Funny Monk

The Funny Monk I grew in her own tent so that I could see what I could produce from a single plant in a 2x4 tent. I’ve never set out to do one on its own like this and the plan was to get her to fill the tent wall to wall with buds. She did not disappoint, she made a beautiful canopy and produced almost 650g/m.sq. All the flowering nutes sheets are attached so you can see how she fed and what the run off was like. She was a good eater and I only did one mid-flower flush on her. As I came to the end and started to only water her, she drove her PPM run off to nothing very quickly as she was trying to eat up all she could. She is very strong, grows thick branches that can easily support themselves and responds well to training. IMO she is one of the easiest plants to train. I did damage her by nearly ripping a branch off due to a drill falling and hitting her. She healed up the node very quickly and didn’t have any lasting negative effects on that cola or the one adjacent to her. The sad part is I think I might have been able to get even more out of her, if you can believe that. At veg week 12 she hadn’t filled up the tent edge to edge yet, but looking out of my timeline I needed to send her to flower because I had a vacation book and I needed her done and dried before I left. At week 12 veg she wasn’t edge to edge on the tent but I figured that I could use the stretch phase to get her that, and it worked. The only problem with doing that is that I lolly-popped her a bit too much and the part that was left to grow vertically after she reached the edges was fairly short. But it’s really hard to be disappointed with ~16oz from a 2x4 tent with super dense awesome buds. If I could go back, I would have liked to let her have another ~15cm (6”) more vertical length on each cola, I figure all it would have taken is another 7-10 days in veg. This would have given her more bud sites to develop and probably would have produced even more weight. As it was, she produced cola’s that were a bit shorter then I was hoping for but every bit as fat and dense as anyone could hope for. Peace, Love, and a Corny Joke from the Funny Monk Why did the pot head plant cheerios? He thought they were donut seeds. MORE GROW INFORMATION --------------------------------- I grow in “Pro-Mix CC/HP” I put about 3cm (1”) perlite layer in the bottom of the pot and then the CC/HP soil mixed with about 15% more perlite for the rest of the pot. I always put all the water in the pot first, so if it says 9 L water 6 L mix, 9 L of water is put into the pot first and let able to be absorbed. Once the water is all in and absorbed through I put the feed mix in, so in the instance 6L of the feed mix. I do this for a couple reasons; 1) by putting the water through first it moistens the soil and helps to make sure the feed goes in more evenly. 2) by putting the water in first it helps ensure that the run off that I’m reading is mostly water that has flowed through the pot, rather then the nute feed mix that I’m newly adding. 3) I use 16 gallon pots and my goal is to get min 3L to 5L run off to measure. The bottom of the fabric pots get dried/condensed nute on the bottom, I try and wet that and toss away about the 1st litre of liquid dripping from the pot as this will read higher/hotter then the pot actually is. 4) by soaking the pot with water first I have found that “hot spots” in the soil are drastically decreased resulting in stronger plants and faster growth. I water and feed on the same day and then let the plant sit until she is dry on the outside of pot and the top ~6+cm (~2+ inches) of soil is dry. The amount of foliage on the plant and the humidity in the grow space are the biggest factors in determining how often she needs to be watered and fed. You will see in some diaries I’m water/feeding every other day and in others it’s up to 4 days between watering/feeding. It’s a balance you need to find and I’ve had it where 2 different plants in the same tent have one plant getting watered every other day and the other plant getting watered every third day. ***pro tip, if I’m going away for a few days or for a week or 2 on vacation, I’ll often defoliate the plants the day before I go if they can handle it. This makes it so that they consume less water and can go a bit further while I’m away, plus it’s less of a jungle mess when I get home. >>>Nutes Sheet Short Hand Explanation >>> I tried to put it here but the formatting ended up all wacky so I'm going to put it in a image and attach it above. From what I’ve read and from my experience I ideally want a 40-50% drop from what I feed. So if I feed 1,000 PPM I would ideally like to see 500-600ppm in my run off. This tells me that the plant is feeding well and has enough food that it’s not starving. If I start to see the PPM’s climb up to ~600-650 I’ll feed a bit less PPM and/or litres of feed, or add a bit more water. If I see ~700 then I’ll do a small flush and get the PPM’s back down into the ~300 range and start to feed again. The PH I look for 6.4 - 6.6 as ideal, the the PH is above or below that then I’ll PH correct the water going in a little higher or lower, as well as adjust the PH of the feed a little higher or lower to help push it back into the 6.4-6.6 window. However the feed I will never go lower then 6.0 or higher then 6.8, above or below that I feel is too extreme and can effect the plants ability to feed. If the PH is below 5.8 or above 7.2 then I’ll do a flush with water that is PH corrected until I get run off between 6.3 and 6.8 PH.