Bagseed & Barney's Blue Cheese

Dayzt · #1 09-24-2009, 08:42 PM

This grow is already approaching the end of it's 4th week of flowering. I hadn't started a journal yet... just lazy I guess..lol.

Grow specifics:

Location: Spare bathroom, pots in tub.

Medium: 80% Premiere Promix / 20% home-made compost

Nutes: 100% ORGANIC - Adv Nutrients' Iguana Juice Grow (veg) and Bloom (Flowering). AN Nirvana (added to foliar spray and started half/half with Iguana Bloom in 4th week of flowering.

The story up until now...

- Started 5 bagseeds and 1 B.Blue Cheese - vegged for 6 weeks. All plants showed sex by ~4th week of veg.

- Used rainwater for all feedings except one (tap-water pH'd down to ~6.5).

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Comments:

- plants are doing better than I could ever have expected at this point. I plan to flower for ~8 weeks (the BC may need 9-10) and they already look close to what my last grow looked just before harvest...

- So far, i'm super-impressed with the AN Iguana Juice and from what I've heard, the Nirvana booster will top everything off nicely.

- Was concerned at first that my grow space was too limited, but now that i'm past the flowering growth spurt, it looks like everything will be okay. Plants are filling out nicely. (see pics)

Please have a seat and join me for the rest of this grow journal. It's for my reference mainly, but I want everyone to feel free to comment or ask any questions. This is only my second grow ever, so I'm still learning a ton.

Dayzt · #2 09-24-2009, 09:59 PM

...thought i'd add some more info on the pics in my previous post...

- My light actually fell on the plants a few weeks ago and snapped some branches as well as bent the main stem of my blue-cheese plant pretty bad.... the one pic there shows the splint I made for it from a wooden shish-kabob skewer..lol. You'd never tell they suffered any damage anymore though...they bounced back nicely after some TLC... =)

- The BC plant also has been undergoing continuous tieing of the side-branches in to the main stem in order to keep them up and therefor soaking more direct light from the above light.

- My CFL side-lighting was a big change from my last (and first) grow. The side lighting isn't really 'side' lighting as much as I'd hoped since I don't have enough room in the tub to truly have them low on the sides... but they turned out to be providing some great 'extra' lighting in general which the girls are obviously appreciating!

Dayzt · #3 09-27-2009, 01:50 AM

- Going to buy some molasses tomorrow and start adding it in to my waterings once a week from this point up until the final flush!

- Getting very impressive results this time through = being only half-way finished, i'm truly excited to see what the next 4-5 weeks will bring!!

- Ordered myself a grow-tent online this evening... i've really out-grown my bathroom idea, and I need to start getting more serious with the whole fresh-air intake and ventilation issues. I plan to set myself up with a good carbon-filter system in this new tent as well as a system that I can use to give my plants the continuous fresh-air they need while maintaining the grow-space temperature and humidity...

- the girls have officially reached the end of their 4-week flowering period now - buds are really starting to take off, so I hope the added molasses will help them add some extra weight and sweetness!

...more pics to come following the next feeding in 2-3 days - stay tuned and please introduce yourself if you're tuning in! =)

Earl · #4 09-27-2009, 12:26 PM

Looks good.
How much do you have on them ?
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Dayzt · #5 09-27-2009, 06:56 PM

I've been feeding 5 ml of each Iguana J Bloom and Nirvana in a 1.5 gallon jug as well as a straight 1.5 gallon jug of rain-water.

Feedings have been about once every 5-6 days at this point in order to let them dry up enough before getting more.

Used 2-3 ml of Nirvana in my foliar spray of rain-water - I tend to foliar feed about every 3 days or so.

These next four weeks I'll stick to this amount and add 3 tbsp of BlackStrap Mollasses to the straight water mix - I should get some nice increase in bud size in the second half of flowering just before I start flushing.

Dayzt · #6 09-29-2009, 12:23 AM

- Feeding day today!! The girls got their first taste of molasses today. I used 2 tbsp in 1.5 gallons of water and used it in 3 plant pots, then filled the same thing again for the other 3 plants. Each group of 3 plants then got another 1.5 gallons of water with half their regular nutes (2.5 ml Iguana Juice and 2.5 ml of Nirvana).
- Followed the feeding up with a light foliar spray that has a small amount of Nirvana in it as well.

- Did quite alot of trimming as well - there is alot of growth near the bottoms of the plants that wasn't doing well, so I trimmed a lot down there to get some better airflow as well as force them to move more nutrients and water up to the big forming bud-sites...

- Tied-in many branches that were starting to lean out to the walls from the weight of the bud sites.

- Gave a nickname to the plant with the biggest cola thus far, 'Donkey Kong'. He's in the middle of the back row. See large pic (above)

- Here's another round of pics as promised... please leave me some comments or suggestions!

Earl · #7 09-29-2009, 06:11 AM

Looks like you are gonna have some frosty buds at the finish line.

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smoke weed every day · #8 09-30-2009, 05:49 AM

yeahh they look pukka m8..growing sum blue cheese myself buds are coming on nicely im at my 3rd week ov flowering friday

but i vegged for 8 weeks and they are chest height

Dayzt · #9 10-01-2009, 11:36 PM

Random journal entries...

- Starting to see some leaves yellowing - not many, but some are big fan leaves about 2/3 of the way up the plant... no burnt tips so I don't think it's nute-burn... I'm thinking maybe i'm giving them too much water during feeding. I plan to wait a few days longer before feed/water this time until I see more drooping leaves, and then cut my water back by about 1/4 and see if they like that better.

- Still really impressed with how nice they are looking so far... just approaching the end of week 5 of flowering and most bud-sites are over 1 inch in diameter with the largest one a tad over 2 inches wide!

- Some pistils have started to turn brown already but all buds continue to have new white pistils every day...

- Starting to take some yield guesses and by the way things are looking so far, I'm guessing there will be about 3.5 oz from the 6 plants... we'll see how the next 3-4 weeks go.

- Thinking I'll definitely need a lot of flushing for these girls in thier last 1.5 or 2 weeks... the AR nutes and molasses will need lots of water

inquisitive · #10 10-01-2009, 11:41 PM

Good journal!
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