Sensi #11 by TOTEM

Welcome back everybody! I’ve got some good news. I’m so excited because Sensi Seeds asked me to test their new strains. The project is called Sensi Seeds Research, and they basically breeded some of their best strains with other ones, both new and old, and planned to release some of them in the future. They still don’t have a name, and they come just with a number and their lineage description. Our mission is to test them, and then find a suitable and interesting name for each. So, there are many autos, some high CBD feminized strains, and 4 high THC ones. In the end I asked to send me these 4, which are: Sensi #11: Blueberry x Afghani x Silver Haze Sensi #32: Silver Haze x Fire OG (OMGGGGGGG) Sensi #140: Chocolope x Hindu Kush Sensi #741: Sour Diesel x Afghani Sooooo, I planned a 4 plants grow in 9L Air Pots. I’ll mainline them in Nebula style in order to get 8 big colas each, and I think we’re gonna laugh here because some of them are more sativa than others, so just think about their stretch when flowering starts. As you may know the Silver Haze is favorite strain, so my hype for the Silver Haze x Fire OG is endless!!! SETTING It will be a soil grow. I’ll start with 1L Air Pots, then transplant to 3L ones, and finally to the 9L ones. Biobizz Light Mix for the germination and Canna Bio Terra Plus for the rest of the grow. For the germination I added a layer of Xtreme Gardening Mykos 1cm under the seeds, and but will use Mykos in every transplant too. I’ll be using Biomagno nutrients line, starting from 1/4 of strength from day 14 to day 28 (from sprout), increasing to 1/3 after day 28, and possibly 1/2 on very hungry plants. But I’ll go very soft because I don’t strains. Less is better, so I’ll always be able to add more if needed. I’ll try to water with osmotic water or rainwater only in order to avoid killing mycorrhizae and other organisms. I still have to figure out if I’ll use a pH meter and correct pH each time. I’d like to try without. I’ll grow in both veg and flower with my 600W Cree CXB3590 COB panel. I’ll use the same tent I’ve always used: Mammoth Pro 100, 1x1x2m (3.3x3.3x6.6ft). LET’S GO!!!!! Day 1 (April 10, 2019): Planted the seed directly into the soil. Day 6 (April 15, 2019): Sprout day! It’s been a little cold inside the grow box. Day 7 (April 16, 2019): Switched on the COB panel. Double-sun power!!

Not much to say for the moment! At the end of the week I discovered the timer was keeping the light 24/7 on! 😱

Sensi #11 for the moment is the smallest and less developed, but she’s the most hairy. You can zoom in on the close shot and see all the hair in detail! She’s also the only one who is already smelling dank. 😃 Day 15 (April 24, 2019): I decreased light distance from 130 to 100cm. Some leaves are curled up because RH is low (around 40%) while temps are quite high (around 30C). Day 18 (April 27, 2019): First feed @ 0.5ml/L.

This is a very interesting week! After mainlining, I transplanted the lady into a 3L AirPot, adding 3 spoons of Mykos by Xtreme Gardening, 45g of BioMagno Algae and 5g of BioMagno Neem Flour. I uploaded a time-lapse video that shows the process. Then I fed her with the nutes you see above this comment, in 1L of water (actually, 750ml would be better). I hope you liked this week content! Day 28 (May 7, 2019): 0.5L of tap water with Activator @ 0.5ml/L and Rizostimo @ 1ml/L.

Yo yo! Everything good! Not much to say since since she's growing well and healthy. I can only say her growth rate is not one of the fastest. Next week I'll top to the new 2nd node and over the 3rd, in order to get the final 8 colas structure. Day 34 (May 13, 2019): 0,5ml/L of Crescita, 1ml/L of Activator and Rizostimo in 750ml of tap water.

Slow growth this week. I guess she didn’t like mainlining at all. I think I need to give more nutrients because she looks like too much light green. In the meantime, with some Biomassa (CalMag) @ 1ml/L, now she feels so much better and I can’t see CalMag deficiencies anymore. She’s the one with more roots coming out from the bottom for the moment. Rizostimo is working pretty well with her. Unfortunately this week I was busy and had to take the photos with my phone. Day 36 (May 15, 2019): Decreased light distance from 100cm to 70cm. Day 39 (May 18, 2019): 2nd node removed and topped over the 3rd one. Day 41 (May 20, 2019): Feed with Crescita and Activator: 0.5ml/L, Rizostimo and BioMassa: 1ml/L. ~750ml of water each.

This is the last (hard) training week! Next week I’ll transplant her into her final 9L pot, then wait a little, and finally switch to 12/12. Day 45 (May 24, 2019): I bent down almost every branch, then fed following the linked schedule. I added more roots stimulator because I’d like to create a better root base before the final transplant into the 9L AirPot. Day 49 (May 28, 2019): Heavy defoliation keeping only the last nodes, then fed following the same previous schedule.

Earlier this week I transplanted her into the 9L AirPot. Now that I don't have to train her anymore, I just need to wait until she's 40-50cm tall, and then I can switch to 12/12. Since she grows faster than the other ones, I think it will be more 50 than 40cm (so others can reach 40cm, that is the minimum height for this mainlining project). I'm aiming at 8 long colas for each plant.

She's growing so aggressively right now. So many roots coming out from the bottom. She needs more nutes than her sisters! Mainlining altered for sure the symmetry of her nodes, which are not growing aligned anymore. In the end she will be the most stretchy one, which is not really a good news!

What a crazy week! She's doing really well: she's so tall and her leaves are looking sooo good. This lady loves nutes, but doesn't like wind at all. This week I added nutes back, but just once. Last week I had a big gnats infestation, but Mosquito Dunks worked like a charm. No one left! Niiiice!

This is her last veg week. Just a heavy defoliation before the switch to 12/12 that I'll make on the first day of week 12. At the beginning of the week applied some foliar B-52 and Nirvana @ 0.5ml/L, then some more after the big defoliation I did at the end of the week, this time inside the watering solution, @ 2ml/L. She's stretched a lot this week. 50cm is perfect before the switch!

Flowering has started! This week she stretched like crazy: from 50cm to 64cm. I can't see any kind of flower yet, while some of the others already have some. It seems like she prefers stretching instead for the moment. I like her structure because she doesn't develop many leaves, so there's always some space for lower bud sites. This week I watered twice: the first time with flowering nutes by BioMagno @ 1ml/L, the second time with just B-52 and Nirvana from Advanced Nutrients. Just some experiments, so I can see how they react alternating different (but always good) food. I can tell you every one of them reacts to that B-52 + Nirvana cocktail by raising their leaves to the sky like they are praying, so yes, it's actually a very powerful cocktail!!

Took a while for this update because last week I lost my camera's battery charger. Finally we can see the first flowers! Everything good, she's still stretching, and she's still the tallest, and she loves these organic nutrients. I'll do a big defoliation by the end of this week.

There we go! I love weeks 3. They always remind me of the ScrOGs I did in the past... the first flowers, the end of the stretch period... plants finally pushing all the energy to their flowers: yeah baby!!!! At the beginning of this week I did the last big defoliation. Many lower flowers were covered by fan leaves, so I removed them. I also got rid of some lower bud sites that would have never received enough light if I kept them. As you can see, everything is clearer now. I hope you like that flower photo, because I think it's amazing! Since last week she's gained 5cm only: this means her stretch is coming to an end, and she can now put all her energies into flowers development. I'm alternating Biomassa and Florastimo, one week each. Biomassa has CalMag inside, Florastimo has some other good stuff like vitamins, amino acids and algae. Have you seen how many fungus gnats I've trapped? Fucking fuckers. Mosquito Dunks didn't work properly: it's better to use it by spraying it on every AirPot's hole, instead of using it inside the water solution.

This week I made a total mess with nutes. She clearly wanted food (N deficiency with lower leaves yellowing), so I used more nutes than needed. The biggest mistake I did is with Big Bud, which increased PPMs like crazy (other than being the only one inorganic in my solution). Result: burned tips, while N deficiency is still there. My pH pen also did some damage because it wasn't properly calibrated, and I think I got an iron deficiency too. Lol. I'm already trying to fix everything. In reality this is not a bad move, because I'm also here to test the strains. For example, Sensi #140, which seemed to be more sensible to nutes than others, this time appreciated this crazy mixture and not even one tip was burned. Next week I'm giving Sensi #11 a bit of vegetative nutes too because she really needs more N. In general her flowers are getting very big. Their smell is very dank, and even remind me of Gorilla Glue sometimes. Not the smell I remembered from the Silver Haze, which was more fruity. It seems like the Afghani is taking over on both Silver Haze and Blueberry.

Oh my. Last week I was talking about N deficiency, but in reality she was perfect! The real big problem was my pH pen, that was broken, and when I thought I was giving a pH 6.5 solution to my plants, in reality the pH was a lot lower than that (maybe pH 4). That's why her leaves all started getting yellow! Runoff PPMs right now, after the feed, are 3500 lol. I decided not to flush her, but I'll give just water until she feels better. Her flowers are quite big right now, and also smell dank. Not my favorite aroma, but usually I don't care that much about the smell. Then I like the fact her leaves are slowly getting pink, which makes me remind of the blueberry inside these genetics. Overall I think she'll be the first to finish, just looking at the size of her flowers. You know, I can't wait to vape this beauty!!!!

Week 7, big flowers and another big defoliation in order to get even bigger colas. You know how long it takes to clean up all those lower popcorn buds, right? Because I do, and this month I’ll not have any time to do that. So... I removed them. All of them. And kept just the bigger ones. As you can see, this lady is almost totally naked right now. Aw yeah! Her 8 main colas are already quite big, and this defoliation should make her focus only on them. One week left? Maybe two? I don’t think a lot more. I’ll be start checking trichomes very soon, and you too with the high quality photos I’m uploading. Stay tuned!

Some huge buds this week... and they keep growing! This plant is a real satisfaction. The biggest colas I've ever had. At the beginning of this week I fed for the last time after a water-only week, then on last day of the week I started flushing. I flushed with 30L of tap water (pH corrected to 6.5), that is around 3x times the capacity of the pot (9L). I got a runoff consisting in pH 7.0 and 416PPMs. Leaves were already a bit yellow, and many of them are slowly getting dark red. Very interesting color. The smell is not of my favorites because it's not fruity. I can't really definite it, but it's not that inviting imho. At this time I'm still not sure when to harvest this lady because almost all trichomes are milky, but no one is amber, so... let's wait a little more, hoping also for a bigger colas development. I like that even the lower and smallest ones are getting big. I'm really curious to see how much more they will grow before I chop them down.

FLUSH FLUSH FLUSH! She's almost done. We got some monster flowers this week! Pistils are all white, while trichomes are all milky. Not even one is amber yet. Let's wait a little more!

I love this plant. She's a total babe! Last week for her. She's been flushing a lot, and within this time she showed off her real powers. Amazing colors and monster colas! Wow. Her trichomes are really small to be seen clearly with a lens, so it's hard to judge when it's time to harvest. But I think I spotted some amber ones, so... next week. This will be the last! I can't wait to vape her!!