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[Zaaboot]

good day all - hope you are all well!
On day 18 now and they have taken finally - the growth is visible daily - just the way I like it.
Been having issues with heat still, forgot how reliant I have been on the AC, and without it keeping the temps stable over the 24hrs is autopilot. Anyway, I do think that slowed them down a touch at the start and the leaves have a bit of canoeing going on - otherwise they look OK to me.

Today the GLO F2 got a haircut, a topping and good old spraying with Remo Velokelp, she is the most vigorous of the plants so far. The Purple Punch is only slightly behind and is doing well, but the Afghan x NL is still struggling a bit - she had a lack of calmag at the start, coupled with the heat has stressed her a touch...she will be right me thinks. And the runt is runting along nicely throwing out random leaves.
Temps - 25 --> 30
RH - 45 --> 60%
Res temp - 22

The hose pipe ban has caused me some issues with getting tap water to my grow space, therefore so far I have been using 100% RO water which I find a real pain in the ass to control, anything you add it goes haywire, I will sneak a watering can in there later and top up one of the RO bottles with 5ltrs of tap ready for the next res change.
PH floating around 6.3 and 6.4, and the E.C is higher than I want right now at 1.4/1.6 but as mentioned without tap water I find it so hard to manage the res - if I just add Ro on top it does very little watering down according to the truncheon. They do not look over fed, if anything a few deficiencies are creeping in so I must get on top of the water situation over the next day or two to get it to where I really want at this stage.

Some snaps to show the progress from Thursday.

Thats it for now - have a pleasant Sunday!
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

So, not a lot to report. They are moving along nicely, the SSSC ladies are now in cruise mode. Only the runt is being a runt, I had a closer look at her today and she has topped herself so I plucked a few leaves and let it ride. I am going to plant a Deadite in a bit, if it catches up I will swap the Mephisto seed for that to have a ful tent. In theory it should catch up a it is only 20 days behind and Sawneys are always super quick.

Anyway, some bondage for your perusal they have all had a bit now except the runt.

This one looks like it is being 'drawn and quartered'

Cheers for now
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

Hello All - things are looking ok in the tent, with the heat decrease over the last few days the temps are now back under full control and I could lower the light a little as well.
As you would have seen, they have all been bent, and one has been topped and sort of mainlined. As such I am now just waiting for the stretch.
Temps: 24-->28
RH: 35-->55%
Res Temp: 20
PH: 6.2
E.C. 1.6 made up of: Green Haze Grow A&B, Calmag, a drop of Monosilic from GG, and a dash of root tonic - currently still on 100% Ro water as I cant get my hose to the garage to fill my bottles up, so only collecting water from the local Ro station..

The NLxAfghan still showing signs of calmag def but it is definitely better after giving it its personal soaking so will do that again today with just a calmag and RO solution to that one plant. The others are going well, the topped and mainlined lass is doing particularly well.

Also, a couple of days ago when bending and tying down I snapped a side branch, it was clinging on by a hair - I untied the tie and left it, now you would never guess anything happened to her - hardy lady. You can clearly see the snap, it took the branch away from the main stem.

And this morning

And the rest of the ladies - the runt is stiill a runt, just keeps topping herself she now has loads of heads but is only the size of a peanut - expecting 1 joint from this one.

Thats it for these ladies today - have a grand old day

Cheers
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

So then, I wasn’t expecting these to arrive before Monday but here they are.
I was expecting some mini Mcguyver shit to take place but as I already have a working pump and system, all I had to do was change over thestake driller to the ring.

a minute later and they are up and running - I must adjust the frequency if fertigation now as the stakes allow more water through but are centered so the water only really gets to one area and the coco spreads it out.
They do drip very slow which is good and makes it easier to control.

I did take a video but I can’t seem to upload it from my phone so will do that on my laptop later.

@hope2grow - got to say I am very pleased (disclaimer - they have only been running 4 minutes), but the water distribution and drip rate and spot on. Sorry I didn’t do a snap by step but as mentioned I only swapped the stakes for the rings nothing else was needed here

 

[Zaaboot]

Hello al - I had my dates all wrong, these were put on their bed of poo to get to start on the 18th August making them 23 days, I thought they were closer to 30 hence being frustrated at their speed of growth.
Anyhow, now i have my dates in order I am still thinking they are all running a bit slow.
The Mephisto seed is just doing random shit and keeps topping herself, the Purple Punch is going well and looking strong along with teh Glo F2, leaving the NLxAfghan which has been very sensitive from teh start, she has now strenthened herself and is doing ok albeit behind the other two.

E.C 1.6, made up Green Haze A&B (3ml P/L each), Calmag (1ml P/L), and root tonic (1ml P/L). and the res gets topped up with 19.8 litres of water every few days.
PH, 6.2
Temps - 25-->27
RH - 50%
Res temp - 20
The plain RO water with no tap has been giving me issues, but I have found leaving a little in the tank during res clean helps keep it stable, then it is just down to me to measure what goes in. With my EC at 1.6 it is about the same place it would normally be for this time of their life but with pure RO there is an extra .4 of nutrients compared to .4 of thames water pipe stuff. I would like to say lets see the difference at the end but this grow has been poor with the heat so I will leave that until next run to try to compare.

The first few pistils have started shwing themselves so I would lke to say this is going to be the last week of veg - hopefully its time for some action.
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

The ladies are having a great time now with teh rigs in place, the water distribution is much greater with those - along with the heat now all but dissipated w are in much better shape.

I have stopped all forms of tieing down no, and it is just a matter of keeping them clean, removing any new shoots that down have direct light and waiting - they are all showing signs of pistils albeit some faster than others, but that is expected.

Also, the bloody gnats have returned on queue! The weather cools down, they all wander to the garage which is warmer, then find their way in to the tent, they only way in is when I am in there as there are nylon tights across all ventilation holes. They popped up the same last year and were a real arse to get rid of, they dont eat fresh plant matter so no real dramas but they do get stuck in the buds as they mature, and I would prefer not to smoke some skanky gnat - I understand the concept of moving away from meats and finding new protein sources that are less damaging but this maybe a step too far, vaping gnats!

So I have covered the inside of teh lung room with sticky yellow pads and inside the tent I have meticulously added some also - lol

Same stats as before now changes with anything.

Have a good day everybody
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

Good morn/afternoonday everybody - I hope you are all keeping well!

So we are now a couple of days on at day 25, not sure why but this grow seems to be so slow but it is really not...stoner brain malfunction...
Anyhow, they are growing along nicely, and the two from SSSC are now kicking in and I can see them growing daily and the NL x Afghan has really spread out nicely.

Another thing worth noting, is that I had the labels for the NL x Afghan and the Glo F2, after looking at grows of both the plants, it is clear which is which...a real pain as the GLO grows along one main whilst the NL is much bigger from all sides, and the final tell tale was the leaves, it was clear so I swapped the labels over - apologies for the confusion, but it certainly had me bugging as I couldn't work out why the GLO was so big and the other was so small.

Right then, the two ladies from SSSC are on teh left hand side of the tent and re both doing very well now, really growing daily, and pushing out the white hairs, I spotted a very slight bit of tip whitening on a few leaves on her so today instead of adding another 10ltr of solution, I went in with 10ltr pure RO.
The two on the left hand side are a very different story, the Mephisto freebie is shite, I wanted to ride it out to see how she does but she has this habit of topping herself, she has a tiny spurt then tops herself again, looking at her now though, I do very much expect more than the 1 joint previously thought . The GlO is doing OK, and for sure would have been a lot better had I known which it was as I would have left her to grow without interference and just grow up the main branch.

Nutrients at the moment are pretty much the same, the res is sitting at an EC of 1.6 which is made up of Root Tonic (undoubtedly the smelliest liquid in a bottle known to man - every time I open it I gag...giggety), Green Haze grow A&B, a dash of calmag and a drop of Silica. They will not get any more 'Grow' nutrients from now on, as the res depletes I will just top up with Bloom nutrients from now on.
Not sure which boost or PK to use this time, I have for some reason some to choose from - I have this one from Atami the Bloombastic, so I may just use that as I am such a fan of the Wilma so they should know what they are doing - but I also have some from Monkey NUtrients - anyone have experience with them?

Enough waffle, some snaps for your perusal.

Looking at those pics, I can't remember a time when the tent looked so bare as we go in to flower, the two on the left hand side have certainly played with my emotions, ultimately, I couldn't care less about quantity, as long as it is prime.

Have a jolly weekend you lovelies
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

Hello you lovelies - I hope you have all had a pleasant weekend thus far!
As those of you in the UK would have noticed, the weather has cooled down quite a bit and as I grow in the garage I wanted to show what I do to keep temps within the right range. This works perfectly over the year, but this year as I am still on sabbatical and with the price of electricity I did not use the air conditioning unit over the summer so the temps got a touch high but normally I have it controlling cool and heat.

My tent sits inside a room I built in the garage, it is a proper stud wall with quality insulation including the floor and roof of it.

I use the garage to blaze up in the summer as well as the Carbon filter is always on.
From the Garage door side it looks like this:

Then the room itself which houses the tent

So as you can imagine, teh garage gets very cold and the air being drawn passively in to the lung room can get very cold, the temperature in the tent is controlled a lot by the light but during lights off it also can get cold.

The solution I use is two Inkbirds, one inside the tent the other in the lung room. I set the tent to 24, and the lung room to 23, when those are triggered the heaters come on, there is a small tube heater inside teh tent and small oil radiator in the lung room. By keeping the lung room at an ambient 23 the air being drawn in from teh garage is warmed up before going in to the tent keeping the tent generally between 24 and 26. And when I am not poor the AC is also plugged to the lung room Inkbird which kicks in the AC which it goes beyond 25 but not this summer.

It works well for me as I am away a lot so I can keep an eye and change settings remotely

Anyway, just wanted to show in case it maybe of help to anyone growing in a area where temp control is a must.

And because, here is a quick snap of the ladies this morning

Cheers all
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

Haircut day

Take care all
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

The ladies are getting on now and I still feel they are all very slow except for the NLxAfghan.
Anyway, after their haircut a couple of days ago they are back again as if nothing happened - and I am topping up my res with 10 litres a day now so they are having a good old drink at an EC of 1.6, lower than my normal but it is pure RO this time so it makes sense there is slight tip bur showing so will keep it at 1.6. They also got the first dose of Monkey Nutrients Boost - it was a freebie at an event so will give it a go this run and it will be coupled with Atami Rokzbastic which is their new PK and that sits at a ratio of 10-20 unlike the Buddhas tree which I normally use which has a ratio of 9-18.

Toodle pip
Z