weedcurious64
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Looks great LG! 18g is a respectable yield, props! Beautiful flowers. I like that plant.
Well done!
Well done!
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Yogurt Cup Challenge
- Thread starter Avinash.miles
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lemongrove
Will do Avi. Thanks WC.
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lemongrove
Start to finish yogi challenge photos
Start to finish yogi challenge photos
Start to finish yogi challenge photos
kickass!!! great pics showing the little plants progression in the yogi cup, thanks for promptly sharing those pics LG!
Like i said before, just making it to the finish line in this challenge is commendable, and you have done much more than simply finishing.... you've finished with flying colors.... BIGUPS!!!
good looking plant, great harvest you got there, can't wait to see the DRY weight also!
Like i said before, just making it to the finish line in this challenge is commendable, and you have done much more than simply finishing.... you've finished with flying colors.... BIGUPS!!!
good looking plant, great harvest you got there, can't wait to see the DRY weight also!
weedcurious64
Member
Yogi Pics in One Post
Yogi Pics in One Post
I only post dry weight photo for 1 plant (the highest yield) at the end.
Yogi Pics in One Post
I only post dry weight photo for 1 plant (the highest yield) at the end.
weedcurious, not bad, 5 grams from a yogi! good job!
thanks for sharing those progression pics.... i think it really shows what we are doing here.
thanks for sharing those progression pics.... i think it really shows what we are doing here.
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lemongrove
Nice job WC. I like the look of your girls.
Thanks Avi. It really was my pleasure.
Thanks Avi. It really was my pleasure.
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weedcurious64
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Yeah, this was fun ... I'm up for another round in some fashion. I know we still have more coming in, but it's fun seeing the end results roll in!
my yogurt cup plants, still going
it's pretty obvious that i've cut out almost all the nitrogen from their feeding, now giving KoolBloom powder and silica, and molasses.... not even calmag plus with it's puny N.
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lemongrove
Lookin' good Avi. Do you do any kind of flush with your soil grows? I don't do a flush when I do soil but I know most people do. I don't add any extra nutrients in my water when I water for a soil grow; depending on the strain. Some heavy feeding strains get some nutes in the water. With a yogi grow it would be impossible to have enough nutes in the soil for a grow without adding some with each watering.
If I find a strain needs some nutes in the water I try to add more nutes to the soil the next grow so I don't need to add during the grow; it's a balance you have to find. I have a basic amount of nutes I add to the soil that I've found works for most strains but definitely not all. I've also burnt some light feeding strains by adding my normal amount of nutes to the soil and have to dial that back the next time I grow that strain. I try to find out as much as possible about a new strain before I grow it so I know before hand if I need a lighter or heavier hand with the nutes but sometimes it doesn't work out and you lose a plant to overfeeding but that's part of the learning process. Most plants, that I've dialed in how much food they need, are fed by whatever nutrients I put in the soil.
I know you grow some of DJ's strains, something I've always wanted to do but have been intimidated by what I've read about how finicky they are to feeding. So maybe you can give me some pointers for growing DJ's strains. Man if I could find a good cut of Blueberry or Flo I'd be in heaven.
If I find a strain needs some nutes in the water I try to add more nutes to the soil the next grow so I don't need to add during the grow; it's a balance you have to find. I have a basic amount of nutes I add to the soil that I've found works for most strains but definitely not all. I've also burnt some light feeding strains by adding my normal amount of nutes to the soil and have to dial that back the next time I grow that strain. I try to find out as much as possible about a new strain before I grow it so I know before hand if I need a lighter or heavier hand with the nutes but sometimes it doesn't work out and you lose a plant to overfeeding but that's part of the learning process. Most plants, that I've dialed in how much food they need, are fed by whatever nutrients I put in the soil.
I know you grow some of DJ's strains, something I've always wanted to do but have been intimidated by what I've read about how finicky they are to feeding. So maybe you can give me some pointers for growing DJ's strains. Man if I could find a good cut of Blueberry or Flo I'd be in heaven.
Lemon, the flo is not very finicky at all... its stable genetics, strudy structure, close node spacing, can take nutrients without sensitivity and burning.....
as for flush... usually week one is just molasses water, then straight water weeek 2....
as for flush... usually week one is just molasses water, then straight water weeek 2....
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lemongrove
Dried weight
Dried weight
The next to last duty for the challenge is posting the final weight. I borrowed a friend's scale and took a pic. I dried it for five days and I usually dry for 7 to 10 days but it's been cold, the heat has been running a lot and it's been very dry in my home so it dried a little faster than usual.Dried weight 17.1 grams.
The final duty will be a smoke report. I'll cure it the jar for a couple of weeks and do a smoke report on about the 10th.
Dried weight
The next to last duty for the challenge is posting the final weight. I borrowed a friend's scale and took a pic. I dried it for five days and I usually dry for 7 to 10 days but it's been cold, the heat has been running a lot and it's been very dry in my home so it dried a little faster than usual.Dried weight 17.1 grams.
The final duty will be a smoke report. I'll cure it the jar for a couple of weeks and do a smoke report on about the 10th.
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weedcurious64
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Awesome!! You did in 1 plant what I took 3 for
Guess size does matter - LOL.Nice looking bud LG!
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lemongrove
Thanks WC. I was surprised by the size myself; I really wasn't expecting that. I hadn't ever grown with the hempy bucket style before and I was experimenting with it. It really does work and I also attribute some of the size to the Dyna Gro nutrients. I've used those many times before and they always gave me really great results. I'm pretty sure the fact that I had them under a 1,000 watt light didn't hurt either.
weedcurious64
Member
Yeah, I think I beat you on gpw with my little 184W CFL ...
I'd like to experiment with the hempy thing ... I have to retool a bit to do the faux hydro thing, I only have soil nutes laying around. I'll look at Dyna Gro, thanks.
Awesome little plant you had. This was fun, we should do again.
I'd like to experiment with the hempy thing ... I have to retool a bit to do the faux hydro thing, I only have soil nutes laying around. I'll look at Dyna Gro, thanks.
Awesome little plant you had. This was fun, we should do again.
definitely, we will do it again.....
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lemongrove
The hempy is very easy. I used some broken up small rock wool cubes in the cup and drilled about four small holes about an inch up from the bottom in the yogi cup. The way it's described in the hempy thread here on IC is that you buy like a 2 gallon bucket or just about any size really, I have a couple of mop buckets around that are 2.5 gallons and they would work, drill a few 1/2 inch holes about two inches up from the bottom, use about three parts pelite and one part vermiculite or you could do like I did and use rockwool and your nutes.
You're supposed to ph your nute solution to 6.2 but I didn't ph mine for this yogi grow and had no problems at all with lockout of any nutrients; I was really surprised by that because I had always read that if you didn't ph your solution you'd have all kinds of problems. Honestly I think I got very lucky with that because I have checked the ph of my tap water and it's about 7.6. Maybe the Dyna Gro isn't as sensitive to ph but that is only a guess. My experience with the yogi was that it wasn't a problem.
It is really simple and from my little experiment, pretty damn effective. I know my next big grow will be with that style. The yield for this yogi grow far exceeds my expectations. I was HOPING that I'd get five grams dry out of this at the most and honestly I really didn't expect to even get that. When my little guy took off and started to grow really big I was shocked. Hempy is the real deal.
You're supposed to ph your nute solution to 6.2 but I didn't ph mine for this yogi grow and had no problems at all with lockout of any nutrients; I was really surprised by that because I had always read that if you didn't ph your solution you'd have all kinds of problems. Honestly I think I got very lucky with that because I have checked the ph of my tap water and it's about 7.6. Maybe the Dyna Gro isn't as sensitive to ph but that is only a guess. My experience with the yogi was that it wasn't a problem.
It is really simple and from my little experiment, pretty damn effective. I know my next big grow will be with that style. The yield for this yogi grow far exceeds my expectations. I was HOPING that I'd get five grams dry out of this at the most and honestly I really didn't expect to even get that. When my little guy took off and started to grow really big I was shocked. Hempy is the real deal.
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weedcurious64
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You know, my experience is similar ... you read a lot about pH and it's importance, but weed grows just fine without any ... my tap water is 7.0 ... I suspect the nutes are a bit acidic so they drop it to a happy place, but I don't fret of tenths of a point.
I will say it's a bit funny as I effectively have 3 moms of 3 strains ... and occassionally 1 or 2 clones will show signs of deficiency or lockout ... *they're from the same freakin' mom* ... *fed the same nutes* and are in the same cabinet ... so there is something close to twichy I'd guess, but not enough for me to be overly concerned with.
When I said I'd need to retool, I really meant start with different nutes -- the hempy and hydro grows need Ca Mg supplementation that isn't in the soil nutes I use, and I probably would get a pH meter
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lemongrove
Wc the Dyna Gro Grow and Bloom have Calcium in them and I add Mag Pro during flower. I use the Pro-Tekt throughout and the KLN at the beginning of veg. I've never needed to add any calcium supplements as far as I could tell but some problems with some of my earlier grows, when I was a noob, may have been calcium problems and I was just too inexperienced to know that is what it was.
I've never ph's their products when I've used them in soil grows but soil is a good ph buffer; not saying it wasn't needed at times with some strains and may have been the cause of some of the early problems I had. I've used them for soil grows for a couple of years.
I did my first organic soil grow my last grow to see if I would get more flavor. It was very good but not any better than when I used the Dyna Gro; I did love the simplicity of it though. I think proper ph in a real hydro system is mandatory from everything I've read.
What you said about your experience with some strains being finicky has been my experience also. Some strains are light feeders, some are heavy and you need to grow those strains several times before you can figure out how to feed them properly.Hell I grew some Mandala strains and I think those damn things were so hardy you could grow them in a bucket of water.
I've never ph's their products when I've used them in soil grows but soil is a good ph buffer; not saying it wasn't needed at times with some strains and may have been the cause of some of the early problems I had. I've used them for soil grows for a couple of years.
I did my first organic soil grow my last grow to see if I would get more flavor. It was very good but not any better than when I used the Dyna Gro; I did love the simplicity of it though. I think proper ph in a real hydro system is mandatory from everything I've read.
What you said about your experience with some strains being finicky has been my experience also. Some strains are light feeders, some are heavy and you need to grow those strains several times before you can figure out how to feed them properly.Hell I grew some Mandala strains and I think those damn things were so hardy you could grow them in a bucket of water.
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I've had great experience with dynagro products FWIW
