OVERALL OBSERVATIONS: Tried taking photos with flash,but I plan to add a clip light for photos. Platinum purple has heralded her bloom with a lovely musky sweet grape stank. Platinum Girl Scout Cookies have had an mild scent so far that's mildly hoppy, and Lemon OG, hard to say if there's any scent. Buds are fattening and stacking up nicely with a little nute burn on Platinum Purple and Platinum Girl Scout Cookie (both in air pots) and more on Lemon OG likely due to buildup in the smaller 1 gal standard pot. I water her last with diluted nutrients.
WATERING: Plants overall have been needing water every 1-3 days instead of every 5, so I have been giving nutrients on one day a week. I ordered General Hydroponics PH kit just to double check PH, which was below 5 with Botanicare bloom nutrients so I used their PH up to bring it up to 6.
AIRFLOW: I just added a second fan today because it's really effin obvious that cannabis likes a breeze based on the floofy buds happening nearest the fan. My biggest bud on Lemon OG is on the super cropped branch that nearly broke off entirely.
LIGHT: Raised my two 300 W equivalent LEDs about 1" even though most height has been trained down by gentle bending under the net. Still a fair amount mof stretch.
PEST CONTROL: Sprayed 2 more times this week 3 days apart with soap only and once with water but still seeing minor pest issues. Still running swamp cooler on and off as ambient RH has been high and the temperatures have been pretty mild this week.
CATFUR: I have an 18lb well groomed fuzzball cat so cat fur is an issue I accept, but note this is not spider mite webbing in my photos. This is for personal use, now fortified with extra keratin. Fluffball doesn't go in the grow area but his fur is as ubiquitous as air.
STYLE: My boyfriend sent me unicorns via Amazon to add more magic!
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BTW: Formerly here as "TheFBM," I want to clearly reprazent as a woman grower. I didn't want to call myself TheFairyBudMother until I helped mother nature by midwifing out a harvest of sticky bud. So I hope coming out now doesn't jinx my grow! My boyfriend said "You've been TheFairyBudMother your entire life; own it." You can't fight destiny, folks.
A little about me: I live with chronic neuropathic pain from a spinal cord injury and also experience endometriosis symptoms and am currently in perimenopause. Cannabis has helped me get off Suboxone (bupenorphine) after being on it for 7 years, after coming off of another 7 years of long acting opioid treatment (Fentanyl patches, lozenges, morphine) and 15 other prescription medications. I got a California medical rec in '13, and tapered fully off of Suboxone over the next 2 years. Since growing cannabis, I now have an outdoor vegetable garden and haven't gardened in 19 years. So if you're worried growing or using cannabis will turn you into an amotivated pothead, you've been sold some reefer madness bs. This site has been super supportive and inspiring.
You are so close @TheFairyBudMother
I can't wait to see how this looks once you pull them all down!!!!
Tag me in a comment when you harvest so I can check it out friend.
Cheers!
@DabCrab,very soon! I have my cutters ready.
What's your thought on leaving plants for a full day or so of dark before harvest? I see this recommended but I don't understand why this would improve the end result.
You must fill up your trellis before switching into 12/12. That means you have to put a top in 85% of every holes and let each tops grow 2 nodes minimum before switching them into flowering . It's a long process to scrog plants but patience pays π
@JUNGLE_B4RNS, Yeah you told me before, and now I will be lucky to get a few joints. I had a friend encourage me to flip earlier because we all go to Burning Man late August, and I can't trust other people in my house to do fairybudmother duties while I'm away like water, climate adjustment, and check for bugs, balls, bananas, mildew and mold. So I wanted to be sure to finish in early August. I think my friend, who does SOG and maybe it makes sense for him to flip at 4 weeks, also wants to be sure to get in on the harvest.
I have a whole list of things I will do differently next grow. Many lessons from this one.
Thanks for your help!
That lemon og is looking so dense and potent! Cool to see how the Platinum Cookies strain grows too, from what i've understood most 'cookies' strains grow small bud clusters right? Looks like a good lilliputian town to be living in to me π
Fox Farms Ocean Forest Soil
5 gal Air Pots
Clones from Buds & Roses, LA
in rock wool
300W Equivalent (136 W actual use) Viparspectra LED @ 30" distance
2.5 x 5' shower space
Filtered tap water
Spider mites my friend .... they are the worst π
You're starting a long battle, increase RH , and spray Neem oil every 3 days for 2 weeks , I hope you'll get rid of them before you can't spray anymore.
@TheFBM,you should get rid of them in 12 days , 9 days should be enough.
These bastards reproduce every 3 days , first spraying will kill the adults ( spray under the leaves ) , 2sd spraying will kill the new generation. Keep in mind that it won't kill 100% at each spraying , so it's better to do 1 or 2 more spraying .
I really hope you get rid of them before flowers starts to bloom !
Diatomaceous earth is excellent π
Just in case , get some ladybug π when blooming ( a full bag for each plants ) and put them when your lights turns off .
@JUNGLE_B4RNS, thanks for being the bearer of bad news. I've declared war on these little @holes. I got a swamp cooler in there, which raised the RH to about 65 and lowers the temp to 77 which seems copacetic with the VPD charts too.
I pulled the lower most infested leaves days ago and got rid of them, cleaned the space with alcohol/water, sprayed the plants with water then soap/neem/eucalyptus, have the fan going a little harder, and covered the soil with food grade diatomaceous earth. I will keep at it as I know these are horrible mofos. For now at least plants look healthy.
@JUNGLE_B4RNS, I recently saw The Brian Wilson Orchestra perform The 50th Anniversary of Pet Sounds at the Santa Barbara Bowl!
I currently live a bit south of where "they're surfing the nose." I have to drive 45 minutes north or south to the pot store or order illegal delivery because my county is still backwards about cannabis. I can legally cultivate with my medical rec. I can't do it outside though even though this is an ideal grow climate. So ridiculous. Luckily I am in an accepting neighborhood.
@CANNASIM, thanks. I'm pretty sure that's an improvement over spider mites, though I would prefer no pests. I used cold pressed organic neem oil, 1 tsp/gal with Dr. Bronners soap, actually went in with a small paint brush and then sprayed.
@HOW_i_GROW, All of my clones came from Buds and Roses in LA, and I'm pretty sure they are all Kyle Kushman's veganic strains. I sent an email to ask because @GrowDiaries requested the same info, but they haven't gotten back. I will find out though!
I'm hoping to go in and get schooled on using and maintaining a living soil instead of using soil as a substrate for water and direct to plant nutrients.
@TheFBM,alright. It's a lot of money for an 1/2 once π±
Hum sorry ... I can't tell where I leave, let say that I leave somewhere in North Pole between Santa and SuperMan houses π