Dutch Passion Cookies, Limes and Blackberries - Teetee's tasty Dutch Passion grow
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Thanks @912GreenSkell I was pretty surprised.... I was worried they would all rot before I could manicure them.... I crammed the whole plant in one standard removals company box.
With thanks to @Corgy, I've made some improvements to my tent........
My 1.4m2 Seahawk tent is a bit crap really..... I've had it just over 2 years, running constantly. The poles are thin and the tent itself is a bit saggy. With extraction on, the walls suck in to give me a space less than 1.2m2.
I use LEDs and keep all the wiring etc on top of the tent, and about 6 months ago the roof poles started bending in. The pole at the top front has totally bent in the middle, and as I was mid grow, all I did was lash a metal stake to it with some cable ties.
I never got round to fixing the issue until a recent landlord inspection forced me to dismantle everything.
Now I have the tent up, and I've had the opportunity to sort it out........
First, I swapped the top roof poles for the floor poles, effectively turning the frame upside down. Basically a new set of straight(ish) poles already!
Then I got some heavy mesh from my local DIY shop, I was lucky to find some pre cut to 1.8m x 1.2m with 10cm squares about 5-6mm thick. I bent either side over to make it fit over the tent frame.
After making the tent up again, I unzipped the roof (I didn't have to remove the roof fully as the mesh was 1.2m wide) and fitted the mesh panel over the tent frame and zipped the roof back over over.
Here you can see what I mean by bending the sides over to make it fit......
Here's the panel in place.....
Now the roof is stronger and I have much improved hanging options.......
The only bit of cutting I had to do was to make space for the extraction ducting...... you might see I've cut and bent back a bit just there as the ducting goes up..... pretty easy to do. I have another prefilter on order for my carbon filter...... I took the old one off to wash it, and now I can't find it.......
I hope this helps you if you have a similar situation..... and thanks again to @Corgy for this.
You can see something new hooked to my new roof...... something shiny...... my new Skyline 400W LEDs!!!!! They give off an intense white light and direct vision leaves you staggering around aimlessly.
What else is new in the tent?...... oh yeah, the seedlings.
I had to grow the Daiquiri Lime (for sheer yield) and the Colorado Cookie again, but rather than the Blackberry Kush, I thought Night Queen might be good....... she is one of Dutch Passions strongest Indica Autos with THC over 20% and promises an unusually heavy and long lasting effect! I've heard she doesn't get very big though.
I used my usual germination technique of making up 3x 5 litre airpots with 100% Canna Coco plus.
I made up an EC 0.7 nute mix, made up from EC 0 rainwater brought upto EC 0.1 with Cal Mag, then I added H&G Coco nutes to make EC 0.5.
Then I added some Roots Excellurator and Nitrogen Boost to make EC 0.7.
I soaked the Coco with this mix and reserved the remainder for the first week's feeds.
I sowed my seed, covered the pots with clingfilm and topped them with some thick card to block the light. After 3 days in the tent with 1 of the Skylines on (raised to pretty much max height) on for warmth, up they popped. 100% record intact.
The pots remained moist, and by day 4 I was seeing a little dryness on the surface of the Coco.
I gave 500ml to each of them in a circumferential manner (ie around the edges, away from the main stem), and will do so daily for the next few days, upping the EC to 0.8 fairly soon.
I rejigged the lights (in seconds) to have 2 Skyines in a line and lowered them to 2ft to flood my babies with light ..... being Autos, I wanna give them the best start possible to maximise early growth.
Here they are on day 4.....
from L to R Daiquiri Lime, Night Queen and Colorado Cookie
Wish them luck!
Starting to look quite familiar and homely.......any reason why you have your filter inside the tent and not outside to get a wee bit more elbow room and space for that there weed?
These days I can't imagine having a tent without a top mesh and on 2 sides as well. The difference in "growabilty"(say, is that actually a word....) is like a pure Ruderalis(I imagine) and a feisty Sativa on a mission.......
Yeah, I was gone for awhile, had to shut everything down after 3 houses within 50 m was visited by the Botanical Enforcement Constables over a 6 weeks period.....seems the electricity consumption was a key giveaway.........all 3 tenants now live forcibly elsewhere. It was just too risky, and since the jars were rather full at the time, everything was packed away and stored somewhere else. It was like torture taking it all down AND having to slay the test grows of 3 x Fastbuds Six shooter and 3 x Think Big at some 4 weeks old.....I'll have to make up for that when everything is back to where it was, but at least we've been sleeping better.
Well, since all the bruhaha seems to have died down I have a few endeavors going again, and have used the holiday to get some GHE Waterfarms and Aguafarms, and got 8 x Mephisto Ripley's OG in Autopots and 1 x Think Big in a Waterfarm(first time trying "semi" DWC and so far no complaints about the state of affairs). Here's the Think Big at 52 days, just starting to packing it on.....
Have to say those Water- and Aquafarms ain't a bad piece of kit.......we'll see, but could be my Autopots will lead a more sedate life onwards.......
cheers
These days I can't imagine having a tent without a top mesh and on 2 sides as well. The difference in "growabilty"(say, is that actually a word....) is like a pure Ruderalis(I imagine) and a feisty Sativa on a mission.......
Yeah, I was gone for awhile, had to shut everything down after 3 houses within 50 m was visited by the Botanical Enforcement Constables over a 6 weeks period.....seems the electricity consumption was a key giveaway.........all 3 tenants now live forcibly elsewhere. It was just too risky, and since the jars were rather full at the time, everything was packed away and stored somewhere else. It was like torture taking it all down AND having to slay the test grows of 3 x Fastbuds Six shooter and 3 x Think Big at some 4 weeks old.....I'll have to make up for that when everything is back to where it was, but at least we've been sleeping better.
Well, since all the bruhaha seems to have died down I have a few endeavors going again, and have used the holiday to get some GHE Waterfarms and Aguafarms, and got 8 x Mephisto Ripley's OG in Autopots and 1 x Think Big in a Waterfarm(first time trying "semi" DWC and so far no complaints about the state of affairs). Here's the Think Big at 52 days, just starting to packing it on.....
Have to say those Water- and Aquafarms ain't a bad piece of kit.......we'll see, but could be my Autopots will lead a more sedate life onwards.......
cheers
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