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[Myk]

Very nice and healthy I must say. Looks like you have a bit of nute burn.

Nute burn because it decides to drink a gallon of water in a day and spike the ppm to 1550 (should be 1260). Other days it drains the water and nutes evenly. I'm able to predict the pH but haven't figured that out yet and this variety has been the worst for it. What I think is burn is just the tips.
I'm more worried about the center being pale (picture 3), it doesn't follow certain branches (the top 2 were broken during training) and it's not the whole plant so I'm guessing it's LED bleaching more than a nutrient toxicity.
There's also a lot of leaf burn from the potassium bicarbonate, plus it turns the pistils orange. But changing the pH is how it works to stop the mold so I guess it's working. If it does I might actually dry this normally.

The seeds of my favorite variety should be here this week. Drying in the box with the fans could put a damper on the flip timing of it but I want to get some clones to make seeds from it anyway. If the flip is delayed enough I'll do my usual paint a branch with pollen (was thinking about 2 grows with 2 clones having free love).

 

[Burque]

Some buds. Looking very good considering they still have a sativa long way to go. I hope the potassium bicarbonate puts an end to the bud rot or all of these ones will get it.

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starting to look cronchy

 

[Burque]

Nute burn because it decides to drink a gallon of water in a day and spike the ppm to 1550 (should be 1260). Other days it drains the water and nutes evenly. I'm able to predict the pH but haven't figured that out yet and this variety has been the worst for it. What I think is burn is just the tips.
I'm more worried about the center being pale (picture 3), it doesn't follow certain branches (the top 2 were broken during training) and it's not the whole plant so I'm guessing it's LED bleaching more than a nutrient toxicity.
There's also a lot of leaf burn from the potassium bicarbonate, plus it turns the pistils orange. But changing the pH is how it works to stop the mold so I guess it's working. If it does I might actually dry this normally.

The seeds of my favorite variety should be here this week. Drying in the box with the fans could put a damper on the flip timing of it but I want to get some clones to make seeds from it anyway. If the flip is delayed enough I'll do my usual paint a branch with pollen (was thinking about 2 grows with 2 clones having free love).

I am not sure how your water is setup, but could you rig it so that as it got below a certain point it released fresh plain water into the already mixed water reservoir from a second bucket?

I know some people that struggle when the plants really start drinking to keep their water ppm down and have solved some of that with a second bucket that releases plain water into their mixed bucket after it drains to a certain point.

 

[Myk]

I am not sure how your water is setup, but could you rig it so that as it got below a certain point it released fresh plain water into the already mixed water reservoir from a second bucket?

I know some people that struggle when the plants really start drinking to keep their water ppm down and have solved some of that with a second bucket that releases plain water into their mixed bucket after it drains to a certain point.

Interesting. It's a simple single bucket DWC. It would be more of a space issue than anything. If I converted the whole closet that would be easy. (Space is there just not accessible for daily water additions if it's outside of the box.)

 

[Burque]

Interesting. It's a simple single bucket DWC. It would be more of a space issue than anything. If I converted the whole closet that would be easy. (Space is there just not accessible for daily water additions if it's outside of the box.)

Yea the way I have seen the workaround work is they put a float in the main water bucket and when water falls below a certain point they have a 5 gallon bucket outside and above the lower water lever and a tube connecting the two and it just gravity fills from the fresh water bucket into the main water bucket when the float drops to allow it. Simple gravity and a couple of fittings make it pretty easy to make.

 

[Myk]

Yea the way I have seen the workaround work is they put a float in the main water bucket and when water falls below a certain point they have a 5 gallon bucket outside and above the lower water lever and a tube connecting the two and it just gravity fills from the fresh water bucket into the main water bucket when the float drops to allow it. Simple gravity and a couple of fittings make it pretty easy to make.

I was thinking just a siphon without a float valve. I was wondering about level tubes and algae though, but a level would just be for ease of use to not have to ever look in the water tank bucket. I was thinking more if I had it on the other side of the closet and how to have it easy enough to get to it every day. (Brewing stuff is blocking that side of the closet, and in that side of the closet.)

 

[Burque]

I was thinking just a siphon without a float valve. I was wondering about level tubes and algae though, but a level would just be for ease of use to not have to ever look in the water tank bucket. I was thinking more if I had it on the other side of the closet and how to have it easy enough to get to it every day. (Brewing stuff is blocking that side of the closet, and in that side of the closet.)

Longer connection tube between the two.

I think you might get some algea, but when you did your reset after cutting it down you could just clean anything that showed up out. If you were that worried about it on the connecting tube, you could just get a black plastic one instead of a clear one.

 

[Myk]

Longer connection tube between the two.

I think you might get some algea, but when you did your reset after cutting it down you could just clean anything that showed up out. If you were that worried about it on the connecting tube, you could just get a black plastic one instead of a clear one.

I've got black tubing. I was thinking of a funnel into the tank with a clear tube on the side marked with the desired level in the plant bucket. I could get my arm around with a gallon of water. I wouldn't want to pump algae into the plant bucket.

 

[ytsejam]

Been digging my dab rig. Been getting live budder and enjoying it.
With my "local" dispensary (as I suppose most are) if you see something special come up, you better order it before it is gone.
So I ordered Jack Herer diamonds and sauce. It was off the menu/sold out a half hour later.
Never tried no diamonds before. I'm pretty jazzed. Got dab rig all cleaned up like new.

 

[ytsejam]

Oh! Got a q of shake on order too.
That's great to dump right into mighty as @truthbedamned knows.

 

[Myk]

Been digging my dab rig. Been getting live budder and enjoying it.
With my "local" dispensary (as I suppose most are) if you see something special come up, you better order it before it is gone.
So I ordered Jack Herer diamonds and sauce. It was off the menu/sold out a half hour later.
Never tried no diamonds before. I'm pretty jazzed. Got dab rig all cleaned up like new.

Is that IL? They always have been good at needlessly treating medical varieties as seasonal fruit. Only thing that helps you? Too bad, wait until next year.
I haven't been do a dispensary in over a year.

 

[ytsejam]

Is that IL? They always have been good at needlessly treating medical varieties as seasonal fruit. Only thing that helps you? Too bad, wait until next year.
I haven't been do a dispensary in over a year.

Yes. In IL.

The diamonds and sauce hits like a fucking truck!
Just grab a tiny chunk with tweezers. Run it through some more sauce if you want. Set it in banger. Boom! Turns into a cloud with practically nothing left.
Rawr!

 

[truthbedamned]

Some people get way to involved in the makeup of the water. Add your nutes, make sure your ph is between 5.5 and 6.5 and let them grow. Don't forget they are called weed for a reason. A little nute burn isn't going to kill them.

 

[Myk]

Some people get way to involved in the makeup of the water. Add your nutes, make sure your ph is between 5.5 and 6.5 and let them grow. Don't forget they are called weed for a reason. A little nute burn isn't going to kill them.

My tap water is too hard (I got an RO filter).
I made a strawberry pyramid, think church steeple. It shed water better than it took it so it needed watering. They didn't survive long even with a drip. The hardness built up too high.
Good for beer brewing (cut with RO). Not good as the sole source of water for plants.

I've also used my tap water as pH up and it's too powerful, not for the amount it took but the amount of buffering it has to keep the pH high. About the only thing I care about at this stage is bud rot (so far I'm not finding any).

Burnt leaf tips are to be expected with hydro because of the above fluctuations.

 

[Myk]

Finishing up week 10 on a 9-10 week variety. Going to flush for week 11 (or less). Still not seeing any bud rot. Potassium Bicarbonate FTW.
No amber trichomes but 100% cloudy. The seeds look brown so it's probably ready to go at any time.
I can live with some pH spotting on leaves to stop the rot and losing ounces (and always the biggest buds).

Tried a very early pruning sample of the Force Sense and I might like it. It's a 1:1 about 10%.
The Lovelace I didn't like so far (edibles are OK) was 2:1 that was supposed to max out at 6% THC. My intolerance to being high makes no sense (I know it has to be a terpene thing).
BTW the Gobbstopper I like has been 25%-28% from dispensaries. I guessed mine to be at least 25% both from vaping and by comparing edibles to dispensary edibles. Although I only vape small amounts and/or mix with hemp it is no problem. Definitely not the THC that's my problem and CBD isn't the solution.

The Medi Haze I have up next is a 2:1-1:1, it's been 6% 2:1 from dispensaries and I can vape bowls of it all day long. Other CBD varieties I've had from dispensaries built into anxiety quickly.

 

[ZOMBIE@CTESPN]

Some people get way to involved in the makeup of the water. Add your nutes, make sure your ph is between 5.5 and 6.5 and let them grow. Don't forget they are called weed for a reason. A little nute burn isn't going to kill them.

Once my plants are ready for full nutrients usually a week or two after they potting the full nutrient mix naturally ph the water and I do use ro. I still check to make sure but it’s always 6.0-6.3 with full nutrient mix. When I first pot my clones in 1 g or solo cups I only feed a root nutrient and pot with myco Jordan on the roots and am strict to ph at 6.0 the first few weeks. This is for promix cc soil now if I grow in coco I would recommend 6.2 ph all the way or you will see nutrient deficiency

 

[ZOMBIE@CTESPN]

Finishing up week 10 on a 9-10 week variety. Going to flush for week 11 (or less). Still not seeing any bud rot. Potassium Bicarbonate FTW.
No amber trichomes but 100% cloudy. The seeds look brown so it's probably ready to go at any time.
I can live with some pH spotting on leaves to stop the rot and losing ounces (and always the biggest buds).

Tried a very early pruning sample of the Force Sense and I might like it. It's a 1:1 about 10%.
The Lovelace I didn't like so far (edibles are OK) was 2:1 that was supposed to max out at 6% THC. My intolerance to being high makes no sense (I know it has to be a terpene thing).
BTW the Gobbstopper I like has been 25%-28% from dispensaries. I guessed mine to be at least 25% both from vaping and by comparing edibles to dispensary edibles. Although I only vape small amounts and/or mix with hemp it is no problem. Definitely not the THC that's my problem and CBD isn't the solution.

The Medi Haze I have up next is a 2:1-1:1, it's been 6% 2:1 from dispensaries and I can vape bowls of it all day long. Other CBD varieties I've had from dispensaries built into anxiety quickly.

I’ve read multiple times you deal with bud rot why is that? I haven’t dealt with it just curious for the knowledge in case I ever do. Only things I’ve ever dealt with is pm mites and thrips

 

[Myk]

I’ve read multiple times you deal with bud rot why is that? I haven’t dealt with it just curious for the knowledge in case I ever do. Only things I’ve ever dealt with is pm mites and thrips

I haven't had insects. To each their own I guess ?

I grow a lot of fruit. My yard has a 4x8 raised bed of strawberries, a sour cherry tree, 2 Japanese plum trees, a peach tree, a prune plum, 8 apple trees and many grape vines (depending on how many have survived neighbor's spraying herbicides in any given year).
Botrytis (bud rot) is big problem on strawberries and grapes but it rots pretty much everything fruit. My guess is the spores come in my windows constantly because I always have something ripening from late spring through fall.

I'm fairly sure it's not environment, my box has been as opposite as one can get for the ideal bud rot conditions (other than big dense buds).

I'm amazed powdery mildew hasn't been a problem for me. Besides it's a problem all over IL I grow a lot of that in my yard too.

 

[Myk]

I have achieved amber trichomes. I can grow fully ripe cannabis without rot. Still going with the original planned feed schedule to get a little more to see if I like some amber better. But now I know it is ready to go at any time.

As right as the breeder's time estimate is (all have been the same breeder) I've been close in spite of the bud rot hurrying harvest up. A week or so, I think the last one was days early before I decided I was losing too much to continue risking it all.

 

[truthbedamned]

I have achieved amber trichomes. I can grow fully ripe cannabis without rot. Still going with the original planned feed schedule to get a little more to see if I like some amber better. But now I know it is ready to go at any time.

As right as the breeder's time estimate is (all have been the same breeder) I've been close in spite of the bud rot hurrying harvest up. A week or so, I think the last one was days early before I decided I was losing too much to continue risking it all.
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Nice pic. How did you get such clarity at that magnification? And the leaves always have amber trichs first. I no longer even bother looking for amber to much. Just make sure there are no clear left.