THURSDAY 11/8:
I watered them and foliar fed them a few times throughout the day.
I added a 100w CXB3590 today at about 30" from the canopy. If temps stay manageable, I'll add another one tomorrow.
FRIDAY:
Gertrude is starting to really flourish now, and Gretyl is no longer the smallest of the second batch of planted seedlings! (You go girl!)π
I lowered the lights about 4 inches, added a 100w bridgelux 3500k COB, and tilted the blue/white panels at a 45 degree angle. The blue Miracle LED's are still within a foot of them, too.
SATURDAY:
I fed them both about 40oz of ph'd tap water with full-strength veg nutes.
SUNDAY:
I lowered the lights a few inches and foliar fed them a few times today.
Gertrude has hit her stride and is growing quickly now.
Gretyl is growing another weird-ass twisted leaf....but she's growing..
MONDAY:
Gertrude put on an inch overnight..don't guess she even noticed the FIMing!π
Gretyl sure is a weird little plant, but sometimes the best stories are told by the strangest characters. π
TUESDAY:
I watered them today with about 32oz of ph'd water and a little boomerang and bud candy. I also foliar them a few times. Gertrude's lower branches are growing well, so I did some leaf tucking on her. Gretyl is slow and weird, but maybe she'll straighten up and fly right...
I added another 40w 5000k daylight bulb in a dim area and reconfigured my ventilation. I'm exhausting the tent much quicker now, so the temps are considerably lower, but at the cost of lower co2 ppms..π
WEDNESDAY:
Gertrude is a real contender for "Best in Garden" this crop. She's really bushing out nicely and starting to put on the upward inches. Her little sister is a mutant lifeformπ½, but I will continue to nurture her as well.
Foliar fed them a few times and rearranged the garden a little bit.
Nah...just a pair..
I'm growing 5 strains x 2 plants each in this next crop.
Gorilla Glue Auto
Blackberry Auto
Cream Cookies Auto
C4-matic
Dark Devil Auto
Congrats my friend - beauty harvest for sure. Got some gg photos in the drink as we speak and Iβm hoping to experience all the goodness Iβve heardπ. Hopefully u solved ur contractor issue and Iβll be seeing more from that tentπππ
@TheBudWhisperer,
I plan to order some more GG beans for my Winter grow, but already committed to some other Fastbuds strains in the Fall...10 x Zkittlez, 3 x Six Shooter, 3 x Stardawg, 3 x Tangie-matic, plus I've got 5 x White Widows from Spliff Seeds that I'm really looking forward to trying.
You have a nice Harvest but, $9.00 for seeds & $167.50 for nutes, plus the electric bill?
I suppose it better than Street Prices but, Wow!
I guess somebody needs to explain the benefits of all those nutrients vs. NPK & Water.
Anyways, I hope you are enjoying your harvest!
@R_Owl_Mirror, No sweat man..
As a kid, back in the 70's, I grew outdoors with nothing but miracle grow and miracle bloom.
In the late 80's and early 90's I had a closet garden and grew hydro in cheap plastic basins with 2 or 3 liter cola bottles with the tops cut off and lava rock stolen from Taco Bell...very minimalistic.
Back in the days before hydro shops and the internet, you had to be a commercial grower to get access to hydro nutes, or you spent many hours a week creating your own.
Nowadays, it's all so easy. For example, the Big Bloom fertilizer I use is derived in almost exactly the same formulation that I used to concoct myself. For $16 per grow, or less, I have what took me 2+ hours per week to make myself...and I had a shed full of big bags of worm castings, bat guano, etc..and it's hard to explain away all that stuff unless you have a beautiful lawn or garden as a cover...and with a big indoor garden, a job, and a family, who has the time for that?!??π
@Silverback_Guerilla, I didn't intend to be insulting in any way. I guess I was just surprised at the complete list of various products you gave. I am a minimalist in regards to what a plant needs to survive & thrive. I've been growing my own for 40+ years and am continually amazed at how people buy/use so many products in our consumer-driven world.
Like the difference between people using expensive rooting hormones when cloning, when in fact the best results can be achieved by snipping the new growth branches from a weeping willow, either soaking the branches in your water can or drying them, crushing them and mixing the fibers in your water. As an example of minimalism.
I am sorry if my comment came across as harsh in any way. Peace!
@R_Owl_Mirror, Don't be daft......that "cost" they show for seeds and nutes isn't what people actually paid, dude...it's just what a full container of each of the listed nutrients would cost (somewhere I guess)...I buy on Amazon for the most part and pay far less than retail, and a single grow doesn't use all of the nutes in the containers...and yes, I am enjoying the fruits of my labor.
And when you think about it, even if it did cost me a couple hundred bucks for a single grow (which it didn't), 16+ ounces of top-shelf bud for a couple hundred bucks is an uber-bargain.
@HighTV,
Thanks!
Gertrude, the paler one with bamboo stakes, probably got her last feeding today. She should have been planted in a 5 gallon pot. Pretty sure she's been rootbound for a couple weeks now. I'll flush her twice over a 10-day period starting in a few days. I think Gretyl, the bluish-green plant, won't quit making calyx and pistils for another couple weeks or more. She's got enough foliage left to have the energy she'll need.π
@Silverback_Guerilla, one day you're gonna open your tent and find me sunbathing in there with sunglasses on π cant wait to set up my own SBG system lights ordered , customs cleared cant hardly wait !
@CRiSPrGrow, Love.π
...and FoxFarms Flower's Kiss plus a little GH Armor Si...
That stuff used regularly and 3 Exhale bags in the 4 x 4 is really making a difference with the early veg growthπ
@Fast_Buds,
Cool..I'm totally stoked to try this one (and the rest)! Looking very forward to needing multiple pairs of trimming shears to complete the job π