Phyto’s Phun with Photos

[Phyto]

Awesome looking plants @Phyto

Only 1 little suggestion .........less 3 way splitters plugged into 3 way splitters

Yeah, 100% agree, it looks bad, but I did all the calcs, nothing is overloaded. The main line in is 10 gauge, the fuse is 15 amps dedicated to the tent, all the other lines are well within their load capacity. I'm running just under 9 amps total.

 

[Phyto]

So. some phresh pics, we've phinally reached the cottontop stage and the stretch has slowed (thank goodness). I raised the lights a phar as they can saphely go, so it's a waiting game now.

 

[Oldchucky]

So. some phresh pics, we've phinally reached the cottontop stage and the stretch has slowed (thank goodness). I raised the lights a phar as they can saphely go, so it's a waiting game now.
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Looking good! Do you have everything secured? Supposed to get a little breezy tonight!

 

[Phyto]

Looking good! Do you have everything secured? Supposed to get a little breezy tonight!

They’re in the garage, in a tent, so they should be fine. Got the generator ready in case we lose power. It would take a lot of water to overtop the levee and flood, but it’s always a possibility, seeing that the garage is 6 feet below sea level!

 

[Phyto]

Time for an update, phlipped phour weeks ago. Stretch has slowed to a crawl, which is good! The girls are looking phantastik! The only fly in the ointment is I phound three balls on one plant. They were all at main nodes, I just plucked them oph, only one had opened, I doubt much damage was done. I went over every inch of that plant and phound no other ophending parts.

I pulled the two autos, one was getting little patches of brown bud mold, and the other was small, I needed the room and it’ll make phine bubble hash. I have this one auto lepht. It’s much larger, didn’t start flowering until 4-5 weeks!

 

[Phyto]

So the autos have been drying phor about a week, I trimmed them up today and got 4 total oz., but they need to dry a bit more. Not bad for tiny autos. The remaining two autos are doing well:

Here’s the rest oph the tent, got a couple with some purple pheno, starting to get some color:

 

[Oldchucky]

Pretty!

 

[Phyto]

Time phor another update. The autos are now 9 weeks into phlower and looking close, another week or two:

The photos are about 7 weeks into phlower. I phound a phew thrips. I’m spraying some jacks on the soil surphace to try and break the liphe cycle. Truly a minor inphestation, I just plan on doing the soil sprays, there’s only 5 weeks or so left.

 

[Oldchucky]

Time phor another update. The autos are now 9 weeks into phlower and looking close, another week or two:View attachment 2593614View attachment 2593615View attachment 2593616
The photos are about 7 weeks into phlower. I phound a phew thrips. I’m spraying some jacks on the soil surphace to try and break the liphe cycle. Truly a minor inphestation, I just plan on doing the soil sprays, there’s only 5 weeks or so left.View attachment 2593617View attachment 2593618View attachment 2593619View attachment 2593620

Looking sweet,Phyto! Thrips are my pest of choice! Lol!

 

[Phyto]

Looking sweet,Phyto! Thrips are my pest of choice! Lol!

They have a phairly long liphe cycle, in huge numbers they can cause a great deal of damage, but it’s rarely phatal. Mine is pretty minor, and the capt jacks sprayed on the soil should kill the instar stage, that lives in soil.

 

[Oldchucky]

They have a phairly long liphe cycle, in huge numbers they can cause a great deal of damage, but it’s rarely phatal. Mine is pretty minor, and the capt jacks sprayed on the soil should kill the instar stage, that lives in soil.

Yeah, I had a pretty severe case on a couple of plants a few years ago! It stunted them, but at the same time provoked a defensive response from the plants! So what I got off of them was killer! I’ve been thinking about introducing them late in flower!

 

[Phyto]

I’m in the home stretch, 2-4 more weeks with a couple that will be ready sooner. Still battling thrips, I tried a new product called Arber, it can be applied to the plant at any stage. It’s more for control than eradication. But it helps. I’ve put a nice layer of diatomaceous earth on top of the soil and at the bottom of the main stems, this should help break the liphecycle.

 

[Oldchucky]

Looking good, Fighto! will raise a high lyphe to them! Looking pretty!

 

[Hossgrows]

I know square grouper was a east coast term. But maybe it should now be used for the meaning of, "a tent packed full of flowers"

Nice work Phyto

 

[Phyto]

Well, all good things must end. I pulled the plants a couple days ago. I would of liked to have let them go another week or so, but the thrips were starting to get bad, so I pulled them and did a bud wash, which was very successphul. The drying conditions in the garage are perphect right now, 60 degrees and 57% R/H. Looks to be about 18 oz or so, plus the autos I pulled a phew weeks ago, which yielded about 5 oz. I'm going to clean out the tent and treat the hell out of it. I've got a bottle oph pyrethrin which I'll spray at 1 week intervals, then spray the whole tent out with a chlorine solution. I'm 99% sure the thrips came in with some old soil I had outdoors. I'll be getting a truckload of phresh FFOF for the next grow, thank goodness that I have a soil suplier that sells FFOF for about $12/bag. The old soil went into the compost bin and I'll use it later in the veggie garden after it cooks a while.

 

[Galgrows]

Pantastic Phyto boy those dang thrips are in por it now. I love a clean tent and wash mine down every harvest with bleach wipes and water. Had phirps just once and i don't want them again cause i don't do washes i'll just shake the $hit out of them branches and smoke em LOL

 

[Phyto]

Pantastic Phyto boy those dang thrips are in por it now. I love a clean tent and wash mine down every harvest with bleach wipes and water. Had phirps just once and i don't want them again cause i don't do washes i'll just shake the $hit out of them branches and smoke em LOL

I hate bud washing too, but in the last couple weeks the population exploded, you could barely see the stems for the the thrips!! I tried everything, H2O2, oils, diatomaceous earth, even a new product called Arber, which you can spray at any time, problem was it would knock them down for a few days, but they'd come roaring back. Unphortunately I didn't see them until after I was well into phlower, so it really restricted what I could use. Thrips are a first for me, I mean I've had a phew, but never like this! You could literally see them sucking the liphe out of the plants, I'm sure I lost some weight from stunting, but I think I got a boost in the terps as a response to the damage.

 

[cpurola]

I did not know what thrips were until I grew weed. Too tiny I guess, and me having 'old eyes', (hate wearing glasses) but now I know and saw them for the first time on my photos last year.
I really hate spraying anything 'cause I have successfully built up a 'good guys' army to take care of most of the nasties. The only time I see them en-mass is in the late fall when the benephicials have phlown the coup.