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4 x 600, Promix, here we go again

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ureapwhatusow

pineappaloupe said:
The garden is looking awesome!
Do you do alot of pruning or do the plants just grow kinda leggy?
Some of the leaves from the Aug 12 pic look like they are getting a little heat stress, the edges look like they are curling up. Mine do that too, it doesnt seem to make much difference.
Also, do you have any way to white-balance your pics? Im just a camera nerd, and its a pretty easy thing to do. Even if you camera doesnt shoot in RAW you can do it, and there are hacks for some cameras that let you shoot in raw.

Promix is great. have you ever tried hitting them with compost tea?

You'll love it.
with leather....


Its a weird plant, and while I should be working with other stock I have, im intriged by her.

she grows like a christmas tree main cola wants to tower well above the rest. at least 2 phenos have the same grow pattern, another is much shorter but same general shape

The mom is about 5 years old now. Her vigor seems to increase over time.

I have parent stock (problems popping), sister stock (pops in 24 hours), and selfed stock. I should be trying these but im really stuck on this one plant/

I have 2-3 phenos in the garden now, 2 of which I havent done much with.

Her smell and taste are off the charts. So strong that by week 3 i start questioning what I was thinking when I decided to grow it. I have to do like mr rogers when I get to the grow and change all my clothes and wear gloves because the smell. The smell and taste are so so strong and pungent that it commands a very veyr high consistant value.

Potency is very, very strong, but its very narcotic, which seals the deal for me, since its not a mindless narcotic smoke. It gets me thinking, but also keeps me stationary. The problem is its a skunk liek high, and the taste and smell are so good its very easy to over do it and find you lose a day or two.

It does however, day after day, without fail get me stoned asa mother fucker

very very few strains ever get me as high over any period of time

other than some haze, an original land race affie i used to rock in the late 90's was one of the few others that worked as promised day in day out

probaly not the best candidate for an all day smoke, but I have dictated that my medical disorders require massive amounts of THC to address them and it makes me happy, like it feel good to live, and thats not the norm for me due to neurological issues.

yeild on this particular mother however, is on the shit side normally .25 -.50 grams per watt, depending on whos growing it, and what its in.

I have pushed the envelope a little higher, and this grow I expect more. i am hoping with the new nutes, in an water system with aggressive super cropping I shoudl be able to get close to 1 gram per watt. If I can get over .75 id be happy as a pig in shit.

the sister stock does better with weight, but I want the overpowering smell, the garlic skunky version.

I think my next grow will require some new stock to be tried out because as I write this I realize she cant be the only one, the parent stock was better (color phenos), but whatever im a bit twisted, as if obsessing over one fucking plant wasnt enough

its funny you noticed the leaf curl , i didnt want to document the gorw because of it.

99% of the times, because of my non agro grow methods, my plants are super healthy, if nothing else.

she is super super hearty. This is the first time she has ever shown heat stress (both grows) but I didnt start AC until late july and the room was at least 110 degrees for a couple days

In fact I think its the new nutrient schedule because I doubled the aount of Big Bud on this my promix grow and did the normal amount in my water grow and the water grow I fucked up and turned off the fan, and the stayed on.

I baked the top, they bleached yellow white and are dead it was so hot 130 degrees plus. Maybe I lost 1/2 ounce of tops, but the rest looks fine AND not leaf curl at all

its very mite and mold resistant

My sense is that it wants to get really big, its so so healthy in so many ways I jsut cant imagine it not producing

even other ppl in other systems got very low yield with this one less than 1 lb per 1000 but I think snap training, tying down, and trying a new aggressive nute regiment will pay off

if i can get her to pull of better numbers it woudl be a amatch made in heaven

dont make a fuss just get on the bus
 
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ureapwhatusow

week 4 + 2 days



Im halfway through, my experiment seems to be working

here they are 5 days into flowering. I started them quickly, tops two weeks after they grew feet from clones. I should have recorded the dates.





the flowering area is 8' x 6'

the cool tubes do not focus the light which is a real detriment

The best ive done with this strain in this room is 3.2 lbs.

Conversely, i gave the plant to a friend who ran it in his aero system

the plant he ran before he put this in yielded over 5 lbs under 2 x 1000 watts on movers

her ran this plant and got under 2 pounds

so Its a bitchy plant but I know im heart of hearts she wants to put out a 1 gpw

If I gorw it big the canopy blocks out everything so the 600s dont cut it

this is winter run with 3 weeks veg. I had tops and weak under tha canopy buds im still smoking out of a spackle bucket



I just gotta figure it out

I ran it 1 week to clone 2 week veg add 8 week flower its pretty fast

I am 85-90% I will get .65 - .75 this run

heres a pic of the same plant at 38 days in a little ebb and flow i use to cover head




I llots of different seed stock i shoudl consider planting

this particluar mom im running produces a smoke I just never ever get sick of

and its so hearty and mite resisitant mold resisitant and all this other happy horseshit

This is the first time im running stadium style, I may do dirt again and run seeds (the sister stock to this plant) and some other (I have a bunch of shit) stock and start looking for new blood. I can get away with 4 plants of this pheno for myself
 
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HATCH

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Hell Bro, That Is Two Thumb's Up!!!!!!!!!,,,Your Room Is Freaking Rock'n Hard Core!!!!!,,,,,,,Your Doing A Amazing Job with Them!!!!!!,,,,,,WOW!!!!!!! :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :rasta: :rasta: :rasta:
 
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ureapwhatusow

Here it teh top 1/4 - 1/3 of the plant flowered, each plant has 4-6 leads with their own untied colas going.

They reacted real well to snap training so a week earlier with the snap and i should get main cola and the colas on the leads at the same height when flowering.

Perhaps I should just top them, the best woudl to be a few of both and test results.

From memory and what I have going I think if I top it the plant the buds are less stretchy but more leafy, but if i tie and snap train i get very high flower to very low leaf ratio

I will bend this plant to my will,

but lovingly like bondage and discipline loving




here it is 2-3 weeks into flowering


 
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Sleepy

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wow...that is one fine show!! :respect: :respect:

how is the humidity in there?

man, they really fill in nice for you!! :jump:
 
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Lava Surfer

Nice garden you got here, like your setup and beutifull plants.

About your "stadium light" cooltubes, this is what I have done after a few grows with different types of cooltube reflectors. Internals and small add on wing reflectors, with little difference to the reflection of light to the sides.

So I got a whole bunch of batwings, drilled 2 holes each and mounted them above the cooltubes after removeing the internal reflector. All I needed was a 6 mm metal drill!

54092Bat_tube-med.JPG
 
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ureapwhatusow

Well soon it will be finished, flowers are jsut starting to swell

I am letting this one run as long as possible.

Thanks everyone for stopping in.

Sleepy: I dont measure temp or heat or the such, but humidity was very very low (pulling 5 gallons of water form the air every 3 days). I have some unhappy leafs from high summer heat before the AC, low humidity and a few overdoses of big bud. This is the first grow ive had in a long time that that had this much leaf dysfunction, but all things conisdered (trying new nutes, experimenting with flowering at 10 day veg.) the flowers are happy and fairly abundant

Lava: I have a similar hood I got that has cool tubes. the bat wings is pretty smart. Were you able to order them from a supply house?.

to help take advantage of how they throw light to the sideI simply put a row on each side of the garden that was elevated. I like the results so much I will continue to do so.

 
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