Gave them their 3rd and final heavy defoliation this week. Had lots of useless side branching that will just shadow out the good stuff and cause them to not ripen properly, a lot of this growth was due to the unintended extra 10 days they had in VEG before I noticed the timer wasn't doing what I asked it to do, just one of those things. Always a surprise in the grow room no matter how much you try to prepare and problem solve. I also had an air line manifold blow out this week which was very strange to see. Caught it early so girls didn't go without air for to long and I have 2 air pumps running so 1 going down is only a minor issue but still a great example of the random mishaps that occur when growing.
If its one thing that experience has taught me its that less is more when it comes to how many colas you try to fit into a space. Do to many and you'll just end up with a load of mids, battling humidity problems and stress of keeping tons of half ripe colas falling all over onto each other come week 6 or 7.
Everything is going great so far, no issues, although I have noticed some of the white hairs on the budlets have slight ginger tops (only a very small few) I have read in the past that this can be a sign of stress and potentially they might flip the hermie but I've done nothing to stress them so I am hoping this is just a abnormality from growing under LED.
Boosted the nutrients up to 1000PPM now to let them feed heavy and pump those buds up.
Hope you enjoy watching my grow and thank you all for the lovely comments and feedback, it is much appreciated โ๏ธ
@Esoteric_growing, Your right, I wouldn't use it normally until I see pistols either but I had a minor deficiency last run during transition so its just something I am trying. It's a very small does for the amount of water in the system. Just a little dash to keep the girls happy. Thank you for your comment ๐
@pheverone, yeah most of the blue cheese phenos are pretty average apart from the one that stinks to high heaven. The LSD was also fairly average in todayโs standards.
All those strains you just bought I am very interested in๐
Every pack of 5 runtz has at least one keeper of rediculous quality but donโt expect a high yield lol
@Esoteric_growing, Yeah the extra heat from HPS can be a blessing come winter time. Ive come close to popping pineapple chunk a couple of times but never pulled the trigger. The 5-10 seed pheno hunt seems to be the ticket, thats exactly how I do it myself, there can be a lot of runts that come from the seeds.
Thats interesting about the lemon pheno I never came across that one myself unfortunately. I just bought the MIMOSA PUNCH,WATERMELON ZKITTLEZ, BLUE SUNSET SHERBERT and LEMON TREE to pheno hunt with next.
I have also grown the Cookies Kush, Purple Punch & Phantom I would not recommend either the cookies had horrible bud structure (Fox tail crazy) Phantom OG grows fat buds but the flavour is quite poor quality, I only grew 2 purple seeds so cant really judge but didn't find anything great.
I'm going to have to try this "Runtz" you've talked me into it ๐
@pheverone, yeah I have slowly upgraded as finances allow to LED. They are a fantastic option unless you need the extra heat generated by HPS/CDM lights.
I am a massive fan of barneys and over the years have grown pineapple chunk which has a very unique terp unlike either of its parents. Blue cheese I have grown on and off for many years and there is a pheno which normally can be found in 5-10 seeds which is a absolutely amazing.
I found a crazy lemon pheno in the strawberry lemonade which between me and a few friends grew out around 50 seeds and this was the only one which was extreme lemon but unlike lemon haze and lemon skunk and was probably the nicest terp I have had.
Also grown LSD, critical kush, amnesia lemon, moby dick and tangerine dream. The tangerine dream and moby are the only two I was not very impressed with.
I have grown most of barneys menu but the ones that stick out are runtz, pineapple chunk and blue cheese.
I have a friend growing some packs of biscotti mints, blue sherbert, orange sherbert and mimosa punch which I can get cuts of his keeper phenos so to say I am excited about that is a understatement๐
The next pack I buy will probably be the tropicanna bannana.
One last thing I will say is the quality of the runtz is the best all round strain I have ever grown and canโt stop growing it lol. Donโt get me wrong you need to pop a pack of 5-10 to find a good pheno but once you do its jackpot material๐
Only other exciting thing I have is I just got gifted a cut of the symbiotic genetics mimosa which I hear many good things about
Very wise words, I have just created a far too packed canopy thinking I would increase yield but like you say everything below 6 inches is very shaded even with quite brutal defoliation and hitting it with light from multiple angles with a bar type led.
My next run which I am about to flip I have cut down the cola count and veg time to not repeat my last mistakes.
Real nice grow you have there brother regardless of the packed canopy๐
@Esoteric_growing, Yeah every-time I get carried away with how many branches I try to fit into the space, this run I was brutal and chopped them to near skeletons. You might lose an oz or two but the quality you'll get from keeping the distance in between is FAR superior. i'll be taking at least a week off my veg time also, I feel it just grows a lot of what I end up chopping out in the last week of veg, making it an utter waste of time.