Thats alot of dead moldy leaves there.. Do you remove them? I thought you were suppose to, I could be wrong though. Your plants look bad ass so clearly it ain't hurting.Day 28 of flower
time for a quick update
One moon ago the girls launched into flower - and this is them today:
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Ahh,have I been looking forward to doing these side-by-side pix - finally!
In the undergrowth, I am keeping the soil damp and sprinkle watering daily.
Right after watering:
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This is how I feed my soil
A month ago, the pot was up to the rim with fresh leaves & trim from defoliation -- the soil life has eaten quite a bit of it!
LOL
Lol no problem, now at least I'm awake!
Looks awesome!! And 69 buds sounds like the perfect number to me, lmfao. They do look really healthy with a nice frost., the only thing i see is nute burn in most of the leaves tips, but just lower your nuts a little and they should be ok!! Other than that IT LOOKS AWESOME THERE!! keep up the good work!!Day 35 of flower
So here it is, the long awaited update at 5 full weeks of flower!
Switched the bulbs for pix again to give you all a nice natural-colored look at them... one would think that taking pix regularly would improve my photography skills, but it seems the opposite is the case lol
The general view:
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The main action this week was in the fattening of buds. Without messing with the leaves, I'm counting 18 buds on Dusk and 51 on Dawn
A bit of stretch on Dawn, as I raised the lights a bit - I was hoping they would find more space to accommodate each other, which was wrong reasoning, as I will show you next
So here's the thing!
Whilst they look really orderly and spaced out on top:
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It looks like I unknowingly weaved part of the colas under the screen lmao
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Those little buds forming a real carpet down there are all on the stems of what looks so nicely aerated and lighted on top!
I only thought to show you the canopy from underneath after I switched back to HPS, but I think you get the idea of how they're trained?
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LOL!
(and yes, I do lay my head in the closet and look at the canopy from below now n then haha!)
So it's pretty tight in there. After I realized this, I checked on the other tall colas and yep, they are blooming right down into the net. So when I say the tall ones are 25 from the screen, that's flowers all the way down
Not sure if that is going to spell trouble!
Tho the prospects of them fattening up all the way down are hellishly appetizing
I still hate my circulation vent, so I tend not to turn it on.
Maybe I should change that?
Thing is, it makes the pistils dry out quicker -- does that matter? (ahh, you can tell I'm actually a noob now, eh?)
Otherwise, things seem to be well. I pluck 3-5 dried up leaves out of Dawn every other day, and am not seeing anymore fungus gnats. Keeping the mulch damp by sprinkle watering daily, with more water every 3 days again (the 2nd wave of nematodes is due to go in sometime next week). The marigold says it's good that way, and the girls aren't complaining either.
Perhaps a bit of a complaint:
on two of Dawn's colas I saw some yellowing starting, not sure if that's not a bit early with ca. 5 weeks to go?
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One thing is for sure: they're dam sticky!
So, we'll see how they continue next week
Cheers!
Yea i should mention here something ive noticed. This gal does NOT seem to like high P, my flower tea was a bit hot for her and i got just a touch of burn on my leaves. Something to keep in mind for the future. Thats the haze side of her expressing the lighter feeding than the NL in my opinion.
How is yours going? I haven't got any notification about your updates
They are going. I think one is close to done. The damage was done and it hurt yield. The other is trucking along. I'll take pics tonight.
Haha yeah, I only realized later the total added up to 69 -- good omen?
I def need to look into that more!
I dont think yours is to a problematic extent at all, things to write down for next run, small adjustments eh?Thanks guys!
Haha yeah, I only realized later the total added up to 69 -- good omen?
As for these nute burn symptoms!
I have yet to learn so much about how the soil works!
Thanks for the pointer re high P... I'll have to think about that and how my soil could be too high on it... I'm still just watering with nothing in lol
I have been mulching... not sure but I think P is more available in fungal-heavy environments? could be I shouldn't have added those 2 handsful of decaying wood -- which definitely is feeding the fungal population...
Cheers!
Yeah I'm not worried (yet? haha) - but yes, it's an opportunity to learn more and more of what is actually going on there and how I can influence in a positive way
Thanks!Not been recieving updates for some reason and RIU has been playing up today?
Anywho, they are looking great, so frosty!
Wow, just wow! They are really filling out now!Day 42 of flower
So here we are, at 6 full weeks of flower
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Not much change this week it seems -- just a bit of bud fattening going on, along with new flowers on the tips of the colas, the tallest of which stretched 1 cm after I raised the lights a bit just in case the yellowing tips had anything to do with too much light.
Not sure, I think not. The yellowing has spread to more colas now, I am just letting it go now, as I cannot be sure how much this is due to rootboundedness.
The "bud studies" - Dawn, Dusk, and Dawn's tall fat cola:
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Maybe it's just me getting used to all that floweriness, or that change is going on in details I fail to notice in all this abundance, but it feels like they're stopping.
I've seen this noted on other people's grows, also noticed this with my horrid auto grow (which however I do not consider a point of reference lol)...
Is this typical of the flowering cycle?
In any case, I will be reducing light time to 11 hours from today, maybe to let them know they can't stay like that forever haha
Oh and somewhat annoyingly, new fungus gnats appeared on the day I added the second round of nematodes. Maybe I should have just watered em all into the cannabis pot instead of sharing amongst other plants in my flat (thinking 5 mil for 5m² would go around easily)... I may have overestimated the nematodes' hunger / underestimated the amount of larvae that last profuse generation of fungus gnats deposited in the soil there
Cheers!
