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Did have a few daze of 90f …may have had 6-8hrs + of high temps in the tent.
I was using Bergman #3 at 5% reduction… I’m now using straight filtered water from Lake Erie. Leaves are not brittle. I’m owling it closely.
Just occurred to me…I recently did switch to 18/6 & turned the light down, almost looked like they wanted the shade.
@GomBoo well without knowing your ph & ppm #’s let’s just hope your lakes not living up to its name-Erie and causing your issues.
@GomBoo I think if you had a light problem the leaves would taco/canoe upwards. Your are curling laying downward. How’s the drainage on that container your using? Maybe this is a root issue instead.
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Very good drainage, I believe…I just flushed with three-stage filtered tap water and least 1/3 ended up in the tray within 20min. Now using the same h2o in the Blumat w/o any ferts.
@Darodguy Curious if you called your Bruce Banner Alice…from Elton John song.
It’s either you or another Darodguy!
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I was just under 3 ounces after dying. In jars and curing at 60 to 65%humidity. Temps around 65 to 68f. Can’t wait to smoke it in a few weeks.
@Spudgunner You got me Spud! LOL. 
Lol! Ya, I’m getting ready to harvest Nina and Stevie, probably in another 3 or 4 weeks. Haven’t posted many pics of them, I’m a terrible photographer! Stevie went from the ugly duckling to a beautiful swan, and Nina turned into a leggy octopus! Her branches are having a hard job supporting the tops and are sorta draped across some wire supports. And she’s too close to the light. All my other plants are raised up on buckets to get decent light because of her.
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Will I be able to see some of the final pics regardless of photo quality? and where?
@Darodguy I have some posted here. Note that the clones are all from Nina and Stevie, have 1 of each outside (Nina’s original top!) along with the Moon Babies. Inside, I just harvested my BBa, and Nina is in the back corner, Stevie up front. On the left side are 10 more clones from those two, including Stevie’s original top.
@Darodguy Last nite I gave Stevie a bit of a trim…
She popped her head above surface early March, and flipped to 12/12 during @GrnyGrows Moon Baby plantings, May 15th.
In the 2rd pic, you can see Nina the 9lb Hammer in the back corner. Started to trim her a bit too but got called away and and to stop part way. Maybe tonite I will finish trimming her and take some shots, but she’s not as nice as the Dutch Treat pictured. Hammered her pretty hard on the nutes and she stretched really close to the lights.
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@robert365 here’s my Dutch Treat, still waiting for the trichomes to go cloudy/amber. She’s about 5 months old right now and is testing my patience!
@SynysterChris @noddykitty1 @Graysin @dbrn32 @HippieRunner1 @HappyHydroGrower @NUG61
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Damnnnn she’s got some chunky colas!, And a good solid frame to support them! She’s GOTTA be close if it’s been 12 weeks I imagine…
I forget, which part of the spectrum is it that promotes strong woody stems and fights stretching? Debating supplementing my younger greenhouse girls before they stretch out too much. I can already see it happening like there’s a blatant line separating the growth they got indoors and the outdoor growth lol
Haha I feel your struggle using buckets to get the rest out of tall girls shadow. I’ve got similar/opposite scenario, 3 taller and one short cuz I tied her down and left in solo cup too long so short girls got an eggcrate to stand on lol
But for some reason she’s got the prettiest buds O.o
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@SynysterChris ya this one behaved well with me! Didn’t stretch hardly at all, once I spread her out she stayed that way! Unlike the 9-lb Hammer who’s all tied up with wire and stakes to keep her upright (altho there are a couple of branches growing downwards!). When I harvest her, I’ll take off all the ties and supports and see if she just flops over like a dead octopus!
My new light should get here on Monday, if it’s easy to install I’ll do it right away, otherwise I’ll wait until I harvest those 2 and have room to move in the tent. The remaining 10 in there will like the new light, hope they stop stretching soon!
I think the next run I will go heavy on the LST and Kushman Chiropractic on them, but that would be until November/December timeframe. At least that makes the branches strong enough to support the buds. And I think it reduces the stretch as well.
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Ahaha dead octopus 
if she gives you some good stuff anyway, it’ll be worth the effort 
Any given reason she stretched so much while the others didn’t? Different strain or ?
Oooh! What’d ya order? New lights make me giddy lol
I think I’m gonna do the same, this time I spaced it and only tied one and now for some reason she’s very different even in branch structure O.o like the others are regular, main stalk main cola and branches mostly with just their normal smaller budsites and big top cola…
While the LST girl is really weird; her lowest node has one tiny branch and one Huge one that rivals the main stalk O.o
And then other nodes similar, one little branch and one Big one, and some of them instead of “budsites” at the nodes have true branches with budsites and big colas of their own. I gotta defoliate her again so I can get pictures, she’s really weird structurally and I think its definitely a good thing. Even at half the overall size of the others I think she’s got more colas and probably outweighs them. I want more like her!
Never heard of kushman chiropractic but it sounds like it’s going on my Amazon list lol!
Kyle Kushman…he’s not for sale! But he has some videos on another site and youtube. It involves twisting the stems and making them “crack”…when they heal up, you get a bit of a knuckle and the stem gets harder, can support more weight and also provides nutrients/water up the plant more efficiently.
Ya, tall babe is a 9 Pound Hammer. Should have been called 9 Foot Hammer! Her and her clones are really lanky, even after I topped and tied, she just took off at a bad time for me. I couldn’t do as much training with her as I should have, hurt too much for a couple of months. The Dutch Treat didn’t stretch after LST, I have her raised up on a bucket and she still isn’t as tall as the 9-lb’er!
My new light…480 Watt FB288 LM301H 3500k + 660nm + UV +IR LED Fusion Board Light DIY Kit from GROWLIGHTS dot CA…should arrive Monday! I’m hoping in January the wife lets me get a 3x3 tent. I’ve figured out a schedule where I can do clones in my dome for 4 weeks, move them to the veg tent (3x3) for 3 weeks then take cuttings back to the dome and flip the 3x3 light to 12/12 for 2 weeks. THEN move them to the 4x4 under this new light for 9 weeks. Harvest and dry in the 3x3 for a week. Did an Excel spreadsheet and a perpetual harvest is possible every 9 weeks! Just a matter of whether I do 3 or 4 plants at a time. Well, that and the boss letting me! I’d like to get my Death Bubba clones back into my run, really like this Dutch Treat, and I’d like to do a Harlequin for my niece’s epilepsy. And maybe a Pennywise.
We’ll see!
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Kushman Chiropractic is a method where you twist the branches until they snap. It is used in training branches during veg. Seems cruel and dangerous, but the branches really do grow stronger because of it and it can help with the SOG method of growing. Warning ! Start out slow, it takes practice. There’s a video on U-tube.
@Spudgunner Thanks for the pics. Great work. Can’t wait for a smoke report on Stevie and Nina! 
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This is the schedule using the Dome, a 3x3 veg/early flower/dry tent, and a 4x4 flower only tent. Each crop is it’s own colour. Follow the bouncing ball!
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OOH! Haha don’t know why I thought it was some supplement I’m reading his website now, good info! I’ve been doing that to my girls especially the greenhouse girl to try to keep her from getting too tall,. I just didn’t know it had a name haha
On top of that I should have LST’d way more on her,. I only tied her once before she just got too many branches to keep up with. It was kind of either let her go or freaken set a cinderblock on top of her 
Dangggg! That’s some intricate planning! Impressive math! Sounds like you gave yourself plenty of time to not get behind too, that’s where I’d mess up lol!
I hope to someday have a system like that going, but I’ve still got a lot of things to figure out first. Mostly space and cleaning the shop, getting rid of junk to make room lol!
I’ll have to check out those lights they sound great.
And that dutch treat sounds like great genetics to keep going! Her shape is gorgeous!
This is the greenhouse brat, really should have spent more hours twisting and also tying but she just got unmanageable and the greenhouse is SO HOT here in the desert 
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I would have gotten a green-beams but they don’t ship to Canada! I could have had them delivered stateside and then gone across the border to pick them up, but if I have to pay customs duties, it would have cost about the same. Save the trip and the hassle this way, even if it costs an extra $50 or so.
The schedule is somewhat flexible too. If one part takes an extra week, it just means everything slides down a week. With photos, as long as cloning and veg is around 7 weeks, you can flip anytime after that. I think 2 weeks pre-flower in small tent then 9 weeks of flower under kickass lights should be long enough, if it needs longer, it just means the next following batch gets a longer veg! Or split the extra time between more veg and more flower in the 3x3! But ya, I need to visually map these things out to see how it flows, like a Gant chart.
Beautiful bush you have in the greenhouse! I can see why she’s hard to control! Part of me would love to have a plant like that, then another part says No Way! Too much work! I don’t have room for a greenhouse, and my regular outdoor season here is short, rains come mid to end of September, plants either don’t finish or rot outside unless they are under cover.
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