Indoor Fanboy Spring JeanO’s Run 2023

[Jean-O]

Howdy y’all

It’s week 8, specifically Day #58

The JeanO’s girls are still doing great and starting to fill in some. Over the last week I’ve had some minor yellowing mid plant to bottom and have just selectively started removing the yellowing fan leaves as they appear. I have some very minor tip burn so I’m ASSuming that I’m over feeding .
I’ll back off some this week and see how it looks next Wednesday.

One thing I have noticed that just sorta slipped my mind is I haven’t been following the VPD chart at all this grow and I’m not sure why that is, probably just everything else going on and old age

When I started noticing the yellowing leaves I then started going through everything and looking for mistakes. Surprisingly my previous worries about high humidity may have been premature. Anyways it comes down to my humidity was really low since the changes I made and I’ve made adjustments to the Inkbird controller to stay as close to optimal VPD as possible. I have to make a minor adjustment before bed to account for the lower lights-out temps.
We will see how that goes also.
I did give them all a dose of Seabird Guano , last week after steeping it for 48 hours. I’ve also added another pole fan to the lower section of the tent. My ACI fan is acting up again and not oscillating. I’m think I’m done trying their pole mount fans, have had nothing but trouble with those since the pre-release versions. Have had no issues with their inline fans though.
Anyways I’ve rambled enough and I’ll leave y’all with some nice photos of the girls since the last update.

Hope everyone had an amazing Independence Day full of fun and family !!
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Have a wonderful week, I’ll catch y’all next Wednesday or so.

Looking real good!

 

[Pigskin Fanboy]

Looking real good!

Thank you brother. It’s not hard to do with your creations, that’s for sure !!

 

[Pigskin Fanboy]

Howdy y’all
The girls are coming along nicely.
If my math is right, it’s week 9, Day #63
I fed them on Friday of last week;
GC2
Mixed 1gal water with
6g mega crop
4g Sea Kelp
1/4tsp Quillaja Saponaria
Specs
PH 7.7 set to 6.5
PPM 750
EC 1.5
Gave entire gallon to GC2 GroBucket reservoir

GC1 & RBF
Mixed 2gal water with
20ml Gold Leaf
1/2tsp Quillaja Saponeria
Specs
PH 5.7 set to 6.6
EC 2.4
PPM 1210
Gave 1gal to each
On Monday’s watering, instead of the mainline nutrients I wanted to try some other things.
I mixed 3 gal of water with;

1. 1 1/2tsp Cytoplus
2. 1/2tsp (about 3ml) Humboldt Secret Enzyme formula
3. 6tbsp Blackstrap Molasses.

Specs
PH 7.8 , set to 6.6
EC 1.1
PPM 560
Gave each GroBucket till runoff and 3” in catch pan of gc1
Tomorrow evening I’ll probably do something similar but with Epsom salts, a little tree trunk and Quillaja Saponaria and going to probably water from the top this one time, only because I noticed a funky smell the last time I pulled the water level indicator. I have wondered about using a hydroguard additive in these but haven’t tried it yet. I’ve only used it for my DWC grows so not sure if anyone else uses hydroguard for soil grows ?
Anyways things are going great. The yellowing seems to have stopped or slowed a lot. I’ll continue to feed the nutrients once a week and see how things go from there.
Here’s some random photos of the girls from the last week or so.

I think the grape cheeses are going to produce much more than the RBF. They are really filling in and starting to swell up.

On a side note, my better half has one more chemo treatment to go. Things have been extremely tough these last two treatments and have had her wanting to give up and not do the last one. It’s an extremely rough thing for her to go through and rough on us trying to support her and witness it daily.
We’ll go for a fluids infusion tomorrow morning and hopefully that will carry her through until next Thursday for the final treatment. Thanks for any prayers or positive thoughts/vibes you can send our way.
As always thanks for hanging with me on this journey of love and learning.

 

[paulg]

Best wishes to your loved one. Growing weed is a distant second. I too had a bad odor in the GroBucket reservoir. Hydroguard was recommended and may have fixed it, but I also introduced a air pump. Huge difference! The easy and effective way to add it is to remove the GB cap and drop the bubbler down the tube. Juries still out but my last two grows have been really solid.
the fish tank pump was about $15 on eBay. I’d say it’s well worth a try! Good luck. Your plants look great!!

 

[Pigskin Fanboy]

Howdy y’all
The JeanO’s girls are getting thick like peanut buttah

I missed a update for week 10 but life has a way of doing that LOL
I’ve been keeping the feeds light and trying to stay around 1.3 EC , I’ve also been able to stay closer to VPD parameters. I haven’t even checked with a scope yet and probably will grab some scope photos tonight but with JeanO’s I usually see them go past 90 days daily but just to be safe I’ll grab some scope shots tonight. The yellowing has slowed down, I’ve trimmed most of that off and they are stacking and starting to swell.
Lights on I’m around 83f and 67-68% RH, lights out is around 71f and 55% RH.
Last night I went with 3gal water mixed with
3tsp Pro-Silcate
6ml Hydroguard
3tbsp molasses
Specs
PH 9.1 set to 6.5
EC 1.3
PPM 640
Gave each one gallon.
I’ll feed Saturday with the regular nutrient lines . I did notice that GC 1 (in the grow bag) has started leaning from the weight but it appears the root structure is shallow and not very defined. I’m gonna be extra careful with it and not sure why such a noticeable difference between the 3 plants. I’ll probably end up adding some support to it. The stalk on the GC 2 and RBF are both very thick and tree-trunk like so not sure where the problem lies. Not even sure if you are supposed to equate stalk size to root development but seems to make sense.
RBF is getting that purple fade and is really beautiful. Not sure how the yield will compare to the others as the GC’s both have long colas and the RBF seems to be spaces out and more like baseball clumps, if that makes sense?
Either way the GroBuckets seem to be winning in the stalk thickness and root ball category.
Added one of my buddies slaps to the tent. He’s starting to really make a place in the industry and on the social media platforms.
I’ve got a hankering to run a photo run next with some of Ed Rosenthal’s beans and probably some of my buddies that I mentioned. I will be adding a small aeration stone to the bottom of my GroBuckets and will see how that does for me. Stay tuned for that!
Here’s some photos for your enjoyment.
As always thanks for hanging with me on this journey of love and knowledge.

 

[Pigskin Fanboy]

Howdy y’all
Week 11 from sprout, Day #81
Went ahead and got scope shots of all 3 of my JeanO’s girls.
Looks like Root Beer Float will need to be harvested probably this evening or tomorrow, depending on my schedule.
The two Grape Cheese may have another week or so. From looking at JeanO’s site that falls right in the range of what he expects out of both of them.
Root Beer Float
This is my first grow of JeanO’s RBF, it has been a strong grower from the start. It’s really a low-maintenance plant and I’ll definitely give these another try with some different techniques.
The bud spacing is spread out more than the two GC plants, more like a golf ball size or bigger (2-3”) , but there’s a lot of them. The buds are very solid.
Overall it will give a nice yield, I’ll update both wet and dry later.
The smell is just an amazing mix of Lemon/citrus. The leaves are fading into a dark purple color and I’m sure it’ll cure up nice and dark. It was topped so only has 2 main colas, it most likely would produce more with a FIM process and LST.
Started with a water soak and placed into solo cup. Transplanted with great white on day #14 and topped on day #17.
Grown in a 5gal GroBucket system, with a mixture of Happy Frog and Organic Pro-Mix (yellow bag). Added some calcium sand to the mixture
She was fed Gold Leaf nutrients throughout the grow and of course supplemented as outlined in this journal at various times .
She’s right at 40” from the top of the soil. Main stalk size was 1 1/4” across.

Grape Cheese #1
This is my first grape cheese run also and like all the other JeanO’s I have grown, they exceeded my expectations and will definitely be on my list of favorites to grow again.
She was started with a water soak and placed in a solo cup. Transplanted on day #14 with great white and topped on day #17. She was grown in a 5gal fabric bag and almost entirely watered/fed from the bottom pan.
She’s 36” exactly from the soil and the colas are 1-2” across and 8-12” long. Had 2 main colas and would produce more if FIM process was used, as you’ll see on her sister below.
She was fed Gold Leaf Nutrients and supplemented as noted in this journal above at various times.
She has a strong/sweet grape smell and is very sticky and resinous.
This one didn’t grow a very thick stalk and as noted in the journal somehow the root system didn’t develop very deep, as she started to lean on me as it became top heavy. The main stalk is right at 5/8” across. As you will be able to see in GC#2 this wasn’t a normal occurrence and I’m sure it was something I did/didn’t do that caused this. Probably another 7-10 days on this one. Will update wet/dry weights upon harvest/cure.
Overall extremely happy with this grow and will grow these again soon.

Grape Cheese #2
This girl started out slower than her sisters but eventually exploded in growth and just turned out amazing.
started with a water soak and straight into a solo cup. Transplanted on day #16 into an 5gal GroBucket system and FIM’d on day #25.
She was fed @Greenleaf Nutrients Mega Crop(9-7-14) and Sea-K(0-0-18), supplemented as noted in this journal at various times, just to keep everything consistent between the two plants with different nutrient lines.
She’s 38 1/2” tall, had 3 main colas from the FIM process and if I was more careful may be able to get more. The main stalk is right at 1” across. Like her sister she has very long and full colas 1-3” across and 8-14” long. This one really is going to yield a nice amount. She also has the same sweet grape smell. Very sticky and solid buds. Can’t emphasize enough how much I love @Jean-O creations and will grow these again. I think the Greenleaf Nutrients added a little something to this one that helped boost her above and beyond her sister.
Probably another 7-10 days on this one. Will update wet and dry weights upon harvest/cure.

As always thanks for hanging out with me on this journey