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Bon~Fire
Trippy Trifoliating Tangie gets the bunny axe today. :(
My Tangie split was even.
4:4 popped. Two each, Male and Female
If I were to ever keep a male, it would not be in Hydro.
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Guava Berry Kush, fruity Jack, and 2L Alaskan in background,also appears a tiny white widow sprout.
I have clones of both 2Stroke Tangie females. I am trying to pump them up in order to have them ready for the next Hydro round. Everything else in the veg room has the breaks on.

The Jack, Guava, Grapefruit and red Tangie will all stagger into flower beginning the first week of December. For kicks, I am going to try to harvest all at once. I am trying to draw up a schedule counting down to July 1st - shut down day. There are less than three cycles of 70 days left until shutdown. I may run fast finishers, for the last round.
I have settled in on a scheme splitting the flower room three ways, into Hydro buckets, a half dozen (5 gallon) specimen plants, and the 4 x 6 Splash table.
I tailor my nutrients weekly in flower, so syncing them up will be a huge time saver.

The splash table shares water with the hydro system . I can time the looting of specimen plant clones, until I can fill the table. Reset both @ same time
One res for hydro and table, and another base solution for specimen plants.

Using some crude math, I figure I need to flower out at least four square metres of Tangie @ 500 grm per M , to last me until next Croptober.
I will only be harvesting 9 square Meters before shutdown, so in order to hit my target I need not only to be at the top of my game, I will also need the luck of a terrorist, and half of my garden dedicated to Tangy @ all times.

So be it.
 

Jewels

Bon~Fire
Squat #1 2 weeks flower.
This one hooked right in.
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Squat #2
Way more stretch, huge internode spacing, old skool sativa look. It is not in direct light and still sitting in wet feet. Squat #1 is going to catch it.
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All my best clones were male !
This female is farthest ahead.

Squat ( by the skin of her teeth) #2
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I am not looking to cube a line here, speaking strictly from a production perspective:
can I mother one of these clones?
Or am I best to mother from seed ?
 

yougrowyourway

illgrowmyway
Epsom salts.
It is an illusion of perspective.
Dude ! Keep it down !
Aaarg ! I was supposed to crop that out !

I am afraid everyone will drop out of the 2L challenge, if they find out I am flowering in quarts. 😘
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I love quarts for dirt! At what height do you flip. Im debating flipping in quarts. I see I may have some competition from you in the comp. I'm letting everyone get a nice headstart. Either I'll shit on everyone or look like an ass. Hopefully I avoid the latter lol.
I am not looking to cube a line here, speaking strictly from a production perspective:
can I mother one of these clones?
Or am I best to mother from seed ?
I'm mothering clones. No choice on a few of my strains. I would've preferred to do seed. They say clones eventually lose their "must" but I don't know. I ran my blueberry four runs clones of clones and they all seemed fine but they were talking years for that to happen. So a clone should be fine if it's off the seed mother. I wonder how many clones my Mac is.
 

Jewels

Bon~Fire
Hey, Thanks, for stopping by !
At what height do you flip
That totally made it sound like I know what I am doing !
When I completed insulating the room, I was able to flip the hydro, that had been vegging in there. It is a big room so,,,If it had roots ,,, I just threw every clone in at the same time.
I did a final top-prune in flower, to form up an even canopy. Everything was topped twice and I had reduced them down to three or four internodes,,, prob between 12 - 16 inch.
This photo is a week into flip.
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And this week end.
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I did my first grow in 5 gallon buckets. I did my second grow in Hydro.
Third time around, I mixed it all up. I now have 1/2, and full pound coffee bags, chocolate chips, M&M's. I got 4L ice cream buckets and when I ran out of containers, I started building rootball-sacks out of burlap.
So 1L @ the small end. I think the Epsom bags are around 2.5 L. I have a few fabric pots around 3 gallons. Kept a couple in the original 5gals. Just getting a feel for how it all plays out.

My first grow was three plants in a 5x5. I thought the biggest plant meant the most buds.
I soon discovered my veg's were longer than other growers, and they were yielding, over-all, more weight.
I couldn't possibly grow bigger plants so, monkey see - monkey do.
Now if I look down onto the canopy, and can see bare floor, I figure there is room for just one more,,,
 

Jewels

Bon~Fire
I have had these random 'Zilla's go 11 weeks.
Hydro'Zilla under HPS is still hairy and white.
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Coco Zilla under MH is hardening off and sucking them in @ 7 weeks ! Most gg4 leaning Zilla I have ever seen. I hope that ape brings some potency to the party.
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Hairy gal Skeleton
-42 days.
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December hath arrived, starting to get antsy.
I have a green advent calendar built here.
I got the 12 plants of Xmas coming down before the fatman shows up.
Beats cheap chocolate !

4x8
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The saplings are ready to burst the 5x5 veg room.
Lever action reset, and a full tube under the barrel, I am ready.
This is all coming down before Christmas.
B'real orchard gets, Berries, Guava, 2strokeTangie, Grapefruit, and Red Tangie up next.

Another shipment of fruit is popping in January. Beans on hand for :

-Mango Diesel
-CBD Mango
-Romulan Grapefruit
-Romulan Blueberry
-Lemon Haze

Eyes on the horizon for one more, and that is Ultra/Confidential.
 

Jewels

Bon~Fire
BONECRACKER !
Zombie, post mortem, come from behind, back attacker.
Devil rock disco
UNFREAKOUT -BELIEVABLE

FML
This MuthaF'r will not go away !
Zero for Nine

Northern lights x Sourlarry , I hate your guts.
Thanks for the sausage party.
I planted you twice for my first two runs, and because of you, I never tasted my own bud, until after 6 months of fulltime growing.
You nearly ruined me for growing.

I gave you one last chance - and you blew it.
You are beautiful and I hate you.
Good riddance.
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Is it serendipitously possible to get a male clone from a female plant ?

Or did I mislable something ?

I put all these skinner clones into flower last week and luckily I managed to spot this dude. There are no feborne pistils or preflowers on this clone.
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I did have one Northern light X SourLarry come up male in early Sept. This could be a snip from that.
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Twice devoured.
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This only ends one way.
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Is it possible to get a male clone from a (now) proven female plant?
I smoked that whole dog. I turned over the jar and tapped out the dregs of shake and crystally goodness. Took me a minute or two of staring, until I finally could comprehend what I was looking at.

Tossers.
Frick'n Chuckers
Look what you have done to me.
- "Now I am the one with no soul,
One above and one below"
I didn't think my first time would be like this.

That Sneaky Pete-
Larry the Purple Polar Gorrilla
[(Smurfberry x gg4) x Sour Larry) x Northern Lights]

⬆ Did I format Correctly ? ⬆

Today, I am a Chucker.
Only my weed goes thru that grinder. It is too sticky ; wife doesn't use it.
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I built those bitches. On accident.
That original Northern Light's batch has been doggin my ass for 2 years. Never a female to be had. I had written this off as untastable long ago. It was the one that got away. Kind'a of funny that it chose to make babies with the stolen plant, that I had named Dog.
It came to me from the outdoors, badly chewed by a curious Rotty.
Arrival day
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It responded very well. If I had known much about the anatomy of cannabis, I would have recognized how readily branchy this plant becomes.
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This is fate. That sneaky little clone hit a kidnapped fugitive.
2 seeds ? Off the whole plant ?
Maybe not so good for a first go, but one of them actually looks like it would germinate.

Not exactly the first pairing that I would have chose for a breeding project. Although there may be a silver lining. Although I did not consider the cross it may turn out to be something. I do have an advantage , in that, I have grown out both of these plants- more than a dozen specimens each now.
Here is what I can tell you
Every smurfzilla sour Larry combination I have ever tried has grown to be the most massive of plants. It will push fans larger than my hands all day long. My record so far is 8 oz off one plant and I think I am nearly lined up to double that with my current grow. I was spoiled when I began to grow because this is all I had experience with. I thought growing all plants was this easy. This will tolerate huge ranges in Hydro. I have drowned them out, I have starved them I have hit them with outrageously high feeds.

One thing I can tell you about that dog's breath is that it will branch and branch and Bud and Bud all day long. It does not need to be pruned. It splits itself into a riotous canopy, inch by inch -every time.
There are four of them in this photo.
2 White tags, "dog" @ 35 days appear top
Lower right is two more, once topped, crazy budsets.
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That Pappa is sooo dripping with Mercyene, masses like hell; but can go 10 plus weeks.
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Jewels

Bon~Fire
These ladies are stink'nup the house.
I am darking them tonight. My hydro reset is the 15th, so this will time well.
Gonna be stuffy in there for a couple weeks !

All @ 42 days above ground.
Guava Berry Kush w/clone
Guava (Chemdog x Afghani x Chem # 91) elite clone with our best Juanita La Lagrimosa mother plant.
Citrus/Berry Flav. 18% THC 11% CBD
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Fruity Jack w/clone
( Respect #13 x Jack the Ripper)
Canalope Haze- 19%THC 11% CBD
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Red Mandarin F1
Fast Tangie
Low centre of gravity on this one.
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Grapefruit Diesel
Snorkel intake on burlap ball
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They are all going to donate another cloneor two, and then get this party started.

Parting shot
Another monster 'Zilla clone in the back. Thirsty, hungry, ready to rock.
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This will never stop:)
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Jewels

Bon~Fire
Wrapping up week 6. You know what that means.

46and2


I choose to live and to
Grow,
Do what it takes to move through.
Do what it takes to step through.
See my shadow changing,
Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor.
Hoping I can clear the way
By stepping through my shadow,
Coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow.
Forty six and two are just ahead of me


I managed to take a pile of clones from all the saplings. However, I left the tardy bunch in the veg room. They are past ready to go,,, still I hesitate.

I sat for hours in my flower room ( which I often do ) I was fondling leaves, turning pots, mixing potions, dusting and cleaning.
I just wasn't feeling it.
By the time I left the room, I was convinced I should not put more plants in there- right now.
Why?
Who cares.
I am a verrrrrry small cog; the universe speaks ,,,who am I to argue ?
The fact that I do not comprehend, does not mean I should ignore this compulsion.

I am content to sit and stay. The path will reveal itself to me.
Realistically, if I plan on chirping the tires into second; I am going to need a clear lane ahead. 😇

Enough of the mysticism , enjoy some 6-week buds.
MaTiVA - she will go 10
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Mini Skeleton clone
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Coco 'sparkle' Zilla
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Canuk Chz.
My goodness !
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I stare at this ugly beast and I fail to comprehend it's enormousity. I have not grown enough plants to even estimate what I am looking at here. To tell you the truth, with that Afghananopy in the back corner, I haven't even laid eyes on half of these buds.
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Note to self: time to remove some fan leaves.

I need some finishing strategies. I still have no experience with how CO2 May influence the finishing times. This thing won't die!
I have managed to pull some yellow down below, and it is working its way up. Still blasting out white hair !
Perhaps I shouldn't worry about it. I invite this thing to have as many weeks X's as it would like.
Not completely off topic,,, I have envision'd the day when those scientists doods to invent a hormone that will stop these plants from finishing. Seems like folks are so intent on inventing a fast finishing plant . ???
I say let him grow right through the ceiling !
I would love to pull off a six-month flower !!!

I was reading about lowering the water level.
Has anyone tried this tactic?

I also have started to let the pH creep up, to the higher-end, next week I will chill this thing out, and see if I can get it to purple up.
Tonight I will do-si-do the fixtures. I will move the 1kW HPS over to the splash-table side and I will put a 12k (elvin) 400W metal halide over the ripening Hydro. I am going to beat AND baby those things into the ground. Showing great restraint , I have kept the light at a semi-reasonable distance and I still have virginal lead tops on those colas.
I have read that maintaining a higher humidity leads to denser buds and longer trichomes.
I am shooting for "velco" like bag appeal :love:
My record off one plant is a few doobs short of a half pound.
Even now, just thinking about it, I start to get sweaty and my heart races.
,,,could be that, the Arabica and the Sativa has diluted my blood stream.
 

Jewels

Bon~Fire
It's spoke and I listened.
What a day I have had.
I was wondering , if the fact that my hygrometer broke a few days ago, was bothering me. I decided to put on real clothing and venture into the outside world.
I rolled up my very last bat of the sweet SaTiVA , put it in my pocket and went to take on the Big World.
Before I reached my destination I received a coded text that I immediately recognized.
I ended up hooking up with a dear friend that I have not seen since the gang broke up this spring.
She has been having a rough go,and she reached out to me.
Out of jail for less than a year now , she has taken quite ill, since July.

I took her for her daily sip at the clinic, and stop at the grocery store to buy her some coffee, bread and such.
During that time she told me an interesting story about my best nose ,Jasen, who passed away this summer. We were mutual acquaintances.
I deftly steered the conversation and filled in a few blanks that I had been curious about. She had spoken with Jason two days before he died. She told me that he was staying at the house that he was found dead at. She told me about a cash job he was working, cleaning up someone's backyard. She told me that he gave her three cigarettes and $2 -because that's all the money that he could spare until the cleaning job was done.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
For those of you that are familiar, you have my most heartfelt sympathies. For those of you who are unaware, please take some time to learn about suicide prevention.
Learn to recognize the signs.
Your friends are depending on you.

People who are suicidal aren't out looking for work. People who are suicidal have a tendency to give away ALL of their possessions People that are suicidal do not budget their money, or make plans for a sustainable future.
I am certain now that he was murdered.

After I let her vent her self out for a while we began to speak about keeping plants, and growing weed. It dawned on me in that moment that I had found a perfect spot to build some Tangie pollen.
I believe, that if she can find something very fulfilling in her life, that she will also be making plans for the future.
 

Punisher84

Just some asshole
It's spoke and I listened.
What a day I have had.
I was wondering , if the fact that my hygrometer broke a few days ago, was bothering me. I decided to put on real clothing and venture into the outside world.
I rolled up my very last bat of the sweet SaTiVA , put it in my pocket and went to take on the Big World.
Before I reached my destination I received a coded text that I immediately recognized.
I ended up hooking up with a dear friend that I have not seen since the gang broke up this spring.
She has been having a rough go,and she reached out to me.
Out of jail for less than a year now , she has taken quite ill, since July.

I took her for her daily sip at the clinic, and stop at the grocery store to buy her some coffee, bread and such.
During that time she told me an interesting story about my best nose ,Jasen, who passed away this summer. We were mutual acquaintances.
I deftly steered the conversation and filled in a few blanks that I had been curious about. She had spoken with Jason two days before he died. She told me that he was staying at the house that he was found dead at. She told me about a cash job he was working, cleaning up someone's backyard. She told me that he gave her three cigarettes and $2 -because that's all the money that he could spare until the cleaning job was done.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
For those of you that are familiar, you have my most heartfelt sympathies. For those of you who are unaware, please take some time to learn about suicide prevention.
Learn to recognize the signs.
Your friends are depending on you.

People who are suicidal aren't out looking for work. People who are suicidal have a tendency to give away ALL of their possessions People that are suicidal do not budget their money, or make plans for a sustainable future.
I am certain now that he was murdered.

After I let her vent her self out for a while we began to speak about keeping plants, and growing weed. It dawned on me in that moment that I had found a perfect spot to build some Tangie pollen.
I believe, that if she can find something very fulfilling in her life, that she will also be making plans for the future.
Suicide blows. I’ve lost a number of friends that I served with to it, kid I grew up with, his mom, quite a number of people that I know now that I think of it.

Must have purpose in life. If not you’re gonna be lost.
 

Jewels

Bon~Fire
I was doing chores this morning and trimming off some of those larger fan leaves. I was fortunate enough to spot some trouble. There are aphids trying to move into the garden.
Buggers.
I have less than 2 weeks left on 70% of the room.
Apprehensive of contaminating a nearly finished crop rather than Treating, I opted for mechanical removal.
Buggers.

Ma-TiVA - got a handfull of these.
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Bummer she is still 2 weeks out.
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Dogsbreath -got a few of these.
Due on the 19th
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Branchy and Petite
Some people are into this.
Me, not so much.
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No One Is Safe.
Skeleton cookie clone -not due for 2-3 weeks.
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I decided not to poes around ; if I'm going to cut them I might as well F'n cut them.
If I could see a piatole - it was gone.
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The aphids are not that mobile I decided if I could peninsulate the buds, I will do ok.

The other 30% of the room was flipped a couple of weeks ago, it really took the brunt of it. I started spraying a fresh bottle of Permethrin (sp?) and didn't stop until the bottle was empty.
Luckily I Sulfre'd those going into flower. Perhaps it would be wise to do them again. If those aphids took hold, I guess P.M. is in the mail.

I am not looking forward to defoliating the hydro tonight. Not only do I find it pleasing pleasingly pretty , it is also a 16 solid square foot corner of plumbing, and it's going to be a real b**** .
 

Jewels

Bon~Fire
.redruM emos diD
Can't say I ever f***** up a plant so bad.
Can't say I ever culled a plant in the 7th week of flower.
Can't say I've ever seen anything this ugly
in my garden, or yours.

That was yesterday. And, we all know -yesterday, love was an easy game to play.

This poor Skeleton was plagued all along.
I think she was aphid 'patient zero'.
She had a habit of burning up cola fans(only), started at the bottom and just worked on up.
Roots were azz - always.
I culled it down to one branch - probly 80% of the entire plant, a couple weeks ago. The dinky roots could not support the canopy. She turned around, and did start packing on the bud. I realized however, it will never catch up nor ever amount to anything. It was taking up a lot of space and I gots s*** to do.

.redruM
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Hide the body
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We will just forget that ever happened.

I vegged that plant for so long, I was actually able to put it's clones into flower at the same time.
I put in three or four on this first Skel run, and I have three more in the same room on their 3rd week of flower.
All the skeleton clones are kicking the butt, and I will have a fine lode of those to last me, until Jan 25th, when gen. #2 comes down.
Day 52
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