Schmebulock grows Auto Colorado Cookies & Sam's Crack

I have only powered it on - haven't messed with the dimmer yet so it sounds like it's dimmed

maybe i'll leave it where it's at and turn it up as the next step instead of lowering the light to increase PAR

 

cool i'll work on that tonight

 

What PAR numbers do you look for soil? Or do you have a lightmeter?

 

January 17th, 2019
Was a date night with the Mrs, didn't do much in the garden.

Auto Colorado Cookies & Sam's Crack:
Week 3, Day 4 (SC: Day 2)



@Soil2Coco cranked the power to 11... well 217 is the highest my wattage will go on the dial.

Day 7 of RH 65 Temps. Had an issue last night and the RH dropped to 45 for a bit (my power strip flipped its breaker, have never had that happen before but this is an old powerstrip)




Click the picture to zoom in and see it sparkle

This weekend I plan on building a new configuration for my manifold to get that installed. I'd like to get the girls feeding daily again before too long. Hand feeding will eventually take 30 minutes lol

 

gave them a squeeze and most of the buds are pretty dense already - tonight will be 8 nights of 65 RH dry. I am getting a hay smell still, but it's less strong than it was. I'm hoping that means once I get them into the jars and start daily burps we'll start getting some nicer smells lol

 

yeah i just kind of like the golden glow right now lol, i'm used to white (replaced a 315w CMH) so it's a new and fun thing lol

i'll adjust lighting for 3k in the future

 

January 18th, 2019

Decided to chop the ladies, it had been 8 days of 65 RH. The girls have a faint smell of hay but it's less prominent than I normally smell by this point - hoping that means for more smells to manifest.

Total harvest from 4 plants, 22 ounces:


Some weigh in shots:

Fruity Pebbles #2 - under its own 300w light

FP2 close up


Top Banana Big Cola ended up weighing in at 22 grams! Almost an ounce by herself!!




Big nugs from FP2, BK1, BK2:




Then put the final trim through its paces with dry ice and gave it a good beatdown:

15 Grams of kief from 4 plants that were mainlined and only allowed to veg for 3 weeks before pushing into flower!!! I'll take it

 

January 22, 2019

Girls are about 16 days old, but haven't grown much last 3 days.

I let the girls dry out too much - i'm worried I caused some long term issues. I was prepping for the transplant and wanted them to be on the thirsty side.

Worked on the @Soil2Coco manifold and finally got that all hooked up. Actually ran into some leak issues so I had to do some sealant around the threading of each of the ball valves - cheap chinese stuff.

T Intersections with hosing ziptied off. Drilled 1/8th inch holes, 3 per side.


Manifold facing front for maintenance (it will turn 90 degrees and ultimately face left during production.

Pump with in-line filter. Will probably work on a support structure to keep that from falling over or breaking between fills.
Steep angle here will change - ran out of PVC

Sam's Crack, 15 days old - little dry, little sad
5 Auto Colorado Cookies, Day 17 - these girls have been droopy as well - hoping the manifold starts making these girls shine.

Lotta fkn work man, and I got sick over the weekend. Pretty shitty stuff that laid me out a couple days. Thanks for looking! hoping to see them perk up in the coming days.

 

Hey S2C - i agree the rise is a bit much - but at this point i need the reservoir to stay on that side of the garden. If i moved it to the corner for a straight vertical rise it would always be in the way for tent access. I want to change my reservoir to something that's a bit more vertical. My pump stops pumping when there's about 2 gallons of feed left in the tank since it's so wide - that's wasteful.

I also teflon'd the thread on the ball valves but a couple of them were still leaking. I just jammed some silicone around the bottoms of each PVC hole so after it's threaded in the silicone is just an extra seal. These valves are not awesome, leaky, but manageable.

Eventually that water climb will be a slight 1-2 degree angle at the top so the pump isn't stressing to push the water up the whole way.

 

January 23, 2019
Week 4, Day 4 - ACC

Week 4, Day 2 - Sam's Crack

 

January 24th, 2019

Week 4, Day 5: Auto Colorado Cookies - topped all 5 girls last night - topped a rung higher on ACC1 and ACC3 since they're a bit smaller. If I have to sacrifice a couple to make room for the others, those will probably be the two phenos I scrap.


Week 4, Day 3 - Sam's Crack - Topped her as well:


Thanks for looking!