Q3corn's dank mini adventures

[q3corn]

I'm late to the party, but I ordered a few of these AC infinity blowers off amazon a while ago, and they finally showed up. I remember hearing that these have an easier time pulling through static pressure, but they don't have the CFM rating that the fans I was using have. This blower is rated at I believe 35cfm, whereas the dialed-down version of the other fan was I think around 70cfm, top-speed was 200cfm.


Nervous, but I plugged it in. Silent. I looked at the fan, and it was spinning. I put my hand in front of it, and it was on! Lots of power coming out of this fan!


So I took the time to pull the big cfm down and put this new one in. Mounted it fine, same measurements, and after a day and a half the temperatures in the Mega cab never reached 80F! They were consistently between 78 and 82 for the last 3 weeks, and now they're lower! And the fan is so quiet I can hear the inside circulating fan more.


I'm impressed and bothered it took me so long to use a blower. These things are like $15 and work better than any $35 noisy regular fan. I'll be putting some sort of carbon filter behind this soon and I'll report what I find.

 

[q3corn]

Flowering plant updates! These pics were all taken in the last week.


BBG's are looking stressed, but #5 is looking almost done! I'm not sure what happened to them overall, maybe they got some heat stress from being too close to the lights 3 weeks ago before I muscled them down further. #4 still seems to have another 2 weeks to go, and since they're already at day 68 I'm really doubting there's any bubblegum genetics in these at all.
BBG4

BBG5

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CxPGs are the shocker of the year this time around. Again, never saw this strain amounting to anything special, their mom was neglected and I didn't really know too much about the dad, he was just a sperm donor. I swear both of these plants would be considered keepers for me, and if it wasn't for the smell of #2 early on in flower it would have taken me even longer to decide to take a cutting off of it.
CxPG#1

CxPG#2

Clones of CxPG#2 taken 2 weeks ago are just barely showing some roots. I've got them in a passive perlite cloner, so it's slow but hey, anything that just sits under a desk light is ok with me. Really low effort, decent success, just a long time coming. I'll have to come up with a method to get those to root quicker.


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Bad news last night was that I found a few 2-spotted mites on one of my flowering plants! I have no idea if they came in from a new bag of soil, or just from outside, but they're here. I squashed them with my big human fingers but I know that's only a temporary fix. I've got some andersoni mites on the way to help alleviate the pain. I hate spraying stuff, so I would rather resort to bugs first. I'll wash these plants with h2o2 when I harvest them to rinse out whatever dead bugs I have, and then that'll be that!


Lesson here: always take clones. Way easier to toss a clone than to reveg a tiny plant. My JHxPG plant failed to reveg after 3 weeks of trying. It really wanted to, just didn't have what it takes.... Outside of that, I'm learning that this Purple Goat male was ok breeding stock. 3 for 3 on pretty females so far!

 

[q3corn]

Last night after looking over my plants, I noticed some "string" running between some trichomes on my CxPG1... It didn't look like mold since it was so thin, and was only a little clear glass hair running from one trichome to another, nothing "webbed" or anything like that. I thought maybe it was the spider mites, but I haven't even seen any since 2 days ago, and I have been looking at these plants with a jeweler's loupe.


For mites, I have some andersoni slow-release sachets coming next week, so preventative care and management is on it's way. But mold potential bothers me.


I decided to do a h2o2 dunk for my plants at lights-out. I got 1 gallon of 90F water and about a quarter-cup of h2o2. taped up the cups so that no soil would spill out, and I gave each plant a 20-second dunk. I saw some oily sheen on the water like you see when you're rinsing off PM, and so I decided to do a 2nd dunk on these plants just to be sure. Second dunk was 45 seconds. I saw what looked like a little red mite floating around in the water, but It was a bit too mangled to determine what it was. Mostly the only thing I saw in the water after each dunk was dust and some cat hair. To be expected, but I'm glad I got that off.



Anyway, while I was getting these plants washed, I unplugged everything and gave the whole cabinet a spray of vinegar water. Wiped it down after 20 minutes, and turned all the fans back on high. Plants went in right around then. I'm thinking whatever I saw, this was a good step-1 for management. I don't really know if h2o2 does anything for mites, but I know for sure it helps kill mold, so I'm on the right track there!


I wish i could have gotten a picture, but getting my phone's camera to focus through a loupe while I'm holding both items is too difficult for me. If I see something like this again I'll do a better job of taking pics.


My flower cabinet that these plants were in is never above 45% humidity, so the mold thing surprises me a lot. There's lots of air moving around in there too, and the CxPG1 was right next to the fan when I discovered this.


Maybe it was just trichs gettin' sticky with each other and i panicked? Who knows... Better safe than sorry, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" and all that stuff...

 

[PCBuds]

I decided to do a h2o2 dunk for my plants at lights-out. I got 1 gallon of 90F water and about a quarter-cup of h2o2.

That's what I wanted to know.

My plant is covered in cat hair.

 

[q3corn]

That's what I wanted to know.

My plant is covered in cat hair.

My mixture is a bit stronger than it needed to be. When I had a larger grow I would wash all my buds in a 10-gallon bin with about 1 cup of h2o2.



1/4 cup-per-gallon is a strong mixture and I could feel it on my hands even after just a few seconds.

 

[Swanson]

I rinse sometimes too if I feel they need it.. usually just with plain water unless it's moldy outdoor then I would use the baking soda lemon and scrub it. Amazing the crud that comes off in any case !

 

[q3corn]

I rinse sometimes too if I feel they need it.. usually just with plain water unless it's moldy outdoor then I would use the baking soda lemon and scrub it. Amazing the crud that comes off in any case !

You've mentioned baking soda and lemon before. Why those ingredients?

 

[PCBuds]

^^^ What he said.

My plant is completely covered in crap.

I'm willing to do both methods if it helps as long as there are no drawbacks like maybe dissolving my trichs?

 

[q3corn]

No drawbacks to h2o2, I've done it many times. The lemon juice sounds like something that could leave residue on the plant, though...

 

[PCBuds]

OK, That makes sense to me.

At first, I thought you were using it straight and I didn't want to buy 10 bottles of the stuff. Lol

I can spare 1/4 cup and I've already got some so I don't have to leave the house.

 

[PCBuds]

I might toss in some lemon juice to try to introduce an artificial terpene. Lol

 

[q3corn]

OK, That makes sense to me.

At first, I thought you were using it straight and I didn't want to buy 10 bottles of the stuff. Lol

I can spare 1/4 cup and I've already got some so I don't have to leave the house.

H2O2 is potent stuff! Even at 3% concentration from the store it needs to be diluted a bunch!

 

[PCBuds]

Okay, so how much peroxide should I put into my empty juice container/dunk tank ?






I have a severe cat fur problem...






















I may have to use enough to kill an actual full-size cat?? Lol

 

[q3corn]

Thing with hair is you gotta rinse it off, too, so you'll probably do several washes. I would recommend getting a big enough tote to submerge the whole plant at once. Stick the branches in the water, scrape all the gross stuff off the surface of the water, then bring the branches back out. you can use the same bath continuously so long as there's nothing in the water to get stuck back onto the bud.



Basically the ratio recommended is 1/2 cup per 5-gallons. So in canadian that's about 60ml of h2o2 for 20 liters of water. I've always tried to have the temperature warmer, like 80-90F to avoid cooling and snapping trichs off.

 

[PCBuds]

Okay...

I was thinking of cutting off a branch at a time so I won't need such a big container.

I'm gonna hang the branches individually anyway.

I've got 5-gallon pails and an 18-gallon plastic tote.






Should I dip my plant right in my jungle juice ?
Lol

 

[Swanson]

Supposed to help with cleaning the buds better and inhibit further mold growth if that's the case. I didn't come up it with.. read into it a bit and seemed legit. Was gifted some wet slightly moldy outdoor last year and did that to it. You rinse in multiple buckets the last one being clean water. Couldn't taste lemons ...

 

[PCBuds]

I've got lemon juice, bicarbonate, and peroxide.

I think I might try both types of dunking.

Warm water makes sense to me too.

 

[q3corn]

Supposed to help with cleaning the buds better and inhibit further mold growth if that's the case. I didn't come up it with.. read into it a bit and seemed legit. Was gifted some wet slightly moldy outdoor last year and did that to it. You rinse in multiple buckets the last one being clean water. Couldn't taste lemons ...

What ratios are you using for the lemon juice though?

 

[Swanson]

Overly light, a few squirts of concentrate per 3 gallon pail.

 

[PCBuds]

I'm just speculating but when lemon juice and baking soda are mixed they react and you get a bunch of CO2 bubbles.


Peroxide only reacts with organic matter and you may not end up with as many scrubbing bubbles.