Well it's a good thing I'm pretty happy with my lights at the mo, looks like I'll have to brush up my understanding before I add any more
At the mo I'm more worried about odour control.
The Skylar White seems to be living out the skunkishness in her lineage and my place strinks like a cannaforest despite the cheapside DIY filtering I've been dabbling with..
My logic on air exchange seems to be off. I was looking to keep it to the necessary minimum as to not create negative pressure in the closet. My suspicion being that negative air pressure makes the plants stink more. While that may be, air exchange isn't going to win against genetics
So after wasting 50 euro on a regular inline fan (w/ just 90m³/hr), activated carbon (which I had to remove again after a day, the airflow got reduced to just about zero), and a Carbon filter for extractor hoods (totally ineffective!), I'm sheepishly opting for a nice 160m³/hr S&P silent fan and a proper carbon filter to match
I had the impulse to just put up my old closet and stick them in there for the 3 weeks they still have to go, but knowing myself, if I do
that I'll never build the new room, and I really need that space for my planned return to photoperiods - and moving on to regulars too...
So here they are, at day 54, 14 days after
the last update, with a good 3 weeks to go.
Both showing nute problems on their bottom leaves, the PE with calmag deficiency signs and starting to transfer nitrogen upwards.
I have to look at slow release nutes in my soil mixes more seriously I think!
The Pineapple Express
Note that tallest branch in the middle - it's actually the lowermost one of the plant, which seems decided to get into a growing race with the deadnettle in there (blooming in pink), way after the other parts of the plant were already focusing on flower.
It's really funny to see how that one branch is trying to catch up with the others now. May have to leave it standing, like a vigorous middle finger, for a few more days after the rest gets harvested
we'll see!
And Ms. Stinky, the Skylar White
Clearly pulling nitrogen out of her bottom leaves, may be partly genetic self-defoliation, but yeah.
She's only in 10L too, on purpose.
For full development she'd need twice that, but I was scared of that given the tiny space.
Looks like she could be a heavy yielder when grown out properly, love how she's developing her colas!
(oh and sorry for the crappy pic quality, my cellphone cam all of a sudden can't handle the light anymore it seems and always makes these stripey pix now
so no, I
don't have shades hanging across my lights lol)
(same main cola as the closeup in the
last update)
Cheers!
I've got this feeling I'm going to be giving up on Fastbuds genetics alltogether, I've had so many seeds either not sprout at all or sprout badly or be runts... not sure what it's about either, I got the first ones from Zamnesia I think, the second from Gorilla Seeds - so either all Fastbuds stuff is old this side of the sea, or they don't like the way I treat them.
