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Jewels

Tilts at Tables
Taking a nod from some wise folks, I want to reduce or eliminate the space-heater.
I want to start alternating dark times in order to provide constant heat.
The biggest obstacle is the fact that this is all one room.
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Here is the horseshoe layout. That is a photo from last winter.
Looks a little chilly ❄?

Decided to cap off the back wall, also enclose the left and right side, individually.
Essentially I hoarded in all three tables right where they stood
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Started with the ceiling. There is open truss above , so I installed a ledger and built spans to hang a hard ceiling for the lights.
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Once I had it capped in, I installed the hardware on the ceiling.
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Handy stuff.
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That aluminum ledger is probly holding the bamboo up, so I thought best to leave it undisturbed. 20211115_144919.jpg
The entire back is an outside wall. Bare faced and windbreaking. The plan is to light it 24/7.
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JL2G

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Taking a nod from some wise folks, I want to reduce or eliminate the space-heater.
I want to start alternating dark times in order to provide constant heat.
The biggest obstacle is the fact that this is all one room.
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Here is the horseshoe layout. That is a photo from last winter.
Looks a little chilly ❄?

Decided to cap off the back wall, also enclose the left and right side, individually.
Essentially I hoarded in all three tables right where they stood
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Started with the ceiling. There is open truss above , so I installed a ledger and built spans to hang a hard ceiling for the lights.
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Once I had it capped in, I installed the hardware on the ceiling.
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Handy stuff.
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That aluminum ledger is probly holding the bamboo up, so I thought best to leave it undisturbed. View attachment 91380
The entire back is an outside wall. Bare faced and windbreaking. The plan is to light it 24/7.
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So is the plan to have one on 24/7, and cycle it's heat to the flower room during lights off, or all the time cycling the air?
Could also separate the flower room in half, and run them opposite 12 & 12 of each other, with a recirc fan to constantly cycle the air between the two. One always being on. Or make a second flower room and do that same thing. Wouldn't even need any more power circuits, as one room would always be off.
 

Jewels

Tilts at Tables
Got the tin bed done and also the left tent enclosed.
Males are marshalling across the back.
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I yoinked all the confirmed females.
Didnt get skunked on anything, with the exception of ScarletQueen. Those were my F2' s that I had trouble crak'n. All dudes.

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Totally biased, of course, but some of these plants are exceptional. Like Stellar. I got Reverends giving the Cider competition. That is saying something. The Lillooet Romulan is ungodly vigorous.

I got nice things to say about all of them.

Seeing many lovely MK Ultra , went heavy on those in hopes of finding one that isn't %100 azzflav. I will make sure to pollinate a branch on a few of them. Hopefully find sumpting. I would be happy to find %80 azz.
I can work with that.
 

Jewels

Tilts at Tables
Yes, on all counts @JL2G.
There will be three individual rooms.
Left and and right side alternating off/on.
Backwall lit 24/7.
Recall, the horseshoe platform is common below and insulated. Passive heat will move through there.
I need to run a straight duct, overhed, through the centre walkway/lung, in order to connect the left and right chambers.
Part of the daily routine will be switching the fan direction, as the lights turn off and on.
 

Jewels

Tilts at Tables
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I cannot get a sniff of gender on these Cider. Not a whiff.
No balls
no sacs
no lovely lady lips.
Most everything else is sexed out.

I try not to make all of the decisions on paper. I am still looking these things over. I have gotten to know them. Goals going in - turn out a bunch of nearly true Indica for the vault. Other than that, I am down to clown.
Pairings are presenting themselves. The BlackRomulan definitely needs F2'ing, I need more Next-generation stock. All their Rom crosses just wreck me, I crossed the RomBlueberry and the RomGrapefruit with BloodOTangie and those are both impairing as well. I dont drive on that stuff.

Got a good dozen males and more than twelve females, still more than ten undecided.
The ax, she come. Too many nice plants here. If they are not topmost-notch, they go.

Sexless beasts
Cider Kush F2's
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They stay?
 

Jewels

Tilts at Tables
Runner up
Male Black Romulan.
20211118_133753_HDR.jpg Stout fuller leaf. 20211118_133815.jpg Aggressive growth , but stingy on branches. 20211118_133827.jpg


I prefer this one. 20211118_133912.jpg Got those long Rommy fingers. Jump-up branches. Symetrical and sturdy. 20211118_133924_HDR.jpg 20211118_133938_HDR.jpg


This is the prize Lady.

Kinda frumpy today , she was stuffed up against a cold wall 20211118_134009.jpg Every branch is determined to be the top of the canopy 20211118_133339_HDR.jpg long skeleton hands 20211118_133431.jpg 20211118_134801.jpg
 

Jewels

Tilts at Tables
This is a XL specimen of the good Reverend, on the left.
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First I dried it out (yellow bottom leaf)
and then I flooded it (heavy, bent, fat saggy tops)

Cider is on the right. Never had a pissy day in her(?) life. Praying right down to the dirt.
These two have the thickest trunks in the garden.

All of these pails are non-perforated, eh ? Water-tight. I always let the media dry out so badly, water runs right off it. I hate watching it run out the bottom; I much as I hate hauling water.
So what they get ,,, they get.
It is a dangerous game.
Even with the 'right' amount of water, I may shuffle them to a colder spot, with less convection, with less light.

Sometimes it bites me in the ass. These two were going shot for shot. Reverend needs a minute to work off that bloating hangover.
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Jewels

Tilts at Tables
Mercy killin on the dung.

[ if you missed it,,, I sprouted a plant in 100% rabbit turds ]

The thing never died, or took off. I was previously satisfied to blame the nutritional content of the media.
Perhaps not.
I have been pondering this, for a day or two.


It's a Witch !!
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It wont sink !

Nothing but ruminated Timothy and greens. I figured water would flow right through it.
I was wrong.
The rootball was still floating , 12 hours later.

Starting to think the plant would have appeared the same, if I had grown it in glass marbles. I dont think the roots were interacting with the soil.
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PlumberSoCal

? Guy Fire-y ?
Mercy killin on the dung.

[ if you missed it,,, I sprouted a plant in 100% rabbit turds ]

The thing never died, or took off. I was previously satisfied to blame the nutritional content of the media.
Perhaps not.
I have been pondering this, for a day or two.


It's a Witch !!
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It wont sink !

Nothing but ruminated Timothy and greens. I figured water would flow right through it.
I was wrong.
The rootball was still floating , 12 hours later.

Starting to think the plant would have appeared the same, if I had grown it in glass marbles. I dont think the roots were interacting with the soil.
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I've grown in straight composted horse manure with some success but not as well as a balanced soil.

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Jewels

Tilts at Tables
Damn near ?
Death is a SourD cross.

Nepal Highland x
(TH) DARKStar


Way back in the day,,,@Phylex gave me his blessing to use this tester in my Indica project.
The first female I grew was fantastically wide leaning. So superior, I let her run out virgin, having no suitable suitors at the time.

Little bit disappointed to see these lean so far sativa.
Gonna have to F2 this pair. I am up against the wall, as I only have a couple/few beans left. They dont sell these at the store,,, and I only know of one guy that may have more ? .
deathstar x nepal highland?
 
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