Northern lights (Overkill)

DapperDabber I forgot to update with my 5x5 last week so I'll have another update tomorrow. Only one popped up continuing my poor luck with Sensi Seeds. She looks a little deformed which is a reoccurring theme with the Sensi Seeds I've had that germinated. Could be a bad luck streak.

DapperDabber It seems she's taken off quite vigorously. She hasn't been watered since the soil has been initially mixed and it might be time soon considering her growth. I'm happy to see one of the Northern Lights made it, I'd like to get quite a few different breeders under my belt.

DapperDabber While this Northern lights from Sensi Seeds may have been the sole survivor, she's impressively vigorous! I began sub irrigation this week, being the first watering since sowing with real Growers Recharge. I have some small lights that came with my mini tent under the canopy hoping to encourage lateral branching. I've never used under canopy lighting before because of irrigation complications but with sub-irrigation it seems a non issue. Continuing on with my personal "overkill" method i lowered the lights as well. The light is on 24/7 maybe I should do some calculation on DLI but my intention is to push the lighting hard with organic inputs in an oversized container. I'll probably refer to it as Living Soil Over-Kill maybe LSOK for short. I like the idea of pushing genetics to their potential limits under organic practices.

DapperDabber She is filling in quite nicely! I began trellis training as the flower stretch appeared to begin. This is most likely the last week of veg as the nodes are getting the dense swell of flower setting! I have continued to bottom watered exclusively (so far 3 times or so via flooding the bottom of the tent) Now that her flowers are setting and the fungus gnats have been defeated she'll probably get a thorough top watering with recharge and big 6. I'm happy to see success on one of the sensi seeds. Their northern lights appear to be one of their most popular strains so I have a bit of hope for the last 4 seeds of NL from Sensi. I'll be starting them soon outside of tents in 10 Gallons because I love having a full garden ☺️ Thanks for tuning in, I'll be back next week! Hopefully we get to see some NL flowers by then🤞

DapperDabber Really blew up this week! What a flowering stretch 😀 I removed the scrog net as per my usual training. I abhor harvesting with a net on, mostly because I do full plant hangs with my terrible humidity around here! I've decided to control the humidity only during drying, to keep things simple. All of my plants have survived through the low humidity over the past year and the only reasonable way to control it in a cost effective manor is with industrial options and I've been more financially focused on trying to start a music studio for live full-band recordings, rehearsals and demo productions. I feel like I should be fine with everything I have thus far in the grow room! Thanks for sticking around, I know this post got a bit more personal but living in Colorado and doing this legally is a far stretch from where and when I forst started as a young-in. I'm happy in my garden 😊 I have such a surplus of flower so far I either need to take a break from growing or find a way to share my homegrown.

DapperDabber Wow what a vigorous lady! She's been drinking more, or at least I've been sub-irrigating more frequently. It's up to once a week or more. I don't really track it too well. It's more of an art than a science,at least as I do it. I'm going to top dress some time in the next week or two. Before flowering sites start ripening. I'm impressed with the vigorousity of the plant! Still bummed about the germination rate, but that's just part of the game I suppose. Thanks for reading! Even though the buds are small I'm glad we got to see some pistils this week!

DapperDabber I really couldn't have asked for a more vigorous lady. Her lateral branching is the most extensive I've ever personally grown! Today she got a top dressing of both Gaia Green's Grow and Bloom as well as BAS's bio-char and Elemental's amino-calcium complex. I didn't measure it, I feel like I've broken away from concrete measurements and go by feel. The closest measurement I can give you was that I used a plastic bowl from Walmart as a scooper and it was 70~90 % full of Gaia green and it was a conservative scoop of the other two. I tilled the top inch of soil to massage the ammendments in. When I top dress I do a deep watering from the top. I use a small pump for recirculation of the run-off to minimize waste. It was my Garden upkeep day and between watering everybody and filling humidifiers I used a bit over half of my 55 gallon drum! I use absorbic acid to neutralize chlorides and phosphoric acid to adjust pH to at least under 6.5 it's usually between 5.8~6.3 My main goal is to keep the soil from getting too alkaline. I use many calcium sources and that cause a constant pH drift upwards. I have a 5mL dropper I fill mostly full of phosphoric acid give or take a few mL depending on how much water was already present when I'm filling it. If it wasn't already clear, I decided to just get a second humidifier to keep both tents controlled. I really didn't want to but wow the humidity dropping to %20 really did a number on the Strawberry gorilla in my 5x5. I've been letting the temps stay ambient while focusing on controlling humidity to alter the vpd. I'm aiming for a 1.2-1.4 vpd and I'll push for 1.6 in late flower. Around the second week of flowering here and I lollipopped the crap out of her, she had an insane amount of buds popping out everywhere! I'm super stoked at the absolute unit of a plant this lady has become. Truthfully I couldn't imagine how much trimming I'd have to do if all 4 germinated. Heck, even two plants this size would have me lollipopping %75 of the plants! I would also like to point out the last photo for those convinced a plant cannot make use of this much soil. The roots have broken through the fabric all around the pot at the base! This lady happily grew into 65+/- gallons of soil! I wasn't even sure if 2 plants could make use of the full container but wow! Thanks for checking in! Sorry for the long read, I've been busy recently but found some time to really make a difference in the garden! My Sweet Cherry Kush have germinated in the 5x5 If your interested in watching me try to grow absolutely massive monsters! I'll also be starting some more in 10 Gallon pots using hydro halos and automated watering! Keep calm and Grow-on my brothers and sisters!