The Doc's 4 strain MMJ garden: CBD Critical Cure and more ;-)

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Quick update:
After a day of flushing the girls and the system, the system was emptied out and filled with a fresh mix of RO water with full dose of Armor Si, Cal-Mag+ and floralicious, and FloraNova bloom to a ppm of 1200. An hour later and after the mix recirculated mixing with the little bit of left over flushing mix and after the roots gobbled up enough nutrients to reach an equilibrium with the res, the ppm dropped down to 950. More FloraNova bloom added directly into the res with a 1/3 dose of GH's Liquid KoolBloom (adding more PK) to bring the ppm back up to 1200 and pH at 5.9
The topoff res got a mix of RO with half dose Armor Si and full dose Cal-Mag+ and floralicious then enough Canna Aqua Flores to bring up the ppm to 1000. PH balances at 5.9!
Heres a shot of the canopy :-)
Like I said, i will be using the canna aqua nutes (since i have it anyway) in the topoff and I believe canna has a more suitable NPK ratio for cannabis than FloraNova! I think ill run oit of both canna and floranova bloom nutes by the end of this run!


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Day 22 of flowering (weekly) update:
Its a tropical forest in the tent now lol. The blueberry is one vigorous girl actually lifting up the screen and look at hers and the critical cures trunks hah. Another 2 bottles of (17.5L each) of RO with half dose of Armor Si, full dose Cal-Mag+ and full dose floralicious with .5ml/L KoolBloom liquid went into the topoff res then enough Canna Aqua Flores to get the ppm to 900 (down from the previous 1000 ppm of the topoff because the ppm is rising slowly in the main res indicating the girls are eating less).
I defoliate few fan leaves here and there to allow more light on potential bud sites but dont overdo it.




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Quick update for an interesting observation :-)
The girls doubled their water uptake .... what??!!!! ... so i wasnt supposed to refill the topoff res for another 3-4 days. The girls drank 35L all up in 4 days (rather than a week to 8 days) .... however, i dont expect them to gobble up that much nutrients too .... and thats why the res ppm kept going up to 1350 (from 1200) ... remember the topoff res ppm was set to 1000. Due to this, i lowered the ppm in the topoff res and refilled it again with the same everything (half dose armor si, full dose Cal-Mag+ and floralicious, 0.5ml/L liquid koolbloom and only little FloraNova bloom to a ppm of 650 .... ill observe the main res ppm for any increase or decrease then adjust the topoff ppm accordingly. Ill be increasing the topoff ppm also slowly to get to an equilibrium in the main res. Ill do so by adding bloom directly to the topoff res to increase the ppm.
I am not sure why they're drinking as much if the temp is slowly going down (rather than up) and the outside humidity is also going up (rather than down) .... theyre green and vibrant (pics in a few days) so I guess all is well and wont complain :-)

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Day 29 of Flowering (weekly) update:
So as far as the slowdown in the nutrient uptake, i figured maybe theres just too much salt buildup in the main res. It wont hurt to refresh it with a newly mixed solution. So i removed a 17L bottle from the main res and replaced it with a fresh bottle of RO with full dose Armor Si, Cal-Mag+, diamond nectar, FN bloom, liquid Koolbloom and Floraliciois to a final ppm of 1300 and pH of 5.9.
A shot of the canopy and some bud porn. I have been defoliating a few fan leaves here and there from above the screen
Happy growin yall


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Day 36 of flowering (weekly) update:
Nothing much to report other than now the girls slowed down their nutrient uptake where the topoff res had only about 100-200 ppms less than the bottom res. And now im at the topoff res having half the ppm of the main res.
And since theres no sign of deficiency and no slowing down in bud production, i guess theres nothing to worry about. So what I did now and since the highest of all demands will be for the nutrients that help with bud production, i upped the Liquid KoolBloom dosage to full dose of 1ml/L. This dose is in the main res AND the topoff res. So what I do now with mixing the top off res is:
in the RO water I add half the dose of Armor Si (silica) and half the dose of Cal-Mag +. Full dose of diamond nectar (doesnt raise the ppm) and full dose Floralicious Plus and full dose of Liquid KoolBloom. I then add the base bloom nutrient to the desired final ppm i want.
Heres a shot of the canopy and then some bud porn ... the bud porn is still soft porn .... hoping itll be hardcore porn soon lol
Til next update, happy growin, blades ;-)



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Quick update
Not really sure why the girls arent uptaking much nutrients. I dropped the topoff ppm to less than 500 and the main res ppm is still rising. I think this could be due to stress from upping tue KoolBloom dose to full dose in the main res and looded the topoff res with it. Maybe it over accumulated in the main res after a few days and that stressed the girls.
Regardless of whats really goin on, the only thing i could do now is a quick flush for a day or so then slowly add back nutrients. And thats what i did today, emptied the res and filled it with tap and florakleen
Thoughts are always welcome ;-)

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Another quick update:
After a day of flushing the girls, i swapped the res with fresh RO with half the dose of armor Si, a bit less than full dose Cal-Mag+, full dose diamond nectar and Floraliciois plus. Then enough bloom to a final ppm of 950 and pH of 6. The top off res got the same but diluted down to a final ppm of 550. I will observe their eating and drinking habits then adjust accordingly! The humidity in the tent is running between 35% lights on to about 50% lights off. This low rh should help increase resin production. Will see how the girls do in the next few days and hopefully the amnesia lemon bulks up and catches up to the others :-)


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Day 43 of Flowering (weekly) update:
As of this morning, the ppm was down indicating the girls ate more than the topoff could replenish. So I upped the ppm to 950 and the topoff ppm to 600 by adding bloom directly in the res!
Happy to say that the girls bounced back putting on weight bulking up and shooting out new white pistils .... hoping to see the amnesia lemon bulk up soon :-)


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Another quick update:
So, in addition to the overaccumulated koolbloom in the root zone, this is what I think also could have been the reason for the slow nutrient and water uptake lately (and that might have also reflected in the slowed bud production): nonexisting HUMIDITY ... RH relative humidity. Apparently the rh in the tent is too low to even register. Too low an rh can cause the stomata in the leaves to close up, reducting the uptake of CO2 (respiration and thus photosynthesis) which also means reduced water and nutrient uptake.
So, and for the sake of trying to correct this, i placed two large saucers filled with water in the room where the tent is and uncovered my topoff res to allow more water to evaporate with the aeration to increase the rh in the room. I want to bring it up in the tent to above 35% for now at least and while the lights are on. Rh can be nonexisting again towards the very end of flowering to increase resin production. But right now I need the stomata to be open and the girls to breathe :-)
Any thoughts are welcome here ;-)

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Day 50 of flowering (weekly) update:
The girls are doing well and back on track of their flowering. In fact, the blueberry is started to put on some weight that i had to support it up ... still at least 2 weeks to go (by breeders estimate) for the front ones and I anticipate at least an additional week for these :-)
Anyway, i refreshed the bottom main res replacing a 17.5L bottle with fresh RO and full dose Armor Si, full dose Cal-Mag+ and full dose Diamond Nectar; (.5ml/L) liquid KoolBloom and full dose FN bloom and Floralicious Plus! To a final ppm of 1100 and pH of 6.0. The top off got an RO bottle and a tap bottle with half dose armor Si, half dose Cal-Mag, full dose floralicious plus and enough canna aqua bloom (better PK ratio for cannabis and i have it anyway ;-) ) to a final ppm of 650 and pH of 6.0
Here are some pics showing the buds starting to fill up ... not even close to the thickness I like to see to consider bud PORN ... soon enough :-)


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Quick update
As of yesterday the girls are gobbling up more nutrients n water (ppm in main res keeps goin down) than being added
So I raised the topoff res ppm to 750 (from 650) slowly in the last couple of days and I adjusted the main res ppm back to 1100 simply by adding Koolbloom directly in it. Liquid KoolBloom ups the ppm AND the pH .... the girls seem to eat more of this pk because the ppm seems to go down and so does the pH!
Now with the humidity at where I want it with lights on (in the 60s and 50s) the girls are eating and drinking much better and bud are swelling .... the chop chop is happening soon ;-) cant wait

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Ladies and gents my apologies for posting the last 2 updates in an old thread (my TriStrain grow) ..... below are the 2 updates you guys missed and for the photos just click on the link for the TriStrain log in the bottom

Day 57 of flowering (weekly) update:
Things are going well for the most part. I think i saw a male part on one of the CBD critical cure buds and i clipped it off .... i looked around to see if there are any more but i couldnt find any more. So anyway ... although thats not something I want to see towards the end of flowering, lets just hope this was an isolated issue or that it wasnt even a male sex organ .... time will tell and if i want to base this on previous grows, a few Barneys farm seeds that i germinated ended up hermaphrodite later. I really hope thats not going to mess with my potency (i really dont care that much about the yield)
So the topoff res got topped off with 35L of RO (2x 17.5L bottles), 10ml Armor Si, 30mls Cal-Mag+ and 8mls Floralicious plus.... then i added bloom to a final ppm of 750!
Here are some pics of the canopy and buds ;-)
Til next update closer to chop chop, happy growin yall :-)


Day 64 of Flowering (weekly) update):
Girls look like theyre at the end of their flowering. The deficiencies are starting to show a bit on the leaves and the leaves are changing color slightly ..... the only one shooting out pistils is the CBD critical cure and shes doing it by the bunch. The blueberry is getting frosty (see pics below) and i feel the trainwreck was more indica than I thought. I feel she might have finished her flowering already (like around or even before the blueberry) .... The Trichomes on the blueberry are almost all cloudy with scattered rare amber. The critical cure is mainly cloudy with a few clear still. Anyway, the chop chop process is starting very soon. Ill start with the blueberry clipping her top colas and leaving the lower buds to ripen a little and get more light while I clip and dry the critical cure and trainwreck, leaving the amnesia lemon for last. I will be clipping the top growth first allowing the lower some extra time with more light.
Thoughts n ideas are welcome here.
My thoughts on this run is that i shouldnt run 4 unknown strains under this very tight (2x2 inche squares) scrog screen in this tent (one front door to access the scrog screen only and no back or side door). The crowding above the screen is not letting enough light down. The defoliation i did wasnt close to being enough although better than nothing. This scrog screen will be restrung to be either 3x3 or 4x4 inches. I topped off the topoff res as last time :-)
Here are some shots of the canopy and buds ...... till next update, happy growing yall :-)

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Day 71 of flowering (weekly) update:
It seems that most girls (blueberry, Trainwreck and amnesia lemon) are in the ripening process while the CBD critical cure is still fattening and shooting out pistils by the bunch. Shes also definitely shooting out more bananas now...bitch lol ... Its very late in flowering now and hopefully it wont cause too much of a problem since ill be chopping very very soon! If i get some seeds here and there, i guess thatll save me on having to buy them plus i can only wonder what the crosses would be!
Some shots of the cbd and the blueberry
Til next update, happy growing yall



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Quick update
Alright ladies and gents .... this is looooong overdue but recent developments in the grow tent forced me to do whats right and what I was supposed to do a few years back hah and thats fix or i should say optimize the ventilation/cooling in my set up!

Before:
My 8" HID cool tube was hooked to an 8" exhaust fan placed outside the tent extracting warm air from the tent through the tube cooling the light. Later in flowering when the stink develops, the extraction fan is then hooked to a scrubber outside the tent, blowing the warm and stinky air through it! Intake is passive! (Thats when issues started for me)

Now:
As you can see in the picture, cold air is now being pulled from outside the tent to cool the HID light/tube and the speed is set low-medium (will adjust as needed). Another 8" extraction fan is set outside the tent extracting warm air from the top of the tent (see pic) and blowing it through the air filter/scrubber outside the tent as well! This way i extract less air from the tent to cool it AND cool the HID light.

Instead of getting a 4" fan as my intake, i decided to do it correctly and this way. If i need the intake later (and i doubt it) ill get it! But for now, passive intake should be plenty enough! Also, a second 8" fan in case the one goes, ill always have a back up to cover me til i get another fan.

I also lowered the humidity in the room to 50% (will be lower in the tent with the lights on).... lets see how the girls like this new ventilation setup.

Although some may think its too late in flowering to make such minor changes (will see how minor/major this turns out to be haha) i am doin this because i plan on having another run after this one.

Til next update, happy growin yall :-)


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Alright ladies and gents .. today counts day 75 of flowering (since I flipped)
Recently, we have had some problems which ultimately lead to delays in finishing (was supposed to finish and harvest the blueberry at or around day 60 .. thats 2 weeks ago), I decided to go ahead and start chopping down the blueberry which is infested with spider mites the most.
I fumigated the groom with pyritherin and lowered the temp a little in the room to help control the issue since the mites like warm and dry environment. After that, I started clipping some of the blueberry top buds to help with air flow and to remove as much infestation out of the tent as possible. I made sure to examine what i harvested today and it was evident that the mites affected mainly the larger fan leaves and a few smaller fan leaves here and there. Sugar leaves and buds were free of infestation.
The buds were then trimmed after getting rid of the bad leaves, then allowed to dry on a drying rack. Starting today, I'll probably do little of chopping every time I'm able to!
Firat pic showing the little spider webs here and there. This is as bad as it got so far. Aside from the webs, some leaves had numerous mites (maybe eggs) under as if it was dusty. Second pic shows some of the buds. Maybe an ounce to ounce and a half after they dry :-)
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Day 77 of flowering and i got to clip some buds of the critical cure ... notice the bananas in the first pic. Too many of them damn it hahaha
Also i clipped a bud from the amnesia lemon and the bud is small with large calyxes.....gowth similar to when a flower plant revegs appear on that bud. It could be incidental or it could be really that the amnesia at some point tried to reveg and thats why it looks the way it does. Did something happen to my timer that lead to a hermied critical cure and a ?revegged amnesia? Not sure but it sure is a possibility worth exploring!
Some shots of the buds before and after manicuring hah
Til next update, happy growin yo :-)


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