Main Cabinet Evolution

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Today is the start of Week10 since flip, & she’s ready to chop. I’ve been removing lots of spent fan leaves in the meantime to let more light & air through.

I’ll chop either tomorrow night or the next, depending on my schedule. For today she was due for a 1-gal partial res change, so I did that.
Roots:

I’ve brought the PPMs down to ~300-320. pH has sometimes been a little tricky, wanting to run down pretty quickly with the lower ppms over the past couple weeks. I’ve been checking more often & adjusting back if I find it too low.

Underneath: More fan leaf removal.

I also intentionally unplugged the humidifier for today to warm up the box - mainly to warm up the lower part of the plant during lights-on for the final couple days.
Screen Thermpro, past week (Warmest temps there are at lights-off, due to the plate heaters):

Wall Thermpro, past week:

Warmest bud got up to 83.1f, should be ok.

I started running the new bong, & the ball-vape kit which is very interesting. (I’m new to any sort of vaping.)

I moved the scoop & brush into my stash box. I tested a bunch of temps from 530f thru 560, & I seem to like 550, so I set the controller to 549f. Cooler seemed to be slightly harsh, hotter would start turning the abv dark tan & not tasting as good, instead of light tan with better flavor. If I pack accordingly, I can vape everything in one hit, & I might cough a couple times. If I did that with a regular bong hit, I would probably be hacking away for at least a minute. Plus this thing has been getting me blasted, even with a small micro hit. I don’t know if it’s saving me weed, because even though it’s super powerful, it’s smooth enough that I can repack & hit it again whenever I want to. I’ve been hitting this thing regularly for the past couple days & probably did 30 micro packs the first day, & then started trying the bigger bowl the next. The first day I probably felt ‘too high’ a couple times & wasn’t even sure I wanted to try the big bowl, & then the next day I felt even more stoned than the night before, without having hit anything yet, not sure how that even happened. The next day I started testing the larger bowl, & I barely cover the screen on that thing with ground weed & then sprinkle some kief on that, & I can clear that in one hit pretty smoothly with maybe a cough or two & get totally blasted just from that.
I like that the abv & the bong water don’t stink up the house. (I don’t smoke in the house & just blow my hits outside.) The bong has been staying pretty clean & nice-tasting. I swapped water after a couple days, but didn’t really need to yet.
I really like the cordless V2 heater, & the glass micro doser with the bung.

Not sure if I even need the hybrid titanium bowl, although it makes it easier to add a little kief on top. The micro doser blocked up with keif on top. I’m still testing & comparing everything to see what the differences are & what works best for me.The metal bowl is a little tougher to run in general, at least on my setup with the angled downstem, since I have to lift the metal bowl out to clear the bong.
I’m interested in getting the ‘Original’ injector bowl, just to try it out:

It would let me do fullsized glass injector hits with the easy-to-clear bung. The only thing it doesn’t do is fullsized diffuser hits, which I could go back to the metal bowl for. I wasn’t sure about all of these stainless steel screens in everything, but I haven’t noticed any metallic taste so far.

Here’s how I’ve been orienting everything when in use (I’m standing on the other side when in use):

I’m able to lift the metal bowl out to clear fairly easily, even with the heater installed.

I’ve started out running the vertical six-slit downstem with bead installed, then without the bead, & went back to with it. Planning on rolling downstems over the next few weeks, going to go to the rifled next, then the swiss cheese, followed by the matrix diffuser, & finally the five-arm tree, to see how they all do.
I tested tilting the bong, & sometimes the draw would ‘lock up’ somehow, with or without the bead, if I got the downstem vertical. A slight tilt did best if I wanted a little more water level over the end of the stem, but it has been doing fine letting the bong stand there.

I noticed it does this:

So far my thoughts are that I doubt that I’ll stop smoking glass flower-pipes or hemp-paper joints because of this thing, but I also doubt that I’ll want use the bong to combust flower because of this thing. =)

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Chop chop! Finally got this handled:

Roots:

I’m not a big proponent of flushing, but that’s basically what ended up happening since I had planned on chopping three days ago, & didn’t feel like making more nute mix, & just topped off with ro water, pH mix, h202 & tussin90. pH has been tough to maintain in this state, & a couple times it was down to 5.x & 4.x before I could adjust it back up.

Pics from last night/this morning:

My Anti-RH fan ate a bushing yesterday, so because it’s a pain to pull it, I took the one from my drying cab & stuck it in-line & ran the plug down to the controller externally. These fans only last about a year or so.

I ordered a slightly different hybrid-blade style replacement, but don’t have high hopes of it being much more durable either. The motors on these cheap fans have bushings instead of bearings, so this is what happens. I bought the Vortex VTX behind it over 20 years ago, & it still runs like Day-1.

Plant chopped & hung: I’ll be going back in to pull fan leaves in a day or two, & I might have to chop some branches off & re-string them individually, although I’d rather not in order to save time.

Then I moved the Anti-RH fan back:

The osci fan is on max & timed 1min on, 1min off, & I’ll try to set the anti-RH fan to hit around 64-66% in there to start with, but it’s still stabilizing & might be lower. Temps should be around 65f on average.

This tent is not as effective at containing or encapsulating odors as I had hoped it would be, but it is what it is. I still really like it as a drying space, & as a potential replacement for my clone cab if ever needed.

Now I wait for the replacement fan, & I can take a little break & do a couple small things to the Main Cab before the next round.

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Congratulations

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Nice haul, seems like one of the larger pulls recently. Congrats Photo!

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Congratulations

Thank you!

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Nice haul, seems like one of the larger pulls recently. Congrats Photo!

Thank you, I think it just looks like more because I didn’t chop them up & string them individually. I think there might be a little less than last run (6.5 - 7 oz), or maybe about the same. I ran into an issue late last night when I popped into the drying tent to check on them. One of the hanging trees either untied itself or broke the string, & I found it laying on top of the charcoal filter. It might have been there for 24 hours or less. I inspected it & found a tiny spot of mold developing on one of the smaller buds which had been suffocating at the bottom when laying on the filter, so I took the whole tree out & hung it in the main cab, turned on the light so I could see better, & wet-pruned the whole thing & strung up everything from that tree individually on a couple more strings, except the bud with the tiny spot of mold, which I burned. Hopefully that will be the extent of it, but not a good feeling to have all of that happen.

Drying cab Thermpro: The warmer spikes are from the house heat running. Ambient temps in the room are about the same, but the RH is like 35%.

New Anti-RH fan installed:

Turns out the old one has a cracked impeller, & the bushing might have felt OK. Weird. I don’t remember if that’s what happened the last couple times I’ve had them die on me or not. I don’t even think I checked the last one, I just threw it in the trash.

Because the new fan has a speed controller near the plug, too big to fit the pass-through, I need a 10’ extension cord to replace the shorter one currently installed.

The fan plug reaches down as far as you see in the pic. I’m going to pull it back out & just run a 10 footer from the RH controller (at the bottom outside the cab), into the cab & all the way out the top passthrough, & just leave all of the new fan cord outside of the box up top. I could have unhooked the power wire at the fan & run it through that way, but I think I’d like to have the speed controller outside of the box. I picked up an 8 footer with 90deg multiplug at the end of it from the store but decided I don’t want to install it due to not having a straight-out plug, so I ordered what I want & it should be here in a week. I might want to get things going before then, so I’ll probably run what I got just hanging out from where the fan is & down to the RH controller, & then I’d have to route the new cable through the box later with everything already in place, which is a pain but easier if the plant is still smaller. I’m in no rush, but want to keep things moving.

Made a lid with a more centralized hole for the netpot:

I test-fit, & everything seems fine. The bucket will probably end up further forwards than before, & the net pot will be just slightly off-center, closer towards the back wall, but basically on-center left-to-right. I replaced some old hard black vinyl tubing feeding air to the water pump with some new black silicone tubing, & I also replaced the rusty screw on the right wall with a new one.

Main Cab Thermpro (ceiling): It can get cold in there with no heat & the door closed.

Running the rifled downstem in the new bong this week, this one needed two balls or it would ride up the stem while pulling tubes.

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Quick update:
I did some test-fitting of the new bucket-position with the new lid, making sure the front fan & heater still had enough room. Also, I made a new neoprene hatch cover.

The bucket could move forwards another half-inch to get the net-pot closer to perfectly on-center, but then it’s getting pretty tight against the insulation & then the heater. I think it should be good where it is in the pic.

Inside the bucket:

Inside the drying tent:

I thought I found more mold…

…but it turned out to be a down feather.

I’ll be starting to prune the fan leaves tomorrow.

I’ll probably try to keep them candelabra-style if possible, & also maybe convert to making some green-wire hangers to hang them back up after pruning the fan leaves.

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The Main Cab is almost ready to go again.
I installed the 10’ ext. cord & hooked up the Anti-RH fan & RH controller to it. The fan speed controller is bundled with the excess fan wiring, & I can reach it easily enough. I have it set to the lowest speed which barely brings in air when it runs, but for now it’s enough to regulate the RH without dragging down the temps. If/when I need to increase the speed, it’ll be easy to do without opening the box.

Thermpro, center of screen: The big RH slash in the middle is I forgot to unplug the timer which shuts off the humidifier for ‘lights-out’. The smaller changes in RH are the humidifier & oscillating fans working back & forth. The box wasn’t venting at all until about 1:15AM, when I made a couple changes to the RH controller (located outside the box) to get the Anti-RH fan to start kicking in occasionally for short periods of time, mainly to get some fresh air into the box. The result can barely be seen on the chart, although it is actually really effective because it dropped the RH the amount I asked for, without dragging down the air temps too much. If you look at the temps on either side of 2am you can see the Anti-RH fan barely clipping the temps three times when it kicked on briefly at those times. It actually barely affected the RH, but that is fine & probably ideal.

The speed controller on the new fan seems nice to have, & I’m hoping to be able to optimize it (run it as slowly as possible) for max effect on RH with min effect on temps. This new fan might be ok if it stays alive. I’m not sure why the old one ended up with a broken impeller, but I suspect that it might not have liked running against the Vortex VTX, & that the impeller may have been deforming enough to start cracking, whenever the VTX happened to kick in while the Anti-RH fan was running.

The light is 12" off the screen & I set the dimmer to give me 275-300 ppfd at the screen. Just out of curiosity I want to check what the power draw actually is, & I also want to see what the draw is at the lowest dimmer setting where the light starts to run.

Heaters are turned off for now, but I can activate them if I need to add heat, or I could turn up the dimmer & raise the fixture. Everything is pretty much ready to go including a bucket of fresh nute solution, I just have to fill the res & install the plant.

Over in the drying tent:

I defoliated most all of the fan leaves & many of the sugar leaves over a couple evenings. I added a dish of water on the floor to take the edge off of the dry air. I also made hangers out of green wire.
DryingTent Thermpro, past week:

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Filled the res this morning, & then installed the plant this evening. Naturally I forgot to do fresh lava so popped her back out again to do that, & then back in again.

I had the screen unclamped & tilted forwards (in order to avoid detaching the harness running across it) & lashed to the light to help get the plant in there.

Top-down, after some training:

I’ll try to move the top on the left down a little. I’m not sure if I’ll keep all eight tops. I was thinking of just doing six. I think I came to the conclusion that four or six could be better than eight tops a few grows ago, but I’m going to see how they ‘take’ first, before I start chopping any off.

A couple pics of the res, one slow & one quick exposure:

It’s harder to see the roots with this config. I left most of what was there after removing the outer pot, & just combed them out a little.

Bucket is at around 6.4 pH & 340 PPM, GH Trio Week4 veg ratio but very light ~300-320 ppm, plus 2ml CalMag to bring to around 340ppm, & some H2O2 & some 'Tussin90. I also added a drop per gallon of SuperThrive (old skool concentrated strength) to help it get going. That’s all basically what the clone cab has been getting except over there it’s around 290 ppm & usually no Superthrive unless I think I need it.

Screen Thermpro overnight:

The box slowly got up to 80f without the heaters, but it was ‘warmer’ overnight last night. Tonight it’s colder, & I might decide to turn the heaters & set the controller tomorrow after I see how things stabilize without the heaters by tomorrow morning.

Starting right off with the Photontek this time, I figure it would be good to compare to the Kind last grow, since I did the first ten days of veg plus the first week of flower solely on the Kind Veg channel (no red or Far Red). This lamp has red & far red all the time, so we’ll see how it compares. Hopefully the stretch won’t be too bad. I think I am going to try to flip to flower after 7 days this time instead of 10 days.

I also took a couple new current readings. I checked the new fan to see what it drew(.5A slowest speed, .7A fastest speed) & if the controller was a real pwm (seems to be) or just burning current at slower speeds (nope).
I also checked to see what the light was drawing at ‘turn-on’ (.32A or ~12% of total power), & what it was drawing presently with the dimmer turned up to give me around 275-300 ppfd with the light 12" above the screen (.49A or ~18-20% max power, iirc).

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Did some more training to line the tops up a little better:

I see a couple of them already starting to get bigger.

I turned on the heater plates & set the controller to 73f yesterday, & then 74f later today. I don’t think that they’re running all that much, but it’ll help stabilize things at a minimum temp if it starts to get very cold.

The new Anti-RH fan is doing a good job. Hopefully it won’t fold under the strain of running against the Vortex whenever that may happen. That is one thing that I haven’t tested yet, & I haven’t actually dialed in the sensor for the Vortex yet either, so maybe I’ll do both of those things soon.

I stuck the Thermpro in the center to see what that looks like over the next 24h.

Not much is going on with the bucket yet, still sitting at around 340ppm & the level hasn’t really started dropping very much at all yet which is to be expected. I added back a quarter-solo cup of nute mix yesterday which is nothing. The pH has been sitting at around 6.3 - 6.4 with no adjustments at all (besides 1.5 ml/gal of tussin90 when I mixed the nutes, which will start moving the pH up a tenth at a time as you add more drops). I can see some fresh roots starting to sprout.

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Did a 1-gal partial res-change today in order to bump up the PPMs.
Roots! :

PPMs moved up from around 340 to around 390. pH has been sitting at 6.4, the gallon going in was around 6.1, & the bucket settled at 6.3, & we’ll see what it does.

Wall Thermpro, past week:

Wall, past 24h:

I reduced the RH setpoint by 1% today.

The box likes to build heat after I have the door open for a while & then shut it. I think the heater plates can get activated when the door’s open, then they build & hold heat & when the door shuts it’s there & from there the light can maintain/build on it. Overnights it tends to lose heat, even though the light keeps running. (I have the heaters set so they won’t kick on until the box starts to get below 73f, & then they’ll shut off at 75f.)

Running the swiss-cheese downstem this week in the new vape-bong:

Sorry I just cleaned the whole rig a couple days ago, but the diffuser holes are a little dirty already. It’s been fun to try the different downstems. For the top-side I have the Crossing glass pass-thru injector on the way, just to try it out. I have been consuming a quite a bit of weed (for me) because of this ball vape contraption, so I also ordered their mini scoop in hopes of maybe curbing that a little bit. I bought a colored glass flower slide for the rig but it’s been in the accessories holder & I guess just for show now as I haven’t yet & don’t feel like I want to burn flower through the bong at all.

Thermpro, drying cab, past week:

So far so good. The AntiRH fan kicks on for a few seconds maybe a couple times a day, so I open it once a day for 5 minutes to really air it out. They are still giving off grassy notes so they still need more time in there, but the stems are still pliable so they’re not drying down too quickly. (Ambient RH in that room has been around 30 to 40%.)

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Roots! :

Flipped tonight (Friday into Saturday), so did a full res-change this morning with the first flowering ratio, & added some armorSi to counterbalance the calmag towards a flowering ratio. PPMs 400 going in, pH ~6.4. pH has been wanting to move up slightly & then hold, but we’ll see what it does by tomorrow. I also turned up the light to ~325 ppfd at the tops, & I plan to work it up slowly to catch up to the chart over the next few days. I expected this (& also the fact that I added another degree to the heater target this morning) to warm up the cab today, but it ran cooler for most of the day because it got pretty cold out. I also installed & set the timers for the light & to shut off the humidifier during lights-out, wondering if I might end up running the humidifier at night. While I was doing that, I noticed a problem with my humidifier not misting, so I changed the disc which solved it initially, then it went back to the same problem, & then it started working again. I might have to take the disc out again & spray the internals of the ultrasonic thingy with ‘dry’ silicone spray to lube it.

Some pics from this morning. Thermpro temporarily in the center of the screen:

Everything was fine until I popped in there tonight for evening check-in about an hour before I was expecting the light to be off, & the light was already off. Turns out the timers are still on daylight savings & I forgot to check, & I’ll fix that tomorrow. Also the main exhaust fan is running every 35 -45 minutes now, fighting the heaters, since I forgot to move the lights-off temp target higher. I’ll fix that tomorrow as well. I could get my far-red puck out so I can see & do it now, but it’s not that important. I decided to reactivate the humidifier by around 2am by taking the timer back out of the loop, since that is easy to access outside of the box.
Wall Thermpro, past 24h:

Wall, past week:

Dry cab:

Still out-gassing grassy odors, but should turn sweet soon.

Cleaned the swiss-cheese downstem & running it without the pearl again:

I think I like this one without the pearl, whereas I liked the first two with the restriction pearls.

New cobalt slide/ pearl-holder from Blazin’ Blue:

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^^^Also wanted to add that I just spotted that brown clump of stuff growing on/ stuck in the roots in the first pic above. That is probably still there, & I’ll take a look at cleaning it tomorrow. I noticed some of that stuff getting pumped out when I did the res-change today, & I cleaned some out of the pump then as well. It wasn’t a whole lot. Not sure of the source, but it could be from a few different things. Maybe even caused by the Superthrive. I can probably knock it out pretty quickly if I keep cleaning out any clumps that I can grab with a baster or any that get caught in the pump screen, & then adding a little more 'Tussin90. Maybe a little more h2o2, but usually 'Tussin90 is what is actually effective against any kind of stuff like that when I see it. Plus almost everything else. Except for damp-off. That’s why I call it 'Tussin90. Got a problem just put some 'Tussin on it.

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Fixed most of the issues noticed yesterday.

This morning I added a second dose of my usual amount of 'Tussin90 & H2O2 per gallon to combat whatever’s growing or floating around in the res. There seemed to be less of it today, & to my eyes the roots & basket looked cleaner/better by the end of today (compare yesterdays pic to tonights pic above). The tussin bumped up the pH to around 6.8, so I added a few drops of phDown to get it to 6.4 where it held thru lights-out. I also pulled the pump to check the strainer, & there wasn’t much in there, just a few small root pieces. Before hanging the pump I free-hand sprayed the roots & basket with the pump like a fire hose, to blast off any stuff. I’ll check the strainer again tomorrow because I’m sure I blasted off some root pieces spraying the pump around, & they’ll get stopped at the strainer.

I set the light & humidifier timers to the correct time, although for now I’m letting the humidifier run through lights-out insted of timing it out then. I set the ‘lights-out high-temp exhaust fan’ setpoint higher, to stop it from exhausting against the work of the plate heaters.

Concerning the humidifier, I think it’s time to replace the oscillators in both of my humidifiers, so I’m going to order two new ones. For now I switched the Main & Clone Cab humidifiers around, since the Main Cab humidifier oscillator definitely seems to be sporadically unable to make mist at all, even though it keeps running. I cleaned it & lubed it with dry silicone spray but to no avail. The Clone Cab unit works but seems to be running out of steam also, no pun intended. It’s still powerful enough & consistent enough to run in the Main Cab. The other one might struggle in the clone cab anyway, but I can probably deal with that more easily until replacements arrive.
Leaves are getting big enough for me to start shooting them with the temp gun

Thermpro was pretty wild today, you can see last night lights-out where the exhaust fan was fighting the heater, the humidifier was barely hanging in there thru lights-on, I switched them at around 7:30pm & things finally started to calm down. Lights-out again at the end, & the heater is cycling without being troubled by the temp exhaust fan, & the RH is stable & moving right along with the heat cycles.

Thermpro in the center of the screen was reading about the same as where it is in the back right corner of the screen now.

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This is amazing you watch. You are so detailed with it. Wish my brain worked like this

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Thanks! I can barely remember what I’m supposed to be doing half the time though, hah.

Day three since the fresh res, so I did a 1-gal partial res change, bumping the PPMs up to ~420 =) , & the pH has been around 6.3 -6.4, which is fine. I’ll be slowly increasing the PPMs over the next few days.
Roots! :

For whatever was growing in there, I added double the usual H2O2 & 'Tussin90 into the gallon (Usually 1ml - 1.5 ml of each). I cleaned the pump strainer of a few roots & that was all, & I didn’t see really any of whatever was hung up/growing on the roots mixed up in the gallon that I pumped out today, so whatever it was, it doesn’t seem to be getting worse, & is mostly gone so far.

Thermpro is looking a lot more stable, but I need to replace both of the humidifier misters. I took an extra day to check a couple more things with them before deciding to definitely order replacements, which I should do today. The one in the other cab isn’t making any mist at all, & this one is weak, but still keeping up with the demands of the controller. However, I’m not getting any over-run from the ‘extra’ humidity like I used to when it was running better, which is causing a reduction in the anti-RH fan running at all, so the cab isn’t being actively vented much if at all right now. I’m sure I’m getting some minor passive venting through the intake, & it is building some heat in there at least.

Top-down: Still moving them around to try & give them all enough room. I can still chop some off.

Side view: I see some stretch going on. I’m ‘adding’ a minute of dark each day for the first five days of the flip to slowly increase the nightly buildup of (I forget pr or pfr) during the dark period, in hopes of helping to kick-start the flowering process a little bit.

Sneaked a couple P88 buds out of the drying tent:

I chopped up the ones in the ball-vape heads with scissors since it’s still too damp to go through the grinder easily, & packed some full flowers into a TG peanut pipe from Takos place. That’s turned out to be a great pipe for hash-on-bud, & for taste-testing.
This stuff isn’t cured yet, still at ~65% RH & still giving off grassy odors, but I wanted to see what -if anything- it tasted like at this point. It was mostly flavorless with some earthy undertones through the mini diffuser & the peanut pipe, & a little green through the matrix bowl. I definitely felt it though. Waiting any day now for the aromas of the drying tent to start shifting to sweet/good.

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Week3 since the flip began today (Saturday).
Roots!:

Res got a full change, a new ratio & a slight increase in Si & CalMg. PPMs ~630, pH6.3 going in. pH has been slowly dropping day-to-day lately & has needed little to no adjustment other than my usual partial-res changes, & a day or two ago I used a small amount of pHUp. I raised the PPMs from 575 to 630, but that might be a little hot as it was at 650 at the end of the day, so I added back with water & it ended up back at 630 for the night.

New oscillator in the humidifier, working well:

Top-down:

Some of the larger lower leaves show some minor deficiences looking like maybe cal-mag, so I increased the cal-mag slightly a couple days ago.

Side view: I haven’t been doing any pruning yet, besides the lowest sets of fan leaves a while ago.

The stretch is still active, & I raised the light up for some more space & even distribution, & then turned up the power a little to get to around 645ppfd on my meter at the brightest spots of the canopy. There’s about 5% more from the far-reds that it doesn’t read, so I should be right around where the dli chart says I should be. Turning up the wattage added more heat to the box, & the main exhaust fan will dump with the canopy at ~79-80f for now.
Wall Thermpro, past 24h:

Past week:

Thermpro, drying/curing tent, past week:

The P-88 is still hanging in the tent, curing. It’s taken longer than expected for the grassy odors to mostly gas out, which is what I like to wait for before I jar them up. The smell is finally starting to get better, & the bigger stems & the few remaining leaves are still slightly pliable, & I reduced the RH target by another 1% today. Recently I’ve been opening it up & airing it out once or twice a day for a few minutes, in addition to the anti-RH fan working occasionally.

Been running the matrix diffuser downstem this week in the new bong, going to clean it & switch to the five-arm for a week & then run through them all again for more comparisons…

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Res was due for a 1-gal partial change today (Tuesday), PPMs ~ 630 in the bucket & going back in, pH had moved down to ~5.8 yesterday, so I moved it up to ~6.3 then, & the gallon + addback today was around ~6.4. It was down to ~6.2 by lights-out tonight. The plant is starting to eat & drink more, & I’ll probably try bumping up the PPMs a little with tomorrows add-back. I forgot to take a roots pic.

I spent some time pushing most of the main stalks around with insulation sticks, trying to space things out a bit. I pruned some of the lowest fan leaves & bud sites, & plan to remove some more tomorrow.

I lowered the RH target by 1% today, this caused the RH exhaust fan to run a little more often today, but it’s set to run very slowly, & still doesn’t hurt the box temps too badly. Overall the RH control system is running smoothly but there are a couple things with the osci fans & RH controller that I could adjust to keep up with the other adjustments & not vent so often, maybe.

Wall Thermpro, past 24h:

I raised the light fixture & then dialed the power down slightly to account for the tops being pushed into brighter areas, & also the overnight stretch. I’m reading ~675 ppfd around the brightest tops.

I lost some heat in the box overall today due to all of the various adjustments. The leaf temps are still warm enough, so I’ll probably not worry about it too much for now, other than maybe trying a couple minor adjustments as mentioned above. I can also move the light up again (& the two fans), & turn up the wattage to get some heat back.

Ceiling Thermpro, past week: (The ceiling-mounted T-pro has been in one location the whole time, unlike the other two.)

Running the five-arm-tree downstem this week:

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Today (Saturday) begins Week4 since the flip, & the res was due for a 1-gal partial res-change. It’ll be due for a full change in three days.
Roots! :

PPMs got bumped from ~675 to ~775 this morning, & it fell to around 750 by the end of the day, so it seemed to have taken the increase well. pH has been around 6.1 - 6.2 most of the time. I added 10 drops Up yesterday when it went down to 6.0. Once the plant starts to eat more, I expect the swings down to become bigger.

Top-down:

I removed the lowest bud & fan leaves from the mains & side branches a couple days ago:

DLI chart calls for ~800 for this week. I raised the fixture to put ~9-10" between the canopy & the light, & then increased the voltage to get to ~775 PPFD at the brightest area of the tallest top. Usually I measure in front of the tallest top by the rear-right corner, & I’ll close the door on my arm since there’s a little boost with the door closed.
The box picked up some heat from the voltage increase, & after making some adjustments the main temp exhaust fan will dump ~81-82f. However the box mostly ran “RH exhaust fan priority” today which pulled the temps down, until I started running the house heater later in the day. So it still depends on a few things as to whether or not the box will pick up or shed heat with the light on, even with the voltage bump today.

Still haven’t gotten to these yet:

I could have dropped the RH more & sooner, due to the cooler temps.
Thermpro, past week:

They’ve finally gotten dry enough over the past few days for me to do the final trim/ leaf removal, & jar them. The stems are snapping. The buds still have enough moisture in them to feel soft but dry. The leaves still aren’t totally crispy. The looser sugar leaves are slightly pliable but will tend to snap off near their bases with a couple small bends, which for me is ideal. I’ve been planning to trim these for the past couple days & haven’t gotten to it yet.
Here’s a bud:

I’m not sure how the flavor on these is going to be. They took a long time to stop smelling grassy, & they still don’t smell all that great, but they have been getting better every day. I haven’t checked to see what they are supposed to smell/taste like, so I have no expectations. Right now I’m getting peppery sandalwood anise type stuff. They still have a small amount of moisture in them though, so they’re still due some jar time with daily burping for a few minutes a day over the next couple weeks to finish the cure. I’m also not ruling out that there might be some mold hiding in there somewhere, even though I haven’t seen any since that one bud early-on, but if there’s more then that should become obvious once I start trimming, or at least once they get into the jars for a few days.

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10-day full res-change today (Tuesday), roots!:

PPMs up to ~810 from ~760, may be a little strong but we’ll see. pH ~6.2.

Top-down:

Some of the upper leaves are already getting some frost on them, & it might be time to clip some of the biggest lowest fan leaves.

The stretch seems to have mostly stopped over the past couple days, The light, & wall-Thermpro have been in the same places since last time:

Underneath:

Center-screen Thermpro, past week:

Wall Thermpro, past week:

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I started manicuring & jarring the P-88, & ran into three more main tops with a very minor spot of mold each, so decided to freeze & bubble-hash the whole lot. I did three 5-minute electric mixer runs & strained through four grades, & then a fourth ‘run’ just running ice water over the slurry to wash it through four grades .(Not much was recovered on the fourth ‘run’.) I would add a good dose of h2o2 to the water during each main run after the first strain, to combat any mold. I finger-pressed patties on aluminum foil, & put them directly in the oven at 245f for two hours to dry, decarb, & combat any mold. I let them cool until the next day. Everything but the 160 grade & the stuff from the 4th ‘wash’ run was pretty well stuck to the foil until I froze them, & then they peeled off like fruit roll-ups, so I folded them up. I jarred up everything & froze it all to combat mold, & will use for baked edibles asap.

In the pic left-to-right is 160, 73, & 25grades. Top-to-bottom is first thru fourth runs. The lower-right jar has 73 & 25grades from the fourth run (‘wash’ run).
Everything was pretty chewy after baking except for the 3rd 160 pull & the 4th run.

There was some oil on the foil (& some baked material), so I washed that off spraying some iso & dissolving with a brush in a glass pan, then poured that into my butter-melter thing. I only used maybe a quarter-cup of iso, so I carefully boiled it off, but I could have just set it somewhere to evaporate (safer). Either way it’s there to start with tomorrow for when I make cannabutter & then some cookies or brownies.