Not going to lie, I made a really long post but the page refreshed and I lost it all so here goes nothing.
This round has 2 Strawberry Candy from different cultivars (Bloom Seed Co.), 1 Wedding Cake (MSNL), and 1 Cherry Shylock (Sunleaf Seed Co.). These are all clones I have flowered before. Strawberry Candy is very stretchy and the other 2 are shorter and bushy so training will be the theme of this grow.
Please excuse the sad look of these plants as they have been in a drawer getting 20w of led for the last month because my veg tent is full doing a fem seed run. They have a few issues because I have paid very little attention to them other than topping them a few times to restrict growth. I feel that this is a plus because it will allow me to demonstrate the rapid growth and correction of a proper RDWC setup.
The system is running 1150ppm and 450ppfd+6-12% at canopy height of far red and uva in equal proportions though i would opt out of uva(380nm) if i were to build this light again. The dimmer is currently set all the way down reading 269 watts at the wall and the light is approximately 2ft away.
Shout out to Shane over at Migro and the PPFD app for optimizing the Uni-t lux meter for use as a ppfd sensor. I have been using the Photone app but it is not terribly accurate from my anecdotal evidence. If you get a Uni-t make sure it's the Bluetooth version as there is another version that is not. Paid about 25 USD for mine though prices varied between 50 and 20 so shop around.
I run GH maxi series nutrients because they dissolve well in water and don't cause system sludge or foaming. In veg I run 7g of Maxigro per gallon, calmag, and silica. In flower I substitute in Maxibloom and add Liquid Koolbloom and Floralicious plus.
I generally run mushroom bags but need to make some more (I fruit and eat them once they are done myceliating).
I will do my best to do weekly updates. Here we go!
There is a small 10x in the bottom right corner if you zoom in.
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Chop chop!
I was very disappointed with the final product of the Cherry Shylock (probably why it was free/perhaps it was just a bad pheno). So disappointed that I either fed it to my worms or set it out to be processed for the very minimal amount of hash it will produce. It was mostly leaf and not even particularly resin coated. In all fairness it got completely dominated by every other plant so perhaps it would have been better. Either way it's gone and all of the seeds from the previous cross will be discarded. I kept it for the terpenes and was hoping to make wax from frosty buds but it just didn't pan out. Spilled milk and all that.
Strawberry Candy non-keeper
Wedding Cake
Full bucket of stuff I just didn't want to hang. Most of these branches are in the hanging dry net and some are worm food. Going to run them for hash after dry.
Strawberry Candy keeper. You can really see how much of the space it actually took up.
Keeper. Not even close to the biggest branch lol. I was chopping and trimming from 4pm to 3:30am so I was just trying to finish and didn't take many pictures. Sorry about that. Had a couple full purple branches I really wanted to snap but apparently I didn't.
Hanging. Dry net is very full. I only hung the best of the best. Trimmed wet because the RH is still very high where I live. Lost about an Oz to budrot in the dry last round and didn't want to deal with that again.
Next grow will be 1 keeper pheno and 2 Chill Out OG and possibly 1 new genetic.