First time tending garden in a friggin year

BB here's your Confidential Cheese up front at 33 days in.


Dabney's in the middle with White Rhino in the rear.





As you can see the LED's are penetrating well into the canopy. Up front are Dabney on the left, two Confidential cheese center, and a single JBKO on the end in the small plastic pot.





And the group under the LED's, 3 50" Rapid LED Indus light bars.

 

I like the CC - I pulled a little over 2 zips per plant (didnt think they would yield that much). Real nice stank, nice firm buds. Smoke is ok - not as nice as something like the Lemonberry but still nice. A keeper....

 

hahaha my cuts were taken during flower too and yeah, they stunk up the joint quite a bit. Tomorrow marks the end of 5 full weeks under the LEDs and the buds area already getting rock hard & beginning to pack on a little weight. From the looks of them and from how tight they are at 5 weeks I think they'll probably yield close to 1 1/2-2 zips per plant. Usually at this point the JBKO would have the most dense buds of the group but this go round Cheese wins that category hands down. The others are nice n tight too just not as tight as the cheese. :jj:

 

The lights are only pulling 909 watts:coool:

 

Today is the end of week 5 of flowering and buds are looking good & filling out nicely. Here's a few pics with the lights off so you can see what's doin'.


First up is Confidential Cheese





I'm really impressed with how the White Rhino is coming along, they're going to be massive!





and a 25 sec exp of the group.

 

I've been away from the garden for a few days but & up date will coming shortly. Can't wait to come home & open up the garden doors after being away for 4-5 days

 

I'm just going to toss up a few pic from this evening, 47 days in.


cheers


group shot, lights off





White Rhino, lights off





the rest of the pictures were taken with the lights on with a corrected white balance.


White Rhino, 47 days in





Confidential Cheese. I think this is the same cola as the previous updates.





Confidential Cheese





Confidential Cheese

 

Ha! you're not the only one interested to see the end:roffl:


My thoughts? well first I need to learn to be more proficient at reading the plants. by the time I notice something now it's almost too late. So far other then a little cal-mag issue things have gone smoothly although I always have the feeling that I'm on the edge of a Ca/K imbalance from using so much PH up. The pics don't lie, there are issues & I'm doing ok but I'm no alien grower


The lights,,, well I think they're doing just fine. running 3-50" bars I'm covering approximately 28 sq.ft solidly with light while only consuming a little over 900w of electricity. Leds allow me to run two rooms (6 bars) for under 2k watts of usage, no way could I keep that much space cool running HId without AC. Actually one of the two rooms is touch over 30 sq.ft. and I'll be adding a single 40" to cap off the 50" rack for wall to wall coverage.


Rapid uses Cree XP-L (10w) soft white 3000K Leds with 60deg. lenses without any reds or blues added in and from what I'm seeing in the garden they're not needed. I also don't see any reason for a separate veg light either, more marketing hype imo.


I love these new LEDs as much as the plants seem to


Now lets see how they do in their final two weeks of flower shall weasssit:

 

Lol...It's not necessarily learning to spot the problems earlier. It's learning the garden and strains well enough enough to anticipate problems on successive grows.


Looking sweet though MrDuc.

 

As noted in the LED lets get serious thread.....


Well engineered commercial product (Rapid Indus Bars, no marketing crap (colored LED's) and good genetics - cant beat it.


I can vouch for the results from the Rapid Indus bars as well - running 12 of them in three spaces.


Nice work Duc!!!!!!

 

Time flies when you're having fun only one week to go before the chop :jj:


Here's a little Confidential Cheese @ 8 full weeks plus a few days, those buds are solid like golf balls!











And the group I think after I took a few tops for sampling.