Day 65 since cutting: Day 46 since first potting: Day 7 since re potting.

Today I selected the bushiest 3 girls and cloned one of each of their lowest branches. These clones will be bloomed at the same time as the cheddar in soil. So, as soon as these clone are showing nice roots, 4 of the cheese in pots will go for blooming. 2 will remain in veg for and future cheesey developments.

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Looks great. Will be watching.

Things seems so slow. I will be bringing four nicely vegged Cheese plants into the bloom room any day soon. Over the next fourteen to twenty four days the current bloom op will come to an end and I shall be giving everything a good clean just before I bring the new plants in.

The cheese will be interesting, I'm excited lols.

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I'm going to get things started.

77 Days since cutting
58 Days since first potting
19th Day in 6L pots

The moment I've been waiting for. Please welcome to the stage for their first day in the bloom room, fourrrrrrrrr, BB.Cheeeeeeeze. *applause*

All I've done thus far is fed these ladies some Mother Earth Grow, Sensi Grow, Barricade, Misting with Formulex, and finally a couple of assaults with the pest control solution. I sprayed em once more and allowed the liquid to evaporate before bringing them in to the bloom room. The soil is almost dry, but I will not be feeding them for another day or two.

I think they look nicely vegged. I've clipped off the leaves that appeared to have suffered mites, so they are off to a healthy looking start. The tallest stands at a whopping 15 inches.

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ok ok ok , they do look nicely vegged. uuummmm this mites business u contained/deleted the problem completely? For bloom feed will u be using any sensi bloom?

Maybe. Cheese like a good meal. While for me, the AK is a little shy at the table. It will be Mother Earth Bloom doing the majority of the work. Sensi possibly around week 4 or 5 for a short time. Depends on how they look as an when feeding time arises. I will not have that plan set in stone as I may decide differently over the course of time. Also these plants are starting bloom slightly older than the last cheese that I had a go with. These may be able to handle sensi a bit better. On top, I'm now using smaller pots and anticipate feeding more regular than late, so I can have more control over the feeding regime.

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The four Cheeses went in on the evening of 12/18/2007, and today is 12/20/2007; I will be naming today Day 2 in the Bloom Room.

They had yesterday, Day 1 (12/19/2007), to use up any available moisture in their pots. Even though there maybe dry residual elements and compounds in the medium from previous waterings/feeds, I thought it wise to allow the medium to dry out. Previous bloom events, where pots have been heavily laden with veg nutes upon entry to the bloom room, have seen pots still registering WET on the soil moisture meter after 8 Days in the bloom room without any watering since they were in veg. So this time I decided to ensure the pots would be somewhat dry after 48hours so I could commence Bloom feeding without wasting over 10 Days waiting for the grow medium to dry out.

Today they had Mother Earth Bloom to EC1.2. Upon writing this I've just realised I haven't pH'd their feed even though I've already given it to them. I'm not worried. I didn't add anything to the feed mix that would have pushed the pH to alarming heights. Had I added barricade, which is a potassium silicate, I would be worried because very small amounts of this additive raise the reservoir pH by quite a lot. Next time I will be on top of things... With any luck it should only be 2 days until their next dose of feed.

Yesterday I put 3 stakes in 3 pots and tied a few branches down. A form of LST that I've found to be helpful in helping light penetration to the lowest bud sights. The last time I worked with this strain, I employed LST quite late into flowering when I realised the lower branches needed more light. This time, as I know what is likely to happen, I'm thinking ahead a little.

The 4th pot didn't have any thing tied up/down. I ran out of stakes and it's nice to see one of the plants untampered with to see what might have happened to the LST'd ones.

Any questions, feel free... Photos coming in a few days when I see some changes. Tune in next time

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The two cheeses that were due to start life as mothers have been added to the bloom garden. Conversation has arisen which has meant drawing this particular Medical Gro Op to a close after this last run.

As of 12/21/2007 I added the two extra cheeses to the bloom room. They are only a matter of moments behind the others so there shouldn't be too much in the way of difference in development.

Now there are 6!

Today I fed the first4 with Mother Earth Bloom, Barricade and Carboload to and EC of 1.3. The additional2 didn't get anything as their pots were quite heavy on entry to the bloom room.

All plants are in 6L pots. Their initial potting was in B'Cuss Special/Plagron mix in 1/2L pots. Their 2nd potting was with approx 1L Hydroton to the bottom of each, topped with Canna Pro Plus. A grow medium composition of various sort. Tune in for up and coming pictorial updates

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Today (12/23/2007) they are all being treated to a blast with SpiderMite Control. I've spotted a large number of the buggers on a few leaves. I thought I might have had it under control. I think I shall have to take alternate action. Watch this space.

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Update

12/24/07.All 6 plain water

12/26/07. All 6 plants 1L of Voodoo, Carboload, Barricade, and Mother Earth Bloom to EC1.3/pH6.65. The first signs of pistil development is visible on all plants including the 2 @ Day 8 in Bloom. I see quite a bit of purple on the stems, which could be related to the room temperatures. I did not see any other issues with deficiency.

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