Teetee's Glueberry OG & Cinderella Jack

[teetee]

Gap???? there's no gaps in there mate!
That Glueberry 1 could use the whole 1.4m x 1.4m tent all to herself

I've added the new Skyline above the GB1, so she has 2x Skyline 400s above, plus a Photon and a Helios on either side.
That's pushed the temps up a bit.... I reckon each LED unit adds a degree to the temp, I've certainly noticed that as I've moved up from 3 to 4 and now 5 lights.

Ambient in the grow room is 25°C, now its 30°C in the tent. Outside it's 32°C and it's not even midday yet! Looks like I might have to crank up the aircon a notch.... makes this room feel like a fridge!

[ledbud]

yup she is big girls. its going be good show on AFN bro.

[teetee]

Been a bit slack with the updates, so here's one from 28th January....

Day 61 in the tent, and all is well with my other Girls.

The Cinderella Jack seems to have perked up a bit and although she lost a lot of leaves, there's still some potential in her....

A closer look shows there's some good bud structure developing.

Also, the pistils have changed from thin and wispy to thick and chunky.

Lowering the EC to 0.8 seems to have done the trick and she's starting to drink more as well.

She has plenty of time to fatten out..... because she was stressed and locked out early in flower, I'm hoping she will go an extra week or two.

The Glueberries are very happy. GB1 is the big one.....

She kind of reminds me of one of those pregnant Mothers, who looks huge, but you know's gonna get even bigger..... and just like a soon to be Mum, I'm gonna have to give this one a jolly good old trim downstairs as well.

She's a bit more advanced in terms of flowering compared to Cindy Jack, there's just loads of action going on there.....

Here's her main cola, loading up nicely...

That will hopefully be massive in a month's time!

The GB2 is the most advanced, with beautiful long colas forming....

Her main cola is already full of bud, so I'm looking forward to seeing what she will deliver in 3-4 weeks time.....

As a group, they fill the 1.4m² wide space nicely although I think GB1 could use the tent all to herself.

clockwise from top: GB1, GB2, CJ

I've received a new Skyline 400, and have fixed it above GB1, so she has 2x Skyline 400s above, plus a Photon and a Helios on either side.
That's pushed the temps up a bit.... I reckon each LED unit adds a degree to the temp, I've certainly noticed that as I've moved up from 3 to 4 and now 5 lights.

Ambient in the grow room is 24°C, now its 29°C in the tent. Outside it's 32°C during the day and mid 20's at night. Looks like I might have to crank up the aircon a notch.... makes this room feel like a fridge!

[teetee]

So, another recap, this time 3 days ago, January 8th.....

It's day 72 and I'm still having trouble with the Cinderella Jack, I've tried lowering the EC right down to 0.8 and keeping the pH at 5.8 as much as possible, but she is only gonna give me an ounce or two at the most.

She is flowering, but very slowly..... it's day 72 and this is her main cola....

Looking at that, I'd expect her to go on for a good few weeks. Those thick white pistils look very young, so I'm hoping there's time for her to fatten out a bit. It's gonna be a struggle to keep her going that long, but I'm hoping it will be worth the effort.

The Glueberries are going very well.....
GB1 is the big one.

Not as big as in the last post because I gave her a really good clearout, chopping away heaps of thin stems and wispy flowers that were clogging her up. That was about a week ago, then unfortunately, I was away for a couple of days and when I got back, she was as dry as Nun's knickers and quite a few leaves had gone yellow, so she needed a bit of TLC.

Now she's in mid flower, there are so many long stems all full of bud, and she has the potential to really fill out.

I expect her to go close to 100 days.

GB2 on the other hand is near to finishing....

She is in the final couple of weeks, again, I've given her a good trim down below to allow her to concentrate on filling out those chunky colas.

Lots of upturned edges to my leaves with this grow. Heat stress..... I have been struggling with temps..... it's Summer and I'm in the sub tropics, daytime temps are in the mid 30's, so I have to run the aircon almost constantly to get the grow room down to 24°-25°Cs, then inside the tent it gets to 28°-30°C at 'soil' level..... Shiva only knows what it's like at canopy level.

I have raised the lights to maximum today in another attempt to lower the temps around the plant a degree or so. I have 6" Hyperfans on the intake and extraction, and they are both on about 50%.... pretty loud, and I have constant tinnitus.

Looking at the tent as a whole, not looking too bad, been better though.

GB1 at the back with CJ and GB2 in front

Thinking ahead, I have ordered 2 bags of Coco, and re-stocked my additives. I wanna get some seedlings on the go ASAP.

On the potential grow list are Pineapple Express (Fastbuds) - of which I have one seed left - a really tasty, strong smoke, also Dutch Passion's Night Queen (still my favourite puff) and of course a couple of Glueberries!

Cindy Jack has put me off a bit, I'm gonna have to look around for some other people's grows and see where I went wrong.

I'm also hoping for cooler temps. The rainy season is on it's way so a few cyclones will hit these parts. Looks like the water tank will be full of lovely fresh EC 0 water in no time!

Next update should be just before harvest time for the GB2 - see you then!

[belfiore]

big grow teetee

[teetee]

Cheers Belfiore mate, we are having a bit of a warm spell at the moment. I came home the other day to this.....

Yep 42.3°C ambient temps and 40.2°C inside the tent. The A/C unit was pissing water all over the floor and plug socket.

I ventured out, under the house (watching out for spiders, snakes and goannas) where the condenser unit is, and found next to it, a pipe with some shit hanging out of it. A good poke with a stick and the remains of god knows what fell out along with some putrid water, and hey presto!

Managed to avoid having an Aircon engineer nosing around my nearly complete grow! I would have had to dismantle the lot!

This grow has been a challenge trying to keep the temps in check, I'm surprised I have anything to show you......

Its day 81 with the Glueberry 1 at the back with Glueberry 2 on the right and the Cinderella Jack on the left.

The Cindy Jack is an embarrassment really, she just limped across the finish line. I started flushing her today, and really don't expect much more than 1-2 ounces of shitty weed. I'm sure Mrs Tee won't mind it though

I've also started flushing the Glueberry 2. She's ready!

Lots of thick chunky colas....

I had a peek using a microscope and the trichomes are all milky. I am looking forward to smoking some of this bud in a month or so!

I am worried about mould.... I always seem to get a little bit especially if I flush for too long, so I'm aiming for 2-3 days flush and then I'm gonna trim all her leaves off while she's in the pot, before cutting her down.

Meanwhile the XXL sized Glueberry 1 is still packing it on.....

The main cola is coming on very nicely...

I think she has a good 3 weeks left in her. She's on an EC 1.0 feed with Top Shooter, Bud Candy, Bud XL all in the mix, and she's drinking a good 6 - 7L a day. I've been watering just once a day, but now I have just the one plant to feed, I might go for 2-3 times a day and really give her a boost in these last few weeks.

I'm itching to plant 4 more seeds. I only have 4x 5L airpots, or I could wait till I chop down the GB2 and CJ, and then I'd have 3 20L airpots (including the one from the abandoned CJ2).

I might get on and just plant them in the 5L airpots.....
then do a transplant into 20L ones at around 3-4 weeks. Hmmmm.........

I reckon 2 more Glueberries, a Night Queen and a Pineapple Express. Mmmmmmm...........

You know what? I'm gonna get on with it right NOW! (but first I'm gonna roll another joint)





Wow!!!
I actually managed to get off my lazy arse and plant some more beans...

2x Glueberry OG and 1x Auto Night Queen all in 5L airpots with Coco
and 1x Pineapple Express in a 20L airpot with Coco.

I figured get them in ASAP, takes a few weeks off the harvest time, and I think a house inspection is due end of May.

Dutch Passion strains are nice and stable so I can be confident they can take the stress of a gentle repotting into 20L airpots at 3-4 weeks. The Pineapple Express is a Fastbuds strain, so I just wanna give her a 20L airpot from the off and leave her to do her business.

Anyway, they are all in their new homes, covered with clingfilm for humidity and some cardboard over the lot to keep the light out. The lights in the tent will keep them warm, and I should expect them to pop up in the next 48-72 hours..... wish 'em luck!!!

Have a great weekend, and thanks for looking in!

[belfiore]

bud looks nice teetee.
i also worried about mould always. i cut water down in last 3 weeks.

[teetee]

bud looks nice teetee.
i also worried about mould always. i cut water down in last 3 weeks.

I dunno how you'd do that, my GB is demanding 6-8 litres a day or else the pot's completely dry.

Harvesting is done for the moment.

That Cindy Jack didn't take long to get down. I got to work last Sunday. OK, she was a bitch to grow, but look what I did with her....

Here's a different angle......

All in all not as bad as I thought!

I chopped off the stems, and they're now hanging in a cardboard box. I'm not holding my breath for anything good though.

Then I started on the Glueberry 2. I did think about manicuring her in the pot like the Cindy Jack, but I was getting worried about mould, so off came the main cola.....

.... and this is what it looks like after manicuring....

I hate cropping, but these big fat sticky colas were a pleasure to trim. Took me 3 nights to get her down.

The Glueberry 2 is also boxed, but with much chunkier stems....

Most of those stems are 16 - 18 inches long!

Her stump shows how close all the internodes were....

(AA by the way)

She had a Skyline 400 approximately 24 inches (60cm) above her for most of the grow and she grew to about 30 or so inches (just under 80cm). I just let her grow, no training of any sort, and she's rewarded me with some really nice fat colas full of sticky bud, with barely any fluff or popcorn (I did trim all her undersides off during flowering).

Glueberry 1 is now on day 88, still a couple of weeks left in her I think....

She's just immense..... not been topped or anything, all au naturel. All I did was hold out a few of the lower stems with stakes in mid veg.

She is bristling with long thick colas, all loaded with sparkly nugs.....

Here's the main cola.... I am hoping she'll fatten out some more......

She's pretty much* got the tent to herself, so she's got no excuses now. I might up the EC a touch to give her a final push.

*I say "pretty much"..... there's just enough room for my 4 new babies in the corner......

Clockwise from the Pineapple Express in the big 20L airpot, there's a Glueberry OG, a Night Queen, and another Glueberry OG, all in 5L airpots.

The ones in the 5L airpots are 4 days old, 2 days after they popped, I got impatient with the PE and dug down into the coco to find her..... I must have made the hole too deep when I sowed the seed, and I'm glad I found her, she was a good inch down and was out of her shell, still looping down.... so without exposing her root at all, I hooked her head out and covered the pot with clingfilm for a day to get the humidity up... she's now uncovered on day 2 and looking sweet.

Wish them well.... I'll start a new journal for them exclusively here on LED Growers Forum, and once the GB2's down I will start on the other sites.

[belfiore]

look so good teetee.

[ledbud]

nice and fat teetee bro.