Day 50 - Fully recovered from defoliation, starting to show signs of flowering....
Day 51 - Added some pics.... i forgot to turn on the 600w light panel after i turned it off for something...
this was during the swap over to flower... so they were on mostly 2700k for afew days...
Day 54 - Added some pics/vid, in the sunshine.... looking good, starting to flower..... pics of roots coming out everywhere...
might have to defoliate some more..... π
Day 55 - Added some pics, they look happy in the light :)
The girls are drinking alot, i'm still just bottom saucer watering, and just wet the top soil every few days....
It's alot easy way of letting them drink as much as they want without me over feeding them,
The 8 ml/1 lt of dutch master gold one, is approx. working out to 800 ppm and about 6 PH mixed (i just add it until it's 800ppm), and i'm making up a 2 lt bottle of that every few days....
i think i'll have to go upto 1000-1200 ppm soon....
Both girls have root balls fully taking up every bit of room in the pots soil, the roots are coming out the top of the dirt, and out the bottom of the pots....
i'll take some pics of the roots and ventilation/exhaust, this week...
The ventilation , exhaust, and filter are working properly, now that i have worked out the proper setup, there is no smell, and it has no impact to the home, other than the size of the tent.
Something to notice is the home DIY LED setup i built, and the color in the pics, notice the yellowy sunlight color spectrum of the LEDs .... the details of the lights are in previous weeks......
I've also removed most of the tie downs now, and just been stress bending them by hand.....
0.5w leds (flower setup)
450-460nm (24pcs) blue veg
620-630nm (60pcs) red veg-flo
660nm (16pcs) red veg-flo
yellow 2700k (high red) (flo-160pcs) - (veg-32pcs)
white 7500k (high blue) (flo-56pcs) - (veg-178pcs)
IR 730-740 nm (2pcs)
UV 380 nm (2pcs)
π
They are looking good. Not sure if you are misting the plants with your lights on but the water droplets can magnify the light and burn your girls. Best of luck with the rest of your grow
@Wicked_Stix,
yep, i'm letting them dry out for a day, and then just bottom feed em until they stop sucking up the water, then let em go for a day or 2... they seem to be loving it... i find it easier than top watering, i over water when top watering... and it seems easier to not over water via the bottom..... idk, i'm new to it all... and learning as we go... thx for reply... π
@Max1973, I wish I could give you some info on bottom feeding but I don't have any experience with it. I don't grow in soil much. I do know that plants in soil need to have a wet/dry cycle to get enough oxygen. I would definitely keep an eye out for overwatering if you water from the bottom
@Wicked_Stix,
i stopped misting altogether, i started it with abit of the dutch gold, to try to recover the one with spots.... any way i was wondering if i could ask your opinion about feeding via the saucer at the bottom ?
let me explain.... the dutch gold i am using sort of indicates it's for a reserve water type grow..... so i am just feeding my babies from the saucer at the bottom... i fill the saucer and if the plants suck it all up, then i fill it again, about every 12 hrs..... idk, it seems to be working perfectly... just feed em thru the bottom saucer, and if they want to drink they do - they are suckin up some serious neut water atm... idk, they seem to be lovin it.....
@Max1973, Sounds like we both got the same pheno then! I checked out the grow you mentioned, which also looked super dank but that guy described the flavor a something a bit different, so maybe I'll get that one this time. Either way, if I can pull it off, I'm going to breed Kush n Cookies with GG #4 and see where things for from there.
I don't know if I can convince you, but there are a couple test kits out there for CBD and as I understand the potency varies through flower (degrades past 60 days in favor of CBN I think) but I would be really curious if it hits the ~15%+ the breeders claim. I'm definitely going to test mine this coming cycle.
@Max1973, For a first grow, it's nothing short of impressive. I wasn't aware this strain could purp, maybe that guy got a different pheno, but it sure looks dank as hell!
Hey @Max1973, your plants look great!
No worries about the slower growth, thatβs normal around the 4th or 5th flowering week as from now on the plants should only focus their energy to the flowering as such and not that much to the growth.
Looking at your progress so far, Iβm sure youβll get plentiful harvest π
Good luck! π
Awesome! Looking at the trichomes they are mostly clear and cloudy so I would say 2 weeks to go, or at least 1 if you are in a rush π
Great job and looking forward to hear about how you like the smoke π
@Butrus,
yep, um, i pulled em, harvested, i'll post final harvest post sunday.... the pics were of a bud that was from the bottom, when i was first playing around with usb microscope... the top looked different, was cloudy, amber, rdy..... and drying, they look awesome.... ππ
@Wicked_Stix,
coool, thx, i did some major defoliation this morning, uploading new pics and vids, day 47....... something interesting about this grow is, the led's, fans etc. all power usage is below 200W, it's about the same as having 3x old 60w light globes in your house turned on for 12 hrs a day........
π
@Max1973, I think they are further along than your average soil grow. You are ahead of the game. And you are doing right by pulling leaves off. It will increase your yield keeping all those little tops in the light
Hey brother, just checking ur grow π it's cool! What's up with the 2 in 1 pot? U weeding out the weaklings? Cust curious. I'm giving u a follow to find out tho
@Elysian_gardens710,
cool.... i don't think it was lock out... i didn't give them any nuets, and pretty sure it was deficiencies, so i started nutrients.... if it gets worse, i'll flush her ....... if your interested, i posted some funny video's on my new week, just now... shows them in sunlight ... good for a laugh .... thx for the reply :)
@Max1973, π I've done the same thing bro. I have one in a water pitcher right now because I ran out if pots. Ha! All of your plants look great bud! Your deficiency is probably a lock out. Check the water run off next feed make sure the ph is very close to the same going in as going out. Also make sure the ppm(if ur checking that) is similar as well or at least not really high(1000+)
@Elysian_gardens710, i started with 8, i didn't expect so many to make it out of seed, had to put 2 in one pot, to fit em all in the tent....topped / practicing on the smallest one, end up with 2 good ones.... π