Black D.O.G. Coco Buckets

bosgrower Starting from clone Day 1 05-02-2017 Clones taken and set in rapid rooters in the humidity dome under 4 100w 6500K CFLs Rapid rooters were soaked in ph'd water with light doses of Superthrive and Botincare Liquid Karma Cuttings will be sprayed several times a day with the same mixture. Temp / humidity staying at 78 / 95% Day 6 Starting to see good root development on most clones. Opened the vents on the dome to get humidity down to 80%

bosgrower Week 2 05-09-2017 Transferred 6 of the Rapid Rooters to starter pots with 4:1 ratio of coco : perlite and moved them to the veg tent. Started in ½ strength Jack's 3-2-1

bosgrower Quick note on the nutrient measurements ... Jack's 3-2-1 is a mixture of solid nutrients not liquids but there's no way to show that so I'm putting in ml/gallon instead of grams/gallon. Week 3 05-16-2017 Transplanted to 1 gal root pouches. 1st topping. Went to full strength Jack's 3-2-1

bosgrower Week 4 05-23-2017 All 6 plants showing good development. No deficiencies are apparent. The Jack's is working well.

bosgrower This entry combines 4 weeks of veg development. Week 5 05-30-2017 2nd topping and defoliation for mainlining. Week 6 06-06-2017 Continuing healthy development. Transplanted the 6 into the 4gal dutch buckets with 1:1 coco:perlite above the drain and just perlite below Week 7 06-13-2017 Dutch bucket feeding system is making life a lot easier for me and the plants seem to be responding well. Week 8 06-20-2017 3rd and final topping and defoliation.

bosgrower Week 9 06-27-2017 Cleaned and patched the flower tent after the last grow. Started configuring the drip and recovery system. All 6 plants are continuing to develop well. I don't know if it's the grow medium, the nutes, or that clones and seedlings develop differently but these plants are growing taller and less dense than the originals. Week 10 07-04-2017 Transferred the buckets to the flower tent. Not much noticeable change in the plants' development

bosgrower Week 11 07-11-2017 Starting to see some stretch and preflower activity Week 12 07-18-2017 Plants are all showing significant (relative to the original soil grow) stretch and bud development is coming along nicely on all tops. Continuing with defoliation to expose as many buds as possible. Had to supercrop all the plants to spread the nodes. Managed to get it done with only 1 piece of duct tape :)

bosgrower Week 13 07-25-2017 Started flushing the system this week … Ph of the runoff and salt concentration were significantly too high. Fortunately the DOGs are very tolerant and haven't shown any ill effects. The sugar leaves and even some of the small fans are starting to frost nicely … this is the same week they show frost in soil.

bosgrower Week 14 08/01/2017 Daily flood feeding is continuing and the ph and salt levels are staying stable. Bud development continues and the plants are getting frostier.

bosgrower Week 15 08/08/2017 Stretch has finished and now it's just the maddening process of waiting for the trichomes to ripen fully. 8/13 Starting to see the first signs of amber on some of the plants. Looks like harvest may start next week even though it will probably take another 2 weeks before all of them are ready. Curious that the "black" tint to the leaves hasn't started yet. Don't know if it's the fact that these are clones or that I've gone from soil and Botanicare nutes to coco buckets and Jack's 3-2-1. Could be that counting the day the clones are cut rather than the day they're rooted as the start of week 1 could also be an issue. Another possibility is that the tent has been running in the med 80s while the previous grow at this stage was in the mid 70s. Hmmmm.

bosgrower Superthrive and Liquid Karma were only used during the cloning process. Only the Jack''s 3-2-1 regimen was used for plant nutrition after the clones rooted. Until they add Jacj''s to the database, I have no way to show it here.