2/5-2/11
Week 7 flower
2/10 - I know I'm late with updating. I probably haven't because I am not super pleased with the current goings on with the grow and that makes me less motivated to share. It is below what I would say my standards are. It's all my fault, too; So that makes it worse. If I would have just been using Great White the whole time with the DWC switch or if I would have grabbed Hydroguard for the switch as well. But this was my first grow and it got fairly difficult. I can't wait for it to be over so I can redesign. We are actually very close to the finish. Today is day 53 flower. So this time, next week, in 7 days, we will be looking close at chopping then or after.
Either way, I think all the plants have root rot, pythium, but only B and D have it bad. Sawtooth and C have it too but either way early, being managed, or growing slow. Not sure. At some point this week I was pulling out clumps by the handful of rotting roots from B and D. I think I can make it to the end. Not many days left. I turned the light down to 70% because B and D were getting very sensitive to light. I found sun tan burns in leaves. Very weird. I don't think the plant is deficient, it was the lights. Sucks to have to turn the lights down because the other 2 plants are fine with it, but whatever. I think it's helping and staving off more burning or at least more aggressive burning. The burning has definitely slowed.
I'm reducing ppms. Hit 578 for the feeding this week. I want to reduce B and D's ppm further, because of the light burn and root rot. We will see. Plants seem to like this ppm. Also, after I started adding Southern AG's GFF, along with Great White, consistently, the pH has been real stable across all the reservoirs. This is a very odd occurrence for me. Normally, things would be spiking here and there and some would need pH up and some would need pH down. It was all over. But whatever I am doing right now has the ppm/ec hovering at the same number as water goes down and pH barely changes. Its beautiful and I think what the goal of DWC feeding is. Too bad I was feeding more than double for the first 2 weeks and then almost double for another week or so. Oh well.
Otherwise, the plants are looking good. Even the problem ones have awesome looking buds. So... I just need to stick it out another week. The plants don't really smell all that much. I get weird smells in the tent like DMT, rose, lilac, then just like a light weed smell. It's really hard to place a smell. I think all the plants might smell different. Some smell fruitier than others and some smell like pungent weed that is borderline offensive. I have exercised maximum restraint. Earlier in my grow, when I asked people on the internet about a flower that looked weird, I was accused of squeezing the bud. I have to say, I didn't want to then and that guy was stupid, but I really want to squeeze one now. The urge is fairly strong. I am happy to say I have not given in. Especially those weird looking tower buds that seem to be foxtailing. If that is what foxtailing is. It looks like the flower is growing little towers.
I have a bunch of things gathering for processing. Washer on the way, I have bubble bags, and a bunch of buckets to cannibalize. I am not sure how I am going to handle the branches that have dead leaves. I guess I will see what happens once I harvest. The plan is going to be to pretty much fresh freeze everything off the problem plants and I will dry and cure the other 2. We will see. Maybe more will be dedicated to washing. No matter what, I plan on washing for bubble hash to press into hash rosin. I am very much looking forward to this. I also grabbed a few trays to trim in that have screens. I will have a lot of things to play with. Add my rosin press in and we will be doing some things soon.
The roots grow through the net bucket and a mesh net I use for containment. Micron size too big, roots grew through. The mesh bag was a 2nd attempt at root containment. 3rd attempt will be very fine micron mesh screen. What could be a good way to deal with this?
They're gonna grow through the micron ones, too. root hairs are outgrowths of epidermal cells between 15 and 17 micrometers in diameter when fully grown. I wouldn't bother trying to contain them, rather solve clogging issues via other means
I have a problem developing and showing signs through this week. Looks like at least a calcium and a potassium deficiency in one plant and a another deficiency just starting in another. Not sure how to fix this. First 8 are one plant, last 2 are another. Photos taken over a week
Your pH is perfect... and even though you do seem to be giving them a lot of different nutes, I would suggest you increase the amount of your PK boosters... I'm seeing the start of a potassium deficiency... and since it's very hard to reach levels that would give you a toxicity of either potassium or phosphorus, I'd even tell you to double the amount of those...
Good luck!
Beautiful work man ๐ช๐ช getting frosty and there's so much more to come you're in for a treat with these terps ๐๐ good luck with the rest of your grow ๐
@DabbertGlobberfield, thanks man yeah she was tiny haha ๐คฃ was terrible weather was raining for months and we copped really bad flooding so she's the only one that survived was a good session worth once dried, if you've ever tried musk stick lollies it tasted like them but more intense almost like gassy citrus fruitloops haha only way I could describe it, it was so nice ๐ I'll be following along with your grow man keep up the good work
@BarneyRumble420, Thanks so much! ๐ช I saw your photo of the month Dec win, congrats! Then I saw you did GMP, too. I loved that little survivor flower baby. ๐
I really am looking forward to watching these girls develop further with colors. I am excited for the smells to kick in. They are so tame in their smell right now. I'm looking forward to comparing to your description ๐๐
@Herbies_Seeds, Thanks! I think it went well overall. I am really looking forward to growing some other genetics from Herbies. This was a great strain for my first time that helped me learn about the versatility of the plant.
Good stuff from my point of view. What press do you own? I have a shit ton of questions Iโd like to ask you but it seems youโre at the same stage as me. Itโs gonna be my first time bubble hash run myself. I got a larger press and was thinking bubble hash was the way to go til I read this lol. Maybe Iโll dm you so I donโt take up comment space, but then again itโs a way to build likes and others can learn from usโฆ
@FrontRowAG_BrianG, Lol, all good. Ask me anything. What do you want to know? I will answer pretty much anything. However, I have a grudge against the manufacturer of my press so I will not be saying the name of it as to not give any kind of press for them at all. But it is a premade press, probably midrange in terms of size.
Typically it's Silica first, CalMag second, then everything else third. Silica and CalMag are heavy and can precipitate the others out of solution. If I forget to add them, then I make sure to dilute beforehand.