Hi growmies! Happy Friday and I hope you all have a lovely weekend 🙂
This week for this mixed grow has gone well, no major accidents or hiccups which is great 👍😅
NORTHERN LIGHTS:
She seems to be slowly recovering from her problems last week, especially now as the temperatures have gone down to a more normal heat.
She has also started to bulk up abit now which is good, producing some very faint but pretty colours around her buds sort of light pinks and purples mixed with green does make her look abit like her namesake 😎
Her smell is still discreet until you disturb her (which is good!) And she has this lovely fresh foresty smell mixed with some sweet hash... Very very nice smell.
Her leaves still aren't looking great but she is looking better and alot less pissed of than last week 😅
This week I introduced some live worms to some of my plants which I found quite exciting 😁😁 this one being a plant I did put them in!
Overall she is back on the right track, buds are fattening. Not expecting big yields but I never was, yield wasn't the point of this mixed grow 🙂
#3: She is still looking happy, not much activity other than buds swelling and pistils finishing off, she is now at about 20% clear trichomes the rest being cloudy but no ambers so just a little while longer yet. She had her last light feed of nutrients on Monday (I will still be giving her Myco Boost and some ground barely for abit) just to help the microbiology in the soil 😎
She stinks sooooo good, I know you are not supposed to touch the buds but I really can't help it she smells incredible and is very very sticky! Her scent is still very much Mango/Orange with Gas and floor cleaner.
Very excited to try her!!
#4: I put her in the small flowering tent with #3 on Tuesday and she has responded brilliantly! Nice amount of stretch going on with some nice new growth 👍 looking happy and healthy where she is, can't wait to see/smell what she's going to be like in flower. Right now if you disturb or stem rub she still has a very grape like smell but I'm also getting a ripe banana smell which is very nice too.
Overall I'm very happy with all of these girls this week 👍👍 looking forward to seeing what next week holds
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Peace ✌️😎
Hi matey. The discolouring could be down to needing calmag , well more mg really. L.e.d is known to leech it from the plants as does coco too. I have the same issue just starting to show out more so have added 10ml calmag to the 10L watering. I am using megacrip and shogun products in my l.o.s so rely more on them than the life in the pots at the moment ( can switch it back to alive with a recharge and life-cycle) avoids the greedy needs mid flower and my los not keeping up due to smaller pot sizes then recommended 200L at 60L. Use it for the water movement mainly now. A clever or similar cover crop can also give great results and help with mulching/slower water evaporation too.
@UKPersonal420,my pleasure mate. Tou can grind soneneggshells upnafter putting them into the oven to brown off a bit. Grind it up to a dust and add this to the soil. Free amendments and still all natural. Wash the shells out before oven drying though. Works a treat.
@Ganjagrandaddy, Hey man, thanks again for commenting and providing valuable information👍
Yes I believe you are right with the MG being a problem but I currently do not have any Organic cal mag other than my dry ammendments like wormcasts and the grow/bloom nutrients. She is also under a Mars Hydro LED that does say plants will need more cal mag under it. I recently just spent all my "growing money" on other items so I'm hoping that with a good old feeding of the wormcasts along with the other dry ammendments that she recovers abit better 🤞
The other plants do not look as bad even after getting that mini heatwave last week... Thankfully.
I have some mulch and cover crop on the way so I'll be making sure the soil is more protected then.
Thanks again for stopping by mate, loving your diaries by the way. Great detail and videos!
Peace ✌️😎
Hey these are looking great! If any thing what I usually will do if they start off slow I will do a half feed with advanced a+b coco from what I’ve learned! Tbh I’m thinking of switching nutes to as they are kind of week for late veg the Npk ratio doesn’t seem to do it even when I go over??! But none of the less and maybe try germinating in a bit of great white and they usually pop with in 15/24hr max buddy of good genetics!!! Add me on IG for way more content!! @NEXTDOORGROWER
@UKBUDDOCTOR,
Hey growmie,
Thanks for the good advice!
I've heard good things about great white so that's definitely on the shopping list 🙂
Thanks for commenting and happy harvests 👍
@lovely_neighbours, Hey growmie,
I found these at my local garden centre but you can get them online. They are called garden pegs and it's best to get the galvanized ones 🙂
Thanks for stopping by
As xmcrazy as it sounds, have you inspected the leaves undersides dormant "friends". It is ideal spidermite tine for us uk tribes. Certainly looks ready to rock now.
@Ganjagrandaddy, Yeah I've checked with a loupe and not found any intruders but there was alot of them a few weeks back. Might be residual damage? She is just doing her second run of pistils now and is looking okay in her buds but I think those leaves are essentially dead at this point.
Great update UK. Lots of info and some great pics to follow your thinking and planned organics. Gnats are a pain in the arse and need dealing with very fast. They can each lay 100-200 eggs and gain number . I used a powder that you top dress with. Instant killing adults and emerging babies too but has no I'll effects to plant agorathin I think it is called. Works brilliant and now no gnats anywhere at all for 2 harvests since. Love what your doing . Keep up the good work mate. Temps back to reasonable now thankfully.
@Ganjagrandaddy, Thank you mate 🙂 so far so good with the organic switch, especially now I've got some mulch going.
Yeah I really hate them, got some nematodes on the way to treat them so hopefully with the mulch and Pearlite I can reduce their numbers for a few days until nematodes arrive.
I'll have a look at that agorathin now, is it organic? Can you store it for a good amount of time?
Thanks again growmie appreciate it and yes hopefully now the temps should go back to normal 👍
Low humidity is a problem for me at the moment and it's causing slightly slower grow I think. Any tips on a cheap humidifier?
Peace ✌️😎