Lower Leaf Drop Day 9 of Flower In Hydro

getogrow said:

Then you are a dick or a suit dummy or a cop ....one of the 3 is your only choices for not fitting in with the boys!

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Well I don't own a suit and the only time I've ever been around law enforcement it never works out in my favor. Guess that just leaves me being a dick...
I'm kinda square; the party was in a bar and I don't drink, the only person I knew was my friend. Blah, blah, blah. The two ladies from the show were friendly and very pretty in person; no I didn't score....

getogrow said:

*bowing down*

You are the man! ive never met um but i wish i would have....Did you meet the whole crew or just a couple ? how about lahey ?

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They were all there I think. To be honest the only faces I remember were the two women from the show.
If you have real interest I can put you in touch with my friend; he had his own company and worked on the set for years. I think he was there until after the first movie.

MustGro said:

They were all there I think. To be honest the only faces I remember were the two women from the show.
If you have real interest I can put you in touch with my friend; he had his own company and worked on the set for years. I think he was there until after the first movie.

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I am a HARDCORE fan so anything you can hook me up with is cool.
Im like you , i dont drink so i probably would have felt the same way. I cant be myself at a fuckin bar! everybody is drunk but me...

So a few days on Jack's now and things are pretty good. I'll put in a few pics of the leaves that I picked up the past few mornings, there wasn't many. Always a few through the day, but running no more than 5-7 a day.
I got a crappy little LED from a friend and put it under the canopy on top of the chiller for a few days now; I figured it couldn't hurt.
@xtsho if you look at the pics of the light you'll see a lot of lower foliage on the lowers behind it. I left two of the sour diesel's alone as a little experiment to see how they would perform against the lollipopped ones. I couldn't resist.

That Jack's is so clean in the reservoir. Check out that pic, it's hard to tell where the solution level is. The circulation pump is in a filter bag and the white plastic piece is the drain at the bottom of the tank. PPMs are staying OK; think it's around 600 PPMs right now. PH climbs a little; adding 4-5 ml of Cyco PH down throughout the day, but that's no biggie.

i could easily take 50 branches off of one plant and it would still be full. Those are just crazy bushy. no way i could leave all that stuff on the bottom. HUGE yield difference if you do.

getogrow said:

i could easily take 50 branches off of one plant and it would still be full. Those are just crazy bushy. no way i could leave all that stuff on the bottom. HUGE yield difference if you do.

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Well I lollipopped 5 of 7 plants; I left the two in the back just to see what they'll do. I plan on growing this strain for a while so I might as well learn a bit while I can. I usually run mixed batches; it makes it hard to learn the varieties well.

Few pics from the end of week 2.

everything is VERY healthy sir!

getogrow said:

everything is VERY healthy sir!

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Yeah; just went into week four of flower and they are real happy. Definitely liking the change to Jack's. Thanks to everyone for all the great help when I needed it!

How about an update to this thread. I figured out what was causing the leaf drop back in May. I was under the plants cleaning out some lowers and couldn't help but notice how hot it was under the canopy. It's the exhaust from my new chiller and it's being held under my canopy pretty efficiently by the close walls and thick canopy. I added a big fan to move the lower air around and that fixed the problem but the leaf drop got into the upper canopy a bit before it stopped.
The grow's getting done but I'll bring anyone who's interested up to date with a few older pics. I use end of weeks to keep track so here's the last day of week 6.
Yes I know I burned the tips. Did it the second tank of Jack's back in May. Too low a PH. I was running 5.4ish and they took in a lot of PPM and burned the tips. Jack's recommended I run at 5.8 and it's been fine there.
You can see in the fourth and fifth pics the yellowing fans from the chiller heat.

Week 7 over.

Week 9 over. Still not ready yet.

End of week 10 and lots more red hairs but still more to give. Getting some foxtails but it's not too hot. I turned the AC down a few times now. I'm thinking either it's genetics or the LEDs are a little intense. No big deal, although I'll be watching next crop for them with some mixed genetics to see if it's just the SD that do it.
Some of the fan leaves are getting pretty done too, but no big complaints. Getting pretty anxious to get them cut and hanging.

So week 11 is over yesterday. No big changes in the buds; just a little riper. They're still using fluids nicely but they stopped taking up PPMs 4 or 5 days ago. The trichomes still look like they could age a bit more but they're not eating and it's time to chop.

Here's a few pics of a trimmed bud. Not the biggest one but not the smallest; weighed 152 grams. Most of my weed loses 4 to 5 times it's weight after it's dried and the last time I grew sour diesel it got lighter by a factor of 4 so it should weigh 152/4 or 38 grams approximately. I was hoping for a gram a watt (960 watts of meanwells) but it might be a bit more than that if I'm lucky.

MustGro said:

Here's a few pics of a trimmed bud. Not the biggest one but not the smallest; weighed 152 grams. Most of my weed loses 4 to 5 times it's weight after it's dried and the last time I grew sour diesel it got lighter by a factor of 4 so it should weigh 152/4 or 38 grams approximately. I was hoping for a gram a watt (960 watts of meanwells) but it might be a bit more than that if I'm lucky.

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hell of a job by yourself sir! good job

getogrow said:

hell of a job by yourself sir! good job

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Thanks, even I can pull a crop with some good advice from the folks on here. A big thanks to you @getogrow for your advice on my lights. I'd have had a 600HPS or two in there without you telling me I had enough light already in those LEDs.

MustGro said:

Thanks, even I can pull a crop with some good advice from the folks on here. A big thanks to you @getogrow for your advice on my lights. I'd have had a 600HPS or two in there without you telling me I had enough light already in those LEDs.

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I swear by it.... i seen WAY too many good growers turn clueless when switching to led. My buddy gave me solid advice for the switch. Put them on the ceiling and turn them down..... Start like that and you cant go wrong.

A bit late here, hope you don't mind if i drop by, absolutely dope grow and killer trees, i love LEDs