[Nate]

I’ve got a new 2×4 tent that I scored off Kijiji for $90 CAD. I’m gonna have it as a mother/clone/seedling space along side my main 3×3. Pretty excited to have another tent to work with. Currently I have some green onions, a lettuce seedling, a snake plant cutting, and a seedling of hella jelly by Humboldt seed co. All of this under two 50 watt t5 fixtures. #spiderfarmer420

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Post harvest:

 

 

 

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I kind of dropped the ball on this grow journal, but I figured I should finish it off now.

I ended up taking them all the way to somewhere around day 74 of flower, and one of the plants honestly could’ve gone another week or two judging by the quality of the smoke. All told I ended up with 263 g of dried bud, so a little over 9.25 ounces. Pretty good haul for 3 plants in a 3×3 if you ask me.

 

 

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After talking to my buddy that I got the bud from that had the seeds in it, we think we’re pretty sure it was actually a gelato x Granddaddy Purple cross that the seeds came from, so I will be referencing them as G x GDP fro here on out.

These girls have stretched quite a bit after flipping to flower. So much that I actually had to remove my light hangers and my light is zip tied to the bar at the top of my tent lol. With my light all the way up, I have about 14″ to my highest tops.

G x GDP #1 & #2 have been throwing out full pollen sacs, and today I found a couple of raw nanners on G x GDP #2. I had cut off any branches with even a single pollen sac earlier in the week on both plants, and have been checking all the nodes on all plants daily since. I have not found any pollen sacs on G x GDP #3 or #4 so far, and none on #1 since removing the ones earlier this week.

G x GDP #2 also had been about 8″ shorter than all the other plants, and had not been progressing as quickly into flower. So I made the call to cut my losses on it, and cut it down. I used the empty space to spread out G x GDP #3 as it was the most crowded.

So I’m down a plant, but I’m hoping this will save me some heartache later on with getting only seeded bud. I think I managed to catch it before any of the male flowers put out any pollen. I guess this is what I get for running Hermie genetics again lol.

Here’s the remaining 3 plants in the 3×3:

A closeup of one of the tops on G x GDP #4:

A closeup of one of the tops on G x GDP #3:

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Forgot to mention that it’s day 25 of flower today, and it’s too late to edit the post.

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I found that one to be really informative, although I haven’t listened to it in a while. I did find it a little dry, possibly because the subject matter was a little above my knowledge level at the time. I’ve been mostly listening to growcast when I’m in the mood for a cannabis growing podcast, since the host does a really good job of getting his guests to explain thing so the layman can understand it.

Here’s a link to his most recent episode with Dr. Coco from coco for cannabis, talking about the ins and outs of LED ‘s, and lighting schedules in general.

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As far as the reservoir is concerned, it has pretty much completely settled, with little to no drift in the res itself. The readings at the bases are sitting pretty steady around 5.8 to 6. I’ll update that spreadsheet this weekend and post that later on.

As far as my thoughts on the Autopots so far, I’m really loving not having to water multiple times a day, and not having to mix nutrients every single day. I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that the plants are able to take a fairly high EC since they aren’t drying out at all. I’ve been pushing the EC at about 2000 μS now, with no signs of nute burn so far.

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These girls are blowing up pretty quickly, so I decided to flip to flower yesterday. I’m at the point that if they double during the stretch, I’ll have just enough clearance to raise my lights all the way up.

Here’s the tent before the flip:

First day with the HPS bulbs in:

And I also added a second layer of trellis netting.

And of course there’s the spacebucket plant as well:

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The higher EC wasn’t exactly a plan from the beginning, it just happened to work out that way. I’m following the feed chart for the dual fuel line for the Autopots, but I’ve also added calmag and silica, so that’s where the higher EC comes from. If you go by the feed chart alone, I should be somewhere around 1.6 mS (1600 μS) right now, but I’m actually closer to 2.1 mS (2100 μS). I was just noticing that they weren’t suffering any nute burn, and that maybe it was because there’s less opportunity for the EC to raise in the pots between fertigations (watering with nutrients).

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I read the wording of that one to mean that you’d be fine as long as it was ingested in the context of a religious ceremony. But then again, you may have state laws that contradict that. Either way, I’m not a lawyer, or even an American, so definitely don’t just take my advice lol.

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The reasoning was based on avoiding issues with native ceremonies, but it’s excluded from the criminal code entirely for all Canadians, and I would assume foreign visitors as well. As far as I can tell, there is no restriction on peyote whatsoever as long as you aren’t processing it into mescaline or anything else. I would assume tea would be fine as well since you aren’t changing it chemically.

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So, in Canada the criminal code specifically excludes peyote when defining the illegal substances in the controlled substances act. Here’s the criminal code.

From the schedule III section:

“Mescaline (3,4,5–trimethoxybenzeneethanamine) and any salt thereof, but not peyote (lophophora)”

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No worries man. I just figured I’d point out the fact that I’ve been told you shouldn’t top water when bottom feeding. You might be able to add recharge to a DWC setup though, I’m not sure since I’ve never done one.

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Yeah I’ll try to remember to check it when I harvest then. Do you think it’d be a good idea to test the coco for pH? I have a bunch of it left over after potting up. I’m also wondering if maybe my issue stems from when I buffered with calmag. I believe I was following the guide by coco for cannabis, and I don’t think I checked the pH of the solution before buffering.

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I’ll keep it in mind if I do end up with any lockout deficiencies, but so far the pH hasn’t really given me any major issues, it’s just a little higher than I’d like it to be. Also, as far as using a compost tea, I’m not sure how I’d feed it, since you’re not supposed to top water when bottom feeding, and I wouldn’t want to put any organics in my reservoir for fear of bacterial build up in the res/lines.

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