LouDog's LED Lounge

[DunHav`nFun]

There`s another old head stoppin in to help and add suggestions from yrs of knowledge and experience......Josh B / Miraculous Meds . Breeder extraordinaire of the infamous Blue Star Genetic lines.......and hey Lou.......

I think you`re in the clear this run and realize the culprits that caused a small hiccup so just stay on top of the bitches and you got this my buddy......absolutely sage advice from Gman and MM so we ALL want a success story for end of cycle from the Dawg and it`ll be choptime soon enough so ozone that room , clean eeerthang again , rinse and repeat .....simple.....babyshit......

Take care , good luck , and I`m definitely lookin at a donkey dick bumper crop.........

Peace.....DHF......

 

[LouDog420]

Thanks DHF, appreciate everyone and all the discussions. So much great info.

Day 60 will come down sooner rather. Maybe a few of the longer flowering girls will be allowed to flower out a bit longer than 9 weeks.

Ignore the few stray loudog hairs... Gotta button up the intake filter and stop walking in the grow room before brushing myself down!

AK 47 f2 #9


RKS x ChemD bx #11


OG Chem



OGC x NYCO #3

 

[Vanilla Phoenix]

Them bitches be stacked! Nice

 

[LouDog420]

Thank VP! They've filled out pretty nice for the first round under LED

Some AK47 f2 #9 pre harvest and post harvest

 

[LJ farming]

Badass LD much respect!

 

[DunHav`nFun]

Most of that shit looks like a trimmers dream.....snip snip on a few sugar leaves and done......

Respect......DHF.......

 

[LouDog420]

Most of that shit looks like as trimmers dream.....snip snip on a few sugar leaves and done......

Respect......DHF.......

I hate trimming like most, so I'd be lying if I said post processing ease and calyx/leaf wasn't considered in selections.

A good plant has it all: effects, terps, vigor, yield, pest/pathogen resistance, sexual stability, ease of post process, etc. If not, there's always more seeds to pop

 

[ElGato]

well, i just thought i'd stop in to the ol ICmag and see what was what and happened to see your thread Lou

everything is looking damn good, I really dig that AK >> man, what a beautiful plant


I really need to check in here more often



mj

 

[LouDog420]

Thanks ElGato. It came together well.

Yep, that AK cut is something special I think. Only our third run with her, and she seems to get better every time as we dial...


Hitting the finish line

First the dry room... This space has its own small 20 pint dehui and no HVAC registers. So during the winter, it can stay 50-60F easy. A perfect cold dry and cure room. Generally set the dehui to 60-65 rH and let it go for a week or two before bucking and tossing into tubs.

Getting Started

Halfway

Hung

Time to clean... She'll get filled with some violeta cuts as we finish sexing. They'll be chopped early or moved to a different space and we'll reload shortly after christmas, ideally. Cuts have been rooting for about a week now, so should be ready to rock shortly

 

[LouDog420]

Screw the plants, check out those sexy circulation fans

Quick hit over the holidays so we can leave them a bit longer due to automated irrigation, then they'll likely get moved back to a 5x5 tent for pollination. Mostly Violeta females from ace, and a few selected cuts for pollination fun

 

[DunHav`nFun]

Happy Ho-ho my buddy......Can`t wait for final numbers and the new next run in the LED room.....

Peace......DHF......

 

[LouDog420]

Thanks Fred and same to you and yours! As well as the rest of the heads here at IC. Good vibes all

Final numbers should be respectable, but don't imagine there will be anything earth shattering given all the different phenos and first run dial-age. We'll get there, but mainly just a way to run a bunch of seeds for the next year or so and find some real nice cuts... Next round we're gonna veg in place, straight from propagation into 1's and then flip.

In the spirit of the holiday, I've been running a donation based program called 'Beans 4 St Jude'. Google it, because I don't think I can link to it here. Basically each $25 donation to St. Jude gets you a pack of seeds. I chuck for preservation, but my collection is really getting quite absurd, so this was the best idea I could come up with to get some genetics out there and help out a good cause. We've raised over $2,500 for St. Jude in the past year.

If you're not familiar with St. Jude, they focus on childhood cancer, research, and treatment. No one that goes to St. Jude pays anything due to donations, whether that is for treatment or lodging while there. One of the few great charities left that actually does good work.

I've been shucking a lot, so tried my hand at a cheap/quick build for a zig zag seed separator. Works ok, still needs final cleaning after processing through the zig-zag. I think we need some extra suction power to get it working better, but better than sorting the bulk by hand, no doubt...

Google has full plans if you want to build your own...

 

[StickyBandit]

Thanks Fred and same to you and yours! As well as the rest of the heads here at IC. Good vibes all

Final numbers should be respectable, but don't imagine there will be anything earth shattering given all the different phenos and first run dial-age. We'll get there, but mainly just a way to run a bunch of seeds for the next year or so and find some real nice cuts... Next round we're gonna veg in place, straight from propagation into 1's and then flip.

In the spirit of the holiday, I've been running a donation based program called 'Beans 4 St Jude'. Google it, because I don't think I can link to it here. Basically each $25 donation to St. Jude gets you a pack of seeds. I chuck for preservation, but my collection is really getting quite absurd, so this was the best idea I could come up with to get some genetics out there and help out a good cause. We've raised over $2,500 for St. Jude in the past year.

If you're not familiar with St. Jude, they focus on childhood cancer, research, and treatment. No one that goes to St. Jude pays anything due to donations, whether that is for treatment or lodging while there. One of the few great charities left that actually does good work.

I've been shucking a lot, so tried my hand at a cheap/quick build for a zig zag seed separator. Works ok, still needs final cleaning after processing through the zig-zag. I think we need some extra suction power to get it working better, but better than sorting the bulk by hand, no doubt...

Google has full plans if you want to build your own...

Stellar effort bud!
I can't believe all the resistance you came up against at the start! When is a children's charity a bad thing? I can't believe the one guy who said it's not the right platform. He's happy to be there and it's ok as long as the children's hospital isn't making money from it??? Crazy
I'm far from the US or I would be there with bells on
Keep up the good work!!

 

[LouDog420]

Stellar effort bud!
I can't believe all the resistance you came up against at the start! When is a children's charity a bad thing? I can't believe the one guy who said it's not the right platform. He's happy to be there and it's ok as long as the children's hospital isn't making money from it??? Crazy
I'm far from the US or I would be there with bells on
Keep up the good work!!

Thanks StickyBandit.

We opened up it up to international a few months ago, after figuring out a way to send with just a stamp. They've made it successfully to our neighbors up north, some across the pond, and some way down under

 

[LJ farming]

Keep up the good work LD! Seriously A+ on the charity reminder not a better one out there that I know of. They seriously took a tumor the size of a walnut outta my nieces brain at age 5 and she will always be my number 1 underdog that so far has made it to 12 without another hiccup!

I’m trying to cross the finish line in about 7-10 days.

No need to send seeds my way as ?????just sent me a dump truck full to hunt and the reminder to be generous this time of year was much needed and appreciated!

Lastly great call on the quest 110 I love that thing!

Peace out,

LJ

 

[Deep Thought]

Great work Lou.

How did the light comparison fair out?

Did any of the lights stand apart?

 

[LouDog420]

Hope you had a good harvest LJ! Thanks for the donation, we've raised a bit over $2,700 for St. Jude in the past year with the end of year push for donations (seeds ). Holler or hit me on OG if you want to collect on the donation.

Deep Thought, I have some thoughts, but running so many different phenos, really hard to get a good picture of what differences the lights made, even though we ran a cut of the OG Chem under each light. I think all lights are absolutely workable with some dialing in. So consider the below nitpicking... Everything stacked, everything was frosty, really just what stacked better and came out with better finished quality, plus little nuances mechanically for construction and usage.


Spectrum King - Still my biggest issue is no on board dimming. Granted we're looking at expansion to a commercial type facility, so that would be moot with the proper controller. For the smaller home grower, it's definitely a down side.

There were definitely some foxtail-y girls, but I think that had more to do with phenos than lighting. They did the same but worse under the Grower's Choice last round.

Grow Light Science - The most expensive and highest wattage fixture. We ran it at 80% throughout because 100% was just too much power. I did notice a bit of the same intervenal bleaching on some plants this second round, completely different varieties, so I'm thinking the intensity and feed had a play in that.

Dial her in and I think it's a great light with room for expansion for plants that will handle really blasting light. My bubblehead cut seems to like HIDs more than LED, so there's always that to account for as well. Every plant is gonna be different....

Grower's Choice - I've never loved the way girls stack under this light compared to old HIDs. It seems to promote stretch and foxtails while running it over the past year with different phenos, different feeds. Talking to the LED retailer, they stated they saw the most returns and warranty issues with the GC LEDs. My buddy had one first hand with a strip going out that he had to get warrantied, and I think collectively we only bought 10 units between a bigger group. 10% failure (albeit anecdotal), is not the best...

Total Grow - Seemed to stretch the most and fill in the least. She was the lowest wattage, so it makes a bit of sense. Given the options out there, nothing about this light made me say, yes please may I have another. But it's certainly workable for growing some dope.


If I had to fill out a 50 light room tomorrow, I don't think I could make a good enough call from this first run... But that's why we'll run multiple rounds. I'd probably be leaning towards the Spectrum King and Grow Light Science however. Interested in getting a mammoth involved in the test, but they seem a bit more driven by hype and less results, always tweaking comparisons in there favor instead of straight forward apples to apples...

Should get a better idea as we work through the trimming, and certainly over the next couple rounds or so. The real test would be to monocrop the whole room and get some quantitative results that are actually useable. But I like popping seeds and hunting too much for that to ever happen.

We've been slacking, took the holidays off, but do have a hodge podge round going now with some of my favorite cuts that we may toss some pollen at and the new violeta phenos from Ace/dubi. We're only running half the room while waiting for cuts to root, and the cuts are taking their sweet time. They came off some not-perfectly healthy plants during a cold snap and definitely suffered from a bit of neglect. Normally I'm all over the reload and getting another round going right away, but we took about 2-3 weeks to relax and gotta say, it's not the worst thing in the world!

Good vibes all, we'll get back at it here soon... In the meantime, here's some violeta colors, some greens, pinks, and dark purples in a half ass run, with half gallon pots and plenty of neglect

Some heavy PCK piney aromas, and some sweeter ones that are more up my alley. I ran magenta99 years ago from one of the rats that had the same PCK color and smells. Nice plant, but that pine/terpinolene smell is not my favorite and DG can fuck right off...

And a couple boys

 

[LouDog420]

Copy paste from the violeta thread....

First time for me, had a beautiful male, liked his more sativa structure, color, vigor, etc. Plenty of pollen sacks but sterile as a mule, no pollen dropping.

Very interesting. I've seen sterile males when reversing females, but never with such a healthy vigorous regular male.

Sounds like others have seen it before. Always interesting the anomalies that this plant throws out.


A few pics, one boy dropping spunk as usual...

Mr. No spunk, not a grain of pollen dropping

 

[LouDog420]

Full pollination run... Over under on bean count, set at 7.5k

Most everything in the stable hit to Violeta

OG Chem
DSD f2
AK 47 f2 (chunky monkey and super sativa pheno)
Bubblehead #9
Cookiewreck x ECSD/OG Chem
OG Chem x New York Candy Orange #3 (orange grapefruit pheno)
RKS x Chemdbx #11
Peyote Purple
Violeta f2s


"Beans 4 St. Jude" - google it for more info

 

[LouDog420]

Gearing up for next round... Still puffing the leaf, still hunting the seeds, still not loving police, still running the LEDs

Going to change up emitters after slacking this last round for pollinations, and clean and scrub heavy... Should hit it hard in a week or two...

• 100k from exotic mike
• AK47 f2 from joey weed
• Bubblehead from Tony Green/Karma
• Cookiewreck x ECSD/OG Chem from chucking Cannaventure and Ganja Rebel
• Don Mega x Red Runtz from exotic mike
• Double Strawberry Diesel f2 from Ganja Rebel
• OG Chem from Ganja Rebel
• OG Chem x New York Candy Orange from chucking Ganja Rebel and Catnip Seeds
• Peyote Purple from Cannabiogen
• Purple Zkittlez x Temple Kush from ethos
• RKS x ChemD bx from Chimera
• Violeta from Ace