LouDog's LED Lounge

[LouDog420]

You’re killing it LD seriously! I wanna be like you when I grow up. Lol.

I’m adding $79 electric hoist light lifters on 1 side of my room tonight hoping that making it easier to adjust the light height will make/allow me to dial in my LEDs down to get the most possible out of them.

Peace out,

LJ

I just set the lights this round and let them go. My thoughts, if girls are off to the races from the start, they'll stretch into the prime light zone shortly, and all the shit at the bottom goes anyways when trimming lowers and inners.

 

[LouDog420]

Violeta seedlings and some cuts, getting ready for a repot. Cuts were taken about a week into flower and getting back into their groove now.

 

[LouDog420]

Growmore calmag absolutely tanks the pH. Had to add about 10x more pH up when subbing the grow more product for botanicare calmag...

 

[LJ farming]

There is absolutely no doubt about that LD but by the time I get CalNit 100% substituted at the end of week 6 the Ph is perfect and does not need to be set at all with my mix weeks 7-9

Peace out,

LJ

 

[LouDog420]

Pic heavy post... Day 41, doing their thing...

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Right side

OGNYCO #3

RKS x ChemD bx #11

AK47 f2 #9, chunky monkey

AK47 f2 #8 - super sativa

OG Chem

 

[LouDog420]

Can't forget about the new gear... Everything got repotted on Thursday and should be off to the races. Another two weeks, we'll take cuts in prep for next round in the flower room.

Violeta males will go to a different spot to flower out fully... I think a lot of people flower out their males for 3-4 weeks and then chop to get a little bit of pollen only. I think that does a great disservice for selections. My males don't normally show signs I'm looking for until week 5-8 of flower. I'm watching for intersex mainly, frost, and smells.

Plus I feel there's better shelf life with pollen collected from the height of flower in later weeks vs the earliest stuff to drop.

For males, anything obviously weak is culled, but otherwise we try to keep it open as much as possible. We're already working with small numbers only popping a couple packs, no need to bottleneck things any more than that. You don't know how the males will behave until fully flowered, and you don't know how they'll breed until you grow the progeny.

Open pollinate, then selectively breed from there. You can always work backwards in generations assuming the seed stock is there and the crosses were made. If you decide to pick your favorite male and do 1v1 crosses, you can never work backwards to a wider gene pool, and you're potentially breeding yourself into a corner...

My $0.02

Violeta from Ace

And a couple peyote purples from Charlie/Cannabiogen

 

[LJ farming]

LD how do you recommend feeding moms. I read somewhere today that N should be kept to a minimum but I almost don’t believe anything I read about growing anymore until I confirm it with someone like yourself simply because there is so much terrible bro science info out there these days.

As usual your plants look killer perhaps one of these days when you get a stash of seeds built up I can bribe you to purchase a pac of them.

Peace out,

LJ

 

[LJ farming]

LD what kind of Dehuey are you running? My 2 70/50 pint residential seem to be getting very tired after a year. I pretty much knew they would fail and bought the extended warranty which will at least get me my initial investment back but I think it’s definitely time to move up to a commercial Dehuey. Quest even at Black Friday/Cyber Monday prices is way to expensive for my growing on a budget ass or do I buy once cry once????

Peace out,

LJ

 

[LouDog420]

I clone from clone from clone due to space restrictions. I'd feed moms like I feed trees though. I wouldn't change anything about N in their diet unless I saw too dark of leaves or the claw. Maybe they were referring to clones and limiting N when cloning, which would make sense...

I've run a Sante Fe Advanced 90 for a couple years, essentially non-stop. Just got a ducted aprilaire e100 that seems nice, but hasn't been put through the paces. The small portable off brand 30-50 pint residential units are hit or miss.

I also had concrete walls weeping with condensation in the winter and a naturally humid house where a bud left out in the open wouldn't go crispy, ever.

Quest is the industry go to for sure.

Sylvane should have some black friday deals going you might want to check out.... EDIT - Just checked and you can get a quest dual 110 for $1100+tax, with free shipping right now


Violeta after a top and trim

 

[LJ farming]

I’m really eying that 110. and know I just need to bite the bullet!!!

 

[LouDog420]

IC photo limits... Can't upload DLSR pics to my albums cause they're too big... Bah

I have a shitty little Nikon 3400, not even big images compared to most of the nicer cameras out there. Certainly no macro stack... Looks like we're back to flickr for good pics. PITA on a forum meant for sharing cannabis info and pics.



Day 45 glamor shots

RKS x ChemD bx #11


Bubblehead #9


AK 47 f2 #9


OG Chem x NYCO #3


OG Chem

 

[LJ farming]

I swallowed the 110 bullet. Flowers look great amigo keep up the good work seriously! I hope my my grows will be as badass as yours someday!

Peace out,

LJ

 

[LJ farming]

LD I’m sure you know and I know I don’t but will a dual 110 quest be enough for 8-10 LEDs? Say 16 plants under each? I know there is a formula for this I just seriously need to change my order ASAP if a dual 110 won’t be enough. Thank you in advance for any knowledge you can provide.

Peace out,

LJ

 

[LJ farming]

My room is just under 15x20

 

[LouDog420]

LD I’m sure you know and I know I don’t but will a dual 110 quest be enough for 8-10 LEDs? Say 16 plants under each? I know there is a formula for this I just seriously need to change my order ASAP if a dual 110 won’t be enough. Thank you in advance for any knowledge you can provide.

Peace out,

LJ

I'm not sure and depends on the room setup and outside environment. This is only my first run in the LED sealed room. Otherwise it was always HID and intake/exhaust at night, where we never ran dehuis in the room previously. Never needed to.

Eric's 60 DE nanolux thread I linked to earlier in this one was running 2(qty) quest 225's in his 24kw sealed rooms, but that was before switching to LED.

 

[LJ farming]

Ok well I’m going to run with the 110 then. My 2 50 PPDs keep up until a few days before it’s time to strip the ladies so hopefully the dual 110 (which I’m not even sure what the dual part is will do the job for 8ish 700ish watt LEDs. It seemed like too good of a deal and a great warranty to pass up.

Peace out,

LJ

 

[LouDog420]

Good choice. I'm running a 35 pint residential dehui alongside the mini-split now and that handles 4 lights maintaining at 55-60% rh

I think you'll be good, and worst case just hook up one of the old 50s during the worst events of high humidity.

Dual just refers to the exhausted dry air. It's coming out both sides of the machine (dual exhaust) as opposed to one side. I believe....

I agree great deal, if I didn't just buy a different whole house dehui, I probably would have picked up that.

 

[LJ farming]

With 5 LEDs with 16 plants each my only problem is the week before stretch is over before I strip the ladies currently. However I built my room for 10 lights and the plan is to get there once my skills allow. I still have a drop ceiling to tear out to gain 20” of height and probably should move my rezs one building over so it’s not insanely cramped.

Plan is to do a mini remodel between this grow and the next grow then take 2 months off during the summer to completely finish the remodel as well as hunt some killer seeds I just got from mi amigo DHF. The electric bill will bankrupt you in Cali in August and September (I pay 37cents per KWH on average) as well as there is enough weed for a small nation on the market for a month or 2 after that. THE DEP/MIXED LIGHT growers are starting to grow some damn good stuff that 75% of consumers can’t tell a difference in these days. Hopefully the customers that know and can tell the difference don’t start buying their stuff because of inflation or some other BS reason or ima have to pick up and move my whole operation to a state that isn’t legal yet I guess?

Thank you again for all your help amigo!

Peace out,

LJ

 

[LouDog420]

Day 47, starting the fade...

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[LouDog420]

First signs of mold, seems to be coming off the AC unit (only spots were directly in the airflow path of the AC, couldn't find any other issues in the room). White whispy shit on the outside of a few flowers. Removed infected flowers, increased ventilation, and lowered humidity.

Normally bud rot starts inside out with something necrotic, this seems like it's on the outside going in, assuming from a contamination of the AC unit in the room. The cleaning prior to the round obviously didn't get everything, and without the HID radiant heat, even though it says 60% rH, it feels like a rain-forest in there.

Not happy, we'll see if we can limp over the finish line and not have to chop early...

Way too late to spray or fuck with that, we've got fans blasting and worst case we'll harvest early and hash the batch...

Bummer!