Mimosa Cake Auto x8

Week 8 has been interesting. The different phenos have started to really show through on this strain. I found out these seeds are actually from blimburn (seeds were a gift). Horribly inconsistent plants but some of them are beautiful. This has created some struggles with feeding nutrients as they all seem to need drastically different amounts. Some of the plants are growing in a much more autoflower sativa type pattern while some are more comparable to an auto indica strain. Some plants have big fat pistils that are still fully white while some others have already began turning red and brown. If I am remembering correctly. 3 of the plants suddenly and drastically began to show signs of manganese deficiency. I have never had a plant show this deficiency with any feeding regimen I have used. When I fed this week I fed slightly heavier in my nutes that contained manganese as I didn't have a manganese only nute to give (only did this for the plants showing deficiency). And I have already began to see the improvement. We got in our AC Infinity 69 pro + controller, the newest "plus" version, cable of controlling 8 devices. As someone who has always just set and forget the vent and circ fans with maybe a change from veg to flower this is a game changer. Keeping the vpd at optimal level should give us some better results! Excited to see how well some strains I have grown previously do with this new ability. We also added 2 more tents to our setup. One tent we have setup with the latest ventilation setup from vivosun and the vivosun controller. Pretty impressed with both for the price I got on them. (Amazing black friday deals from vivio sun). So long as they last and continue to perform this well and safely I think vivosun could be shaking things up a bit in the pricing vs quality of this industry. I'm still waiting on delivery of the vivosun controlled oscillating fan. Let's call this tent a vivosun test tent. For lighting we have a viparspectra p2000 and a xs1000 giving us 300 watts in a 2x4 tent. The p2000 is rated for a 2x4 but since we had extra, we have added an xs1000 for a more even light value across the entire canopy. The second tent is currently not in use but is running a spider farms vent kit with a manual dial controller. Unfortunately I wad sent the wrong vent kit by spider farms. I am currently working with their support to resolve this. So far, their support has been very good. They are very understanding and very responsive. I will update more on this once fully resolved. In this tent I will be running 2x Matristar smart series S2 165W led fixtures in their 3k spectrum with a viparspectra v1000 in the middle of them giving us 430 watts of lightning in this tent with really good coverage! On to the plants. All plants have been trained out well enough to be quite even in height even with the very inconsistent growth phenos and whatever else is causing such different plants. (All grown in exact same soil, same containers, same water amount, same nutrients, and rotated regularly to switch up positions in the room). 1 plant in particular couldn't easily be brought back to a matching height with the other plants. It began flower earlier than the others and not only that, it stretched in early flower about 12 inches more than the rest. This plant along with the most similar looking and height plant were moved to our vivosun product tent so they could have the lighting at proper height without causing us to raise the light extremely far grom our other plants. This si working out very well as wr have much better space now in the closet and all plants are getting what they need without any getting less than optimal due to differences in plants. As you can see in the photos, buds on the plants look very different between the plants. One of the exciting things is a few of the plants have the purple buds and purpling sugar leaves phenotype. They're beautiful!! From the looks of things. I think we will be harvesting some of the plants in 1.5, or maybe 2 weeks. Some I think are more 3 weeks or more out but we will just monitor trichomes of each plant and harvest each plant at optimal time. This has been a fun grow despite some setbacks. Almost feels like growing 8 different strains at once which I've never done but with how this is going. I would be more willing to try doing more strains of similar growth styles at a time. Excited to keep you all updated next week with even fatter buds!!