One Pink Lemonade - no-till cycle 7 in 4 foot diameter pot, 5x5 tent

[Northwood]

Wow its going to be massive when finished I've grown gelato wedding cake hindu kush auto and zkittles glue from Canuks the gelato was amazing super frosty and the wedding cake was nice lots of inernode spacoing tho and is vary sensitive I had one hermie at week 3 and one in week 7 I think it was lack of experience and not genetics

Male parts at week 3 are a bit questionable but no matter how great your experience is, late flower bananas are not super unusual regardless of experience and often due to genetics. The original Blueberry strain for me often grew them in week 7 or later. At that stage they don't really do any harm at least.

Guess what I found today? So I have those little bamboo poles stuck into the soil around the edge of my pot to assist as LST anchors and to hold up the cloth sides of the pot. Well today I was tying down more branches, when the top-half of the bamboo stake literally slipped out of the soil from being rotted out. I had to replace 3 of them today, and left the bottom parts of the broken off ones in the soil. I don't know why, but it surprised me that the bamboo wood was gone (eaten) already. But they've been in there for about 6 of the 7 cycles now.

 

[Brandon137]

Male parts at week 3 are a bit questionable but no matter how great your experience is, late flower bananas are not super unusual regardless of experience and often due to genetics. The original Blueberry strain for me often grew them in week 7 or later. At that stage they don't really do any harm at least.

Guess what I found today? So I have those little bamboo poles stuck into the soil around the edge of my pot to assist as LST anchors and to hold up the cloth sides of the pot. Well today I was tying down more branches, when the top-half of the bamboo stake literally slipped out of the soil from being rotted out. I had to replace 3 of them today, and left the bottom parts of the broken off ones in the soil. I don't know why, but it surprised me that the bamboo wood was gone (eaten) already. But they've been in there for about 6 of the 7 cycles now.

Nice that is quick I have a worm bin and usually find stalks still fairly intact after a few months thinking of adding some worms to my raised bed when I get it. How do you catch your run off or do you not water to run off? Do you have your pot directly on the floor of your tent?

 

[Northwood]

Nice that is quick I have a worm bin and usually find stalks still fairly intact after a few months thinking of adding some worms to my raised bed when I get it. How do you catch your run off or do you not water to run off? Do you have your pot directly on the floor of your tent?

The pot is sitting directly on the catch thingy that comes with the tent, and for safety that's all placed over some pond liner I had left over from another project. I just use a shop vac to suck up any runoff should it occur.

 

[myke]

The pot is sitting directly on the catch thingy that comes with the tent, and for safety that's all placed over some pond liner I had left over from another project. I just use a shop vac to suck up any runoff should it occur.

In mid flower how much water does it take to get runoff?

 

[Brandon137]

The pot is sitting directly on the catch thingy that comes with the tent, and for safety that's all placed over some pond liner I had left over from another project. I just use a shop vac to suck up any runoff should it occur.

Ah ok I dont think I'll get any run off with my drip irrigation and I plan on getting a living soil liner for the pot as well

 

[Northwood]

In mid flower how much water does it take to get runoff?

In the middle of flower, it usually takes over 40 litres of water to see any amount of runoff. Just before harvest time with a young cover, that amount drops considerably - like between 20 or 30 litres.

 

[Caliverner]

Mannnn I want pink lemonade lol heard it's amazing

 

[Northwood]

Mannnn I want pink lemonade lol heard it's amazing

Darn, and I thought I was Canada's guinea pig and the first to test out these seeds. lol

I'm surprised though, after a little digging the earliest reference to the strain "Pink Lemonade" I found was in 2010, so I'm guessing it's not just another Canadian LP's invention or rebranding, but an actual strain that's been around for awhile. I've yet to find any grow diary or journal online yet showing an entire grow to harvest, but the references I've seen say to expect tight large indica type nugs with really good yield. The tight bushy nature of the plant and short internodes check out too. I guess we'll see soon enough!

 

[RankStankyDank]

Darn, and I thought I was Canada's guinea pig and the first to test out these seeds. lol

I'm surprised though, after a little digging the earliest reference to the strain "Pink Lemonade" I found was in 2010, so I'm guessing it's not just another Canadian LP's invention or rebranding, but an actual strain that's been around for awhile. I've yet to find any grow diary or journal online yet showing an entire grow to harvest, but the references I've seen say to expect tight large indica type nugs with really good yield. The tight bushy nature of the plant and short internodes check out too. I guess we'll see soon enough!

Most of what I’ve found for pink lemonade is its purple kush x lemon skunk, as opposed to pink kush x lemon skunk. Haven’t found anything for the current mashup by 34th. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

 

[Northwood]

Most of what I’ve found for pink lemonade is its purple kush x lemon skunk, as opposed to pink kush x lemon skunk. Haven’t found anything for the current mashup by 34th. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

Well they aren't Tweed seeds so maybe they'll turn out okay. I did a run of that Bakerstreet in this pot when it was the only "legal" option, and I've never seen so many mutations on a single strain before. We're talking 3 fasciated stems, flowers growing out the middle of large fan leaves, and a good 150% stretch with really loose buds - basically a heap of foxtailing even on the popcorn. And it's advertised as an indica dominant Hindu Kush! Low yield too... I got less than 900 grams from 4 plants in my 5X5. I can't understand why Tweed would even grow this shit for the medical market. Poor patients!

 

[RankStankyDank]

Well they aren't Tweed seeds so maybe they'll turn out okay. I did a run of that Bakerstreet in this pot when it was the only "legal" option, and I've never seen so many mutations on a single strain before. We're talking 3 fasciated stems, flowers growing out the middle of large fan leaves, and a good 150% stretch with really loose buds - basically a heap of foxtailing even on the popcorn. And it's advertised as an indica dominant Hindu Kush! Low yield too... I got less than 900 grams from 4 plants in my 5X5. I can't understand why Tweed would even grow this shit for the medical market. Poor patients!

Ya no doubt, that’s pretty gross. I’ve seen some of your grows so I have no doubt it’s just a real poor genetic package. Ah well, live and learn.

 

[myke]

What is in your cover crop ?Looks like a mix.Thanks

 

[Northwood]

What is in your cover crop ?Looks like a mix.Thanks

This time around it was mung beans and lentils brought from Walmart, along with crimson clover and rye I stole from my wife's micro-greens seed stash. I've long ago inoculated both the initial soil mix as well as later when planting the first few covers of legume seeds to ensure proper Rhizobium colonization, so I didn't bother with it this time around.

 

[Northwood]

Wow how time flies. It's just over 5 weeks from the seed popping already. I've been totally lazy this weed so I haven't been paying enough attention to the poor little girl and she's an even worse mess now than last week:



I did water her yesterday though, and threw a bunch of last harvest's dried fan leaves over the stems in there. I'll add some straw this week over it all because there's just not enough material to keep the dead stems moist under there, plus the cover crop is nearing its life end with most of it gone already. The plant's demand for nitrogen is steadily increasing as it grows in size and puts on biomass faster. Having the plant shade out the entire pot surface will also help keep everything moist and alive in there.so that the stems decay faster. I only have a few inches to go on each size until the plant reaches all edges of the pot, so I estimate that within 2 weeks it should be at or very near the size of the pot (4 feet diameter).

I need to start training her because she is a mess. So next time I adjust all the LST tie downs this week, I'll selectively sucker and remove a few fans that just aren't getting any light anymore. I still plan on making use of my SCROG net at some point soon.

 

[JustBlazin]

looking good, this thread has answered alot of questions i had about recycling soil, thanks your thread is very informative

 

[Northwood]

In case anyone is wondering what the heck I have going outside the house in our little suburban backyard this year:



I can't really call it no-till, but it is organic. Just my worm poop with some alfalfa pellets and Pro-mix Organic Herb and Vegetable medium. They've been totally root bound for the last 2 months. My 2 neighbors on both sides of my house (left and right) have offered to help me make the bubble hash in the backyard once the hard frost kills them. This is eastern Ontario, so they've been hit already by a few light frosts. The extended weather for the first half of October has no frost in the forecast, so they might not finish completely but I should get a yield of trichomes for my friend.

These are officially my friend's plants that I grew for him. He's disabled in a chair and can't grow his own, but he bought me the balanced 50/50 THC/CBD seeds for the purpose because well... I offered like 2 years ago! Lol Finally I got around to doing it for him. I'm getting a little bit worried about getting them stolen because they're way above the 6 foot fence and everyone can see them within 10 houses up and down, but so far so good. Luckily I'm not the only one growing plants on my street of course, so maybe that helps.

 

[Northwood]

Well Sunday again, and I'm really having trouble deciding how to approach this grow. Here she is today:


I'm starting to think filling 25 square foot tent with a single indoor plant might be a bit harder than I imagined. The stems are really thick and difficult to bend without breaking. And the main stalk is rather large for the plant's size.

Here's the main stalk with lighter for scale:


I was originally hoping to flip her no later than November 1st for an early January harvest. I don't think that's possible anymore, but luckily I don't have anything else important to do with the tent so I can let her veg longer if necessary. I have noticed that the branches that compete with each other have thinner stems and the growth of side node branches is suppressed due to shading. So one possible idea I had was to just let it grow now in height, and let them all compete until the plant reaches around 2.5 feet high, and then just flatten everything under a SCROG at that time spreading all the main branches towards the tent edges and corners.

I've already chosen the main branches, and I managed to get them growing at the same height which was a royal pain with this phenotype. Here's a side view:


If anyone has any suggestions to the approach I should take to fill up so much horizontal space being stuck with a single plant, I'd love to hear them!

So I did get a deep mulch down over the stems and veggie material from my last grow, so everything is nice and moist under there and the springtails are going nuts over it. In a few weeks, they'll be a few crops of mushrooms appearing which normally happens when I keep stems with high carbon content moist under the mulch. That concludes the "feeding" schedule for this cycle so now all I need to do is remember to water them until harvest time. I may however add a bit more mulch if it grows thin in places at any point in the grow. I don't want to ever see bare humus showing.

 

[myke]

Looks real good always enjoy reading your updates. Just a suggestion but would raising the light help to maybe make them stretch a bit to fill the vertical space.

 

[Northwood]

Looks real good always enjoy reading your updates. Just a suggestion but would raising the light help to maybe make them stretch a bit to fill the vertical space.

Good point, especially because the lights aren't dimmable. Right now the lights are about 18" from the top of the plant. I think I might try 24" and see how the plant reacts. The tight internodal spacing on this girl is very inconvenient. I might also try turning off all the 3500k lights and hitting them only with the 3000k. It might make a small difference.

I have new lights on the way. I just got word that my order for 4 quantum boards from Kingbrite have been shipped finally. I opted for get 4 240w boards rather than one or two more powerful lights because I wanted better coverage. I cheaped out and got the version 4 with the Epistar 660nm, UV, and IR diodes rather than the Osram. My wife talked me into thinking the extra cost wasn't worth the benefit. But at least I'll have dimmers!

 

[Brandon137]

Well Sunday again, and I'm really having trouble deciding how to approach this grow. Here she is today:
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I'm starting to think filling 25 square foot tent with a single indoor plant might be a bit harder than I imagined. The stems are really thick and difficult to bend without breaking. And the main stalk is rather large for the plant's size.

Here's the main stalk with lighter for scale:
View attachment 4696622

I was originally hoping to flip her no later than November 1st for an early January harvest. I don't think that's possible anymore, but luckily I don't have anything else important to do with the tent so I can let her veg longer if necessary. I have noticed that the branches that compete with each other have thinner stems and the growth of side node branches is suppressed due to shading. So one possible idea I had was to just let it grow now in height, and let them all compete until the plant reaches around 2.5 feet high, and then just flatten everything under a SCROG at that time spreading all the main branches towards the tent edges and corners.

I've already chosen the main branches, and I managed to get them growing at the same height which was a royal pain with this phenotype. Here's a side view:
View attachment 4696633

If anyone has any suggestions to the approach I should take to fill up so much horizontal space being stuck with a single plant, I'd love to hear them!

So I did get a deep mulch down over the stems and veggie material from my last grow, so everything is nice and moist under there and the springtails are going nuts over it. In a few weeks, they'll be a few crops of mushrooms appearing which normally happens when I keep stems with high carbon content moist under the mulch. That concludes the "feeding" schedule for this cycle so now all I need to do is remember to water them until harvest time. I may however add a bit more mulch if it grows thin in places at any point in the grow. I don't want to ever see bare humus showing.

What about some super cropping?