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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.
Great plant. This was an all organic grow using Korean Natural Farming (KNF) and it worked great. The photoperiods were force flowered during the last two weeks of July. Outdoor flowering took longer than advertised but that’s always the case here.
The flavour is, in fact, delicious, but I don’t know if I buy the breeder’s description of kush initially followed by the taste of “sweet fruits and wet earth”. Anyway, it’s a nice smooth indica.
I’d recommend KNF to anyone growing more than one plant. It’s really easy and way cheaper (and better) than bottled nutrients. University of Hawaii has info sheets regarding KNF explaining how to do it. Paramount seeds has a good explanation of using Lactic Acid Bacteria as a foliar spray. They say just do it and you can thank us later, so I’ll say thanks to them right now.
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).
@Rap_a_cap, thanks. First year trying this at scale and while it has mostly worked it’s also been quite challenging. If you’re interested in 11Roses I’d also suggest you check out the Unknown Kush which seems to be the male plant they used. The UK is doing great and is a really beautiful plant especially now with the fall colours.
@Rap_a_cap, I remembered to go back and add a comment about about the taste after it was first saved. Smell seems fairly mild but my sense of smell is pretty bad and the bud is freeze dried which locks terpenes in and minimizes smell when first out of dryer. It’s a very nice Kush type smoke.
Hey mate. Happy Growing. Was having the same trouble like you did and there was mission saving soldier Ryan - movie. This year I was a little cookie so did vege indoor and put plants outdoor in second half of march and than it started... Had some -5°C in the morning, ice, snow, no sun etc.... Tomato, tomatillo, pumpkins, kelj and some chilli papers wanished those days, just potato survived and also all of the plants. They beggin to flower but now they are recovered and looking healthy, strenght and have vigorous growth... for you I have just one advice to say and that is to put transparent PVC bucket on your plants so they can calibrate too the sun and feel the nature regardless the minus °C. Keep the good work.
Justo he plantado 3 em outdoor (Flexapot 12L/Flexapot 26L/ Suelo directo). En los Flexapot, tierra Canna+ Professional y Suelo (preparado 4 parte turfa negra/1 parte Canna+ Pro/1 parte Plagron Seed Cutting Soil/1 parte Húmus Lombriz Roja Califórnia/2 parte sustrato Teca/Coco/Turfa Rubia// 1/3 parte vermicompostage grano Orgânico Gallina Guano).
Fertilizer solo Flexapots - Vegetativo: Bio Nova Autoflowering Supemix 1,5 ml/L + Biolcan Root Agent (Humic Acids/Polisacarids/NKP low %) 3ml/L+ Rhiza Bonsai (micorhizas) 5 gramos superfície junto a la raiz) on start flowering ----- > flowering: BioNova PK 13/14 from flower week 1 to flushing - not more than 1.5ml/L/week . Grotek Carbo Max - flower week 1 only - 1 Gram/L.
Direct Soil - only tap water 3 X week 1L and Música ( ;) )
Que puedo esperar de mi " alquimia"??? Eleven Roses (pack semillas oferta) seran buenas estas semillas?? Que esperar se yeld y que strains me saldran?
@TommyBVRSA75, hi there. My Spanish is very weak, and I don’t see the translate button, but what you are doing sounds good to me.
I liked all three Delicious early strains (11Roses, Unknown Kush, and Golosa) and I used them all to make hash that tested at 44% Total THC. All three are great and Unknown Kush was my favourite. Good luck, and you might consider using a bit of blackstrap molasses during some waterings to provide sugar (carbs) for the soil microbes.
Good luck.
Northern_Ent
