Looking great @Sixpackdad, are you seeing an appreciable difference in the lights your running now and what you were using before?
I built my screen myself and then was able to push it down as the plants starting growing…I did the same with my Gold leafs and kinda manifolded them. The side shoots of the main stalk then made colas as big as the top did.
Ive always wondered about peroxide. Does it oxidize the cannabinoids in the buds?
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Based on the MWs I recently harvested, I see no appreciable impact to the effect. I am very pleased with the product. However I do question if the peroxide impacts the health of the leaf itself perhaps impacting its ability to effectively photo synthesize vey well. The leafs feel drier than they should be after application. No way to prove this, just a hypothesis.
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@Sixpackdad. I noticed after spraying mine the leaves also felt crisper /dryer. I know my concentration was too high at the 3%. Turned all the pistils brown in 2 days.
I’m sure it had something to do with the growth slow down afterwards. 
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I saw the browning of the pistels too. I suspect there was some impact to bud swelling and stacking.
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@Sixpackdad. Absolutely. I may use at 50/50 water again but I’m nervous to do that after seeing what happened last grow.
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Ok im all caught up lol its cool to watch so much happen through an hour read. My eventual goal is to have a similar, multiple tent grow going. This thread was informational. Thanks!
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I put together an Amazon list of everything I used for components and tools to build my 4-QB132 V2 3K lamp for my 2x4 tent. The only thing missing are the QB132s, which can be found on the Horticulture Lighting Group website.
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The MW clones received a lollipopping today to clear out the lower leaves and branches as well as lower leaves and shoots on main branches that have reached the top of the plant. They haven’t stretched as much as I thought they would, which is good because they are about 6" from the QB132s. I should probably cull the runt (lower, left plant) - which hasn’t shot up like the other three, doesn’t seem to be feeding/consuming water at the same rate as the other three, and is generally overshadowed by the other three plants in the tent - but I really struggle to cull a full grown plant. I watered today a little under a 1/2 dose (~400ppm) of “grow” at 5.8pH, runoff 6.0, 750ppms. It will be the last use of “grow” nutrients, as the second week of 12/12 comes to an end and the dandelion is beginning to form. I will begin the “bloom” nutrients this coming week.
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Some WPM detected on the MW clones today. Very minor spots but on all four plants. Leaves impacted were individually washed and the tent was given a spray down. I did not give the plants a whole peroxide application. If more pops up, I may. Otherwise they look solid
The gold leafs are good. Still keeping WPM at bay. Watered today with bloom and boost. Buds look dense and stacking nicely. About three weeks to go I figure.
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That wpm scares the beejeezus out of me. I’ve been graced with dumb luck so far, and have avoided it. You have done a great job with your grow, @Sixpackdad. The plants look great. Power on in the good fight!
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Inspection of the gold leafs tonight showed some ambering of the trichomes. I’ll need to watch closely over the next few days. Based on that I gave one last dose of boost and bloom tonight. I’ll need to decide whether to go one more week of bloom and then a last week of water only. Or maybe just go to water from here on out. The end is near!
The clones look good. In additional to bloom nutes tonight, only some minor WPM needed to be wiped off leaves on all three plants. The maintenance is working but needs to be constantly monitored to keep it it control. Full on flowering has started
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#freebtb
I didn’t think today was a great day for our community.
On to the grow…
The MW clones continue to get WPM checks and cleanings with 9:1 water to h2o2. I use paper towels and gently wipe off any spots. It’s hard to see it when it’s not rampant and trying to establish itself. I need to give the check over a few times around the plants at different angles of light. If you look down at it perpendicular, it’s really tough to see, it’s a little better at an angle, where the light doesn’t seem to pass through it and makes it stick out. I should’ve taken more pictures to show it and will next time.
I started trying something new today. I added a microorganism supplement today from Aurora Innovations, which is the same company that makes the roots organics potting soil I use, called Oregonism. It looks like black mold. I added two tablespoons to a quart of 5.8 water and split it amongst the MWs after they were watered today. There’s a lot of discussion out there on microorganism health in soil, @Skydiver posted on recently. It seems like something worth trying out.
The gold leafs progress - more amber around the sugar leaves, more clear and cloudy around the calyxs. I watered today with a 1/4 dose of bloom. They continue to need a peroxide spray every few days because the WPM is systemic at this point.
One more watering with nutes next time around, then it’s straight water until harvest. I can’t wait to trim the big bud to see how huge it is, a BOM in the making? One thing about growing these not-in-SCROG is the satisfaction of the big bud. I got a boatload of buds with my MW scrog, but it doesn’t have that satisfying stacked central bud.
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Great timing as I’m reading a new book for me by the rev and I read this post and went back to the book turned the page and here is what I read from the Revs book
For battles with powdery mildew
I love a product called Serenade, which is a spray-on bacterium that actually consumes
the mold—or at least that’s how I understand it
Hope this helps
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You r over crowding gotta do what you gotta do to not let plants transpire or perspire when 2 plants tounch is a wpm heaven u might need to move on into flower tent or exile ir outside dont loose your whole crop over greed
I haven’t lost a crop yet dude. Time and effort will get me there.
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Wpm can explode you must really be super vigilent if its growing conditions are perfect for try and change something up defola lil forsure h2o2 is great but still damp the o molecule release rather fast then its water
I’ve lived the explosion. It’s well documented in the thread. I failed to keep it at bay with the first MWs and GLs.
I’m not really following you on the second half of your post.
If h202 is left uncapped it will release the second Of th 02 and become strait water so u essentially are spraying water on them its peroxide only for a little time
I’m not spraying water on them. I pour the peroxide in a bowl with 9 parts water and wipe off the WPM on each leaf or stem I find it on with a paper towel
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