GoldGrowers Gaff

it's great to have you here Toke

 

I've just been totting up the weights from my 6 auto in DWC grow and I'm really happy with this run

Bubblegum - 99g
Russian rocket fuel - 29g
Lemon something - died
Blackberry - 44g
Lavender - 57g
Chocolate skunk - 203g

Total = 432grams
(15 and a quarter oz)

So dam near a pound, not bad at all.

Over 7oz from the chocolate skunk, is by far the best yield I've had from an auto

Blackberry was my favourite, such an amazing smell. Closely followed by bubblegum.

The rocket fuel is pretty horrible smelling. It smells exactly like diesel. Quite a lot of volume of bud but hardly any trichomes so just no weight to it.

The lavender was nice, really nice mellow high, but I'm in no rush to grow it again.

It's a shame the lemon one died. The chocolate skunk really stole the show on this one. I'm so glad I had that MarsHydro 100x3w (170w) LED, it really helped swell that side up near the end.

It's a shame I had to switch down to 400w from 600w half way through but I'm not sure if the plants noticed lol

 

I didn't take a photo on harvest day unfortunately. But this one was a week or two before. That's a 6' tent with the light almost touching the ceiling lol. A lot of the colas had to by hung up by yo-yos otherwise they would just topple over

 

The first few weeks it was under a MarsHydro 100x3w (170w).
Then a few weeks under a 600w HPS.
Then for the remaining few weeks because it grew too tall, the HPS was dimmed to 400w and the LED was added to the side

 

In my other tent I'm currently growing 13 strains in a 15 pod recirculating top fed hydro system that I built myself


For anyone who doesn't know, the plants were an experiment. I was looking for a plant to grow outdoors and would flower really early.


So I started at 16 hours lights on and 8 hours lights off. Every 5 days I increased the lights off time by 15 minutes.


Fools gold was the first plant to start flowering, but a couple more weren't far behind. Clones have been taken and 4 or 5 of my favourites will be kept until harvest when I will pick the best overall plant.


I want it to start flowering early, but also need flowering times to be short also. And of course I need the bud to be of good quality too.


Because of some bad weather I didn't actually get to put any clones outdoors this year but ill keep the chosen plant until next year when I'll take a load of clones and plant them out. Well, that's the current plan anyway.


Here's what they look like as of today. A couple of the plants look like they are finishing up already which is weird because they have only been flowering for about 6 weeks I think

 

It's good to see you Blazer. I certainly hope so mate. Thanks

 

Heya Danny, good to have you on-board mate. Me too lol

 

it looks like I have thrips again. Dam, I have been clean for months too. They must have been hibernating in the soil. I knew I should have chucked that stuff out. It's been sitting there bone dry for months so thought it would have killed them off


I hope this doesn't turn in to a huge battle like last time, that went on for almost a year

 

yeah those marks are from them chomping on the leaf surface.


I can't show roots until harvest day unfortunately. Those black buckets are full of expanded clay balls, the reservoir on the floor holds all the water and once every half hour it's pumped up to the buckets and it freely drains back down in the reservoir

 

I have never heard of it. Thanks man ill google it and see if I can get hold of some

 

the last time I got rid of them I used Amblyseius cucumeris. They are a predatory mite that feeds on young thrips. With great enough numbers they manage to fully wipe out my infestation.


I just ordered 50,000 for £20, hopefully they will work just as well as before