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Chevy's blumatized organic soil LED mini grow

Antoine Mack

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I love the tiny moms combined with the Blumats in such small pots. Really cool.
Are those the normal sized Blumats or the Bonsai version?

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Chevy cHaze

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Yeah lack of space means you have to get creative hahaha
They're regular tropf blumats. Feels terrible to jam them in there but after a day the plants seem to have forgotten each time.
I only grow for myself these days and I thought it would be terrible if space restrictions killed my wish to keep some moms of plants I have smoked and liked.

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Antoine Mack

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I see.

So you have the moms growing in their pots for a while already before you put the Blumats in?


Having a variety of genetics you like as moms is definitely a good thing.


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Chevy cHaze

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I see.

So you have the moms growing in their pots for a while already before you put the Blumats in?


Having a variety of genetics you like as moms is definitely a good thing.


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No I put them in when I planted the rooted clones in these little pots. You can also add them later, you will tear a few roots but they'll be fine.
 

Chevy cHaze

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Here's a pic of my exhaust fan/ carbon scrubber combo.
I've changed the installation from being inside the flower chamber and the fan pulling through the scrubber and blowing out to the fan sucking the air outside the smaller veg chamber, blowing through the scrubber.
This may be a bit unorthodox, but it doesn't make sense to pull bone dry air through the veg/ seedling chambers into the flower chamber when you can go the other way around, thereby giving the flowring plants dry air and pulling that same air which takes up moisture from the flower chamber and then goes through the veg chambers.
The path of the air is:
In through the top of the flower chamber (there is of course a light trap) - on to the veg and seedling chamber (through one vent port each- out the bottom of the veg chamber
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My little lodge 100 tent sits on a wooden board and wheels so I can move it around to wherever it's not in the way.
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Chevy cHaze

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A few more bits about my set up...
You've seen my scrubber fan combo now here's my reservoir it sits atop the tent. It holds about 30l/8gal
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Here's the whole thing
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And here's the water split to veg and flower behind the res.
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Oh yes and not to forget here's a thai x panama which will be harvested by the time you read this
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took around 80 days and maybe could have gone longer but I got amber trichs so decided to harvest
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Chevy cHaze

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Smoke report for Panama Haze and Thai x Panama re coming!
I've grown and smoked both before (remember I'm keeping moms of both) but, in hindsight, made a few mistakes or could have done better so hopefully this time it'll be right.
I recall that both strains were not racy or paranoid but rather mentally clear and calming while at the same time pretty energetic. Sleeping was not an option with both hahaha.
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Have smoked the Panama Haze now but it needs a bit of a cure first. The high ist still a bit "confused"as I've found with many sativas which are still very fresh/ shortly after harvest.
The little cut of my Kendal Green was showing roots yesterday, that's 12 days. Not bad for my cloning style, which isn't anything at all hahaha-
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Straight into Allmix and I've prepared the hole with great white.
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Kendal Green is a cross between a Qleaner male and an F13 lady. It has more flavor than F13 while it retains the blissful F13 high. Very social and active weed with no ceiling.


Here's the "tech" in my tiny veg compartment.
Four Philips SILs (13w/1520lm each) some computer fans blowing air around and a hygrometer strapped to a pole.
Once a SIL grower always a SIL grower:cool:
They are still the cheapest and almost best way to sufficiently light a small area. Also, they never break, these here I've had for years and they're still going.
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Chevy cHaze

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Finally harvested the thai x panama.
I've found a really nice setting to dry my plants at rh60% at cold temps, but since my plants are never full-size (because of the lack of space) they never take the 12-14days commercial growers mostly state for their drying time. I find mine are at 60% after 7-8 days
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Once they have reached around 60% and they can't add enough humidity into to the drying tent to kick off the hygrometer that controls the exhaust fan, I put them in a box until the rh fully stabilises.
I do this as a sort of extended drying...to slow the process down as much as possible.
Once the rh is stable the buds are trimmed and go into jars with hygrometers in them to check on rh.
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Here's a quick update from me...
Been growing some California Indica from Sensi. Didn't have time to do a grow report, but here they are at chop.
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The one on the right is a bit more branchy but overall quite uniform, especially in the smells dept.
A lot the big fanleaves were yellowed out and are gone by now.

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This is day 54 of flower btw.
Aromas are fruity, zesty, with hash tones.
This was a weird grow as I was battling the stupid aphids from the last round once again. They must have survived in the original soil amendments used in both grows.
I used GreenHouse bio feed, which I found easy to use but do you think maybe I used too much? looking at the leaves they look almost burnt but the big fan leaves are all dropped already. Maybe it's the aphids that made the plants do weird stuff, I have a feeling this is not the full potential.
The root aphids are now under control after two grows and countless measures against them. Used Beauvaria Bassiana fungus spores in the end and no flyers for now.
Anyways, I'm breaking everything down as this is just my drying tent normally and breaking out the Secret Jardin Lodge again.
New pots new soil etc of course...and then more recently acquired equipment to control VPD, a new light new fans and a fogger (30%rh here in winter).
New seeds will be popped as well!
See you soon
 

AceHaze

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Looking good despite the circumstances, she looks like she starved a bit, but can totally be caused by the aphids, if they chew too much on the roots...still looks like a nice harvest is about to come for Christmas!
 

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Exactly that's what I was hoping for. A nice, chill indica for the festivities!
When I start the next round it will be without those fuckers, end even if I do get them again (very unlikely as I'm exchanging virtually all equipment) I now have something that keeps them at bay. Was just a little late for this round, hence they look a bit bruised and battered.

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brickweeder

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Finally harvested the thai x panama.
I've found a really nice setting to dry my plants at rh60% at cold temps, but since my plants are never full-size (because of the lack of space) they never take the 12-14days commercial growers mostly state for their drying time. I find mine are at 60% after 7-8 days
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Once they have reached around 60% and they can't add enough humidity into to the drying tent to kick off the hygrometer that controls the exhaust fan, I put them in a box until the rh fully stabilises.
I do this as a sort of extended drying...to slow the process down as much as possible.
Once the rh is stable the buds are trimmed and go into jars with hygrometers in them to check on rh.
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sure is some tasty looking weed...
 

Chevy cHaze

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Thanks Brickweeder!
Lastly a sign of life from me
I've now gathered all the gear for the next run and by gear I mean the seeds as well as mostly new equipment!
This time I'll be trying to automate as much as possible. Not just the watering using Blumats but also temp, airflow, rh and of course VPD.
To do this and to try out the amazing new stuff that's available today I have gone with AC Infinity stuff (light, fan, oscillating fan and humidifier )and all of it is connected and communicates with a digital controller to keep parameters stable.
I have bought all of this shit myself so nothing sponsored or supported here whatsoever.
If the stuff works I'll give them credit, if not I'll publicly tear it apart I'm afraid.
They seem to be focusing a lot on marketing and lots of fancy words, let's see if the products can match that.
I will be using
  • Secret Jardin Lodge 100 (that's my old one!)
  • AC Inf s22 ion board light 115w
  • AC Inf cloudline pro T4 100mm fan (348m3/h)
  • AC Inf refillable 100mm carbon scrubber (357m3/h)
  • AC Inf controller 69 pro
  • AC inf cloudforge T3 humidifier (4,5L res)
  • AC Inf cloudline oscillating fan
  • 2x Caluma 3000k 18w led tubes( side lighting in bloom chamber)
  • 2x Caluma 5000k 18w led tubes ( veg compartment)
  • Sunblaster 20w tube (Mums/ Seedling compartment)
  • 4x 25L/ 5gal smartpots
  • BioBizz Lightmix
  • Dr Forest nutes (Veg, Bloom, Micros& GrowKashi)
  • Blumats all the way with a 20L res sitting on top of the tent
Here, I took some pictures for you:
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Here are some more pics of the Dr Forest nutes which I quite like
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And these are the seeds I'll be popping.
I'll have 4 plants flowering in the 60cmX60cm flower compartment
  • 2x Afghan Lemon fem (Khalifa)
  • 1x Aladdin's Skunk fem (freebie from Khalifa)
  • 1x Oaxaca X A5 Haze (ACE)
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Putting the seeds in water tonight and will set up the tent and all over the next days!
Wooohoooo
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Chevy cHaze

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Hey mate,

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How about a smoke report!? :)
Ay caramba you are absolutely right Sir!
The ThaiX Panama I harvested ist very strange smoke. First of all it's a real creeper, you will not feel much for the first 5-10 minutes after smoking, I am not kidding you it really takes a looong time to feel something. Then it starts building like taking drugs orally and it's straight rocket fuel for a short while and then a devastating body& mind stone that's incapacitating. The up part is almost unsettling, like you've smoked too much. Well maybe that's the creeper high... not sure... I tend to smoke and smoke and then BAM I'm so high it's borderline trippy. The stoned phase is also too much, I man not able to function when I've smoked on it.
The taste is francincense and floral for lack of a better description. It smokes smoothly but the up and down rollercoaster mon dieu. Maybe I let it go too long and that's why the extreme stone ruins you at the end...majority of trichs was amber when I harvested as far as I can recall..
It's pretty wild smoke I have to say and not for everyday, at least not for me.
It's jarred now and I thought maybe a good 2 year cure will take the tension out hahaha.
I have almost finished the big jar of Panama Haze in the meantime but only dared a few sessions with the Thai X Panama!
 
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