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CrushNazT

Registered: 07/23/13
Posts: 927
Loc: Colorado

Phantom Cookies - Drying - Updated February 6

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#758733 - 11/23/14 07:22 PM (10 years, 26 days ago)

November 23

Tonight is day 1 of flower for my 6 Phantom Cookies. I plan on running them a full 10 weeks with a 10-14 day flush. The Cookies are in 100% Roots Organic soil in 5 gallon pots and under a 1000w Hortilux HPS. Below I'll list all the nutrients and additives I'll be using in flower:

Botanicare's Pure Blend Pro Bloom and CalMag Plus
Advanced Nutrient's Sensizym and Bud Candy (later switched to GH Floranectar)
General Hydroponic's Floralicious Plus

and of course pH up and down

this is my first time using floralicious plus. excited to see how it goes. we just started using it at work too, but havent yet been able to see the results in any plants quite yet.

im hoping to get CO2 set up in my tent in the next few weeks. thats why i have that ducting just hanging down. once i get the CO2, i'll have that duct going out of the tent, so the fan will be pulling air into the tent and pushing it through the light and back out the tent, while the CO2 is filling the tent.

December 1

picked up a CO2 tank, regulator, and timer 2 nights ago and got that set up. i dimmed the 1000w to 600w for heat sake, and ran the ducting out of the tent so it pulls air from the room, and pushes it through the light, out the tent.. it got way too hot and humid the first night. humidity is still pretty high, gotta figure out how to drop it a little bit. 60-65% seems a bit high.

i have the CO2 set to run 15 minutes on 15 off at 1000ppm. the plants seem to be loving it!

December 8

first day of week 3. things are lookin good! had to refill my CO2 thank yesterday for the first time. im still winging it when it comes to PPM in the tent. i might grab a CO2 controller when i get my bonus later this month. i'm about 5 days between waterings, and recently switched to my bloom nutrients, including bud candy and floralicious plus. going to wait for about another 2 weeks before i hit them with beastie bloomz.

December 16

in week 4 now, 23 days into flower. i water about every 4-5 days. i hit the back 3 plants with beastie bloomz a couple days ago as a little experiment.

December 22

i had been feeding with every watering until recently. i watered 5 days ago with just sensizym, since last time i grew i had a salt buildup around this time in flower, and had to flush. so i watered this morning with nutrients again, and bumped up the amount of Beastie Bloomz slightly.

December 28

just snapped a few pictures. leaves are goin purple! looks really cool, had to share.

January 5

start of week 7 today. the flowers are definitely packing on a little extra weight now. im switching over from beastie bloom to cha ching when i water next. hoping to get those trichomes to really start packin on. i ran out of my 1 oz bottle of floralicious plus, so thats out of this grow now... also ran out of bud candy, so i switched over to general hydroponics floranectar sugar cane. i'd say i have about 3 weeks left. i want to run them 10 weeks at least and then harvest.

January 12

first day of week 8 today. i plan on harvesting at 10 weeks, so im starting to lower bloom PPM. been having good results with feeding every watering with a fairly low ppm. once the plants got into flower, i watered them with bloom nutrients every watering except 2 different occasions. the first time i just watered with calmag and sensizym ph'd to 6.4, watered 3 times after that with bloom nutrients, then another "flush" with just sensizym and floranectar.

i watered tonight with a low bloom ppm again, with regular strength floranectar, sensizym and bumped up the Cha Ching slightly to 1/2 tsp per gallon which is ~200PPM.

January 20

the watering before last was just sensizym and floranectar, and the last watering 2 nights ago was just plain sensizym, and from now on they'll only get plain ph'd water. like ive said before i plan on the 10 week harvest. maybe even a few days after 10 weeks. trichomes are lookin all cloudy right now, maybe a few clear, didnt really see any amber, but im sure they'll be where they need to by the time i harvest.

January 28

day 66 today. lookin beautiful if i do say so myself. been flushing for 14 days today, or 11 days if you dont count the first "flush" since it was floranectar and sensizym together. trichs are mostly cloudy, some amber and some clear. im scared to let the plants go on the full 10 weeks since ive been flushing for so long, but im almost there so maybe i will. too indecisive at the moment.

February 1

harvested 2 plants last night. picked off the fan leaves, left the sugar leaves, and hung em upside down to dry. today, i harvested most of the other 4 plants, all the main colas and big buds, but i havent gotten around to getting the smaller buds trimmed up yet. i might just say fuck it and leave the sugar leaves on the small buds and hang them up to dry.

February 6

went through again this morning and checked out the buds. seemed like pretty much everything was ready to get chopped down and put into paper bags to slow down the drying process a bit. this is my first time doing that (i think... i have a feeling i did this the first time i grew but i cant remember) so the buds are crispy and either breaking off the stems or close to it. almost everything went into paper bags, some wet stuff is still hanging. looks like quite a bit of bud in the bags. i cant weight to see the final weight.

this stuff looks and smells amazing. the smell is a little faint, but its there, especially when you touch the buds and smell your fingers. i have a good feeling about drying in the paper bags before jarring. i really feel like this is going to be the key in getting the buds to really smell and taste their best. i've fucked up enough crops, ill eventually get that dank dry/cure down.

Edited by CrushNazT (02/06/15 02:17 PM)

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