Overcast sky and occasional thunderstorms, the third month for Critical Mass CBD plants are getting low light level. The plants finally started to pick up speed. Root is forming well.
And earth worm casting with occasional Epsom salt supplement seemed to do the trick. Earth worm casting releases nutrient slowly and won’t get all flush away by heavy rain.
One plant has shorter inter-node distance. And it is my favorite. The other three plants look like industrial hemp with long stringy stems.
Week by week progress:
Week 9, Week 10: plants just grow.
On week 11, I worked on the plants.
Changed pot size from 3-liter to 7-liter. And put in some earth worm casting.
Trimmed of sucker branches. I am trimming for large flower size and not keeping smaller branches for cloning.
Wrap wire around main branches. The wire is to bend and train large branches to get good spread.
In my area, the heaviest rain fall period is from August to October. Flowering in this period leads to rot. So, I am keeping the plants in veg.
By flowering time, the plants should be around 1.5-meter-tall. Long vegging time helps with the size and productivity on the cheap.
Week 12 – I went away for the week-end.
Week 13 – woa, stretching big. I need to get some stake for next port change.
Nice breeder and strain. All the best 😉 and yeah thc/cbd ratio are often different than what the breeder say. I had a discussion with a guy that tested a few pure cbd and 1:1 strain with a gemma cert device, he got funky result with the ratio depending phenotypes.
They are pumping med,,
I haven’t seen those basket type pots here in AUS,
It gives me an idea to drill a heap of holes around one of my pots this year to try it 🍻
@Shooey, my biggest 25 gal basket cost around 7 AUD.
It is mainly used to carry farm produce.
At first, I was thinking about drilling holes at bottom of some laundry baskets. But it is much cheaper to buy produce baskets from farm supply shop.
My thing is growing on the cheap. 😀😀😀😀😀
@GYOweed, it's sea purslane. Root supposed to give beneficial hormone and host micorrhizae. It is useful when I transfer to bigger pot. Sucks up excess fertilizers.
This sea purslane plant actually growing along the beach. I actually plugged them out at high tide when they were fully under sea water.
Logic is not fully clear but weeds grow better with them especially during vegging cycle. After a while, weed root overtakes the pot and sea purslane won't grow that well.
I recycle the purslane as a way to keep microbe community going in my soil.