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laddyd said:
We had an event. I am losing some fan leaves on some of the WW. I let them get a little dry and accidentally pulled one of the plants out of it's pot. 2 days later some fan leaves turned yellow. I think we still have enough foliage to finish flowering in a timely manner. I hate to lose fan leaves, it's been my experience that the longer everything stays green the quicker they finish. Looks like a couple of more weeks. Currently we are feeding them 1/2 tsp Maxibloom with 1/4 tsp Koolbloom every 2 to 3 days. It's been a trouble free grow, Bob's beans have performed admirably.
This will probably be the last SOG I do. It's too labor intensive to manually water and I can't afford an automatic system, plus there just isn't room in the bedroom.
Next grow we will go back to 4 gallon SIP pots and just 4 plants. So far it looks like we will be running Slymer, and Gelato 41 and that is all the good seeds I have left.
Dancing lime, Dancing lime, Wheeler Werx, 2 sativa leaning Wheeler Werx and a group, shot Hail Bob!
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Do you run sips with liquid nutes or nutes in the soil? Looks like a nice harvest but quite busy for watering. Watering wand is really helpfull :)
 
The colas are getting heavy, they kind of hold each other up.
All will change come Monday. The MCP's are coming down, they are as ripe as they are going to get and starting to foxtail. The foxtailing is straight from the unicorn poop father, pretty much every cross I did with it makes tubular buds if you let it.
That's going to give extra room for Bob's beans to flourish. I'm going to have to stake them up when I take out the 4 MCP's though, they are really top heavy. One of the Dancing Limes is very close to harvest. I continue with 1/2 tsp Maxibloom and 1/4 tsp Koolbloom to runoff every 2 days.
Group shot, MCP and the ripe dancing lime.
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laddyd said:
The colas are getting heavy, they kind of hold each other up.
All will change come Monday. The MCP's are coming down, they are as ripe as they are going to get and starting to foxtail. The foxtailing is straight from the unicorn poop father, pretty much every cross I did with it makes tubular buds if you let it.
That's going to give extra room for Bob's beans to flourish. I'm going to have to stake them up when I take out the 4 MCP's though, they are really top heavy. One of the Dancing Limes is very close to harvest. I continue with 1/2 tsp Maxibloom and 1/4 tsp Koolbloom to runoff every 2 days.
Group shot, MCP and the ripe dancing lime.
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Frostyness looks so good congratulations
 
laddyd said:
The colas are getting heavy, they kind of hold each other up.
All will change come Monday. The MCP's are coming down, they are as ripe as they are going to get and starting to foxtail. The foxtailing is straight from the unicorn poop father, pretty much every cross I did with it makes tubular buds if you let it.
That's going to give extra room for Bob's beans to flourish. I'm going to have to stake them up when I take out the 4 MCP's though, they are really top heavy. One of the Dancing Limes is very close to harvest. I continue with 1/2 tsp Maxibloom and 1/4 tsp Koolbloom to runoff every 2 days.
Group shot, MCP and the ripe dancing lime.
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That’s gorgeous. Well done!
 
Rocket Soul said:
Ive never tried the liquid nutes for sips, what ec and media do you use?
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I use Pro-mix or lately Sunshine mix #4 to which I add about 25% perlite for better drainage. Both media have no nutrients, you have to add your preferred fertilizer. I use GH Maxigrow to start with and then when flowering starts I switch to Maxibloom. I don't know the ec, 3/4 tsp per gallon of tap water seems to be the best ratio, every 3 days or so straight water every other feeding., you have to read the soil. I run that from start to finish. With SIP pots in the past I have had some salt buildup on long running plants. If the leaves start to get crispy you'll know. When that happened I flushed it by top watering a couple of gallons of straight water and vacuuming it out with a wet or dry vacuum through the watering tube, then resume normal feeding. Better if the plants finish early before salt buildup. Moderation in nutrient use is key. In retrospect good soil with some dry nutrients would probably be easier.
The current grow is not a SIP grow, it's just 1.5 gallon pots with sunshine mix#4, perlite and GH products of course. I'm trying Koolbloom this go round in addition to Maxibloom.
 
And then there were 9.
I chopped all the MCP, they were at 9 weeks. I also culled one of the dancing limes. It had a spot of mold on it. I did not find any other traces on any other plants, the bud that had it was super dense. I've seen that before always on the rock hard buds wouldn't you know it.
Cleaned out the tent and staked up the tall plants. We have 5 WW and 4 dancing limes.
Now comes the fun part, just a week or 2 left to go they are at 7 weeks of flower and mighty frosty.
Dancing Lime, Wheeler Werx and a group shot. Off to trim jail to clean up and hang the 5 plants I chopped.
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Took some clones off one of the Dancing Limes, it just reeks of lime.
ReVeg is finally done, left them too long in the flower tent during veg.
I dropped one in the middle during transplant, broke part of the root and a branch.
That was the double lime keeper unfortunately, but I'll have a clone.

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