Druid's little grow thread

[Rapha El]

alright, alright, alright. now we're cooking with gas:

here's april one day before her 3rd week, I took off more than is left now. not to worry tho

here she is one day later, looking nice again.. but more importantly, on the left there we've got ourselves a little auto. it's a rqs epsilon f1. I was curious of their 60 day lifecycle claim, so here we go.

she doesn't have a name yet. ideas?

 

[Rapha El]

April is starting to bush out nicely, i took away a few shoots today in order to not crowd here too much later. The deficiency signs on the older leaves do hurt a bit but they're not doing anything so, on they stay. They are however showing different signs of something. It looks like fertilizer burn.. so might have to go down with the concentration even more. Might also be because it's the only one of my old seeds to have germinated. We'll see

I also did my best to start training the little epsilon a bit. Had to get creative, seing as the pyramid doesn't offer any tiedown points. This should be just enough to get the lower two branches to come up a bit.

 

[Rapha El]

Here's the cover shot:

She's on day 29 now, so in another 30 days she should be ready to harvest

I'd like you to welcome our newest member; a Dutch Passion White Widow auto. She was tiiiny, don't think i've ever seen such a small seedling before. But boy oh boy is this a hungry one. I had her in the little germination station for half a day and she shot up like crazy, so straight into the pot she went. She's living in plain coco. It's about to get really warm and I'm really too lazy to water multiple times a day.

 

[Rapha El]

Alright, Alright, Alright, we've got some Australian temperatures now. It is fucking hot outside!

But inside good. Very good in fact. Today I gave the Epsilon her last cut, she's finishing out nicely and hasn't been drinking much anymore. And of course I took some pics:

Now that the leaves are gone you can see much better that she is in fact.. all colas.

There aren't any C grade buds on her, did find a few Bs but a good 80% of her are A grade and that.. is amazing.

The other two are also doing quite well but more on them once she got the chop.

 

[Rapha El]

Today I planted a new little seed, this time a Mimosa x Orange Punch from Barney's Farm. They had a pretty neat 50% off deal so of course.. I had to



This is what she's supposed to look like, or at least one pheno of it. She's supposed to have 3 different phenos, all varying greatly in yield. One producing some nice fall colors, one being very fruity in aroma but fading to yellow and one regularly colored one blasted with trichomes. There are some people reporting stability problems and herming, soooo that's gonna be.. exciting.

The taste is supposed to be very fresh and fruity/lemony with a heavier sweet note that's almost gasy, which sounds quite nice to me as I'm having the same experience with the GMO Breath I'm smoking atm. If it weren't for that I'd have grown a Moby Dick or Lemon Haze next. But by god I want that fruity fuel with the bang!

 

[Rapha El]

Alright, I tested the pump and set it up, here it is, swimming in nutrient solution

Pretty unspectacular, so let's have a look at the mayhem:

You can see the manifold hanging front and center.. I may have cut the capillaries a wee bit short but that's okay.

You see that distribution thingie? Each one of those ports puts out 60ml/min. The Package contained 3 of those.. but each one has a different flow rate. Noooow me being a bit weird with aesthetics have ordered 2 more of those. Once they arrive each pot will have it's own, and then the lines will be plenty long enough.

You see the attachment points on the case? I'm gonna heat weld some brass inserts into the "backside" of the pots so I can attach/afix one manifold per pot. Then pull the feed lines around the back and from the front you will just see the drippers spidering out from behind as if they were coming from inside the pot.

The power supply of the pump has a timer inside. Once you power the pump it pops on and waters for a minute, then the timer starts and it waters again in 24h another 1 minute. In that one minute each dripper can output 60ml. So 3 lines in the big pot, ~200ml.. per day? Sounds too little.
And it is. Each time you power the wallplug, the pump turns on for a minute. So with an ac timer-plug I just turn it on 10 times a day and get all the water they require.

Never used drippers before, I'm excited. I'm curious to see if 3 is enough to water a pot evenly. Since these are very low pressure, they ought to behave differently to the regular pe/pcv systems.

But I don't want to leave you empty handed, here's what the white widow looks like atm

I really need to increase the nute density again if I want her to be nice and fat. Like her sister, the strawberry cola, here

She's just colas and sugar leaves