Badddoin’s Debacle

[Badddoin]

Got everything cleaned up pretty good. I got tired of doing nothing. Got 7 sprouts out of 8 seeds. The other one might decide to sprout yet we’ll see. These are GG4 from ILGM. I grew some on my first grow, and the smokers liked them. Plus I had the seeds already.


One week from dry seed.

 

[Badddoin]

The straggler decided to come along for the ride. They’re in Canna Coco. Getting GH veg juice at about .6EC. Probably bump it up a little this week.

Two weeks from dry seed.

 

[Badddoin]

I upped the nutes to 1.0 EC this week for a few days, then up-potted them to 3 gallon cloth pots in FFOF. I’ve transplanted into 1 gallon pots in the past. I’m operating on the assumption that transplanting once is easier than transplanting twice. I hope I’m not missing something. I realize this is not a very exciting part of the grow; I’m creating a photo journal for my own benefit.

They’re under MF2000, 230W at the wall. About 12 inches from canopy at 50%. Been raising the lights one click a day.

(The one with the toothpick is the straggler).


3 weeks from dry seed.

 

[Badddoin]

They’re coming right along. Took the bottom single leaves off, raised the lights to 60%.

4 weeks from dry seed.

 

[Badddoin]

Upped the lights to 100%, topped them, and gave them a good douching of Safari to keep the bugs away. They seem to be happy.

5 weeks from dry seed.

 

[Joebud]

Upped the lights to 100%, topped them, and gave them a good douching of Safari to keep the bugs away. They seem to be happy. View attachment 124419
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5 weeks from dry seed.

They loved the douching

 

[Badddoin]

They’re picking up the pace. Gave them a good defoliation. Watering every other day with condensate from the dehumidifier.


Six weeks from dry seed.

 

[Zaphod420]

They’re picking up the pace. Gave them a good defoliation. Watering every other day with condensate from the dehumidifier.
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Six weeks from dry seed.

Plants are looking good Badddoin
BRO SCIENCE ALERT
It has been my own observation that dehu water causes plants to shit the bed in dwc buckets inside of 3 weeks. It may look clean but it picks up all kinds of crap that collects on the dehu's coils. I know that soil acts like a buffer but feeding it on the regular with heavy metal bacteria/mold laden water has the potential of causing something bad to build up and cause that buffer to fail.

 

[twobitbob]

I remember reading something about heavy metals in Dehumidifier water too

 

[treefarmercharlie]

Plants are looking good Badddoin
BRO SCIENCE ALERT
It has been my own observation that dehu water causes plants to shit the bed in dwc buckets inside of 3 weeks. It may look clean but it picks up all kinds of crap that collects on the dehu's coils. I know that soil acts like a buffer but feeding it on the regular with heavy metal bacteria/mold laden water has the potential of causing something bad to build up and cause that buffer to fail.

It's not bro science. What is bro science is when people say that dehumidifier water = distilled water. When a dehumidifier pulls water moisture from the air, is also grabs everything that is in that moisture, including contaminants and spores. I used dehumidifier water with my blumats for about half a grow and the amount of shit that grew in the reservoir and in the lines was absolutely disgusting. It looked like somebody peeled off a bunch of dried skin and let it soak in the reservoir.

 

[Badddoin]

I really appreciate your input. It may not be bro science, but I’ve yet to find a single article amongst the innerweb experts that casts any shade on the idea of watering plants with condensate water.
I’ve got these things growing in a bucket full of decomposing wood chips, bat shit, fish waste, worm poop. The sterility ship has sailed. That’s exactly why I changed to dirt.

 

[Badddoin]

Well they’ve outgrown the dehumidifier water. They’re drinking every day now. I’ve had to supplement with rotten eggs well water. They all got a serious haircut down under. One of them got her own castle. She descends from royalty and will be getting the colloidal silver treatment. I grabbed a few cuts, and am hoping to get some free seeds from one of them. I’ll probably put them in the flower tent next week and start paying those high-dollar electric bills.
Seven weeks from dry seed.

 

[Nobighurry]

Plants are looking good Badddoin
BRO SCIENCE ALERT
It has been my own observation that dehu water causes plants to shit the bed in dwc buckets inside of 3 weeks. It may look clean but it picks up all kinds of crap that collects on the dehu's coils. I know that soil acts like a buffer but feeding it on the regular with heavy metal bacteria/mold laden water has the potential of causing something bad to build up and cause that buffer to fail.

I'll toss my 2cents I tried utilizing my dehu water in coco thought it was a good idea since I pack water but no grow stayed healthy they all develop what looked like mag issues then spiraled downhill

 

[Badddoin]

Everyone went in the flower tent this morning. The lights are a little too high right now. I’ll likely start them on some veg nutes for the first couple of weeks, trying to get a decent stretch.



Day one of flower.

 

[Badddoin]

There’s no sign of balls yet on the plant I’m trying to reverse. I switched it to 12/12 two weeks ago, and started spraying it about 4 days before that.

I have a sneaky suspicion that my CS isn’t strong enough. It had a good laser through the water after only 2 hours. I let it go another 1/2 hr., but I think I recall it taking longer. Nothing to do now but stay the course and keep spraying, I reckon.

 

[Badddoin]

The plants are all happy. Doing a fair amount of defoliating. The one that’s circled (well, sort of circled) has had noticeably longer and thinner leaves than the others since day one. And she’s racing for the lights. Had to super-crop her three times already. It’ll be interesting to watch her finish, and see if my testers think she has any noticeable Sativa effects.

Day 8 of flower.

 

[H.A.F.]

I have a sneaky suspicion that my CS isn’t strong enough. It had a good laser through the water after only 2 hours. I let it go another 1/2 hr., but I think I recall it taking longer. Nothing to do now but stay the course and keep spraying, I reckon.

I have never reversed anything so take this with a grain of salt - would just pouring it into a shallow dish and letting it evaporate some water off be a viable way to up the concentration between sprays? Or would it go bad? No clue but something to consider or ask someone that knows.

 

[Badddoin]

On the reverse plant, the pistils are turning dark. I think she’ll show some sacks soon. What I KNOW is that I’m done spraying her.
The rest of the girls seem happy.

Day 15 of flower.

 

[Badddoin]

Well, we have balls now.

 

[Badddoin]

Does anyone know the timeframe for collecting pollen? I’d like to pollinate one ( or perhaps two) of these small clones, and I wonder when I should flip them. I’m thinking it’s best to pollinate in week 3 of flower.