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Ichabod Crane

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I did forget some things but I added them to my tracking board.

I have my camera synced up to the computer and will try to get some pictures up tomorrow.
 

Ichabod Crane

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Oh and I got my power bill. They have been estimating it for 4 months so we called them for a accurate reading. It was $3649 and some change. So about $4000 for the last 4 months. My wife looked sick it was great, I had to laugh at the way she looked. She was not aware of how much I have been producing. She asked if I wanted to put it on a payment plan. I just gave her the money and said no. She is funny.
 

Arminius

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Oh and I got my power bill. They have been estimating it for 4 months so we called them for a accurate reading. It was $3649 and some change. So about $4000 for the last 4 months. My wife looked sick it was great, I had to laugh at the way she looked. She was not aware of how much I have been producing. She asked if I wanted to put it on a payment plan. I just gave her the money and said no. She is funny.
Props on your charting bro!
I do the same thing for charting my plants. I know when stretch stops, so that I know when I can touch them...
Also, when i show the little lady what has come into the household, she usually clams up...
Can't wait for pics...
 

Bonzo

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nice line-up...:)

....and awesome attention to detail on the build...i'm really lookin' forward to how this setup works out :)

so far so good :)
 

Ichabod Crane

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Sorry guys I have been attending to my other grow. I have 10 plants to trim and replace in flower. Since this is my first run with the blumats I can not ensure a decent yield. I could kill these yet. Because of this I have not had enough time to figure out the camera yet. I must keep my income rolling before the pictures. So I will post soon. I have 6 plants trimmed and will have the seventh done later tonight.

So if you are wondering I have 26 oz in jars from the first 5 plants. Two of these were small plants I run for patience who want them. They are a real pain in the but as they are indicas and don't stretch worth a crap. And those two only yielded 6 oz together.

So I will leave you wondering what the room looks like for a day or two.

Bonzo I to am interested in how the blumats work compared to hand watering. Thanks for the complement on the grow as well.

Arminius I track every thing so I can figure out how to better do it in the future. Otherwise I just run around in circles. And yeh the wife just looks in shock when I hand her a big wad of cash.

Hopefully pics soon. Now back to trimming.
 

Ichabod Crane

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im not Bonz, but i increased my yield by 25% when i switched to blumats. they are amazing.

RBDF

That would be great if they did that.

So I have finished trimming 9 out of 10 plants. The last one has another week to finish.

I have had to adjust two of the blumats. One I adjusted back one arrow and it looks like that helped. The other I did the same and nothing. So I flooded the pot moved it over slightly and reset it. Hopefully that will take care of it.

I will try to get pictures up soon.
 

Ichabod Crane

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Ok pics time
Deathstar before

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After

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I think I erased the other Deathstar by mistake, so only the small one for now.
 

Ichabod Crane

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Chemdog before.

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Chemdog after.


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Second Chemdog after.

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Second Chemdog before.

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The plant off to the right of the above picture is the other Deathstar.
 

bobblehead

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yeah, why are you stripping the fans in veg? That's unnecessary... I strip out the sucker branches, and leave the fans.
 

Ichabod Crane

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wow. you really strip them bitches. how long till flip?

RBDF

I like my WOMEN naked. I did it to slow down the stretch a little. I flipped last week on the first.

They will fill in fine. But truthfully I had spider mites two weeks ago and wanted to make sure that when I fogged them that I got them all. I know the deathstar will fill in nicely. The OG Kush don't stretch for crap so I left more on that one. Chemdog don't know yet how it will perform. These plants are all but one over six foot tall and have a lot of roots so I can't let them stretch to tall.
 

redbudduckfoot

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YEAH MAN, plants dont need that dry out period bullshit once a huge root mass is established, and the root zone can be ran extremely "wet" and the growth is just astounding.

if u ever check out SelfHemployed's grows, thats the kind of growth i see now, compared to before. at day 20, my plants look like day 35 plants from pre-blumat grows, and this round of Chemdog, at day 40, look like day 50+ from handwatering days. so, by this math, on day 60 they will look like day 70+, so close to 20% bigger/more yield. im not just using this formula to say 20% increase, ive weighed the past harvests out, obvi. the most i have every got off 1K handwatered was 24 oz, with blumats i get at least 30oz per. keep in mind this is only a single thou watter, 5 x 5ft.

Blumats rock, my friends.


RBDF
 

Ichabod Crane

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So I have some more pics that show how I bend my plants to fill in the gaps. The top buds are what I am after they are bigger and easier to trim so I have been clipping the buds and branches closest to the main stem. In order to fill this area I bend my branches back so some tops fill in this newly created void. Here are some pictures.

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These two show how I take a branch and run it up or down the main stem to fill in where I have removed some of the suckers.

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This picture shows how I have wrapped a top bud back so it stretches to fill in where the suckers where cut of. If you look at the lower branch you can see where I have cut off a sucker.

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This picture shows a branch bent down to fill in a bare spot on the lower right. It also shows a branch bent down from the left to fill in the void along the main stem. If you look just to the left of center you see a branch that cuts across the top. This branch is used to fill in across the top where I had cleared out some branches so that my top does not get to crowded and cause me to be to have a dense area of growth. The picture below show this same area farther away so you can see it better and in context.

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As you can see to the lower left and lower right I have bent some of the bigger branches back down to fill in where I have removed some of the lower branches that usually make smaller buds which I find tedious to trim.

I will post some more tomorrow.
 
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