Mephisto Genetics Hbss, pre harvest, harvest and final weights.

[baj]

ok, so here goes. Not a full journal but will be showing plants about 2 weeks from harvest updating every 5 days or so.
Have been following Tangs great schedule for about 7 months and have had 3 harvests roughly every 25 days with the Hbss to be the fourth.

Has been a mad month swapping from a 140x140 tent to a joined 3 drobe setup, (Done purely for security, ha paranoia and the rest). This is still ongoing but should be finished in the next couple of weeks.

Over a 75- 80 day period hitting about 460g with a mixture of led for different stages. Total watts for this were;
2 X hs1 150 watts
1 X Apollo ufo 120 watts ( second hand)
1 X unknown ufo 90 watts also second hand.
Due to moving into a drobe have just purchased a small led for £50.00 unsure yet of its capabilities but 5 watt epistar, so hoping it's ok. This is also pulling 90 watts. So total watts are now about 450.

Finding the perpetual grow perfect for me as space is an issue but can have between 6-9 plants all at different sizes and ages.

The Hbss has been a real pleasure to grow apart from taking a lot longer than planned, this may well be due to me pissing around moving the plants about for the last few weeks.
Plant 1 is 99 cm tall with a very unusual top 35 cm of bud. They are all on the same side, I personally have not had this before and just looks like a big hand fan sitting on top.
Plant 2 is pretty much as mephisto describe, Christmas tree shape, bushy and 88 cm tall.
Both plants have a fantastic bubblegum, fruity smell making them good enough to eat.

Almost finished drobes

Top branching all on same sides

From a different angle

Plant 1, 99 cm

Plant 2, 88 cm
Apologies for crap photos, this will improve, hopefully!!!!.
Still a relatively new grower, so be gentle.

 

[Hal 8999]

Looks good newb. How much longer do you think? Two weeks or so?

 

[Duggy]

Looking good baj....

 

[baj]

The plan was for 10 days water starting this Saturday, but they still seem well behind all my other grows at this point, still growing with fresh white pistils, little orange.

I did realise they were slow at day 40 so planned on a day 85 harvest, but looks more like 90 days at least.

Only problem is that this screws up my other plants slightly.

Cheers duggy, enjoyed reading your journals.

 

[Hal 8999]

If I may suggest an upgrade, you could use some mylar. That stuff reflects 99% of all light. An emergency blanket will reflect all that beautiful light you have back to the plants. White foam boards work well also. Could easily increase light by 10%

 

[baj]

Thanks for the advice hal, but aware of the properties of Mylar, flat white and poly.
I currently have about 6 meters of diamond reflective and about 12 meters of black/white heavy duty poly.

I did also look at white insulated board, but this eats away at my already narrow space, which is currently 97cm wide by 56cm deep. max plant height is around 110 in the end drobe.

I had put these up in one of the drobes and for want of a better word looked " shit", so I pulled it down. The plan is to finish the building which will be done next week then to put diamond on the back walls. The inside of the mahogany doors will be painted with flat white.

There is also, as always, big discussions about the actual reflective qualities of different materials, including some excellent threads on afn, including how much benefit is archived from reflective materials when using Led lighting. I am still unsure, but will assume that some reflective is better than none.

Thanks anyway.

 

[Bunny]

Looking good real good. Plant 1 has a real nice cola.

 

[Dazed]

Yet more proof @TaNg schedule, HS1, awesome genetics and a great grower......KILLS it!

 

[Hal 8999]

If you every are having difficulty with hanging mylar, it is because it is almost impossible to hang. I have had success buy rubbing a glue stick all over the back and sticking it to the wall or whatever. The ones made for kids will also wash off later.

 

[baj]

Looking good real good. Plant 1 has a real nice cola.

Cheers Bunny, watching your grow with interest as thinking about 2 Abbk next.

Yet more proof @TaNg schedule, HS1, awesome genetics and a great grower......KILLS it!

Got to agree that the @TaNg schedule, hs1 and genetics make a killer mix, not in the great grower group yet, but appreciate the comment.

If you every are having difficulty with hanging mylar, it is because it is almost impossible to hang. I have had success buy rubbing a glue stick all over the back and sticking it to the wall or whatever. The ones made for kids will also wash off later.

Did actually think about this Hal, but was worried about gasses coming off as it got hot, I was going to use my hot glue gun. It it's safe I will give it a go, with the kids glue sticky stick stuff.
The reason for the thought about gasses was the cheap grow tents that apparently killed plants. I think this was the adhesives used, not sure???.