Battle of the Breeders #1

Growing2Give This is what the plants looked like when I came back from Christmas vacation with the in-laws. I was expecting them to be a little messed up, so no big deal with the yellowing on the lower leaves. They were actually a bit better than I was thinking with the nice green growth at the top, so I was quite pleased and happy to get them ready for transplant.

Growing2Give Transplant time. Took plants out of solo cups and placed them in my soil mix (Promix HP, compost & manure mix, Dr. Earth all purpose and Tomato fertilizer) in a mix of 5 gallon fabric pots and 6 gallon plastic pots. Before placing plants into the larger pots I sprinkle mycorrhizae in the hole for greater root growth and health in their new homes. If transplanted before they become rootbound, you can avoid a lot of the need for recovery. The Wreck'd Nuts was the one chosen this round to come out under the AC Infinity S24 and about 3ft x 3ft of space.

Growing2Give Topped the Sex Melon to try and keep it more of an even canopy in the tent. Nice green growth. Just cruising through veg. Never just give the plants water, they get some level of feeding each watering.

Growing2Give It looks like in these pics that I have topped all the plants and maybe got the Sex Melon for a second time. Going to be putting the plants into flower in the coming week. Most of the time I end up initiating flower due to the tent becoming overrun.

Growing2Give Just kicked the light schedule for flower. Expecting a bit of stretch, but I did not allow enough time for them to totally recover from the last topping. This is one way to control for too much stretch if a plant has a good tendency to jet off once flipped to flower. In my case, it was not done on purpose, but it did not hurt anything. Sex Melon ended up getting topped 3 times and all the others were done twice. Topping tends to work just fine for me and getting some decent structure going prior to flowers forming.

Growing2Give Plants are really starting to take shape. I am almost always growing just one seed of each strain, and for the first time also. This makes it super difficult to know just what I am doing when topping and feeding. And in this case, it looks like I am the first to grow a couple of the strains I picked, so there is no reference either. Feel like I did pretty well with how I trained these plants.

Growing2Give Just keeping the plants fed. I rotate through the nutrients using the Foop line up then cal/mg and sweetener then florapro by itself. All of them are being fed at a mild rate. Usually once a week I give them straight water. Solid green growth and start of flower production.

Growing2Give Top fed with bloom fertilizer. Continued with rotating feeding as plants demand. Sex Melon is showing what looks like a minor potassium issue, but nothing serious. Adjusting between FloraPro bloom and late bloom to make sure they aren't getting too much nitrogen buildup.

Growing2Give Trying to see how far I can push the nutrients. Particularly since most of the nutrients I am using don't have a lot of data out there for small growers. Pretty sure I will have it all dialed in with this run. The plants are not starting to yell at me yet, but not going but so heavy handed.

Growing2Give Starting to see a little bit of lock out issues with the Wreck'd Nuts. That is what happens when you push with some heavy nutes and new strains. Live and learn type of thing. Other plants don't seem to mind getting a little hot. Looking like they may have 2 to 3 more weeks before it is time to do the good ol' chop-a-roony.

Growing2Give Cut out all other nutrients due to some lock out issues showing up on the Wreck'd Nuts and Rainbow Candy. Keeping an eye on the issue with the Wreck'd Nuts since it showed up kind of wild out of nowhere, but the Rainbow Candy is fine. A decent flush fixed it right up. Other 2 strains don't seem to mind the push with the nutrients. Coming close on harvest for a couple of them.

Growing2Give This was an easy week with flushing the 2 B Blunt and Wreck'd Nuts so that I can take them both down. The Wreck'd Nuts just did not recover well from the lock out issues it was facing. It all came out of nowhere and got kind of serious even with a solid flush. That strain is a bit more picky with the nutrient balance than the others were. Leaving the Sex Melon and Rainbow Candy for next week. They still have some beefing up to do.

Growing2Give I harvested this plant on the same week that I pulled down the 2 B Blunt, so there was no more progress in the garden. Was thinking that it was going to take a bit longer to cut down than it did (I wet trim). Feel free to let me know why that is not the proper way to trim... I have my reasons and it has been working for a while.

Growing2Give Was just using water with the last 2 plants this week. They both plumped up a bit and got more color going on, which is exactly what I was waiting for. Overall, it was a nice grow with only a couple hiccups.

Growing2Give Took this plant down the next day after the Sex Melon, so there was no change in anything worth noting.