SANlight Slater tests SANlight Q6W

[St. Tom]

Up Date

[HASHTAG]#sanlightq6w[/HASHTAG] Test... End of round 2

We come to the close of round 2 at day 60 of flower, could have taken them a few day's earlier but it was the weekend and I wanted to have fun with the family...

Before the chop I removed the 2 SANlight's, we can now final get to see the tent under a normal house hold 3000k cfl bulb

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This one cola foxtailed like crazy, none of the other went as mad as this one... it was positioned dead center between the lights

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Game... can you spot the nanna ? ... This is the one issue I've got with my " seedstocker keeper's they both throw the odd nanna's here and there at around week 7 to 8

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Super greasy with a wide range of fruity smells... a fruit cocktail of turps

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[HASHTAG]#sanlightq6w[/HASHTAG] test grow...round 3... day 01 of flower

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So what do we have in store for round 3... we have moved one of the lights into a 2 x 4 space to see just what one of these lights can achieve. And lets be honest most of us growing at home could probably only afford just the one of these puppy's... it would be money well spent

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What are we growing this time round... Zkitlles (photo fems) by Black Skull seeds... let's see what this hype is all about with this strain. I didn't spend my life saving on these beans, Black Skull do have the best price's in town, very affordable... I've seen Zkittles cross's go for £200+... that shit better be rocking horse shit for that kinda money

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Not much to shout about with them in veg, not a huge amount of vigor to them but they have put some good roots down... all 4 have super chunky stems and branches, they seem to be growing outwards rather than up wards, bit like my waste line...
It has been a good start so far on the health of them, no lock out after transplanting, no heavy Mag diff's, relatively smooth sailing for the first time in a few grows... I have change coco to the Ecothrive bags with Charge already mixed in, so far so good

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ZK01

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ZK02

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ZK03

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ZK04... nick named stubby

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The great SANlight test go's on... grow safe, keep it green and will... View attachment 1041773

Superb pal I'm sat in the front row as always for the next round also when your going to your review for the lights can you let me know plz

 

[Slater]

Superb pal I'm sat in the front row as always for the next round also when your going to your review for the lights can you let me know plz

I was considering doing it over the next few days now I've completed the 2 grows with a nudge that the test is still going on if your in the market for a light for 2 x4

 

[St. Tom]

I was considering doing it over the next few days now I've completed the 2 grows with a nudge that the test is still going on if your in the market for a light for 2 x4

good idea pushing 2 size markets for them i will post mine around the same time as yourself

 

[Chronic_passion]

Game... can you spot the nanna ?

This one cola foxtailed

Please forgive my ignorance but what is a nanna and a foxtail?
Are they something I should be wary of?

 

[Slater]

Please forgive my ignorance but what is a nanna and a foxtail?
Are they something I should be wary of?

nanna's... yes... foxtails... that depends...

"throwing a Nanna" or just "Nanna" is a reference/slang to the plant hermie'ing at a later stage in flower... the male parts look like very tiny Banana's coming out of your buds, you can't miss them, they stick out like a sour thumb when they turn up...so yes it's something to be a little wary of.... Most of the time it can happen right at the end of the grow in the last couple of weeks on both Auto's and Photo's (I've seen it way more with photo fems)... normally it means the breeders are not doing their job properly and not testing their shit over and over... but there is the rare case it's not there fault but I would say that 99% of the time it is...hey this plant is naturally hermaphroditic, nature will find a way... also if you push a plant passed its best it will do it naturally to re-seed it self, this is when I've seen it in auto's when I've been looking to take it that extra weeks or 2 for super couch lock.

Foxtailing can be a normal genetic thing, or it maybe a response to a bloom boost timed to perfection, or one nutrient line may cause it more than another... or its a big sign you have way to much light... now it's not as bad as your plant doing a hermie but it would be a sign that you may have to much light... the buds will start to grow on top of its self creating a tail like structure sticking out of the top of the cola its forming on... most of the time I've seen it in my garden its been genetics and PK boosters, my OGCDK cut does it naturally and recently I introduced Winter Frost to my line up, timed it bang on and that OGCDK just went mental, threw out way more foxtials than the last time I grew her... If its too much light then normally they are quite long in size and way more tail like... again its something you can't miss, your eye will be draw to it.

 

[Chronic_passion]

Thanks Slater, think I'll have to educate my garden carer now, so they know what to look for too.
Much appreciated.

 

[Trichome farmer]

hey slater could you go into a bit of detail about your watering system tray set up etc or point to a thread where you have mentioned it before have a buddy looking to go flood table or something simular so i wanted to get some info to help if i remeber correct u top feed with driplines how big are your flowering pots also and my last question is what hydro store do u use pm me that if sensitive info

 

[Slater]

Right its time for an extremely and very over due up date...

UP DATE

[HASHTAG]#sanlightq6w[/HASHTAG] test grow round 3... the 2 x 4 space

Strain - Zkittles by Black skull seeds

First off apologizes to all for this rather over due and very late up date on my SANlight test... it's been one of those rare few months in the Slater house hold when it just got out of control with life... We lost out dog to cancer which knocked me and the misses for 6, it still hurts. We then got descended on by family and friends over the holidays. I had to go into semi lock down with the garden and AFN for a couple of weeks. To many prying eye's about the place and too many questions on where I get my smoke from... and I won't go into details of how @Son of Hobbes has got me chained to Photoshop designing the logo for HOTT, man those whips and nipple screws sure do hurt boss... any way, we have our house back to our selves now and no one is looking over my shoulder, back to the job of gardening and testing these awesome lights.

so where are we at... I think the last time we had a look I was just about to flip into flower

End of week 2 / start of week 3 and it's that time again for the leaf strip, didn't go to heavy on these girls as it the first time I've grown this strain.

Bit of gap in the pics and a jump to the end of the month, this is where I had to go into super secret squirrel mode and sneak into the garden when I could and when no one was looking. I just plain old forgot to take any pics.

28th to the 30th (week 3/4 of flower, I think)... fully recovered from the leaf strip (they was preying the next day) and settling in at the end of the stretch... As usual plants are just loving the SANlights, they produce such a lovely emerald green to colour of the leaves

3rd to 5th of May... week 5 of flower
Not very vigorous these Zkittles by Black Skull seeds, I'm starting to get some real nice turps and the frost is looking awesome but the action is a little slow. The proof will be in the smoke at the end so I can't judge just yet but from a gardening point of view they are slow to get going... we are going into week 6 on Friday so I'm hoping we get a bit of an explosion on those buds.

To finish this up date here is are couple of pics of buds from Round 2 of the SANlight test (mid cure) and getting their first smoke test... OG Candy Dawg Kush by seedstockers (photo)

Now this is the point of the testing I have been waiting for, to see if the SANlight's had raised my game in any way... The first grow with Zombie Kush smashed it out of the park but that was with seed so I had no real bench mark to go by other than I had grown it a year before from seed. With this cut of OGCDK I had grown it out twice before under HLG QB's so I knew what to expect on the bud density, shape, size turps etc etc... now we are dry, trimmed and about mid cure we are ready for a sample.

What can I say but these buds are far superior to any thing I have ever grown before... before I rattle on on how I'm fast becoming a SANlight fan boy we must must take into account of me getting to know this cut way better and nailing its needs when it needed it through out the grow... BUT... man those buds are super dense compared to the other two times grew this cut. Massive difference in my books, huge... before under the HLG QB's (v1) they had a little give, a touch spongy and lost a little size in the dry, still yielded very well... This time round they are solid all the way down including the secondary bud sites below. They lost hardly any size in drying grew fatter and are way more sticky to the touch. You would think it was two different plants if it wasn't for the turp profile by looking at the buds. If I had a bud from the last grow I did with this cut to compare with you would be questioning are they the same... Tricombe production was great as well as the turps, got a great return on the water hash from the trim, I think the product Winter Frost has helped in that department (good stuff that, unicorn piss that realy does work)... I've also hit a record yield in that space, smashed it out the park, 2 fields down and lost the ball in some brambles. Its going to be hard to beat it with out getting a bigger tent and that's all down to the SANlights... Awesome lights, worth every penny of there large price tag.

Has the SANlight Q6W raised my game... yes it has.

Thank you for stopping by and now we are back on the horse I will try and get those up date's coming in faster... I feel a round 4 in the making with Alien Rift by Ocean Grown... A cut I have been keeping around over the last year. I know it very well and what it can do... let's SANlight the fuck out her and grown some huge buds.

Grow safe people, keep it green and I will

 

[Slater]

hey slater could you go into a bit of detail about your watering system tray set up etc or point to a thread where you have mentioned it before have a buddy looking to go flood table or something simular so i wanted to get some info to help if i remeber correct u top feed with driplines how big are your flowering pots also and my last question is what hydro store do u use pm me that if sensitive info

no worrys on that stoney, I shall drop you a PM later on that one

 

[Trichome farmer]

Right its time for an extremely and very over due up date...

UP DATE

[HASHTAG]#sanlightq6w[/HASHTAG] test grow round 3... the 2 x 4 space

Strain - Zkittles by Black skull seeds

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First off apologizes to all for this rather over due and very late up date on my SANlight test... it's been one of those rare few months in the Slater house hold when it just got out of control with life... We lost out dog to cancer which knocked me and the misses for 6, it still hurts. We then got descended on by family and friends over the holidays. I had to go into semi lock down with the garden and AFN for a couple of weeks. To many prying eye's about the place and too many questions on where I get my smoke from... and I won't go into details of how @Son of Hobbes has got me chained to Photoshop designing the logo for HOTT, man those whips and nipple screws sure do hurt boss... any way, we have our house back to our selves now and no one is looking over my shoulder, back to the job of gardening and testing these awesome lights.

so where are we at... I think the last time we had a look I was just about to flip into flower

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End of week 2 / start of week 3 and it's that time again for the leaf strip, didn't go to heavy on these girls as it the first time I've grown this strain.

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Bit of gap in the pics and a jump to the end of the month, this is where I had to go into super secret squirrel mode and sneak into the garden when I could and when no one was looking. I just plain old forgot to take any pics.

28th to the 30th (week 3/4 of flower, I think)... fully recovered from the leaf strip (they was preying the next day) and settling in at the end of the stretch... As usual plants are just loving the SANlights, they produce such a lovely emerald green to colour of the leaves

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3rd to 5th of May... week 5 of flower
Not very vigorous these Zkittles by Black Skull seeds, I'm starting to get some real nice turps and the frost is looking awesome but the action is a little slow. The proof will be in the smoke at the end so I can't judge just yet but from a gardening point of view they are slow to get going... we are going into week 6 on Friday so I'm hoping we get a bit of an explosion on those buds.

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To finish this up date here is are couple of pics of buds from Round 2 of the SANlight test (mid cure) and getting their first smoke test... OG Candy Dawg Kush by seedstockers (photo)

Now this is the point of the testing I have been waiting for, to see if the SANlight's had raised my game in any way... The first grow with Zombie Kush smashed it out of the park but that was with seed so I had no real bench mark to go by other than I had grown it a year before from seed. With this cut of OGCDK I had grown it out twice before under HLG QB's so I knew what to expect on the bud density, shape, size turps etc etc... now we are dry, trimmed and about mid cure we are ready for a sample.

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What can I say but these buds are far superior to any thing I have ever grown before... before I rattle on on how I'm fast becoming a SANlight fan boy we must must take into account of me getting to know this cut way better and nailing its needs when it needed it through out the grow... BUT... man those buds are super dense compared to the other two times grew this cut. Massive difference in my books, huge... before under the HLG QB's (v1) they had a little give, a touch spongy and lost a little size in the dry, still yielded very well... This time round they are solid all the way down including the secondary bud sites below. They lost hardly any size in drying grew fatter and are way more sticky to the touch. You would think it was two different plants if it wasn't for the turp profile by looking at the buds. If I had a bud from the last grow I did with this cut to compare with you would be questioning are they the same... Tricombe production was great as well as the turps, got a great return on the water hash from the trim, I think the product Winter Frost has helped in that department (good stuff that, unicorn piss that realy does work)... I've also hit a record yield in that space, smashed it out the park, 2 fields down and lost the ball in some brambles. Its going to be hard to beat it with out getting a bigger tent and that's all down to the SANlights... Awesome lights, worth every penny of there large price tag.

Has the SANlight Q6W raised my game... yes it has.

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Thank you for stopping by and now we are back on the horse I will try and get those up date's coming in faster... I feel a round 4 in the making with Alien Rift by Ocean Grown... A cut I have been keeping around over the last year. I know it very well and what it can do... let's SANlight the fuck out her and grown some huge buds.

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now thats a update worth waiting for have me proper torn between another GN unit or a sanlight hmmmmm decisions