cannabis For Better Structure: Topping & FIMing

Topping and FIMing are two cannabis plant training techniques that involve "pinching" or cutting off some of the top growth. These techniques are designed to give you a free way to achieve better plant shape (to make better use of the available light), create more colas, and achieve bigger yields.

Topping: Cut top of plant between nodes





Good Luck and hit me up with any more questions if you need help! Keep the pictures coming so I can see your progression.

looks like riu is fucked up right now.

yeah

ooops!Love the drawing.

My eyes aren't that great anymore. I cant do the detail I use to be able to.
I drew this for you Unidragon

Dr.Amber Trichome said:

My eyes aren't that great anymore. I cant do the detail I use to be able to.
I drew this for you Unidragon
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How really cool! Thanks for the thought! I have decided to wait for Ripley to crown and then I will top her at that point. I will be posting pictures later today that I have taken over a three day period of time to illustrate progressive growth. I think that when you see these pics you will understand more in depth why I am very concerned that I may probably run out of room in The Tron. Her diameter as of yesterday was 11.5 inches from leaf tip to leaf tip. My wife, the Uni in UniDragon, suggested starting the LST immediately to conserve space. I will make that final decision once my pics have been posted and I can get feedback and advice from fellow growers.

Here are the pictures that I took over the last few days. These were taken on 12-27. I took a couple of pictures to illustrate my method of ventilation as well.

Here are pictures taken on 12-28 just to show the progress of Ripley's growth.

And here is what she looked like this morning. Today is the first day that I will have to feed her two days in a row despite increasing her growth nutes per the Dutch Pro feeding schedule.

So, after reviewing my pics, do you feel that I may run out of room in The Tron? Is it time to LST her or wait for a couple of weeks, which was my original plan? Another question that I have is how critical is it to use a "finishing bulb"? I have read that after the veg and bloom stages of growing it is important to flush the plants thoroughly before harvest primarily by saturating the plant in water; but some use like Sledgehammer first and then water it excessively before harvest. During this stage I have read that a "finishing bulb" is used which has a kelvin of 10,000. Is this critical? I am having lots of problems finding a bulb of this kelvin that is small enough, 25 watts or less, to fit into The Tron. If it's critical to use, then I will adapt somehow but wanted to get opinions first.

Thanks for any and all advice, good or bad.

Ripley looks perfect so just keep doing what your doing. Now would be a good time to flip to 12/12 if you haven't already. I would take away that little lite you have hanging over her. Its prob not doing much at this point. I would top her now. Flushing is done a week or 2 before harvest and I wouldn't even be thinking about that if I were you. You got a ways to go. I don't know what a finishing bulb is and never heard about that thing ever before.
Flushing for a week or 2 with reg tap water is just fine. By that time she has enough nutes stored for finishing up and some think it is best to flush all the nutes out of the plant completely before chopping.
Can you get a photo of the entire phototron so I can see how tall it is?
If she gets too tall then you can tie her down then .

Dr.Amber Trichome said:

Ripley looks perfect so just keep doing what your doing. Now would be a good time to flip to 12/12 if you haven't already. I would take away that little lite you have hanging over her. Its prob not doing much at this point. I would top her now. Flushing is done a week or 2 before harvest and I wouldn't even be thinking about that if I were you. You got a ways to go. I don't know what a finishing bulb is and never heard about that thing ever before.
Flushing for a week or 2 with reg tap water is just fine. By that time she has enough nutes stored for finishing up and some think it is best to flush all the nutes out of the plant completely before chopping.
Can you get a photo of the entire phototron so I can see how tall it is?
If she gets too tall then you can tie her down then .

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Hey Doc,
I tried to upload pics of Ripley earlier today and the RIU site was down. I just tried again and for some reason their system is not letting me upload pics, with or without my vpn so my guess is they still have some issues to work out. I will get pics up asap for your review. TwistedIdentities had a great idea for a finishing bulb which is to use a saltwater aquarium bulb, so I am on the hunt for one. According to the Dutch Pro schedule for Autos I am to start the flowering cycle in a week or so. My veg cycle has been 20/4 so when I flower I am planning on 18/6 and then it jumps back to 20/4 for awhile and then I don't remember. Anyway, Uni, my wife, found TWO PREFLOWERS LAST NIGHT...WOO-HOO! So I am right around the corner from flowering, just like the schedule indicated so I guess I will be successful at this grow! I am the only person that I know that can kill a plant like this. I've done it twice before. I was told that autos were virtually indestructible and I guess that is true based on the fact that Ripley is doing so well. Her overall height is now between 6.5"-7" and is still around 11.5" wide from leaf tip to leaf tip.

On another note, not that it is any of my business, but did you ever pursue medical help for your mysterious bumps that moved from your neck to your armpit? I hope so and I really hope that all is well and your former doctor was mistaken and that there is nothing wrong at all. If it is in fact a cancerous tumor, consider hitting up doctors at M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston. Last I heard they set the standards for cancer treatments. I realize that Houston is nowhere close to the Great Northwest but it may be worth a call to speak to a doctor there and get their feedback just to keep your doctor in check. I was born with Spina-Bifida and so consequently I spent the first third of my life in and out of hospitals. Over time, I have learned to NOT trust the first doctor that I deal with and like to double and triple check their work and advice. Bottom line is I hope all is well and wish the best for you and Mr. Trichomes as well.

Happy New Year!

Sorry for the delay in posting these pics for you. These were taken on 12-30-15(?) if I saved these properly.

These were taken yesterday morning. I will try to get current pics up later today; especially one that illustrates the size of the plant vs. the size of The Tron; like you requested . Happy New Year everyone!