Mephisto Genetics Froot's Mephisto - Basically Jurassic Park

[Beerhunter CDN]

Yeah Froot!!! Those look awesome! I planned on dropping the HBSS for this grow but I’ve cut back on the number of plants per grow to try to get more room between plants and more light to lowers until I understand them
better.

 

[SlownLow86]

Looking good, dude. I took my HBSS around day 80. At that point she was all milky without any amber. She smokes like a dream already even though shes not properly cured yet. Yours look 10 times better than mine did, though!

 

[gringuito98]

Beautiful plants. The HBSS certainly will still need good while to be ready bud you‘ll be well rewarded!

Nice work ... will follow.

Cheers and happy growing!

 

[Froot n Fuel]

Pro lol no. Just keep it simple. I still use drops to test ph lol. I try not to water till run off cause it makes a mess maybe once during preflower and once at the end on purpose. Girls r looking good. The sparkle going away is natural that’s the trics going from clear to cloudy.

thanks Mizzo much appreciated, you put out very admirable plants in coco mate happy for any input

Man! That HBSS is looking awesome Keep up the great work. For me, those are important tools in my arsenal.

thanks Cap'n! i tried and somewhat succeeded in growing without some of these bells and whistles, but these will help me become better and more consistent...hopefully!

That HBSS is one impressive plant, Froot! So frosty and that structure is perfect for piling on fat buds! Lots of openness and length! Nice growing, man! The other girls are coming along nicely too!

thanks Iriee brother i'm happy you like the look of her! she's doing me well and for a first go at a new medium i can't complain with her progress...but she presents a challenge in longevity - reckon she'll go a couple more weeks than any i've had before so wish me luck
you'd go bananas for the smell of this one, no creativity needed in descriptions here she's straight up pink bubblegum and not shy about it either!

HBSS is looking on point! I'm gonna call it and say she's your finest to date. What a looker.

I water to run off nearly every feed when they get going. Don't take that as advice though, just what's seemed to work for me.

That apera pen seems to work pretty well. I felt like a mad scientist when I was calibrating it but it seems pretty good so far.

thanks man i think i agree with you, she's a pretty gal, now she just has to plump up for a couple of weeks. i doubt she will beat Ripley's on production (just shy of 5 ) but she's shaping up to beat the quality hands down. made a big difference having the space for her to stretch out and not being constricted to a cupboard. i was growing plants too big for that space.

did you just do the single point calibration to get going or the full 3 point cal?

4AM arrived today bro
won't mess about, getting 'er wet later

i see you have been buying some new toys id like your opinion on the new meter my water is a 0.2 ec out of my tap so im very lucky i think if its higher you already have a lot of calcium but dont hold me to it also for ro water in the summer i sometimes run a air conditioner unit and the tank on that is worth saving i suppose anyhow your girls look great and you should be well proud also i see your using megacrop i just got some myself but im gonna use my remo stuff 1st

i've been buying too many new toys my friend!
yes you're lucky with that water mate, honestly i knew i was in a "hard water" area but didn't think it was this hard!
switched to MegaCrop as soon as it arrived yeh, now i'm thinking most of my problems may have been caused by my poor water rather than the AN lineup i was using but time will tell. i'll come back and use up older nutrients as comparisons later down the line thanks for looking in bro

Great looking HBSS. Sure looks healthy indeed.

Good you got an RO filter given how hard your tap water is. Did you get an RO Buddie? RO is great if you have irrigation lines like in autopot systems because the cal mag buildup from the tap water won't clog up lines. Also I like RO because regardless of what type of irrigation, all the minerals etc has been removed from the equation. So when I add MC or SC or BE I know that's all thats in the water. So I don't measure PPM after adding my nutes because I know exactly what is in there every time just based on how many grams of nute I added. I know Seabass, who is a great grower, told me once that his grows really improved when he switched from tap to RO. That is going to vary place to place based on the tap water, but given your hard tap water I bet you see an improvement.

Couple of tips on RO for you.
Get a float shutoff valve and mount it in a big 50 gallon pail and have your RO filter fill that things up so you always have a supply on the ready.
Check your PPM (using your new pen toy) of your RO filter water before adding nutes every time. Should be under 10 ppm. When you start to get towards 15 and it will happen as filters are less effective over time, you want to change the two filters upstream of the membrane. Those are cheaper than the membrane and if you change them at the right time your membrane will last longer. I keep a couple of each type of filter on standby. So recommend you get in some spare filters.

hey man really appreciate the time to reply, any tips/advice/input will be put to good use here.

HBSS is doing me proud, this girl didn't get a perfect start, was my first solo cup, clumsy transplant into coco, and a few other errors, maybe added a bit of time on to the grow but she's made me realise you can still get a good sized plant even if you make a mistake or two in the first couple of weeks. still feeling out watering schedules etc and this coco i use is a little different to regular coco in that it's premixed with clay pebbles, 60/40 ratio from Gold Label in Holland, which seems to make over watering an established plant rather difficult, very flood to drain friendly.

so far it's more enjoyable than soil to grow in, for me. consistency so much better.

i have read the same thing from Seabass, fantastic grower and he claims huge improvement moving to RO water and it's always been in the back of my mind but i thought my water was okay and it was an overkill investment to get a RO system...
not the brand RO Buddy but it was a post on here i think from @Dr.Bubbles that brought my attention to these smaller, cheaper units available from a popular market place - i bought the cheapest one and it arrives today, hopefully it performs! i will pick up a spare set of filters for sure, appreciate the tip on the membrane. will look at a float valve, i'm sure manually filling will become tiresome quickly!

watching you and slow working with smaller pots has me looking at downsizing mine to save on space and wasted medium. i have 2 gal fabric pots lined up, might choose to transplant the Double Grape to that instead of the 3 gal air pot i had planned on...

Yes, my water is a bit hard and I actually could probably use it if I were to teak things. But I use an RO filter. Your water is hard, and I would totally suggest a filter. Looks like you have one coming . It makes mixing easier . You start at zero and know exactly the strength of what you are feeding. What kind of Co o do you use? Good luck. Peace, slow

thanks slow
this is what i'm using right now;

premixed and presumably designed with flood to drain style growing in mind. as i mentioned above, i like the results yourself and lunarman are getting in smaller sized pots - my HBSS is in around 10L of this and in more experienced hands would have been much bigger. i don't know how this coco would perform in smaller pots, i have some 2 gal fabric pots i will try in the near future and experiment. I selected this medium following some very impressive results with autos here using it but i wonder how much it differs to more conventional coco.
hopefully the RO water will make a difference and improve things, been a lot of changes to my set up recently switching from cupboard growing to a tent, switching lightmix soil to coco based mediums, transplants, switching from AN line up to Greenleaf, and now tap water to RO, lots going on in the quest for quality meds for my missus and the best damn smoke i've ever tasted

Always good to contact your local water processing provider and find out the actual PPM of tap water in your area. They can normally tell you the mineral breakdown, as they should have that info available for farms using the water on a large scale etc but that's a hassle.

An RO system is a bit dear and OTT (as in its not necessary without a full hydro system/ Res on the whole) so you may want to consider something like a Brita filter, I use one in a bucket when feeding the young ones.

The water comes out at around 6.0 and seems devoid of anything besides the flouride

Great plants btw buddy

when i first started growing, i thought a RO system was way out of my depth, but then i found the smaller units with fish tanks in mind and it all becomes much more reasonable. £40 delivered with plenty of decent reviews - but i'll let you know what i think as it arrives today. i would think a Brita costs not far off that, plus replacement filters, plus my water is not great at all - i'm convinced i'll see an improvement, if only for the ability to feed the girls more - 0.7 EC is a lot for just water to take up, and judging by the PPM of my runoff atm all that salt is causing me bother and i'm seeing some lockout signs on the HBSS lowers. i think my soil grows deteriorated toward the end of grows because of salt build ups due to the water. i need to make up some batched of AN nutes i was using as i'm interested to see what i've been dumping in to the pots all this time - gonna wager it's much higher PPM than i would have thought.

i think RO water mixed with new Greenleaf Nutrients is gonna be a great upgrade. thanks dude appreciate you looking out for me.

Yeah Froot!!! Those look awesome! I planned on dropping the HBSS for this grow but I’ve cut back on the number of plants per grow to try to get more room between plants and more light to lowers until I understand them
better.

thanks bro! i don't blame the cut back, easier to do once you already have some jars filled! the HBSS really has benefited from all the extra space since upgrading to the tent. you'll like this stuff i reckon, loud bubblegum sweetness!

as for understanding the plants better, each grow and each plant you will pick up more and more knowledge, especially when you are striving for the very best quality achievable. my first grow results were okay...next was better, third was good - HBSS will be the fourth cycle completed and i hope the best!

Looking good, dude. I took my HBSS around day 80. At that point she was all milky without any amber. She smokes like a dream already even though shes not properly cured yet. Yours look 10 times better than mine did, though!

thanks bro! she had a slow start so i expect a longer finish for this one - a couple of extra weeks makes little difference to me whilst i still have full jars so we will wait until she is ready! hopefully she retains her good looks over the next few weeks! glad to hear you're enjoying the smoke...the smell is surprisingly loud, i expected her to be more reserved but happy to report she is a stinker!

Beautiful plants. The HBSS certainly will still need good while to be ready bud you‘ll be well rewarded!

Nice work ... will follow.

Cheers and happy growing!

cheers Gringo welcome to my grows bro, appreciate you stopping by and taking time to say hi
still much to learn here, only 6 months or so under my belt, trying to improve and improve so i can do a good job with these excellent genetics. i hope i can finish this HBSS well thank you!




thanks so much everyone for the support and encouragement

 

[slowandeasy]

thanks Mizzo much appreciated, you put out very admirable plants in coco mate happy for any input



thanks Cap'n! i tried and somewhat succeeded in growing without some of these bells and whistles, but these will help me become better and more consistent...hopefully!



thanks Iriee brother i'm happy you like the look of her! she's doing me well and for a first go at a new medium i can't complain with her progress...but she presents a challenge in longevity - reckon she'll go a couple more weeks than any i've had before so wish me luck
you'd go bananas for the smell of this one, no creativity needed in descriptions here she's straight up pink bubblegum and not shy about it either!



thanks man i think i agree with you, she's a pretty gal, now she just has to plump up for a couple of weeks. i doubt she will beat Ripley's on production (just shy of 5 ) but she's shaping up to beat the quality hands down. made a big difference having the space for her to stretch out and not being constricted to a cupboard. i was growing plants too big for that space.

did you just do the single point calibration to get going or the full 3 point cal?

4AM arrived today bro
won't mess about, getting 'er wet later



i've been buying too many new toys my friend!
yes you're lucky with that water mate, honestly i knew i was in a "hard water" area but didn't think it was this hard!
switched to MegaCrop as soon as it arrived yeh, now i'm thinking most of my problems may have been caused by my poor water rather than the AN lineup i was using but time will tell. i'll come back and use up older nutrients as comparisons later down the line thanks for looking in bro



hey man really appreciate the time to reply, any tips/advice/input will be put to good use here.

HBSS is doing me proud, this girl didn't get a perfect start, was my first solo cup, clumsy transplant into coco, and a few other errors, maybe added a bit of time on to the grow but she's made me realise you can still get a good sized plant even if you make a mistake or two in the first couple of weeks. still feeling out watering schedules etc and this coco i use is a little different to regular coco in that it's premixed with clay pebbles, 60/40 ratio from Gold Label in Holland, which seems to make over watering an established plant rather difficult, very flood to drain friendly.

so far it's more enjoyable than soil to grow in, for me. consistency so much better.

i have read the same thing from Seabass, fantastic grower and he claims huge improvement moving to RO water and it's always been in the back of my mind but i thought my water was okay and it was an overkill investment to get a RO system...
not the brand RO Buddy but it was a post on here i think from @Dr.Bubbles that brought my attention to these smaller, cheaper units available from a popular market place - i bought the cheapest one and it arrives today, hopefully it performs! i will pick up a spare set of filters for sure, appreciate the tip on the membrane. will look at a float valve, i'm sure manually filling will become tiresome quickly!

watching you and slow working with smaller pots has me looking at downsizing mine to save on space and wasted medium. i have 2 gal fabric pots lined up, might choose to transplant the Double Grape to that instead of the 3 gal air pot i had planned on...



thanks slow
this is what i'm using right now;

View attachment 1039456

premixed and presumably designed with flood to drain style growing in mind. as i mentioned above, i like the results yourself and lunarman are getting in smaller sized pots - my HBSS is in around 10L of this and in more experienced hands would have been much bigger. i don't know how this coco would perform in smaller pots, i have some 2 gal fabric pots i will try in the near future and experiment. I selected this medium following some very impressive results with autos here using it but i wonder how much it differs to more conventional coco.
hopefully the RO water will make a difference and improve things, been a lot of changes to my set up recently switching from cupboard growing to a tent, switching lightmix soil to coco based mediums, transplants, switching from AN line up to Greenleaf, and now tap water to RO, lots going on in the quest for quality meds for my missus and the best damn smoke i've ever tasted





when i first started growing, i thought a RO system was way out of my depth, but then i found the smaller units with fish tanks in mind and it all becomes much more reasonable. £40 delivered with plenty of decent reviews - but i'll let you know what i think as it arrives today. i would think a Brita costs not far off that, plus replacement filters, plus my water is not great at all - i'm convinced i'll see an improvement, if only for the ability to feed the girls more - 0.7 EC is a lot for just water to take up, and judging by the PPM of my runoff atm all that salt is causing me bother and i'm seeing some lockout signs on the HBSS lowers. i think my soil grows deteriorated toward the end of grows because of salt build ups due to the water. i need to make up some batched of AN nutes i was using as i'm interested to see what i've been dumping in to the pots all this time - gonna wager it's much higher PPM than i would have thought.

i think RO water mixed with new Greenleaf Nutrients is gonna be a great upgrade. thanks dude appreciate you looking out for me.



thanks bro! i don't blame the cut back, easier to do once you already have some jars filled! the HBSS really has benefited from all the extra space since upgrading to the tent. you'll like this stuff i reckon, loud bubblegum sweetness!

View attachment 1039500

as for understanding the plants better, each grow and each plant you will pick up more and more knowledge, especially when you are striving for the very best quality achievable. my first grow results were okay...next was better, third was good - HBSS will be the fourth cycle completed and i hope the best!



thanks bro! she had a slow start so i expect a longer finish for this one - a couple of extra weeks makes little difference to me whilst i still have full jars so we will wait until she is ready! hopefully she retains her good looks over the next few weeks! glad to hear you're enjoying the smoke...the smell is surprisingly loud, i expected her to be more reserved but happy to report she is a stinker!



cheers Gringo welcome to my grows bro, appreciate you stopping by and taking time to say hi
still much to learn here, only 6 months or so under my belt, trying to improve and improve so i can do a good job with these excellent genetics. i hope i can finish this HBSS well thank you!




thanks so much everyone for the support and encouragement

Not sure I would try a 60/40 mix in small pots, unless you have Automated watering. Handwatering may be very labor intensive. I have been adding a layer of Hydroton here and there on small pots. But 60/40 is a lot more Hydroton, which will effect water frequency. Good luck, will be following. Peace, slow

 

[St. Tom]

thanks Mizzo much appreciated, you put out very admirable plants in coco mate happy for any input



thanks Cap'n! i tried and somewhat succeeded in growing without some of these bells and whistles, but these will help me become better and more consistent...hopefully!



thanks Iriee brother i'm happy you like the look of her! she's doing me well and for a first go at a new medium i can't complain with her progress...but she presents a challenge in longevity - reckon she'll go a couple more weeks than any i've had before so wish me luck
you'd go bananas for the smell of this one, no creativity needed in descriptions here she's straight up pink bubblegum and not shy about it either!



thanks man i think i agree with you, she's a pretty gal, now she just has to plump up for a couple of weeks. i doubt she will beat Ripley's on production (just shy of 5 ) but she's shaping up to beat the quality hands down. made a big difference having the space for her to stretch out and not being constricted to a cupboard. i was growing plants too big for that space.

did you just do the single point calibration to get going or the full 3 point cal?

4AM arrived today bro
won't mess about, getting 'er wet later



i've been buying too many new toys my friend!
yes you're lucky with that water mate, honestly i knew i was in a "hard water" area but didn't think it was this hard!
switched to MegaCrop as soon as it arrived yeh, now i'm thinking most of my problems may have been caused by my poor water rather than the AN lineup i was using but time will tell. i'll come back and use up older nutrients as comparisons later down the line thanks for looking in bro



hey man really appreciate the time to reply, any tips/advice/input will be put to good use here.

HBSS is doing me proud, this girl didn't get a perfect start, was my first solo cup, clumsy transplant into coco, and a few other errors, maybe added a bit of time on to the grow but she's made me realise you can still get a good sized plant even if you make a mistake or two in the first couple of weeks. still feeling out watering schedules etc and this coco i use is a little different to regular coco in that it's premixed with clay pebbles, 60/40 ratio from Gold Label in Holland, which seems to make over watering an established plant rather difficult, very flood to drain friendly.

so far it's more enjoyable than soil to grow in, for me. consistency so much better.

i have read the same thing from Seabass, fantastic grower and he claims huge improvement moving to RO water and it's always been in the back of my mind but i thought my water was okay and it was an overkill investment to get a RO system...
not the brand RO Buddy but it was a post on here i think from @Dr.Bubbles that brought my attention to these smaller, cheaper units available from a popular market place - i bought the cheapest one and it arrives today, hopefully it performs! i will pick up a spare set of filters for sure, appreciate the tip on the membrane. will look at a float valve, i'm sure manually filling will become tiresome quickly!

watching you and slow working with smaller pots has me looking at downsizing mine to save on space and wasted medium. i have 2 gal fabric pots lined up, might choose to transplant the Double Grape to that instead of the 3 gal air pot i had planned on...



thanks slow
this is what i'm using right now;

View attachment 1039456

premixed and presumably designed with flood to drain style growing in mind. as i mentioned above, i like the results yourself and lunarman are getting in smaller sized pots - my HBSS is in around 10L of this and in more experienced hands would have been much bigger. i don't know how this coco would perform in smaller pots, i have some 2 gal fabric pots i will try in the near future and experiment. I selected this medium following some very impressive results with autos here using it but i wonder how much it differs to more conventional coco.
hopefully the RO water will make a difference and improve things, been a lot of changes to my set up recently switching from cupboard growing to a tent, switching lightmix soil to coco based mediums, transplants, switching from AN line up to Greenleaf, and now tap water to RO, lots going on in the quest for quality meds for my missus and the best damn smoke i've ever tasted





when i first started growing, i thought a RO system was way out of my depth, but then i found the smaller units with fish tanks in mind and it all becomes much more reasonable. £40 delivered with plenty of decent reviews - but i'll let you know what i think as it arrives today. i would think a Brita costs not far off that, plus replacement filters, plus my water is not great at all - i'm convinced i'll see an improvement, if only for the ability to feed the girls more - 0.7 EC is a lot for just water to take up, and judging by the PPM of my runoff atm all that salt is causing me bother and i'm seeing some lockout signs on the HBSS lowers. i think my soil grows deteriorated toward the end of grows because of salt build ups due to the water. i need to make up some batched of AN nutes i was using as i'm interested to see what i've been dumping in to the pots all this time - gonna wager it's much higher PPM than i would have thought.

i think RO water mixed with new Greenleaf Nutrients is gonna be a great upgrade. thanks dude appreciate you looking out for me.



thanks bro! i don't blame the cut back, easier to do once you already have some jars filled! the HBSS really has benefited from all the extra space since upgrading to the tent. you'll like this stuff i reckon, loud bubblegum sweetness!

View attachment 1039500

as for understanding the plants better, each grow and each plant you will pick up more and more knowledge, especially when you are striving for the very best quality achievable. my first grow results were okay...next was better, third was good - HBSS will be the fourth cycle completed and i hope the best!



thanks bro! she had a slow start so i expect a longer finish for this one - a couple of extra weeks makes little difference to me whilst i still have full jars so we will wait until she is ready! hopefully she retains her good looks over the next few weeks! glad to hear you're enjoying the smoke...the smell is surprisingly loud, i expected her to be more reserved but happy to report she is a stinker!



cheers Gringo welcome to my grows bro, appreciate you stopping by and taking time to say hi
still much to learn here, only 6 months or so under my belt, trying to improve and improve so i can do a good job with these excellent genetics. i hope i can finish this HBSS well thank you!




thanks so much everyone for the support and encouragement

i use the same coco clay pebble mix in my autopots its really good for drainage also i was looking last night at your ph meter my birthday is coming up i may buy myself one they get good reviews on amazon

 

[lunarman]

thanks Mizzo much appreciated, you put out very admirable plants in coco mate happy for any input



thanks Cap'n! i tried and somewhat succeeded in growing without some of these bells and whistles, but these will help me become better and more consistent...hopefully!



thanks Iriee brother i'm happy you like the look of her! she's doing me well and for a first go at a new medium i can't complain with her progress...but she presents a challenge in longevity - reckon she'll go a couple more weeks than any i've had before so wish me luck
you'd go bananas for the smell of this one, no creativity needed in descriptions here she's straight up pink bubblegum and not shy about it either!



thanks man i think i agree with you, she's a pretty gal, now she just has to plump up for a couple of weeks. i doubt she will beat Ripley's on production (just shy of 5 ) but she's shaping up to beat the quality hands down. made a big difference having the space for her to stretch out and not being constricted to a cupboard. i was growing plants too big for that space.

did you just do the single point calibration to get going or the full 3 point cal?

4AM arrived today bro
won't mess about, getting 'er wet later



i've been buying too many new toys my friend!
yes you're lucky with that water mate, honestly i knew i was in a "hard water" area but didn't think it was this hard!
switched to MegaCrop as soon as it arrived yeh, now i'm thinking most of my problems may have been caused by my poor water rather than the AN lineup i was using but time will tell. i'll come back and use up older nutrients as comparisons later down the line thanks for looking in bro



hey man really appreciate the time to reply, any tips/advice/input will be put to good use here.

HBSS is doing me proud, this girl didn't get a perfect start, was my first solo cup, clumsy transplant into coco, and a few other errors, maybe added a bit of time on to the grow but she's made me realise you can still get a good sized plant even if you make a mistake or two in the first couple of weeks. still feeling out watering schedules etc and this coco i use is a little different to regular coco in that it's premixed with clay pebbles, 60/40 ratio from Gold Label in Holland, which seems to make over watering an established plant rather difficult, very flood to drain friendly.

so far it's more enjoyable than soil to grow in, for me. consistency so much better.

i have read the same thing from Seabass, fantastic grower and he claims huge improvement moving to RO water and it's always been in the back of my mind but i thought my water was okay and it was an overkill investment to get a RO system...
not the brand RO Buddy but it was a post on here i think from @Dr.Bubbles that brought my attention to these smaller, cheaper units available from a popular market place - i bought the cheapest one and it arrives today, hopefully it performs! i will pick up a spare set of filters for sure, appreciate the tip on the membrane. will look at a float valve, i'm sure manually filling will become tiresome quickly!

watching you and slow working with smaller pots has me looking at downsizing mine to save on space and wasted medium. i have 2 gal fabric pots lined up, might choose to transplant the Double Grape to that instead of the 3 gal air pot i had planned on...



thanks slow
this is what i'm using right now;

View attachment 1039456

premixed and presumably designed with flood to drain style growing in mind. as i mentioned above, i like the results yourself and lunarman are getting in smaller sized pots - my HBSS is in around 10L of this and in more experienced hands would have been much bigger. i don't know how this coco would perform in smaller pots, i have some 2 gal fabric pots i will try in the near future and experiment. I selected this medium following some very impressive results with autos here using it but i wonder how much it differs to more conventional coco.
hopefully the RO water will make a difference and improve things, been a lot of changes to my set up recently switching from cupboard growing to a tent, switching lightmix soil to coco based mediums, transplants, switching from AN line up to Greenleaf, and now tap water to RO, lots going on in the quest for quality meds for my missus and the best damn smoke i've ever tasted





when i first started growing, i thought a RO system was way out of my depth, but then i found the smaller units with fish tanks in mind and it all becomes much more reasonable. £40 delivered with plenty of decent reviews - but i'll let you know what i think as it arrives today. i would think a Brita costs not far off that, plus replacement filters, plus my water is not great at all - i'm convinced i'll see an improvement, if only for the ability to feed the girls more - 0.7 EC is a lot for just water to take up, and judging by the PPM of my runoff atm all that salt is causing me bother and i'm seeing some lockout signs on the HBSS lowers. i think my soil grows deteriorated toward the end of grows because of salt build ups due to the water. i need to make up some batched of AN nutes i was using as i'm interested to see what i've been dumping in to the pots all this time - gonna wager it's much higher PPM than i would have thought.

i think RO water mixed with new Greenleaf Nutrients is gonna be a great upgrade. thanks dude appreciate you looking out for me.



thanks bro! i don't blame the cut back, easier to do once you already have some jars filled! the HBSS really has benefited from all the extra space since upgrading to the tent. you'll like this stuff i reckon, loud bubblegum sweetness!

View attachment 1039500

as for understanding the plants better, each grow and each plant you will pick up more and more knowledge, especially when you are striving for the very best quality achievable. my first grow results were okay...next was better, third was good - HBSS will be the fourth cycle completed and i hope the best!



thanks bro! she had a slow start so i expect a longer finish for this one - a couple of extra weeks makes little difference to me whilst i still have full jars so we will wait until she is ready! hopefully she retains her good looks over the next few weeks! glad to hear you're enjoying the smoke...the smell is surprisingly loud, i expected her to be more reserved but happy to report she is a stinker!



cheers Gringo welcome to my grows bro, appreciate you stopping by and taking time to say hi
still much to learn here, only 6 months or so under my belt, trying to improve and improve so i can do a good job with these excellent genetics. i hope i can finish this HBSS well thank you!




thanks so much everyone for the support and encouragement

Like Slow said that might be a bit too much hydroton/pebbles for small pots. I love coco and hydroton but I mix my own to something like 90 coco 10 hyrdroton. I dislike using perlite. As for the small pots, it is a lot of work if hand watering like Slow said. I am watering three times a day now. A liter per plant each time. Getting sore knees and back from it all. But I was warned in advance so I knew it. But now in practice I realize just how much work it is and how automation is something that needs to be done in order to continue this. So I'm waiting to see how this grow goes with the 1g pots. Especially looking to see if they finish fast. If I like how things go then I'll look at a drip stake/pump/timer setup for automation that slow uses sometimes.

 

[slowandeasy]

Like Slow said that might be a bit too much hydroton/pebbles for small pots. I love coco and hydroton but I mix my own to something like 90 coco 10 hyrdroton. I dislike using perlite. As for the small pots, it is a lot of work if hand watering like Slow said. I am watering three times a day now. A liter per plant each time. Getting sore knees and back from it all. But I was warned in advance so I knew it. But now in practice I realize just how much work it is and how automation is something that needs to be done in order to continue this. So I'm waiting to see how this grow goes with the 1g pots. Especially looking to see if they finish fast. If I like how things go then I'll look at a drip stake/pump/timer setup for automation that slow uses sometimes.

Your plants will finish faster with Automated once dialed. Don't judge the 1st attempt with small pots timeline. Remember, winter can slow things down a bit. Good work

 

[lunarman]

Your plants will finish faster with Automated once dialed. Don't judge the 1st attempt with small pots timeline. Remember, winter can slow things down a bit. Good work

Damn, that is absolutely correct. I was forgetting I need to factor that in. The next grow will be the one to make decisions on what size pots I use going forward. thanks man.

 

[NiceOption]

thanks Mizzo much appreciated, you put out very admirable plants in coco mate happy for any input



thanks Cap'n! i tried and somewhat succeeded in growing without some of these bells and whistles, but these will help me become better and more consistent...hopefully!



thanks Iriee brother i'm happy you like the look of her! she's doing me well and for a first go at a new medium i can't complain with her progress...but she presents a challenge in longevity - reckon she'll go a couple more weeks than any i've had before so wish me luck
you'd go bananas for the smell of this one, no creativity needed in descriptions here she's straight up pink bubblegum and not shy about it either!



thanks man i think i agree with you, she's a pretty gal, now she just has to plump up for a couple of weeks. i doubt she will beat Ripley's on production (just shy of 5 ) but she's shaping up to beat the quality hands down. made a big difference having the space for her to stretch out and not being constricted to a cupboard. i was growing plants too big for that space.

did you just do the single point calibration to get going or the full 3 point cal?

4AM arrived today bro
won't mess about, getting 'er wet later



i've been buying too many new toys my friend!
yes you're lucky with that water mate, honestly i knew i was in a "hard water" area but didn't think it was this hard!
switched to MegaCrop as soon as it arrived yeh, now i'm thinking most of my problems may have been caused by my poor water rather than the AN lineup i was using but time will tell. i'll come back and use up older nutrients as comparisons later down the line thanks for looking in bro



hey man really appreciate the time to reply, any tips/advice/input will be put to good use here.

HBSS is doing me proud, this girl didn't get a perfect start, was my first solo cup, clumsy transplant into coco, and a few other errors, maybe added a bit of time on to the grow but she's made me realise you can still get a good sized plant even if you make a mistake or two in the first couple of weeks. still feeling out watering schedules etc and this coco i use is a little different to regular coco in that it's premixed with clay pebbles, 60/40 ratio from Gold Label in Holland, which seems to make over watering an established plant rather difficult, very flood to drain friendly.

so far it's more enjoyable than soil to grow in, for me. consistency so much better.

i have read the same thing from Seabass, fantastic grower and he claims huge improvement moving to RO water and it's always been in the back of my mind but i thought my water was okay and it was an overkill investment to get a RO system...
not the brand RO Buddy but it was a post on here i think from @Dr.Bubbles that brought my attention to these smaller, cheaper units available from a popular market place - i bought the cheapest one and it arrives today, hopefully it performs! i will pick up a spare set of filters for sure, appreciate the tip on the membrane. will look at a float valve, i'm sure manually filling will become tiresome quickly!

watching you and slow working with smaller pots has me looking at downsizing mine to save on space and wasted medium. i have 2 gal fabric pots lined up, might choose to transplant the Double Grape to that instead of the 3 gal air pot i had planned on...



thanks slow
this is what i'm using right now;

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premixed and presumably designed with flood to drain style growing in mind. as i mentioned above, i like the results yourself and lunarman are getting in smaller sized pots - my HBSS is in around 10L of this and in more experienced hands would have been much bigger. i don't know how this coco would perform in smaller pots, i have some 2 gal fabric pots i will try in the near future and experiment. I selected this medium following some very impressive results with autos here using it but i wonder how much it differs to more conventional coco.
hopefully the RO water will make a difference and improve things, been a lot of changes to my set up recently switching from cupboard growing to a tent, switching lightmix soil to coco based mediums, transplants, switching from AN line up to Greenleaf, and now tap water to RO, lots going on in the quest for quality meds for my missus and the best damn smoke i've ever tasted





when i first started growing, i thought a RO system was way out of my depth, but then i found the smaller units with fish tanks in mind and it all becomes much more reasonable. £40 delivered with plenty of decent reviews - but i'll let you know what i think as it arrives today. i would think a Brita costs not far off that, plus replacement filters, plus my water is not great at all - i'm convinced i'll see an improvement, if only for the ability to feed the girls more - 0.7 EC is a lot for just water to take up, and judging by the PPM of my runoff atm all that salt is causing me bother and i'm seeing some lockout signs on the HBSS lowers. i think my soil grows deteriorated toward the end of grows because of salt build ups due to the water. i need to make up some batched of AN nutes i was using as i'm interested to see what i've been dumping in to the pots all this time - gonna wager it's much higher PPM than i would have thought.

i think RO water mixed with new Greenleaf Nutrients is gonna be a great upgrade. thanks dude appreciate you looking out for me.



thanks bro! i don't blame the cut back, easier to do once you already have some jars filled! the HBSS really has benefited from all the extra space since upgrading to the tent. you'll like this stuff i reckon, loud bubblegum sweetness!

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as for understanding the plants better, each grow and each plant you will pick up more and more knowledge, especially when you are striving for the very best quality achievable. my first grow results were okay...next was better, third was good - HBSS will be the fourth cycle completed and i hope the best!



thanks bro! she had a slow start so i expect a longer finish for this one - a couple of extra weeks makes little difference to me whilst i still have full jars so we will wait until she is ready! hopefully she retains her good looks over the next few weeks! glad to hear you're enjoying the smoke...the smell is surprisingly loud, i expected her to be more reserved but happy to report she is a stinker!



cheers Gringo welcome to my grows bro, appreciate you stopping by and taking time to say hi
still much to learn here, only 6 months or so under my belt, trying to improve and improve so i can do a good job with these excellent genetics. i hope i can finish this HBSS well thank you!




thanks so much everyone for the support and encouragement

I'm intrigued by the idea of a filter myself. Still just using good ol' fashioned London Tap for now but I should probably rethink that approach. The RO buddie looks like a bit of beast and overkill for my needs, which one did you go for?
Glad to hear that you'll be adding a 4AM to the garden soon! Seems like the profile varies a bit but I reckon you'll be pleased.

Hoping you get a skittles and poop pheno too