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I planted this sprouted seed on 1/21. I had it in a small plastic pot on a riser, in a saucer and I was spraying it sparingly. Today I noticed that the plant looked like it was struggling. I lifted up the cup and roots were coming out the bottom and lookin like dread locks, the plant was clearly hungry.
I potted the plant in a 5 gal fabric pot using Royal Gold Tupur, I don't usually like composted material in my coco but I got this bag for free. I added lots of worm castings and added some chunky perlite. I put some great white Mychorizzae on the roots before potting it.
I'm not following the Heavy16 feed schedule precisely. I used Roots Excelurator instead of Heavy16 Roots, because I had some laying around and I added a little bit of Prime to the water in order to feed all of the microbial life I added. I'm going to water with this recipe for a week or so until the plant gets used to its new home.
I plan on using this as a mother plant, taking cuts and then flowering the mom.
Let's see how this goes.
This little plant is moving along well and growing fast. Ive been slowly bending the large leaves downward to allow for better light penetration. I've been foliar spraying fith a combination of Kelp, Heavy16 Foliar and HB101. I topped yesterday and the new growth is starting to show on top. This coming week I'll most likely be able to top the shoots on the lower nodes. So far so good.
Still looking good. The weather has been fluctuating a bit and humidity could be a bit better. I've topped a few times since last posting and am using a few stakes to do some lst.
I'm foliar spraying with a combination of Heavy16 Foliar, Roots, and Fire.
I dig the structure of this plant. The node spacing is looking great. I'm going to wait a few more weeks an cut clones. I'm going to continue to top and get more branches as time continues.
I broke a branch this morningbut I think I may have been able to salvage it by quickly dipping it in cloning gel ,burying it and putting it in a dome. The broken branch/clone looks much better than I anticipated hopefully it lives and ill be able to plant it in a 1 gal and veg it before putting it outside.
Unfortunately it seems to be a running theme of me getting to aggressive with the training and breaking a branch in veg.
Things are kind of on auto pilot right now. Im going to give it a few more weeks until I (intentionally) cut clones.
Things are kind of on autopilot until I cut clones.
I've been continuing with the feed schedule and this lady is looking healthy.
The branch that broke off and placed in soil is surprisingly still looking good. The soil mix that I used seems to be a little to strong and the foliage is dark green (a clear sign of excess Nitrogen) , but other than that the accidental clone looks healthy.
I cut clones today. I soaked the rockwool in a mix of Clonex solution, Orca liquid Mychorizzae, and Tribus, I also followed the Heavy 16 feed chart for clones/cuts and added a .5ml of Prime to feed the microbial life. I cut more clones than I'm going to need, but its nice to cut a few extra in case some fail to root, which I don't anticipate and If all of them root I'll have a few to play with or give away.
After looking at the plant after I cut the clones I realized that I very easily could have and probably should have cut more.
My goal next week is to prep my larger grow space to prepare for these clones once they root.
I plan on keeping this mother for a couple months to cut some more clones to put outside.
So far everything has been looking great and I look forward to getting these clones rooted.
I'm digging the shape of this little plant. I'm still following week 2 on the feed schedule.
I couldn't find a net in my with stash of tools with 3.5 inch squares so I went ahead and used one with 6 inch squares and will probably add one with 3.5 inches above it for the hell of it.
Clones are looking pretty weak. Still no roots. I didn't think I'd need a heating pad due to the decent weather but was wrong and went ahead and added one today. I went an entire week without adding a heat pad, hopefully I'll have roots in the next few days. Once these things are rooted I'll probably plant them in one gallon pots and up pot them to 3 gallon and cut some more clones.
The success rate on the clones I cut last week was really low and I blame that on not having a warm enough root zone.
I cut a few more clones and after they root I'm going to flower this little monster to flower. Hopefully I have enough height in the tent. Im going to have to trellis the hell out of this thing to keep the height in check.
I acquired a few other clones that are already in their forever home so the clones I just cut are going to be quite a bit smaller when I'm ready to flower them so we'll see how that turns out.
This is the most I've ever topped and the most branching I've ever had. I defoliated heavily before flipping. I unintentionally grew this plant larger than anticipated because I needed clones. Im limited on vertical space so I added another trellis net to try to control the growth.
I've been slackin on IPM and am going to spray an oil based pesticide occasionally for prevention.
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I thought I had flipped but realized I hadn't and the lights have been on 24hours a day.
I flipped this evening. I thought I had flipped on 3/30 but I realized the lights had been on 24/7 which explains the plant not stretching.
I had been feeding bloom nutes all last week and started using a bloom booster yesterday. I used a bloom boster called moab so I cut out Heavy16 Fire and used the bloom nutrients at half strength. Hopefully everything works out.
The plant is starting its stretch and I stripped off anything that looks like it's not going to make it to the canopy.
I finished using up my bloom booster and will go back to the regular feed schedule and add back Fire and the other nutes at full strength.
The plant is looking pretty bare but I've had luck doing this in the past so we will see what happens.
I used the Heavy16 feed chart for week 6 again, but used the base nute at half strength and added a bloom booster called MOAB.
Buds are starting to stack and look frosty. I'm thinking I'm about a month or so away from harvest. Im going to continue with week 6 nutes at full strength again this coming week before continuing.
More of the same. This plant is getting frosty and pistil are changing color but I still got a few weeks left after looking at the trichomes. I really hope this plant stacks buds more otherwise this is going to be a really weak yield. I ran week 7 nutes this week but might go back to week 6 and continue since this thing is looking pretty low in weight.
This thing is taking a ridiculous long time to finish up. I'm going to repeat week 6 one more time and then continue with the regular feed schedule.
The yield on this thing is looking like it going to suck.
About a week and a half ago I noticed some weird brown spots forming on some of the leaves and it was driving me insane. I thought i was battling a bug I couldn't see. I pulled out a jewelers loupe and noticed this plant was finishing up and was coming to the end of its life.
I started flushing Tuesday and will chop this coming Monday. The yield on this plant is going to suck. My guess is that ill be harvesting a little over an ounce. This might be my lightest harvest ever.
Hung for 3 days trimmed and am putting on a drying rack. This is the smallest yield ive ever had. Even the tops are small. I think this is just an overall low yielding strain. Nice buds but shitty weight.
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