[gmanwho]

On more nice shot of the lavender. I have about 50 more seeds if i dont find something out of these 3.

[marrdogg]

Originally Posted by gmanwho

marrdogg, i loved my lavender cut. thou i cant say for sure its orgin, it looked like somas, but im not sure. It came from a cali dispensary about 8-10 years ago, i ran it for like 7 years. thou i got tired of it acting up, my shitty cloning skills, an new genetics that came in at the time she faded from my liking. But today i wish i never let it go. Before i did let it go i hit one clone with g acid, made a chamber for it an collected the pollen. On the next run I marked an then painted a few lavender branches w/the pollen.

beautiful colors, beautiful smell , high trich coverage. pain meds for sure. Very floral smell an taste. She sometimes would get this dark black purple to her when temps dropped.

By acting up i mean i could never grow it mono cropped right. I sometimes had 2, sometimes 3 variations from the same clone. i would take 10 cuts from the mom, root them an veg them out.

some would stretch like a sativa an grow out of control ,very lanky, egg shaped & size nugs, but high tric coverage.

then the 2nd was a heavy squat indica structured plant with average trich coverage. that would always get drowned out from light an sites never seemed to advance.

the third was medium lanky. best of both worlds, high trich, racquet ball size cone nugs stacked ontop each other. Some people still talk about how they liked its been like 3-4 years. I still have some in my sisters freezer.

few pics of her a few years ago. What i think i know now is that pruning her properly would produce more consistent results. Also her root size into flower made a difference of how she grew into the flower cycle. Odd bitch!!!! But i liked her after she was gone...

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Yeah I do mioss the lavender very unique floral profile with a very intoxicating flavor. She also grew squat with golfball sized trich covered buds, l do miss. But thank you for the pics truly over looked strain.

[Marlo]

Great show so far.... Good luck!

[Asslover]

Originally Posted by gmanwho

thanks ra!!!!!

MImed. i had a run before this one. i had issues with the plants always wanting more food. i upped my feed sched since, raised the lights, trying for a 5.6 ph, an added the misters. CO2 was not running till last 10 days last run.

Curious as to what ended up working? I'm spec'ing out a 4k grow with Gavita's but I keep hearing about folks having to up there feed schedules...
Still running that home made filter on the return in the rez?

[Ru5tyNaiL]

Can't wait to see results once you get dialed in. Nice setup bro. Those pics look like some of those flowers are frost bitten lol

[BoomerGuy]

Nice room!

[gmanwho]

Originally Posted by Asslover

Curious as to what ended up working? I'm spec'ing out a 4k grow with Gavita's but I keep hearing about folks having to up there feed schedules...
Still running that home made filter on the return in the rez?

hey asslover.....I still run that filter on the veg side. I havent put one on the flower rez yet. I should really do one one soon. It works great an keeps the bene's happy. Only needs to be cleaned once a month an keeps the pumps running cleaner.

as for upping the food sched.......I started using calimagic which is gh's cal mag , moved from 5 mill per gal to 8mil per gal. i also started running earth juice micro blast at 5 or 8 mil per gal. So far they seem to hold their green better. I also started using heavy 16 foliar feed once a week, which has a bunch of different calcium compounds. Seems to be working so far. will see once it gets into full flower mode. at day 12 or so an things are starting to stack up nicely.

b-safe

[Clsmooth415]

How long do you veg? Do you top or super crop?

[gmanwho]

hey cls.. i dont really have a set veg time. As much as i try to get the veg area to be timed so that they are ready to go into flower when the flower room is finished, it doenst usually happen that way. theres always overlap.

My goal is about 40 days of veg, under t5's, then 7-10 days of veg in the flower room. try for 65-70 days of flower.

last harvest took over 100 man hours of triming. i was toast afterwards, i pulled multiple 16 hr days back to back. 75 of those hours was just me. then the cleanup. then the vaccum buckets an lines. then the transplant from the veg area into the flower room.


this last time the transplant took long for the plants to take hold in the flower room. prior to that i lost clones, then slow rooting clones, then minimal veg, then they vegged in the flower room for 20days. on only 600w setting.


spent 10hrs yesterday cleaning an pulling lowers. should have a pic soon.. the room is day 16 now. things are starting to swell. most plants are about 5ft 1/2 feet. 24 to 36inches in diameter. Lots of tops.. lots of topping, lots of squishing an breaking stems just enough to supercrop.

bsafe

[draconis]

Wow gman that is beautiful