@OlyBoy98503 you ever use colloidal silver on a plant? I’m going to do it on a sour stomper auto and put it in a tent with a double grape auto to get seeds. Doing it in these tubes is getting some good yields (especially given that they’re all in a 3’x3’ with one light above). But I’m basically running a sea of green with them. Seems like average wet weight of each one is about 105g. But I have 24 in grid on a 14 week turnaround. Hoping to cut down on the cost of seeds using the colloidal silver.
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Yes I have.
I was not successful, but I did t know what I was doing. Skip to the end to read what I think I did wrong.
Yeah I might be throwing two perfectly good autos down the drain if this doesn’t work with the colloidal silver. I bought a little tiny tent and a cheap led light (actually, it’s inexpensive but I have two in my baby/vegging tent and they seem to love them). That arknoah brand and the 240w version. I do plan to spray the plant in sections with a water bottle on mist versus painting it. But I don’t know. Only time will tell. Looks like I’ll know in 12 weeks or so. It’s funny how time flies when you grow weed. 
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I did see it. That looked pretty cool! And that was the post where you mentioned that you top fed. I was under the impression that the perlite and the bottom end with the screen were also there to bottom feed/water and let the soil wick the nutes up and draw the roots down.
I can see where that might be a bit labor intensive (especially with a dozen or so plants), but I understand now that the screen and perlite was for drainage.
@Hellraiser sorry to drag you in randomly but I’m at a loss for what’s up with this gelato photo. It gets the same nutes (AN Connie) and I haven’t had any issues at all since starting the AN line. They’re in the last two weeks so they’ve been getting overdrive and bud candy as well. Long story short, I flipped them to flower when they were about 5 weeks so I could take flowering clones to reveg for a monster crop and then just decided to let these finish up. Happy frog soil and feeding at every watering (about every 2-3 days).
Warning…she ain’t pretty
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Looks like she’s more sensitive to nutes than your other plants and it was just a bit too much for her. I’d flush her some at next watering and give a little weaker nute mix.
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MONSTER CROPPING: This is my first time doing this. I took the clones from flowering mothers and put them in a tent to reveg. They’ll be going outside first week of June.
I’m doing them in batches because of the cloner situation. And I accidentally snapped one in half transplanting and tried to tape it back together that isn’t going to make it. They are really growing fast as they revert back to vegging. I’ve got a few more in the cloner that I’ll add to the tent when I move these to my patio in the next week or so. I bought thirty 20 gallon oxy pots so I’d like to have 30 plants outside if I can. It’s been a long process to veg and then flower and then clone and reveg these girls so I’m really hoping for some impressive outdoor plants by the end of the season.
Roots coming out of the cloner…happy little clones.
May 11
May 18
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Outdoor I’m going to be using Jack’s outdoor nutrient schedule (Jack’s 18-8-23, Bloom and Finish)
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They are looking good!
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MAKING SEEDS: I brought my work home with me (Shhhhhh!). I’ve got a Mephisto Sour Stomper Auto and a Mephisto Double Grape in this little tent I bought. I didn’t want to have this tent in my other space due to the potential pollen contamination. I decided instead of doing this twice or buying another tent and light, I’d just use colloidal silver on the Sour Stomper and let it self pollinate itself and the Double Grape. I bought 500 ppm colloidal silver but realized that might be too strong so I diluted it with water down to 50 ppm. I’m spraying the Sour Stomper three times a day. Also, these two are only getting AN Connoisseur Grow and Bloom and no extras. It’ll be interesting to see how they end up being in the fabric bags with more soil but not getting the extras that my tubes get.
Sour Stomper on the back left and Double Grape on the front right.
Sour Stomper, Double Grape and a couple of 420 fastbuds White Russians in tubes.
I’ve only got one straggler in the tubes from my first run that isn’t ready yet. An ILGM sour diesel auto. Should be done in another week or so. All of the other tubes have been harvested and are drying in the Wedryer right now. I’ll move them to cvaults this weekend and have a pretty close final count on weight.
Very happy with the frostiness of the 420 fastbuds Blue Dream Autos. And the smell on them is amazing. They were smaller than the ILGM sour diesel but they consistently had higher wet weight when we were trimming.
And the rest of the room…pretty uneventful grow. Everyone is happy and flowering. Getting AN Connie Bloom, B52, Bud Candy, and Big Bud. I imagine we’ll be harvesting these in the next 4-6 weeks. I did go through and removed two fabric bags worth of sucker branches and fan leaves.
ILGM Gold Leaf - Really happy with the bud development on these two. Going to be fatties.
Platinum Garlic Bag Seeds - One is topped, the other mainlined.
I’ve got a light out…having to send it back for warranty. So it looks like we’re going to replace the current light with a HLG600RSpec. Debating switching the whole room out. But it’ll involve changing the hard wiring to an outlet for each light. Going from 480w to 600w I think might be beneficial.
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How do you guess how much a plant will produce? I have zero idea what to expect on any of these photos. They are bigger than I’ve done in the past by a lot.
Like a plant that’s 39” tall like this ILGM gelato. I didn’t top it or do anything but let it grow. It’s under 480w with AN nutrients in happy frog. This is about to start week 5 of flowering. (Actually just installed an HLG600rspec
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Hard to guess accurately from a pic, good size plant there, I’d guess between 3-4 ounces.
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Went to the okc cannacon yesterday and was not disappointed in the freebies. Definitely worth the $30 entry fee. Not shown were several shirts, another bottle of fish shit and a small bottle of AN big bud.
Anybody use any of these products before? The emerald harvest folks were pretty knowledgeable and want to see a side by side of it and the AN I’ve been running on my next grow. That grow will likely start the first week of July.
Got a free American Haze clone as well.
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daaaaaaang! Great haul! Holy crap! That free clone!?! (I’m feeling inadequate about what I call a clone. )
Trying to finish planning for my outdoor grow. They’re going in the dirt in the next week come he’ll or high water.
And I’m oscillating … happy frog with jacks outdoor schedule or ocean forest to cover 8ish weeks of veg? @OlyBoy98503 what do you use in your potted plants for dirt? @Zee gonna pull you in for an opinion as pretty sure you use ocean forest.
Half of them are in a dog crate on my second floor patio. . I ran out of room in my veg tent and I didn’t want the squirrels to eff em up. I’m going to have to top them or something because a couple got way too tall too fast.
Germán shepherd made it known early on that he will not be contained. Tore the crate front up so that he could open the latch.
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Your repurposing ideas are the hidden gem in this post. Thanks for the tips 
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Hey Viola, that’s a tough decision IMO. I really like FFOF for veg stage, low maintenance with great results, however unless you keep adding FFOF, it will only cover about 5 or 6 weeks of feeding.
My last grow I only used FFOF, and kept potting up a few gallons every 5 weeks, was very pleased with results.
This grow I started with happy frog and adding jacks every watering and very happy with the results so far.
You could go either way, but my 2 cents, Happy Frog with Jacks. 
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I have several strains growing at the moment. Looking for the best of the bunch to start a “mother library”. A whole room of the best of each strain as mothers. I’ll reveg each “winner” even though I also took clones off each for an outdoor grow (I’ll take more clones off the outdoor “winner” as well)
Some REAL surprises…
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??? I literally got three free seeds labeled with three question marks from a seed seller. Had a lot of people tell me they were probably gonna be shite. But I love a good mystery!!! Only one made it and I gotta say…it is the frostiest thing I’ve ever grown. Not a huge plant and probably medium yielding. Doesn’t seem bothered with heavy dose of nutes. Not sure on the smoke but the leaf shape makes me think it’s a sativa dom hybrid. We’ve decided to call it Pterodactyl Tits. Photos below…
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Jelly breath from In-house Genetics. Wow. Beautiful plant, beautiful bud. Frosty, colorful and some wild hairs like a plate of spaghetti. Actually a couple of plants from this batch are stand outs. Photos below.
All the plants are getting big and full of bud and unwieldy. I can’t really pull them out to photograph them as the branches go everywhere. I’ll try to document the winning plants at harvest. I have multiple of each strain to choose from.
The room right now.
Not very excited about this run of autos…
So far Mephisto double grapes produced 24” tall plants that are starting to flower (one is about 30”) Almost NO side branches on them except for the tallest one. The sour stompers are almost mutant. Only three leaves and all of them are tiny. Probably won’t produce more than a few grams. White Russian autos are pretty small as well.
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I’ve been using ffof with perlite and a neutral soil (sunshine #4 mix) in my pots. I expect the ffof to crap out in 3-4 weeks. As soon as I see indicators that the plant needs food, I start jacks321 full strength.
That jelly breath looks beautiful!
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Yes it does!!
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