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Potential polyploid, Super Long GG4 Sherbet FF Grow
Day 15, week 3:
She's still growing, but not any faster than before and her bottom leaves are still a little paler than I would like. My hope is that the top growth has been slowed because the roots are cultivating the much larger pot.
If nothing improves within a few days I may consider a soil test to make sure the pH is correct. I am completely confident the nutrients are suffient, so it's either lockout or an unknown pest problem.
Day 16, week 3:
She looks remarkably better today, with only slight yellowing. I'm chalking this up to nutrient disruption due to transplant.
I raised the light to maintain the same distance.
Day 17, week 3:
She looks upright, thick, and green from top to bottom.
I had to move the lights again because her fan leaves keep reaching up to them. Very minimal stretching, and the 2 bottom nodes of side branches are developing, and so far a 4 stems/leaves look uniform in size which is awesome!
I added a good dollup of grandma's unsulphured molasses to this batch of water. It feeds all my plants, so nutrient measurements will not be accurate, but since I used a random spoonful anyway, it wasn't that accurate to begin with.
Sprayed lightly with a leave-on organic neem oil spray, as I've noticed some baby aphids in the grow room, and one made it onto her.
Day 19, week 3:
She's looking very firm and strong. I've started to spread the two lights above her apart, leaving a space for the canopy to grow in between them. This is already having an effect, the side branches are considerably larger than those of a plant started at the same time with only overhead lighting, and the top leaves seem to be slowing down comparatively.
My cat knocked over my grow light onto my plant, since then, she has developed discoloration on almost all the outer edges of her leaves. Is this stress? Will it go away or get worse?
It's been about 12 hours since I righted the light. There was no discoloration 24hrs ago.
Basically "scar tissue" from physical damage. It won't go away and it won't effect growth rates, yields or potency or anything else. Nothing to worry about, your plant will be just fine.
I'm doing a super long grow, starting indoors and planting out in May.
My lady is now over a foot tall, and her side branches are not very strong. The main stem is very thick and firm.
My question is what support can I start inside and then transplant outdoors with the plant?
i would do week with pot, you take out to sun daily for 4 hours first day, and add an hour each time, let her get use to outdoors, then transplant, straight could be huge shock if sun strong or air cold...
Get the other growth in the pot out of there. Cultivate the top layer of the soil and uproot that shit. They only compete for nutrients with your girl and serve no other purpose.
I wouldn't trellis. I would just let her go naturally and when you bring her outside then you can re-pot into a large 7 gallon pot and start to train by tieing her branches down using the edge of the pot as your tie down point.
@Hempface86, I'll look into it! I'm trying to do an all natural veg so I'm not adding any nutrients just topping with compost, but I think silica is a natural mineral so I'll check it out and see if it's right for me!
@Sachimira, yes any hydroponic store will have it and it's in Amazon..I'm using Bloom city Silica boost and my girls are strong 💪..just always remember to try to use it only when watering..if you have to use it with other nutrients make sure Silica is the very first nutrient you add to your water, mix, and I wait 30 seconds before adding in any other nutrients..I won't grow without Silica.. atleast during veg
Potassium silicate as a foliar spray will toughen up the floppy stems. You have lots of time still so you can manifold it into a nice 16 cola outdoor plant no problem. Tomato cage is good too but I’ve found just manifolding them is usually good enough.
@Northern_Ent, thank you! I'm definitely looking into this! I was trying to do a natural shape, but if she doesn't toughen up I think you're right that training is the way to go.
Thanks for the info!
Luckily I am not a novice smoker.
Interesting concept on the indoor outdoor thing. I'll consider keeping a clone indoors for comparison!
@Sachimira, If i remember right it mostly had some sweet and pungent skunk smell and taste. Potency was more relaxing and body stone and not maybe for novice smokers. All what i can remember but it was that good i still remember smoking and enjoying that strain. All photoperiods here are indoor so maybe it acts different outdoors and phenotype difference etc little things. 😊
@HippyHemulen, that's actually really good to hear because I couldn't find much about the smoke report!
I am definitely into growing for the trying and learning of things 😁