Just flipping now, have had the girls for awhile and have just kept pruning them back until the space to flower them was freed up. The last feeding was 1.25 grams grow and 1.25 grams bloom per gallon of water, I will probably continue with this mix for the first month or so to keep nitrogen up until the end. The soil was also top dressed with a 3-4-2 dry mix and neem cake to help out with some extra nitrogen going into flower. I still need to thin them out some and stake them. I am currently running 4x QB120 at 240w total and 6 x 288 V1 at 130w each the average distance to canopy is 18". This is giving me roughly 750µmol, I intend to bump this up to 1000µmol average over the coming weeks. The qb120s I will have to drop the distance on as there wattage is fixed, my 288s on the other hand have another 30w each over head on them and they are actively cooled.
This is my first time on the site and hoping this grow will go smooth. This is a long flower sativa so expecting to be done at the start of Aug and hoping the heat will not become to much of an issue although having high "night" temps may help with the stretch some.
@IndaGC, Wow that long F me yeah I'll probably go with a different Sativa wow that is a very long time I was thinking more like an ak47 sativa lol I know there are many sets of variable's that come into play during stretch i myself have a hard time judging them but its one of the things im working on :)
@TheUk420Show, 100% Sativa. Yields are lower then most strains although I had some 2016 batch seeds that produced heavier buds but it was grown in a greenhouse. It grows pretty much the close to Chocolate Thia maybe 4 weeks longer or so. Genetics matter big time but there is factors witch you can control stretch to a degree such as high night low day temps, letting it be almost root bound going into flower, increasing blue light in flower and running them on a screen. I should have ran a screen at 6' in the room and it would have been easier, now I will have to pull them over at an angle to keep them from getting to close to the lights. I think a lot of people call them "hard" because of the time investment into them and there is a greater window for something going wrong. Another issue is they have very long flexible branches which will fall over pretty easy, under sunlight it is not as big of an issue though. I first grew this about a year after getting my medical and ended up having to zig zag the branches through the tent luckily I was running PLL florescent bulbs which allowed for them to almost touch the lights. The high on it is worth all the effort, super clean, long lasting and you will remember the first time you smoked it. If you do grow it and only have a single flower room I high recommend making sure you have a stash that will last you 8-9 months before setting out.
@IndaGC, Yeah I meant more the genetic in particular is apparently a very tricky one to get a good yield from and to grow overall. Not my words. She's a full Sativa isn't she ? How much yield do you get from this pheno ? does it compare to any other strains you have done in the past or is it one of them that its not really about the genetic its how you grow it ? I'm really interested at giving it a shot one day I just think I may not be experienced enough to cultivate it yet.