Pro's not so pro grow.

[Streetpro09]

Those cola's look very solid. How did you top them?

They are pretty dense. Expecially the Tangerine haze.

I actually didn't top them at all and let them grow naturally. I thinned allot of undergrowth and side shoots so there were only so many colas per plant. It's seemed to make the upper flowers bigger.

 

[Streetpro09]

Weekly update. Sry for the crummy pictures but there isn't allot to be seen. Next update they'll be better.

Skittles are the 3 on the left. The front and middle on the right side are grape champa and the top right is blueberry.

Right tote has two blueberry and one skittles.

 

[Capt C]

Weekly update. Sry for the crummy pictures but there isn't allot to be seen. Next update they'll be better.

Skittles are the 3 on the left. The front and middle on the right side are grape champa and the top right is blueberry. View attachment 46074

Right tote has two blueberry and one skittles.
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Just curious if that lid on the tote blocks all of the light from the reservoir. @spyralout has had some success with a product to spray them black with.

 

[dstroy]

Here is one that'll come down this weekend and another one that has a few weeks left.

Tangerine haze
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Copper top
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[yougrowyourway]

Just curious if that lid on the tote blocks all of the light from the reservoir. @spyralout has had some success with a product to spray them black with.

It doesn't but I doubt algae will be an issue. But hey everyone environment is different so idk. I don't think street would overlook that. Good point out tho Capt. Always looking out!

 

[Streetpro09]

Just curious if that lid on the tote blocks all of the light from the reservoir. @spyralout has had some success with a product to spray them black with.

Yes some light does get through the yellow lids. I just hydroguard and it seems to take care of any problems. Maybe I'll put some black spray paint in the future but for now no issue to speak of.

 

[yougrowyourway]

Yes some light does get through the yellow lids. I just hydroguard and it seems to take care of any problems. Maybe I'll put some black spray paint in the future but for now no issue to speak of.

Spyr has the tips for that. The right paint and way won't chip or peel. Make sure it's not latex. Whatever it is spyr knows lol. I haven't had issues yet with my white bubble buckets and light definitely gets in there. Oh well different environment different regions too many variables I'm out! Looking great tho bro glad you're back around!

 

[Streetpro09]

A couple pics of a random plant that's coming down Sunday. Not sure what it is. I never tagged it from clone and I forgot over time. Imagine that. Lol

 

[Streetpro09]

An update on the little ones. They are looking a little funky. Leaves are rigid and curling and kinda on the dark side. There's only calmag mixed in with ro water at this point so i went ahead and dumped most of it and mixed up some nutes to add back. Filed 1 tub and phed to 6.2 and about 350 ppms. Filled the other tub and phed to 5.6 and about 400 ppm.

Water was changed Wednesday night. They are looking better this morning. Will get some more pictures up in the next day or two to show their progress.

 

[spyralout]

Just curious if that lid on the tote blocks all of the light from the reservoir. @spyralout has had some success with a product to spray them black with.

Sorry I didn't see this. Notifications are hit and miss.

I've tried a few things. This one has worked so far, I have a yellow lid commander that I used it on currently in veg:


$8 at O'Reilly auto parts. Auto zone doesn't have it, and all aerosol sprays from Amazon are more expensive (probably DOT hazardous, costs extra to ship). Wally, Blowes, Dome Hepot don't have it either. No need to sand. There are others like it like Bulldog for 3x as much. Haven't tried them but same concept. It gives the plastic a "rough" surface for the paint to adhere to. I then shot it with some freebie black all purpose spray paint I got from a buddy who got it from his work. Spray paints meant for plastic may have this ingredient in it to some degree. I tried it on another lid that had been painted with straight plastic paint before and it is chipping off. So now I have one tote with a chipping off lid and one with a nice solid black coating. I tried using the spray above and reshooting it black but it didn't work probably because of the old layer just "floating" on the plastic. I got a replacement lid from the manufacturer but was pressed for time so I just used the shitty lid.
A little algae doesn't hurt. I have a little bit in my F&D tote trays. Bennie tea keeps it manageable. The canopy ends up shading the tray anyway so it mitigates the issue even more.

 

[Streetpro09]

Sorry I didn't see this. Notifications are hit and miss.

I've tried a few things. This one has worked so far, I have a yellow lid commander that I used it on currently in veg:

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$8 at O'Reilly auto parts. Auto zone doesn't have it, and all aerosol sprays from Amazon are more expensive (probably DOT hazardous, costs extra to ship). Wally, Blowes, Dome Hepot don't have it either. No need to sand. There are others like it like Bulldog for 3x as much. Haven't tried them but same concept. It gives the plastic a "rough" surface for the paint to adhere to. I then shot it with some freebie black all purpose spray paint I got from a buddy who got it from his work. Spray paints meant for plastic may have this ingredient in it to some degree. I tried it on another lid that had been painted with straight plastic paint before and it is chipping off. So now I have one tote with a chipping off lid and one with a nice solid black coating. I tried using the spray above and reshooting it black but it didn't work probably because of the old layer just "floating" on the plastic. I got a replacement lid from the manufacturer but was pressed for time so I just used the shitty lid.
A little algae doesn't hurt. I have a little bit in my F&D tote trays. Bennie tea keeps it manageable. The canopy ends up shading the tray anyway so it mitigates the issue even more.

Thanks for the info. I know plastic usually isn't fun to paint so it never crossed my mind to spray these lids. Might have to do it now.

 

[Streetpro09]

Fridays update a few days late. They are starting to take off sense i feed them.






And I got an ro system this weekend. Now I hope I won't have to take trips to the local grocery store for clean water twice a week. It took my 450pp water down to 15ppm. Now let's hope there are no bad pathogens in my water where I need a uv light. So I'm going to only use this water on half my pants for now and see what happens to the roots.

 

[Streetpro09]

Well it's been about a week sense i last posted an update. Here they are as of this morning. Skittles and Grape Champa are in the individual buckets. Blueberry are the three in a tote together.

 

[Streetpro09]

Got some new ones started. Tails within 48 hours.

 

[Streetpro09]

 

[Streetpro09]

Two different skittles before their change to 5 gallon buckets.

 

[Streetpro09]

Skittles in the flower room before their first night of 12 hours.

 

[Streetpro09]

A little root porn. This is 5 weeks of veg with trimming every week.

 

[Streetpro09]

Grape champa going into flower. @Dope Heffalump. They both appear to be female. Two totally different pheno types. One short and stocky. The other tall and stout. They are at 7 weeks of veg from seed.

 

[Streetpro09]

Here are what the skittles are looking like at 11 days after flipping. I'm thinking I should have only vegged for 3 weeks instead of 5.