MED-MANS RKS#2 TESTER THREAD!!

[Mikenite69]

WE HAVE ROADKILL!!!!!!

WE HAVE ROADKILL!!!!!!

Today as I was flushing out my last plants today my last plant that came out the tent pure burnt tire roadkill with a hint of sweetness behind it but more nasty ransid burnt tire skunk its pretty bad the smell but also very intriguing it is also one of the ones that I like the most now number 3.

She is the one that isn't changing any colors and is staying green but I did notice she has red or maroon going through the center stems of the leaves. I will be revegging this plant for sure to get cuts off of it. She also looks to be one of the biggest yielders out of the bunch.

Edit: If you wanna check her out and confirm that this is her medman it is the last picture of the ones I put up the other day. That is the stinker out of the bunch that has that burnt tire nasty but good smell to her.





Peace mike

 

[im me]

Enjoy mike!! And hell yeah make a cannacake!

 

[Mikenite69]

Hell ya Im Me what better than to bring a nice cannacake made with cannabudder and bring it to Christmas eve dinner at the old ladys familys house and get them all baked!! Lol. Her father and mother wouldn't mind but I think the rest of the family might sleep really good that night baked out of there minds. Lmao.

Thanks for stopping by harvest pics coming soon. Most likely by the weekend if my senses tell me to pull them the next few days they should become cannibals and should fade really good all nutrients are flushed out.

Peace mike

 

[im me]

do it!! an hour later your old lady's family will be watching a scooby doo christmas scarfing down chocolate covered cherries, drama free... the way to be!

 

[lemongrove]

Med-Man what is your flushing technique? I've read where some people flush with 10 times the pot volume etc. What is your method? If this was asked on one of the earlier pages forgive my laziness for not reading all of the pages of this thread. Thanks

 

[Mikenite69]

Most people usually flush for 2 weeks well not really flush just giving it straight water after the first initial flush. That will usually clear the salts I am sure medman has some good techniques.

I am not gonna be pulling these plants this weekend unless they drastically start changing. Some might be ready by then but I just scoped the triches today and there are clear and cloudy triches some amber but not many so I'll be waiting until I see more amber in the triches. I haven't checked all the plants yet just the front 3 but even without scoping the triches I am not seeing the amber looking color to the buds that I like to see that nice golden ripe look or if I atleast see mainly all cloudy triches I'll pull them.

Peace mike

 

[944s2]

nice one mike!,,,
seems you have very similiar smells and aroma to two of my rdks,,
that petrol stench with an undersmell of something i cant get a fix on,,,cant wait to smoke her,,s2

 

[OKD]

Nice pics, mike! I need to grow that strain, it looks amazing! Outstanding gardening!

 

[Mikenite69]

Thanks for stopping by OKD I kinda dropped the ball this round. Thanks for the kind words stay tuned for harvest and pre Harvest shots shortly.

My next grow will be a redemption grow most likely a promix mix with coco or straight promix just so I can redeem myself coco kicked my ass first time around. Next time I grow in coco though I'll make it my bitch!! Lol.

Peace mike

 

[im me]

Coco can be a BITCH! ive been there quite a few times,but it does have some serious advantages compared.to soil once you know all the tricks of it. Its like learning how to grow all over again. But u did fine with it bro keep moving forward and make coco your bitch!

 

[DJXX]

sup mike..even stumbling with coco my yield has increased oh so much, there is no goin back for me....it was equal in yield to the dwc I was running side by side...and i think my 2 gal bags work better for me also....jus ordered a dozen...thinking two 2gal smarties in each regular size black nursery tray...i like feeding from the bottom....nice on the RKS...my Medman Kerosene Kush is stellar also...got two stinker phenos..gonna give em another run..nice work brah..dj

 

[med-man]

hey dudes

nicest thing about coco, i can get a 3 foot tree in a 1 gal coco, no stress

would need a 3 gal for soil.

coco root masses are amazing

med-man

 

[Mikenite69]

That's for sure! You are right Dj and medman there are plenty of benefits to coco. I know my next coco grow my ppm meter will be my best friend. I am also gonna get smaller pots because I have seen people getting crazy yields by the looks of the pot no bigger than a 7x7 square pot or the next size up 9x9.

I will run coco again with smaller pots I'll make sure that the plants fully root the pot before I start watering heavy with frequent low nutrient feedings With constant flushes or runoff also. I think I'll kill my next coco grow from what I have learned so far.

My veg plants are in straight coco and they are doing great no defiencys at all and they are happy. I think another thing that didn't help me at all was going from promix to coco and having a promix rootball in the coco because it brought dirty little fungus knats about.

I think this run with coco I will use H3Ads feeding method for coco or I'll just feed them base nutes the whole way with additives once a week or every so often always making sure I have some runoff once in a while. Also I will make sure to give them straight water every so often. I will see my next run if I need to add cal/mg every watering I don't think I will because I use my tap water.

 

[lemongrove]

Sorry to keep asking questions about flushing but I've got some Rks2 testers that will be in my next grow and I want to give them every opportunity to succeed. I'm also going to be using a more hyro medium during that grow so it will be my first big grow doing that method; I'm doing a hempy bucket micro grow with a drain to waste feeding schedule now so I'm kind of cutting my teeth with that one and I'm using rockwool.That schedule calling for flushing only for the final week of flower.
For my RKS2 grow I want to either use rockwool or coco. I'm having really good luck with the rockwool on the micro grow so I'm leaning that way. So do I flush for the first time, after the first two feedings, with all water and how much water? Then you guys usually feed with water only for two weeks after that if that is your first flush? Seems like a long time without food in an early stage of flower but if that's the best method that's what I'll do.
Med-man says he does a feed, feed, flush routine, I'm assuming that starts during flower or does he do it that way during veg. also? As you can see I'm a little confused with the flushing routine.
Don't mean to be jackin' your thread, sorry if I am, but my grow with these beans is coming up in about a month and I want to have a plan that I'm confident implementing. Only done soil up to this point, so hydro methods are a whole different world for me. Thanks for your help guys.

 

[Mikenite69]

I think that is you run coco and run a drain to waste if you are making sure you have runoff flushing wouldn't really be all that important. Because when you have runoff you are flushing pretty much already.

The only tip I can tell ya if you are gonna run coco is make sure you feed lightly and make sure you have run off.

When we are saying flushing we are talking about the last 2 weeks before harvest. Most people with flush them hard. Say you are in a 3 gallon pot you would flush atleast 6 to 9 gallons through the pot. Then you would just water for the rest of the two week flush when you are planning to harvest.

Also When you transplant if you are in coco don't start feeding and watering to hard until the roots have filled the pot or atleast adjusted to the bigger pot and built a good root system. This was one of the main things I did wrong was not letting the plant establish a big healthy root system with coco.

Also with coco if you do plan to flush right before flower most people will use the 6 to 9 gallon method of water but also make sure you are flushing with a light base nutrient solution. You really don't have to worry about using a nutrient solution while flushing the last flush 2 weeks prior to harvest that can be just plain water.

If you are getting a lot of run off in your grow through flower I don't think you would really have to worry about flushing until the last 2 weeks of flower.

I mean ofcourse if you run into issues you might want to flush to get the excess nutrients out of the coco and get your coco stabilized again.

You can also run the pre bagged coco which is already charged and has microrizzae added to it and then you can pretty much almost treat it like a soil grow but also checking your ppm and ph adjusting everything.

MEDMANS method of a feed,feed, flush isn't that bad of a idea either this way you know you aren't building up salts and you are also flushing the salts out.

Medman would be able to help you a lot better also because he has been running hydro setups for a while and seems to have a very good understanding of hydro which coco and rockwool are pretty much the same basis I would think.

I don't mind that you are askin questions in my thread that's how we all learn and improve so feel free to ask anything you want. I hope some of my tips might help you along your journey coco is tricky but once you have a understanding and a method locked down the risk of using it is worth the reward.

Peace mike

 

[lemongrove]

Thanks Mike for taking so much time to answer all of my questions thoroughly. It is all very good info. and I know it will be very helpful in the future. I'll have to share my grow here and let everyone eye-ball it so they can tell me if something is going wrong. Thanks again Mike.

 

[Mikenite69]

No problem whatever you do if you decide to go coco feed it lightly make sure you have run off most of the time make sure you plants get a nice root structure in the pot they are in before watering hard and daily feedings or every other day feedings and last but not least pay attention to your plants and what they look like they need your ppm meter and ph meter will be your best friend in coco unless you are only running advanced ph perfect for coco then you don't have to worry about your ph meter to much.

These plants if you are doing a cabinet grow or microgrow you won't need to big of a pot in coco because you can get some pretty big plants in coco. These plants also don't stretch a ton so they are pretty predictable in that sense.

Also don't let your rks# 2 get root bound because they will preflower on you and it will slow the growth when you up pot them it will take them a little to bounce back to fast veg growth. Males will also show balls if rootbound so watch for that.

They also don't like a lot of nutrients so definitely feed them lightly wouldn't really worry about feeding them to much in veg but if you do feed lightly.

Well I am thinking I will be pulling atleast 2 of my rks#2 or maybe all 3 by this weekend. Pheno 2 and 3 seems to have purples out over night and the calyxes are swollen now so stay tuned I'll most likely pull them tomorrow or Sunday. Pictures will be uploaded when I have them out of the tent and I'll try to get some smells off of them.

I will do a smoke report/smell report about a week after drying and will also update again when the plants are totally cured in the jars what the smells are like then. I am not to concerned about the weight of the buds because I only grow for myself. I can say 2 of the plants look to have yielded pretty good with all the stress I have put them through I just know I could of made these shine alot better than I did this round.

Will be most likely doing a reveg on pheno 2 and 3 I might reveg pheno 1 depending on how she smokes.

Pheno 1 is a calyx beast big fat plump calyxes with purple all through the buds and fan leaves.

Peace mike

 

[lemongrove]

Thanks again Mike for all of the top tips. I may do one plant in coco just as an experiment with that method but I want to give these a good chance of succeeding; so I will do the others in material that I'm used to using.
Eagerly awaiting your smoke report Mike; with the parents genetics I have no doubt they will be killer. Congrats on a good grow.

 

[mack 10]

Here's one of mine about to be flipped,

hope you don't mind.

 

[Mikenite69]

Very nice Mack you look like you got a pretty nice pheno there. I don't think any of mine looked like that very very nice.

I don't mind at all toss the pics up only makes the thread better.


Hey Mack did she preflower at all for you??