Flower, Day 1:
You missed out on the defoliating that happened after the pictures from last week. I decided they were too bushy to let go another week plus I wanted to flip. So what you see in the pics is 4 days after the defoliation, which is also day 1 of Flower. Yeah, maybe I flipped a little to quickly after defoliating. Oh well. Looks fine to me.
NBP2 (on the right) is not drinking nearly as fast and has constantly had purple stems since mid veg. I hate how this plant looks. I have seen more than a few plants growing and this one just looks sick or like it needs something. Maybe it's the red stem variety that is more picky that I have heard about?
NBP1 is looking stellar as always. I like this plant during veg stage more than the last strain I ran. The leaves on it stay smaller in scale. In comparison, I just took some fan leaves off the cloned weddiding cake that is in veg and the leaves were as nearly wide as my chest. These are more manageable. Still, thick as ever. Left way too much. Will be lollipopping at the end of week 3.
Amended for bloom/stretch, ingredients are almost all correct but serving size was just what the bags recommended since I can't be bothered to do the conversions to the only 3 units this site provides... They should fix that. Anyways, instead of the peach fertilizer I bought and applied the watermelon ferment. Additionally, instead of Kashi BLEND I used their new Kashi BLOOM.
Everything except the buildabloom, big 6 micros, and saponin was mixed and topdressed. Then watered in with the remaining 3 amendments. The day after the first bloom feeding they both drank up their water and needed refilling.
The one on the right, NBP2, doesn't drink as fast, but I expect to be filling NBP1's resevoir every day or every other day for awhile. I am slightly worried that NBP1 will outstretch and out grow NBP2, time will tell.
Flower Day 6:
Looking full again. I think NBP2 is about a week behind NBP1 because of its issues. Harvest will be interesting.
Updated with the last set of pics for this week. NBP1 looking amazing. It's fan leaves are cool looking, some are weird with 8 leaflets (terminology?) Instead of 7.
The scrog net is getting beat up. I have another net to toss up if they really stretch.
Light intensity for the past week has been as follows: Start of Flower Week 1 - 650 PPFD, End of Week - 800 PPFD. I will continue to increase until I see negative feedback or I hit my lights max setting, the latter of which is unlikely to happen.
I feel better about this grow now, but I just want to get this run over with. I am going to put a 4x4 bed in here I think. Gonna go from 19 gallons of living soil per plant to 160 gallons to split between 4 (80 gallons each).
Whole bunch of these guys living on my soil (BuildaSoil 3.0, second run - re-amended).
They aren't messing with the stalk or plants, can't see the roots obviously though.
I hope and assume some kind of predator mite but there are a metric buttload of these little bastards.
OH those are hypoaspis miles :) AKA Stratiolaelaps scimitus. These are predator mites! They feed on the bad bugs like spider mites, root aphids, and fungus gnats. Its a strong indication that you have a healthy echo system going. Some people even pay to have these bugs placed in their gardens.
One plant's fan leaves are building trichomes, but it has more fan leaves than the other plant & they are needing to be tucked daily.
Both plants never had issues with the previous defoliating. 3-4 wks left before chop day.
So, would you defoliate one last time?
If you wanna know for sure, pluck one off and split it open- male pollen sac will have 5 or so banana shape anthers inside there. Female bracts will just be empty basically with sometimes a tiny little ball which is the ovule
@Ezzjaybruh, Thanks for the follow-up, I appreciate it. I think I just panicked a bit since It took me 5 minutes before I found another one like it. But I appreciate the info for the future.
Though I may check it this weekend anyways, impulsive tendencies over here.
Try Grove bags for curing my man, they're fool proof. I used them for the first time and curing was so easy. No need to burp, just stays at 58-62%. Your plants look great brother, nice work on them!