GR's 5 Plant Vertical Grow Winter 19/20'

gr865 said:

Happy New Decade Y'all!
Things are good all round,
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Raised each lamp about 6 inches today, Super Cropped two branches at the top of the plant and one branch on one of the Triple Cheeses. Hope to flip soon.

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Looking fantastic in there - gonna be a nice show!

Love the techniques and care you're putting into your grow. Will surely make for a good harvest!

Well, decided to flip on New Decade Day.
It's hard to get good pics while in the tent. But here are a few.

We are looking at 8 to 10 weeks.


Bought me a new toy yesterday, going to be making some nice pizza's starting today.

gr865 said:

Well, decided to flip on New Decade Day.
It's hard to get good pics while in the tent. But here are a few.
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We are looking at 8 to 10 weeks.


Bought me a new toy yesterday, going to be making some nice pizza's starting today.
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Nice, be sure to post a follow up on that UUNI pizza oven. I was looking at one of those as a gift for a family member.
Can you cook a steak in there?

Garden is on point!

OneHitDone said:

Nice, be sure to post a follow up on that UUNI pizza oven. I was looking at one of those as a gift for a family member.
Can you cook a steak in there?

Garden is on point!

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Thanks OHD, yes the garden is doing well.
They changed the name of the company to OONI, not sure why. My unit is one of the older ones, high school friend owns an Ace Hardware in our hometown. His wife does the ordering and she ordered three of these and they have been on the shelf for a couple of years so my son and I both got one and way below the retail price.
Yes you can do steaks, pasta dishes, all kinds a stuff.

Going to pull the ladies from the tent, do a bit of tying and rearrange the plants some.
They are getting close to the lamp.
Here is a pic from 7 days ago


Then 4 days ago


Two day ago


And this morning.


Plants are about 6 inches from the lamps, but the new fan is working great and the column of cool air rising up from the bottom keep the plants comfortable.
Either going to increase the run times for the irrigation cycles or add a 4th start time and see how it goes.

Update:
Day 5 12/12

All is well here in Trapland.
Pulled the plants from the tent this morning, doing some tie back and getting the plants away from the lamps.
Prior to separation and tie back



After separation and some tie back.


Face forward and do not smile.


Ok, now face right and get close.


Mug shots


They really need a trim but need to wait, too early in flower to do any kind of heavy trim. Will be very selective in leaf removal until the third week of flower.

Im loving this!

Wow, lucky here.
Changed out the Orbit 8 port manifold today.
When It came on tonight the filter in the center of the manifold was not tight and sprayed everywhere. As I walked in and saw what was going on I immediately went and shut down the system.
How it did not spray the hot lamps I don't know, water was going everywhere. I was expecting the lamps to explode but thank goodness they didn't.
Tighten everything down and all seems to be good.

WOW is right glad everything didn't blow up.
looking GREAT

Smokey

This morning I pulled the ladies from the tent, removed a couple of fans and put the nets on them. Would not normally do this till about the 5th to 6th week, but damn they are stretching an need to keep them away from the lamps, had a few burned leaves when I pull them today. Have a feeling it is going to cause the inner growth to slow due to the blocking of the leaves from the lamps.

They have grown 10 to 12 inches in the past 4 days.


Last night, plants closing in on the lamps, 4 inches and a couple of the leaves grew into the lamps an got burnt.

This leaf was curled last night and very near the lamp, this morning it was burnt


after installing the netting on today. They are all about 8 inches from the lamps.

Vertical is nice. Did it once or twice. Cool stuff man.

Seriously impressed on so many levels! How big is your tent 4x4?

Mass Medicinals said:

Seriously impressed on so many levels! How big is your tent 4x4?

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Thank you buddy,

Yes, 4x4 Gorilla Lite.

Update: Day 14 of 12/12

Everything is looking good, the stretch is continuing, did a bit of LST and Super Cropping today. Removed some of the fans, removed the nets and refastened the plants to the screen. After reinstalling the nets, moved the branches around to begin filling the nets. I removed the fans to open up the bud sites and get ready for next week's 21 day trim. I am hoping that splitting the trim may help prevent the problem I have had during other grows, a sort of a lockout at around the 5th week of flower. I will be lowering the EC and doing a flush with a low EC/pH'ed solution when I do the 21 day trim. By doing this flush at that time I believe it will allow the plants to recover without higher EC to damage the new growth. This leading to the 5th week of flower and the addition of P/K.
Here are the ladies: The Triple Cheese's




Triple Cheese number 4, removed the net to trim and reinstall the net.

Side view with the net removed, you can see why the nets are needed, these plants stretch directly toward the lamps.

Put the net back on and tucked into the net.

All tied back and headed back into the tent.


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Ayahuasca Purple
No forward view but here is the thick side view.



And the net installed


This is how much room that was created by using the net.


Tying the plants back and using the screen sort of makes the canopy fairly dense but when I do the 21 day trim it should all be good.

These are on the Ayahuasca Purple, can see why I will be Super Cropping these tops.



Going to add two more water cycles water cycle, reduce each run time on the four middle times but keep the first and last times the same to get the extra DTW and help prevent nutrient buildup.
9;10 pm - 2 minutes
11:30 pm - 1 minute
2 am - 1 minute
4 am - 1 minute
6 am - 1 minute
8:10 am - 2 minutes
This will give me 30 seconds more solution than before adding the extra times. Will be watching this and may cut the three middle times some if I am getting too much runoff.

Just using a basic timer? Amazon special? I tried a short cycle timer recently, it was garbage upon setup, returned before it even made it to the room.
I need a quality timer that does seconds, and preferably I can choose different durations instead of only one duration for all the cycles. Eg: 2min, 1min, 40sec, 40sec, 40sec, 2min - Like you're doing, but with option of seconds.

Looks good, will be nice when those are walls of bud.

2com said:

Just using a basic timer? Amazon special? I tried a short cycle timer recently, it was garbage upon setup, returned before it even made it to the room.
I need a quality timer that does seconds, and preferably I can choose different durations instead of only one duration for all the cycles. Eg: 2min, 1min, 40sec, 40sec, 40sec, 2min - Like you're doing, but with option of seconds.

Looks good, will be nice when those are walls of bud.

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This is what I use on my rez. 8 individual start times
Autopilot Dual Outlet 7-Day Grounded Digital Programmable Timer 2018 Model

And this one I use for my clones, infinite start times.
Titan Controls Short Cycle Timer w/ Photocell, Single Outlet, 120V - Apollo 12

Wow, the bud sites are filling out nicely and the plants are all super cropped as needed.
This coming Wed will be day 21 and trim day. Really looking forward to this trim, rearrangement of buds, giving them the best possible light and trimming up undergrowth and back growth.
On this trim I will be removing all leaf with a 1" stem and rearrange them on the screens.

This is an example of the /trim I will be doing on Wed, it is from my Big Buddha Cheese 5 plant vertical grow.
Germinated and in solo's



10/12/18 Just before the 21st day trim.
Pheno #4


10/15 Trim and retie
Pheno #4

Trimmed this one more than I plan on the current grow, will see how it goes.

10/27/18 This is what it looked like when we returned from our 2 weeks in the Florida panhandle after hurricane Michael.
Pheno #4


12/29/18 And the same plant at harvest. Netting removed for harvest.
Pheno #4


Hopefully this Weds trim will turn out like this one did, 23 zips, just over a g/w of jarred cured smokable buds and 6 plus zips of untrimmed buds that went straight into making FECO.

Trimming that much in flower doesn't stress the plant and cause her to go hermie??