12/12 From Seed Experiment - 21 Strains

hayrolld said:

Those look like they would be easier to deal with than your current elbows.

Maybe I am not following something, but why can't each ring be levelled separately? If you do that, you can change directions more easily.

I get what you are saying about the overflows, I felt like the dams should be small - just high enough to keep a small amount of water in the bottom even with a decline.

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Ya know what...they can. The pieces I'm using have 4 click settings so I would have a little bit of flexibility in this regard. I would be very worried if I only got 1 or 2 clicks though...could lead to stability problems. Here are the pieces I'm referring to:



If you click the image and look very closely, each piece snaps into the other piece. This snap is about 1 inch and there are 4 click positions. So, it's not a lot but should be more than enough. As long as I can get my cinder blocks pretty level and my first row is good, this may be enough to tweak as needed.

Ideally it (current setup that is) would go like this (exaggerated example)

I know exactly what you mean with a small difference in level potentially leading to big problems, surely even more with longer tubes but I had one side of a 4' tube lower itself (during the cycle by weight of plants, poor construction...) and while it only seemed a little, that lower corner was nearly filled to the top. The dam system is specifically used to set a steady minimum level throughout the entire tube, not to limit the max or prevent overflow by other factors. It results in more nutrient solution being in the tubes at any given time making suboptimal leveling more obvious or worse, an actually problem.

So after 5 days and reading 82 pages all I have to say is wow, what a great journal, entertaining and educational great job hot diggity sog.

Now let's all do the hot dog dance


If you could take a look at my journal I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks again

Chapter 3 Update
Day 66
Flowering Day 33

Things are going great. I've been running an HPS on top and a MH on bottom for 3 days now. Kind of just curious but I'm going to be going back to dual HPS until around day 50 or so and then reevaluate. The C99's are starting to surprise me a little...they're really starting to look like kind of nice...lol.

The Chronic Thunders are lagging but are finally at a point where I can show a picture without being embarrassed

First, a couple of group shots:



Next up...some C99's





Sour Blueberry




Blue Dream





Chronic Thunder




Pictures of Blueberry Headband did not come out well so I'll get better pics next time. BBH is doing quite well...very resinous.
Not much else to report on. Been running EC 1.0 with PH fluctuating between 6.2 and 5.8. I no longer add PH down at all. Just equal parts of A&B and fresh water and that's it. Maintenance is like....nothing. Complete auto-pilot.

Really nice to see things are going so well for you.

Beautiful dense frosty layer on the BD and SB as well. Just shows no special additives or boosters are needed, just the basic essential elements so they remain healthy and function optimal and can reach their genetic potential. I already look forward to your smoke reports.

They are all looking great HDS! The frost is building hard on them!

Looking killer bro seems like you got everything dialed in perfect now awesome shit. You can tell by the plant they really look happy and healthy and the frost is amazing. I already knew which one that was before I saw the name I grew that seed and it was the same for me. Smelled like haze and blueberry syrup. Amazing flavor and great potency on it. Had clones of her but she died so only got to experience once but you will love her I guarantee it. Keep killin bro

Hot Diggity Sog said:

Chapter 3 Update
Day 66
Flowering Day 33

Things are going great. I've been running an HPS on top and a MH on bottom for 3 days now. Kind of just curious but I'm going to be going back to dual HPS until around day 50 or so and then reevaluate. The C99's are starting to surprise me a little...they're really starting to look like kind of nice...lol.

The Chronic Thunders are lagging but are finally at a point where I can show a picture without being embarrassed

First, a couple of group shots:
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Next up...some C99's
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Sour Blueberry
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Blue Dream
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Chronic Thunder
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Pictures of Blueberry Headband did not come out well so I'll get better pics next time. BBH is doing quite well...very resinous.
Not much else to report on. Been running EC 1.0 with PH fluctuating between 6.2 and 5.8. I no longer add PH down at all. Just equal parts of A&B and fresh water and that's it. Maintenance is like....nothing. Complete auto-pilot.

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holy hell man! That's impressive. Good job!

After a couple nights of reading I just finished 82 pages. For not growing for so long you sure seem to have everything well handled. Props to your ingenuity and abilities. You have solely inspired me to follow some of your guidelines in my next grow. Here in TX temps are finally getting out of the 100s so I'll be able to start a grow soon. Yesterday was 108 with 80% humidity. Smh. Anyway congratulations on your successes. Can't wait to see how this crop comes out.

Chapter 3 Update
Day 69
Flowering Day 36

I decided to do a full reservoir change. Not because I felt that I had to but I just wanted to. It had been over 2 weeks since the last full change.
I kept this nutrient mixture very simple. Equal parts of A&B, ZONE and PH Down. I am no longer using GH PH Down and have switched to 2 different products...neither of which that have citric acid. During flowering (now), I am using Botanicare PH Down which is 29% phosphoric acid. Moving away from nitric acid during flowering just makes sense to me. This has a 0-15-0 ratio btw. The girls continue to look overfed to me so this week we are running at 0.9 EC.

I'm going to try and start doing updates more frequently and focus on a different strain for each update. Today we're doing Blue Dream as well as a group shot.

How does it smell in there now?

Hows it going HdS, as Mo said bet its starting to smell gorgeous in GR now

atb

Going good guys. I've done 2 photo shoots over the last week and none of the pictures are coming out well. I think something is wrong with the camera...lol. Of course it could be the operator. I'll work on getting a proper update soon. Things are still going well.

Chapter 3 Update
Day 77
Flowering Day 44

It's been 8 days since my last update so I apologize for that. I've been spending a lot of time preparing for the next chapter and we're less than 2 weeks away from getting it started so that's pretty cool. These plants have continued to exhibit leaf curl as well as burned leaf tips. I'm really just not sure what to make of it. Switching from Blue Planet Nutrients to Aqua Flakes did not really seem to make a lot of difference. The only item worth noting was the seem to be getting too much nitrogen with Aqua Flakes. Maybe these strains are just really finicky with nutrients...not sure. Long story short, a few days ago I switched back to Blue Planet. Not because I am in any way unhappy with Aqua Flakes, but Aqua Flakes is a simple 2 part A&B and the instructions clearly state to give equal portions. With BPN, I have more flexibility. So what I've begun doing is feeding at about 20% strength and I let this fluctuate a little. I've been going as high as 830 PPM's and as low as 640 PPM which is basically 0.9 to 1.2 EC. Letting PH also fluctuate between 5.6 and 6.7. I also stopped using ZONE. I'm just trying to gain as much useful information as I can going into the next round and see if I can find anything that might be causing some of the minor issues. The last thing I will be trying is to install a new RO system and run my well water thru that. I suppose my water could be the reason.

At any rate, I'm going to share a bunch of pictures. 1/2 of them color corrected and 1/2 of them as they were shot. I had little confidence in these coming out nice (and they only came out marginal) so I did not note what each and every picture was of.

In order of Left to Right we have:
Chronic Thunder
Blueberry Headband
Blue Dream
Sour Blueberry
C99

The C99's have kind of taken over a lot of the space. I actually had to kill one too.

Chapter 3 Update
Day 77
Flowering Day 44 - Continued

C99 is front and Sour Blueberry kind of off to the side.

Looking great man ! That must be a pleasure to look at in the morning

Chapter 3 Update
Day 77
Flowering Day 44 - Continued

Misc Closeups - Original (Not color corrected)

Chapter 3 Update
Day 77
Flowering Day 44 - Continued

Misc closeups color corrected

Mr.Head said:

Looking great man ! That must be a pleasure to look at in the morning

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Thanks man, it sure is. I'm eager for them to finish so I can get the next round going. Sure hope they can finish string. The quality looks to be great but the yield is probably going to be sub-par. But again, I have no experience with any of these strains except the Chronic Thunder and that strain is just sheit.

Hot Diggity Sog said:

Thanks man, it sure is. I'm eager for them to finish so I can get the next round going. Sure hope they can finish string. The quality looks to be great but the yield is probably going to be sub-par. But again, I have no experience with any of these strains except the Chronic Thunder and that strain is just sheit.

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Hey HDS,

Looks good considering loss of light. Are you planning to complete the octagon next run----if not, I believe you'd be better off yield wise with reflectors, light rail mover and a flat canopy----re-configure ( I assume you don't want to hear that).

Little bit of burn on the leaf tips-----which I never minded, just let me know not to go any stronger.

Let's hope for a very surprising strong finish.

A~~~