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UPDATE

Week 5 of flowering begins today

Soil plants have been watered with 3.25L each, except the 7L potted one who got 1L.
Nutes given were;
1ml biogrow
1.4ml alg-a-mic
4ml biobloom
2ml topmax.
all per 1Liter.

coco plants got 1L each with 5ml hesi coco and 0.6ml PK. actually the lemon skunk got more of the solution as it was drinking more.

I really like how the lemon skunk is turning - its pretty quick, its very healthy, it has the greatest aroma of lemon candy and it seems like it will produce ok yield compared to its room.
Its actually pretty hard to tell its weed if you smell it. NICE!


The soil plants were dried up good, as even with 3.25L of solution there was no runoff.
I will give them a weeker solution next week, but more solution per plant, to get some runoff.
I haven't flushed them in quite a while. I don't intend to do so until all trichs become milky.


As for flushing the coco plants - I haven't done it before, but I think that when 20% of the trichs will turn amber i'll flush them every second day until another 10-15% of the trichs will become amber as well.
flushing them means just giving PHed water.


The growth seems fine to me. I'm waiting for the swelling to take place. Thats the part I really like


The distance from the light is something I like, but a lesson for next time would be to do something to create more bud sites near the light.


Anyway, lets hope everything will go as planned

flowering day 41: (yesterday)

On most plants 70% of the trichomes are cloudy already.
I've found around 3% amber trichomes on avarage already.
My aim is 0 clear, 60% cloudy and 40% amber.

I gave the coco plants 1\2l each with 5ml hesi coco and 1.5ml Pk per liter. Thats the max and they seem ready. Tomorrow we will see if that was a good idea or if I just burnt my plants.

I'll be going off tomorrow night until saturday, meaning I just gave the plants their last attandance till then.

Also, I've planted my clones. had 100% success (!!!), but was in a hurry to finish so I pulled from the jiffy 3 clones that didn't get the roots out of the pellets (but there were roots on the stems) and planted them in soil.

the veg closet is cramped with plants and all are looking FINE.

I will pick the best clones for my next run, which seems like it would start as a colloseum SOG. Might turn into a SCROG later.
gave up on going vertical this run around. I'll try it using CFLs during summer.


Buds are swelling, but I'm pretty disapointed with the cheese and the bluemystic having such small buds.


Next watering for the soil plats, which should be in a week, will be with full strength nutes and in 4-5 days they will be checked for trichome development.
thoes who have at least 10% amber trichomes will be flushed clean. thoes who wouldn't will get PHed water until they will.

The blue mystic didn't turn blue in any way. its almost week 6. by the description it should have turned purple\blue by week 4. yeh right.
I've had temps as low as 18°C which isn't that low but weird no coloring at all accured.
I'll get the temps lower for the last week to promote both coloring and humidity drop to help drying. (would turn the fan put below to 3\3 instead of 2\3. it makes a huge difference)
I don't like the details given by Nirvana Seeds about this strain. It also very unstable - Grew 8 of them, none looked the same. (had 4 females out of them. only one SLIGHTLY became kinda red on a few leaves at the last days of flowering)


I'm having quite a bit of security issues lately so I might be off for a while.
Lets hope it will all go well.




Any input is still welcome

Most stupid mistake got fixed today - the 42W CFL I've hooked up around a week ago went on 24\7. As I don't enter the grow room when its 'dark' I haven't realized it until today.
Got fixed.
Somehow all bud development seems fine and no re-vegging or hermi-ing started. Lets hope it won't stunt the flowering too much.

Night Claptoman said:

Most stupid mistake got fixed today - the 42W CFL I've hooked up around a week ago went on 24\7. As I don't enter the grow room when its 'dark' I haven't realized it until today.
Got fixed.
Somehow all bud development seems fine and no re-vegging or hermi-ing started. Lets hope it won't stunt the flowering too much.

Click to expand...

haha yea ur plants prolly just said the hell with going hermie. maybe just assumed it was the moon.

wasn't any male flowers last time i checked.
as i'm using feminized seeds i'm pretty sceptic so I check for male flowers every now and then.

we will see how they will react. I just hope it won't comremize the yield too greatly.

Coco\perlite plants got 5ml hesi coco and 1.75ml PK per liter, one liter each.
Vegging plants got 5ml GHE Total Grow per liter, sharing one liter for all the plants.
Soil vegging plants got 2ml BioBizz BioGrow.

Flowering soil plants didn't need watering. last watering took place 10 days ago. Temps have been pretty low and humidity pretty high so not much evaporation.
I guess the soil plants would need watering in around 4-5 days.
On thursday I got the evening free so I'll probably flush them down well and wait for the trichomes to finish evolving.
I got an avarage of around 80% milky, 18% clear and 2% amber.
My goal is 60% milky \ 40% amber.

Couldn't get pictures today, I was disturbing my woman.
I will get some soon.

Flowering day 46:

Coco perlite plants got today 1\2 liter each of the same solution they got yesterday.

Got new batteries to my microscope and now the picture is clearer:
30% of the trichs are still clear. I will give them another watering before the flush.

Coco plants mature quicker. Around a week and a half faster on my view.

I got some funky foxtailing on my coco Blue Mystic. The soil one (which is its mother) barely show any.
The coco\perlite girls have much bigger buds. I love it.


All the clones I took look well. All of them develop roots well.
It all looks pretty.
I will have to select the best ones for flowering on the next run.
I will probably toss half due to lack of space.


Things started to REALLY stink this week. And I mean R E A L L Y stink.


I've noticed that the white rhino gets lower buds developed much better with lack of light.
I barely get any light down to the lower buds and all the other plants get really small buds I usually pick off or count on taking them as samples.
On the White Rhino I believe the lower buds will be good enough to cure and bag normally like the main buds.
I really really like its growth pattern and trichomes development but the smell is pretty avarage.
If it tastes like it smells and give the effect it looks like it will give I will take it as my "commercial" strain.
Its a GREAT sea of green strain.


Any comments are welcome



And a picture of Sodom and Amora.

Day 47:
Replaced my analog timer with a digital one.
Got supplies for the next run.
Replaced the activated carbon. Got a diameter too big so had to crush it a bit. We will see tomorrow if it does the trick.
Flushed all the soil plants well (I guess around 50 liters of tap water each). Trichomes check showed that already 10% is amber. As I needed to wreck the room to replace the carbon I did it together.

From now on the soil plants get only PHed tap water. (I doubt if I would need more than one watering until harvest. I guess the water they got today will sustain for around 2 weeks)

I got some pictures but i'm too lazy to post them :X



I haven't washed my carbon before using it. Its VERY dusty and makes everything dirty. However I don't like washing it. It doesn't seem to work too well if I do.


Cleaned the floor and the poly sheet thats on the floor with bleach to prevent any kind of mold from developting in this stage. I always wash things with bleach when I re-arrange the room.


ETA to harvest - 18 days.

Although they could be harvested tomorrow I want more of a couchlock and some more grams.

I might start harvesting the top colas of the coco\perlite plants next week to keep some heady stash and do some tasting.

Day 52:
All the soil buds get much more light now as I've tied everything to be closer.
They all swell nicely.

The coco Blue Mystic got some bud burns. pretty ugly looking but really ain't that much of a yield loss.
Just that the beutiful foxtail bud isn't that pretty anymore.

The Lemon Skunk in coco\perlite is the fastest one. I thought of harvesting it, here is the thread about it:
https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/287867-should-i-harvest-my-plant.html

Today I have the Lemon Skunk 1L of water with 5ml Hesi coco and 3ml PK (twice the max recommanded dose) on a PH of 6.0 as its last feeding.
On thursday it will be flushed once, tuesday second and when i'll get the time - chopchop.

Blue mystic in coco got 1L of water with 5ml hesi coco and 2ml PK (which is too much, but she takes it well so why not) at a PH of 5.9.


Everything looks pretty fine.

I'll get some pictures soon.

here are pictures i just took (day 53).
I actually bothered and renamed them so you can know what is what.

the white edges on the white rhino are some def. that the plant is showing combined with over-heating.
however, the buds looks groovie and there ain't much longer till it goes down.
the plant might suffer, but the buds LOVE it.



Any comment is welcome

Day 55 update

The Lemon Skunk got flushed today with 15 L of 5.8PHed water. (its in a 7l pot with coco\perlite mix).

It will be flushed again with around 7L in 2 days, then again in 2 days and when it dries out enough its chopchop time.

It is by far the quickest to finish.


As i was flushing it I put it in a bucket and the extra height caused some bud burns. really nothing major and anything that will cost me more than 0.01 a gram. Just ain't that pretty anymore.

I got a lower bud of it that became ultra-frosty. I can't wait to see how it turns out.


I gave clean water to my mothers and one of the coco vegging plants. (too lazzy to add nutes. he has enough already anyway to last until next feeding)

Thats about it. I know its ain't much to tell, but I like to keep track of the last week before harvest to check up later which strain took how much time.


They say in the GHE site that it is ready in 9 weeks and an extra week will pay off in taste and yield.
However, it seemed ready to me a few days ago and if it wasn't written there I would have chopped it probably today or tomorrow.
They might know better, but it seems ripe enough for me for a while now. doesn't change much either.

opened up the room to check how things are and decided to go against chopping down the lemon skunk early.

I looked at it in more of an overall vision rather than macro vision and I see a lot of new and lush white pistils shooting.
I think he won't be any less good in 2 weeks.
I will give it a feeding tomorrow, when I water all my plants.

I will give it 2.5ml PK and 5ml HESI coco. Seems as it takes it well. No defficiency or burn shown after giving it 3ml of PK before the flush, so i guess 2.5ml is good, although the max recommanded is 1.5ml.

Just sampled a tiny cheese bud.
I will define tiny. It was a lower side branch inside a bunch of branches I tied together. I removed some from the tie to let them get more light off the reflective panada poly.
In the proccess a tiny branch, compared to the other lower branches.
It was pre-mature. by far. around 20% clear trichs and 80% milky.
Before drying it was around 3X3mm.
after drying it (was on the carbon filter that sucks air out of the growroom) for 2 days, not even dry enough is could be chopped into around 8 shreds of green.

I made an ultra-small doobie with a filter the diameter of a toothpick and used about 1\3 the lengh of my regular size papers.
I'll say it could have filled 1\5 of a slim cigarette.

Gave me 6 hits, 2 of which i can call proper, before ending.

Taste was.. ok. Very... cheaplike. My last doobie was 6months cured Blue Mystic so I haven't been expecting much.
High is fine. it is light as I barely smoked, but compared to the emount smoked - its pretty darn potent. As its pre-maturely harvested it is much more of a go-do-stuff type with no couchlock effect at all. It is nice.
Also it is lasting quite long. around 30 minutes now, and still building up.

Overall, I think it will be a good plant, producing more than enough punch. I guess it will taste pretty good too. the aftertaste was kinda cheesy without any bit of earthy taste.

It was the sickest one in the bunch that survived with lots of dead leaves and had to be tied alot due to annoying growth pattern. It is branchy, very compact (which didn't allow any airflow) that grew pretty high. None of thoes traits are to my likes.
It produced small nugs as it wasn't that close to the light and I guess it wouldn't yield much. It does fatten up lately.
I want to see how it will do with proper care and a healthy life cicle in my next coco run.

Looking good! It's all about the education.

Happy harvest,
Tio

Thanks a lot for your input Uncle Ben

update :
day 56.

nothing much changed. gave the coco plants 2.5ml PK and 5ml of hesi coco.
watered the veg room.


I have noticed for the past few weeks that the lower branches on my plants get much more trichomes build up. MUCH more.
They have 4 main differences;
1. they get less energy from the plant as they are lower from the top.
2. they get much less light.
3. they are in a cooler temperature (by around 6°C) compared to the tops, avaraging around the 21°C.
4. they have much more air flow. probably resulting in lower humidity as well.

I would love any input on the issue.
I'm guessing its mainly the temp, humidity and air circulation issue. So i put the veg room air exhaust (which is the same temperature as the ambient temp.) over my lemon skunk main cola as its the first to be chopchoped and I'll see if it helps with trichomes buildup. or something.

If so, I might upgrade my venting for my next run.
got a 300cfm exhaust fan with a cooltube and carbon filter (and 5m of tubing) restricting some of the air flow, a 80cfm intake fan (exhaust of the veg), a 6" passive intake on the flowering room and a 16" revolving fan on the bottom of the room.
If it will help i might add 2 more revolving fan to push air around.

Update day 63:
Today marks the start of the 9th week.

Lemon skunk is marked 8-9 weeks
Same as the Cheese.
White Rhino and Great white shark marked at 9 weeks with recommanded extra week.
Blue Mystic is marked at 9\11 weeks.

that means that I with the week of 24\7 CFL light deducted I should harvest in a week the lemon skunk, a week later the Cheese and the coco\perlite Blue Mystic.
A week later all the rest. (giving an extra week to the soil ones for slower growth)


Thats per the recommanded schedual.
But I never harvested by the time they say - it was never ripe.

I will check all the plants today with the microscope and take some pictures. We will see how it goes.



Beside that.

Gave the coco plants 5ml hesi coco and 2.5ml PK two days ago. they will recieve the same today.
I know they can take at least 4ml PK without any burns, but I'm not sure if it would be benificial. Going by the charts on coco got me pretty neat results. I'm already overpowering with the PK.
If anyone has input on the subject, please share with me.

The soil plants got PHed water, around 3L each a few days ago.
They really don't need much. They don't show signs of underwatering even after 2 weeks without watering.

The White Rhino shows substential signs on Phosphorous deficiency, but considering it will be gone pretty soon I don't plan on giving it any.


Lights goes on in a few hours and as promised I'll try to get some pictures.

Okey, update

I finally got a hang of using my camera. Found that it doesn't like too much light and needed some adjustments.
I can't take any normal pictures with my microscope without removing the part of the plant yet (not that stable) so I took some shakey pictures of the trichs of the plants I think of harvesting and I'll tell you the deal


Most plants look well. The main one with problems is the White Rhino which has some P or K def. Its close to ready anyway so fixing it would ruin my flush.


I'll post a message about each strain for the ease of following

White Rhino.

I'll start with saying that it looks pretty ripe to me.

It seems like it is leeching off whatever energy left in the leaves to survive.
Its the heaviest feeder in the pack. And the quickest from the soil ones.

It doesn't seem to change much during the last 2 weeks.

Its main cola is pretty big and it has the best lower growth of all. Seems like its the best strain in my pack to use with small emounts of light.

Its smells like fruity weed. Nothing over-interesting.
Its frosty indeed, but by far not the frostiest.

Its also the shortest plant in the pack.

I won't be happy scrogging it around as its a main-cola type of plant with all the lower growth sticking near the stem.

My next grow will mainly consist of it because it seems to be the fastest and biggest yielder.
As I'll be growing a colloseum SCROG its structure should be very benificial.

Cheese.

It was the sickest plant in the pack that survived.
Its the least frosty.
It grew very close to the main stem which forced me to open it up.
It sheds quite a lot of leaves and really doesn't impress me much.
I'll grow only 1 or two clones of it in coco on the next run to see if it was my mistakes or its the genetics.

Its not ripe. I'll give it AT LEAST 2 weeks. I'll probably give it some nutes on my next watering even tho its "flushed" to prevent deficiencies.

Its buds are significly smaller than the rest. It has a LOT of branches tied together.
Might be a good SCROG plant.

It smells unique- much more subtle smell and much less spunk. Pretty smelly however.

I've tried a few small buds from it a few days ago and posted about it.