14/Abr/2017: emergency! The Sweet Cheese #1 finally overpassed the LED so I had to be creative and I do an emergency supercropping and LST on the main branches. I know it's not recommended do that in flowering but I have no choice. Today also I couldn't measure pH and EC, hope maybe later, so I watered with only water. Perhaps will pulverize with Neem and Top Bloom when the lights go out. The others go very well, the Skunks still doesn't show pre-flowers as the young Cheese show them, this last one is going very well.
EDIT: finally could measure, it looks awesome (:
Sweet Cheese #2 pH 6.6 - 810 ppm
Sweet Cheese #1 pH 6.5 - 886 ppm
Sweet Skunk #2 pH 6.6 - 1180 ppm
Sweet Skunk #1 pH 6.9 - 504 ppm
Question about the neem oil: I know you can use it by diluting it in water to spray topically for killing pests like scale bugs, but did you use it in water to feed it? If so, how safe is it?
Buen crecimiento, ahora preparate para que empiecen a explotar, te recomendaria que le hagas LST a alguna así aprovechas la luz bien, con 150w led te vas a quedar corto en flora y vas a tener un solo cogollo grande si la dejas crecer sola, haceselo al menos a una así podes comparar y aprender para la proxima. Un buen LST le viene muy bien a las autos, yo tengo una northern lights que le arranque el LST desde pequeña y las colas explotaron en crecimiento y la veo muy bien. Saludos
@plater, Es genial hacer LST a las autos, ni se estresan y el resultado es notorio, ademas mas que nada es para aprender con la experiencia, así los próximos cultivos salen cada vez mejor. Yo uso un especie de cable de goma que es hueco, y como no me gusta tener que andar haciendo nudos en los tallos, agarre un alambre finito maleable y se lo pase por el medio, de esa forma simplemente le doy forma de gancho a una punta, y la otra la engancho abajo de la maceta. De todas formas, lo relevante es no lastimar el tallo, no usar materiales muy finitos que puedan cortar el tallo, ni apretarlos mucho haciendo nudos, lo ideal es un alambresito enmallado de tela o goma. Mucha gente usa los limpiadores de pipa que son baratos y funcionan muy bien para esto.
Gracias por la sugerencia! Quería que salgan con un solo cogollo central grande pero me tentas aunque sea para probar el LST, quizá con la Cheese más grande que está estallada de hojas y veo a las de abajo chiquitas probablemente porque no le llega bien la luz. Qué materiales recomendas para un buen LST? Gracias!
Question about the neem oil: I know you can use it by diluting it in water to spray topically for killing pests like scale bugs, but did you use it in water to feed it? If so, how safe is it?
@EmeraldReverie, hi dude I believe it's safe to. If you use it in the water the girls will be fed by it and when the insects try to eat the plant will also eat the neem, killing them. I think pulverized is the typical use because many of us use it when the plagues already hit the plants, but I think in the water is good as preventive. I also read the neem used in the water keeps active around a month in the substrate, but if sprayed it last only by a week. Hope the info is useful but keep in mind I'm a rookie in gardening and my opinion is based on experiencie and info recollected over the Internet.
Looking good :) I considered super cropping my plant as it reached past the led but i ended up not doing it. Going to follow to see the result. Good luck!
Muy lindas, hiciste bien acercando el LED,igual no te pases con el deeper ni los abonos, si usas agua de la canilla generalmente es re dura como podes ver con tu medidor de EC, te da mucho menos margen para poner nutrientes, 1ml ya es mucho para tus autos, espera al menos 2 semanas y la proxima dale 0.5ml. Yo cometi el error de darles mucho Deeper al principio (0.5ml y 0.75ml) y ahora tengo bastantes sales acumuladas. Otra cosa, te recomendaría sacarles el palito, no ayuda en nada, en todo caso te perjudica ya que vas a tener tallos mas debiles al no tener que soportar todo su peso.
@insti, espectacular, voy por ese camino y se notó mucho la diferencia al acercar el LED. No crecieron en alto pero se multiplicaron en cantidad de hojas. Ahora el LED estará a una palma de mano de la planta más alta.
Hoy empieza la tercer semana y regué solo con agua. Uso agua mineral Glaciar para asegurarme la composición (especialmente lo baja en sodio) porque por lo que vi midiendo la de la canilla, tanto el pH como la EC coinciden para ambas: 7.5 y 200 ppm. Los escarbadientes también los saqué, totalmente al pedo.
Gracias por comentar!
04/Abr/2017: the Cheese #1 is growing and growing! Far I know the autos are like dwarf plants, I hope in the next days it starts flowering because I will have to move up the LED and maybe will be bad for the other girls. The sunday night I pulverized with Top Bloom again. Today only water. Maybe tomorrow will pulverize again, or maybe directly in the soil for the Cheese #1 as its values are excellent and I want to get to start flowering it. Today I finally could measure and IT. LOOKS. AWESOME.Only the Skunk #1 has the EC a little high so I do a roots cleansing and measure again. The EC drops now to a more convenient value. Sweet Cheese #1: pH 6.5 - 0650 ppm /// Sweet Cheese #2: pH 6.55 - 1160 ppm /// Sweet Skunk #1: 6.4 pH - 0824 ppm /// Sweet Skunk #2: pH 6.45 - 0986 ppm
25/Apr/2017: looking good, the SC2 is responding well to the rough LST. The SC1 has too many yellow weak leafs, maybe it's "hungry" but I dunno. Also the Skunks already started flowering!
19/Abr/2017: looking great, the LST and cropping on the Cheese #1 works well and the other one started flowering but it's good in height. The Skunks keeps showing some pre-pre-flowers (?) so it's a concern. Also, and I think the LED is the guilty one, all of the girls has some weaks yellow leafs at the bottom but in the Cheese #1 the yellowing is going up but at least not on the branchs who has flowers.
Stats:
Sweet Cheese #1: pH 6.3 - 691 ppm
Sweet Skunk #1: pH 6.7 - 792 ppm
Sweet Cheese #2: pH 6.5 - 594 ppm
Sweet Skunk #2: pH 6.5 - 974 ppm
21/Mar/2017: yesterday I watered the girls and also used neem oil as a preventive pest control (less than 5 ml/l). The girls are growing very well, I'm very satisfied of the development of the plantation (:
08/Mar/2017: today the radicle of the Cheese I was germinating showed up so I put it in the flower pot. I dunno if it's psychological but I appreciate a better grow of the other ones as I put the LED closer. Looking forward the next days!
07/Mar/2017: well, the Northern Lights is finally dead, so I put to germinate a Sweet Cheese. Also I modified the light regimee to 20/4 and put the LED closer to the girls 'cause I believe it was way too far.
Edit: now I have a pH/TDS meter! So as the girls were thirsty I irrigated them until the water pour from the bottom of the pots. The pH was excellent (6) but the substratum is filled with minerals (1875 ppm) so, although some people told me that use the Deeper one last time, I will irrigate them with only water to stabilize the EC.