Chocobo Flower

Mother plant is 210 cm tall. Her roots fill up 100-liter container space. And flowers is around week 3 of development. Fed mother plant with mixture of phosphate guano and salt peter guano. Mother plant showed some sign of phosphorous overdose. Lower leaves turn light green and have some mid leaves burn. However, from Thursday to Sunday, there were rains every day. I got automatic flushing and can restart with different feed next week. Think I’ll just give her salt peter guano and wood vinegar to lower pH a bit. Perhaps I’ll give her zinc as well. After one week, clones quickly grew. Four clones from bigger branch developed well. Mycorrhiza did its job. Root filled up the little pot after only four days. And there is fine hair along the root. This happens when mycorrhiza can properly infect root during cloning. So, I transferred four clones to half a gallon pot a little early. Again, I only plan to keep two for this dry season. The rest of the clones were smaller. And roots did not develop that well. I have no room for mediocre plants. And I threw these weaker clones out.

Mother plant is 210 cm tall. Her roots fill up 100-liter container space. And flowers is around week 3 of development. Fed mother plant with mixture of phosphate guano and salt peter guano. Mother plant showed some sign of phosphorous overdose. Lower leaves turn light green and have some mid leaves burn. However, from Thursday to Sunday, there were rains every day. I got automatic flushing and can restart with different feed next week. Think I’ll just give her salt peter guano and wood vinegar to lower pH a bit. After one week, clones quickly grew. I have three clones that developed well. Mycorrhiza did its job. Root filled up the little pot after only four days. And there is fine hair along the root. I have transplanted these to seven-liters pots. This happens when mycorrhiza can properly infect root during cloning. A three other clones are okay. One came from a bigger branch and was top big for grow case. Another was overdosed with iron. And sure enough, she turned red. Okay, it is possible to have red leaves in hot climate with FFT7. I only plan to keep two plants going for this dry season. In this crazy pandemic, I stay sane only with the help of cannabis.

The girls are doing well in 7-liters pots. Spraying brassinolide before taking cutting made big impact. I took six cuttings. And I have one five big clones. The smallest clone is even big by my standard. No feeding yet as soil is still good with fresh earth worm casting. I did spray the clone one more time with triacontanol and zinc sulfate. Note on triacontanol, it does not keep well. And there are some clump at the bottom of the bottle after two months storage. To make it useable, I should boil this mix again. That is a bit of a pain. I am getting better at cloning. And my back up clones are doing too well. So, I have too many clones going in this raining season. I need to dump some of these off to manage my space to prepare for the dry season.

The girls continues to grow in 7-liters pots. No feeding. No spraying. FF7 are just growing in the rain. There are four clones left. I gave smallers clones away. And plan to give away two more clones. Mother plant flowers does not do so well. Some branches rot with mold. And I am harvesting them. During raining season, I can only get low grade flower outdoor. They are potent enough but flowers won’t look too good. So, they likely to become edible

Mother plant came down. I chopped her early due to rain and mold Last couple of weeks, I did not spray the mother plant with anti-bugs microbe. And mites were alive and happy. They shed empty shell and breed. The mother plant was over 2 meter tall. And mites parachute to other plants. The clone were sprayed with anti-insect microbes once last week. There were mites. However, these mite were not moving and there were no white empty shell. For the girls, I gave most of my extra plants away. And there are three left. And they have out grown their 7-liters pots. Next week, I am transplanting two plants to 25 liters basket and start to train them. Fed them a bit of guano this week. Next week, I plant to spraying metharhizium and beavaria for three rounds. These are the anti-insect microbes. I’ll mix in some exalt spinetoram to boost the effect.

Weather cooled down a bit with pouring rain. Mite seemed to be under control for the moment. There is no sign of them. I like microbes. Once they start to infect mite, rain can’t wash microbes away. Trying to train FFT7 by spreading them out. Leave tips are burnt. I added too much sugar refinery sludge to the soil mix and the fertilizer was too strong. Well, no more feeding for a couple of weeks then. There are only two clones left. I gave the rest away.

Trim off sucker branches and lower leaves. Fed with only guano.molasses. With mite infestation, I sprayed her twice this week. Once with anti-bugs mircrobes with four x concentration. And three days later with rose marry oil. Next week, I plan to spray her with anti-bugs microbe again then follow with neem oil.

There were only a couple of days without rain. Thanks you @Gyo_weed for pointing out N deficiency. I fed the girls with double dose of cow manure. Seemed also lacking in iron. pH is probably too high as coconut husk are still fresh. Cow manure should lower pH. Regardless, I sprayed one dose of iron sulfate. I gotta keep the girls in veg until after fall equinox so flowers would bloom in my dry season. Until then, I am trying to keep them healthy but not too big. I am concern about mite that would come with wet raining weeks. It is useless to spray microbes when sheet of rain would wash it away in few miniutes.

Extending vegging period. Installed additional solar powered light to increase coverage angle. Root were having problem as bottom of the basket turn muddy. And I re-planted both FFT 7’s to final larger clay pots. One was moved from 25-liters basket to 80 liters clay pot. Another went to 60-liters clay pot. Large pots are more useful if there are a few weeks for root to expand and take up the space. Each of both plants had one dominant stalk. And the tallest stalk is 120 cm tall. Since I am going to veg these for a few more weeks, I cut off the tallest stalks to level the height. FFT-7 can get as tall as two meters in large pots. So, I want a wider bush rather than tall twin columns form. Mites are coming back but still under control. Beetles and wasps are visiting. And I am holding off on anti-insect spray in favor of these natural predators. At night, the vegging lights attract insects. In turn, the insects attract lizards and toads. It is a micro jungle. Soil is a bit off balance. And I sprayed calcium boron micro-nutrients to promote green leaves. For calcium and magnesium deficiency, spraying calcium and magnesium on leaves separately works best for me. Feeding cal mag doesn’t get good result in flowering stage. And spraying calcium mix in with magnesium doesn’t work as well as separately a few days apart.

Thank you to Sativa Man and Shoey for the inspiration to write. This week is again rainstorm week. The humidity is 90% between bouts of rain. And I have baby frogs hanging on my fence wall. Since my soil is full of Nitrogen, I don’t want to feed my cannabis plant. Root might rot. As it is, I have difficulty keeping root alive. I struggle to keep root healthy by making sure that the pots are well drain. I raising the pots from the ground. Also I try to cleaning mud from the bottom holes as much as I can. My mongrel puppies were also bored during rain. They have pent up energy and are destructive between rain. They chew on everything. And I dug up clay pots for my young clones. The clay pots have some weight and are less attractive toys to dogs. My wife calls them by cute names. To me, these mongrels are Havoc and Mayhem incarnated. Other tropical flowers and fruits are coming along during the wet season. Gutifera plants got tall and I need to unfold my ladder to pick the flower. We also have an Indian fruit call Karanda (Carissa caranda). Supposed to be medicinal. And my wife blend it with honey in ice to make a drink. I think a couple shots of vodka would improve these drinks. Anyway, if cannabis roots are damaged in this very wet season, I may need to extend vegging period further to get root healthy before letting the weed plant flower. Regardless, my stash will still last me a while. Plus, I still have some frozen green flower in my freezer. These need to be thaw out and either properly cure or decarb. Cheers,

After two weeks in large pot, and after two weeks straight of daily dour pouring rain, there are yellowing leaves. When it is so wet, soggy soil drown out root. And once there was a break from the rain, root recover and grow into larger space. Then roots suck in stored nutrient from leaves and branches. Lower and middle leaves yellowed fast and drop. Stem also shrunken. Oh well, I shall extend the vegging period for one more week then. The is so plants would recover a bit before go into flowering mode. And I’ll start flowering in the middle of October. For remedial action, I sprayed diluted mix of cow manure and bat guano. Ratio was five spoons of cow manure to half spoon of guano in 6 liters bottle. Plants are starving and extra phosphorous is needed for root. Iron sulfate was also added. Iron defieciency is common during flooding season. There are signs of mite again. Spraying microbes is ineffective in the rain. However, it is all that I can do. And I am waiting for mother nature to show me some favor and send in her predatory insect to devour mite. Cheers to you all.

There are two FFT7 plants. One in a large 100-liters pot in sunny sport. Another plant is in 40-liters pot with part-sun spot. This is the space that I have allocated the FFT7 grow. The plant in larger pot with more sun is doing much better. This plant is my main source of hybrid Indica/Sativa buds. The smaller plant is just for extra amount. Overall, keeping plant in long vegetation with low light hour outdoor won’t get optimum result. Plant only grows big up to a certain point. Low light hours induced flowering buds that are converted back to leaf buds by weak night light. Then, there would be too many small tops and flimsy branches due to low light hours. Moreover, longer growing time exposes plant to myriad hazards. Still, it is better than letting weeds flower ripe in 90% humidity and 80 cm of rain in October. And I can still maintain mother plants for cloning outdoor without electricity cost. Leaf chlorosis is under control. Spraying fertilizers on leaves seemed to work. On the other hand, I avoid additional drenching from feeding through root. I am letting the soil raining bouts. As it is, covering up the soil before rain proved only practical only on day time during the weekend. I work day time during the week. And I sleep well at night. In any case, we should have only a few more storm systems until the raining season let up by November. Mite is a issue during raining season. Microbes are losing effectiveness as they are washed away by daily rain. Additionally, I get sap sucking beetles hanging on plants. Where have the predatory bugs all gone? Setting up the plants for flowering. I have trimmed off small branchlets. This should be the last high stress shaping for this grow. Although I make infusion, I still never like larf buds. I can put up with less yield but I rather have decent looking buds. Trimming also help with mold and pest control. Since, I don’t want more small bud sites, I am promoting root and vertical growth with auxin. This week, I spray FFT7 with Root Start (auxin) mixed with manure tea. I’ll go back to more natural root feeding once it is dryer. . So, I am letting the plant veg for yet one more week to recover from aggressive trimming and heavy rain. I think the girls need a bit of time before going into flowering. FFT 7 flowering time is nearly eight weeks. I want them to be ready for my New Year. Stuck the trimmed off branch trims into small pots. If they survive, they will make good Christmas presents. I lost a couple batches of clone this month. Mold got on top part of the plant. I mixed Trichoderma in soil and the stem and roots was okay. So for this round of clone attempt, I paid more attention. I nuked the soil mix in microwave. And I also wash the cuttings with bleach solution for three minutes. (Yes, I really timed it) Then I washed the bleach off with tap water. After three days, the cuttings are still intact. So, lets see if this sanitization would improve cloning yield rate. For those that actually read this, thank you for sharing the journey. Your comments and suggestion are most welcome.

There should be only a few weeks left for our monsoon season. And I am finally letting these clones go into flower. I got over aggressive this week and double the manure tea concentration and added compost tea. I also chopped down a big branch from a tree above my cannabis patch to let in more light. Also, the sky also cleared up. The result of strong feeding and strong light is leave burn. Leaves won’t be pretty for the rest of the grow. There were a few dry days this week and I sprayed beauvaria to control mite twice. At the end of the week, I added plant growth promoters in the spray. These promoters are wasabi hormone and alfalfa wax. Last time that I tried these, they worked wonder. Ready or not, I am tuning off the night light and letting the girls flower. About the clones: Sanitizing branch cutting and soil before use worked wonder. All branches survived. I did leave the lid open for a day and night on the third day after cut. It was too soon and some plants leaves wilt died. The idea of giving clones away for Christmas proved to be unpractical. I want to repair my guitar and talked to my favorite luthier. The conversation leads to me taking clones to him right away and he’ll finish rooting them himself :D

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Flowering finally started. Harvesting will be around New Year day. Yeah. Things turned quickly from pre-flower conundrum into pistil explosion within a day. At the beginning of the week, I was still giving transitioning nute. Then I sprayed BAP hormone and gave phosphorous guano by soil feeding. The next day, pistils comes out. Thanks to @GYOweed for this piece of advice. I get by with a little help from my friends. Sprayed antibug microbes; beavaria and metharizium. Cheers,

Flowering in progress. Top the soil with about a gallon of earth worm casing. This is 1-1-1 organic NPK and it should last about a month before watering washes it all away. So, it should take care of plant nitrogen need ntil the end of the growth. I have started light guano feeding. Concentration of two table spoons for every 6 liters of water. 6 cc of molasses was also added to the same container. And I fed FFT 7 about 3 liters of this tea. Sugar leaves are developing trichome. Mites and bugs won’t eat through that. No more antibug microbe spray. No more micro-nutrients spray. I am busy with work. I don’t expect things to change in coming few weeks. Next step will be heavy stacking and anti-mold regiment. I’ll update this diary when I am doing more things other than feeding guano and molasses.

5th week in flowering. There should be only 7 weeks in total flowering. Flower is nice and sticky with trichome dew. This is the final flowering phase. Trimmed of big fan leaves. Remove any visibly rotting buds. I defoliate a bit late if at all. Cram in phosphate and potassium. Feed soil microbe. These translate to bat guano, salt petre, and molasses. Plant 1 is nice. Main reason is that she is getting more sunlight. Plant 2 is in part shade near a big tree. They are clone from the same plants but plant 2 won’t produce less with low quality buds. Plant 1 harvest will be in my show-off jars. And plant two will join my infused oil collection. How plants are grown impact quality and yield. There are more to growing than feeding various fertilizers and additives. Next week, will be my final feeding week. The sky and forecast is clear. However, if there is any sign of rain, I’ll chop FFT7.

Weather is as cool as Bangkok will get. 19 C in the morning and 30 C midday. Good ganja weather. FFT7 is smelling just nice. And she is good for chopping. Fermenting whole milk with live microbes/pro-biotic yogurt. Plant 1 is as good as she will get. There are spider mite webs on top colas. These buggers suck off all juice. One side effect is that weed is tastier and smell better when they are attacked at late stage. Part of plant defense response I guess. And I shall need to wash and clean the buds well before I dry them. Read @Top_Banana diaries. He used different brand of yogurt than I do. And I looked up the sort of LAB in that yogurt. Then I also changed to new yogurt. This is what I can get from a convenient street corner store. It has two microbes instead of one. I shall feed the yogurt on Sunday evening and plan to harvest on Wednesday of next week. Plant 2 is prematurely chopped. A very good friend visited. And I chopped the plant for her. Won’t be as good as plant 1 since plant 2 did not go through full pre-harvest routine.

I like growing with natural energy and outdoor works for me. I am in the tropic and daylight is pretty constant around 12 hours throughout the year. Photoperiod works best for me. And it is too bad that FastBuds would focus only on auto. Unless thing change, I won’t have any more FFT7 seeds to grow. For the record, FFT7 takes high fertilizer. Down side is that she is prone to spider mite. Takes over watering well. There was no issue with heat stress, sideway rain, insect swarm, hermaphrodite. FFT7 was a good and sturdy plant. Pre-flowering was difficult to notice. Her pistil is short but she bulk up then finishes fantastically fast. FFT7 best quality is the high/stone effect as well as smooth sweet lemony taste. There are faster plants with better looking nuggets out there. This is an all rounder that does everything very well but has no single quality that stands out.