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I don't like to trim dried flowers. I like to trim fresh and let just the clean flower to dry on a net and then in the bags.

However, here is an OrangeDiesel V.3 from LadySativa dry trimmed. Tried to avoid lollypopping this time and it went bad. Upped buds are smaller and not so compact than the last time. This cut need to be cleaned from little sucker flowers to get a good flower's shape.
However the overall aroma is good and I like it pretty much.

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Liked so much the bigger sprayer I also get the smaller one named Berry 1,5 (max. 1 liter). Used it for a couple of months now and fuck I love this company, really good stuff.




Sometimes I get some troubles with fungi when cloning with the fogger. Some tips die because of some kind of fungi due to condensation. Not a real problem but I want to see if some kind of natural anti-fungal stuff can avoid this. Target product is botryprot. Will tell if it works on this or not.




Some seedlings from new and old seeds ready for a new life. Now under just 100W fluo, little stretching but it's ok.







And some of the ''eco'' product I use for mites. Rotation is the key, those mofos can't handle it!



Karanja Oil is a good one, but need a good dose of soap/surfactant. Stink a little bit, go away fast.

Red spider is water soluble, no smell at all.

Bioneem is not water soluble, but emulsify good for its own, no smell.

Spruzit is the only one that has a real shock effect on adult stage of mites. Leave some kind of layer on the leaves. Natural pyretryn stay for some days, not so long. No smell. Just one application at 10ml/liters and the mofos are gone. It's the right product to start the rotation with other preventive products.

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Here a cross made with some friends from France (merci les gars!) bred on the other side of the world and finally ready to smoke!

XXX Kush

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This system is very impressive for my liking. Could some tips be shared on how to develop such?

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Originally Posted by franklyweed

This system is very impressive for my liking. Could some tips be shared on how to develop such?

Thanks F.
You can find almost every info you need scrolling the thread, no rocket science behind it, actually I find it super easy.


3 trays - 3 strains

From left: PCK-Tonic - GreenPoison - Amnesia Core

So fucking different. Fun to work with different strains and see how they react to everything.
For instance when I was cleaning and set the plant under the nets I discovered a couple of hot spot with mites, on the very bottom of the plants, just on two green poison clones. Amnesia and PCK-T had no signs at all, not only one. Green poison is fucking mite sensitive, other good point for it to end in the bin.

Treated everything with 3 liters of natural pyretryn+oil solution. Than I'll keep spraying till first flowers form.






After bending and cleaning the lower side.
Till today I kept lights at min. (3 x 400W) now switched to max. (3 x 660W)




Other room, other stain. ChocoTonic ending flowering. They're now around 70 days. had to switch lights to min (3x400W) from some days because upper buds keep fattening up and mold could damage the inner part of the already big, and more compact buds.
Today I also switched off the solution heater. Tomorrow or in a couple of days I'll switch off the central light. All of this with the hope to speed up the ripening, because I know this strain is capable of keeping flowering till 90 days or more...but it's impossible to avoid mold.

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Forgot to post these CT pics last time

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Moms in vegging were too big, so I decided to take some cuts and give'em a good prune, good for the next month to keep'em little.

Used eazyplugs as rooting medium, will see how they work but at now I found'em really easy and fast to use and cheaper compared to root-riot.
They also fit perfectly in the root-riots trays I already had, so super-easy.

Main difference between the two is water. RR comes wet. EP comes dry.
Just 60 seconds to rehydrate with a very light nutritive solution and weighted at the end: 500-550 grams for each tray, like 20 grams for each plug. So this sounds good for me about water/air ratio. Will see in a couple of weeks.


Dry plugs




After flush




Dry and wet




Used a CloneBox by Homebox to have some more space to work.




2 x 110W pl white lights, cheap ones. I'll modify them with quality components to get good efficiency.

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24 small cuttings in 31x19 cm.




Also testing a new product to avoid tip's rot...in the case




And another one to promote rooting. I wasn't using anything for cuttings since several years. I'm making now a test with this cheap one on 72 cuttings.
I'm not expecting anything but will see.

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New cuttings are not alone...




And here are the mothers after the prune, cleaned and ready to grow back one more time.







And one last point before go work is about market's hypes... or maybe on how stupid we are...or how smart vendors are.

I remember when I saw for the first time compressed tabs to generate co2 once in contact with water. Sold like for 20 bucks for 30/50 pieces maybe?!?
Someone ensures they work good because co2 for roots is good, someone say they increase atmospheric co2 ppm.

Obviously we don't need any co2 tab, but those tabs are still there, and someone is still buying them and for god sake we have enough already of this shit everywhere you all know, we call it consumerism.

So nothing, let's say I get one of those -Idunnoexactlywhattheycontain- bags called ExhaleCO2 bag. Some sort of amassed organic matter colonized by some kind of fungi, closed in a plastic bag, with a little exit for the air...or well...for the CO2 produced by that fungi decomposing little by little its food.

So, having a CO2 meter too I decided to have some fun measuring how it works. Obviously I placed it in a sealed room, no air exchange but the normal one passing through the little spaces between the door and the wall and maybe from the closed window.

Let's say this bag is sold for 40 euros, someone selling it told me it lasts for 6 months ensuring a level of 1000ppm in a 1square meter growbox, with extractor-fan ON. Just put it in the inline air duct.

So I was expecting a little raise in the CO2 level in the room. Nothing. The bag is not doing nothing.
CO2 monitor is close enough and placed in the perfect place to measure any output from the bag.
Nothing, no changes.

So, I don't know why it's not working and if it will start working.

It seems colonized and the fungi seems to be OK, whitish and healthy. Don't know if it's an issue related to only this bag, from the production, transportation or what else, but what I think 40 euros it's not so much, but they're an huge amount to buy nothing.

Not only a very doubting product because if you have a fan in the growbox is impossible to have such amount of CO2 with just one bag and for 6 months!!! (I used bottled CO2 and I know it) but also it does really nothing.

So we waste a plastic bag, some kind of organic matter like 3 kg, transportation of it, production of it, selling of it, and everything related to it, just to buy nothing and make this world more polluted and some stupid grower with 40 euros less in the pocket, feeding this system more and more.

Where the fuck this world is going? Please noob growers or anybody else, don't trust the fucking market, maybe trust who does it for passion. Let's see the old growers, the good growers how they work and don't buy so many snake oils to feed your plants with or to help'em growing better or producing more, or with a better taste selling it for hundreds of bucks per liter.

Do this favor to yourself, your plants and this already fucked up planet.

Just a couple of pictures...and to be clear. I have nothing against this company, I just tell what I see, along other consideration regarding the WHOLE cannabis market, including seeds and their elite names...

[Tudo]

Magnificent