Hello stoners!
Today I'll be focusing on phase 2 of the run, will post pics from phase 1 over the weekend. First things first, though.
looking good pompel. Whats your thoughts on the co2. Has it been a cost benifit? I'm debating on if it is worth the cost and hassel versus reward. Today I'm on day 49 of 12/12 and switching over to ripe nutrients. from what I've seen with other grows with the ultimate, looking at another month at least. I did see first sign of red hairs on one of the sativas, which I thought was pretty cool. Good luck on your grow.
I've been growing a couple of years now, and my biggest regret, apart from starting with hydro, has been the lack of co2. The co2-boost system is IMO easy to use, just have to replace the bucket every 3 months. I reckon that co2 will add 20-30% to yield, which is fine by me. Also, the plants grow faster, take more nutrients, endures higher temps, and they finish faster, as I've understood, anyways.
The Ultimate's are now in 52 days 12/12, and there's noway a month left. Roughly, there's 3 pheno's; one is finished in... a week, another 10 days and the last in two weeks.
Very rough estimate, though! You can have a look yourself next time i post.
Cant wait to hear if the ultimate is all that dutch pashions makes it out to be.
lookking good so far. what is the ppm in your nutes for the ultimate?
When i grew in hydro, the PH and PPM drove me crazy! Doing a organic grow, I really don't pay any attention to PH and PPM anymore. Some of this is down to observation of the plant; looking for deficiencies, pest, stress and so forth, haven't really had any significant problems due to nuteburns or deficiencies. But most of it is down to the fact that I'm so fucking lazy, so I trick myself into believing that all will probably go well. But of course, maintaining these things is very important, don't let slobs like me tell you otherwise. Pathetic, I know, and it must be paid greater attention to.
Still, I foresee that my most important tool will become a refractometer to measure brix-levels. Using this, it will become much easier to identify what the plant needs, and how much. You can read an interesting piece on this here:
http://www.compostcoop.com/index_files/page0004.htm
OK, then, now for the main course: phase 2. Lots of goodies in here, grossly distorted by a cheap camera. Some of you may notice the self-watering pots. These are 15L pots (approx 3.5 gallons) bought from... eh, IKEA. Trust me, I'm pretty fucking desperate to walk into that energy-sucking hellhole, but it's strange how flexible you become when you lack money. Well, I'm glad that I did, because they work really well, sort of a wick-system for soil. The plants in these pots have in general grown faster and bigger than the ones in ordinary pots. Easy to use and cheap.
The budshot of the Purps is from the one pheno that truly shows any "purpleness", the rest looks ordinary, but with good potential otherwise. PG-13 and Sour Diesel have been slower to flower, but as these will go 10-12 weeks, it's expected. Only one female L.A. Confidential, but kept the male, so I'm gonna pollinate some of the lower branches. Also there are 3 Double Dutch here (Warlock-pheno) that I've kept. Plan is to cure them properly, stash it away for 6 months, and have a new go at it. I'm
so immune it's high right now, it's ridiculous. Can smoke 10 grams a day, no prob. Hope it knocks me out next time, ha ha!
Last but not least; the Cannalope Haze. Wow! I'm getting exited over these, think they will be excellent.
All right, that's it for now. Hope you all have a fantastic weekend, because it's lots of work and little play for me. Still, very happy that I smoke and grow the herb.
