Grow Specs:
Breeder: Irie Genetics
Strain: Sunkiss
Genetic heritage: Platinum Tangie (Platinum x Tangie) x Arise (Golden Goat x Daybreaker)
Germination rate: 6/6
Male:Female ratio: 3:3
Medium: Full no-till. Built my soil bed with an inexact amount of; Black Gold: Organic, FF Strawberry Fields, Mother Earth Coco-Peat, Roots Original, homemade super soil, pumice, hydroton, FF Light Warrior, Peat Moss, Malibu Compost.
Light: HLG 320W dimmed to about 300W actual.
Update schedule: I will try to send out the updates every Saturday or Sunday.
For more frequent updates, add me on Instagram @grimbolthedruid
Grow Schedule to Date:
Sprout: 4/27/18
Veg Time: 38 Days
Flower Initiation Date: 6/5/18
Flower Day Length: 11 on / 13 off
Pollination Date: 6/28/18
Age: Day 39 (F) as of 7/14/18
Updates/Observations:
- So this week I noticed nutrient burn just barely starting on the tips of the leaves. I will be using plain water on these girls only from here on out until I see some fade.
- On 7/12 I noticed that the leaf tips also were beginning to claw downwards displaying nitrogen toxicity unfortunately.
- The three plants have slightly different smells from what I can tell so far but for the most part they smell like orange soda syrup, stinkbugs (2 friends said this lol), and sweet funk. They vary in degrees of sweetness I would say.
- The smell has gotten much stronger this week!
- Joshua Tree is really resinous and smells very sweet and maybe like a berry, possibly blueberry or raspberry.
- I was gifted some pollen from a male MAC2 plant and I pollinated a branch on each plant carefully, using a small paintbrush.
- The seeds are beginning to form inside the calyxes as they swell up. If you look closely in one picture you can see an immature seed. I plan to run these seeds for myself in the future for fun.
Thanks for stopping by!
G
I love both podcasts, I’ve heard Jeff shout out to you! Good luck on the grow. You’re transplanting them into a kiddie pool?? I gotta see this....
Give your mom a hug! ;)
@Scribble,
Good to see another person that listens! Thanks for the support!
Yep it’s not quite set in stone but that is the idea right now!
Stay tuned for next weeks’s updates!
-G
AWWWWWESOME 👏👏👏
It’s gonna be spectacular. All plants will respond to each other, their gonna make food for all where the strongest ones are gonna help the weakest ones.
@CaliGrown,
You are killing me man! Thank you! Wish you were here to try some of this hash! I’m starting to get the hang of things. Just need to crop this next puppy and fresh freeze it.
@GrimbolTheDruid
It sounds intuitive, and it concurs with nature, and I know you know your stuff. But I learned leaving clipped leaves on the dirt makes a home for the wrong kind of bugs. I have seen more bug activity when I allow leaves to collect. Please explain the benefit, and/or your experience with bugs when you mulch. Thanks
@growdoctordc,
You are definitely correct in that it offers a good food source for the micro-arthropods and their population will increase with an increase in food supply/home. I practice insect pest management (IPM) at all times regardless of if I see pests so I spray and use neem and karanja teas regularly throughout the grow cycle.
Returning all parts of the plant (and by extension nutrients) that are not used for production is sort of the backbone of no-till ideology. Without that, too much is removed from the system and imbalances arise. Everything is about balance from what I have found so far. Nothing in excess reduces the ability of pathogens or pests to infiltrate the environment. Sort of a 'no room left at the table' type of methodology.
All that being said, this is my bed's maiden voyage so all I know is what I read. I am all book smart and little street smarts. Now that summer has come, I would like to look into experimenting with beneficial insects as well because I think at that point it is really starting to emulate nature.
Thanks for stopping by!
G