Gelato #33 Fast Reveg / Monstercrop

How's it growing, my greenminded friends! Thank you for visiting my growjournal. For more info about my setup: see the Germination page. for my preliminary findings, look below, full reviews of setup and strain afterharvest results! The ladies are entering the 9th week, we have some ambers going but not enough. Just a couple more days and 24 hrs of darkness starts, so later this week the harvest is finaly there. Can't wait to see what the final tally will be. For those who haven't placed a guess on my total harvest weight: See growquestion for more info and to place your entry. Im giving away three feminized Zambeza White Cheese Regular seeds. Guessed weights so far: - @hashy : 0 grams - @MrHyde : 198 grams - @JamMAKEcan : 224 grams - @TrickOrTrip : 260 grams - @Ohey_fu_kyu: 350 grams - @Hempkid : 605 grams - @DoDrugs420 : 621 grams Good luck all! More contenders welcome. Prize will be sent in following way: - I send you my e-mail adress that is coupled to my website that has my phonenumber and is all verifiable that its me. You decide if you want the prize or the honour: if you want the prize, send me just your adress and I will package discreetly, post and delete mail with your adress in the same day. Just to be sure. I will never share said info with anyone else of course. Once you see my site, you'll understand that I can and have to be discreet! Overview of what I've learned so far in this setup and indoor soil growing with LED: - How to reveg and monstercrop, although not the plan, now I know how to do it. - Larger branches are larger buds, more ventilation and airflow to keep branches thicker/shorter. - How to supercrop and how not. How to scrog. - How to get a good airy soil mix. - How to water properly. - When to feed and what they need, like extra sulphur in Epsom salt when stem is reddish and reddish hue over leaves. - What distance and intensity the lights should be on and when. - What genetics and sorts I like to grow. - How to properly scrub the air, maintain the temps in the space the grow is in. Its mostly spot on 26, middle of summer. This space is very stable in moist and heat. - What it takes to properly dry and cure, given my situation. Preparing a space and method. - How long to feed with this setup and to flush earlier with these large amounts of nutes. - How to defoliate and FIM, both succesfull. - That I like big buds... I cannot lie... Size does matter a little... - How to make a compost tea from comfrey and defoliated leaves. - How not to smell forever when handling said tea. - That this tea seems to have several effects: a/ Instant fertilizer for leaves and soil b/ Seems to create a white layer of fungal activity in the soil c/ Seems to create more CO2 coming from the soil d/ Works as PH Down and pretty stable and predictable e/ Seems to ward of pests like gnats, they hate it. f/ Seems to have influence in speed of flowering g/ starting production of trichomes h/ enlarging said trichomes I/ aids in the real funk smell in plant and bud (they are what they eat too) j/ Seems to aid in the terpenes. After feeding the smells really liven up and deepen. k/ Saves on storebought l/ Is easily amendable with wood ash to adapt to flowering stage. m/ seems to regulate soil and plant processes. n/ Seems to aid the adsorption of other nutrients o/ Seems to repair deficiencies p/ The difference between buds of her and the motherplant (that was under 300 watts also) has been day and night in leafyness, density, smells and quantity) q/ Prevents build-up of salts and the usual caking on top. r/ Seems to prevent other diseases, also in our garden. So it works... In the harvest video we will show you the way we made the comfrey tea and where I keep it, our permagarden, introduce myself and maybe even Sunshine, the light of my life, introduces herself. So see you then!! Thank you for al the love and following and the likes and the guesses!! Ill keep you posted!! My review of strain so far: Strain: Gelato #33 Fast Good for beginners: XXXXX yes High yielder: XXX What I've seen it's a medium yielder, jury still out on mine, smaller buds. Resilliance: XXXXX extremely resiliant against lightproblems, fungus gnats, high PH in soil, low water conditions Light lover: she does seem to perform best under higher watts Mold / disease resistent: XXXXX extremely resistent Nutrients: XXXX Needs loads of sulphur or my medium is short on available sulphur, next grow will tell, otherwise normal uptake, can resist up to 2000 PPM in organic nutrients (with the tea added) Vigor: XXXXX even when stressed, never stunted, average stretch during flower Ease of growing: XXXXX Easy to train, responds well to fimming. Clones well, clones resilliant too. Trichomes: XXXXX Large trichome packs with longer than average size, leaves almost not visible by trichome cover (not known if his is average for G33 or because of tea). Effect: Very strong, mental high, not so body stoned but what I smoked was not ripened yet. Attention sucker: XXXXX she is a delight, very easy plant, loves attention but can do days to weeks without care, my training and defoliating regime made it more hands-on but that was my choice. Smell during veg: XXXXX Green grass, hay, fresh piney, stronger than average even in veg. Smell during flowering: XXXXX tones of musk, danky gorilla's ass, citrus, older mens after shaves, spices, gingerbread, cookiedough, vanilla Smell during smoking: XXXXX citrus, deep fruitness, marzapan / almonds, piney Taste: Taste was not optimal yet, no cure but still very much smokeable, not harsh at all. Though very tasty for stage its in. Update follows. Biggest fails / stuff I'm doing next grow to optimize results growing photoperiods (notes for myself next grow): - Get a sort that matches my tastes, expectations and setup, great genetics, good performers under my amount of light. - Amend the soil at start with: vulcastrat / dolomite / epsom salt and a little guano. - Presoak soil, grow companions first, if any. - Arrange for the cooler air to flow past my lights first. Cooling them and preheating air before hitting plants, now it was summer, in Winter it will be different. - If monstercropping again, doing it proper going to 12 instead of 16 hours and fully reveg them - Amend two weeks earlier before flower. - Letting the plants grow bigger: I have 2 mtrs (6ft)of hight, Im using a third now. Also another round of fim before flower. - Ventilation on canopy, lights and under canopy for fatter branches, better airflow and more lifespan and Umol (at 25 C optimal performance) in lights Later additions: - Saving up for 100 to 150 watts in deep red, infra red, UVA strips a/ for simulation sunrise and sunset b/ to have better coverage / c to have the watts just near the 500 watts for this room.