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It's been a long confusing week. These sour stompers are far different than the one test plant, they're bigger, stronger and much faster at growing vegetative. However the size and speed brought other problems like how to manage the gear and plants within my confined space. Even expanding the tent to the 4x5x2 wasn't enough and I've battled with light intensity the whole time but at a manageable level, only burning just the tips of leaves slowly over time.
I expect the end is only a week or two off going by the trichromes getting ever more bulbous everyday and by how many orange hairs have come. The only hard thing is going by the pistils discoloring some of the plant is ready and the bottom buds aren't. The low buds still have many white swollen pistils, but also the very top most buds have white pistils poking out which makes me think the light is actually irritating the top buds after all not just the leaves. I suppose only time will tell but I'm planning to chop the plant as long as the majority is matured even if the tops are behaving badly.
The only other odd thing I've seen happen is several leaves have slowly discolored and then fully changed and became crisp, possibly a reaction to the high PK values in the Beastie Bloomz that i gave the last couple weeks, once a week; or it could be Nitrogen deficiency. Because of this and the maturity of the plants I'm removing the nutrients and sticking with plain water from now until the end. I may add small amounts of molasses just to keep the soil from being completely starved and to see if they can bulk up a bit more.
Happy growing everyone and remember to LST your plants at an early age to prevent space dilemmas. ✌️
Are there any opinions on what sort of lighting is best for seedlings? Should they get a lower light intensity than bigger veg plants, or does a 300 watt not sound too strong?
I've usually started babies under cfl lights...just curious if its safe to expose them to others in their 1st week or so.
@starphish, I can definitely see that...i think i start thinking the plants need much more than they really do and i regret it later. The more i leave them alone the better they do most the time.
@Experimentgreen,
From my 10+ experience you can get by with a lot less for seedlings. (single cfl) However when applied to autoflowers. I like to give them all I can the entire photoperiod. I've done seed to flower with a 300watt (127 true watts) Roleadro and it did great albeit smaller yields with less light but speed and vigor was there :)
My pumice floats a little. It is much better than pearlite regarding to float. After a month in my pot, pumice no longer float. And I tend to blend fine size with small size.
@Med_in_Tropic, ill try that thanks for the tip. There is a diamataceous earth product that fine like the pumice but it's expensive but it lets out silica into the grow slowly which is awesome and then keeps some bugs at bay.
Beautiful! Amazing job. Love mephisto genetics. Have a few mystery mix seeds going and really hoping one turns out to be these. Keep doing what your doing and best of luck with the rest of your grow
@Denzul, thanks it's been an exciting indoor season. My 1st sour stomper was a bit of a mess but with a few changes these 2 turned out much bigger, wider, fuller canopy and just over all better. How will you know what the mysteries are? Educated guessing?✌️
Pretty much. Meph only carries about 30 strains at a time so sometimes you can compare it to other diaries to determine. Sometimes it's just to hard to determine. Mephheads on reddit are also extremely helpful thread to help figure it out.
@ChefDan420, Thanks, its amazing how much better these 2 sour stompers are doing versus the 1st one. Just a few small adjustments and they're way healthier, more full foliage. It's great