1st journal-Sensi Star/LA Ultra/NYC Diesel

[Rosebud]

I have some hashberry to start too.

 

[SensiStarFan]

I have some hashberry to start too.

NICE, I love seeing other members here growing the same strains, makes me feel less alone in my adventure.

Here is some more bud porn of the good NYC Diesel pheno @ Day #48 of flower. I can't believe it still has roughly 3 weeks to go!!!! This "Tungsten" light setting on my digital camera is great. You would never know these pics were taken with the plants right under the HPS lights, no orange glow


-SSF-

 

[TheKlonedRanger]

I'm limited to the closet in one tent at the moment. My wife is wanting her closet back soon so I'm having to go back to the garage...which is where my plans started before I talked her into letting me use the closet. I have convince her to let me crack another seed while I finish flower so I'll have a plant ready when the tent is clear. I am building something right now that will allow me one mother and the possibility of harvesting every 4 or 5 weeks, depending on strain. And I'll be growing out a couple at a time to take cuttings to keep in the fridge for the upcoming rounds.

Anyway, sorry for the highjack. Headband makes me talkative.

You're kicking it bro. Plants look amazing.

 

[bho_expertz]

Thanks bho! I know you are growing out those Mandala strains so here are a couple pics of the 4 Mandala Hashberry I germed. Small seedling, I know......boring pics.
-SSF-

I also bought some hashberry but that will be another grow . I think i will get between 15 and 19 seedlings ( still waiting for some to pop ) between Ganesh, Sadhu, 8 Miles High and Safari. Glad i made the space upgrade :doh: .

Keep up the good work

 

[Rosebud]

I think I need to know about tungsten light. Those are great pictures. I think i need a new camera.
I can't remember if you have grown the NYC before. Does it take ten weeks? They look fabulous.

 

[SensiStarFan]

I think I need to know about tungsten light. Those are great pictures. I think i need a new camera.
I can't remember if you have grown the NYC before. Does it take ten weeks? They look fabulous.

Yea I'm not sure about the camera. I realized I could adjust the light setting on my digital camera and I tried all of the different modes. For some reason this mode, "Tungsten", eliminated all of the orange glow from the HPS lights. It was the only one of like 8 different light settings that did this.

No I have never grown the NYC Diesel. This is my first go-around but it looks like the better of the NYC Diesel phenos might finish before 10 full weeks, I will have to wait and see what the trichs do.


Have a great weekend growing everyone!
-SSF-

 

[Roddy]

Great pics and nice looking plants, SSF!! When I get my camera fixed, I'll check and see if she has that setting!

 

[SensiStarFan]

Hi all!
-Thanks Roddy!
I was able to get the girls outside today for a few hours of natural sunlight for the first time in over a week today, the weather has been crappy. They are supposed to be finishing on roughly 4/23 so I have about 3 weeks to go.

NYC Diesel (better of the two phenos) @ Day #50 of flower:


One of the 2 Sensi Stars @ Day #36 of flower (They have really formed themselves into very nice round stocky bushes. I can see a lot more trich production on the sugar leaves of the Sensi Stars than the NYC Diesel):



The LA Ultra is still developing very slowly and there isn't much to show on the pics, the ugly diesel pheno is still ugly, and the other Sensi Star looks the same as the one I took pics of.

-SSF-

 

[SensiStarFan]

Great pics and nice looking plants, SSF!! When I get my camera fixed, I'll check and see if she has that setting!

If anyone is interested the camera I use is a "Canon Powershot SD200 3.2MP Digital Elph Camera with 3x Optical Zoom". This thing rocks!
hXXp://www.amazon.com/Canon-Powershot-SD200-Digital-Optical/dp/B00064O1P0


-SSF-

 

[SensiStarFan]

Hi all,
Here are the Sensi Stars @ Day #37 of flower. Each of these two giant bushes in the 8 gallon pots are drinking two gallons of water/nutes every two days:


The ugly NYC Diesel pheno @ Day #51 of flower, there is still very very little trich production:


The giant behemoth LA Ultra that I have going. This thing is on my naughty list. It has very little bud growth and is extremely leafy though I am seeing a decent amount of trich production around the forming buds. It is covering over 9 square feet and I can tell the yield is going to be tiny so as I said before, the smoke better be a knockout or I am not growing it again. It is @ Day #37 of flower:


And lastly the good looking NYC Diesel pheno @ Day #51 of flower. She is starting to make my mouth water when I look at her :



-As always questions/comments/ideas jump right in!


-SSF-

 

[bho_expertz]

8 gallon pot ? That is 30 liters ... Jesus ... How much do you veg those ladies and what is the yield expect by single plant ?

They look just great SSF.

 

[SensiStarFan]

8 gallon pot ? That is 30 liters ... Jesus ... How much do you veg those ladies and what is the yield expect by single plant ?

They look just great SSF.

Hi bho, thanks for the kind words for the girls These 2 Sensi Stars and the LA Ultra are all 3 in 8 gallon pots and by far are the biggest plants I have ever grown so I am not sure what the yield is going to do. This is the first time I have ever used the 8 gallon pots for flowering, in the past I have used 2,3, and 5 gallon round pots. I saw these rectangular 8 gallon pots a few months back at a garden center and bought a few to try out.
My flowering area is seperate from my vegging area. I keep no mothers. Two weeks before I want to flower my vegging plants I take clones from them. Two weeks later when the clones root if I am happy with the number of surviving clones I have I go ahead and flower the plants in veg. The rooted clones take the vegging plants space in the veg area and will veg for roughly two months until the cycle in the flower area is complete. The vegging plants then go right into the flowering area and the cycle repeats. This way I get 2 full months of veg for all of my plants from clone before I flower them and the flower area is turned over right after each harvest and a new crop starts flowering. These two Sensi Stars grew so huge because the last two weeks of veg I repotted them in the 8 gallon pots and put them under a 400 HPS 24 hours a day instead of my normal CFL's to finish vegging. They bulked up a ton in those last two weeks of veg.
I was getting around 3 ounces a plant from the Sensi Stars I grew in the past in 5 gallon pots. But these in the 8 gallon pots were topped, trained, and vegged to a much larger size before flower so I am sure the yield per plant will be much more for these two.

-SSF-

 

[Rosebud]

They do look really nice, Sensi.
I get about the same from 5 gallon pots. But, when I take them out after harvest, the roots don't go all the way to the bottom so I hadn't thought I needed bigger...hm, always something to consider.

 

[SensiStarFan]

They do look really nice, Sensi.
I get about the same from 5 gallon pots. But, when I take them out after harvest, the roots don't go all the way to the bottom so I hadn't thought I needed bigger...hm, always something to consider.

Oh well if your roots aren't even reaching the base of the pots I would think you do not need bigger ones. This LA Ultra and the two Sensi Stars had their roots hit the bottoms of the 5 gallon pots they were in while they were still in veg! The two Sensi Stars were transplanted to 8 gallon pots around 2 weeks before flowering. I had been planning on flowering the LA Ultra in a 5 gallon pot but noticed it was really big for it's pot with a week still to go in veg so I transplanted it as well. This was all done on 2/20. The LA Ultra has more than tripled in size since then so I am sure the roots are all wrapped around the base of the 8 gallon pot as well. The reason the plant looks odd in the last pic is because it is tied down with dental floss and you can't really see it in the pic.



I'm off to work, have a good night everyone!
-SSF-

 

[Rosebud]

I guess you did have some roots there! Wow. I will check my last two harvested pots and see. I use the smart pots so maybe that is why.
Have a good night at work.

 

[bho_expertz]

Thanks SSF for the explaination . As said they look good

 

[420_Osborn]

Rose we can compare roots at the bottom of smart pots after my Sensi Star run...

 

[SensiStarFan]

So once I got down to the last 3 weeks of flower I started backing off the grow nutes while continuing to use the bloom and micro nutes of the GH 3 part (also floralicious plus and liquid koolbloom). I think I should have waited longer to start backing off the grow nutes because today I started noticing yellowing leaves on all the plants. I am not sure if my backing off the grow nutes caused this, but I started backing off about 4 days ago so I am assuming this is the most likely cause. I'm going to go ahead and up the grow nutes today when I feed them, hopefully some green returns to the fan leaves that are starting to show yellow.

This is the one part of the GH feeding regimen that I do not understand. I don't know when I am supposed to stop using the grow nute in flower. According to GH's nute chart once the plants hit "late bloom" the grow nute is completely cut out, but I am unsure when this "late bloom" period actually begins.

NYC Diesel (better of the two phenos) @ Day #53 of flower, the yellowing leaves are obvious. One of the cool things I am noticing about this plant is that it's buds don't grow to points. The top of the bud on all of the bud sites is flat:



The Sensi Stars @ Day #39 of flower: My focus has now gone from tying down branches and keeping a flat wide canopy to keeping the overweighted branches upright. You can see in the first picture here where this one had a very large branch blow down in a slight breeze. It didn't break, but I need to go ahead and get it tied up. These Sensi Stars even though they are much bigger than the ones I have grown in the past are growing pretty much the exact same way they always do. They are short thick fat girls with a lot of junk in the trunk


The ugly NYC Diesel pheno with very little trich formation also @ Day #53 of flower. The "fruity" smell off this plant at this point is overpowering. It is overpowering the smell of the 4 other plants in the flower area. I moved the plant around and one of the buds brushed my shirt sleeve. An hour later I could still sniff that spot on my shirt and smell that fruity smell. It may not be forming a lot of trichs but at least the main cola is 12" tall



And lastly the gangly LA Ultra that is not really producing. I am convincing myself to wait until it's done before throwing out it's clones, but the yield is going to be so poor I just don't see how I can continue growing it......she is @ Day #39 of flower:



As always, feel free to jump right in with ?'s/comments/ideas/pretty much anything at all

-SSF-

 

[Roddy]

The nute study on FF might give you an idea of what to do there, SSF, I think the jman mentioned something about this!

 

[SensiStarFan]

The nute study on FF might give you an idea of what to do there, SSF, I think the jman mentioned something about this!

Thanks Roddy I just found the thread and will check it out.

-SSF-