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mandi paige

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DAY 42 - 12/12
I just got back, after leaving them alone for about a week - and im very happy! They seem to be maturing up nicely. I am going to feed them once more, and then do a nice long flush :smoker:
They are really starting to stink now as well.

2 of the plants turned hermi and grew a few seeds which is sorta upsetting
my other plants are fine as far as I can tell.. hopefully they stay that way







 

mandi paige

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Thanks Hydro Soil!

Magiccannabus; You have some nice buds!! Mine seem to be alot more indica then yours, thus the shorter flowering time.. I have 2-3 sativa plants that arent maturing near as quick

Ive gave 2 applications of the DNF clear. I mix 5ml per litre of water, and water the plants. I waited 24 hours to let the clear dissolve the salts and nutes; and then I flushed with 5 litres of water each.. The water is yellow like pee , from the toxins I imagine. This is my second time doing this, and the water was still yellow! I probably fed them more then they needed



I put a small pot upside down in a bucket, and put the plant pot ontop of that. I then water 5+ litres of water and let it drain through


Must be lots of nasty shit in the soil.. the flush water looks like pee :joint:



Day 46 Burned tips :(



Closeup day 46.. Ill let them go for another 2 weeks
 

mandi paige

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Day 53 update :)

The buds are defiantly getting thicker, and even though im tempted to harvest them, I want to wait for them to get very mature , for the high :joint:







 

magiccannabus

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Isn't the wait grueling? Nothing to be purchased around here though, and no money to purchase with, so I think that makes it worse lol

diggin the crystal action for sure
 

mandi paige

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Isn't the wait grueling? Nothing to be purchased around here though, and no money to purchase with, so I think that makes it worse lol

diggin the crystal action for sure

the wait sucks for sure :( im actually hittin vapor scraps , as to preserve my good buds :joint:


thanks copperheadrd , next go, im gettin those big cfls for sure

Hill - sweet avatar :headbange
 

magiccannabus

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the wait sucks for sure :( im actually hittin vapor scraps , as to preserve my good buds :joint:

haha yeah we've been making blunts out of ground up fan leaves mixed with ISO oil made using all the stems and seeds I accumulated while in the schwagg game. It's awful stuff, full of seed oil, but buying bud is expensive, and I need it medically or I feel like crap all the time. It helps anyway, so does that early sample off the hermie. I just wish the calyxes would swell up already. I think that light leak set me back at least a week or two. Gonna try to let them all go as long as I can though!
 

mandi paige

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Mission accomplished :joint:

I harvested at day 63

After drying almost out I had 190 grams, or 6.7 ounces. Now i have 5 ounces of really dry bud, plus tons of popcorn buds for hash :)

I froze some dried ground up buds and made very melty hash with my sift box.. Its quite deadly :joint:

heres a few pictures of what i had


I flushed these plants for almost 3 weeks so they are very clean to smoke







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Some of the most resinous, potent bud turned out to be white it some parts! The same plant put off "sappy" bubbles on the stem. It looked like balls of honey oil, but tasted very sugary..

Heres a part of it thats white


Could that be from the long flush?

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190 grams total

Im happy I let it mature before I cut it.. it definatly paid off
 

hoosierdaddy

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You did a real nice job in your cab, mandi.
Nice flush. What you flushed out of there wasn't nasty though...it was just salts and nutrients. You could actually use it effectively to fertilize vegging plants.

I like how you are willing to experiment with different lighting spectrum and arrangement.
If I may...you may want to read up on how to overdrive a flouro tube set-up. I think if you modify around the flouros, you will have better results than with the cfl's. At least it will be easier to keep temps in check plus better utilization of space. I use a 46w cfl as a single plant unit, but I find the 26w bulbs are about the happy medium for effectiveness vs heat. A bunch of those big bulbs will heat up a cab fast, as all the ballasts are in the grow as well.

Very nice job.
 

growshower

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that mutant leaf up there is light stress, did you have it on 12/12 and something happened and it got switched back?

i saw this exact thing in jorge cervantes book
 

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