GrowHobo and Spider Farmer SE5000

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Flipping to 12/12 tonight. Looking like one of the reg Fruity Pebbles is gonna be a dude but everything else is showing female for sure. I can always throw in a clone if I have and holes. Doubtful though. Probably run 12/12 for a week and pull a few clones clean everything up and put in a net. A few taller plants are showing what looks like phosphorus def on some older growth. I gotta assume it’s from being overwatered and under fed when I first upped to the 3gal. Not gonna chase it. Running straight promix. Probably use a slight amendment next to go round. Lights still about 24” at 55%. Some could handle more light but some don’t want it so it’s a happy medium.
 
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I also forgot to mention my tap water is 250ppm soooo that’s an issue also. I’m really not wanting to go too RO water. I need to look into this more.
 
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I also forgot to mention my tap water is 250ppm soooo that’s an issue also. I’m really not wanting to go too RO water. I need to look into this more.
If you can source 5 gal bottles of RO, you can mix RO with the city water at a ratio of 4:1 and that’ll bring the ppms down quite a bit. I did a whole run using 50/50 RO/city water and it worked out great.
 
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I also forgot to mention my tap water is 250ppm soooo that’s an issue also. I’m really not wanting to go too RO water. I need to look into this more.
I took a 5 gallon bucket and dropped a little aquarium air stone in the bottom. I aerate and ph adjust my feed water for 24 hours before using it.

I can also positively attest to using 50/50 tap water and steam distilled.
 
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Trained a few down. Cleaned up the bottoms so I can water with a wand. Need to do more training on a few but my back says no unfortunately. Might just lean in and super crop the last reachers. Also tossed in a mamma plant to replace the male I had she looks a little rough “front right” but I like odd numbers. 😁
 
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PipeCarver

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As long as you keep them in veg till they show them selves you are completely safe. If you put them into 12/12 to force them to show then you gotta be super vigilant but I’m with my plants every day so it’s a non issue for me. I’m more worried about fems herming on me personally but generally as long as there is no stress it’s not a big issue. Regs are better more stable genetics without a doubt though.
Nice grow! I find regs a pain in the ass. It sucks planting 7 seeds, nurturing, feeding,lighting,using good soil then finding out 5 are male...it hurts. This grow I'm on now some of my nicest plants ended up being male...I know I grow them too long before sexing but I need a good harvest and small plants just don't cut it for me. These were my last males culled out at 7 weeks old.
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GrowHobo

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Nice grow! I find regs a pain in the ass. It sucks planting 7 seeds, nurturing, feeding,lighting,using good soil then finding out 5 are male...it hurts. This grow I'm on now some of my nicest plants ended up being male...I know I grow them too long before sexing but I need a good harvest and small plants just don't cut it for me. These were my last males culled out at 7 weeks old.View attachment 1171808
Quality of genetics is better in regs but I hear you. I’m always looking for a good mother to keep and I’m not comfortable keeping fem genetics past a second run. To much likelihood of herms. Imo. Clones are always the best bet. It’s fun popping beans though.
 
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Quality of genetics is better in regs but I hear you. I’m always looking for a good mother to keep and I’m not comfortable keeping fem genetics past a second run. To much likelihood of herms. Imo. Clones are always the best bet. It’s fun popping beans though.
I hear you too...I'm just bitching after 2 out of 3 Jet Orange were male. I'll be running regs for ever, I'm going to try and get a few more strains per grow until I get 5-6 strains going perpetually . I had to wipe out every thing after a bad spider mite infestation. So I'm just getting going again with moms and their children. Tying to get something new each batch ( dreams and wishes) lol
 
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Nice grow! I find regs a pain in the ass. It sucks planting 7 seeds, nurturing, feeding,lighting,using good soil then finding out 5 are male...it hurts. This grow I'm on now some of my nicest plants ended up being male...I know I grow them too long before sexing but I need a good harvest and small plants just don't cut it for me. These were my last males culled out at 7 weeks old.View attachment 1171808
Why don’t you try that leaf testing service? I plan and trying out some regs so I can make my own strains and seeds and will send in samples right away so I can cull out the males besides the best one that way you don’t waste to much time and resources are on a big ass plant that won’t produce buds.
 
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Why don’t you try that leaf testing service? I plan and trying out some regs so I can make my own strains and seeds and will send in samples right away so I can cull out the males besides the best one that way you don’t waste to much time and resources are on a big ass plant that won’t produce buds.
" Why don’t you try that leaf testing service? " ??? Not something I know about....I'll google...tks.
 
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" Why don’t you try that leaf testing service? " ??? Not something I know about....I'll google...tks.
Okay I did a bit of looking around and found some pricing
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It looks very close to what we can buy fem seeds for. I guess its an alternative but it could cost a whack of cash to find the fems...With some of my seed luck being very poor 7 seeds - 2 fems ....5 seeds 1fem...3 seeds 1 fem........I've also had a few lucky seeds where 5 out of 5 where fem ( once).

I think getting an analysis done with these guys is a good idea...I'd like to see how my smoke measures up & how much cat hair I real am smoking.

I saw on one site they wanted 50grams to do their tests with...lol I could be a tester, just send me 50 grams and I'll give you some fancy words and a slick write up....1g for the test 49 for me.lol
 

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