Super Boof + Trainwreck (Coco organic)

GeekWeed Gave them just a little bit too much water. The pots are at 100% of their water capacity (around 200g each). SANlight is still at 25%.

GeekWeed Plants are recovering from over watering. Transplanted into 13x13x13 pots. Substrate is a 50/50 mix of my initial recipe and Canna Coco Pro. I guess the supersoil is still too hot for the plants in its current development cycle.

GeekWeed Final transplantation in 12 liter pots using supersoil. I also added soil moisture sensors and drain sensors. Now that the root system has developed, my irrigation system automatically takes care of watering. Light and irrigation schedule is based on the well known crop steering phases: P0 (lights on/warmup) at 17:00h no irrigation P1 (stacking) at 17:50h irrigation every 12 minutes a 3% shot until drain is detected (5-7 shots) P2 (hold) around 19:20h irrigation every 45 minutes a 1% shot. P3 (lights off/night) at 11:00h time to dryback until next P1

GeekWeed For the flowering phase I added 35g of GreenHouse Feeding BioBloom as top dressing per plant. I decided to go for the lower end of fertilization because the substrate already contains a decent amount of food and I will use S&R GreenPower once a week in addition. So far nothing else to do. Just letting the plants run through their pre-flowering phase for the next 3 weeks.

GeekWeed Massive stretch during the first week. The stems become hard and inflexible.

GeekWeed Just added 3g of S&R Organics Vegan Phosphor Boost per plant as top dressing.

GeekWeed Stretch has come to an end at the begin of week 4. At the end of the third week, the leaves appeared slightly too yellow to me so I lowered the pH of my water down to 6.3. Just two days later and the leaves have changed to healthy green again.

GeekWeed Plants are looking good - green and healthy. Still fighting against gnats and finally I will win. Buds are developing very slow. I also reduced my SanLights down to 80% because the top buds of the Super Boof strain are clearly bleaching. My irrigation automation works absolutely fine. I have exactly 15% dryback which corresponds to 900 ml up to the drain in the P1 phase.

GeekWeed Just gave the plants once a week Green Power 5in1. The rest of the week they get Ca and Mg enriched RO water. The buds are a little small but very beautiful. I blame it to the low VPD value within my grow environment. I use the natural conditions without additional air conditioning. I think the energy spend to simulate the sun/light is crazy enough and I don’t want to double or triple it.

GeekWeed Entering the final stage of this run.. in other words, late flowering. Just giving 1600ml of RO water enriched with Ca and Mg. Guess I will feed a last time with Enhancer and Green Power tomorrow. After taking a closer look to the trichomes I decided not to feed the plants anymore. Trichome heads are mostly light cloudy without any signs of amber. Maybe this is the first time that the breeder's information in terms of flowering days might be true and I can harvest around day 60. The smell is already amazing.

GeekWeed I was able to lower the humidity about 10% by using a dehumidifier. Smell is getting stronger and the trichomes are developing very well.

GeekWeed Final days before harvest. No nutrients, Only RO water.

GeekWeed Okay folks, this run has now officially come to an end. After 61 days in flowering, I decided to cut off the plants for harvest. This was my grow number 7 (I think) and definitely my best grow so far in terms of results. Buds are dense, heavy, and fully covered with sugar aka trichomes. During mid and late flowering, I was a little disappointed because I was keen to see massive colas forming single head buds. Now that I got so many beautiful heavy nuggets, I'm very happy again. Trainwreck is a beauty with purple buds and leaves. On the flip side, I found many male bananas on bottom buds. I hope they matured just too late so that they didn't do any harm. Super Boof has nearly no purple at all. She looked still very greenish, but the trichomes have already turned cloudy with some occurrence of amber. The smell and stickiness of the buds is amazing. I cut off all fan and some sugar leaves and put the buds into Dryfem bags (without stems). The drying condition is about 17-18°C and 50-55%. I guess it will take about 10-12 days to dry. First time that I use these bags, and I look forward to testing the results. In my prior run, I made my first experiences with crop steering and hydroponic grow based on coco with synthetic fertilizers. What I really liked was the fact that you nearly can't overwater coco. In terms of crop steering - just feed in P1 phase until runoff and keep water content at 90% during P2 phase. By measuring the amount of water necessary until runoff, you can also calculate the actual dryback of the medium. Dryback is in crop steering one of the most important things to control. And it's relatively easy to automate and measure if you are able to irrigate your plants until runoff, which is possible in coco. What I didn't like was the use of synthetic fertilizers. I prefer the organic way of growing, which is usually related to soil-based mediums. In this latest run, I used coco enriched with organic ingredients and will definitely continue on that path.