Welcome to my Watermelon Zkittlez X Velvet Moon Diary, this is a test from Green House Seeds.
Trying something different here. With so many diaries. Finishing this diaries up this way is easier. Also I lost my device a couple weeks back with my pics. So week 11 is missing. And they are nearly finished. (They are in 48 hr dark rest at the moment)
So, am nearly finished up with this girl. She is has done really well.
Week 9-10 were a bit crazy. She hermied as you know. And, I didn't catch most of them in time. So, I lollipopped a lot of this girl and removed 2 main sets of nodes..
Week 11-12. She took well her last 2 sets of nodes that hermied, and nanners. (As the bud was so exposed it would have been loaded with seeds) so I took to removing everything below. Watched closely. No need for anything other than her bioenhancer feed she gets every 2 weeks. Wk 11-12 was her last. She finished up fattening nicely and came into the ripening phase. So just kept an eye on her. So, all is was good. Gnats still are an issue. Not bad enough to affect fully grown plants.
Week 13 Finished up nicely, nice and fat. Really healthy and looking good. Flowering 53-56 days. Was put into dark rest. Will take her harvest/drying pics for week 14 and then, I'll rate it after I've tried and tested.
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@MrHightimes, me neither, sadly this 1 got tangled up and had to be cut from its base and transplanted into soil, so she's had a rough go of it. Her sister that got put into the ground in RW is so much further ahead then any grow I've done at day 10.
Hey I noticed in some of your grows you have traps for the gnats I have found that using your exhaust ducting as a vacuum over the soil was the best way for myself to control their population you can suck up whole branches as well and the air doesn't hurt the plant but it will suck up those flying gnats
Devastating with the hermie. I had one last time turn the 2 closest to her into a seedbank. By the time I'd noticed, the damage was done. Hopefully you've caught it in time.
@gottagrowsometime, exact same as when I had the hermie, I'd been busy not been able to keep a close eye on them and bang. Luckily for me it was only the 2 plants right next too the one that had hermied. Bit of a seedbank with the 2, the rest of the tent was rather unscathed.
@Aldo90, yeah. There's a lot of nans. And burst pollen sacs. I stripped everything that was around and below it. As I have my fans all pointing down. I lightly misted my whole tent with h202+water and wiped everything down. Too early to tell how many seeds I'll get. But, I know there'll be a few. I wasn't watching enough. Last 2 weeks I been super busy.. and that's the time. Ah well. I'll know in a few weeks. Let's see.
I've saved as much as I could of her. Hoping she'll stay true. All nodes are all female. But, the stress of the clean and node(s) removal. And then I went mad lollipoppoing.. only a few colas left. But what's there is high calyx-leaf ratio.. if it was the other. Id of just cut my losses.
@Tropicannibis_Todd, yeah. Nans and full pollen sacs. Lots of balls.
Weird though.. was all on the last set of nodes. My 2 biggest. Had em 2/3rds all the way up.. few female parts. Wasn't watching close enough..hopefully I'll only catch a few seeds. Let's see.
Really thorough diary, gave me a lot of information. these kind of diaries can really help growers on deciding whether to pick this strain. You should be really proud. I think the seed companies could do with you to test thier strains out.