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As visible right from the start the Special Queen is the strongest plant. One plant was lost (Painkiller) while throwing a ball that landed on it. I replaced it with the honey cream. Painkiller in a pot
Suddenly Snails started to make a apperance, was glad that i didnt have a problem with them that long since almost all vegetables in my garden bed were eaten but until now they didnt touch the cannabis. I put some Ash around it which did seem to help a lot.
The pre flower stage took longer than expected. They still are stretching I noticed that I planted the Special Queen and the honey cream way to close to each other.
Great week for the ladys. Some days with Temperatures at 35C and high humidity. They are still stretching. Honey Cream and Special Queen now really are fighting for the space, i thought about stretching the honey cream away from the SQ. The pot for the Painkiler now seems way to small for the size of the plant. The Wounds from the hailstorm did heal very well and beside 2 yellow leaves the plants seem really happy. I put some compost above the plants and included a standard vegtable growing fertilizer.
Will the Special Queen and the Honey Cream be okay if they are this close? Is There something I can do now so the airflow improves when the flowers get thicker?
Hey mate,
yo can bend the mainstems into different directions with a threat or towel to give them more space in the middle. Use something on the groudn or in your area to fixate it. Bend careful and slow and will be no problem, you also just need a slight angle on all of them to give enough space. Then you should have way more space in middle. If you find out in the future, that its not enough, you could bend a bit more or take off a few fanleaves in the middle, if there are just 2 many. they become pretty useless then and are dangerous in terms of pest and mold.
Happy Growing mate, no worries about it.
This week was nice weather wise. A bit of rain, mostly sunny and the humidity wasn't to high.
As it was suggested to me, I did start to train the honey cream away from the Special Queen and vise versa. I also clipped some branches that would get to close. Now they have a little space between I am not sure if it's enough though and will try to train them even more. Also my persimmon tree gets in the way, overall not ideal but we'll see if it's good enough to sustain s good airflow.
Made some organic fertilizer that I used with the rest of the fertilizer.
Had Corona whole last week so I wasn't able to care much which wasn't that bad. Waterd every 3 days with new fertilizer because I ran out of the old one. The painkiller had it rough, because of infrequent watering the pot was so light that the pot was knocked over I noticed it only 1 1/2 days later. Since the pot was destroyed anyway I made a hole in it so the roots can grow in the ground I also fixed it with some sticks.
I also increased the amount of leaves and branches on all 3 plants that I clipped, for a better airflow and to get more energy the the parts where sun manages to get trough.
This week I made the ph go a little more down by adding vinegar to the water, not sure if this is a good option but I does seem to do the job.
I also increased to removal of leafs and small nodes that were to much in the inside, not quite sure if that's already lolipopping since I wasn't as aggressive as some other grows I saw.
I did see some signs of overfeeding in the painkiller it's only a handful of leaves but nonetheless I took that sign early and decreased the feeding for the painkiller which now definitely has the most developed flowers.
The honey cream seems to be behind the painkiller in flowering the Special Queen is also further in development but not as much as the painkiller, could be because the painkiller receives the longest direct sunshine that it's the furthest in flower development.
I am looking forward to the next week since the flowers will probably increase massively in size.
I have a problem with the painkiller, I guess I know why it's flowering so much faster than the other two, I noticed a swollen calyx and safe enough, there was a seed inside. So I dont know if it was the painkiller itself who became hermaphrodite (didnt see any signs on the the plants though) or if there is a male plant somewhere around my area either way sounds pretty bad.
I did some high stress training on the painkiller on a few branches that got to close to each other, I don't think that this was enough stress to make her produce Pollen though.
Edit: Oh i guess i know how it got pollinated, its possible that the hemp tea i use contains some pollen and somehow i transferred some of them trough touching the plant with pollen on my hand. Could be the reason, but im not 100% sure, ill be more careful touching the plants in the future.
Also I'm a bit disappointed, the flowers on the honey cream take a lot of time to get thicker the special queen also takes it time I surely hope that it'll get the first flowering boost next week.
This week had everything weather wise- went from sunny 37c° with 30% humidity to next day over 60% humidity at 20C also some rain storms.
I didn't change anything about the feeding other than lowering the ph even more so I can get closer to that 5.8 which is not really possible in a open earth system like this but I'd like to get close.
A few leaves show some yellowing, I wont increase the nitrogen though, the flowering fertilizer should be enough nutrients for now.
Was away almost all week so I couldn't water the plants regularly but it rained so it was fine.
The painkiller is now in full bloom while the other two are far behind her.
I removed all the LST wire on all the plants, which wasn't the best idea for the painkiller because again a wind gust knocked the whole pot over, fixed it quickly by stabilizing the pot and putting some wire around the main stem and binding it to a stick.
The yellowing of the leaves on the painkiller increased, maybe a calmag issue, maybe something different, not 100% sure but for now I'll stay at my regular feeding schedule and the same fertilizer.
I was away til today so whole week the plants were on there own without watering in a very hot week without rain. I was surprised that the Special Queen and honey cream which are in the ground directly didn't show any sign of underwatering the painkiller on the other hand was not comfortable, around 5-10% of the leaves did die of and even more are yellowing.
The honey cream is now the furthest behind flowering. The painkiller and Special queen are now really starting to blossom.
Why is the honey cream which is the plant that was noted as the fastest flowering plant of the three strains I have, the one that's the furthest behind in the flowering stage
She does receive a bit less light than the other two strains
First 2pics are the honeycream
My best guess would be genetics. You could plant 10 seeds from the same plant and you would see some differences in appearance and when each plant starts flowering. I would not sweat it at all.
Did some high stress training on the painkiller and honey cream maybe it was a bit late for that but I wanted to really make sure that they have a the space they need.
Autumn is here and it did start with a lot of rain, I'm a little worried about mold if it's raining non stop. The temperatures dropped down to 10c° in the night and humidity is high, so fingers crossed that no mold will appear.
The honey cream finally started to flower properly but she's still around 3 weeks behind the other two strains.
The painkiller is getting closer to the finish line, she still has around 2/3weeks to go though.
All plants received a lot of thining out removed some branches and leaves, lolipopping style hope this help increase the airflow and prevent mold.
Pictures made while it raining.
All plants show some purple hues. The painkiller even got some slightly purple buds. That's most likely because it got so freaking cold.
I increased the feeding for the painkiller because she shows so many yellow leaves for my taste a little to early. But this next week I'm going to flush her out of the fear of mold because it looks like we'll get a lot of rain the second next week so I want to be able to harvest her next week, even though it's way too early but I Don't wanna risk it.
The honey cream needs really quick flowering otherwise I'm not sure if she'll be okay blooming late into October which will increase chances of mold massively.
I did snip of some buds for inspection that grew close to each other.
I know the harvest was too early but I was scared the painkiller could get some bud rot because the next week will be raining non stop.
The Special Queen and honey cream are still growing I'll update them tomorrow.
I did partily harvest the Special Queen the microscope shows some orange/brown trichomes they are not enough to call her ready to harvest but just like with the Painkiller im scared of bud rot and next week will be raining non stop again so saftey first thats also the reason why i removed almost all the leaves, to improve airflow.
Honey Cream receives a good amount of fertilizer not sure if shes able to use it all since its getting cold and the sun is almost never shining.
I water with a concentrated solution because the ground is already soaking wet.
I guess i'll harvest the rest of the special queen this coming week.
These last days it rained non stop like predicted, the humidity was super high so no surprise that the special Queen had some bud rot. I did harvest her ill update the harvest tomorrow for now I hope the 2 buds with bud rot were the only ones.
Honey cream is doing quite well despite this absolute trash weather she seems to get thicker. About to give her her last feeding before flushing with rain water.
Honey cream is doing well, buds are getting thicker and thicker watched under the microscope and almost all trichomes were milky like 95% only a few are clear just as many brown/orange ones. I'll give her another week since it will be sunny and the rain is going to stop. Hope she can handle the humidity level.
Didn't see any rotten buds but I also didn't inspect it thoroughly.
I finally had some time to harvest everything, left her for 2 days in the dark in a vase.
The smell was so intense in comparison to the painkiller. Since it rained a lot there was some bud rot but I guess that was inevitable.
The honey cream still grows strong has no bud rot since the buds seem fluffy enough for a good airflow.
Found 2 moldy buds and that's enough for me to call this grow finished. Am harvesting this beautifully smelling lady today since it will be raining today so I'ma have to be fast before she gets even more mold.
Stopped with top max last week and only got her a extremely concentrated solution since it was soaking wet. I am surprised that she survived 3 weeks with humidity at over 90% and only got those 2 moldy buds. The rest seems fine but I'll have to inspect them closer while trimming just to be safe even though I checked her almost every day.
Microscope shows almost 100% white trichomes, almost no golden/brown ones and even less clear ones, kinda weird since I hoped for some more golden trichomes but maybe that's just the strain.
I removed every big leaf and had to support the weight with some wires.
I left the honey cream outside in a dark place, which turned out to be a big mistake.
None of the branches that I trimmed and dried directly had bud rot but around 6 buds that were left outside had bud rot.
The mass of this plant really put me to the test took a whole lot of time to trim every branch. In fact I still have a bunch of branches that I'm too lazy to trim right now so I'll do a dry trim someday.
Although this grow had some problems it was an absolute pleasure to watch these plants grow and to now having this harvest is absolutely beautiful, a perfect strain mix.
I won't ever let them grow this big again since I really don't need that much weed and I think I'll going to have more fun with some extreme LST or something like it and I guess I'll look for strains that will flower earlier and not for ones that flower fast.
Nistnov
