420Captain first grow. How are they doing ?

[420Captain]

Guys i need help please!!!

Last night the waterline broke so my basement is flooded... I barely safed the remaining 5 plant, but they are in the shower room now, without light, or just a open window...

What should i do ? Should i harvest them early ?

 

[Coconutz]

Sorry to hear that bro, If it's the 5 remaining plants 67 day melon iirc I'd cut them down if there's no prospects of the room being up and running again in the next day or two.

imo they're far enough on that cutting them shouldn't be too problematic to yeild at 67 days?

 

[420Captain]

I got a tent up in another room real quick,
But it was in the dark period and the light went on a few times during setup, is it bad?
And current 68%rh in the tent, i got an aircon unit in that room so thats running and the dehumidifier.
i was thinking about cutting them down now, but how is that gonna effect taste ? And then i should pull an all nighter to trim all 5 for drying net.
What should i do ?

 

[Ejilla24]

How we looking any tips

 

[Coconutz]

I got a tent up in another room real quick,
But it was in the dark period and the light went on a few times during setup, is it bad?
And current 68%rh in the tent, i got an aircon unit in that room so thats running and the dehumidifier.
i was thinking about cutting them down now, but how is that gonna effect taste ? And then i should pull an all nighter to trim all 5 for drying net.
What should i do ?

The light going on for a short spell isn't a big deal they'll even tolerate the odd timer failure.

Cutting them earlier in the harvest window I think gives better tasting weed over left to go amber, about 3 years back I stopped with the amber thing.
I found the lighter fruity fragrant notes disappeared and were replaced with earthy/hashy aromas that didn't float my boat I'm not an amber fan.

 

[420Captain]

Thank you very much!
Dealing with all the clean up now, and when the house is in order a bit, i will cut them down.

Then i'm gonna have to take a brake from growing. Because they gonna need to rebuild my mancave in the basement, so gonna have people in the house.
Yesterday the water company guy was already in the grow room to check the water damage. Luckily he didnt call the cops.

 

[Coconutz]

I've a couple of pics here to share I'm looking at harvesting these soon.

I'm a little reluctant based on the age they're only in wk 5/6 this is new territory for me?

 

[420Captain]

They look ready for harvest ?
But i'm not sure ;-)

 

[Coconutz]

They look ready for harvest ?
But i'm not sure ;-)

Thanks bro, yes I'm in agreement with you
They look ready but the age is throwing me a bit, I've never been in the situation where I've had to consider harvesting at 6wks.

 

[420Captain]

I would love 6 weeks harvest

Btw, did you win pic of the month ?

 

[Coconutz]

I would love 6 weeks harvest

Btw, did you win pic of the month ?

Changing the timer to 11-13hrs rather than 12-12 helps a good bit, there's less stretch, faster into flower therfore finishing quicker, you get better quality nuggets although there's a slight trade off on paper at least, there's some morphological changes that allow for more plants, basically they're more neighbourly.

Same clones age etc only different hrs after flip.

If you're growing purely for fun/personal with no pressure for yeild then vegging on 12-12 makes a big difference in seed to bud time, you can have plants ready 75/80 days after potting the seeds, it's not going to be a record yeild but sometimes speed trumps yeild.

Post in thread '12-12 from seed community journal'

Feb 15, 2026

So they're 69 days from seed

I think it's safe to say they're not going to need another 4wks ?

Who'd have thunk it

• Coconutz

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Tbf the yeild wasn't at all bad?
1 other massive benefit is crops turn around quickly so the amount you can learn in a year is untold

Pic of the month?
I'm not sure bro, I didn't enter but I'm guessing you mean with the root tip photo?
Idk if I get alerted if the picture wins it?

 

[420Captain]

Day 70 or so ?
I'm a bit lost with all what is going on here. The house is a disaster, and waiting for insurance...

But i had a better look at the plants, and i don't think it's a good idea to harvest them all.. Maybe one or two.
Some branches are bending real bad, and trying to support them.

But pictures say more than words, so here we go :

 

[Coconutz]

Day 70 or so ?
I'm a bit lost with all what is going on here. The house is a disaster, and waiting for insurance...

But i had a better look at the plants, and i don't think it's a good idea to harvest them all.. Maybe one or two.
Some branches are bending real bad, and trying to support them.

But pictures say more than words, so here we go :

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They could do with another 7/10 days imo but I still think they're far enough on that if you had to harvest the other 7/10 days wouldn't make or break it I don't think.

 

[genieral]

Keep an eye on humidity levels, especially during early veg to prevent mold

 

[420Captain]

Day 72 or so.

Still allot of white pistils, i don't understand. And a few branches that cannot support themselfs and falling down....
I'm slowing down on the feed for a while now, that is the reason for the colors ?

What do you guys think of them ?

To be a bit positive, the colas look huge on some :-)

 

[420Captain]

Anyone still reading this thread ?

Currently i've cut down 2 plants, one yesterdaynight, and just finished with another.

Today's plant,

And some of yesterday.

 

[TerpBeans]

That is some fine looking bud!!!
Yep, still following along bro

 

[TerpBeans]

On Sunday you posted....had a couple pics included in your update . Since Sunday, how many more buds and branches were toppled over from all the weight?

 

[420Captain]

Thnx buddy!
Now i know i'm not doing it for nothing

The plant i chopped down yesterday had about 4 bigger branches that fell down, and the plant from today was held up bij the tent walls and the ppfd sensor As soon i moved it, it fell over.


Today's plant again lots of fluffy bud... Yesterday wasnt that bad.

I will take a pic from the remaining plants.

 

[420Captain]

The last 3!
The top right one also start to fall over, but i think the huge bud got something to do with it
But i'm gonna chop these down tomorrownight. Should i turn off the light allready ?


Then i have some bad news.. I gonna have to wait a while with a new grow..
Because the main waterline broke in the street, i've got severe house damage and my mancave, garage and growroom need rebuilding
Also gonna try to take some time to boat this summer.
So end of august or beginning september i hope to be back again.