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So far all 3 pucks I’ve pressed have done this. 2 7 gram and 1 3.5 gram puck . I figured it should be flat. 7 gram puck on 10 ton 3x5 plate , i have a pre press and trying “bottle tek” . I place puck in put it about a fingers width from the edge of the plates and close it down till I feel a bit of restriction. Let preheat 30 seconds and then I go to 1000 psi for 20-30 seconds and then go to 2000ish for the remainder of the 3.5 min . I’m wondering if I’m not closing down on my press enough during the heat up phase . I’m wondering if it shoulda been a lil more closed down on my pre heat . Any tips advice or tricks greatly appreciated. Never seen a press before much less owned and operated one . My dab came out really oily it’s almost impossible to collect using a dab tool unless I froze it lol but it smacks and taste and smells amazing. The bud is some leftover stuff from a October harvest that’s been in grove backs without any humidity packs ever since so I’m wondering if that’s the cause of the oiliness it’s definitely dryer then you’d want but I figured I’d practice with it a few times before I get into my fresher packs

So I have two separate 3 lb grain bags 1 north spore and 1 Boomer Shroomer , that are a few days away from S2B imo . I have 3 5lb Boomer Bags from Northspore . And I have 2 - 28 quart Monotubs . I originally planned to only spawn 1 grain bag at first . If I use 1 3 lb grain bag and 2 5lb substrates would that be to thick of a cake for that size mono tub? I figured if I only used 1 grain bag and 1 substrate would that be too much grain? Would the cake have issues retaining moisture as well? I’m completely noob and am in dire need of direction .

I have 3 jelly breaths and 3 sluricanes. I have my mind made up on the jellybreaths , im going to toss #3 jelly breath because it has long node spacing and started getting hungry a week ago where the others still are pushing through with no issues. Since I’m going to flower jellybreath #1 & #2 , I just figured I’d flower slurricanes #1 & #3 as they are all 4 the exact same height and they all appear to have the same watering and nutrient needs. I had planned to toss out # 2 slurricane as it was a solid 8” taller then the rest of the plants I plan to flower an has longer node spaceing, and it tends to dry out faster then the other 4 . But last night I figured I’d defoliate and lolipop just as practice and to my suprise 3 of the main branches are triploids ? My question is should I say screw an even canopy and flower this pheno solely on it being a triploid? Or should I stick to my original plan and flower the 4 that have tighter node spacing and all the same height?
Ps in this picture it’s hard to tell the height difference between them as I had already put clips on all the main tops in attempt to let the others catch up , but it was a minimum 8” taller. If I was only flowering 1 plant I would definitely pick it to flower as it’s been happy and growing fast , but since I’ll be taking 4 into flower I don’t want to end up with a plant hogging up all the room . Hope that made sense I suck at getting stuff from my mind onto paper.

So I thought I had my minds made up because I’m going to flower jelly breaths #2 & #1 because jelly breath #3 has really far node spacing and got hungry a week ago and has received the same exact nutrients as every other plant . so I automatically figured I’d flower sluricanes # 1& #3 as number 2 is a good bit taller and has farther node spacing. But I was practicing defoliating and lolipoping on #2 last night and to my surprise #2 has 3 main branches that are triploids. Should I say screw an even canopy and run the #2 all because it’s a triploid or stick to original plan and grow the 4 that all have similar growth patterns and water uptake the triploid plant has a higher water uptake so far. It’s hard to tell because in this picture it already has clips on most of the mains but it was a solid 6-8 “ taller before I put clips in .

Sprouted march 31 in solo cups with plain gai green living soil 10% castings 15 % pumice 8%Biochar . I up potted on April 12th to 3 gallon with the same ratio except I added 3 tablespoons/gallon of gai green 4-4-4 . I let that mix sit “cooking in a tub for 5 days before I up potted . I have been giving compost/molasses/Kelp extract/ MycosWp teas every 2 weeks . As well as a kelp foliar . I just recently (3 days ago) gave its first dose of Cronk PurCalmag . I have some bio-ag ion 14 silcon ordered I plan to start this week when arrives . My plans are to veg Another 30 days or so probably get my trellis up in 2 weeks or so and flower the best 2 of each strain , (right now leaning towards the shorter phenos as they have tighter nodes . I’m going to use the same ratios for soil except I’ll do 50/50 4-4-4 and 2-8-4 when I transplant to 5 gallon a week before flower and do my defoliation and lollipop . First In House Genetics run . Anyone used a trellis with these strains before ? In a 4x4 under ac infinity evo 8 currently receiving 500 PPFD it’s set at a 4out of 10 at 16-20 “

Last pics are of some branches forming where the Cotyledon leaves was never noticed it before have y’all?

Sprouted march 31 in solo cups with plain gai green living soil 10% castings 15 % pumice 8%Biochar . I up potted on April 12th to 3 gallon with the same ratio except I added 3 tablespoons/gallon of gai green 4-4-4 . I let that mix sit “cooking in a tub for 5 days before I up potted . I have been giving compost/molasses/Kelp extract/ MycosWp teas every 2 weeks . As well as a kelp foliar . I just recently (3 days ago) gave its first dose of Cronk PurCalmag . I have some bio-ag ion 14 silcon ordered I plan to start this week when arrives . My plans are to veg Another 30 days or so probably get my trellis up in 2 weeks or so and flower the best 2 of each strain , (right now leaning towards the shorter phenos as they have tighter nodes . I’m going to use the same ratios for soil except I’ll do 50/50 4-4-4 and 2-8-4 when I transplant to 5 gallon a week before flower and do my defoliation and lollipop . First In House Genetics run . Anyone used a trellis with these strains before ?

I won a 200$ gift card in a photo contest and was wanting to upgrade my tent with either the aI controller , or the full spectrum 16” under canopy lights and the Uv lights 11 “ 4 bar . I’m kinda thinking about getting the aI controller now and then buying the lights later because my controller is maxed out rn , I could use the small controller the lights come with but I like being able to see and control everything via app . Or would y’all get lights now and controller later . Tent is a 4x4 with a evo 8 light .

I won a 200$ gift card in a photo contest and was wanting to upgrade my tent with either the aI controller , or the full spectrum 16” under canopy lights and the Uv lights 11 “ 4 bar . I’m kinda thinking about getting the aI controller now and then buying the lights later because my controller is maxed out rn , I could use the small controller the lights come with but I like being able to see and control everything via app . Or would y’all get lights now and controller later . Tent is a 4x4 with a evo 8 light .