Spring 2021

6/15 Topped the White Widow for the first time, did not save top for anything. Took cuttings on CBD to bring canopy level down and to introduce 4 main colas from top put them in clone dome after applying clonex Watered NL, WW and CBD with a deep recharge about 12 oz each. 6/18 Moved NL to it's own tent after not seeing flower hairs/calyx but finding what looks like could develop into bananas. I will be watching this closely as I am not wanting to breed anything this year especially from an auto that is supposed to be fem. After some thinking about growing autos so far and my experience with them I think I could achieve a similar effect by only letting photos veg for 3-4 weeks before flipping to flower. Of course we will see how the rest of the flower stage goes for the other girls in the tent. I wonder if being able to have a longer light cycle during flower stage means more flower growth vs having a 12/12 light cycle during flower. I have done some research of others growing NL auto seedsman seeds and there are many accounts of it going into the flower stage late but not herming or developing male flowers. Hopefully I am wrong and that is just new growth. The other girls look good, seeing good growth on the White Widow after the topping, the Zkittles OG is showing some clawing on some leaves. It may be sensitive to nitrogen. The GSC is not showing those signs. The nute mix I gave was a standard week 4 FoxFarm nute mix. Being further into flower maybe I should have mixed a week 5 mix or maybe I should drop the grow big out of the mix. I am not sure if the FF soil feeding schedule is for plain empty soil vs using the FF happy frog and FF ocean forest? My suspicion is that the ocean forest, which seems hotter than it used to be, has plenty of nitrogen in the mix and that I don't need to give grow big to them at all. I noticed the same clawing on the CBD right after I gave her the same week 4 mix. I am leaning more towards just good soil and dry amendments for the next cycle even though I have a ton of the FF nute line left. I want to be as organic as possible and I notice that only some of the FF nutes ore really organic. Not that ORMI is the golden rule I have seen things be ORMI that I would throw in the trash before putting in my garden. I like the idea of just starting them in soil that has plenty of nutes for them and only adding what they need in the most natural form. 6/19 NL is not under 12/12 light cycle to try to force flowering along w/ clones I think I am seeing more bananas pop up higher on the plant. Gave all the girls a good watering with recharge and some open sesame. The GSC and Zkittles are full on flower and looking good, gsc looking the best. The Zkittles looks a little scraggly like the NL but is flowering well. Smell is still not too strong, but then again I love the smell so I may not notice it. The flowering girls went 5 days w/out needing water. They maybe could have went a little longer but seemed to be droopy last night. The veg stage girls went 3 days. Trying to get the schedule down. I have gotten in some new sensors to develop a tent monitor system to track temp, rh, co2, lux, barometric pressure and altitude. I also got my hands on 4 more of the soil moisture sensors. I will be working on building a monitoring system that logs, tracks and graphs everything out. I need like 3 more rpi zeros to run all the moisture sensors like I want but I have enough now to build and run one which even that could be greatly helpful. I think the sand helps the pot retain more moisture that would be lost to evaporation from soil. I am not sure though so a monitor will help me better determine how moist the soil is and how long it takes to dry out. The other part of the system with the co2, temp, rh sensors will help me to log any dips and see when things get outside the envelope of acceptable ranges and also to calculate and track VPD of the tent which could lead to more automated controls down the line.