Live Stoners UK auto & photo grower in perpetual

[Jimmythenugg]

Am a newbie at this growing business, having started out with an indoor grow last august.

Have come a long way but always learning and changing chit about.

Am trying to establish a gentle perpetual: albeit with my girls taking an individual view on when they are ready, I don't tend to go by ’must be ready in x weeks’. And I have a bunch of dried flower in my stores so seams to be working.

Pretty much all coco/pearlite (avg 70/30) but have just finished cooking my own organic fertilizer to incorporate into my substrate's.

I grow under LEDs in a couple of tents (.5m x 90cm & 1.2 x 1.2) with a smidge of co2 in bloom tent and usual carbon air conditioning etc.

Currently growing a mixed bag of strains.

Some for shitsngigs, some for reasons: Hulkberry is almost 30%!
While others for taste and or medical exploration.

Still have a bunch of seeds for following grows: Green Gelato, Blue Cheese, Royal creme, with Wedding cake, GSC, Banana Tangie and a Trainwreck etc.
So, current line up is (no order)

Godberry - 25 litre airpot (veg)
BigBudXXL (¹ of ³) - 25 litre airpot (bloom)
Krippleshock ¹ of few - 40 litre builders rubble pot (v)
Zkittlez - 4 litre bucket (v)
Auto diesel - 12 litre airpot (wk3)
Royal Jack H Auto - 11 litre pot (wk3)
NL Auto - 11 litre pot (wk7) (pulled early chit RQS genetics)
Hulkberry ¹ of ³ - 25 litre airpot (b)
BigBudXXL ² of ³ - 11 pot (b)
BigBudXXL ³ of ³ - 12 litre pot (b)
Kripple ² of few 25 litre airpot (b)
2 Hulkberry monstercrop clones
1 Royal Creamatic in 4" grodan for root experiment
Bunch of clones - bbxxl/Krip'k/godb'y

All different styles and training applied, mostly top/fim & tying down however I do have a Glorious 'Dr Krippling' Krippleshock that I've lovingly front loaded by manifolding it (my first mainlined girl) which is sitting at 2ft between opposing budsites so just a week or so from flower.

I use BioBiz grow/bloom/Topmax & Heaven but also use a suite of things like molasses, potash of sulphate, Epsom salts, worm humus bat guano, Chicken guano, seaweed etc etc

I make aact teas every ten days or so and in between I flush every ten days or so with ph'd water to keep the coco clean

My pH targets are 5.7 - 6.3 to make the most of available nutrients, which I get through experience (after lots of logging first few months of monitoring) when I started - lesson here is don't rely on shitty cheap pH pens.

I am aware that some make money at this.

I do not: for me it started as a way of negating the need for street dealers for what I consider my wife & friends meds.

Now I have plenty of dry, cured flowers and I continue to do it because I enjoy it and I get to donate a zip or 2 to my friends local PTSD charity (for ex forces) every month or so and my wife has relief from her ailments.

Hit me up, always happy to shoot the breeze.
Couple of topics I'm interested in: Bud maturity - am testing a theory on bud end size and maturity of budsite.

Coloidal silver - not for anything beyond personal use but possibilities are incredible (which ive just orered)

Hmmm, what else....
Am a big hairy Janner, who cares for his arthritic wife around the clock.
But as cynical as I can be, I always try and see the funny side.
Thanks for stopping by, nice to make your acquaintence
JN

 

[Green Hornet]

Sounds great I will be stopping by for sure.

 

[The Bedroom Gardener UK]

Nice to see another UK head on the forum. Your kit is slightly bigger & better than mine (no pun intended) and I also do a photo / auto combination.

Tag me in when you get a grow thread up. Sounds like you've got some nice strains there.

 

[Jimmythenugg]

Ok so i dont normally update too often but was bothering me that it was a week out.

So each of plants below have been updated from above list btw this is me trying to reduce number of plants...

Oh n before i go on, my colloidal silver arrived today...
Thinking of trying a mash up of what i got....?!? What you think?

Ok so

Godberry - 25L(wk 8/9) circular airpot, about 12' tall so preparing for flower at the weekend
&
Krippleshock mainifold 40L(wk? 12/ish) colas at 14' so flipping this weekend too
Zkittlez - 4L, (wk3) - topped for manifold but kept both node 3's to take as clones (3' at mo, think i need another inch..?!) then transplant to mid up pot 12L bloody tall for its age!)
Auto diesel - 12 L (wk4) Topped once and lowered uppers to even cola heads
Royal Jack H Auto - 11L (wk4) Topped twice and cut back some lower buds to extend veg - still growing
NL Auto - 11L (wk7) Pulled early chit RQS genetics. Made ice hash which is drying as I type but very little to speak of ( A big Feck You RQS, you feckin' sold me 8 duffers in a row! Feck'n Baast'ds..You are cuπts RQS...!)
Phew, ok onwards.
BigBudXXL (¹ of ³) - 25L (wk8 b) cut tops as cloudy trics uptop but clear down below (fecking shitty LEDs) but prolly gonna pull this smelly girl at weekend: gonna just prune to 6-8' tops from now on....!
Hulkberry ¹ of ³ - 25L (wk8 b) as above, 'taps 'aff'. This one will prolly be done by weekend too (leaving space for top two)
BigBudXXL ² of ³ - 11L (wk3/4 b) final defoliation leaving 9 even stripped colas, all have top 8 inch of flower sites, all below, stripped (cause sh1t leds)
BigBudXXL ³ of ³ - 12L (wk3/4 b) final defol, more colas but circular pot means spacing is req', used garden wire to tether colas wide open for light penitration - larger white pistols thickening
Kripple ² of 5 - (wk2/3 b)- low key defol, again more colas in circular pot: garden wire to tether colas wide open for light penitration darker leaves on this one and smell already pungent from its white pistol heads

Seed - humidity dome
1 Royal Creamatic seed (wk1 s) in 4" grodan for root experiment: airpruning side roots at block edge and taproot to force primary & 2ndary roots into cube. Transplant then feed only cube to send roots straight down.

Clones - humidity dome
3 Godberry (wk1 c) from defol of top plant
3 Kripples'k (wk3 c) just moved to pots.looking like runts but hoping one of them will hold on
4 Big budxxl clones didnt take. Gonna wave goodbye to this strain after curent load done: very nice,strong fuel flower but low thc and a tiny bit tempremental

Monstercrop clones
2 hukberry 4L (wk3/4 c)
H#1 appears to have flowered
H#2 has already showed growth and been topped already

Thats it for a week, cheers
JN

 

[Jimmythenugg]

Little update folks (no pics)

Moved tents about, the BBXXL & H'berry still not ready despite me taking the tops a week ago. (My LEDs suck major baws!)

Knock on effect is the large 40l mainlined Krippleshock and 25l Godberry had to be flipped and now the flower footprint is bigger than it should be especially now I'm 2 lights down.
Just spreading 400+/- watts keeping it going for now.

Don't like closing canopy but till those two are ready, I'm not rushing 'em.
So, the 1.²√ tent is under lit and overfull with:

2 large Kripples (& now a 40l third) - the unknown flower is out @ week four and it smells GLORIOUS (will put a desc up of strains soon)

2 large BBXXLs - one due is being stubborn (and not as big flowers as I'd like: tops where... Meh! (As I let my last of these genetics die out, its swan song (bloom 4 wk) has double the flower size of this stubborn b1tch.

And the newly flipped Godberry, which I've also started spraying with colloidal silver as a means of keeping her for a 'small pot sog' in the future.

Both G'y & K'k were defoliated about 70% off.

Veg tent,
Monster cropped #2 Hulkberry is sprouting from all angles. Jus needs some time...
It's partner (#1) has sat in flower more or less same time as #2 been sprouting... Stupid plant.

3rd topping of Zkittlez photo nd its currently looking like a 12 inch (capital) T n happy.

Defol on the two autos:
Auto Diesel is skinny but form is good with 4 even colas with multi budsites
While Auto Jack is sturdier and a little tighter but after 3 toppings this has given me 12 nice and even flower sites.

But because they both healthy and happy am contemplating topping both one more time....
Guess a day or two to think on it before the window passes...

One of the Gberry clones has shown 'a root' so am thinking if I grow this one out and flip after lots o topping n fimming this will be my seed mother: need her stress levels to be low if that's the case, minimize any likely hood of introducing the Hermie gene. (May have no impact at all but will try and give this clone a privileged upbringing regardless).
3 Krippleshock clones remain the same, just finding roots.

Cheers and please let me know what your thinking is on topping autos (healthy n happy at day 30 ish)???

 

[Jimmythenugg]

Hmmm
Funny week in tent moved all around (veg + autos now in small flower) early in the week which has worked out well after all.
Reorgboffe

Colloidal silver at lights on & off a single branch from a newly flipped Godberry, hope to self this on a second branch for seeds, want to give this strain a rest for a bit. Besides, for so many other wonderful genetics to choose from.

On day 35(ish) of the two other autos - the 3 topped Auto Jack (decided again st a 4th) is sturdy but many flower sites and all even and exposed while the Auto Diesel is proving lankier with four long colas (n some stripping); this one got me thinking if I can use CS on one branch, seed a second leaving 2 long colas for smoke. With a view to getting enough beans for a future auto SOG....!?!

Inspired by @St. Tom , I decided to change the Creamatic auto bean's use and shifted it from Grodan block (sorry sorry crowpotcheaply, ill try it later) to a 2L cola bottle.
In coco but its also sitting in a couple inches of nutrient at the bottom of a 3L bottle with an airstone under neath, will top feed till the wicking is enough.

Ziittlez , now been topped twice and has 4 cola as planned, but where cut two was made, I have two flower sites erupted with two on one side & one on the other - will grow out enough for clones (if any take, I'll grow to use for seeds)..
Flower tent is overfull but all plants getting light at canopy level.
Brought a Krippleshock down for exam under real light:
Just into week 4

Couple clone's died. Sad but about par for my course.
So I took a new cut from the Krippleshock above: for a future seed run) hoping the monster crop survives to re flower quickly.
Still have 2 God'y and 2 zkittlez clones in, but no roots.

That it for now.
JN

 

[elcoloan]

What LEDs do you use?

 

[Jimmythenugg]

Cheap mix (50 - 200w) of lights all similar to niello, got em all 2nd hand or China on the cheap.
Hate that most about my grow, all my ducks are set, last piece is one good light for my flower tent.
I don't sell and I grow cause I can't afford to buy: so an upgrade ain't happening this year.
Ca Sera Sera

 

[Green Hornet]

The colloidal silver process is new to me. I have just read about it so I am checking out your use, good luck.

 

[Jimmythenugg]

Well I chopped the big bud (a little early!) But needed space badly so its done: the BBxxl is my daytime smoke so not so worried. Reckon about 3-4 zips so I'll live. But at least my girls got a little breathing room now.. So here are some badly lit pics of my flower
room

40L mainlined Krippleshock

Krippleshock

Godberry (with the colloidal silver branch)

And a third Krippleshock

And finally my last BBXXL

So while I wait for next one out I dropped a couple of my new beans for use in my new mini bins (about 5l)

Got these 2 plus a Wedding Cake & Banana Tangie for 10 quid!!!
Weedseedshop - 50% off sale rocks!!

Keep 'em up..!