2nd Grow. Learned a LOT in 2009. Now improving.

Steezball said:

Looking good man! Buds are coming along nicely.
Whats the deal with hard crusty soil in a day from watering? That's what i'm experiencing at the moment.

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Are you into flower?? The plants really start sucking up the water when they flower. In my case as well, I have the HPS and probably need better ventilation plus the de-humidifer running (had LOTS and LOTS of rain so far this season; been playing havoc with my grow room)...

moler said:

nice grow, should havest some pretty decent budz....

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Thanks man...Can't wait to post pics of harvest!

phusionsa said:

Are you into flower?? The plants really start sucking up the water when they flower. In my case as well, I have the HPS and probably need better ventilation plus the de-humidifer running (had LOTS and LOTS of rain so far this season; been playing havoc with my grow room)...

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Yeah they're flowering. I probably also need better ventilation even though i just have a few CFLs.
And yeah i read about the rain issues. Hope it's all good now!

No notable updates; their simply still growing. I'm hoping four weeks left till harvest. We shall see...

Couple quick pics after their watering..Heat wave is back on us. We don't usually get these until August. I'm buying some more fans and setting up some venting to the outside world. Its getting too hat on the plants.

*edit. The third pic titled "all.jpg" was from 6/29. I hope its not my stoned eyes, but my little darlings really buffed up in a week.

Week later..Some heat stress, one plant is taking it harder than the others...The BUDSZZZZZZZZZZ are still growing strong however...
Couple pics for week, ummm...who cares? I'm going by trichs at this point...Their still ALL clear, so, a ways yet...

*note: Few red hairs here and there on a couple plants, but those were the stressed plants; think they just want to die now LOL.
Lanky bastards in the back will have FULL on HPS for 3 weeks after the harvest..

only been a few days...upping some pics after a rotation and heavy watering anyway..

All trichs are crystal clear at this point, but their coming out in droves now. Honestly, I think I flowered too early. I did not wait till they told me they were ready. 'Nother note to self.

Also thinking hard about a second grow this year as our temps are whack as it is; I'm thinking were going to have a longer than anticipated summer/fall which means my grow room won't be hugely affected in Oct. Nov. by deep plunging over night lows.

thats a sick grow man, i really like your room

Wow, thanks bro...
The girls up front are drinking heavily..The mid to back only needed a refresher or top off today. Going to stop by the grow shop tomorrow and check out some bud specific nutes as everything I have spied still has 100% clear trichs. Hoping I can squeeze in some bud blood or something else before I go for the two week flush (not 100% sure when my flush should start, but I believe I am about 3 weeks out at this point based on some of the red hairs I see coming in...).

The plan this year is to harvest at 50% amber, but NOT chopping the whole plant. There is a ton of popcorn on these girls that I would like to mature as well...Hope my plan works.

Not a whole lot to comment on; their still growing!
Made it through another "heat wave" and the plants did well. Their getting top heavy now so I had to give them some suppport with bamboo reads.
I need to post some pics tonight for contrast from last week...moving along nicely. Trichs are still clear. some red hairs on varying plants.

Finally got around to taking some new pics..Getting real close now. Their last feeding was today. From here on out its going to be water @ 6.2ph.
Some trichs are going foggy, but 95% I'd say are still crystal clear. I'm gonna save one cola and let it go almost all amber; wondering what kind of couch lock that'll be?!!

must....fight....urge.
Their looking tasty, but not ready to harvest yet...
Still have to flush the nutes out and I can't get a good "reading" on my loupe as to the trich "cloudiness". Going to snip a couple small leaves and try again; see what shape the girls are in...couple relative closeups for ya RIU...

So, had a lowhanging branch that finally got caught up in the mix and got bent and all manner of abused during a watering...I snipped it for my tasters test since it was gonna die anyway..I expect it to be harsh as it was not "flushed"...But, for reference, nice "lil" haul for low hanging fruit...I might get more out of this harvest then I first thought...

Well...couldn't resist...Plant that was going nowhere at this point (and had some cloudy trichs; confirmed with something better than my loupe) got "topped" tonight.
I'm leaving the underlings to grow and see what happens, just took the meat off this one plant...
Believe it or not, that's a 12oz. tumbler I drink my dark rum with...The cola it is next too is two days into drying...
Tonight, I am washing all the mason jars that are now empty ( ;( ) and getting them ready to fill up and help me CURE!

hey you have done owesome job there nice one bro!!!!!!

Many thanks bro...looking forward to the smoke...

phusionsa said:

Many thanks bro...looking forward to the smoke...

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check my journal i might need ur help as u have grown before!!!! My first blueberry plant!!! Need help!!

So I have been smoking me trimming that broke off a few weeks back. It was not very mature at the time, but its a nice smooth smoke and packs a whollup of a buzzzz.
Its an interesting buzz too.You can let yourself go and enjoy the high, or snap to and act "normal"...Very please so far.
My ICE plants have been maturing first and I have harvested most of those plants cola's. So far, five mason jars are curing...

Harvest time! Not everything is getting whacked, but what has 50% cloudy trich has....
Also am saving all my trimming to make blender hash with. Still have quite a bit from last year as the stuff is so damn strong!!!


*note: batteries died in my camera. Date is not correct in my pics...

looks like some fire