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I initially wanted to sprout a Purple Punch from Barneys Farm, but it turned out dead (old seed). I got my hands on a Special Queen from RQS instead, so it germinated about a week later and is smaller. I propped it up with an empty toilet paper roll. Light still at 20%
Runtz Muffin grows like a charm, already moved to the next container, no problems so far with her. Turned the light to 40%, which turned out to be too much for the Special Queen at this stage, burned the first set of leafs and stunted it a little bit.
My Special Queen (bottom left) recovered from the heat stress and started growing really fast. She almost doubled her mass within one night. My Runtz Muffin got some defoliating work along the way. I removed some big fan leaves, that were stuck and twisted. I continue to tie her down a little every day. My plants only get Calmag, as they are in big pots. Plagron Allmix really packs some nutrients, some of my Runtz Muffin leaves show slight hints of overfertilization. You can also see some "nitrogen clawing" on the Special Queen, but at this stage it's completely fine.
20th May - Starting flowering by switching to 12-12 light cycle. So far, so good.
23th May - It appears to me, that the stretching has started already on both plants. To prevent deficiencies from stretching I will introduce grow fertilizer on the Runtz Muffin. The Special Queen #1 grows huge and I'm ever so slightly troubled to keep her tied down.
26th May - Flowering appears to have fully started. Plants already got huge - still no problems visible. Defoliated the Runtz Muffin for the last time (super bushy plant).
Week 6:
Plants are heading into full flowering phase. Still no problems at all - Plagron Allmix Soil in sufficiently large pots and Calmag will get you very far, if you don't use lots of wattage.
Along with the flowers I start smelling more and more. Looking forward to the next few weeks.
Approaching the end of this week, I started giving Bio Bloom. Future difficulty might prove to be adjusting the light accordingly.
Starting this week I propped up the Runtz Muffin so it is closer to the light and switched their sides, so the bushier plant gets more wind. Humidity is a little higher these days, because of the drizzy weather outside.
By the end of this week the Special Queen has stretched so tall, I've raised the lamp to it's highest position. It's getting out of hand a bit, I thought the Special Queen stopped stretching, but I was wrong.
Starting this week I can't use my easy rolls anymore due to the plants height. Special Queen #1 is still stretching and has become huge, whereas Runtz Muffin seems to have reached it's final height two weeks ago. I'm now having an eye on any signs of lightburn, as the Special Queen has even been reaching between the light.
Runtz Muffin is becoming a little lighter in color, so I'm ramping up her BioGrow and Bloom fertilizer. As she seems to tolerate some nutes I'm trying to reach her limits.
My Special Queen on the other hand is still only getting 0.5 ml of that, due to her leaves being almost too saturated with nitrogen. As stated by RQS, she really doesn't like all that much nutrients.
Looks like this will be a promising harvest in a few more weeks.
Starting this week I notice the buds fattening on the Runtz Muffin. She is also getting some lighter leaves, which at this time is a little bit early and might also have started, because I bleached her a little due to the Special Queens height causing the lamp to already be at maximum height.
The Special Queen #1 on the other hand is still stretching and developing lots and lots of bud sites with the main bud (photograph) starting to be humongous. She takes the strong light like a charm, with no signs of stress even directly under the light.
Photo-wise I am trying some new settings on my camera to mitigate the lamps colouring on the photos. I hope they look better like this.
Last week has been sort of rough on my Runtz Muffin. I suspect a nutrient lockout. Checked pH, flushed and reintroduce small amounts of nutrients again. She will be fine.
My Special Queen #1 is still stretching
Week 11 has dawned and autumn came into my tent. Likely only some two more weeks to go.
Special Queen's flowers have gotten heavy. Going to install some kind of support, if I get an idea.
Runtz Muffin seems to have recovered. I hope the buds will fatten up soon. The hot weather is over, so no more temperatures over 30°C to be endured. The ripening will hopefully benefit from this.
Tent is becoming colorful, buds grow big. Trichomes on the Special Queen #1 are almost mostly milky, while the Runtz Muffin trichomes are still clear. Wondering how long it'll take. I thought I'd be harvesting by the end of week 13.
Update: Checked again, as best as I could. Seems like they ripened up good. Will harvest soon. I'm also going to try to take some trichome pics, as requested.
Update #2: Took some trichome pics.
Special Queen #1 would be ready to harvest already.
Runtz Muffin is still a little early. Milky trichomes are unevenly distributed, most are still clear.
The final days arrived. Milky trichomes all the way on my Special Queen. Mixed trichomes on my Runtz Muffin. Will check the trichomes again until the end of the week.
Feeling ripe, might chop down later.
Nice and easy grow overall. Not the most perfect, but very far from the worst. I think I am close to what you can get out of a small grow space and minimal to no climate control.
Kratzman
