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XYZVector

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These plants are bolting, they are getting some nice pompoms.

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About time to trim the larf and remove some lower vegetation for airflow.

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Some flowers are starting to get frosty, not smelling any strong terps yet but I imagine they aren’t far behind.
 

XYZVector

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Oh and I almost forgot the second tent is starting up, and I have filed the patent on my fertigation system. So now I have a patent pending on how the borg watering system works. It is quite cool but that is a different subject for a different thread.
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Seeds were started new years eve at 12pm EST. They just got put in the jiffes last night, and they are already breaking up thru the jiffy pellets. Few more days they should be ready to be transplanted into the airpot propgation containers.
 

XYZVector

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So I did something today I have never done before I switched my nutrients, from General Hydroponics Flora Trio to GreenPlanet GP3. That was an all day task, flush the res clean the res flush all the old nutrients out of the doser lines. Recalibrate the doser, make a test batch, make another test batch. Refill the res, make sure everything lines up. I still got to clean out the other res so I still got more work to do.
 

XYZVector

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Okay these girls are starting to fatten up. Took off the training net to position them better in the tent. The nutrient switch was successful. Without further ado let’s check em out.

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flowers are starting fatten up. Installed some ac on the tent to keep the temps down the tent was running at 83-85f but in this stage I want them between 77-80f don’t want to burn off the precious terps, and also the plants seem to notice fall is coming and start to work on flower production. We are in the home stretch on this grow!

Now the other tent has some small plants in veg it’s day 18 of the grow. Got a little to over heated without CO2 so some leaves are showing me they want it a bit cooler.
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LndRcLvr

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Seems to be going superbly. I noticed you are using airpots. May I have your opinion on them please? Better results than standard pots?
 

XYZVector

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Better by a mile, they are the best growing container man has invented so far. If you have the means they are worth it. The only difficulty you will find is potting up from a smaller airpot to a larger one. However the difficulty is just getting the smaller one's nubs into the larger ones nubs and backfilling. If your going to pot up into an air pot it makes sense to go from a propogation pot to a #3 air pot. Skip the #1 as it is too small of a jump to be worth the effort. Other than that the roots are amazing.
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that is a decent root ball but I have seen them develop such good roots the media litteraly disapears. Just a solid mass of roots.
 

XYZVector

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Okay let’s see what is going on in the Borg tent.

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Moved the tall ones to the outside of the tent.

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I am working on a frostitution charge.
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We are in day 39 of flower we got about two more weeks keeping temps at 82-76 day and 60 night. CO2 is being supplemented at 800-1200ppm light is at 980uMol. VPD is at 1.2-1.4. Feed is at 1736 uS. Got some fox tails on the outside added more recirc fans and trying to fatten them up.
 

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XYZVector

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Now it is getting to the time of what I would do different in the next grow. I think the #1 (1 gal) air pots are too small for a good flower. If I had bigger pots there would be more roots for bigger fruits. I am very happy with the flower development. This is the second time I have ran CO2 on a grow last time was those mushroom bags, and they grew some good flowers, the CO2 tank is far more economical (after the initial capital investment). I also switched nutrients on this grow. I was a solid GH grower but GH cheaped out and their inputs and are no longer viable for my grows. Also my tent is too crowded in a 4x2 3 flowering plants are about the best density. The automation worked like a dream, I am used to being on the road constantly but was home for most this grow. I also added a air conditioner to this grow had to use bailing wire and duct tape to make it neutral pressure and work. However I am in the home stretch I can bring out the anthocyanin in the plants. The goth girl leafs are supposed to get black during the final stretch. I know the breader of the seeds so I think that will happen. It's day 39 of flower I expect to goto day 60 on flower so we will see what happens. I now have the ability to set the temperature in the tent from 53f to 90f. I have had some PH issues with both reservors but they are new and for some reason new plastic res seem to ride up on the ph scales. CO2 is a game changer if you have the means it is worth the cost. It gets expensive in a tent if you just buy a off the shelf controler (eats co2 because when the tent exhausts it dumps the gas). However I am god of my tents so I make all the rules. I cut the CO2 if the tent wants to vent or turn on the AC it's still a bit wasteful, but it brings up the ambient CO2 for the other tent without CO2. The other tent the plants aren't as big as these were on the same days, same system but no direct CO2 enrichment except 3rd party from the leaks from the tent getting direct CO2.
 

Wolverine97

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Hey the borg never simplify anything!!! lol I agree it is very complicated, but I can be an absentee grower. I have spent months away from my tent and grow fire. When you cannot look at the plants see the nutrient water or do anything directly with the tent it makes things overly complicated.
"The Borg" has been the community name for resistant spider mites, going back many years...
I'd call it something else, if I were you.
 

Ca++

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Resistance is futile. They will assimilate your crop. It's a well earned moniker.

Grow seems to be going well. Any laziness issues? I heard an odd noise the other day, as my pump ran dry. It was looking after itself so well, that I got complacent. This seems to be the biggest problem with automation. Sometimes it's nice to leave something to do, so you remain present.
 

XYZVector

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Only thing I have been doing is checking up on them daily for IPM, no IPM. I am concerned about the powerdery mildew. Add a recirc fan and an AC to keep things cool and dry. I have been having to add some PH down in the veg tent's reservior, and I am doing some plant training in the veg tent. I find out very quickly if a pump fails since it will generate a low fertigation pressure alarm. I did have a dripper line pop out of the airpot stake last night and one plant mised two fertigations. I know that by the media sensor sending me a excesive media dryback alarm. I have been having water quality issues, my RO filter is fouled up after only 60 days in service. So I am installing a portable water softener today.
 

XYZVector

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I'd call it something else, if I were you.
Well bit late for that I am sorry if it rankles your feathers, you seem to be the only one concerned about the name. I think it is a bit silly that you would assume that I am making light of a pest, or I am growing with borg spider mites. Next journal I will use a different name without the borg if that makes you feel better.
 

XYZVector

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Well growing with the borg means sometimes your remote. I won't be at my grow for another week. In a week it is harvest TIME! I will post pics of the plants at harvest. Life takes me away from the plants, and I still have control even though I am quite a distance away from the grow. I just cant take good pics that do the grow justice.
 

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