Testing the Wild Thing (USA Only)

[Green Hornet]

End of week 6 red and maroon colors starting on leaf tips and buds. There is a strong spicey cake smell now

 

[WildBill]

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Those are some pretty girls!
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[Pigskin Fanboy]

Howdy Y’all
It’s week 11, Day #41 of flower for my Wild Thing. Not a lot to report really, this plant has been very easy to grow. I’m giving it a drink almost every other day now, kinda got a rhythm going now where I’ll feed nutrients on Saturday, on Monday I’ll add molasses to the water and on Wednesday I’ll give PH’d rainwater only. It’s starting to fill in nicely and I’ve really only pulled a handful of leaves off of it in the center.

Here’s some photos from the last week and an update on the raised garden getaway in the back yard. 1 more small planter to go, get a gate built and finish the trellises. I’m wanting to run some sort of trellis system overhead too.

I’ll catch y’all next week

 

[Green Hornet]

End of week 7 I gave them a fan leaf trim. The cake smell is mixed with berry They are ripening fast. Happy Farming !

 

[Jean-O]

End of week 7 I gave them a fan leaf trim. The cake smell is mixed with berry They are ripening fast. Happy Farming !View attachment 1684814

Those look top notch!

 

[Pigskin Fanboy]

Howdy Y’all
It’s day 86, week 12 and Day 47 of flower.
I must have pissed off Murphy or something cause it’s been a bad couple weeks for me in the grow room. I’m almost to the point of giving up on any more photoperiod grows. I wanna apologize in advance to Jean-O !


The last few weeks we have had lots of rain and storms and I gathered up around 95 gallons of rainwater. Thursday last week I used my newly collected rainwater to water my remaining Wild Thing. Set the PH to 6.6 everything was looking amazing. I didn’t add anything other than PH down. I noticed the plant had started looking a little droopy. I didn’t think much of it closed the tent back up and when I rechecked Sunday it was almost a disaster. The tent was 96f and the grow room wasn’t much cooler.
I have no idea how it got so hot, I have a 6” ACI system exhausting this small 2x4 tent and it appears to be operating properly when I check it and change things on the app. My house AC is set to 73 annd of course the room is cooled with the rest of the house. I immediately went and bought a window AC unit, installed it in the grow room and just left the tents open and blacked out the windows. I don’t think the heat is entirely the problem but here’s some of the things I have done.

I immediately drained the reservoir, it smelled bad ! I used 2 gallons of PH’d rainwater to flush the plant from the top and captured the runoff and discarded it .

Yesterday I spent about 4 hours I the room moving things around and setting up oscillating fans around the room to move the cooler air from the new AC more evenly. The room is now a steady 72f. I made sure that the room is blacked out so I could leave tents open. This is how I normally growAutos and was afraid to do this with the photos.
I trimmed up a large majority of the leaves here’s a picture of what that looked like.

It still doesn’t look much better today and as soon as I get home tonight I’m thinking of pulling it out of the soil, completely rinsing the roots and looking to see if they look rotted or anything. I’ve actually thought about repotting it in new soil in a grow bag. Not sure if that’s even a good thing since it’s flowering but I know you can do a lot more with photoperiod plants than you can with autos. I really don’t wanna lose this plant so I’m 100% open to suggestions, but it’s not looking good and whatever it was it was fast. I noticed I never installed a micro SD in my security camera so I can’t go back through footage and try to pinpoint the issue.
I have since fixed that.
Here’s what it looked like before the problems started

Sunday

I’m sinking fast and hope y’all have some clues or ideas.

 

[WildBill]

Damn the luck!

 

[Jpkindbud]

Day 80 today, again I am late on the update but here! Got both under the net and I believe I will have to employ the 6” as well as the 4” and supercrop ping is not out of the question. I am flipping them first of June… so, on Saturday morning they will be set to 12/12.

Damn net doesn’t reach to the sides. May have to install some side bars like the other tent…

 

[Jean-O]

Howdy Y’all
It’s day 86, week 12 and Day 47 of flower.
I must have pissed off Murphy or something cause it’s been a bad couple weeks for me in the grow room. I’m almost to the point of giving up on any more photoperiod grows. I wanna apologize in advance to Jean-O !


The last few weeks we have had lots of rain and storms and I gathered up around 95 gallons of rainwater. Thursday last week I used my newly collected rainwater to water my remaining Wild Thing. Set the PH to 6.6 everything was looking amazing. I didn’t add anything other than PH down. I noticed the plant had started looking a little droopy. I didn’t think much of it closed the tent back up and when I rechecked Sunday it was almost a disaster. The tent was 96f and the grow room wasn’t much cooler.
I have no idea how it got so hot, I have a 6” ACI system exhausting this small 2x4 tent and it appears to be operating properly when I check it and change things on the app. My house AC is set to 73 annd of course the room is cooled with the rest of the house. I immediately went and bought a window AC unit, installed it in the grow room and just left the tents open and blacked out the windows. I don’t think the heat is entirely the problem but here’s some of the things I have done.

I immediately drained the reservoir, it smelled bad ! I used 2 gallons of PH’d rainwater to flush the plant from the top and captured the runoff and discarded it .

Yesterday I spent about 4 hours I the room moving things around and setting up oscillating fans around the room to move the cooler air from the new AC more evenly. The room is now a steady 72f. I made sure that the room is blacked out so I could leave tents open. This is how I normally growAutos and was afraid to do this with the photos.
I trimmed up a large majority of the leaves here’s a picture of what that looked like.
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It still doesn’t look much better today and as soon as I get home tonight I’m thinking of pulling it out of the soil, completely rinsing the roots and looking to see if they look rotted or anything. I’ve actually thought about repotting it in new soil in a grow bag. Not sure if that’s even a good thing since it’s flowering but I know you can do a lot more with photoperiod plants than you can with autos. I really don’t wanna lose this plant so I’m 100% open to suggestions, but it’s not looking good and whatever it was it was fast. I noticed I never installed a micro SD in my security camera so I can’t go back through footage and try to pinpoint the issue.
I have since fixed that.
Here’s what it looked like before the problems started
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I’m sinking fast and hope y’all have some clues or ideas.

Total bummer bud. I honestly don't think she can come back from whatever occurred here so if u want to pull it I'm not going to be upset by it. IMO Something is up with the Root zone whatever issue there was with the watering was definitely multiplied by the high temps and transpiration. It sounds like the perfect storm for disaster. How are you going about collecting the rain water? Possibly contaminated water, acidic rain from city pollution or something from the roofing on your house?
So sorry you had that happen. You can probably salvage a little something by making bubble hash.
You might be able to limp her through to the end also but don't use up your grow space if you don't want to, like I said I'm not going to be upset if u want to pull it.

 

[Jean-O]

Wild Thing R2 outdoor testing is going great so far. She got her legs under her pretty quickly after transplant and is growing with a good amount of vigor. I'll be needing to get the second layer of trellising up here soon. I've been spraying my IPM regimen once a week with a mixture of Captain Jack's Dead Bug, organicide plant Doctor, Monterey disease control, and pyganic. I have also chosen this plant as one of my outdoor photoperiod battle plants as I have a feeling its going to pump out some beautiful flowers!