Kandy Kush & Blueberry Soil Grow

And these are the 2nd group of plants - dubbed "light green". These pics were taken at the same time as those above (day 41 of 12/12). These plants have shown a much lower rate of growth and the resin really didn't kick in until about week 5 or so. They have quite a few bud sites on them all, but have grown significantly smaller buds than the dark green variety.



This group is also different from the other in the fact that the others have seen virtually no signs of deficiencies or overfeeding - they take anything you throw at them and just continue to charge ahead.

I was doing some research and another option that seems to fit possibly is a Magnesium deficiency. Was possibly considering adding some CalMag to some plain water pH'd to 6.5 for these with no other nutrients. Would you guys agree with that course of action? I am going to continue to feed the dark green group the recommended recipe from the Roots Organics schedule since they seem to be fine with it.

Been reading through your thread, and considering your set up your plants are adapting very well. If I were in your position, I would consider buying a 50watt 3000k led flood light off ebay after you harvest. Jam that in the middle with the two 90 watters angled inwards from the outside edges. You could then ditch the shitty cfls, and consider buying 1 or 2 of those cheap ass 1foot 8watt t-5 strip lights from walmart to stick on the walls. You plants look like what mine used to when I was growing with primarily red and blue, we are coming to the point in the led community that we accept that there are more photoreceptors at work than Chlorophyll A and B. White light gives us the rounded spectrum that we need, you will be seeing many manufacturers replacing blues with 6500k or even 4000k leds.

With that amount of wattage (about 230 watts if you bought the white light) you would need a slightly larger set up. I think in the first post you talk about using a larger cabinet, or closet. I use about 750 watts total, that includes 90 watts of fans, to flower out a 5'x6' room. Just up the warm white content and everything will start to smooth out.

The magnesium deficiencies are just a case of photoreceptor overclocking, it's a deficiency that you can't quite ever fix you can only keep up with it if you catch it before it accelerates. How often outside do plants receive this much pure red and blue? Only for the first and last 45 minutes of the day. Then the sun comes up. The plant thinks it's in the fucking arctic circle in late summer and they panic to quickly flower before the sun sets. I personally feel that is why Autos respond decently to pure red/blue light. Ruderalis grows closer to the poles than any other strains, they expect the low arch of the sun passing through most of the atmosphere filtering out the light giving them a longer amount of r/b light throughout the day.

Also, the size of your stems in veg are indicative of how much weight the plant expects to hold, raise expectations.Good on you for using the leds, I hope your harvest gives you what you're looking for.
Sincerely,
ILovePlants

Awesome insight ILovePlants!

Thanks so much.

Just for clarification, is this what you are referring to regarding the flood light?:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sylvania-35W-Equivalent-Using-5-5W-LED-Flood-Light-Bulb-PAR16-GU10-3000K-White-/261061411198?pt=US_Light_Bulbs&hash=item3cc879017e

It makes good sense to me to have to round out the spectrum. I really like the LED's because of the heat/energy/utility-savings. My last grow yielded much larger plants and buds. However they weren't from clones as there were (really only veg'd for like 1-2 weeks) and they were autos - so your comment regarding that above is golden and makes perfect sense.

My next flower run will be using three plants that will have been vegging for about 3 months by the time they go into the 12/12 environment. This is only my second grow. My first was from seed in hydro. This one was from clones I took from two mother plants and grew in organic soil with organic nutes. Just trying to get my feet wet in the various methods and tactics . I am thinking that fewer, larger plants will likely be more my speed since this is really just personal interest stuff and not anything production-minded and I like exploring the different strains, etc. Still have a long ways to go regarding tuning everything in to get the best results in my environment.

Nice bro, thats some dank looking shit you got there

I'll be growing out my northern light blue next, love that strain, its my favourite over the past 12 years of growing!!

Your plants are doing fantastic!! I hope you have a big grow space if you plan to bloom 3 month old plants, remember they will stretch out some the first intital week of flowering too, so if you like me you might end up running out of room lol, but if you keep practicing that topping process than you might be good. Keep up the good work!

Probably between 2-3 weeks from harvest I think. Things are going well, lots of resin production.

Just pruned and did some tying down of the Northern Light Blue in anticipation of putting it into the flowering tent once I pull the Blueberry and Kandy Kush.



Pretty excited about this plant. Each one seems to get better

Day 48 of flowering:



I am sure I could have done a much better job, but learning as I go. The yield is certainly not going to be huge - but the quality is looking like it will be good. And I learned quite a bit during this one.

And here are the Northern Light Blue, C99 and Tangerine Dream. I have topped them a few week ago, did some LST by tying down the branches, pruned the lower branches off and pinched them over in strategic areas. Will let them recover from the pinching over the next couple of weeks and then put them in the 12/12 tent. Pretty stoked to see how my attempt at these methods work out. Total newb.



Peace.

Day 59 of flowering. Probably will cut a week from today which puts them right at 9.5 weeks (give or take a day):



Here is a peek inside my veg/clone/mother cabinet:



From L to R that is a Tangerine Dream, Northern Light Blue and a C99. All are thriving and filling the cabinet quickly. I will put the NLB and the TD in the flowering tent as soon as I pull the Blueberry and Kandy Kush plants that are currently in there. The rest are some clones and seedlings that I have chillin' in there. Here is a look a the NLB. I am stoked to see what this thing does:

Chopped 'em down and trimmed them up. Blueberry (at least that is what I concluded) definitely produced some big, dense buds. Can't wait to sample them in a few days

Placed the Northern Light Blue and Tangerine Dream into the flowering tent. Will likely have to get a larger tent as it is definitely *full* in there



I believe this plant is the Blueberry. It had some large buds on it. Not a ton of them, but they were big: