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40degsouth

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Hi Tangwena,
Thanks for asking and yes l do have photos and videos of my grow this year, on an SD card, that l intend to send to Dubi and the Ace crew so they can see what I've been up to. I'm hoping that someone there might be able to post some photos up for me so everyone can get an idea of what I've been on about.
Unfortunately I'm not computer literate enough to post them myself so I'm safe and secure. I've spent my life gathering skills and knowledge that are being forgotten because of computers. My friends think I'm a bit weird 'cos you can just Google it anyway.
 
hush

hush

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Day 50 for my GT scrog:

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It's not the most level canopy in the world, but I'm exhausted these days, so, it's not that bad:

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The flowers are still not much to look at, but they're growing trichomes:

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SolarLogos

SolarLogos

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hush said:
Day 50 for my GT scrog:

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It's not the most level canopy in the world, but I'm exhausted these days, so, it's not that bad:

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The flowers are still not much to look at, but they're growing trichomes:

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Not much to look at, are you kidding? There is a ton of them! Beautiful scrog. Your scrogs are always perfect. I need to get a drain tray like you have and set up a scrog. Seriously, I say that every time I see your scrogs. I will do it this time, I will for sure.
Peace, God bless
 
brickweeder

brickweeder

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hush said:
A little over 2 weeks. Like 17 days or something like that, if I recall.
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Hey Hush, are you counting your veg from the date the sprout breaks ground, or from a certain number of true leaves? I don't know if there is an accepted definition of when a seedling ceases to be a seedling.

I vegged some GT (non scrog) for like 6 weeks from sprouting, and one in particular is stretching like crazy and refuses to be supercropped (I'll supercrop it then the next day, the shoots are are straight again and the crushed sections calloused...dang hardy plant).
 
hush

hush

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Yes, I pretty much start the clock from the moment the seedling is planted up and put under some light. This is usually when just the cotyledons are showing. So basically, this was a brief veg, if you even want to call it that. In my experience, there's really not *that* much of a difference between a plant that is "vegged" for 2 weeks and one that was just started under 12/12 lighting right from the beginning.

Funny about your GT... that's the opposite of a plant that I got during my first GT run (which never finished), which I couldn't make grow upward for the life of me! It just wanted to grow sideways, like a ground cover or something. I was told that it was an uncommon thai pheno. But yeah, I know what you mean... sometimes plants just have a mind of their own and do their own thing regardless of what we want. That also reminds me of another plant I had one time... I think it was Stacked Kush, by DNA... that simply flat-out refused to have more than one top. I would try topping it, but then it would only send 1 new growth tip upward, instead of both of them at the cut node. It's the closest situation I've ever had to a plant basically talking to me. "Yeah, no, I won't be doing that, hush."
 
brickweeder

brickweeder

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Great info, thank you much. Its funny how well the GT has covered your scrog net with only 17 days before flip...just goes to show you how she likes to stretch and stretch. Its nice to know that i can shave 3-4 weeks off veg and still get great growth.
 
Ncali

Ncali

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For those long flower tropical varieties, 12/12 is really close to natural light cycles. Those light cycles in "spring" & "summer" are close to 14/10 or 13/11 depending on proximity to the equator. So 12/12 lighting still is very similar to a vegitative light cycle.

For these tropical varieties like haze or thai, i feel flowering triggers faster in 11/13 or 10/14 light cycles. I "walk" my lights down to 11/13 for majority of the flowering and even go for 10/14 in the last 2-3 weeks if i can. I think the tropical plants have better bud formation and definitely better (more diverse & abundant) terps when flowered in this method.
 
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40degsouth

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Hi everyone, l hope you're all well!!
I'm about to weigh the GT's as I'm typing so l hope there's a drum roll emoji thing that l can put in The small one is 502grms and the big one is 1393grms.
Obviously with the four plants l popped, the big pheno has done exceptionally well but given the water deprevation torture at the beginning of summer and soil prepared for heavy feeding indicas, I'm very happy with the small one as well.
Out of these plants l got three phenos, half of which were the outstanding ones, in my opinion anyway.
To give you a comparison, my kush based, go to strain did over four, right next to the GT's but as an experiment it has been a total success. I'm 110% certain that if l was able to water throughout the grow these plants could have been massive but this is a very effective technique for controlling growth and stretch outdoors it would seem.
All in all this is a very impressive plant for outdoor growing at my latitude, if you have a microclimate that will alow it to finish.
As a side note, Ncali's information is very interesting as the daylight hours, using sunrise and sunset as daylight, was 9:43 minutes at harvest on the 1st of June.
This explains the stacking later in the season 👍👌
I also think that the cooler, Autumn, weather effected bud development but three per is my target, so still 33% success, not including the male.
I'll take some finished bud shots for Tang and everyone else, now and then all l need is the Ace crew's address because with all my Googling l haven't been able to find it?? PM me or however that has to work.
SD card will be on the way shortly after.:tiphat:
Cheers,
40
 
brickweeder

brickweeder

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Ncali said:
For those long flower tropical varieties, 12/12 is really close to natural light cycles. Those light cycles in "spring" & "summer" are close to 14/10 or 13/11 depending on proximity to the equator. So 12/12 lighting still is very similar to a vegitative light cycle.

For these tropical varieties like haze or thai, i feel flowering triggers faster in 11/13 or 10/14 light cycles. I "walk" my lights down to 11/13 for majority of the flowering and even go for 10/14 in the last 2-3 weeks if i can. I think the tropical plants have better bud formation and definitely better (more diverse & abundant) terps when flowered in this method.
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Good info. I had my D/N cycle after flip at 11.75/12.25, and one GT wasn't quite switched after 2+ weeks, so I changed it to 11.5/12.5 and that made all the difference. I recently changed it up again to 11.25/12.75, and will move to 11/13 next week. I just checked the daylight duration for thailand, and it gets to 11 hours 3 minutes by late December (longest daylight is 13h-12m in June), so 11/13 is good.
 
rlsmooth

rlsmooth

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GT is pretty strong stuff. Been vaping it and Destroyer constantly after they were cut during spring..mixing em with solid hashes and so on, even to a point that I've been thinking that I should keep a break lately.. :D Sativas affect thinking in deep levels..


But yeah, today was a day off work and found myself getting some new GT nugs from jars, and breaking em just to fill my vape once again. And holy shit it hit me..totally shroomy like feelings for solid 2 hours, very introverted and spaced out feeling. Deeply lost in thought. But I always find some weird humour from GT no matter how blazed up I feel. It's been bit over 3 hours now and now the effect is a bit more mellow and relaxed...but still pretty baked. It's pretty confusing smoke, writing this text took me a lot of time and planning..not good for brainwork that requires creativity. Aromas have remained sharp spicy, little sour fruity/ mandarinish like..always feeling like "dat's some bomb stuff right there", when I visit the jars and smell GT... :D
 
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musigny23

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Question for Dubi next time he checks in here:

I have 2 GT feminised and 2 regular seed females this season. As usual the regulars were a bit slow to really confirm their sex so they stayed in 10 litre grow bags a little longer than would be ideal. Because of that, they're a bit smaller than the fem starts. Anyway, they also look different. The fem starts have broader leaflets which I guess shows more Malawi dominance. The regular starts have much narrower leaflets, which I figure is a Thai trait. Is that just a coincidence? Do the regular seeds typically lean more to the Thai side?

I also have an old F1 female this year but it also was slow to show sex and spent a little too long in the starter grow bag, it may have gotten slightly stunted growth hormones due to that. It's vegging kinda slowly.

I'll try to get a few pics.
 
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musigny23

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As mentioned in my previous post, here are pics of my GT plants this year. Two from fem seeds and two from regular seeds. Click for larger image.

This is from a fem seed, seems Malawi dominant:



This is a regular seed, smaller from the wait for sexing, note narrower leaves, does that mean more Thai influence?:



Here's my best fem seed plant due to being in a large raised bed with plenty of root space, again looks Malawi dominated:



And the other regular seed start. Smaller due to the longer time to transplanting waiting for sex confirmation:



Last shot is the big fem seed plant in it's raised bed with a Destroyer. The GT on the left, Destroyer on the right. So far so good.

 
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