Misfits grow off

The ladies seem to be settling in and doing well. 👻 happy Halloween and blessed dia de los muertos, growmies!

She wasn’t keeping up with others in the growoff and I figured the most likely reason was the cold basement so I set up the space heater ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥and they already look happier.

Top dressed with 50/50 Dr. Earth blend. I gave them a good soaking with coffee ground water on Friday and also got them new heating mats. They are looking a little waterlogged but they are now clearly out of the baby stage and growing well!

The sativa sister looks a little nutrient stressed. Leaf tips and edges curling down. The 3 lobed leaves grow off the secondary stems in a strange pattern. The side leaf lobes kind of corkscrew down from the middle one. I haven’t watered in 2 weeks bc my moisture meter is still reading wet and the buckets are still heavy. I haven’t watered in the nutes I top dressed in week 3 but it looks like they still have an effect.

Raised up the light a bit. Colder temps in the basement may be slowing the flowering process. I’m seeing other plants in the growoff flowering and getting tall already. I’m still pretty pleased because they look so happy. Not bad for just my second grow! The main stems are stiff and stocky and aren’t looking like they want to bend. But I did some light LST on the branches.

New Moon 🌚 means the saps about to rise again. Hopefully that means flowers soon. Plenty of growoff plants are already well into flower. I suspect the lag on my end is due to the basement being a bit on the cool side. Starting the cycle with a light lollipopping. It’s my first time doing that technique so I hope I did okay. Gave both girls some water with molasses and I added the second light that we got on fb marketplace. I also prepared the buckets for my next grow.

These girls look like they are going to flower any day but they are taking their sweet time in veg. Several competitors in the growoff started flowering at 4 or 5 weeks and they are so much further along now. Team member Keith says the longer the veg the better it is, not sure if that means yield or quality. No choice but to be patient. They are drinking a lot more water now. To dressed with Dr. Earth 70/30 mixture 3 scoops per plant.

Keeping an eye on some apparent nute burn 🔥 I’m happy with the way the flowers are coming along. Lengthening their lights out time from 6 to 8 hours seems to have helped push them into full flower 🌺 😎

Flushed both plants due to nute burn. Each plant got a 5 gallon bucket of water for Christmas. They looked merrier quickly. Lessons learned, gonna scale way back on nutes and be extra cautious. Smells more strongly this week, like a diesel gas smell.

Ok so it’s not nute burn, it’s potassium deficiency. I gave the girls some Dr earth flower girl, molasses, also a haircut of the older leaves, it’s time.

It has been cold in the grow corner this week. The girls seem to be loving all that I’m giving them. I am a bit concerned about my soil pH being high, is this why the leaf margins and tips are yellowing? Or are they just really hungry due to all those blossoms? Preparing a flower girl tea for this week.

And so it begins. Another week in the weed mines. They are starting to smell nice. Hint of banana in the nose. I was able to get the grow space much warmer by changing to a better heat source. Hoping this will help them bulk up and get them over the finish line a bit faster. Plant B got some love at the start of this week - approx 2.5 qt/l total, made up of Dr. Earth Flower girl tea - 1 scoop flower girl in a quart of water, combined with banana peel water and about a tsp or two of molasses. Mixed to 2.5 l and applied in 2 sessions, 20 minutes apart. Top dressed with solids left over from flower girl tea. A got a top dress + watered in a couple days later. Pruned some inner leaves and small interior buds. I had moved the lights closer after reading something somewhere about how close they “should” be in the stages. I started seeing light burn and light bleaching on these girls and on my cheese clone. It took me a few days to figure it out. So I raised the flower light all the way up and turned the veg light down to 60% on Sunday evening.

Finally the ladies and I are nearing the finish line. There seem to be two distinct types of this strain, the tall type and the fat type. Mine are one of each. Some of the growers are already finished, and I’m seeing soda can size buds on some of their harvests. Last week while I was trimming my plants, I trimmed a few stems that had tiny buds growing into the interior. I put a couple of these in my pipe just to see, and wow, I did not expect to get this high from those tiny larfy immature buds. I think it bodes well for the harvest.

Had to move the ladies out for a few hours today while we set up the wiring for the new water heater. Gave the grow space a good vacuuming while all the plants were out, reset the lights, moved the heating mats from the timer to always on. Added a little more insulation, moved the plants back in. Looks to my beginners eye like the ladies are in the home stretch. They are looking 🔥💯🤩

Ma buds are getting chunky! Pretty sure we are in the home stretch now. Looking forward to a full moon harvest! 🌝

This should be the final week! This has been a long grow and a great learning experience too. 🤩 2/16 Harvested plant B, the non growoff plant. Cut the branches, so green and sticky!! Did a bud wash since she was in the basement when we drilled the hole for the wiring. There was some dust and a nasty smell. As far as the growoff plant is concerned, she has some new bud growth happening. Going to wait another week on A and let the new calyxes mature. Harvest on Scorpio moon if she looks ready. I’m so excited!!! 👻🤩🌻🌼🌻🤩👻

Harvested plant B, the non growoff plant. Cut the branches, so green and sticky!! Did a bud wash since she was in the basement when we drilled the hole for the wiring and there was that nasty smell. Hung it up to surface dry, then I’ll weigh it and put it in a paper bag to properly dry. The next day I took the pot outside to harvest the roots. I didn’t really know what I was doing but after a while I got a bit of a system going. It wasn’t as difficult as I thought. These roots will make a good pain salve, and I hear they are good in tea as well. As far as the growoff plant is concerned, she has some new bud growth happening, new white hairs. Going to wait another week on A and let the new calyxes mature. Harvest next week on Scorpio moon if she looks ready. I’m so excited!!!

Here we are in possibly the final week for this girl. I harvested her sister last week but she seems content to grow a bit longer. If she wants to grow bigger buds, that’s okay with me. The game plan for this week is to watch her grow bigger, water when dry, and keep an eye on the trichs. Gave her some banana peel water near the end of the week.

This lady is soooooooo close. I almost chopped last week but a peek at the trichs convinced me to wait a bit longer. No nutes this week, just water. This is one of the last growoff plants to finish. She will be worth the wait though.

I learned so much from this girl, growing her and her sister together was a masterclass. I learned about nute burn followed by deficiency, how to read the plant, learned about light bleaching, how sisters can express very different phenos, the impact of cold temps. Growing without any LST helped me understand the plant’s structure and growth phases a little better. Some friction with the grow off team but it was on me. Grow diaries was so freaking helpful with this. People here are generous with their time and ready to help. Can’t thank you enough for this wonderful platform.