Day 14 Veg: A great start to the week once they settled into their new pots. hopefully i havent stunted their progress. The mutant Banana Mash is now trying to normalise a little more with new growth. Still fairly twisted but on the mend. The other 3 are more typical of new plants with their growth . I have topped one and fimmed another with one being left natural at this point. They are on their 5th node mainly ( except mutant!) and I am hoping to open their frames right up to get light to all new growth equally. I don't think they will grow too tall by design and I don't want to limit their growth in any way so i will gently manage them as they grow.
The Purple Monkey are doing brilliantly so far with plenty of vigorous growth among them. I am holding the 5th nodes down on two of them and have fimmed one. These are in bigger 60L pots so should use the space to its best I think.
I also have 2 plants that came from the recent harvest. One of the ladies must have had a pollen sack hid away that managed to seed a few of the exotic girls amd visited some possible viable hybrids. 2 of these are now in the grow alongside. I will be watching them like a hawk and any sign of a testicle will result in a slaughtering of the LGBGTQ sympathiser instantly . lol We do male or female only unlike the human race !!. heehee ( bit of a political hot potato!).
I gave them an actual megacrop feed today to boost the available elements for the speedy growth coming. The L.o.s is still active and providing enough nutrition but I am trying to avoid the drop once the stretch period gets busy and saps the available food from it. This seems to have been happening most crops since beginning using it to avoid the leaves losing their solent green colour too fast like starvation can cause.
I also added a touch of calmag to counter the L.e.d leeching that often occurs in flowering.
So there we have it Growmies. A good week with the beginning of l.s.t and some promising growth.
Another issue that I have managed to resolve is the R.h. We are getting warm dry air now so the room is getting silly hot and very dry at around 40% . This is great for the flowering times but has been an issue for veg in the past. not wanting to invest in a humidifier that is costly and expensive to run , I had resulted to using towels in buckets to attempt to raise it
this does work in a totally sealed tent , in my leaky d.i.y "tailored " one , this has been hard to maintain. The solution came in the form of a vicks vaporiser that I bought from fleabay. It works perfectly to bring up the rh to around 70% on its lowest setting. The tank is enough to hold a days supply of water and shuts off with the lights. simple but effective fix to a common problem we face indoors.
Be safe and well.
Until next time. G7 Summit will be interesting in the uk!!
@spyder,Thanks spyder. i am a fan of the breeders tbh. just finishing some more of their genetics with 3 strains and had an excellent mango cream harvest from 4 too. excited to see what we have here now.
@TrickOrTrip,thanks trip. loving the vigour of them so far. all so willing to play ball. now seeing buds so no sneaky male nanners either. lol . I am on virgin defence mode now after last run had a non-eunuch sneak in and spread pollen...be well bud
@Ferenc, thanks. the co2 jas always been a great help with the oven the space can create. deflecting the suns heat away from the roof tiles was a huge win once I got it right. does stop a lot of overheating when the summer hits here . genetics for sure plays a big role too.
@MarsHydroLED, thank you. got to sing the praises of the tsl2000 and the sp3000. i can keep a lot of plants moving through with the footprint it gives out. All three stages in together to keep perpetually growing. I have the tent rattling in a box waiting to get used now too will be figuring out a best way for use it without losing the great footprint already being achieved. would love to put the sp3000 inside the tent with 6 plants but would lose the great results i am getting from them in this array now. the tsl is brilliant but would struggle to keep them as happy and productive on its own in a big space like the 5ftx5ft footprint and I wouldn't be able to bring younger plants along until the harvests either. trying to figure it out at lol thank you
@Ganjagrandaddy,.. Im3sure we ..your grow family can figure out any problem any of us might have so feel free to ask for any advise ...🏆🏆🏆🏆🤗🤗👍💪👍💪💪😎🚬GROWMIE FAM
Hello there! Love those sativa leaning hybrids with their long stems and stacking buds style like yours, awesome, some need very little manicuring!
Well done and thanks for sharing!
@Eauderay, Thanks for the positives. Have to agree there too. sommuchbeasier to rim a few fans off and a little manicure of sugar leaves. bundles of bud always look like fruit to crunch too. so different to the other 2 with their donkey doing appearance. spikey looking buds on #3 too. have high hopes for these ladies.