Creeper is creeping again.

[Creeperpark]

I have made a lot worse mistakes growing over the past 50 years. This just proves I'm still learning from my mistakes even at 70 years old and visually impaired. Despite that the good Lord still blesses me with potient flowers for my jars and I'm sooooo grateful.

 

[Creeperpark]

Here comes reinforcements. These plants were planted on Thanksgiving day as replacements for my mistake. I removed 6 male plants and what is left is still unknown. My fingers are crossed that all these are females. These 1-gallon container plants are in Fox Farms Ocean Forest and only get rainwater. Freshly up-potted from dixie cups into 1-gallon pots today.

 

[Creeperpark]

The time has come to an end the main garden. (70 days flowering). After getting redialed in, I managed to get some decent colas and buds. Last photos before harvest. This was a stressful garden.

That's what I get for showing off and being overconfident because it came back around and bit me on my ass with negative results.

 

[Chuckeye]

That's a lot of white pistils yet, just saying.......

Cheers

 

[aCBD]

Merry Christmans and a Happy Harvest!
Despite the troubles you pulled off a decent harvest, which is great!
I know it can be demotivating when things don't go as planned but it's important to shake it off and start with new energy for the next round. New round, new luck.
As you say, it's an ongoing learning process.
Have to admit that some of my last crop got seeded because i didn't inspect the females thoroughly.
Got reminded to take more care..

 

[Creeperpark]

That's a lot of white pistils yet, just saying.......

Cheers

Do you see a lot of white pistils friend? I have been magnifying the tips of the tops and watching closely. I thought they were finished.

 

[StickyBandit]

Do you see a lot of white pistils friend? I have been magnifying the tips of the tops and watching closely. I thought they were finished.

I would be happy to harvest at this point, looks great pistils could easily be new growth, the lower part looks done to me. I know some like it more narcotic than others...
Fantastic work Creeper!

Edit: I was just reading you weigh your containers. This is what I've been doing lately with my THHz run right up until I killed the digital scales by drowning
I'm developing an automatic method for this currently

 

[Chuckeye]

Do you see a lot of white pistils friend? I have been magnifying the tips of the tops and watching closely. I thought they were finished.

We all time it differently but I do see more white pistils than I would like to see at harvest.

I go by a combination of things, the majority of pistils have turned color, not counting any foxtails. Tricombes at least cloudy and a noticeable reduction in feeding.

Last but not least they just look ready

Another week wouldn't hurt !

Cheers

 

[LJ farming]

Leaf tip necrosis is typically a sign of deficiency, not overfeeding. When we overfeed its normally an overall necrosis on leaves with no real pattern. Inner veinal necosis vs edge necrosis are tell tall patterns of specific deficiency but people call them out as nute burn all the time when its in fact underfed. Potassium deficiency being the most commonly called out.

I have not dealt with many nutrient issues since switching to COCO DTW.

Soil is an entirely different beast!

I force feed my ladies Jacks 1.5-1.8 EC up to 8 times per day and have not had a nutrient issue running DTW since the beginning! As long as you get 10-20%run off COCO DTW is babyshit easy once you know the rules!

Number 1 rule is when in doubt flush it out with 30-40% strength nutrients with a lil extra CalMag with the proper pH!

 

[Creeperpark]

I have not dealt with many nutrient issues since switching to COCO DTW.

Soil is an entirely different beast!

I force feed my ladies Jacks 1.5-1.8 EC up to 8 times per day and have not had a nutrient issue running DTW since the beginning! As long as you get 10-20%run off COCO DTW is babyshit easy once you know the rules!

Number 1 rule is when in doubt flush it out with 30-40% strength nutrients with a lil extra CalMag with the proper pH!





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Those looks killer friend, thank you for the post and good information. Are those from cutting or seeds?

 

[Creeperpark]

Here is the main top off the top of one plant. I removed the secondary buds off the main stem quickly to make sure the top didn't have any bud rot. Not of a speck of rot but very sticky and stinky. I'm very happy to get this after all.

 

[LJ farming]

Those looks killer friend, thank you for the post and good information. Are those from cutting or seeds?

Almost everything I do is from cuts. I get a wild hair and hunt a pack of seeds once a year or so.

 

[LJ farming]

I am a long ways from a big grower! However my input costs are about $3000 per grow. Electricity, nutrients, and CO2

That’s a very hard nut to swallow if you grow mid grade because you will be lucky to break even!

In Comifornia the market is still terrible and most likely will be forever! A 7 or 8/10 brings 4-500 a pac! A 9+ still only brings a G.

I knew I would be rich growing 10+ years ago when PACs went for 3500-4000!

Not so fucking much! Now I grow for the therapy it provides.

I might make enough for a couple extra cheeseburgers and a few more beers each grow!

As long as I can provide my senior citizens and friends with weed and still break even I will grow until I croak!

Peace

 

[LJ farming]

Dr Dutch seems to think my plants have 500 issues. Maybe he didn’t understand that they were in Fade and I am taking away 15% of their feed everyday for the last 7-8 days???

I am far from a MASTER GROWER but I have grown a crop or 2!!!!

 

[LJ farming]

Those looks killer friend, thank you for the post and good information. Are those from cutting or seeds?

The biggest and happiest reason I like growing is because it keeps my daughter outta dispos paying 5x too much for trash that most likely has been sprayed and fertilized with who fucking knows what!

I know exactly what I do! Synthetic fertilizer. ( Jacks 3-2-1 ish) yes but I haven’t used a pesticide since I started growing indoors!!!

Peace creeper

 

[Ca++]

I don't thing Dutch did know that. He did suggest low N and offer to look at a diary before giving an actual opinion though.

I have had pH woe's of late. I have two meters now. I watch them drift off and have recognised the need to give them a quick swish in pure water before going in the calibration solution. Something I have had bad experience with before, but is stated in many lab calibration procedures. Them little calibration sachets make a lot of solution, so I keep a master in the fridge, and one out which I work with. In a jar, beside a jar of pure. Just a way to check the meters if they really drift apart, but I don't feel a full calibration is needed yet.
The meters are usually about 0.3 apart after a couple of weeks if I use the pure water when I set them. If I don't that 0.3 could be the next day, and 0.5 by the end of the week. Which is just too much disagreement to really trust either.
This is using the yellow meters that cost £2.50 (3$)
I only keep a 7ish calibration solution by the tank. I don't use 10 at all, which grows stuff, even if I'm very careful. TBH I don't need a 10 anyway, and anything it did to the slope, wouldn't suit my needs. I work only between 7 and 4. I can't sacrifice them settings, for accuracy 7 till 10.

For Christmas, I bought a mate a 5 pack, and 1600 test strips. I didn't know your address though

 

[LJ farming]

I don't thing Dutch did know that. He did suggest low N and offer to look at a diary before giving an actual opinion though.

I have had pH woe's of late. I have two meters now. I watch them drift off and have recognised the need to give them a quick swish in pure water before going in the calibration solution. Something I have had bad experience with before, but is stated in many lab calibration procedures. Them little calibration sachets make a lot of solution, so I keep a master in the fridge, and one out which I work with. In a jar, beside a jar of pure. Just a way to check the meters if they really drift apart, but I don't feel a full calibration is needed yet.
The meters are usually about 0.3 apart after a couple of weeks if I use the pure water when I set them. If I don't that 0.3 could be the next day, and 0.5 by the end of the week. Which is just too much disagreement to really trust either.
This is using the yellow meters that cost £2.50 (3$)
I only keep a 7ish calibration solution by the tank. I don't use 10 at all, which grows stuff, even if I'm very careful. TBH I don't need a 10 anyway, and anything it did to the slope, wouldn't suit my needs. I work only between 7 and 4. I can't sacrifice them settings, for accuracy 7 till 10.

For Christmas, I bought a mate a 5 pack, and 1600 test strips. I didn't know your address though

I check the nutrients with 2 ph pens everyday! 1 Apera and 1 Blulab. It is obvious when one gets outta calibration! I’m seriously so lazy or OCD that there is an alarm/calender event in my phone every 2 weeks to recalibrate both! I only calibrate with 7 and 4 ph solution.

100% even after calibrating the 2 meters are always .2-.3 different!

 

[LJ farming]

Both of my pH pens were well over $100 US!

I am a cheap ass but pH is VERY IMPORTANT IN MY OPINION when force feeding nutrients in COCO DTW!

 

[LJ farming]

I don't thing Dutch did know that. He did suggest low N and offer to look at a diary before giving an actual opinion though.

I have had pH woe's of late. I have two meters now. I watch them drift off and have recognised the need to give them a quick swish in pure water before going in the calibration solution. Something I have had bad experience with before, but is stated in many lab calibration procedures. Them little calibration sachets make a lot of solution, so I keep a master in the fridge, and one out which I work with. In a jar, beside a jar of pure. Just a way to check the meters if they really drift apart, but I don't feel a full calibration is needed yet.
The meters are usually about 0.3 apart after a couple of weeks if I use the pure water when I set them. If I don't that 0.3 could be the next day, and 0.5 by the end of the week. Which is just too much disagreement to really trust either.
This is using the yellow meters that cost £2.50 (3$)
I only keep a 7ish calibration solution by the tank. I don't use 10 at all, which grows stuff, even if I'm very careful. TBH I don't need a 10 anyway, and anything it did to the slope, wouldn't suit my needs. I work only between 7 and 4. I can't sacrifice them settings, for accuracy 7 till 10.

For Christmas, I bought a mate a 5 pack, and 1600 test strips. I didn't know your address though

The chances of me doing a grow diary are slim bud! I haven’t committed to anything since my last marriage failure almost 20 years ago!

I honestly wish I could teach everything DHF and HGO AND DJM taught me but I still have a fear of commitment and only play by my rules as an ole fart!

 

[LJ farming]

I @Creeperpark

I followed your tips regarding the use of Fox Farm soil.

I did grow a Panama Haze and a Golden Tiger with tap water only, up potting 2 times during the grow. The girls went about 14 weeks in bloom without major problems.

... I watered minimally (once every 10 days in veg, once every 5 days in bloom).

STELLAR RESULTS !!!

Thanks again for the great advices

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When growing in Soil the nutrients become so incredibly less important! LESS IS MORE!