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White HP BX Day 30 a little closer

closer…

From the top

 

[rick ratlin]

That's the update for today. I'm currently at day 37, but I haven't taken any photos since day 30. I'll get some when light's come on and try to update soon. Thanks for the compliments @GoldiNugs! I'll leave ya with a silly pic. These are two Stardawg #6 plants that got planted into flower at less than 2" tall. Happy Sunday Farmers!

I tried to get the right angle, hopefully you can notice it. This particular stardawg actually had star shaped swollen calyxes.

 

[GoldiNugs]

Lol, those little stardawgs are awesome! Single stem, single bud. Perfect microgrow plants!

 

[rick ratlin]

Yes Indeed. I work alone, so It's gotta be manageable. Since I took 9 inch clones when I ran single cola sog, there was never any need to pre veg. Plants, depending on strain, finished around 18-27 inches each, with the bottom 2/3 trimmed. Vegging single colas is a waste of time.No veg, no popcorn ever, and super fast trim times. I just started really doing the whole less plants more scrog recently.

 

[Seed Buyer]

Awesome stranger!

 

[DragonKilla]

Great op dude, dialed in perfectly!

 

[Purpz]

Whoa..impressive!!

 

[rick ratlin]

Hope everyone is doing great. Unfortunately, I don't have any pic updates, as I had to rush to get everything automated for my week vacation. I'll drop the updates when I get back next week.

 

[rick ratlin]

Forgot to mention, I'm in San Francisco for the first time ever, saw Phish at Billy Graham Civic center last night. Great show, best 2001 I've ever heard, lots of ecoplex peddle in that version. Night 2 coming up, with game 6 world series on as well. This place is fully ready to party if the Giants win.

 

[Seed Buyer]

Check out the food at Burma Superstar on Clement St.

 

[rick ratlin]

Great rec @Seed Buyer, really enjoyed that place. Wednesday night Billy Graham was insane, the Giants won the game during Phish's first set, and the energy never went down from there. Exiting a Phish show to enter into a World Series celebration is something else! I Ate at Burma Superstar Thursday for a great recharge. Had the Platha dip and non gym dok while I did my laundry. Headed to Vegas the next day for the end of the Phish Fall Tour. Holy Crap! Never been there before, it was a sight to behold. I don't think MGM was ready for all the wookies stumbling through the Casino in full Halloween Costumes. If you weren't there, and you like Phish, you missed out bad fockers.

 

[rick ratlin]

So I'm quarantined from the grow room right now. Got a bit of a pulmonary hyperinflation going on, and harvesting right now would make it impossible to breath. Also, I don't want to contaminate my flowers. Was gonna pull everything when I got back monday, but now it looks like I'll be pulling a week later at 61 days. My automated set up worked like a dream. I only peaked in for a quick sec to make sure everything was ok, and haven't been back in to take photos. Since I'm resting up, I'm gonna see if I can't find some recent pics of the grow.

 

[rick ratlin]

Here's a pic of all my seeds. Got all these from the bay at thcfarmer. Got a little nuts and dropped some serious dough on the Top Dawg auction, but those have been the best so far, except the chem urkle 2, which just won't pop. Still haven't popped the alien hand grenades, ewok, guava 13, stardawg sister, or the (somango x mendo purps) freebie ( does anyone know who sent these in? I got them march 2012)

 

[rick ratlin]

Here's the current testers from seed, 3 phenos of sour sister (top dawg), 3 rOarGe (including 1 trifoliate), and a couple of Lemon Alien Dawgs (alien genetics) They are only receiving side lighting, but this is only a test.

Its not a great photo, but here's the trifoliate rOarGe. What do you think @baba G ? Have you found any of these?

 

[rick ratlin]

OK I'm back in action. Here's a recap from the White HP BX grow just finished at 62 days.
Day 40

 

[rick ratlin]

Fast forward to day 60. I was out of town and did not take any pics during this period. Keep in mind I didn't go in the room during this period, everything was automated. full room shot. Colas falling all over the place.

 

[rick ratlin]

Day 60 Same Cola as the top picture of post #35

A little closer White HP BX

Close-Up

 

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More Pre Harvest plant shots of White HP BX

Frosty side branch

 

[rick ratlin]

side branch White HP BX:

Time to start filling up the box

First Top Colas are harvested. 1 Colas is left standing for reference. It is about 15 inches long.

 

[rick ratlin]

This picture gives a perspective on the lower larfy growth. It is 10 inches between the pvc trellises. This is the 5th run of the White HP BX, but the first full room run I've ever done. (the other 4 were 2 week staggered perpetual sog runs.) It was noticed that fully lollipopping this strain would prove detrimental to total harvest. This strain just doesn't produce full on baseball bats. Therefore, this run was deleafed fairly heavily to allow growth to lower flowers. If nothing else, the lowers will make for some awesome ice water bubble hash.

Bombed and Depleted

Here's a shot, or an attempt to show the mulch layer on the left bed. It is homemade bokashi and cocoa shells. I broke the surface to reveal a nice mycelium layer going on. The bed on the right was just top dressed with bokashi, as I wasn't sure how well the cocoa would work. Well, I'd say at the least, before I can sample the flowers, the cocoa shells provided a safe damp haven for the microbes to flourish. Also, less water was needed on the cocoa shell side. Next run will be top dressed with more cocoa and bokashi and cocoa shells.