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New round. 4 seeds planted. 4 seeds germinated. 3-20 gallon and 1-30 gallon Grassroots fabric pots. 3 of 4 (2-20 gal, 1-30 gal) filled with new BuildASoil 3.0. The 4th pot is a 20 gal Grassroots pot with round 2 of living soil. I re-amended this with BAS Craft Blend, Big 6 micronutrients, 12 seed cover crop, and all 4 pots topped with ½"-1" of CoWoCo worm castings and Blue Oyster straw mulch. All 4 seeds planted in Solo cups with a 50/50 mixture of BAS 3.0 and Fox Farms Happy Frog on 12/22/22. The first Venus Blue broke the soil surface 36 hours later, and all 4 within 48 hours. Day 5, and they are all 4 about 2" tall and appear healthy.
As you can see, all 4 seeds from all 3 breeders germinated well. Today is transplant day. I got my new Ecowitt soil moisture monitors, and if they work as it looks like they are going to, this is gonna be a fun round! DLI 25, VPD 0.95. Anyone who followed my last grow can see that we've upgraded a little. We added the soil monitoring, the heater, and retained the humidifier that we picked up from BuildASoil late last grow.
The new Ecowitt soil moisture monitors are really cool! I can look on my smartphone and tell which plants need, or will need water soon. I lowered the light to 24" after giving them a few days for the roots to find the new soil in the pots. They all loved it, except for the green crack in the back left corner. She seemed to come out of the gate slow, and really hasn't picked up with more light. She looks healthy, just small. I'll keep you posted on that. Otherwise.....just sitting here watching the weed grow. Happy growing!
As far as environment, we got the exhaust fan installed in the garage to help keep the odor from inside of our home. As for the ladies, three of the four, are doing wonderfully. The Green Crack in the LR corner is just making really huge, very healthy looking, 11 blade leaves that shade all of the branches, including the tops. But, she isn't getting big, like I would expect from all of that solar power, and the genetic is supposed to be a stretcher. As long as she looks healthy, I'm going to let it run and see where she goes. I defoliated some of the big leaves just to allow airflow under the canopy. She is, however, the first to show me a white hair today. She may be one of those small and mighty ladies. The two Venus Blue are very similar, as one would expect, but also have their differences. Lucy, in the RR corner has smaller leaves, but more of them and is just thick with branches reaching up toward the top of the canopy. I defoliated a few of the bigger top leaves to allow light and airflow into the canopy. Lucy, in the RF corner is also a Venus Blue, and is also the only one in the second round on the living soil. She's rolling! She's been supercropped and I threw up the screen just to see how full I can get it before I flip to flower in a few more weeks. This is my first grow with the screen, so if anyone has suggestions, feel free to hit me up.
I f'd up. During supercropping the Green Crack in the LR corner, I snapped the top off. So, I resorted to topping her. Otherwise, I started just tying the branches down and doing some defoliating. Just water with a little bit of pre-flower nutrients added to give the biology time to make the nutrients pant available. Gotta love living soil!
These girls, all but the green crack in the LR corner are raging. Day 55 from seed. I have been continuing to tie down everything that starts turning toward the light. Both the Blue Dream and the Venus Blue have very dense foliage and have required heavy defoliation to allow air and light into the canopy. I plan to flip to flower on day 60 from seed.
Good week. Kept on tying the branches down. Did some defoliation. Other than that, this week was just a little watering. Today, the MedicGrow Smart 8 turned up to 80% at 30 inches. 12/12 lighting schedule.
This week they all confirmed themselves as female! We had a major defoliation and clipped out all of the little twigs that would have never made it to the top of the canopy anyway. I may have gone a bit too hard, and the plants weren't fond of it. Thrive-YahWhey to the rescue! A foliar spray just at lights out, and poof, like magic the girls are happy again, then a good saturating watering with fermented pumpkin extract, and some Jay Plantspeaker 60%. I also added a new AC Infinity Cloudline fan to the pole closest to the humidifier, to better help move the air and humidity around the tent well. Kicked the powered intake fan up to maximize on the co2 in the "lung room"/garage. All-in-all, another week spent watching the weeds grow. Happy growing everyone!
The girls are starting to slow down on their stretch now, but I will say (as you can see by the photos) that they have grown horizontally quite a bit, with LST and the random leaf pluck here or there for light and air penetration through the canopy. The new A/C Infinity pole fan is working flawlessly, and is much quieter than the others. I'll keep that in mind when buying replacements. This week: I gave them a good "in flower" feeding with Rootwise Biophos, Rootwise Enzyme Elixer, BuildASoil BuilABloom 2-10-5 and watered in with a soil drench of 10% of soil volume. The second watering of the week was water and Jay Plantspeaker Q60 with 4 oz per gallon of Thrive YahWhey at roughly 5% of soil volume. One more watering of between 4% & 7% of soil volume based on soil moisture content measured by the EcoWit monitoring system.
Water only this week. The dank is beginning to come out. The buds are sticky and getting louder by the day. I can't really say anything that the video doesn't. This is the point where the work we do at the beginning of the grow pays off in a bit of relaxation time for a few weeks before harvest. This is only week 5 of flower, so the girls have some time left. I'm starting to get excited now!
Water only, with a little Thrive YahWhey in the soil drench. Otherwise, a heavy defoliation, as we had a couple of high temp, high humidity days here in the Midwest. There were some worries that the girls could trap moisture. As you can tell from the video that they took the stress very well. 2 more weeks until we start looking for a harvest date. Happy Growing!
Im not gonna lie. I missed posting the past week because I was dealing with a spider mite issue late in flower. With some help from the local growing community we seem to have eradicated them. The plants took some stress, but the buds continue to stack and firm up. So, thanks to anyone on here who may have given me advice about this in the past couple of weeks.
This is my second grow of the Venus Blue from Mosca Seeds. I love growing this plant. However, she produces a lot of foliage, and requires heavy defoliation to help with airflow in the canopy. I also had one of them herm on me (light leak) and found a few seed in one flower only.
She didn't stretch nearly as much as I expected her to. Then when I tried to supercrop her, I broke the top off. So I cut her back to the node and let her grow two tops. Overall, despite being the smallest plant in the tent, her buds were rock solid, and if I hadn't had to harvest 2 weeks early due to a spider mite outbreak, I think she would have produced much more than the 3.90 ounces I harvested.
@mlsheahan,
You are in the right place, easy to ask questions here and lots of ppl ready to answer. You got the right idea, keep reusing your soil, you got this!
20gal pot !!! Holy God. I gotta look thru your other stuff. But that's insane lol biggest I've seen yet.
Definitely following I got the room should I try this if I can ??
Best of luck on these girls . They look great!!!!
I'm back again lol.
I saw u mention a foliar spray before lights out.
Curious what exactly ur using ? I'm sry if mentioned, and why at night ?
I've always kinda kept to the no moisture at night thing. So only spray when I have them out from under the lights.
Thx again for sharing ur process!!
Since it is all organic enzymes, you can actually foliar spray Thrive while in flower. I don't, but they say you can without herm to either the consumer or the plant. However, I do add it to my soil drench watering maybe once a week at the rate of 2oz per gallon of water.
@mlsheahan, sweet , thx for the reply . Definitely going to look into it. I use a spray usually when I pull them out from under the light to feed or trim . Would be so much easier to just once or twice a week spray right as Their getting lights out. I'm using "tps-canopy boost" not sure if it's even close to what u use. I'd hav to compare now I know the name.
This stuff seems to work magic when I see alil lightness in the leaves give a spray n next day they look happy again. But I don't like to spray this that much, not at all after veg either.
Sry to ramble there. But again thx for sharing what u do, it's looking AMAZING .!!
@Grow4Releaf, regarding the part about keeping moisture down with lights out, I run multiple fans that blow directly into the canopy, and do my best to defoliate just enough to prevent leaves from laying on top of each other. I've not had problems with moisture.....yet.
@mlsheahan,
That is good stuff, pumpkin ferment really dumps a lot of juice! It is better for flowering, even to transition to flowering. Just use a very small amount of brown rice vinegar with that, balance and cleanser. Also if you strain out the juice from that pumpkin FPJ then put the solids back into glass container with 2/3 water and cover for 3 months, you will get a beautiful pumpkin vinegar, could speed it up if you add a couple tablespoons of raw vinegar with the "mother". That will help create the pH for the vinegar and get it moving faster. You will see a film on top form, that will be the SCOBY, symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast. That is when you know you have kick ass vinegar. All good if not though, may just take more time.
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@TheFattyMcCoy, I used a whole plant fermented pumpkin tea just this week. Plants are looking great, but I really don't know how much benefit it had provided yet. They were growing healthy and happy already.
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