25 Lemon Cream Kush

Northern_Ent April 26 Day 1: trying soil blocking this year to minimize plastic use. i like using it but soil is wetter than usual and cannabis doesn’t seem to like that. One more frost night tomorrow and then it should be warm enough to get them outside. was 22 C today but will be -1 C tomorrow overnight. April 30 Day 5: transplanted into 7 gallon grow bag. Seedling was getting too spindly and stretched under my starter light and the weather is beautiful (too hot soon). Will hit 28 C already this weekend apparently. Soil blocking is really good but i had the soil too wet for the cannabis. Transplanted early and outside way ahead of normal. We’ll see how she does. Cheers to all growers. The main risk to the seedling this early is magpies and other birds looking for food.

Northern_Ent May 3: pushing my luck but have moved them outdoors early. Now easier to move plants into unheated but rnclosed gatage to make it through cold nights. That and a small kettle. May 5: Well I was pushing my luck, and this Lemon Cream Kush didn’t make it. This is my fault cuz the soil was a bit too ‘hot’ with nutrients and I was messing around with soil blocking to start seeds this year, plus moving outside as soon as possible. The soil was too wet and the seedling didn’t like it. New seed started a couple days ago. This new one will be done the regular way that I know works. Still using the apple trick (see germination week). May 10: seed 2 was transplanted out today. Early but will be okay. Overnight in garage and watering with warmed water in the morning. No purple stems which would indicate cold stress - so far so good enough, and still early in the season. May 13: seems to be growing. No auto genetics in this one and it seems a bit more sensitive to cold temperatures. Seems to be growing and should get going soon. May 15: she’s growing so that’s a relief.

Northern_Ent May 17: approximately Day 15 for the replacement seed 2, and timed to match other diaries with weeks starting on Saturdays. May 20: cool and rainy last three days. May 22: still cool and rainy meaning slow growth but it should warm up in a few days. May 23: the backup seedling Lemon Cream Kush is now notably bigger than the one ive had outddors. it’s been cool and. rainy but it will warm up soon and the outddor plant will be fine.

Northern_Ent May 24 Day 22: very cool last week and my backup indoor seedling is now a fair bit bigger than the outdoor plant. oh well, she’ll do fine. May 26: decent growth today as it was sunny and pretty hot, around 28 C. Doing Extreme Blend as a foliar spray about once a week. May 28: hot today at 30 C. watered with a bit of molasses and Extreme Blend.

Northern_Ent May 31: just finished fourth week and she’ll be ready for the first topping likely later this week. Now moving into June and lots of growth during the long daylight hours around the solstice. June 3: she’s picking up speed and almost ready for the first topping to create the manifold. Waiting for the fifth node to form so later today or tomorrow she’ll get topped. June 5: first topping to build the manifold. Looking good.

Northern_Ent June 7: Lemon Cream Kush is looking good a day or two after being topped. June 9: going good. Video is a tip to moisten plant leaves a couple times a day when growing in dry air. It makes up for the low humidity. June 10: wildfire smoke has reappeared but not as bad as 2023 (here at least (so far)). She is not stretching out like my other plants but still growing. June 13: oops, i broke a main stem while trying to do LST. Patched with floral tape. it didnt fully break so the tape might work.

Northern_Ent June 14: Lemon Cream Kush is starting strong veg growth. She’s doing fine and looking good. By end of day the leaves above the broken stem are looking a bit stressed. Maybe there will be consequences for breaking the stem yesterday. June 16: it looks like the broken stem will recover. I hope. June 20: it seems i got away with breaking one of the main stems. The floral tape patch is working - that side is growing more slowly and looked pretty limp a few days ago, is still a bit smaller but is now growing again. At worst the manifold will be a bit lopsided but the plant will still do just fine.

Northern_Ent June 21: Lemon Cream Kush is doing great. The one stem is behind (because I broke it doing LST) but it’s recovered and is now growing again. The plant is a bit lopsided so to keep the growth tips at the same elevation, I’ve tied down that bigger mainstem using the netting to give the lower growth tips more sunlight. Started another lazy compost tea for use tomorrow. This is the third tea so far. June 23: adjusted net. She’s lopsided because of the broken stem (now recovered) that put half the plant about a week behind schedule. We’ll see what happens.

Northern_Ent June 28: it rained a fair bit in June which is good, of course, and it looks like nice warm cannabis weather for the next two weeks. There will be a lot of vegetative growth in the next two weeks. July 4: she is filling in nicely and will do fine despite having broken a stem. Patched up but it delayed development on that side. Anyway seems pretty even now so it should be good from here.

Northern_Ent July 5: Lemon Cream Kush seems to be doing fine. The canopy is more or less even. There are four small growth tips that I'm trying to get exposed to sunlight but all the other ones are exposed and doing fine. July 8: added Power Bloom and barley as a top dressing. July 10: looking pretty good and fairly rebalanced and recovered after I damaged one of the main stems a couple weeks ago.

Northern_Ent July 12: Lemon Cream Kush is looking good and fully recovered from me breaking a stem a couple weeks ago. Replaced barley (which was sprouting) with malted barley as the top dressing. Should use malted barley which means it has already been sprouted. I mix it with Power Bloom at 1:1 and use as a top dressing. July 14: everybody got an Epsom salts foliar spray which they seemed to like. July 18: she looks great and starting force flowering tonight.

Northern_Ent July 19: first night of force flowering last night. Moved into dark garage at 9:30 pm and out at 7:30 am for 10 h of darkness. Using 730 nm far red light at transition to dark which puts plant into dark mode two hours faster and is like getting a 26 h day with 12 of darkness. Rain day. July 22: Foliar spray of Epsom salts and potassium silicate this morning. The magnesium in the Epsom salts helped with the yellowing on the new growth. July 23: added another loose Scrog net layer. Tied to water bottles to open up the canopy to sunlight.

Northern_Ent July 26: Lemon Cream Kush is doing just fine. Nicely recovered from me breaking one of the two main stems several weeks ago. I managed to tape it and she recovered quite well but it delayed things a bit and left her a bit asymmetric. Did a fourth lazy compost tea, see video explaining how i do it without an air pump and using cheap ingredients like blackstrap molasses and Epsom salts. July 29: defoliated lower fan leaves and small lower bud sites. Aug 1: added another round of malted barley and Power Bloom because the cannabis plants are showing signs of P deficiency. Blue-ish leaves and reddish petioles on another plant should be fixed by the malt and Power Bloom.

Northern_Ent Aug 1: strong start to the week- it’s been hot and sunny lately and this will be our third and final day at 30 C. Lemon Cream Kush looks great and is flowering now after two full weeks of force flowering (12h of darkness). Aug 4: added another loose Scrog net layer to hold it together but to also allow separation of the colas to expose them to sunlight. Aug 5: plants in this wagon are getting too big to move easily into garage. Will stop forcing and switch back to 15.5 h of daylight in yard. Still using far red light at dusk as a bloom booster.

Northern_Ent Aug 9: Lemon Cream Kush is doing fine and is starting to stretch a bit. I’m surprised how much it grew last week. Got the UV led lights from AC Infinity going. The sunlight gets weak here quickly starting in mid-August and the UV helps form trichomes. Used it last year and it seems to help. Nice weather days only as these lights are not intended for outdoor use. Aug 14: rainy last few days. Noticeably stretched last night. Had UV lights going in afternoon after a few days of not using them.

Northern_Ent Aug 16: Lemon Cream Kush has stretched a bit and the buds are starting to fill in. Should be a decent yield and I’m looking forward to the tast of this one.