I just noticed my PH has been around 7, and a couple of the seed mothers are showing CAL/MAG deficiencies..
I use well water, and I don't have to adjust it in the summer, but around late fall the PH raises.
I forgot to get good pics of the seed mothers, since I was focused on the STS formulas at the time, but these are the Pollen donors transforming into male flowers. 5 weeks old.
The seed mothers are coming along nice with dime sized buds on them. I Topped them all at the 5th node, just before the cola, so the canopy would all be even under the lights.
I just sprayed these reversed buds 1 time only on day 17, after the first STS treatments, with 50ppm of Gibberellic Acid (GA3) to stretch them out away from each other.
Gibberellic Acid causes plants to stretch enormously, and PPM's of 50 to 100 can cause females to reverse to males.
@420Highlifecouple,
Hi, thanks for asking.
Well, I start the pollen donor plants a week or 2 before the seed mothers.
I pick 3 or 4 of my favorite 3 week old plants for pollen donors, and start treating them with STS, which I spray every 3 days.
then I can pick the best one to use the pollen from, and pollinate the mother plants when they're 5-6 weeks old :)
It's not uncommon for me to get 2500 seeds from 1 plant.