Welcome to week 8! Lots of bud growth this week, pistils exploding everywhere. Got the sf2000 at 65% right now, I increase ever other day based on how the plants react. These things smell awesome halfway through flower, and crazy frosty, even the fan leaves are partially covered. I had my doubts earlier in the grow, but what I'm seeing now has mostly changed my mind about this strain. It's still going to come down to what kind of yield I get, and what kind of quality it is, but it looks good at the moment. I'm still just moving leaves around rather than defoliate, no need to add any extra stress to them during mid flower. Well thats about it for this week, its basically just a waiting game for the next 4-5 weeks, its still fun to watch the buds develop and see how they turn out. See ya next time. Peace.
Looking good mate, I think you may have an issue similar to mine, looks like a little too much N causing the cal mag to lock out careful with the calmag as it can contain N.
Sorry for the unsolicited advice, I hope its helpful. Good luck with the rest of your grow ๐๐
@InspireMe,That may be a possibility, I'm using a bloom nutrients for the entire grow, which is low in N, however they started showing pistils at 2 weeks so its possible the N requirement of the plants was quite low after flowering began and maybe a little too much N built up in the medium due to not enough run off during watering. Increasing calcium did make a difference, runoff ph was good. All in all I'm thinking its due to the lower nutrient requirement and early flowering characteristics of this particular strain. I did have a similar thing occur with another early flowering auto strain. It will be interesting to see if the increased runoff makes a difference on the next grow. Thanks for sharing your experience and happy growing.
@Growurownseed, Thanks! I use maxi gro during veg, half gro and half bloom for the first 3 weeks of flower, and then all bloom for the rest of flower. In 2.5 years I've only had to buy 3 small bags of bloom, lasts a long time, fairly cheap, and gets results. Add a good cal-mag like ROOTS and thats really all you need, screw spending hundreds of dollars on nutes, when you really don't need to. Happy growing bro.