Barney's Gorilla Zkittlez

tyke1973 said:

Run this last grow ,nice strain .
Barneys version I run ,nice tight nuggets,the pheno I had, was more gg#1 than Zstittlez. But I'm sure ya will enjoy it,search in general section for tyke blue sherbert and gorilla Zstittlez and ya will see end bud shots .Good luck enjoy .I gave it light feeding 1.3 ec towards end but up to around week 5 1.2 ec .I did only feed canna a/b ,big bud from advanced week 2 for 3 week ,then pk 13/14 for around a week at 1.3 ec .Hope this helps

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Your flowers turn out really nice. I finished the gorilla zkittlez in November, this grow is humboldt's chocolate mint og. My experience with them was similar, towards the end of flower they really slowed up on the nutrients. I got a little nute burn from not responding quickly enough. I really have to ask one of the moderators to rename this thread to something better.

Here's day 51 update. I was out of town for four days and my plants had some issues. The yellowing that I've been experiencing has progressed further. The entire plant is now much more pale than the other plant. I cannot for the life of me figure out what is causing this. At first I thought it was low on phosphorus and perhaps calmag. Last week I increased my bloom nutrients and calmag. That didn't seem to do anything so after this weeks reservoir change I decided to reduce the ppm to around 650. The plant that is having the yellowing issue looks like it's close to being done so it is what it is. The roots look really good! they're filling the pail right to the bottom of the net pot.

Looking awesome!
nice work Laughing Grass.
I am getting my RO buddy today and was wondering what you use to store your collected water in. I have been looking at rain barrels on amazon. Any recommendations?
thanks , have a wonderful weekend!

tyke1973 said:

Beautiful photography ,stunning flowers .
I'm running Blue sherbert again along with stardawg,but after that i have something new i'm excited about Blackberry moonrock and Blue dream sherbert.Also got a cut of la confidential ,and a couple of autos that will be going out soon.

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Nice, I always wanted to try la confidential. I'm a big fan of 100% indicas. Do you have a journal going? I did a quick search but didn't find one.

Dr.Amber Trichome said:

Looking awesome!
nice work Laughing Grass.
I am getting my RO buddy today and was wondering what you use to store your collected water in. I have been looking at rain barrels on amazon. Any recommendations?
thanks , have a wonderful weekend!

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Sweet. I have a 20 gallon rubbermaid trashcan next to my tent for water storage. My RO buddy is in the laundry room on the other side of the basement. I bought 30 feet of 1/4 inch tubing and ran it from the laundry room to my grow room in the ceiling. Initially I had a float valve on there but I don't trust them not to flood the basement and I don't need that much water available all the time.

This is the end. Final week, they're coming down on Sunday. The smell is really intense now... no detectable hints of chocolate tho, just a really strong skunk odor.

Laughing Grass said:

This is the end. Final week, they're coming down on Sunday. The smell is really intense now... no detectable hints of chocolate tho, just a really strong skunk odor.

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LG
There is such a notable difference between the two plants in the first photo. Did you ever come to any conclusions to what the one plant's issues were??
Just curious.

WillieP

WillieP said:

LG
There is such a notable difference between the two plants in the first photo. Did you ever come to any conclusions to what the one plant's issues were??
Just curious.

WillieP

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lol you'd almost swear they're two different strains. Curious2garden helped me sort it out. It was a calcium deficiency. I was on the fence between that or phosphorus deficiency since they look so similar. I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around the problem. I mix my nutrients in a big reservoir so both plants were getting the exact same amount of calmag. Once I upped it to 7ml per gallon the yellowing stopped progressing... the other plant is still happy with 2.5ml per gallon. It's bizarre! I also wasn't giving any calmag when I topped up the reservoir so I'm doing that now too.

It's going to impact yield a bit but I don't think it's going to be too bad.

Laughing Grass said:

This is the end. Final week, they're coming down on Sunday. The smell is really intense now... no detectable hints of chocolate tho, just a really strong skunk odor.

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Beautiful

Congratulations!

Laughing Grass said:

lol you'd almost swear they're two different strains. Curious2garden helped me sort it out. It was a calcium deficiency. I was on the fence between that or phosphorus deficiency since they look so similar. I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around the problem. I mix my nutrients in a big reservoir so both plants were getting the exact same amount of calmag. Once I upped it to 7ml per gallon the yellowing stopped progressing... the other plant is still happy with 2.5ml per gallon. It's bizarre! I also wasn't giving any calmag when I topped up the reservoir so I'm doing that now too.

It's going to impact yield a bit but I don't think it's going to be too bad.

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LG
Just so I can get my head around it;
You have two separate plant containers, you mix your nutes for reservoir changes in a larger separate container, and give each plant the same mixture.
After discovering the Cal/mag def, you were adding additional to just the one plant container???
Did I get that right?

So weird. Same strain.
Just a pheno thing you think?
Did you notice any other differences between the two?
Just curious.

When you were topping up, were you just using PH'd water?
I've been topping with a nute mixture, and adjusting the PPM with plain water if needed.
Again, just curious.

You're about to finish up another successful grow. Pleased for you.

WillieP

WillieP said:

LG
Just so I can get my head around it;
You have two separate plant containers, you mix your nutes for reservoir changes in a larger separate container, and give each plant the same mixture.
After discovering the Cal/mag def, you were adding additional to just the one plant container???
Did I get that right?

So weird. Same strain.
Just a pheno thing you think?
Did you notice any other differences between the two?
Just curious.

When you were topping up, were you just using PH'd water?
I've been topping with a nute mixture, and adjusting the PPM with plain water if needed.
Again, just curious.

You're about to finish up another successful grow. Pleased for you.

WillieP

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Yup you got it right. I posted a pic in post #265 of my water setup. I pump 22 liters into the garbage can next to my reservoir and then mix my nutrients there and let it sit overnight. When I did my res changes I pumped the nutrients into the healthy plant first, added more calmag then pumped it into the second plant.

When I do my top ups I mix 50% strength nutrients and full strength hydroguard and cannazym then top up. I wasn't adding calmag to my top ups but started doing that last week.

I think it's can only be a phenotype thing but I don't have enough experience to say that with 100% certainty. I was really please how similar the structure was between them when they were seedlings and vegging. If not for this issue they would be very similar. I've had some wild variations in the past. I grew four LSD in this same area and ended up with plants between three and six feet tall. The pic below is from that grow so you can laugh at it too. The tallest cola reached just over six feet, I'm 151cm lol.

tyke1973 said:

stunning ,nice any chance of sharing lol enjoy

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lol I wish it was legal everywhere, I'd be happy to share.

Another grow comes to an end.

I'm pretty thrilled with the end results. The buds on the healthiest of the two plants were massive (for me at least), almost as big as my fist. The buds from the second plant weren't bad, just not as large. I forgot to borrow my friends scale so I'm not sure what the wet weight is, but looking at it in the drying rack, it looks like more than I've ever gotten before.

I did end up with a ton of larf this time especially on the plant on the right. I think I need to do a better job of getting in there and cleaning that out before it starts flowering.

Quality! Nicely done. What’s up next?

Thanks!

Next up is Pink Kush, I started the seeds last night, I'll take some pics when they go into the buckets next weekend. I'm also replacing my buckets with larger eight gallon square buckets so that should give me about 5 gallons of water. I was really struggling with how much they were drinking and having less than three gallons of water. I'm hoping I only have to deal with them every other day in flower with that much water.

After this grow my dad is going to be doing a renovation on my basement. He's going to build me a 8x3 enclosure. It will have a 6x3 area so I can run three plants in a scrog and a 2x3 area for seedlings clones as well as a drying racks. I'm going to use my diy lights in the 2x3 area and buy two more 300w lights so I'll have a total of 900 watts in the 6x3. I have some seeds coming in the next few weeks that will be used for this project.

Laughing Grass said:

Thanks!

Next up is Pink Kush, I started the seeds last night, I'll take some pics when they go into the buckets next weekend. I'm also replacing my buckets with larger eight gallon square buckets so that should give me about 5 gallons of water. I was really struggling with how much they were drinking and having less than three gallons of water. I'm hoping I only have to deal with them every other day in flower with that much water.

After this grow my dad is going to be doing a renovation on my basement. He's going to build me a 8x3 enclosure. It will have a 6x3 area so I can run three plants in a scrog and a 2x3 area for seedlings clones as well as a drying racks. I'm going to use my diy lights in the 2x3 area and buy two more 300w lights so I'll have a total of 900 watts in the 6x3. I have some seeds coming in the next few weeks that will be used for this project.

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That’s so exciting! I’m so happy for you!!

Dry weights are in. 193 grams for the healthy plant and 183.5 for the one that was yellowing on me. The buds from the healthy plant were beautiful and had lots of purple. It's less weight than I pulled in compared to my last grow but the bud structure is my best so far. The yellowing plant has more buds, but they're not nearly as dense as the other plant.

I made my new buckets this weekend, it's going to be tight in there with two buckets, but this will be my last grow in this tent. I planted my pink kush seeds last Sunday and one was up by Tuesday. One didn't pop by Friday so I opened the cube to have a look. the seed look exactly the same as when I planted it. I started a new seed on Friday evening and it's up this morning. Kinda sucks having the plants be five days apart now.

@Dr.Amber Trichome I got some yard waste bags this time so I'm not messing around with lunch bags lol.

Moved the second plant int the bucket yesterday. Kind of a bummer that they're five days apart, but my tent looks like a NASA experiment lol.