The Hippopotamus's Garden 1

Hroch_Tom After three weeks, transplanted from 1.7L to 15L. After topping and defoliation, stretching will begin until the girls are evened out.

Hroch_Tom The girls have already taken off, so it's time for a bit of training....

Hroch_Tom Photos taken on the last day 18/6, three days after defoliation. I'm still dealing with issues from very hard tap water - pH 7.6 and EC 0.8. I had previously experienced nutrient lockout due to excessive mineral content. Before I figured it out, I tried several brands of fertilizers and learned to regularly measure the pH and EC of the runoff from the pot, watering so that 1 to 1.5 liters drains out of a 4.5-liter watering. Now I'm on the first round with AN pH perfect and supposedly it should handle my hard water... it didn't! With AN pH perfect fertilizers, this was my last attempt before getting an RO filter. Now I'm mixing RO water with standing water to achieve EC 0.3, and it seems that AN Sensi Coco pH perfect fertilizers have started to work as they should, automatically bringing the nutrient solution's pH down to 6.1. The girls are starting to thrive too...

Hroch_Tom Photos taken on the tenth day of flowering. The girls are doing noticeably better, the deficiencies on the leaves are slowly disappearing. With the Cali Haze, I’ll try a bit more radical flushing because the runoff still has a high pH of 6.8 and EC of 2.2. For the others, the runoff pH is 6.3 and EC is 1.7. I’ll try to water with 5.5 liters of nutrient solution with EC 0.8 to 1 (just a bit of base) and pH 5.6 instead of 4.5 liters. Hopefully, the Cali Haze substrate will be gently flushed, won’t get too big of a shock, and will recover...

Hroch_Tom It seems that the girls have already overcome their deficiencies, and after finishing the stretching, I performed defoliation on the twentieth day of flowering.... The pH at the runoff is currently around 6.3 and the EC is about 2.

Hroch_Tom Another photo exactly one week later. The buds are starting to gain volume and the sugar production is also in full swing. Cali Haze is a spoiled little brat - she always seems to be unhappy and took a bit longer to flower (Haze genetics). Karibbean Mango is the hungriest - at one point I pushed Big Bud a bit more (2.5ml/l) and it seems to have benefited her. Moon Fog is sensitive to pH fluctuations - once she got out of the initial shock, her growth took off so much that after stretching she stopped 20 cm from the light, and I had to prop up the other girls to keep them roughly the same height. Marshmallow OG has been nothing but a joy throughout the grow - perfect hybrid genetics that train beautifully and handled all the issues the best.

Hroch_Tom Karibbean Mango......wants more of everything, even the lack of Cal Mag was made clear....everyone else is fine with 0.5ml/l, but Mango needs 1.2ml/l. Otherwise, the girls are doing quite well, even though I'm learning to handle RO water and AN nutrients...

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Hroch_Tom So....these two girls are still going strong. With Cali Haze, that was to be expected, but Karibbean Mango after ten weeks has 0% amber trichomes and about 70% to 80% milky. After two waterings with Overdrive added, these two girls started foxtailing, so I immediately stopped using it. With Marshmallow OG and Moon Fog, it helped them and the buds have gotten even bigger.

Hroch_Tom After 72 days of flowering, it's done.

Hroch_Tom I can only recommend Marshmallow OG from Compound Genetics.... the plant is easy to grow and is tolerant of what the grower does to it....👌

Hroch_Tom So it finally looks like these two girls are heading into the home stretch, even though the amber is still nowhere to be seen, and I'm trying to look at the original buds under the foxtailing, but the milk is almost 100%.

Hroch_Tom For the last week, the watering has been just water with adjusted pH and EC 0.4.

Hroch_Tom This plant was the most spoiled and the hungriest. From about the third week of flowering, it had its own nutritional plan. It was getting more feed and calmagu than the others.