23 Fast Bruce

Sep 7: Bruce is one of my favourite plants for a nice strong veg stage that wasn’t much affected by cool temperatures in the spring. She is more sativa than my Gorilla Cookies and will likely take 2-3 weeks longer to flower. That will put her in third place just ahead of the Dutch Gelato which is the plant least likely to finish in time this fall. This far North we run out of good sunlight before it gets too cold. I’m not worried about the lack of strong sunlight affecting bud quality because most of my crop will be used to make piatella style hash. We’ll see how it goes… All plants were starting to show a calcium deficiency so I used the last few mLs from the small bottle of Cal-Mag. BTW: the barley and Power Bloom are done as a top dressing on the soil and not directly into the water. Water is pH adjusted using vinegar with occasional sprinkles of Epsom salts or potassium sulphate. Trying to roughly keep water concentrations in the hundred mg/L range for most major ions. My TDS meter broke last year, but I know that overall my total ion concentrations (or TDS) are pretty low. Trying to let the soil biota do the work. Now into second half of flowering stage so molasses have been stopped. Great for growing but the sugar is terrible for smoking. Water is low TDS with some Dr. Bronners Peppermint soap as a surfactant plus the smell repels pests apparently. I like using Yucca extract as the surfactant last year but I’m out of that stuff.