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Mindful

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Just finished my first run, and must say that I am pretty pleased.

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The Beginning
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Day 32
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Day 52
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Day 65
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Day 70 just before 72 hours of darkness
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Drying
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What kind of lighting did you use? How many plants? I count 25 just by the picture but I may be mistaken!
Those look like some very meaty colas.
 

Mindful

Member
Thanks for looking BayAreaGrowers.

4 x 1000 watt hps and 2 x 400 watt cmh

There were 40.

The 400 watt in the center was pulled shortly after this picture was taken, as it was needed elsewhere.

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Phaeton

Speed of Dark
Veteran
The 11 plants in my tray just finished day 41. I am pleased to say they are not all that much smaller than those in the last picture above. I actually keep 33 plants in bud cycle, but the trays are every three weeks.

My buds are not as large as above, but I do like the sequence of pictures, gives a good comparison on maturity and what a good set of buds should look like.

My lights for 33 plants are: 6 x 400 watt gold/blue HID and 2 x 400 watt CMH (4000k). No HPS (gold/green) in my room would probably account for a good deal of the smaller bud size. Its a personal thing with me.

Waiting for this sequence to finish, then there will be two start to finish photos in one thread. Good photos also.
thanx :tiphat:
 

Mindful

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Updates......
Here are some pics from my most recent run, "Blue Sonja". I had some bud rot problems at the end, added a 2nd dehum and cut out the infected areas. I ran these for 72 days.


2 weeks in.......
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3 weeks in......
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6 weeks in.....
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8 weeks in.....
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Day 72, coming down......
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Mindful

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Change is great!!!

Many changes in the recent past, all are very exciting.
I have removed the air conditioner from my room and installed a 10" Max Fan and Can 75 Filter with 2 x 10" intake ducts. My environment is SO MUCH better!!

My Green Air LT8-240 lighting timer blew an igniter in less than one year of use. No better time to upgrade. I ordered a board from DX Hydro with the following specs.
- 50A lighting controller - 50A single timer lighting controller w/12 timed outlets @ 240v plus two 120v convenience outlets (always on)
- HTC/HSD Emerson - Hi-Temp Cut / Hot Start Delay
- Sequential Delay Light Ignition

I have also switched from pot/saucers with no runoff to 4’x4’ trays with 20% runoff. My plants are definitely saying “Thank You”.

Recently I was introduced to bending and super cropping, and all I can say is WOW. I had been taught the ‘topping method’, or cut away the tops of the plants and you get increased lower growth. This is true, but rather than cutting off all of those beautiful tops, I simply bend them now, and watch the explosive growth both below and above the bend. All of the plants in my current run were bent rather than cut, and I have several Prophet’s that have over 30-40 tops now on each plant.

I just cracked some “Hashmaster” and “Double Strawberry Diesel” seeds… we’ll see where that leads.

The following pictures are 2 weeks into flower.
This run consists of “Powerhouse” “The Prophet” “Mob Boss”

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The following are pictures of the new equipment.

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And the new trays.....

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This current run is #4 for me, and based on what the plants are telling me, they like the changes that I’ve made. None of the other runs looked anything close to this nice at two weeks……
 

volhead

New member
very NICE! Looks at those gals they looked stoked!I bet you are sleeping better at night knowing how happy they are now! I look forward to more updates.
 
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