Basements are the Best! wtfn strikes again

[whythefnot]

Blue string is looking strong as always

White string ain't too shabby either.

 

[whythefnot]

The last time I grew this plant was late 2013, during the crop that made these seeds. My last grow journal covered the details pretty well, and I had plenty of close-up shots once they starting looking impressive, which, for that grow, wasn't until day 42! I didn't think it was worth shooting the buds until they had some crystals on them, which speaks volumes to this crop since it's already so trichy. It was a clone-only strain but I'm really glad it produced seeds because they're turning out to be some really nice plants, even nicer than their mother...which is the point of this post.

At 5 weeks this crop looks more mature than its mother did at 6 weeks, hands down. This photo doesn't even do it justice. Those buds were still mostly pistils and were just beginning to develop trichs coming into week 6; these buds are already chunking up and have been trichy since day 21.

 

[whythefnot]

The snow finally melted enough to get out and get some lime and pH up. Black string took a pretty bad hit, and the rest of the room certainly doesn't look as good as it should, but overall, crisis averted. I hope the lime will help keep things in order. I really hope that this is the end of my pH issues with this soil. pfft.

 

[who dat is]

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[whythefnot]

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Glad to have you back. Now where is the rest of the crew?

 

[lawlrus]

Cool thread man. Looking forward to reading through it when I can actually get this site to load in less than 6 minutes per page.

 

[whythefnot]

Turns out I've been having a real bad Mg def for a while, I just had it mixed up with everything else going on. I finally, for the first time in my life and my 12+ year span of growing experience, went out and bought a bottle of cal mag. Should be a lifesaver for this crop, because things are getting really bad on some of the plants. I guess if I had to harvest right now I'd still probably pull close to a lb or more of superb quality but I'd prefer to let these last two weeks play out.

Except for the green string, they will all be ready for chop by 8 weeks. Lucky me. White string is looking like a new front-runner because of her bud to leaf ratio and the massive growth of her main cola over the last week. She's got very little area of leaf coverage so I didn't think she'd end up producing much but she looks like she's outproducing the rest of the room by a good margin, and the bud looks absolutely top notch, regardless of trich coverage on the leaves. Plus she seems to have the strongest odor. If I can squeeze a bunch of large plants like her into the room, I'm positive I'll be setting personal records for gpw and gpw/time, not to mention overall cannabinoid production levels. I've been clearing out some larfy branches that aren't getting light and won't ever chunk up and hitting them wet in the vape, and they already pack a serious knockout stone at 6 weeks. And the flavor of the live rosin completely overpowered the half-smoked bowl I put it on.They're turning out just as nice as I had hoped, or nicer.

 

[ExoticsRus]

Your journal is bumping bro! ( subbed )

Keep it up and hope for the best

 

[whythefnot]

Day 43 was yesterday. I took photos. I started my new job today so I got an early night in last night and didn't quite get to the post. On a side note, the job is absolutely incredible. I can't believe they think I wouldn't have taken less money. Oh, I would have. A lot less.

Anyway...mag def really took a toll on the room. Lesson learned, I'm a cal mag/epsom salts guy from here on out. I chopped the tiny plant (the one that hermed) tonight because it had a really tough life (I kept forgetting to water it, and I never installed the blumat because I didn't have enough fittings) and its trichs were showing basically 100% cloudy, so I took it down. I had been planning that move for over a month. It'll probably get me a quarter ounce or so, plenty enough to last until harvest, not that I need it right now.

Trich coverage is really evening out throughout the room. White string is pulling through as a very solid producer -- definitely the best bud to leaf ratio I've ever seen in person, by quite a long shot. And not just at the bud sites, across the entire plant. She's got some massive buds already and she's swelling like crazy.

Wtf am I doing? I don't have time to ramble on like this anymore, I have one of them pre-fessional career thingies now. Let's get to some pics.


Cloneses -- been in full recovery for 2 weeks now after getting a heater and humidifier installed.

Black

Purple

 

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White

Green -- it took this plant looking this much like shit for the lightbulb to go off that it might be a mag def. No turning back now, better luck next time! Probably gonna press this whole thing for rosin.

 

[whythefnot]

Harvest @ 60 days. I took photos last night . The buds are just devastatingly frosty, and I dropped the temps low enough that two or three of them displayed some navy/black on the leaves and into the calyxes a little -- really beautiful crunchy frosty nugs. I'll be sure to post those photos soon, but I have a lot on my plate. I absolutely love my new job and they love me too. My first paycheck came in and I've pinched myself red, but I'm not dreaming. I think I'm pretty secure there, which means my grows are really for personal consumption now (and what excess I sell to friends as a favor, plus the medicinal products that I plan to give away to a select few). This harvest went incredibly well for the majority of the plants despite all the problems I had, and I look forward to quite a few more now that I have my soil settled, my environment dialed in, and my chosen plant (white string stands as the winner for its yield and potency pending a smoke test, but purple and blue are contenders).

Photos of finished bud are going to be stellar -- I already took a few with my phone up next to my buddy's grower/dealer's best bud of all time -- the permafrost (edit: turns out that's a misnomer -- tastes like bubblegum and he's known for his bubblegum so it's probably some kind of bg cross) -- and it gave it a hard run for its money, and beat it according to everyone who saw the pic. I'll have proper photos of the plants' final day and the harvested nugs up really soon.

 

[Phases]

Where's the harvest update? Want to check the photos out.

 

[whythefnot]

My ex and I split up and she took the DSLR. I'm going to buy it back from her because she needs the cash and I want the camera but it'll have to wait until then. The bud is excellent!!! I haven't flipped the next round yet even though I have 12 plants and they're all already bigger than my plants from last round. I've been waiting out the pH issues. I finally bought a really nice soil pH meter that actually WORKS and I've been liming and adjusting accordingly. I finally understand what my problems was --- some of the plants' soil pH is as low as 4! The ones in Roots are on point at 6.5, but I've adjusted my res to 8.5 just to keep the others from fading to yellow. A little more lime, and a little more time and it'll be good as new. Probably going into flower in the next 3 or 4 days.

 

[Phases]

Sorry to hear about losing the gf -
Hopefully for the best. And yeah get that camera back!

I ll be keeping an eye out for your next run.
Take care bro.

 

[whythefnot]

Next run is halfway done already. Should harvest around the 10th of June. I let the plants veg so long waiting on the pH to sort itself out that they ended up hitting the ceiling, and I have 4 tops that I had to bend over because they were smashing themselves against the top of the tent. Had to slam my lights and everything else all the way up as high as I could get them.
I realized that the pH was never going to "sort itself out" so I bought a nice soil meter (my other one was a piece of crap) and I started hitting the low ones (the ones in reused FF soil that had been hit with plenty of compost tea) with pH 12 every day. I kept that up for about 2 weeks and voila, no more pH issues. The plants have been happy as pie for the last 5 or 6 weeks since that happened. I just gave them their first batch of compost tea since then because they were getting super hungry and now my pH is dropping again. So I found a solution to the problem, then I found a cause of the problem. Now I need to figure out why the compost tea is causing the pH to drop and I can call it a 'lesson learned.'
I'm making small payment installments on that camera right now and I should have it in the next couple of weeks, just in time for harvest. This is going to be a nice one.
Sorry for the lack of updates and lack of photos. I'm a one-man show now and I have a lot of responsibilities that keep me busy around the clock. My time is spent on necessities and sleeping these days, with only a few hours to spare, and I've been spending those hours with new people, and sometimes in new beds.

 

[whythefnot]

Finally got the DSLR back. Now I just need to get some time to take better shots. If you can't tell from these, this crop is going to completely obliterate last crop. These shots are at 60 days. Today makes day 66. I'll get one more round of shots just before harvest.

 

[whythefnot]

Harvest went well. 2lb 1/2oz of nug with about 1.5oz of b-buds. Buds are huge and the flavor is better than last time.

 

[whythefnot]

These are from the day after harvest. That was about 3 weeks ago. They're doing well now and I'm almost ready to flip the switch on them.

 

[noyd666]

she's a battle mate, looks the goods in jars.

 

[whythefnot]

This last round gave me a 16g nug, 5 12+gram nugs and countless 9 - 11g'ers. Beautiful crop.