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Five Space Cookies arrived, and it's a NEW STRAIN from Paradise Seeds and I'm soooo excited to be one of the first growers.
The beans were popped on 4/20 (20th April). One sank within 10 seconds, the three others after a few hours, and one had not sank by the time I decided to put them all in RootIt sponges with some Shogun Katana Roots and then into glass conserve jars so I can see the roots when they come out of the sponge.
When the roots showed, and yes, a 100% germination rate, I placed plant & sponge in a 1l pot with 50% Canna Coco Pro Plus & 50% Perlite. They get watered a Shogun Katana Roots solution.
They will be grown indoors, but while the sun is out, I will experiment with giving them sunshine when the weather permits.
The Space Cookies are growing well at the beginning of the week. They then got quite stretchy. I wonder if that is the early May sunlight (weak). They're under 135rw LED when not under 660rw HPS (and then only when the sun is not out and they're outside). Temps have got a bit low when cloudy, but they seem happy.
I transplanted into 1l pots quite low does as they were very tall.
OK, so far in week 3 of veg we have some not happy looking Space Cookies.
I'm thinking it was too hot (with the plastic lid on when outside) and too cold for them (clouds, when they were outside) and they got stressed. Poor buggers. Maybe these south Med (outside) liking beans can't cope with my (higher) latitude this early in summer. So, don't case your humidity dome until May is out! :)
So, they will only be out in the sun when the sun is out and feels hot. They are brought in at max 4pm for 4 hrs of sleep, then the rest of the time they are in the new and improved (2.4m wide now, a double of size) tent where they will get some 660rw HPS and directly under the 135rw LED (until the 1000w HPS dual spectrum arrives half way through week).
The cotyledons looked very yellow yesterday, ie, all used up. So I have given a dose of Shogun Terra Grow and some Greenhouse Feeding Bio Grow, as well as their Shogun Katana Roots. I think they're hungry and in need of warmth, indeed, the above happened W3D5 and with just one (their) day in the HPS/LED with nutes and they look much better than the day before.
You've got to nearly kill them to turn them into monsters (he [nearly] deludes himself) ……
OK, so a day and a night indoors W3D6 in the warmth and they're back growing. I'm pretty sure the slowdown was due to cold. My first spring/summer grow, so learning all the time.
Lesson from this one is keep the roots/media warm (I need a heat mat for non-summer - ordered) day & night for the first month!
What effect does heat/cold have on roots & above ground? So, what effect should I see in the roots and above ground growth with substrate temps at 90f, 85f, 80f, 75f, 70f, 65f, 60f, 55f, 50f, 45f, 40f?
Hey there so extreme cold will slow your plant growth ans can eventually kill the plant especially at freezing temps. I see the plants are partly outdoors partying with the tomatoes which lucky are much like cannabis, at this stage if you can keep temps between 70-85 with good humidity thats best, but even if you went down into the higher 60s that's ok too, with slightly cooler night temps. If your substrate can stay above 60 it'll discourage mold and other things. The plants and tomatoes are looking good. :) oh also a lot of your plants leaves look like they're "praying" which is a good thing. I think things are coming along great.
What a difference a week (almost) with a heat mat has made to my five Space Cookies. Their substrate was defiantly too cold. All fixed now and the difference has astonished me. :)
Keeping humidity high also helping I think. Media is kept on the dry side. They're on a window ledge in mostly sun during the day (it's been a better week weather-wise), with a clear dome on when cloudy. In the 1000w dual spectrum HPS tent for 12 hrs from 8pm (they have a sleep in that tent from 4-8pm).
So, all happy again! Got a feeling these are going to be monsters.
They're growing very strongly now the heat is on. I think I delayed them by a couple of weeks with the cold.
No rush though. If they need some extra veg time, they will get some extra veg time. I will be topping at some point (~30cm).
Space Cookies are growing well and are starting on their side shoots. I've pruned a few lower side shoots so they can concentrate on those higher up.
Transplanting to 11l pots next week.
Space Cookies had a big week this week. They were transplanted from ~2l pots to 11l pots with 1.5g of Greenhouse Feeding BioGrow.
Also fed with a bit of faster acting liquid fertilizer (Shogun Terra Grow). Thought I had a calmag deficiency due to praying a lot, but figured is was the start of light burn so upped the lights 10cm and the over-praying went away over night.
Four out of five Space Cookies where topped. At node 7, 6, 5 and 4. The seven noder had the bottom two shoots pruned for clones. A current 5-noder I'll wait and see.
All Space Cookies were defoliated of their lower small fan leaves so they could concentrate higher up.
The largest two have been LST'd (lower branches)
Plants transplanted into 30l final pots, with 1g/l Greenhouse Feeding BioGrow in it. They're doing nicely, and I'm starting to LST the top two nodes horizontally while those below catch up.
Topping and re-topping. Two are showing a little sign of Nitrogen toxicity which I'll keep an eye on.
Plants' lower shoots stretching well to reach the canopy. LSTing an Topping to keep the canopy even. Just feeding ph'd aired tap water that has been ph'd up and down (up to add silicone, down to take it back to 6.2).
Will be flipping to 12/12 (Transition to Flowering) next week.
A clone has grown roots
Last week of 18/6. Flipped to 12/12 on Day 69. Canopy getting very full. I thought I could grow these plants three across, but they've filled out so much that only two across will work.
Glad I double the size of my tent as they will now all fit. Scrog net there, may or may not get used as I do like to move the plants about so perhaps a light-touch scrog.
A bit of (nitrogen) toxicity showing, but not too much - pushing the envelope, lol. Just watering with ph'd up then down aired tap water.
End of Week 11 is day 3 of flowering (when the first flowers could be seen, day 14 since transitioning lights to 12/12). Plants have stretched a lot with the tallest being 85cm from media (112cm including pot). HPS set to max setting (1100w).
Supplementing the Greenhouse Feeding nutrients that are in the media with a little Shogun as I had success with Shogun before. Lots of bud sites. I've not defoliated
yet as the HPS at 1100w should penetrate quite deeply and I want max leafage on plants to produce buds, hopefully.
The Space Cookies have developed a Magnesium deficiency I think. Mid leaves with rust spots in the middle of the leaves. So I have flushed with just TNC CalMag at 560ppm (into 330ppm aired tap water).
The plants with more of the deficiency are the most vigorous, which also links in to Magnesium deficiency.
Have a look the leaf photo's in Week 12 and tell me what excess/deficiency you see. I think it is a Magnesium deficiency but I'm far from sure. The leaves effected are mainly middle of the plant fan leaves or lower fan leaves on the cola's.
Hi Shaggy. Looks like textbook calcium deficiency. Magnesium looks interveinal chlososis, calcium shows up as brown spots on leaves affected. The requirement and deficieny signs with calcium can be weeks apart meaning your middle leaves needed calcium 2 weeks ago and because it’s not a mobile nutrient as the leaves grow your requirements of calcium or not met hence the spots. Now that you’re adding “cal mag” you shouldn’t have anymore issues. (Calcium is required at 6% magnesium 2% each feed) hope that clears it up for you ;)
Growing more and more pistels. Feeding her more CalMag and they seem happier.
They drink more in the hot weather lately as well.
Keeping the heat down has been an just-manageable issue.
Growing more and more pistils, like last week :)
Just feeding her CalMag. Drinking more in the hotter weather lately as well.
Keeping the heat down (with AC unit) for me and the plants.
The Space Cookies are creating pistil sites & buds at a lovely rate. Perhaps this has occurred as I have done hardly any defoliation this grow compared to normal.
This means the plant(s) will have been less stressed, so maybe that's why they have amazing long colas forming, like torpedo's. In the next few weeks I hope they will thicken up
as the calyx creation Fibonacci's. Gave some Shogun Geisha Foliar to create even more bud sites. Fed with some Shogun, and this is on top of the Greenhouse Feeding
already in the media. They have taken a lot of nutrients VERY well. I have let them get very dry between watering's, and the Shogun CalMag seems to have halted the
brown spots on the leaves.
This week I gave the #SpaceCookies a flush of aired tap water. Comes out of my tap at 330ppm, which is very high, so I bought a water filter.
I bought the wrong filter though, so we're using that one as drinking water and I'll save up for a reverse-osmosis water filter - doh.
Girls I think are looking a little ragged in the old fan leave area, so perhaps light burn, nute burn, heat or the spider mites are back.
End this week and I'll think about defoliating a bit. I have taken the odd leaf of here and there, and this week I removed a handful of the oldest and worst looking fan leaves.
Buds are changing from torpedoes into rockets by filling out a little. I have 5 plants, a couple are quite short and busy, a couple are thin and tall, and one is busy and tall. The latter is the one I took a clone from, that clone (SC1C1) is itself in flower (day 4) and there is a clone (SC1C1C1) that seems to be rooting. #ShaggyGrower @ShaggyGrower
Defoliated the worse leaves, and after by the end of week 7 of flowering they seemed to noticeably pick up. Interesting.
Buds coming along nicely and they're stacking up (joining) very well.
Giving them Shogun Fertilizer's Dragon Force as their last feed which is supposed to be the biz'.
FLUSHING weeks. Two weeks of flushing have started. Just 20ppm of 21c rain butt water which has a bit of H202 to kill any eggs/small beasties.
Buds getting very special. Amazing pine aroma like a forest. Yield is going to be very nice! :-)
Trimmed some more dying fan leaves off and will continue to do this.
Privileged to be gifted a new strain from Paradise Seeds: Space Cookies. Popped on 4/20 and the experience of growing her (bar a few landlord entrances) was awesome.
Stand out feature is very long joined up buddy-colas. Epic. Great for LSTing, topping, SCROGing. Loves to be trained. Takes a medium amount of feed as I burnt them a little with too much.
Very good yield, as you would think from those long joined up cola. I will defo grow again, although I think I have quite enough to be carrying me through for quite a while!!!! :-)
Happy Growing everyone!0
ShaggyGrower
