Black Cherry Gushers - G2

PapaTerps Black Cherry Gushers - Barneys Farm x Backpack Boyz Day 12 - watered with 250ml of RO tap water with defined nutrients, pH'd to 6.3. today is her first day of veg, she is growing her second set of leaves and is looking very healthy 👍🏻 Day 15 - I watered her with another 250ml of RO tap water with nutrients, but this time the pH was on point, so we skipped it. I had accidentally poured the water solution over her leaves, I tried to dab as much of the moisture off, but as you can see it damaged her starter leaves a bit, but she'll be okay! I've noticed a slight smell from her now too, which a great sign 🤘🏻

PapaTerps Black Cherry Gushers - Barney's Farm x BackpackBoyz Day 20 - water upped from 250ml to 500ml and I've introduce growth nutrients and reduce the root nutrients as we don't need that anymore. ph came to 6.2 naturally 👍🏻 Day 23 - watered with 500ml of RO water with nutrients. Shes growing really well, her first few fan leaves have long stems, so I've decided not to defoliate this week, but next week we'll need to start some low stress training (LST).

PapaTerps Black Cherry Gushers - Barney's Farm x Backpack Boyz Day 26 - Watered with 500ml of RO tap water with defined nutrients, ph came to 6.1 so I left it at that. I've removed her starter leaves and I've began LST on her, by pinning down her second set of leaves, allowing more light to reach her lower nodes. Her stems are so long, its wasn't necessary to remove any other leaves at this point. She's growing really well, the internodal spacing is very good, so I'm still debating on which grow technique to use or whether I should just let her take off... Notes: - I've included the PH chart, (in the photos) which I use to determine the PH of the solution for soil. Usually anything between 6.2 and 6.6 is okay, with 6.4 being ideal. A lot of people say 6.5, but I think 6.4 allows the plant to get the most of everything. If my solution comes to anywhere near 6.2 on the low end or 6.6 on the high end, I tend to leave it, I don't like playing PH tenis.

PapaTerps Black Cherry Gushers - Barney's Farm x Backpack Boyz Day 32 - Watered upped to 1L, and is made of RO tap water with defined nutrients. The ph came to 5.8, so I used BioBizz pH up to bring the pH to 6.3. I continued with the LST method, by pinning down her axillary bud stems down and away from the main stem. Day 34 - I removed a few of her larger leaves, to improve airflow and light penetration.

PapaTerps Black Cherry Gushers - Barney's Farm x Backpack Boyz Day 38 - Watered upped to 2 liters, of RO tap water with defined nutrients, pH'd to 6.3. Big stretch on her this week, nearly double of what she was, she has a lovely weak smell off her now too - I think she's just about ready to switch over to a 12/12 light schedule, but I'll let her veg for another week or so 👍🏻 in the meantime, I've introduced a low amount of bloom nutrients to her watering. Notes: - she has good internodal spacing at the bottom, but she's a bit tight at the top; I might need to put the light up another few cm. I've left her top fan leaves on this week, just to give her time to shoot up a bit also; normally I would remove them to allow the lower nodes to catch up. - another round of Defoliation was required this week to improve light penetration, I also removed a couple of nodes that were in bad locations.

PapaTerps Black Cherry Gushers - Barney's Farm x Backpack Boyz Day 45 - Watered upped to 3 liters, of RO tap water with defined nutrients, pH'd to 6.3. She has grown so well, to a point where I think she is ready to go into flower, so I have moved her into the flowering tent a little earlier than expected - and within 24 hours of doing this, her pistils appeared on her bud sites! She'll be sharing the tent with the Kush Mass Auto, which is in the final days of her lifecycle. Notes: - moved into the flowering tent, which is on a 12/12 light schedule. - lollipopped all lower stems, as the bud sites on these will never amount to anything, and to encourage them to stretch towards the light. - When I see her bud sites show signs of flower, I will consider her ""in flower"", but for now, I still consider her ""in veg"".

PapaTerps Black Cherry Gushers - Barney's Farm x Backpack Boyz Day 53 - Watered with 2 liters of RO tap water with defined nutrients, pH'd to 6.3. As you can see from the pictures, the Kush Mass has left the tent and has been replaced with the Blue Zushi, which will keep this beauty company for the rest of her lifecycle. This week, I removed a lot of foliage from her, as well as a couple of her lower stems, which we're not in a good location for light. She is growing well and judging by the pistils appearing on the base of her stems, she is getting closer to flower; I'd say in the next week or so, we'll start to see signs of her transition to bloom. Notes: - I've added some support bars to the flowering tent, as you can see in the pictures, because I had weight issues in my previous grow, where the stems couldn't support the weight of the bud. These bars will allow me to tie the stems up against the wall of the tent; rather that use a net, which can have other issues.