Lemon Tree Punch (Clone)

Grow was officially started on 6/13. This cut of Lemon Tree Punch is geno 3 from my last grow. I like the taste, look, and yield best out of all 3 I grew so it stayed for one more grow. The soil is BuildASoil 3.0 from last grow that I reamended with some Gaia Green All Purpose.

I went away for a few days and left these girls on autopilot and they recovered from the transplant great. All I did was water them with some Rootwise and Quillaja. I put a few LST clips and topped a couple spots to let the smaller ones catch up.

I had a bit of a heat wave this week and they started showing some signs of heat stress. I added an AC to the room at the end of this week to get the temperature and humidity down a bit. I continued to use the LST clips and defoliated a bit as well.

This week I just let the plants go. Towards the end I fertilized with Gaia Green All Purpose and killed the cover crop and then added extra soil I had sitting around on top. Temperature is much more manageable now that I got the AC running.

Continuing vegging and keeping canopy flat with LST. I also did a big defoliation as it was getting a little cramped in there and I plan on flipping to flower.

Flipped to flower on the 23rd, 24th being the first day of flower. Gave them a full dose of Power Bloom.

Starting to see some buds popping up now. They are also stretching a good bit. My last grow, they stretched about 12-14 inches so I'm expecting similar results here.

Buds starting to get bigger and stretch seems to almost be done. Next week I'm gunna do a big defoliation because the canopy is just too dense.

8/10 - 8/16 This week was a massive defoliation to get some better light penetration. I also got rid of a lot of lower buds that weren't making the cut. Also got a slightly higher fertilizer dosage too.

8/17 - 8/23 Flowers are starting to get nice and big. For some reason two of the plants that had some of the browning on the fan leaves is starting to spread.

8/24 - 8/30 This week I fertilized again and that's about it. For some reason, 3 of the plant's leaves have been drying out and getting crispy. I'm not sure why and thought it might be a light intensity issue and I lowered it down from 1100-1200 ppfd to around 900-1000 ppfd.

8/31 - 9/6 The burns only getting worse, light was lowered even more to 850-950 ppfd. At this point I don't think it's a lighting issue.

9/7 - 9/12 Unfortunately this was the last week of the grow. I wanted to go atleast one more week but whatever is affecting the few plants started to reach the bud. I think I'm going to chalk it up to some kind of disease as it only seems to hit 3 of 7 badly. A 4th looks like it was starting to do the same as well. Every plant in the tent got the exact same amount of nutrients and water every 2-3 days depending on my availability. I tore into the root ball the day after cutting of the plants that were the issue and all seemed very dense and strong and nothing looked out of the ordinary. I do think that my cloning practice might have been the cause as I use an aeroponic system and these clones took close to a month to have decent roots and even then I wasn't too happy with them. I had issues with the water getting very warm and definitely exceeded 85° from the pump and I only changed out the water after 3 weeks of no rooting. I do believe that this could have been avoided if I did more research into clean and healthy cloning practices. The mother of these guys was also outside when I took them as it got too large for my indoor area and I decided to flower it out this year. The mom is currently pretty healthy so I don't think it caught something from outside but who knows. I'll definitely take this grow as a learning experience and I thank everyone who answered my question.

Overall grow was fine. I won't be continuing this geno of Lemon Tree Punch but I do have a mother of a different one that I plan on keeping for now. It seems my cloning practice gave these guys some kind of infection that seemed to only affect 4 of them. I'll have to keep an eye on this in the future.