Thread to document seed to harvest. I have a 3x3 tent used mostly for veg but once a year I close all tents for 2 week walls to ceiling cleanup. It has full environmental controls with tent heater, humidifier and controller. It has 210 watts in 3 panels and can flower a pair of plants when needed.
I have a 4x4 which is the main flower tent. 700 watts available in 3 panels. Full environmental controls and app control.
Both tents are vented outside the room with semi rigid duct work. The basement has low humidity for the most part around 45% but after a rain was a struggle to stay around 45% until purchase of 80 pints per day in dedicated dehumidifiers that are used less than 6 weeks a run.
3rd tent is the one that started it all. A 31x31x63 that is used for drying. It has reporting and recording apps for temp and humidity and a 5 liter app run humidifier.
Drying tent is outside of the grow room and stays year round between 68 and 63 degrees and low humidity.
Will start with system as set right now.
The veg tent has 5 Blackberry Moonrocks and 2 White Widow that will be up potted to 3 gallon pots. I grow only in 3 gallon and I have a different way to train my plants.
I have back problems and this forces me to remove the plants
From the tent to maintain them. I thought a 3 door was gunna help but vending over enough to train a plant just not gunna happen. Due to this I train my plants with bending the main stem down after culling the dominant fan leaf. This produces internodal sprouts that I train in a bowl configuration. I pull and pull outwards but leave the bowl open to light. Once I have my perimeter set I allow the plants to turn up and the outside perimeter as the internode sprouts climb the bowl.
This will normally give me 8-14 long bud runs and about 12 internodal runs that will average about 2-3 inches of growth for most but the first 4 internodals normally deliver a long run.
This gives me presentations like this.
Of course these plants have a mind of there own. Currently I have 2 White widows that spent most of this run under lights not even close to each other. Even with 16k more light during stretch this girl would not stop reaching.
I roll with it. It is why I have apps and multiple panels to stop a runaway while not compromising a plant that behaves. Here is a short fat and a long tall both happy. The tall one was never going to fill in all the way. I am just pleased I did not have to supercrop the damn thing
Due to the way I train and pot size I do not get huge harvests. I expect 4 ounces of good pot per plant using a 2 week seedling 3 week veg and 8-9 weeks flower. Plan is to harvest every 10 weeks constantly until the 2 week break.
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Up pot done.
Lowered floor to 7 8 inches up so I have same hight and do not have to move lights.
I am using a none woven paper pots inside a nursery pot. I do not disturb the roots as the pot gets put into the dirt once removed from the nursery pot
Already had 6 out of 7 break out of the paper and follow the water down the sides of the paper.
Everybody looking good.
Removed the ACI heat box for ACI to look at. Moved humidifier to side and placed larger condensate container.
Now let’s see if this at least reduces transplant shock.
4 pots including both white widows are in 50-50 happy and ocean.
3 pots are straight ocean Forest and all had 2 cups perlite added.
Minimum 3 weeks in here then the BKMR (Black Berry Moon Rocks) get moved to flower tent and the 3x3 will flower the widows.
Will use Dr Earth Organic dry with the root stimulant magic fairy dust and the 1 1 1 anytime at the high feed rate with changes based on a nitrogen overload my first run with these nutes actually following a schedule. I also have fish shit for quick actions on N issues. Cal-mag, jacks, stickys, neem, all on hand.
Ph checking ( the pour nutes hammer it down to 4 ) is an Apera 60 with GH up and down.
Water source RO from filter and 32 gallon ace hardware can. I do amend with cal-mag at 3ml per gal rate when lights hit 75% of max expected rate which is normally just after the stretch and puffballs have appeared.
Sadly that did not work with the Gelato x Girl scout cookie freebee that Blimburg sent me. Went to 5ml recent from a calcium fade.
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I built a stand and elevated the tents so I’m not forced to bend way over.
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My original 31 got a used table from goodwill put it right at working hight.
Did not help. Just leaning forward for long…
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It’s gunna be a 2 brownie 1/4 gram hashish and lemon cherry gelato aplenty today.
Been experimenting with rolling out kief and well sheet it worked.
Now sure not everyone has an 8 lb ingot of Zinc but I have heard a pickle jar full of water works fine
Biggest key was the double stack of cookie sheets at 195 to not suck the heat from the roller like my first attempt. Bro and I did 4 grams of 57% hoppy THC kief from the dispensary. It melted just fine and we let cool and then razor blades off the parchment paper. By the 3rd roll it was staying together very well and by roll 7 it would curl in on its self and leave you with a roll with no lost material.
8th roll to catch anything loose on the paper and then finish with body heat in hand
I have been dropping crumbs of this stuff on a joint hotbox and just digging the 1984 vibes from having hashish again.
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It works. I use a Crock pot water bath to keep rotation of warm jars for rolling out.
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That is a nice chunk of hash 
. I used a wine bottle with hot water and used a turkey bag to roll the hash in. It was my first attempt at making quality hash and I am very happy with the results. I then used the bubble hash to make some Temple Balls. I made 4 of them, every 3 months one will be smoked, if I can keep my hands off them 
. I will be using more of my grow to making hash. I love smoking it.
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Where is the drooling emoji…
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Watered both BBMR mainlines and the front widow.
Hate the open tent finish but with 2 humidifiers and my heat box all defects I do what I can.
Veg tent is stable 78-82 day .9 VPD 72 1.1 VPD at night.
Watered all veg tent pots.
Max light at 16k with lagger at 14k
This plant 10% amber blush all cloudy
She is second 2 weeks prolly fade to yellow slowing still green buds.
Mainline alley.
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Gnants.
2 random on different pots.
The happy frog has been in service 12 days with no signs.
The Ocean Forest was opened and used 2 days ago.
Nematodes on the way. All veg tent pots covered in sticky traps and I have redone the blue glowing traps that really work well.
Hate bugs.
Well except ocean bugs like shrimp and lobster and crab and…
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Drying tent live and already close.
Will give it 24 hours. Tomorrow should be the watering point unless she slowed even more. Trying to hang it dry.
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Veg tent popping and building.
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Tall Widow cut down for drying
New tent configuration.
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A hearty harvest hooray for you @Pothead64
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One of the widows looks to be a stretchy girl. Gunna put hereon a riser to slower her stem building.
17k lux still stretching
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Water the veg tent. 17k to 15k lux.
Watered short widow. 52k
Mainlines close. 52 to 47k
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The other widow caught up to the tall Widow so no risers right now.
After 5 days no slowdown in growth from the up pot to 3 gallon containers.
I am a big fan of these unwoven paper pots that fit right in a standard 4x4x6 nursery pot. The roots cut right through the paper so you just make a hole and drop the paper pot and plant in the hole.
No pause in growing. Bet this would really help auto growers.
I went from spray bottle in seedling pots to 1/2 liter every 2 days with no stall.
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Update
Short widow looking to finish strong.
Rear BKMR looking pretty good at this point.
Even the Gelato cross is pumping out lumpys.
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