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Achieved 100% success on all three seeds using glass of water and planting in a peat pellet. The Golden Lemon 2.0 is from 2019, Pink Lemonade is from 2020, and Chocolate Cake is from 2021. These are all from 34 Street Seed company. The Pink Lemonade will be entered in #34StreetSeedCup2021. It was chosen for the high THC content, but it can be difficult to grow.
Started composting the soil from the previous grow. It will be fully cooked and ready for use in three weeks. Compost Recipe:
10 gallons of root balls
2 gallons of plant matter, bananas, avocado, coffee grounds, etc.
2 gallons of vermiculite
2 gallons of perlite
0.75 cups of blood meal
3 cups of bone meal
1.5 cups of dolomite lime
Mix it up by hand twice a day while breaking up clumps. Dust with Diatomaceous Earth after one week and leave undisturbed for three days to kill any spider mites. Continue mixing by hand daily for two more weeks. Make sure to water periodically so it stays nice and moist.
1. Recently set-up in a new place with new equipment and I'm still dialing it in. Low humidity and light burn caused some brown tips on the new growth.
2. Spider mites remained from the last grow and I needed to use some Safer's End ALL to help get rid of them. This caused some damage to the Pink Lemonade's two fan leaves, but I'm not too worried. Will be ordering some Spidex (beneficial bugs) from Koppert Canada to introduce into the grow once my soil is composted.
The bigger plant is actually at two weeks with three nodes and will be ready to start main-lining in another week. This website has a great summary of the process: https://www.growweedeasy.com/mainlining-nugbuckets
There is a step by step visual guide on how I layer the compost and nutrients for veg. This gets top dressed once I switch to flowering with 2 tsp of blood meal, one inch of compost/manure, then one inch of bark mulch on the very top. Make sure you do not compact the soil at any step. It inhibits air flow and slows root growth.
Here is a summary of the layers:
Step 1 - One inch compost/manure
Step 2 - Two tsp of organic blood meal (OMRI certified)
Step 3 - Fill pot to halfway mark with compost mixed with vermiculite/perlite
Step 4 - Two tsp of 5-5-5 organic powdered fertilizer
Step 5 - Fill with compost mixed with vermiculite/perlite and leave two inches
Step 6 - Transplant
Step 7 (FLOWER) - Two tsp of organic blood meal (OMRI certified)
Step 8 (FLOWER) - One inch compost/manure
Step 9 (FLOWER) - One inch bark mulch
Humidity is starting to get better and the plants look much healthier. I can start main-lining the Golden Lemon 2.0 in a few days once it is established in the pot.
I broke the Pink Lemonade during training and it left no growth nodes on the plant. I left it a week, but no new growth started. Luckily a cutting of it took root and it’s finally big enough to flip to flower.
Planted an Auto during this time and it’s already in flower haha.
I’ve now pruned and left 3-4 nodes on each branch. Each pot gets top dressed with 2 tsps of organic blood meal covered by one inch of peat moss. I’ve also added four flowering spikes to each one. I do this with a dowel to make a hole then fill it with organic 6-3-9 plant food.
I’ll switch to flower I’m three days when I see the plants perk up.
Week five of flower. I used a compost tea in week four. Now it is back to filtered water. Continued defoliation of small buds.
To copy my tea, use an aquarium air pump to bubble 2 gallons of water for 24 hours with these ingredients:
1. 1/4 cup of unsulphured molasses
2. 2 cups of compost (can use a bag or throw it in loose)
3. 1 tablespoon of Gaia Green 4-4-4 organic fertilizer
4. 1/4 tsp of dolomite lime (you should use fast acting or powdered
Add this to your plants with the soil and stirring frequently. Then water your plants with another 2 gallons of plain filtered water.
Note: the PPM on your filtered water should be around 50 and the PH between 6.5 and 7.
This is week 6 of flower. I stop defoliating and continue only adding filtered water.
Spider mites came back at this point after a bit of neglect on my part. I tried using a neem oil spray on the underside of fan leaves while covering the flowers.
Week eight of flower. I raised the light from 12 to 20 inches and continued with the filtered water. I started adding ice cubes to stress the plants and trimming some sugar leaves while waiting for the other plants to finish. The timing of the auto worked out perfectly and I harvested everything in the middle of week nine.
Pink Lemonade has giant fan leaves and loves training. Perfect for SCROG. It has a cheesy smell that becomes fruity after curing. There was 1.5 oz (dry weight) from my single cola attempt. It was analyzed as part of the 34 Street Grow Cup and came out to 20.091% THC netting me 3rd place.
Golden Lemon 2.0 I wouldn't recommend as I always get too many baby seeds forming. It does smell great and I had two ounces of dry bud off one plant.
Chocolate Cake is amazing to grow and is the fruitiest weed I've grown. Ended up with two ounces off one plant. It seemed to thrive on neglect.
Black Lights CBD is absolutely amazing. I did nothing. No trimming. No training. It had mites and only received a compost tea once. It still gave me 2.5 ounces of big buds. The smell was funky at first but is now sweet and fruity after three months of curing.
GardeningDoug
