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Girls had to stay inside until Sunday because the weather was just awful and freezing cold plus a lot of rain and hailstorms
Sunday they're happy dancing in the sun.
The almost two weeks of imperfect lighting caused for them to be a little smaller than they should at this point, but I hope they catch up back in the sun 🌞
Both did awesome with LST
Tied down the Purplematic twice and the Orion three
Plants are outside 24/7 now. Spilled some Bio Heaven I wanted to use for another plant and so these got some too so it doesn't go to waste. Did a lot of LST this week and removed a few leaves that were acting like umbrellas. Both doing well. Weather was only a bit chilly, some rain, some 🌞
Sun picked up this week and the girls are growing nicely 🌞
More LST this week and the girls are starting to show their pistils.
I'm very happy with them, I think they might flower soon.
Exciting week! My Purplematic girl went into Flower first although she's 2 days younger. She's a little thinner and less bushy than the F1 so LST is still easy with her. I'm hoping the Purplematic will bring some length growth soon. I'm fighting to get some sun to some of the bud sites, but the branches are too short to LST too much, doing as much leaf tucking as possible. The Orion is exploding and showing a lot of length growth although she's only showing very early signs of flower. The main branch is so tough now that I've decided to only do one more careful bend (which I've done already) and that's it for main stem LST for her. It's too risky going forward.
The weather was awful half of the week, so they haven't shown as much growth as they could have, but I'm still proud of them.
I'm a little unsure about the nutrients during this transitional phase. When do I quit the Biobizz Fish Mix exactly and switch to Bio Grow + Bio Bloom?
BioBizz suggests in the feeding chart, that you use Bio Grow instead of Fish mix, when transitioning into flower. By the Looks of your plants, you can start using Bio Grow now, the additional sugars should enhance the taste of the final product
Ladies are doing great and well into flower. The weather is still very unstable. The difference between normal and F1 is very recognizable by now. LST for the Orion is completed, still working on the Purplematic as she's just starting to stretch by the end of this week. Orion is gaining about 2-3 cm height daily. Made a custom net for the Orion girl.
Can't report too much this week because I was on vacation. The person who watered them for me made a video for me though. I've had some major issues with wasps munching my plants at night. Took a while to find out what it was, but they only seem to do that in a certain life phase. Spoiler: it's over, they stopped after 2 weeks.
My purplematic never went into that typical early flower stretch. I have no idea why. But the buds are getting quite bulky and I tried to space them out as well as possible.
She turned very very black and seems quite healthy. I'll give them another week on fish mix and then switch to bio grow. They seem to be doing quite well on this way of doing it and I'm having zero issues with early flower nutrient deficiency
Got back home on tueday and boy did they explode. I think my Orion girl is going to be quite good. She's got 15 big main colas and a few smaller ones.
The wasp attacks have finally ended.
This week will be the last of fish mix for these two.
Please Note: some of the nutrients and amounts are for the strain Orion only as the Purplematic was a little bonsai and didn't need as much.
At the end of this week I checked the trichomes only to get shocked by the purplematic being done.
I flushed her and let her dry a bit.
Spoiler: She got chopped down 3 days later as I was already at an orange to milky ratio of 1:1 - 1:2
Pictures will follow next week
My Orion is doing fantastic. She's in the middle to end of Phase 2 of Flowering, I'm guessing she will be another 3-4 weeks.
I'm not very happy about the bud size of my Orion at this point. I don't see the kind of bud structure I see with other growers. They don't seem to have a whole lot of flower matter to them but a lot of sugar leaves. What am I doing wrong?
This can be due to long term over feeding.........excessive leaf growth at the expense of flower growth.
Too much "good going" produces nice bushy plants, but often with under developed flowers.
Otherwise, genetics is the determining factor.
Jayda
