Alien Rift & GG4 in RDWC under PLC LED...

[negative37dBA]

Thanks for the nice comments Terraplanisman and unnamedmike. I was very impressed with that bud considering how low it was. The Glue is pretty incredible as far as trich coverage. Some of the buds nearer the top are putting on some great colors. Purple on the calyx covered in now turning white trichs looks awesome. I love the Glue and its gassy smell and great stone. Best strain to date I have ever grown. My first time trying the Alien Rift and I got to grow it so that will be cool. Hope it is good.
Will be getting ready for a rez change out with just Final Phase from Advanced for the finish. I will run that for about 4-5 days then change out to pure R/O till the end. Probably have to change that R/O water out once to keep the PPM's real low and get a nice flush.
I am so impressed with this PLC LED light that I built. I was nervous changing over to LED. Had been growing with HID for about 10 years so I knew how they worked well. I also had some great grows under them. I am super happy I did though and will not go back.
Have a great day all!! Peace, negative.

 

[negative37dBA]

Hi guys. A couple questions on a rez set up for my new Current Culture system. So I want to use a top off rez for this system. The question I have is I do not have the ability to chill the rez and it has to sit higher up in the room for gravity flow and room considerations. Its going to heat up quite a bit(mid 70's) and I have a feeling that's going to be a problem....suggestions?? Will it be ok as the chiller will take care of it as it slowly enters the system? Will I build up some bad crap in the warmer rez water?
Appreciate any input.Thanks and have a great day. Peace, negative.

 

[negative37dBA]

Hi all. Here is a close up of the GG4 on day 53. This is one of the upper buds. Getting some real nice frost build up. We are getting close to the end and the smells are strong. I have put a Can 9000 carbon filter to just scrub the air to help the other Can 33 filter. Have a 4" Can Fan on a speedster set on low and I just set it on the floor.

Alien Rift at day 53. From seed. First time growing any ones seeds other than mine. Ocean Grown Genetics.

Getting all my trim stuff ready right now. These should come down around day 64-65.
Hope you all have a great day. It is getting so nice here where I am at. Going to be out kicking it in the yard with my hounds and a cold beer!
Peace, negative.

 

[negative37dBA]

Hi all. Here is a shot of that seed I found in the Sticky Gorilla 4 from Khush Kush. It is doing great. I germed in in paper towel in a plastic bag. It popped after about 2 days. I put it in a aero cloner and its blowing out roots now and on it's 2nd set of full leaves. Looking good. Be interesting to see what comes of this...I hope it is a girl. Be great to have another companies bud to see how it stacks up to the real deal I know I have. The bud is real fine smoke and looks to be legit GG4. Proof will be in the growing of it.

Been hitting a bunch of dry sift covered bowls tonight. I am feeling great and sooo looking forward to harvest day.
Have a great one. Peace, negative.

 

[negative37dBA]

Hi all. we have reached end of week 8, day 56 of flower. Woot Woot! Changed out the rez today and refilled with R/O and Final Phase from Advanced. Running at about 225 PPM/500 scale. Things are looking good on the Alien Rift plant. Getting some trichs to turn white and amber. Most of the hairs are red and not getting much more. This plant turned out OK. I have kept a cut of it so I will run it again. I can do better with it than I did this run.
The Glue looks pretty rough because all the leaves are dead/dying. The buds did not fill out quite like they should have because I kept the nutes so low on accident. Remember I was running on 700 scale not 500 all run....oops. That said the buds are reeking and looking very covered in trichs. What is there is super hard and dense. Much more so than under more old 400/600 watt HID set up.
I will run the Final Phase for a few days and then go with straight R/O till the end. My tent is busting at the seams with the next run. I have been opening it up and having a 20" box fan blowing on them all day. They have so many limbs it is going to be great. I think they can hold out for another week or so. I will take some clones today and that will open up a bit of room in there.
Here is a shot of the tent I think these have been vegging for 6 weeks. Stalks are big as my thumb and I got a big thumb.

Roots on these are so awesome. White and big. They are spreading out like a nice thick mat on the tray bottom. These are going to blow up when they go in the new Undercurrent system.
Have a great day all. Peace, negative.

 

[negative37dBA]

Hi all. Have some shots of day 58 here. Into week 9 now and flushing with Final Phase. I will run that for about 4 days then go to just R/O water till the end. Getting some nice white and amber trichs on both plants, Some really cool purple colors on the calyx and a real stink coming from the room.
Here is the Alien Rift at day 58.

Here is a just ok shot of the GG4. It does not look great because of the dead leaves but there is a lot of trich coverage.

I took some lower cuttings off the plants in the tent. I may or may not use these. They are looking super healthy.

The seed I found in the jar of Sticky Gorilla #4 is doing great. In the aero cloner and getting some nice long roots and green healthy leaves. Sure hope it is a female be nice to grow it out and see the quality of it. I have been having great luck with that aero cloner ever since I switched up my water mixture. Nearly 100% It is only a 7 site but I have only had 2 clones not root in the last 4 or 5 runs. Both were not the best to start with. Real happy with it. Simple and cheap. 5 gallon bucket with a pump and some sprayers.

Just patiently waiting for the days to pass till harvest. Got to pull some clones out of the tent still but that will help with the lack of space in there. Have been gathering up some supplies for next run. going to bring back the bloom booster(Hydroplex) and vitamins(Super thrive) into the mix. I am going to try 2 new products that I have heard great things about as well. Tribus and Mammoth P. I usually try to keep things simple but I am willing to try these 2 things to see how they do.
Hope everyone has a great day. Peace, negative.

 

[negative37dBA]

Hi all. Day 61 today and we are getting close to harvest. I pulled a couple buds to sample off the GG4. These are 30" from the lights and looking nice. Solid and greasy as heck. Really impressed with the density of these low buds...great! I got to smoke the buds I pulled off during week 6 a bit ago. Real nice hits and very smooth, no crackle even with no flush on those 6 week buds. Excited to see what the 9 week tops will be like...!!! I changed out the rez to plain R/O yesterday till the end. Had the Final Phase from Advanced in there for 4 or 5 days. Running at 30 PPM.
Here is the Alien Rift at day 61.

The GG4 at day 61. This bud was 30" from the light and very frosty. The reek of gas is real! My fav strain of all time. Have grown it probably 10 times now.

Have a great day all...looking forward to the harvest.

 

[Klompen]

Wow you have some beautiful work here. That first shot especially is just lovely I think these diaries get less traffic these days because the younger generations seem to want to do everything through their phones, but there's some great canna porn in here

 

[negative37dBA]

Great to see you pop in Klompen. Thanks for the nice comments there. It is not my best work but I made some mistakes during this run and I learned a bit more about my LED light. I have great expectations for the next run. My tent is overflowing right now with said next run. There are 5 plants in 4x2 flood and drain table. I find this method sooo easy to veg with. I have all GG4 that I will be running. One from a seed I accidentally made...lol. The other 3 are the real deal clone from Mr Whales(rip). I was lucky enough to get a clone from a medical dispensary way back when. Funny side story. I picked up 3 clones of what were labeled GG4...2 of those turned out to be something totally different. But 1 was the real deal and I have been cloning and growing the hell out of her ever since.
What type of lighting are you using? I have been so happy with this new PLC LED that I built. It is great. So much better than HID. The power savings is pretty significant and the coverage is unbeatable. I am going to settle down with a bit of dry sift and watch a botany video. I been liking this guy on you tube lately Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't hes pretty funny and goes to some cool places.
Have a great night. Peace, negative.

 

[Klompen]

Good you were able to sort out what was what among all those cuttings. There's no dispensaries or clone sources around here, but I have been working on getting a few good keepers in a perpetual setup. Pests definitely made the transition to the new setup look bad unfortunately. I had expected yield and quality to soar and the opposite happened. Now that you've given me the clue to my last remaining pest problem(russet hemp mites), I hopefully will reverse that trend. I think my Gooey 13 and your GG are cousin varieties, but I'm not certain. Gooey has some real potential but we'll see. The one I am really excited to get a good clean flower run with is Summer Breeze Trifoliate. Its the densest plant I've ever grown. The thing looks likes its in early flower when its in veg, plus it clones almost so easy you don't have to try. Its descended from Cindy 99 among other things so that is always good.

My lighting rig is a QB96 V2 Elite with a home made reflector overhead running around 85W and then I have about 40-45W of Samsung V-series strips on two sides. The strips are cheapos and I would like to put proper high efficiency strips in instead some day but they were on sale at Arrow and I'm really poor. I figure I prove the concept with these and upgrade later. So far, the results have been good. Gooey 13 was the first one that flowered with side lights the whole time and the buds from the bottom branches are basically the same quality as the tops. Its very uniform and the yield was good considering the pest issues. I definitely have to feed more aggressively with these lights though. Its amazing how much more food they need. I'm sure pests aren't helping that.

 

[negative37dBA]

Those strains sound interesting for sure Klompen. Love to see some close ups of the finished product or plants. Nice that you are running LED. Take a look at the PLC LED Photo Boost Strips. They are awesome. It is what I used to build my 660 watt light I am using now. You can customize to the size you need by how many strips you use...so flexible. I have a build thread over in LED lighting if you want to check it out. Came out sweet!
I have gotten to the end of week 9 Day 63! Things did not go perfectly but the bud is going to come out great. Should be taking these down in the next couple of days. Getting a nice whitening of the trichs and some amber. The purple colors coming out in the calyx is really cool I have not seen that before to this degree in the Glue...must be the LED spectrum. The combination of the purple and the white trichs is really sexy to me!! The Alien Rift is reeking of Ether and so sticky. Started really looking at the buds deeply and they are thick, thick and resin railing up. I have never smoked this strain so really excited about that.
Here are some shots Alien Rift from Ocean Grown at day 63.

This is the GG4 at day 63. Leaves look terrible but the bud is rocking.

The high octane gas reek off this Glue is so awesome...one reason I love it so much. I will get back to you guys when I start the chop..woot woot! Getting ready to take come cuttings today from the tent. Got to get that next set of girls cracking. These will be some of the biggest plants I have ever had in veg and they will blow up for sure once they hit the water in the new system. Looking for a quick turnaround.
I am also installing a new R/O system today. Hydrologic 75 GPD with a finishing filter and UV filter. Upping my water game baby!!
Have a great day all. Roll a fattie. Peace, negative.

 

[negative37dBA]

Hi all. Going to be adding back a couple things this next run that I have been leaving out.

Super Thrive...get some vitamins back in there.
Botanicare Hydroplex...a bloom booster..real happy with this line of nutes..been using their adds for awhile.
Tribus Original....loving those microbes
Mammoth P...more help from microbes to help with uptake of Phosphorous.
Got enough to make a full run this time and we will see what it does. Do not think any of these things will hurt me.
Dam waiting these last couple days before harvest is tough...knowing that the fire is right there waiting to be dried is killing me. Going to be patient though and give it at least one more day before I go 24 hours lights off and then chop. So probably Sunday AM I will have the chop on.
Been busy installing my new R/O system and UV filter...going very smooth.
Have a great day all. Going to crack a beer and burn a couple bowls of Wedding Cake topped with my u75 dry sift. Should be a good one.
Peace, negative.

 

[negative37dBA]

Nice sample bud of the GG4 taken at day 64 from down low on the plant. Super greasy and reeking!

Watching some old vids of medicropper on you tube. That guy is a fucking legend man. He built some awesome commercial/medical rooms and turned a op that was failing around like a boss. Hats off to him for rocking it like that. Pulled a nice big bud off the Alien Rift this am...going to do a quick dry and give her a smoke. Never had it before so looking forward to it.
Have a great day all! Peace, negative.

 

[negative37dBA]

Hi all. So busy for the next run. So much to do before I can get that tent uncrowded and start rocking that next round. First up is upping the water game. Stealth Micro75 with finishing filter from Hydrologic. In addition to that I will be running a UV filter from hydrologic as well 24/7 in the storage rez to keep all nasties away. Setting this all up today cause I am going to be busy next couple days bringing all this down and resetting the room. Have 90% of the Undercurrent system done, just need to clean out the room and set it up.
All set for harvest with my drying racks, gloves and trimmers set to go.. Extra carbon filter...check. I will say this is the best tasting pot I have grown...I don't usually taste very good but this stuff I really do. I am going to say it is because of the LED. The terps off this are more complex than times in the past with the same strains under HID.
Just a temp set up with the bucket to leak test...plumbing it into a 25 gallon rez after it passes the leak test. I kept it super simple and easy to change..no need to go overboard here.

The MicRO75 with finishing filter...should give me near 0 PPM. Was getting 20-30 out of old R/O system with no UV extra.

Heck yeah...have a good night all.
Peace, negative.

 

[negative37dBA]

All right guys. The day we have been waiting for is here...harvest baby! Real busy with all this but I thought I would pop up a couple shots.
Alien Rift, Ocean Grown Genetics, Day 66, RDWC under Pacific Light Concepts LED...660 watts.

Guys..it came out frosty as hell despite me not doing my best. So fing chunky. I have been smelling it all am and its reeking of Pineapples!! I quick dried a sample last night from a few days ago. Never heard my girl laugh like that at a show in years....nice. She enjoyed it as well as I, Cannot wait to try the big tops cured right.
Here is a low bud like a small hand grenade....and so frosty. These LED's gave me hard nug meat all the way down. Honestly...I have zero larf !!

Root shot of the GG4...full bucket.

Got to run guys. Have to say fully thrilled with the switch to LED. I have not gotten hard low buds like this ever and the flavor from the early samples is great. I will get some Glue shots up when I finish bring it down
Have a great day all...loving life!! Peace, negative.

 

[negative37dBA]

Just got done for the day...all but a few branches trimmed up and ready to go into the rack. Came out really awesome. Some of the best, if not the best Glue I have ever done and I made some mistakes. The LED just killed it here. So Happy!! I literally have ZERO larf.
Tray of GG4. This on a commercial size baking tray. So solid all the way down.

The LED penetrates way farther into the canopy than my old HID set up. I am just totally happy. They absolutely reek of high octane gas!!

Have a great night guys....peace, negative.

 

[Klompen]

Psyched for you and so jealous! That looks gorgeous. I'm going back to old overpriced brick weed till my crop comes in but we're 2 or 3 weeks in now at least. Mites are still there, but getting better. Hopefully I'll get some good fat colas like that big nugget in your hand. Beautiful stuff.

 

[negative37dBA]

Thanks for the kind words there Klompen. Here is wishing you great things on this run! I am busy rebuilding a few things in the room and getting the under current system up and rolling. I am done with harvest for now til final trim!! Traded my trim scissors for a drill and saw...lol. Have a great one! Peace, negative.

 

[negative37dBA]

Hey all. Boy have I been a busy guy. So harvested on Monday, finished on Tuesday and then reset the room to plants back in Wednesday!! That is with a full 2", 4 site undercurrent build installed!! Put in about 30 hours in the last 3 days and I am so happy. I basically have my dream set up now. A 2" Undercurrent, 4 site system under a 8 bar high end LED fixture. Just going to kill it this run. I am letting some H2o2 run through it for several hours right now then a rinse and plants in tonight! I was real happy with that turnaround time. Guess what not a single leak either....guess all those years in the trade paid off.

Such a good time building this. A system like this can go for $2500.00 bought from a store....hahahaha. I love DIY. Save $$$$$$$.
Have a great night all! Peace, negative.

 

[negative37dBA]

So yeah baby...full room of GG4 in a 2" undercurrent system under a high end PLC LED fixture...woot woot!! My tent and that flood and drain are just killing it in veg. Only going to need a bit of time to get them acclimated to this system and trellised down and I will switch to flower quickly. Have the light turned way down and up high. They came from this exact type of LED but not nearly as bright. Water is all nuted up to right at 520 and 6.0 ph. Running at 68 degrees as always with that chiller...best thing I have ever bought in growing.
Here we go with a progression as we fill it up for the very first time!! These Glues are just beasts and super healthy!

This is the one from seed.

And here we go OMG we are full and I am stoked!

Drinking a big old beer and smoking like a mad man right now. Celebrating this rebuild and quick turnaround. Just remember this room was full of buds 4 days ago...hell yes!
Just cannot say enough about how excited I am for this next run....it is going to be awesome.
Peace, negative.