Q3corn's dank mini adventures

[PCBuds]

This cabinet is 29" floor-to-ceiling on the inside, and some of these guys have been supercropped to keep them from hitting the light. In this pic you can see overnight one of them actually did! Luckily these boards don't get too hot or too bright so it's not as dangerous as if it were a COB or something, but holy freakin' crap!

Plants hitting the lights can also burn out some LED segments.

 

[q3corn]

Plants hitting the lights can also burn out some LED segments.

Woo! Good thing these boards are protected by me pushing the buds away!


I should invest in an acrylic cover maybe...

 

[PCBuds]

Woo! Good thing these boards are protected by me pushing the buds away!


I should invest in an acrylic cover maybe...

There was a picture of it posted on my thread or the SIL thread but I can't find it.


I think that the guy may have had his strips cranked though, and I figure that extra heat is what caused the burnout?



You should consider this stuff...







It works Awesome.

You just brush it on over top of the LED segments.

I figure that it protects the coating on the segments so that the leaves don't react with the factory coating when it's really hot.

 

[PCBuds]

When I install the covers on my LED strips I managed to scratch the surface of a couple of LED segments.


Two sets of 4-5 segments went out. (the whole series/parallel thing.)

I turned the lights off for a while then turned them back on, and all the segments are on.
Then one set went out again.


That's when I coated the segments with the conformal coating.


The set that didn't burn out, has been working ever since.

With the set that was burned out, I had to solder in a resistor to bypass a single dead segment and now, it too has been working ever since.

That set has been strange ever since I soldered in the resistor.







(All that's in my thread too, but I can't find it. Lol)

 

[q3corn]

I remember that process, PCbuds


I don't think I'll be doing anything, I think in actuality I'll just make sure my plants arent touching my lights.

 

[q3corn]

Well I had to kill all my SUV F2 males, since one of the females threw out a pollen sack I didn't catch until now. Started seeing a few brown-tipped pistils and thought maybe some stray pollen made it in, but nope. Hermsville.



Oh well, I don't think I was gonna find anything in the grape-forward profile I was looking for anyway. Most plants had an earthy and piney smell if they had any smell at all. Feels bad killing so many big gorgeous dudes, but thems the brakes...

 

[q3corn]

Quick little update:


Harvested all of the CONIFER-13 F2 plants. The tall lanky one got chopped a week ago because it just was throwing balls every day and I couldn't put up with it anymore. The other two got cut down yesterday, day 74. Really dense buds but very low yield, probably 3 grams each.


My SUV F2 females are seriously taking off. I had to move some plants around, they're all taking up quite a bit of space. Day 35 now, probably about half-way there. Some are already losing some big fan leaves, so they seem really hungry. The dry amendment regime is working but it's obviously not a complete success just yet.



NL Blvds are gonna be done in as little as a week. I pulled a few seeds out that are fully mature, just gotta wait for the bud to finish itself out so I can smoke what's in between the seeds.


Double Gs are in fantastic shape. They're in 8oz pots now and should be in those until they're old enough to have cuttings taken, maybe another 2 weeks total? Plan is to F2 them and keep at least one of my favorites around.


As for my KIS Organics use in small spaces: it seems difficult to get the servings right. Some plants are absolutely thriving with this stuff, while others seem to be stressed out and experiencing some sort of imbalance. I can't tell what's going on with some of them, but maybe since these pots are so small my fear of overfeeding them has gotten in the way and they actually need more frequent feedings. SUV F2s are in great shape, but the GPGs are lookin' kinda crispy.

 

[q3corn]

About 5 weeks after sprout, the Double G's are looking fantastic. Great growth and vigor, consistent leaf structure but there's some varying heights. I'm stoked, my soil is dialed in, and these genetics are vigorous.








My NL Blvd plants are in pretty good shape. They went straight purple in the last 2 weeks, and they're probably gonna get cut in a week or so. They're full of F4 seeds currently. I'd like to reveg one of these, but I'm not sure there's enough vegetation left to be able to do that. I remember hearing someone talk about their favorite NL plants having a spraypaint smell, and I didn't know what they were talking about until this week. The shorter one smells very much like a can of spraypaint! These smelled floral and almost like roses early on in flower, but now it's this gorgeous chemical smell. I hope to work this line further in the near future.



I'm now a little over 1 year growing in these small cabinets, and I really feel like I've made some major headway in my growing skills. I'm really enjoying this process

 

[q3corn]

Harvested the NL Blvd today! Day 77F. Really took these for a long ride.






The shorter denser one smells almost exclusively like spraypaint! It's uncanny. I haven't smelled spraypaint in years, so for it to hit me over the head with that aroma is telling. I mentioned this to Empyrean (the breeder) and they said their F2 selection was based on this spraypaint/hairspray profile, so I got it! Hopefully this smell sticks around through cure!


I don't think these will yield very much. I'll be lucky to get 7 grams from each I think. But they've got seeds in them, so I have F4 seeds to dig through. I want to see how well this hairspray smell and short squat bud structure sticks in the progeny.

 

[PCBuds]

They look very strange to me.
Are you sure they're pot plants ? Lol

 

[Paddi]

Harvested the NL Blvd today! Day 77F. Really took these for a long ride.

Congrats with your harvest.
She looks really ready. Enjoy

P

 

[q3corn]

They look very strange to me.
Are you sure they're pot plants ? Lol

Pretty sure! They went suuuuper purple in the last 2-3 weeks

Congrats with your harvest.
She looks really ready. Enjoy

P

Thanks Paddi!

 

[q3corn]

In the SUV F2 batch I'm flowering, I think I found a keeper, too! This plant smells like sweet grape candy with an undertone of sour diesel funk.

She doesn't seem to be packing on the weight, but the flowers are dense, stinky, and the plant is gorgeous to look at. I'm gonna try to reveg her and give it another shot. I'm anticipating she'll be done around day 60. This picture is day 45 I think.



Oh, and she's got some seeds growing in her, but that's either because my male isolation wasn't strong enough, or she got pollinated by the one hermie plant I have. Actually all of the plants in this batch are seeded to a certain extent. Some thoroughly, some only lightly. We had one plant throw balls I didn't catch twice. The plant is still in the cabinet, and as I write this I'm wondering "why?" Maybe I figure the damage is done and having bud to smoke, even if it's full of hermie seeds, is a good thing.

 

[q3corn]

Double G update



Plants all got topped a week ago and the clones are rooting now hopefully. These babies are nice and squat and are bushing out well. There's not a lot of variation yet, just some differences in slightly fatter and thinner leaves. I'll wait until I know I have clones of every one before I let these flower, These are all the seeds I have and I don't want to mess up and lose a keeper.


Really excited to see what these can do

 

[shawkmon]

female seeds sweet , grape candy sounds nice , keep it up !

 

[q3corn]

Yeah buddy! I don't know if i'll be messing around with them too much since they're born of hermie parents, but it'll be cool to have them!


Harvest is gonna be probably this weekend for 3 or 4 of the SUV F2s. One of them is gonna be kept in reveg.


Speaking of reveg, I'm trying to reveg my NL Blvd plant but it only had some popcorn buds on the bottom and doesn't seem to be doing anything but dying at this point. No real leaves, just a few sugar leaves and a few buds. Maybe it doesn't have enough plant material to grow back?

 

[q3corn]

Harvested 3 of my SUV F2s last night! 62 days of flower and they're pretty done! lowers weren't quite as mature obviously, but tops are showing about 15-20% amber trichs.


One of them I'm gonna be trying to keep, so I left the bottom several buds and leaves on the plant to see if it can actually reveg this time. This will be my 3rd time at revegging a plant, but it will be my first time doing so with a plant that still has green fan leaves, so that's a good start!


Later this week I'll have a few more harvested, and this flower run will probably be all done in the next 2 weeks.


Also, I'm not sure if anyone's seen anything like this. There's a seed growing on this plant that has lost all the bract and plant material around it. The seed is still attached to the plant, and it even has the orange hair still sticking out of it!

 

[q3corn]

I've got a few more plants to finish up this cycle and then I'll be shifting focus on a very purposeful hunt through my Double G plants. I gotta get my clones to root for every one before I sex them, and my perlite cloner is still causing problems with moisture. A few plants just get soggy at the base of the stem, so there must be some pretty dense pockets of water in there that I gotta let dry out a bit. I'm thinking I should just do everything in earth plugs for the time being. I'll see how long I can take some of these clones in the perlite, and who knows maybe some will root! But when the time comes to take more clones I'll be back at the earth plugs.


5 SUV F2 plants remaining in flower, and 3 clones of the Gelato33xPurpleGoat that look pretty good. I bet this flower cabinet will be done in less than 2 weeks total.

 

[q3corn]

Whoops, havent updated this in a few weeks!


Almost all of my SUV F2s are harvested and drying. I got 2 more that should come down in a few days, they're just still pushing out a few white hairs at the top and I wanna see what they can do. I kept one of the plants and have it revegging in one of my nano cabinets. 2 weeks in and no signs of new growth, but its still alive, so that's good!


GPG is gonna get harvested today, at day 78. Way past the first run which was harvested before day 70. I know I harvested that first batch a little early, so getting over a week more I think is a good start. Smell is very similar to the first run. I would have called it creamy and floral, almost like roses. Someone else said it had a latex smell, and now that they pointed it out thats mostly what I smell too! Probably what I thought the "creamy" aspect was.



Double Gs are over 2 months old, none of their first cuttings rooted in my perlite cloner. I'm switching back to earth plugs this time. Gonna wait a little while longer and take at least 2 cuttings of each of my 9 plants just to make sure I get some backups. I'm looking for keepers of both genders and definitely planning on making F2s of these plants. Just not sure if I'll be doing a full-on open pollination or if I'll be picky about it yet. They all look very uniform so far, so they're probably quite stable and picking single plants might be tough.


After this flowering cab gets all finished up, I'll be moving 3 Conifer-13 cuttings into some new 1-gallon fabric pots I got. I've got soil in them now cooking away, and those 3 conifers will be vegged in the flower cab for a few weeks to fill the canopy out before I flip it. I'm gonna see how much I can harvest out of this cabinet with one single strain. My goal is 100 grams which I think is totally achievable. I've pulled over 80g out of this cabinet the last 2 cycles I've gone, and that's with several different strains with varying density and success.


Previous harvests: NL Blvds only came out to about 6 grams each, and Conifer-16 was 8 grams. NLBs were quite different smelling, but now that they've been off the plant for a month they both have a sort of wet-paint smell. #1 was very strong spraypaint smelling on the plant, but now it seems to have subsided a bit. Conifer-16 smelled pretty earthy and gassy like it's siblings, but after putting it in the jar it started to smell like baking chocolate and dried mushrooms. Weird! After a week the "mushroom" aspect of it started to fall away, and the gassy smell from when it was alive has started to kick back in. Not sure what that's about.



Lots goin' on! Didn't upload any pics yet but I'll get on that soon.

 

[q3corn]

Double G. They got a little stressed a bit from being hungry, and then over-fed to compensate. I've still got some learning about feeding schedule with this new KIS organics I'm using, but I'm really liking it so far.