THELOADEDDRAGON'S Perpetually growing perpetual grow

redoing the veg area today

Doing work in the flowering area as well

Pics later.... GOOD Pics

and yeah.... good times..... gotta get a bunch of trimming done though too :/

sounds good.

heres pics..... plant shots imidiately followed by its bud shots....

gotta add a heater at night its starting to get too cool at night (60)........ Got some light retention done.... LOL...... more trying to keep light out a little more

and the rest of the pics of the flowering ladies

they were watered and fed FF big bloom today

hey man,, very nice grow... always like a grower that does it both in and out... so your plants are showing signs of hear stress... curling leaves as they get close to the light, reddening stems as they get closer to the light
like seen here



I see your using a pretty crappy reflector( no offense, we've all been there lol) but these guys just simply suck. was your the 30$ one?




I would get an air cooled reflector that will do good for you amount of space, like sun master air cooled XL... this well give your girls much better light distribution and save your tops from being too close to that light giving temps from that 1000w bulb which we all know can be really hot(around 170 degree at the surface of the bulb) which they obviously dont like... trust me man, i am very familiar with heat stress. if you can afford to run the ducting/fan, it will keep that bulb real cool making it possible to lower your lights even closer


This would be a good replacement,, equally distributes light everywhere, the glass is key as it keeps the hot air in the reflector, not being down on you pretty laddies

what are you temps at the top of your plants man? btw, some cal-mag+ from bonticare will really dense up your buds.. just incase your not already using a supplement already. your buds dont look that dense, looks light bad light distribution

Econowing reflector..


just a waste of lumens... man you got such a nice setup, for real... why no upgrade and i promise you will see a big difference

cant believe the negativity... if loaded thought there was a prob he would of shared it wit us..

theloadeddragon said:

and the rest of the pics of the flowering ladies

they were watered and fed FF big bloom today

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Nice, how tall are those dirls in the flowering?

Hell yeah loaded, things are looking nice this way!

This pic makes me envious of your situation...nice trees in the foreground AND background!


Keep on doing what you do...

c5rftw said:

hey man,, very nice grow... always like a grower that does it both in and out... so your plants are showing signs of hear stress... curling leaves as they get close to the light, reddening stems as they get closer to the light
like seen here

I see your using a pretty crappy reflector( no offense, we've all been there lol) but these guys just simply suck. was your the 30$ one?

I would get an air cooled reflector that will do good for you amount of space, like sun master air cooled XL... this well give your girls much better light distribution and save your tops from being too close to that light giving temps from that 1000w bulb which we all know can be really hot(around 170 degree at the surface of the bulb) which they obviously dont like... trust me man, i am very familiar with heat stress. if you can afford to run the ducting/fan, it will keep that bulb real cool making it possible to lower your lights even closer


This would be a good replacement,, equally distributes light everywhere, the glass is key as it keeps the hot air in the reflector, not being down on you pretty laddies

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Hey buddy....... plants are NOT heat stressed...... actually they have gotten a little too cold (PURPLE stems). My exhaust fan pulls hot air away from the light imediately, and it does a fantastic job . They do not need botanicare Cal Mag...... I just gave them big bloom, they get tiger bloom, and EJC EJG, there is already calcium and magnesium in my water .... That reflector is not the best.... but it works just fine . I appreciate your interest...... stick around and you will learn a lot..... I would love it if you would READ through this thread and my others and you will learn a lot (Just please don't post any advice)...... the leaf tips curling down, as you pointed out, is because I didn't quite let the medium in the pots dry out all the way before I watered/fed, and I have been upping the doses of nutrients faster than I normally would to "push" the plants/strains, testing the genetics of these strains to discern their properties and characteristics in reaction to certain stimuli, such as a a rapid, or aggresive flowering cycle, these are hardenned stable strains that have already exceeded my expectations

c5rftw said:

what are you temps at the top of your plants man? btw, some cal-mag+ from bonticare will really dense up your buds.. just incase your not already using a supplement already. your buds dont look that dense, looks light bad light distribution

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The temps around the top of my plants at the highest point of the day is 78 degrees . At night it is getting too cold dipping as far down as 60 degrees.

c5rftw said:

Econowing reflector..

just a waste of lumens... man you got such a nice setup, for real... why no upgrade and i promise you will see a big difference

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Actually..... using that reflector, I got 2 lb + harvest this last summer ..... works just fine ....... when you know how to manipulate it to get max spread and distribution out of it

Could you explain to me then precisely the best way to get lumens on PAR to my plants?

dgk4life said:

cant believe the negativity... if loaded thought there was a prob he would of shared it wit us..

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Yep.... I pretty much always put down whats going on ..... like Widow Cindy has yellowing leaves because she is more sensitive to ph issues than the rest ...... she likes it around 6.4 ..... the rest don't mind it going up to 6.6-6.8 like it did after I cultivated in some dolomite lime

Like the plants got burned by the light out of MY laziness.... lol...... just got too close before I moved the light up.... lol.... that simple

#1Raiderfan420 said:

Nice, how tall are those dirls in the flowering?

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the Maui skunk is the tallest one, tied over at 5' 4" hehehehe...... the shortest one is the Widow Cindy with the bent bottom of the stem and she is 3' 10"

ChemoCindy and Twilight are my Favorites thus far

Jerry Garcia said:

Hell yeah loaded, things are looking nice this way!

This pic makes me envious of your situation...nice trees in the foreground AND background!

Keep on doing what you do...

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I will and thanks you.... this is turning out to be quite the nice test run

And I couldn't give up that kind of background..... my feet don't like concrete jungle cheers and congrats on the harvest

OK...... for those that don't read back I shall reiterate....

The plants in flower are simply seeds that I did not choose to keep on as mothers, that I chose not to breed with.... They are Extras...... As per the previously posted schedule, the flowering room wasn't going to be used for awhile, but the equipment etc. was here already not being used, I needed to put the flowering room up anyways to have it established and tested when the first REAL run is done in it starting in December..... The flowering room was designed based on an SOG schematic, which is to be used after this round...... and the plants in there now were not originally intended, or grown using techniques to: flower for sensimillia. This Test run allows for me to "push" these plants using stressers to see what they are and aren't susceptible to, it also allows for me to break in the room in such a way that I can make any desirable adjustments to it before the first REAL run is started.

Anyone that has read through my threads and picked anything up about me or my style of growing knows that: I spend practically nill cash on growing, the bare minimum. Due to my upbringing and beliefs, I re use, recycle, DIY, make use of what there is. Believe that growing pot should not be done out of selfish greed for profits, but out of compassion for the sick, love of nature, love of cannabis.

Up until now I have spent the bare minimum in cash on growing, I have recycled and re used (And I will continue to). Now I am ready to buy new equipment and expand on what has been established. its all in the title.... Perpetually growing perpetual grow

man its saddening to hear loaded that u r having so many problems.. i wish u woul of broke the news to me instead of me havin to find it out through the bubble heads...lol jk but i got no probs in my part o the world... ignore the h8rs loaded

mmmm looks good ....... definitely better than last time..... ...... Im not having any problems, hahahaha....... Im stoked ...... next month I will have that SOG action going on

but the bubblehead said..... ohhhhhhhhhhh thats right never mind lol

got some veg room/mother shots and update..... later though

c5rftw said:

hey man,, very nice grow... always like a grower that does it both in and out... so your plants are showing signs of hear stress... curling leaves as they get close to the light, reddening stems as they get closer to the light
like seen here

I see your using a pretty crappy reflector( no offense, we've all been there lol) but these guys just simply suck. was your the 30$ one?

I would get an air cooled reflector that will do good for you amount of space, like sun master air cooled XL... this well give your girls much better light distribution and save your tops from being too close to that light giving temps from that 1000w bulb which we all know can be really hot(around 170 degree at the surface of the bulb) which they obviously dont like... trust me man, i am very familiar with heat stress. if you can afford to run the ducting/fan, it will keep that bulb real cool making it possible to lower your lights even closer


This would be a good replacement,, equally distributes light everywhere, the glass is key as it keeps the hot air in the reflector, not being down on you pretty laddies

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hhhmmmm... "hear stress" ??? the stems are purple (kinda) and the only "Burning" i saw was roght before i inhaled... GOOD SH!T by the way ...

neoShogun911 said:

hhhmmmm... "hear stress" ??? the stems are purple (kinda) and the only "Burning" i saw was roght before i inhaled... GOOD SH!T by the way ...

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Oh it is very nice...good meeting you..

theloadeddragon said:

Hey buddy....... plants are NOT heat stressed...... actually they have gotten a little too cold (PURPLE stems). My exhaust fan pulls hot air away from the light imediately, and it does a fantastic job . They do not need botanicare Cal Mag...... I just gave them big bloom, they get tiger bloom, and EJC EJG, there is already calcium and magnesium in my water .... That reflector is not the best.... but it works just fine . I appreciate your interest...... stick around and you will learn a lot..... I would love it if you would READ through this thread and my others and you will learn a lot (Just please don't post any advice)....

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LOL man, i knew you were the type that no matter if i was right or not,, you still wouldn;t eXcept any adive....I love how you tell me i will learn from your grow.. but this is an insult to me.. not because i know more or less... just because your assuming things.. btw good luck with your grow man... no point for me to check back in becasue unless you want me to brown nose you with advice ,which i can tell you likee