Imperium X by Anesia in RDWC - Bud Builders

[moe.red]

So if you wanted to add Far Red, you would slide the middle slider all the way down, and the red intensity slide it up. In veg promotes sideways growth to fill out your tent.

the problem is it's hard to tell in your setup what the actual effects are of spectrum changes, you have no control data point.

I would just go with what you got. You may have to supercrop the big one that is bent over.

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

I went ahead and added the far red as you suggested. I did not realize that slider does a percentage of far red/red until now. Think I left the intensity at 50%, took the middle slider all the way down.

Mainly just wanting to mess with the light some and learn what I can in the process. Not going to learn much leaving it on the defaults I guess.

I know you are no longer Padawan, but I'm a little concerned about your 2 weeks and we might want to tweak spectrum. If this is after a haircut I would be flipping real soon personally. If you just had one plant in there I'd wait the 2 weeks.

Thanks for this advice too Moe. I've been going back and forth here about flipping and training these plants. No, this is not after a haircut, except for the mother that took up that empty space.

I remember when you did a recent grow where you left the plant to go natural and did no or very little LST. I was thinking of ways to make my life easier with this grow and perhaps let these go more naturally. I did top them all a time or two and they seem to have some nice branching structure. Maybe not the best thing for yield, but any easing up for me is going to help right now.

Curious what your thoughts on this would be, and if I did this, would I want to veg longer?

 

[moe.red]

I went ahead and added the far red as you suggested. I did not realize that slider does a percentage of far red/red until now. Think I left the intensity at 50%, took the middle slider all the way down.

Mainly just wanting to mess with the light some and learn what I can in the process. Not going to learn much leaving it on the defaults I guess.



Thanks for this advice too Moe. I've been going back and forth here about flipping and training these plants. No, this is not after a haircut, except for the mother that took up that empty space.

I remember when you did a recent grow where you left the plant to go natural and did no or very little LST. I was thinking of ways to make my life easier with this grow and perhaps let these go more naturally. I did top them all a time or two and they seem to have some nice branching structure. Maybe not the best thing for yield, but any easing up for me is going to help right now.

Curious what your thoughts on this would be, and if I did this, would I want to veg longer?

If I’m growing for yield I always train.

Looking at your stash what is your goal here?

 

[MDK]

That's a dope light.. like a nice version of the one I just had burn out on me. New light is awesome can't complain there 301h diodes are doing it but I really enjoyed playing with the blue and red ratios.

What light is this? Way cool

Been hearing good things about the mammoth mint. Apparently has new Samsung diode tech in it that has a boost in green light. People are saying it is the next level of lighting but idk. For 800 or below it was recommended to me for a 5x5...680 watts I believe, or they make a 1000w

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

Looking at your stash what is your goal here?

At this point, just getting to the finish line is going to be a good thing. I'm just tired and beaten down right now.

What light is this? Way cool

I'm running the Raging Kush by Scynce. It's a great light but their supporting app is junk and unusable for me. Could not get the company to help either.

 

[smoke]

I know you are no longer Padawan, but I'm a little concerned about your 2 weeks and we might want to tweak spectrum. If this is after a haircut I would be flipping real soon personally. If you just had one plant in there I'd wait the 2 weeks.

2 weeks is a lot of growth for your little room

 

[Max]

At this point, just getting to the finish line is going to be a good thing. I'm just tired and beaten down right now.



I'm running the Raging Kush by Scynce. It's a great light but their supporting app is junk and unusable for me. Could not get the company to help either.

What’s your plant height limits.. letting them grow naturally works pretty good for me and a few others on here…just topping and defoliation and maybe running a net cause you probably can’t stake ,the only things you will have to do.quick 5 week veg ,get a quicker turnaround etc..i top in flower as you know which slows the stretch but hast lowered my yields doing so..

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

What’s your plant height limits..

Not as much as smoke has, that is for sure! lol

I think my tent is 84" high, should have plenty of room for a stretching Indica, which is what I think this is. Definitely thinking about letting them go close to natural, makes my life a lot easier at this time.

Interesting note about topping during flower and not affecting yield. I have never done that before.

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

That mother plant did not skip a beat

Definitely crowd’s the space visually. I think y’all convinced me to flip sooner rather than later, gonna prep the res for bloom tomorrow and flip soon thereafter.

These plants are currently feeding at 350 ppm.


I do wish that front right plant were bigger fo sure.

Cozy 75F in the grow space, winter outside today. Here’s a look on the other side of these walls.

 

[moe.red]

Damn man. Snow already. You need some global warming.

The plants look super healthy and you can let it ride and let the plants do what they want, but still keep it within reason. 350 PPM, you are in the smoke zone. He does alright

 

[Neueregel]

Yea, I got what they call "stealth shipping" to help get safely through customs. They send a baby sized t-shirt and pull the seeds out of their breeder packaging to help elude the Cannabinoid tyrants.

I had some sent to me stealthy mode in a card that you had to peel it to reveal the hidden seeds. it was a nice card too. it was thick enough for seeds to fit in.

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

I went ahead and changed out the reservoir in the system yesterday, gotter fixed up with Bloom ratios. Set the light to the default, flowering spectrum and set the timer for 12/12.

This morning these girls look super happy

Time to rock and roll

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

I need to get a support trellis in here but other than that, cruising along nicely. Their needs have been gradually increasing nutrient wise and letting the water guide me. Falling EC always means they are hungry, start out with less and increase as needed is the approach I’m taking and is working well. PPM’s now at 530 since amending a couple of times since I changed the res to bloom ratios.

Won’t be long till flower onset.

 

[smoke]

That small one has almost caught up.

Looking good

 

[Nesta]

Doesn’t get much better SLG. Nice job! We got snow yesterday…

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

That small one has almost caught up.

Like the little train that could

Thanks smoke and Nesta!

 

[Max]

Near time to ring Edward

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

Cruising along here, almost the end of week one flower. I did a bunch of defoliation and picked most of the budsites. Took a lot of straggler branches off and large fan leaves.

They’ve been slowly asking for more food, currently running about 480 ppm and they seem pretty happy. Not really showing any blossoms yet, but shouldn’t be long.

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After

 

[Nesta]

Looking awesome SLG. I just bit the bullet and ordered a single DWC bucket from PAH. I plan to run it along side a few plants in my coco set up next run. You have inspired me to try out the dark side. If all goes well with the single bucket a 4 site RDWC like yours is in my future.

 

[Rootsruler]

You have inspired me to try out the dark side.

 

[Cool_Beans]

Still kicking ass dude, right on

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

Still kicking ass dude, right on

Gettin there bro, thanks! Good to see you on the boards, I'll have to check out your grow when I get a chance!

Gotta get in and amend this res this morning, these gals, after flipping to 12/12 got super hungry. I was matching the ppm from veg but they immediately told me they wanted more and I am still working my way up. I have been cranking the light up bit by bit too and that could account for these gals being so hungry.

They are also finally starting to really show their stretch, although I do not expect a huge amount of stretch from this strain. Will try to get a pic later, wouldn't hardly know I hacked a huge pile of lettuce off.

 

[CannaGranny]

Beautiful Ladies! I’m popping my imperium here in about a week

 

[ZombieRider]

Looking awesome SLG. I just bit the bullet and ordered a single DWC bucket from PAH. I plan to run it along side a few plants in my coco set up next run. You have inspired me to try out the dark side. If all goes well with the single bucket a 4 site RDWC like yours is in my future.

Tempting to

Cruising along here, almost the end of week one flower. I did a bunch of defoliation and picked most of the budsites. Took a lot of straggler branches off and large fan leaves.

They’ve been slowly asking for more food, currently running about 480 ppm and they seem pretty happy. Not really showing any blossoms yet, but shouldn’t be long.

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Gorgeous looking plants right there man. Like they look like the literal example of health lol. Gonna be a ridiculous flowering tent soon, cant wait to see what they produce!

For sure tempting to setup a RDWC or DWC and try it out. Will happen one of these next runs, when I run outta coco but I got LOTS of coco lol.

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

Beautiful Ladies! I’m popping my imperium here in about a week

Gorgeous looking plants right there man. Like they look like the literal example of health lol. Gonna be a ridiculous flowering tent soon, cant wait to see what they produce!

Looking awesome SLG. I just bit the bullet and ordered a single DWC bucket from PAH. I plan to run it along side a few plants in my coco set up next run. You have inspired me to try out the dark side. If all goes well with the single bucket a 4 site RDWC like yours is in my future.

Thank you! Means a lot coming from such excellent cultivators

Nesta, can't wait to see what you do in the watah! Z, go for it bro, throw that shit out, it's just coconut husks anyway right?

 

[Max]

NOoooooo..wait….don’t do iiiiiiiit..come baaaaack…..fuck…we have lost him ..

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

I just about got this reservoir stabilized, they’ve been asking for more and more food, so slowly increasing the EC, now riding at about 665 ppm and the pH is finally starting to settle in. I had thought that they looked a little pale during this process and sure enough this morning the paleness is gone for the most part.

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

What a difference a week makes! Blossoms forming and the stretch is in full swing. Been gone for 4 days and have some work tomorrow getting things thinned out.

 

[Speedypete]

I went ahead and changed out the reservoir in the system yesterday, gotter fixed up with Bloom ratios. Set the light to the default, flowering spectrum and set the timer for 12/12.

This morning these girls look super happy

Time to rock and roll
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Beauties

 

[smoke]

Been gone for 4 days and have some work tomorrow getting things thinned out.

My preference is to defoliate before flipping to 12/12 and second def at day 21. During the strech i wouldn't remove anything

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

My preference is to defoliate before flipping to 12/12 and second def at day 21. During the strech i wouldn't remove anything

I did that but I was surprised at how much more needs to be trimmed when I got home today. I don't want those fans sitting on each other and getting wet and also covering bud sites. I think I need to do more now, and probably again in about a week. Sitting about at day 14 since flip if I remember right. I also noticed a bunch of lower branches I need to take off, some that I missed last week and some that have grown since.

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

If I remember, right, Im about three weeks into flower. Cruising along well and wondering how much riffraff I need to cut out. I’ve got four fans in there right now, the air is moving pretty well but I worry about mold issues. Thinking back to the Mac Dragon, She was pretty tight and I did not get any mold so I might try to push that envelope a little bit. Hope I don’t live to regret that and that may change if I start to see any leaves transpiring on each other. They are feeding at about 580 ppm And I think they might be asking for more I’ll know more tomorrow.

 

[GoodShit97]

If I remember, right, Im about three weeks into flower. Cruising along well and wondering how much riffraff I need to cut out. I’ve got four fans in there right now, the air is moving pretty well but I worry about mold issues. Thinking back to the Mac Dragon, She was pretty tight and I did not get any mold so I might try to push that envelope a little bit. Hope I don’t live to regret that and that may change if I start to see any leaves transpiring on each other. They are feeding at about 580 ppm And I think they might be asking for more I’ll know more tomorrow.

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Wow bro, you are absolutely killin it

 

[smoke]

Looking good slg, if you are on day 21 of flower and the strech is finished, now would be the best time to defoliate imo. Its aka a form of stress training

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

Thanks bro, think I am going to take your advice and get in there tomorrow and do some thinning out, the more I look at them the more I get nervous about mold. Went back and looked and yea, right at the 3 week mark, may be 22 days since flip.

Looking back, I am astonished at how vigorous these plants are, they have really filled the space! I'm pretty close to 8 weeks since clones went in the system and they were very small clones at that. Not sure I have ever grown a strain so robust as this one.

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

I did take smoke's advice here and did one last big defoliation for day 21, or thereabouts. I always hate hacking off great branches and flowers but I know in the end, I will have a lot less stress! Got pretty good airflow going but fighting high humidity right now, was 95% outside last night and I may have to get a bigger dehuey, this one barely keeps up when it gets so high.

I've got these gals dialed in with the water. Thankful today for the help I got from @Anthem275 on learning how to dial in the water with the EC/pH balance, I am starting to get it down pretty good. Still working on how to deal with early plants and their changing needs and will also be dealing with that for the finish as the plants need less and less moving toward harvest.

Got a tiny bit of leaf tip burn, was a bit disappointed in that, I got everything a bit too hot on one of the daily amendments and just left it to dilute it down with the next top off instead of pulling a couple of gallons of water and diluting when I noticed it was too hot. Not too bad, but shows the fine line I am learning to walk. It's actually quite amazing to watch how this all works.

 

[smoke]

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I've got these gals dialed in with the water. Thankful today for the help I got from @anthem on learning how to dial in the water with the EC/pH balance, I am starting to get it down pretty good. Still working on how to deal with early plants and their changing needs and will also be dealing with that for the finish as the plants need less and less moving toward harvest.

Got a tiny bit of leaf tip burn, was a bit disappointed in that, I got everything a bit too hot on one of the daily amendments and just left it to dilute it down with the next top off instead of pulling a couple of gallons of water and diluting when I noticed it was too hot. Not too bad, but shows the fine line I am learning to walk. It's actually quite amazing to watch how this all works.

Looking at the pictures first, im thinking " i wonder if those tips are burn or a def. Reading further you answered.
Humidity creeping up down here as well. Just turned on the deh yesterday, im looking for 55%

Neat seeing your results feeding completely different than i do

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

Neat seeing your results feeding completely different than i do

I have to admit, it's been hard not to raise a challenge to you and @Moe.Red to try this. It's been a real eye opener to watch how this all works and very, very fascinating (and fun too!)! It's always fun to share things you learn, at least to me.

I'm all for "if it aint broke, don't fix it" and what you two do is nothing short of amazing....but, If you ever get the itch to try something different, give it a shot!

 

[moe.red]

I have to admit, it's been hard not to raise a challenge to you and @Moe.Red to try this. It's been a real eye opener to watch how this all works and very, very fascinating (and fun too!)! It's always fun to share things you learn, at least to me.

I'm all for "if it aint broke, don't fix it" and what you two do is nothing short of amazing....but, If you ever get the itch to try something different, give it a shot!

Try what? Not topping off with RO?

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

Try what? Not topping off with RO?

To be more accurate, top off manually instead of the automatic top off from a RO water storage vessel using a float valve in your system. I think that is the main difference in our grow styles.