She's Back - Help a Brother Out!!!

RayRay747

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Ok Ive been dealing with this Auto Sour Diesel since around the end of December 2017...She has a few bud sites, but she just seems as she is stalled. I do have vegamatrix big and sticky coming this friday so im hoping that may help get her going. Also going to top dress the soil with a little fishbone meal which is high in phosphorus. Lets see what happens but I would love other suggestions and/or comments on what could be going wrong with the plant and what I can do to fix it.

I was also thinking maybe she needs more nutes. She was battling a calcium deficiency the last 2 weeks but I think I got her back in order. Maybe there is more she needs at this point...

Here is a of pic (sorry about the lighting). If needed, Ill get a better pic:

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BotanyIsFun

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She looks nice and healthy! As long she's still popping out new pistils and her trichomes are on point, the only thing I'd say she needs more of is just, time.
 

RayRay747

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If it's Dinafem, looks like it can need 80. Don't love it to death now. Relax and let her grow.
https://www.dinafem.org/en/blog/sour-diesel-autoflowering-quick-high-quality-crops/
Thx for reply...Yep dinafem auto. She just keeps coming down with a deficiency and I think it keeps being calcium deficiency I think...at least from my research and my last treatment. Just gave her some calcium filled nutes so hopefully that will help again.

I honestly thought maybe she needed more time. I definitely don’t baby her at all. Just been watching her more closely since the deficiency came back.

On a positive note it looks like the buds are finally putting out terpenes and some trichomes are starting to show.
 

RayRay747

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big and sticky is PK boost, looks a little late in the game for pk boost.
Yep vegamatrix feeding schedule tho has it being fed from week 2-6 of flowering. I think I’m around week 3 of flowering now. So figured I’d hit it once tomorrow (it’s actually being delivered) and then another in 2 weeks or so.

Just want to make sure she has all she needs.
 
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RayRay747

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big and sticky is PK boost, looks a little late in the game for pk boost.
Here’s a photo of her from week one of veg which started around 12/30/17:

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I lost my calendar when laptop crashed so I’m guessing on when she started pushing out pistils - which was about last week of January. What would you do at this point? I’d like to juice her up and this is about the time vegamatrix suggests to start feeding (I’m probably 2 weeks late), but I normally wouldn’t use PK boost until about 3 weeks after a flower flip...
 
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Roger A. Shrubber

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i use pk boost for two weeks when they quit stretching, while the buds are still forming, then go back to jack's citrus for the rest of the grow. once the buds are well formed i don't think the pk boost will do much, but i guess it can't hurt to try it
 

RayRay747

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then this would be the time, go for it
Pumping her with some within 2 hours or so. Ive never used a PK Boost before and from what I was told, I should only use it 1-2 times in flower. The Vegamatrix chart says add for 4 weeks between weeks 2-6 (or 7 depending on strain). I was thinking of running it on my plants 2 weeks after pistils start showing and 6 weeks.

Would you run it any differently? More, less...
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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i use jack's blossom booster 10-30-20 as my pk boost, and i give it to them usually week 3 to 5, but it depends on when they quit stretching, until then the plant is still focused on vegetative growth. once they stop stretching, they start focusing on bud growth, trying to get pollinated. after about two weeks of that, they aren't going to be producing much new growth, they're just going to be working on ripening whats there. so as far as i can see, there's not much point in giving them fuel to build with when they're done building.
i switch back to the jack's citrus after that two weeks, and start tapering off about 50 ppm per feeding till i get to 200ppm and finish at that.

so my feed rate/schedule would be something like (veg) week 1-2, 150-200 ppm citrus, week 3-6 300-400 ppm citrus, (flower), week 7-9 500-600 ppm citrus, week 10-12 800+ppm blossom booster, week 12 through finish, 500 ppm, decreasing 50 ppm per feeding down to 200 ppm citrus
 
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Roger A. Shrubber

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of course, vegamatrix is a system, designed to work together. if they say use it that long, they may have a reason why. when i use the blossom booster, thats all i'm using, its not an additive.
 

RayRay747

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of course, vegamatrix is a system, designed to work together. if they say use it that long, they may have a reason why. when i use the blossom booster, thats all i'm using, its not an additive.
How many times/how often do you use your bloom booster?

Yeah i dont work their system too much. I only use two of their products - amp-it and big n sticky (I planned to use it as stated above in week 2 of flower and week 6 only). Wasnt going to dope her up with too much bloom boost but maybe I should lol....

In addition, I also use jumpstart, coconut water (stop at flowering), aloe vera (stop at flowering) and molasses.

To recharge the bennies in the soil, I use recharge.

I top dress with epsom (once monthly), organic plant food 5-2-4 (once monthly), diatomaceous earth (pre planting seed and once monthly) and bone meal (once monthly).

I use biomin calcium for calicium if needed.

Lastly, I spray only the top of the soil nicely with neem and peppermint soap.

Sorry for the ramble but wanted to give all the low down of what I do right now. Always looking for suggestions, etc...
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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4 or 5 times, i usually water twice a week, but some plants are big drinkers so they'll get an extra shot.
i run hempy buckets and keep them sterile with h2o2. if i was running soil, i'd use bennies, but its just a big mess in hempies.
while i will admit that neem oil works, i HATE it, it reeks, forever, and makes me break out in hives if i touch it. i use spinosad and pyrethin in veg, try to have any problems in hand before i flip to flower, if i miss a few i bomb the shit out of them with spinosad, only thing i'll use in flower, and only like to use it early if possible.
 

RayRay747

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4 or 5 times, i usually water twice a week, but some plants are big drinkers so they'll get an extra shot.
i run hempy buckets and keep them sterile with h2o2. if i was running soil, i'd use bennies, but its just a big mess in hempies.
while i will admit that neem oil works, i HATE it, it reeks, forever, and makes me break out in hives if i touch it. i use spinosad and pyrethin in veg, try to have any problems in hand before i flip to flower, if i miss a few i bomb the shit out of them with spinosad, only thing i'll use in flower, and only like to use it early if possible.
Yeah I’ve gotten used to neem since I started using it in my garden years ago. It def reeks...

I’m going to run big n sticky 3 times (week 2 of actual flower, not from flip), then week 3 and 4. Then stop. I’ll still continue with my nutes given during veg except for coconut water and Aloe Vera.
 
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