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Good week. Cold outside today but seeding starting room is working fine.
April 22: first major feed with barley sprouts, molasses and vinegar to get pH near 6.
Still too cold to put outside so I’ll hold off on transplanting. Likely 4 more days before weather is reliably above zero C overnight. Planning to leave it in Solo cup until then.
April 29: decided to plant out despite overnight temp risk. Should be okay.
May 2: only 2 C last night. Watered this morning with warmed water with Epsom salts and molasses. Tiny spray of FPJ this morning.
May 3: was -3 C overnight. These plants were fine, but some tomato plants were badly damaged.
May 4: about 0 C last night and should be about +2 C overnight tonight. And hopefully that will be the last of the spring frost days.
Not bad...photoperiods are a month old, in the ground and ready for summer.
May 6: lights out foliar and soil spray ((LAB, FPJ, silicate, vinegar, soap).
May 7: cool today with a high of 9 C. Plant seems good enough.
May 12: has been quite cool overnight which has limited growth, but things are looking up. Fast growth today and the weather is warming nicely so there should be nice growth here over the next little while.
May 13: Cal-Mag booster with barley sprouted seed tea this evening.
May 14: looking good after Cal-Mag boost and barley SST last night.
May 15: topped in morning.
May 16: dilute FPJ foliar spray this afternoon. End of day foliar (LAB 20 mL/L, FPJ 1 mL/L, calnesium 3 mL/L).
May 18: cool and rainy. Forecast for tonight is -1 C with chance of snow. 🙄 plants are covered and should be fine. Cold for next three days apparently. Springtime in Alberta.
May 19: 0 C last night. Foliar spray at 11 am.
May 20: watered using 20 C water last night and this morning. Was near 0 C again last night. High today was about 8 C. Growdiaries minimum night temp is 10 C but it’s been cooler than that this week.
May 21: a bit of warmed water in morning but soil is pretty wet already. One more cold night forecast but nice and sunny today.
May 22: weed FPJ at 1 mL/L.
May 23: LAB only foliar in evening.
May 25: LAB only foliar in afternoon.
June 4: hot all week.
June 5: cooler today with a very small hail storm that all plants survived.
June 8: fish fertilizer foliar in afternoon and LAB foliar at dusk.
June 9: Full mix foliar (LAB, silicate, soap, fish, apple cider vinegar) at dusk.
June 11: watered with Calnesium in afternoon and full foliar at dusk. Diluted foliar spray to reduce TDS which was 1700 mg/L in 2 L and 1250 mg/L in 3 L.
June 13: hot and sunny again today (26 C).
June 14: some light defoliation and a few branches topped.
June 20: full foliar at dusk.
June 22: ditto. Also some Epsom salts and fish ferry as a foliar spray in afternoon as she was a bit yellow overall.
June 23: grew almost 4 inches in 3 days.
Middle of historic heat wave. Plants are in ground so at least the roots are cool.
June 30: hit 36 C yesterday, today and likely tomorrow. Historic highs for this area.
July 18: the four early version photoperiods all seem to have started flowering but I’m forcing them anyway.
See last years Wonder Pie diary for test of unforced versus forced. At this northern latitude force flowering is required to get nice buds forming while the sunlight is still strong.
Used 16 feet of standard electrical conduit secured with rebar posts hammered into ground. Distance across is 5 feet and there is 4 feet between each conduit. Used panda film (opaque black and white) but it was only available in 10 foot width so I had to duct tape it together. Hopefully it holds well enough for the planned two weeks of forcing. Doing it from 9 pm to 9 am each day.
Sep 3: this does indeed seem to be a fast flowering plant. I’m kind of amazed at how thick and heavy some the colas are already. It has been 7 weeks since I started force flowering for the last two weeks of July so I guess that means they should be this far along...anyway harvest is coming soon for this one and likely the Unknown Kush too.
Sep 23: harvested first bit taking one of the two main colas. Super nice and dense buds. One nice big bud had a bit of bud rot inside which I knew would be there based on the single shrivelled sugar leaf. Daily inspections are needed at this time of year. 545 g wet yields 116 g dry and trimmed.
Sep 26: harvested 644 g wet yields 130 g dry. 1189 g wet so far yields 246 g dry so far.
Sep 29: remnant lower buds taken. 96 g wet.
Nice buds and my biggest bud yield per plant. About 270 g dried and trimmed A-grade buds and about 40 g of trim going for hash. High bud to leaf ratio made for easy trimming. No fall colours for this plant but it’s very good and produced a nice big and tasty crop of primo organic buds. Right on, and will grow again. Excellent choice for short season growers. 👍👍😎
Had fun making pressed hash. Nice 11% recovery from dried material from 11Roses, Unknown Kush and Golosa. Lab tested hash at 43.7% THC (passing 120 micron and caught on 45 micron bag).
Northern_Ent
