Mephisto Sour Stomper

She's looking really awesome! Of the three in the tent, she's normal, nice and healthy. At some point this week, I'm planning on adding a topdress and then putting my plastic "mulch" on. I'm trying to be super careful about the amount of water I give. I'm going in with pH around neutral (7 ish), but mostly letting the biology do it's thing. 12/11/22 Watered with some Rootwise Enzyme stuff and Aloe. Lowered the light so that I'm looking at 325 PPFD at the "canopy". She's still the healthiest of the three in the tent right now. 12/13/22 Lowered the light again to get to 450 PPFD at the "canopy". She's just shooting up into the light. I'm really happy with how she's doing.

12/16/22 Lowered the light to 22.5" to give 525 PPFD. She got her top dress to day. I have NO idea how to deal with dry amendments in the nutrient chart, so I'm putting the info here (the 1 tsp/gal measurement specified above is just to keep the stupid chard happy.) 1/3 C Craft blend. 2 TBSP Kashi Blend 0.5 tsp Big 5 Micronutrients All that got mixed together and spread on top of the pot and light scratched in, I then spread 1.5 C Build-A- Flower Top Dress over the other stuff. That all then got watered in with a solution containing everything listed above EXCEPT FOR the dry amendments. I'm also going to improvise plastic "mulch" from a trash bag (my shower caps haven't arrived and I really can't wait). 12/17/22 She's going to be ready for me to start filling the self-watering trays very soon, she's the biggest in the tent right now, and I'm super happy with her (she seems pretty OK, with me too.) 12/19/22 Lifted the pot covers and misted the top of the soil to keep it moist.

12/23/22 She's looking really good. I started tucking leaves today, and will likely remove a couple of the larger fan leaves and/or start tying things down real soon. She's gotten to be that size. Touching her left a very faint, non-descript weed smell on my hands, which is good. I thought I was going to have to move the light, but she's still getting 520 PPFD at her growing top, so it's staying put for a little while. I'm totally starting to see the first signs of white hairs in the nodes. 12/27/22 I put water in the self-watering trays for the first time. I'm going to have get some mosquito dunks. I seem to be cultivating gnats on the bottoms of the pots. 12/28/22 She got top watered with a some of solution containing all the goodies. I need to keep an eye on that deficiency, it seems like it might be getting worse.

12/30/22 She's looking really good. At some point last week she flipped into flower, so I'm that's how I'm logging this week. She's no longer ahead of the FB420 Pineapple Express (actually I think that PAE may be a touch taller at this point). At this point she's just getting plain water (ok, it's got a mosquito dunk in it) from the self watering tray she's sitting on. I'm very happy with her, but sorta bummed that I missed the chance to do LST on her. This will be interesting, as I've never grown a plant without LST. The cal/mag issue I started to have last week doesn't seem to be progressing, so I'm pretty sure I got that under control. The nutrient grid is totally JENKY in that it barks at me if I take all the amendments off. There is no point at this point, what's in there is in there. I may add a little tea later next week (I'm considering a banana one for extra potassium, but the self watering trays are keeping the medium nice and moist, so I'm not sure how that will work.) 12/31/22 Raised the light up some. I didn't have my phone handy so I just put it back at the 22" hanging height, I'll have to check the PAR next week. For the time being she's growing into it... 😎 1/3/23 I'm going to have to raise the light up again. She's continuing to stretch.

1/6/23 Well, the last week was a bit of train wreck with power outages, terrible weather, and etc. But all is well that ends well. This girl is looking pretty amazing. She's getting tall and the smells are getting delightful in the tent. She's been surpassed in height by her FastBuds sister. 1/7/23 So everyone came out of the tent today. I cleaned up the bases, and everyone got top watered with about a quart of the solution with all the nutrients in it (above.) Also refilled the self-watering trays for the first time. I'm seriously liking those things. When they went back in, she went to the back of the tent, and the shorty who was back there came to the front. 1/9/23 In an abundance of caution, I added another 1/8 cup of Craft Blend today along with a couple of tablespoons of Bokashi grain. perhaps I'm seeing things, but it feels like I'm seeing more yellowing on the lower leaves, so I'm going this route. I don't have anything that's just Ca, so this is it. Mental note, get some organic Ca.

1/13/23 She's overall looking good, but I'm also seeing some yellowing at the tips. I have some Langbeinite that's supposed to arriving today, so I'm grateful for that. I've not adjusted the nutrients yet. I'm pretty sure she won't be getting all the top dress stuff again, but I'll probably do the liquid stuff to water said Langbeinite in. 1/14/22 Top dressed 2 tsp of langbeinite in a quarter cup of BuildAFlower as a carrier. I then watered that in with rest of the goodies in water. Today was also the day to refill the self-watering bases.

1/21/23 I kinda missed that she'd drained the self-watering base and a couple of fan leaves got crisped. I plucked them off this morning when I saw them and filled the tray. She also got top watered with 0.5 gal of a tea with the following recipe: 1 C Build-a-flower top dress 2 tsp Build-a-bloom 2 tsp Big 6 micronutrients 2 tsp Organic AG Products Pure Dry Protein Hydrolysate 1 tsp Langbeinite 1.5 gal water That brewed for 18 hours with an air stone.

1/28/23 She's almost there. I think she's going to come down sometime this week or very early in the next. Most of the trichomes are cloudy, but I'm not seeing any amber pop up. I do want them to all be at least cloudy. It's slightly odd that leaves that fade tend really crisp up shortly there after. She smells amazing and just brushing her lightly leaves my skin feeling STICKY which is equally amazing.

2/4/23 I know I'm in the final stretch, but it's just not time yet. I'm only giving her water at this point. Not really so much as a flush, but as extras just don't seem necessary at this point. She's in a healthy living soil, so she's got what she needs to finish, she just needs to do it. I honestly thought she'd have been done last week, but the trichomes didn't say she was, so she's not and we go until my little mushroom shaped friends say she is ready.

2/11/23 So the trichomes haven't really changed in the last week. They were all cloudy on day 63, but I was hard pressed to find an amber one. So I waited. Well a week later, and that's not really changed, so I figured it was time. The plant was totally fading. The flowers are super sticky and smell lovely. I'm not sure how I'd characterize the odor. In some ways it's almost fruity, but there are super unique notes. I can't wait for this one to dry. I divided the grow space by three as she was one of three plants in the tent, so it's important to divide the light wattage by 3 as well. So she use 68.8 W of the light. I *might* get that, but I'm not holding my breath. I'm just going to wait for the final dry weight.