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Everything was set up in time and properly. All levels were even and beans popped within 24hrs. Check my next post to see what they all look like in week 2. Got Northern Lights, skywalker OG, and Sour Wiz from (CookieMaine.) THANKS YALL!!
That is 100% the start of an infestation of russet mites/spider mites . This comes from the lack of ventilation and wet mediums ( in your case soil and fabric pots) There's many many many different way's to treat this problem . Firstly I would get some neem oil ( really cost effective ) dilute it with water and spray everywhere ! I mean spray the pots the top of the soil the base of the plants the walls of your growing space . The reason i say this is cause you wanna get rid of these little intruders as well as get rid of any eggs they have left behind , the oil will coat them and they wont be able to breath ultimately resulting in their deaths . The secondary thing I would consider if I where you is having a fan blow air on your fabric pots this way it will facilitate the soil drying up aswell as the fabric pot (perfect combo for nesting grounds if left super moist for long periods) You can try all the internet methods and the rest but I've been gardening for years and the method I just described to you above has never failed me! I hope this helps you on your journey to become a Grow Master ! -Happy Growing!
Extremely frustrated with bugs that got taken care of with some neem oil and ladybugs. Now this Northern Lights went from a front runner to completely sick and dying. Idk how it happened to just one plant and in a short period of time. All in all though, everything else growing is fine besides the Northern Lights.
The northern lights has a super outrageous new growth on it. I guess I fixed the problems and the affected parts of the plant will remain retarded. The Skywalker is a champion for sure. The sour wiz is about 20 days behind. However it’s the he bushiest healthiest easiest plant to grow so far. Maybe I just learned from my mistakes. Thanks for looking. ANY TIPS let me know! FOLLOW me and I’ll follow you! THANKS AGAIN
Plants are separated. Got the Sour Wiz in the closet vegging out for another 20 days. Got the northern lights and Skywalker Og in the tent flowering. Only thing I dislike is the fact that I had to move the one light out of tent to continue veg and now the flowering plants don’t have that extra light boost for another’s 20 days. KEEP in tune !!!
Two in the tent are in flower week 2. ONE SKYWALKEROG and One northern lights. 5 plants in veg week 7 or 8 all SOUR WIZ. Another week and they should be ready to flower. Thanks for looking 🖤
Sour Wiz is still in veg. 7 weeks. Looking fantastic. EAsiest strain to grow so far. 0 issues and respond so everything well. Once I can sex I’ll separate and start planning to flower. Skywalker OG is still going great in week 9 of flower. STARTING to see a lot of bud structure and white hairs. Northern Lights is still surprising because it was so mutated and now its thriving.
Sour wiz Is doing great. First week of flower for those 5. SKYWALKER AND Northern Lights doing great as well. Really stackin some sugar now. THANKS FOR LOOKING!
Someone help me with how to make my top colas bigger!?!? Not enough phosphorus? Too close to the led lights? My ph is good and plant is healthy just can’t seem to get big colas and I don’t know why or if it’s too late since I’m 4-5 weeks into flowering. Help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks 🙏🏻
How do I obtain bigger colas on my flowering plants Skywalker OG and Northern Lights? Is it too late since I’m 5 weeks into flowering? Should I give it more phosphorus? What should I do for now and in the future? Thank you 🙏🏻
Hi @BloodBath! Unfortunately there's no 'magic-trick', only a combination of knowledge, good equipment, good care and much love. As you may know, cannabis plants are just like us: they need sun+food+water+air. If only one of these parameters is not perfectly adjusted, yield will be affected. You currently need to identify what parameter is wrong in your setup, I personnaly ran through some similar issue in the past, when I was growing with only 1 COB light above my canopy. After a few runs I identified the lighting as being my main failing parameter. From what I can see on your pictures and what I can read on the informations you shared, there are some obvious reasons for slow growth / slow bud fattening. 1/ Your pH is almost neutral, whereas you need it a bit acidic, try to stick to a ~6.2 pH range, roots will manage nutrient intakes easily this way. 2/ Your light is not big enough for 2 plants, I can see some dark spots all around the plants, coverage is bad, plants don't get enough light. Consider buying a second lamp or changing your whole setup for an efficient one (QuantumBoards or LED strips are one of the best options nowadays). 3/ Your feeding schedule is very weird, what schedule are you following? The solution you give to your babies shouldn't be the result of randomness, you must stick to a tested-and-approved feeding schedule, try to start with the manufacturer's schedule and divide the recommended doses by 2. If plants look healthy, slowly increase the doses. 4/ Your containers are small for photoperiodic strains, after 6 weeks of veg they could have enjoyed bigger pots, at least ~11 L / 3 Gals. 5/ Plants did spend a lot of energy into vertical stretching, probably because of the poor light penetration and/or a high plant-to-lamp distance. That energy could have been used in bud fattening and resin production in a perfect environment.... I really hope this will help you to identify what's wrong in here, we'll be here to help again if needed, so keep us up-to-date and happy growing 👊
The white stuff on my plants is a cal carb foliage spray. It rinses off after a good 30-40 hrs. It helps a lot. Not everything needs to be fed through the roots. I have 0 negative feedback. The Skywalker OG just keeps pushing out trichomes and resin all over. Plant is bent over on purpose obviously because if my light to plant distance. It helped 200%. Buds are super super white. Hairs starting to turn orange. Gonna start checking on the trichome heads for color the next few weeks. Northern Lights is also doing really well for what a mutant she was. Plant did not do well in veg and out of no where it started growing all crazy. I let her go and do her thing and just maintained what I had to. Buds are super super dense on this one. Can’t wait to cut these down and enjoy them once they’re dry and cured. Next is the sour wiz to go all out and produce some stellar cannabis. Next I wanna give a try at auto seeds. Hear a lot of great feedback about them and can’t wait to see the difference.
Just checking trichomes at this point. Only feeding water for remaining time left before she gets chopped, dried, and cured. One more month and she will be tasty af.
I froze the trim and larf upon harvesting. Washed some bubble hash. Pressed some rosin. Here’s some pictures for y’all. It’s super good and hella tasty. 2g of bubble yielded 1.6 of rosin. That’s hella good if u ask me. Bud pictures coming soon. Once done drying and curing there will be many photos and information on the Skywalker OG. Thanks for looking. Stay strong everyone. Mad love.
I didn’t know it would as difficult as they say for this strain. But it proved to me difficult in the beginning. She grew very slow and had a lot of deficiencies in the vegetative stage. Some of it was my doing but even when corrected she took a while to bounce back. All in all though, she withstood all of it. The last two weeks of her veg stage really showed what she could do. Once switched over to 12/12 she sky rocketed and never stopped pushing out resin. The harvest was surely deceiving. The plant looked so ripe and ready but the trichomes told a different story. I checked every day to get a good ratio of clear cloudy and amber all over. Finally got her at the right second. Chopped her down and never looked back. Froze the trim and made possibly the best bubble hash I’ve ever had. The bud dried in 7 days on the dot and has been curing for 2 weeks. Gonna let most of it keep curing while I keep smoking on some. It’s so sticky, you can literally wax your hair off with it. You literally have to wash ur hands after breaking it up. Smells of sweet earthy spicy terpenes and burns smooth as hell. After your 2nd hit you’ll understand why this is probably the most sawt after OG strains to date. Thanks for following along and to those who helped me out along the way. Mad love to this cruel world.
I obviously wish she would have yielded a lot more but I really focused my energy on pumping out resin. I’ll give another go at Skywalker OG but this time with a lot more training and trimming. I should have stripped the lower branches down and lollipopped it. I never touched her. She didn’t even get topped. So next time I shall shoot for a higher yield for sure. All that said though. Even though she was difficult to grow in the beginning. It’s the stickiest and probably highest thc content I’ve grown to date. Literally need a box of alcohol wipes on deck when breaking into this one. Unbelievable for making hash as well. So many heads that make a super pungent and proper hash. I’ll pop back on here and put some more photos of the flower up as it continues to cure. Thanks again everyone. Enjoy.
This plant was a mutant from the start. About 5 weeks into vegetation and it started growing super weird patterns and only had a stretch on one side of the plant. The other top branch/kola never grew. So out one large top branch it also grew crazy formations off of that almost taller then kola branch it grew from. Idk I am a fan of northern lights. Maybe not this companies genetics or maybe not this pheno lol but either way it wasn’t a bad smoke or a bad high. Just wasn’t fun to grow and I could have put my time into something much more satisfying. Won’t be going for old school strains anymore. Too much to choose from to be growing old strains I’ve had a million times. I will say that the buds are dense. It’s most definitely northern lights. It took a really really long time to finish up.
Could have gotten more off the plant of it wasn’t mutated from the get. But oh well I’m not mad about it. I just won’t be growing anything from that company ever again and also won’t be growing old strains anytime soon. I’ve had so much more success with other genetics of different strains from different company’s. The Skywalker from DNA came out amazing. The sour wiz just came down and that’s even better. Thanks for looking.
Hi @BloodBath! Unfortunately there's no 'magic-trick', only a combination of knowledge, good equipment, good care and much love. As you may know, cannabis plants are just like us: they need sun+food+water+air. If only one of these parameters is not perfectly adjusted, yield will be affected. You currently need to identify what parameter is wrong in your setup, I personnaly ran through some similar issue in the past, when I was growing with only 1 COB light above my canopy. After a few runs I identified the lighting as being my main failing parameter. From what I can see on your pictures and what I can read on the informations you shared, there are some obvious reasons for slow growth / slow bud fattening. 1/ Your pH is almost neutral, whereas you need it a bit acidic, try to stick to a ~6.2 pH range, roots will manage nutrient intakes easily this way. 2/ Your light is not big enough for 2 plants, I can see some dark spots all around the plants, coverage is bad, plants don't get enough light. Consider buying a second lamp or changing your whole setup for an efficient one (QuantumBoards or LED strips are one of the best options nowadays). 3/ Your feeding schedule is very weird, what schedule are you following? The solution you give to your babies shouldn't be the result of randomness, you must stick to a tested-and-approved feeding schedule, try to start with the manufacturer's schedule and divide the recommended doses by 2. If plants look healthy, slowly increase the doses. 4/ Your containers are small for photoperiodic strains, after 6 weeks of veg they could have enjoyed bigger pots, at least ~11 L / 3 Gals. 5/ Plants did spend a lot of energy into vertical stretching, probably because of the poor light penetration and/or a high plant-to-lamp distance. That energy could have been used in bud fattening and resin production in a perfect environment.... I really hope this will help you to identify what's wrong in here, we'll be here to help again if needed, so keep us up-to-date and happy growing 👊
@BloodBath, yes you will increase light coverage + efficiency, unless room is really overcrowded. I would recommend to sell your lights and get some SMD powered led, LM301B diodes are showing awesome results and you will save money on your energy bill👍
@Mrs_Larimar, I will for sure. Gonna give a first try at auto seeds next. Grabbing a new germination and seedling set up so I can keep everything going all year round no matter what. Right now I only have a veg and flower room. Which is fine but I want all 3 separate so I can keep a detailed eye on everything daily.
hey man, there's a few things you can do to get fatter buds. First thing is to wait for the bud to get fat, simple as that : just wait and see another 4 weeks maybe more. The problem with apex dominance is that with the main cola so much bigger than the rest, it's difficult to measure where your light should be if you measure the top of the main cola or the top of the canopy. So what you can do is so called HST, you basically bend until just before a full a crack/snap the stem, sort of break it, then make a bandage with some duct tape. Seems crazy but what happens is the plant thinks it's being attacked and send energy to that part which will make it fat. Third thing you can do is so called "super cropping", playing with the light schedule (re-veg, then re-flower, re-veg then reflower again) and it confuses the plant so it starts to stretch, get big and it helps make bigger buds. Anyway what you for sure cant do is compensate with too many nutrients. think of nutrients like a bullseye not a status bar, you cant give too little cant give to much, but obviously nutrients do help. right now you're good bro so you don t want to over do it. What you can do though is add a chelation agent like enzymes or like humic and fluvik mix, that chelation agent is the magic juice that no one will tell you about bro - what it does it breaks down the nutrients so they become more available to the roots and helps get that fat bud you want ... hope this helps ! 🚀
@CRiSPrGrow,that’s a great answer too. I’ll invest in one of those jewelers loops to check the trichomes before I harvest. Thank you so much. Really do appreciate it.
@BloodBath, yo it's hard to tell, what i say is that you should basically add two weeks to what the breeder says it should take lol - but the only way to tell is to get a portable microscope 40x-60x minimum then check the trychomes, clear means not ready, milky means ready, amber means overdone, so you want to get the maximum of milky trichomes possible if you're looking for max THC. So based on an average ripening time of two weeks for the trichomes you can basically guestimate when it will be ready... i know this doesnt help, but it's the best answer i can give lol
@chronicthehemphog, I’m using the formline led 30x and 60x magnifier. Amazon has em for like 10-20 bucks. Great cheap useful purchase. I recommend I higher zoom tho. 60x is fine but if u really really wanna get in there, buy a 120x or something lol.
@BloodBath,
I'll agree i think that being part of the community gives people gold stars lol. But keep up conversations like this and the likes add up.💚
get a bigger pot asap, be sure the growing medium is dry enough to transplant or if it's wet, carefully cut the cup into pieces then place it into the bigger pot. be sure to leave a same size hole to fit snug and after light watering and time the plant will be good! (Be extra careful with damaging roots)I also notice the lack of nutrients, picking up calmag with any nutrient line will work wonders and help the majority of indoor LED shortcomings
@chronicthehemphog, not a problem and thank you for the knowledge brotha. Plants are already looking way better in their 2gal pots. Root structure was crazyyyyyy!
@chronicthehemphog, I did and it’s because of how fine the heads the are. Very very tight micron screen. By the way, I put them in new pots and holy shit!!! I didn’t expect the roots to be covering the entire bottom and sides of the cup. It’s only been 2 1/2 weeks.
They are normally sitting under the leaves and on the stems of your plants. i let you a link for watching and reading everything you can do. https://www.growweedeasy.com/cannabis-aphids
@Mrs_Larimar,ya I got some neem oil and I already have a hypoallergenic filtered fan as an intake and a 4” exhaust fan connected to a charcoal filter. The neem oil should do the trick. I’ll check back in, in the next week with an update. Thanks a lot. Much appreciated.
@BloodBath,well no matter what kind of bugs that are neem oil is a good solution. And russet mites you cant see with eyesight^^ and do a combination of diamnatous earth and neem oil that helps, keep your soil dry and get a good airflow, did you read the helping site=?
@Mrs_Larimar, so after wiping down the rim of the pots last night, there is a lot less bugs. They aren’t on the leaves or the plant anywhere. They’re just on the outside of the pots. Getting different answers and do not know who is right or what to do.😞
Looking Like Plantlice.... You have several options to get rid of them. as they reproduce very fast try to get rid very soon. fastest version is to spray a Neemoil-Solution. ! teespon of neemoil into 1 l water and some dishwashing soap.... filling into a sprayer and spray all leaves upper and under!!! the leaves 1. Buy predator Ladybugs....... the larvae of the ladybug loooves to eat plantlice.
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