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[MushLuvR]

The baby Vivo tent was flipped at day 50ish and the Gorilla Day 49, right where I like them, usually around 45 days most cycles, but I went a little longer since the Gorilla is 6ft 7 and the shorter plants didn't mind an extra day in the shorter tent.  The OG Kush (on the left) is in the small tent and she's BIG, I'll keep her at bay and with the other two plants very squat, it won't be a problem.  I may re-veg the OG, or grab some late clones, who knows, I have options and my 2x2x4 Veg/multipurpose tent will be here soon.  I may end up doing a Coco run and plow through some freebies that I wouldn't mind checking out, but LOW commitment situation.  Forgot the 5 foot tent photo's the other day.  

 

Gorilla Lite start of Day 5 tonight 8pm lights on time

 

Vivo start of Day 4  tonight 7:30ish pst

 

I gave both tents a foliar spray before lights out this morning... yucca,aloe,dextrose, and fish/seaweed and a tiny pinch of epsom.  I don't measure it, I go by feel, and it's a very small pinch, I prefer giving smaller doses of Epsom, but every feeding.  I have been successful in the past without Epsom, but I have ran into a few spots over the years on leaves (not the end of the world), which I usually see when I go to the final pot (transplant).  Either way, drench or foliar, the stuff is GOLD (sulfur to boot dual threat).  

 

 

Edited by MushLuvR, 02 November 2022 - 11:00 AM.

[MushLuvR]

One WEEK Later...

 

Before And After Non Flash White balanced 

 

 

 

 

 

Boy do the leaves come back Quickly!  Have a wonderful night All

Edited by MushLuvR, 05 November 2022 - 10:37 PM.

[MushLuvR]

Well, it rained a few times this week, and I decided to collect some rainwater for the Humic feeding which is my alternate feeding in-between the ACT.  The Gorilla was fed on the 8th and the Vivo last night at lights on.  The Miracle OG Momma is drinking like no other.  All plants are really close to going every other day with 3/4's (just under 3 liters) of a gallon per plant per feeding, but still on every 3 days thus far.  The OG could definitely go every other day, but I'll wait to keep them all on the same schedule.  The other two small plants are starting to rev up (purple wreck and Berry Bomb) and they will start filling out soon.  Alright ya'll, I'll give an update at 2 weeks.  Take ER Easy  

Edited by MushLuvR, 10 November 2022 - 11:47 AM.

[MushLuvR]

What's good in the world Cannabis Consumers.  I received the 2x2 tent and fan and I had everything else on hand to put it together for my new Veg tent.  This is going to really help me grow for 4-6 months (2-3 cycles) a year and on the last run I could possibly flower the 2x2 if I want... OR Not.  Everything went smooth setting it up, Wow, is it small at 2x2x4.  I'm using an old school Mars 300 light for Veg that I have used many times when needed to get things started, never flowered this light, I have other retired 400's that are more suiting for Bloom.  The 300 does a great job in Veg, and its actual wattage is right around 130 from the wall and doesn't get hot, very low heat. 

 

3.5 days later, we have plants popping, 3 are already surfacing with a get out of my way Soil intention.  The other 3 are close, I can see the ground is cracking/rumbly so they should crack later today.  Right on track, I always get 3 or 4 fast ones and the others right around the 4-day mark consistently.   Alright... enjoy my new ladies to the Party. 

 

 

 

 

 

And the three that are looking Close.

 

 

 

 

The second pic above shows the cracking raised soil the best.  Take Care

Edited by MushLuvR, 12 November 2022 - 01:28 PM.

[MushLuvR]

Well folks, I lost a seed, it happens from time to time, I usually go 6 for 6 consistently, but this seed just wouldn't crack.  I found the seed in the soil just lying there (about 6 days later), not mushy or anything, but no taproot.  I covered it up for another 3 or 4 days and still nothing.  I squished it like a grape, and it was all moosh inside.  The shell was never soft or anything, it just didn't happen.  All good, it was a freebie seed and I'll just run 2 7gals in the big tent (or I may throw a CLONE in, not sure yet), which I've done plenty of times when I'm not running 3 plants per.  Ahwell, enough of what I don't have or could have HAD.  

 

I lagged on putting up the 2nd week photos, and now the plants are close to 3 weeks complete.  Tonight, will be the beginning of day 21 for the Gorilla and day 20 for the Vivo and I will be cleaning them up this weekend.  A leaf plucking PARTY.... OH YEAH!!

 

This last week the plants in the Gorilla have stretched tremendously, I'm going to cut back the veg days (or One more topping) for this tent, the light is a QB96 setup, and the LEDS have more deep red and IR than the QB 3500K setup... so they BE Stretchy!

 

The Vivo kept the plants pretty squat for being 50 days from seed to Flip.  All good, plenty of nodes and will be DENSE flowers with minimal wasted space and or gaps in branches.  Keep Em' Green

 

Gorilla 2 Weeks

 

 

 

Vivo 2 Weeks (a day off)

 

 

 

 

The new girls about 6 days from popping.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll get the 3-week photo's up soon and show the before and after from the Defoliation when I get a chance this weekend.  Happy Friday Folks.  

Edited by MushLuvR, 18 November 2022 - 01:31 PM.

[YoshiTrainer]

Those ladies are looking great Mush!

[MushLuvR]

Thank you @YoshiTrainer, No matter how many times I do this, I'm still just as tickled as ever watching them progress... AND all the Best... to you and yours.  I'm sure you have your hands full from the Outdoor season.  

 

OGK Momma doing JUST Fine and frosting up fast.  She is ahead of the other two plants next to her No doubt.  Thanks for dropping in Yosh.  

 

Edited by MushLuvR, 20 November 2022 - 03:29 PM.

[JuggaloJ]

Very nice plants @MushLuvR !

[MushLuvR]

Thank you @JuggaloJ, I appreciate you stopping by and dropping a line.  You also reminded me that it's time for an update so Thank You.  

 

Where were we, so November 20th, a couple weeks behind, what can I say, it's the holidays, and trying to button up the business for a new year with a game plan to get back to it and expand.  Anyway, I always take quick pictures from the old AF digital, I'm such a cheap ass when it comes to photography, and I shouldn't be, I really enjoy beautiful shots and want to get more into it, but other things in life that take precedence.

 

  Alright, so it's been raining lately, and I've been collecting rainwater, free resource and it's better than tap that has sat out over 24hrs. The bubbling brewer has been doing its job, usually just over a 24hr ACT and smells similar to a clean lake or pond, or a well-cared for fish tank maybe... really enjoy the smell.  I don't Ph anything, but I have checked it for shits and giggles, and it's the 5.8-6.0 range via an old pool test kit that tests both chlorine, and PH.  If you don't bubble the Earth Juice products, the PH will be low, and bubbling helps tremendously, along with the benefits of Aeration in general.  I have run the EJ products for plenty of cycles without bubbling, but it's definitely worth the extra effort, the plants definitely feed faster and seem to absorb it easier and efficiently, but that's just my evaluation, out of the bottle only does produce nice product, nothing wrong with the lazy man's way, but you may get a little PH fluctuation and lose a leaf or two, but at the end of the day, a leaf won't matter when you're chopping down fat buds.  .

 

11.21.22

 

Berry Bomb

 

PurpleWreck

 

OGK

 

 

 

Kuntz

 

Banana Bomb

 

Wedding Cake

 

 

 

11.24.22 The new girls on the Block

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.26.22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good stopping point for Lunchtime... 1  2  3  Break! 

 

 

 

 

 

[MushLuvR]

OMG, I'm SO behind on this.... definitely lost track of this no doubt, but my goal is to get everything up to date... So stay tuned... will be a great BUMP!  

[MushLuvR]

Alright, long story short, at least I'll try to be brief... everything went great with the girls.  I had a tiny bit of a heat issue, but minimal and corrected right away.  I ended up rejuvenating the Kuntz and Wedding Cake, the Kuntz flipped back in 5 days, the Wedding Cake is still struggling, but green growth so it's alive.  It actually drinks as much or more than the Kuntz with a ton of new growth, I've already snagged 6 clones from her. I'll get to those in a bit.

 

12.1.22... Continue where I left off here.  OH NO, plants are NOT happy here.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

The reason I am showing this.... is purely to help ease your mind in thinking about feeding this plant (was just transplanted from Solo Cups) or doing something that will only make it worse. I won't hold out any longer, I do this on purpose, well... I should re-phrase... I do this on purpose, but I don't usually let them get this far along.

 

12.2.22  Already doing better... enjoying their newfound homes.

 

 

12.3.22  Looking Better every day

 

 

 

 

12.4.22 

 

 

12.5.22

 

 

And Close Up shots the same Day... You can see the last plant still a little upset.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can see the plants are back on track, I've even topped most of them (Smaller G13/Haze the last to break soil and was topped 1.5 days later) and cleaned up the bottoms.  Anyway, in a nutshell, I ran the plants too long in the Solo Cups and they were rootbound big time.  I do this for a big full cup of roots to take off crazy in the gallon pot.  I just went longer than I usually do, and they definitely told me it was time to transplant... NOW!  You can see 4 days later happy as can be.  Once you get passed the first two-week seedling stage, they are short plants with HUGE root systems already.  If me showing what NOT to do helps someone, I've done my job.  I already knew the problem since I've ran across this many times (with other growers as well), but if you don't or didin't, NOW you know.  It's easy to think it's overwatering, or overfertilization, or a PH balance problem, No Sir... it's just the roots circling and have nowhere else to go and that can put a guillotine choke on your plant.  Enough of me blabbin' on my soap box... Break time.  Be Back Soon.  

Edited by MushLuvR, 19 February 2023 - 02:05 PM.

[MushLuvR]

12.5.22 for the Flowering Tents.  

 

Vivo: Left to Right:  OGK  Purple Trainwreck and Berry Bomb.  You can see the purpling starting on the PTrain.  Pics are Day 52ish maybe 53.

 

 

 

 

 

Gorilla :  Left to Right: Wedding Cake  Banana Bomb  Kuntz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The frostiness of the Cake and Kuntz is astounding!  

 

12.11.22  New plants looking excellent, Purple Banana Cream, Peach Ozz OG, Blackberry OG, G13/Haze and Runtz Muffin.  All are freebies aside from the Runtz.  

 

 

12.13.22  

 

 

12.14.22 some Root Porn 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AND... this is where I fall off of the edge of the earth... literally NO pictures during this time frame for my Cannabis tents.  Fast Fwd almost 2 weeks...

 

12.27.23 

 

 

 

I had supermarket bags around the 3-gallon pots for a short period of time, so the roots are popping through.  Once exposed to Air they will wither away quickly.  Looks cool though, I enjoyed it.  

 

 

Gorilla Tent, just about wrapped up. Same left to right Cake Banana Bomb  Kuntz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I guess I only gave this plant one pic, wasn't a fan of the looks, I guess (tough with the other two so Pretty).  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good Stopping Point... Another break Needed.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by MushLuvR, 19 February 2023 - 03:07 PM.

[MushLuvR]

A few random shots on 1.2.23 

 

Over exposed tent shot, wrong setting probably from different types of environments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the 5 new girls doing well and slightly ahead of schedule, so they've been pruned a few times (dialing in cycle timing). It was a jungle in there with 5 plants in a 2x2, defoliated a few times as well.  

 

 

 

That's it, a day later I sent them to darkness for 2 days give or take.  Harvest day and shots without the grow lights... makes me excited.

 

1.5.23

 

Purple Trainwreck:  This plant was a dwarf, probably the smallest plant I've ever grown in a 5-gallon pot.  That being said, it was ALL bud.  

I don't shortchange shots on Harvest Day!!

 

 

 

Berry Bomb:  This plant and it's symmetry... really uniform colas.  For being a compact small plant, it had the biggest buds and actually needed another day longer to dry (8 days).

 

 

 

 

 

OGK: This plant is strange but has a Pina Colada sort of flavor to her.  Not what I'm used to with a Kush.  I bought two and the first one was the normal so... All good, it's different and a rescue seed.  I'll take it.

 

 

 

 

 

Break time, One tent left for harvest, MAN is it work.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MushLuvR]

And Lastly, the Gorilla Tent Harvest.  My two favorite plants in this tent, had to save the best for last.  

 

Banana Bomb:  Came out better than expected and it does have a sort of green banana flavor.  Maybe it gets sweeter as it cures, haven't smoked much of this one yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kuntz:  Tastes like Kosher Kush (grown in the past a few times) and Runtz on the end.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wedding Cake:  Tastes like cake frosting with hints of Kush on the end.  Magically delicious (wait that's Lucky Charms).  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The new girls moved from 2x2(Kuntz/Cake Re-Veg) to an open 2x4(Vivo) with the Gorilla being a drying station.  Keep it Movin'

 

 

No pictures after this point of Cannabis, was focused on my Edible chamber needing cleaning (harvesting OH YEAH) and what not, and other projects (life etc..).  I do have a shot from yesterday of the 6 clones I took at day 2 from the Kuntz.  

 

 

 

 

A small tester nug of Kuntz for a Vape Session

 

I'll get some current shots up from the girls, tomorrow night will be 5 weeks complete.  Huge gap of no pics for this round, had to focus on other things, just how it be sometimes.  I'll also show you guys my reveg mommas.  Kuntz plant came back to life SO fast it really surprised me.  Wedding Cake has a small amount of growth, but slow comparatively.  Stay Frosty and Medicated.      

Edited by MushLuvR, 19 February 2023 - 04:52 PM.

[YoshiTrainer]

You certainly did save the best or last MushLivR, those ladies are beautiful!

[MushLuvR]

Happy you enjoyed the show @YoshiTrainer... and thank you for the compliment.  I didn't want to leave this like something went wrong or whatever, NOT the case.  Like I always say, Life is a rollercoaster, ups and downs, smiles and frowns.  We take the good with the bad sometimes, but bouncing back and dusting ourselves off is all we can do.