THURSDAY 11/29:
I'm in love with Gertrude. She's in full beast-mode now. Growing a couple inches per day. She's gonna be a producer.π
Gretyl is growing, but not as quickly as I'd like. Doubt she's ever gonna get very big..
I foliar fed a few times and did a photo session.π
FRIDAY:
Gertrude is still growing vertically, but also packing on the pistils!!!!!!!π
Gretyl is actually starting to stretch a bit, too.
I foliar fed a few times and spun them around.
SATURDAY:
I fed them today with about 1/3 gallon of bloom nutes, plus a little extra boomerang for the N.
Gertrude is the tallest plant in the garden and there's no sign she's slowing down at all! Every one of her branches is growing an inch a day at least. I'm hoping she's a monster, but at the same time, I'm not looking forward to having to supercrop her. I'd so much rather not do any bondage....really uglies up the photos....but I keep growing dissimilar strains and always have an uneven canopy...
Gretyl is now directly under the quantum board, and on a throne, so she's about 18 inches from the light. Hoping to kick her into high gear.
SUNDAY:
Gretyl perked up a little more and might have even grown a little!
Gertrude is still stretching!
MONDAY:
I foliar fed them a few times and moved them around a little. Gretyl must have soil drainage problems..she kinda wilts for a day following every watering...I started probing her pot today and will continue to do so for a few days.
TUESDAY:
Gretyl looked horrible today. I probed the hell out of her soil again and fed her about 12oz of ph'd water with boomerang, calimagic, kangaroots, and some powdered bat guano. If she doesn't perk up in the next day or so, I'll assume she's rootbound and transplant her into a 5 gallon pot with more perlite in the mix.
Gertrude also looks like she has some drainage problems, but not too terribly bad. I probed her soil today and also gave her about 8oz of the same solution.
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