HNNY Midnight Lemonade 🍋

Gingobeaz Hello and welcome to my next grow! This time, I'm growing Midnight Lemonade from HNNY (Instagram) and NoProbation4weed (Growdiaries). The strain is a cross between Legendary Lemon Larry and Black Cherry Punch. After the cutting had been traveling for just under 4 days, it was planted in a 2L pot with prepared soil from the last run and watered with S&R fertilizer.

Gingobeaz After 10 days of recovery, the pot was well rooted and the plant was repotted into a 20L fabric pot. I inserted 6 wicks into the pot for later wick watering. A 30x40cm (12L) Eurobox serves as the tank.

Gingobeaz The plant is doing well in my first coconut grow. The leaves are a little light, so I might increase the EC from 1.3 a little.

Gingobeaz The plants have been moved to the new 100x58 tent, where each one now has its own lamp, so it's a bit more relaxed in the box. They were topped this week and some LST is coming up soon. I didn't want to do SCROG this time.

Gingobeaz After 4.5 weeks, we are entering the flowering phase. The plant is growing vigorously and has continued to be trained. Now, before flowering, it has been defoliated and lollipopped. I could have continued the vegetation phase for another week, but I want to bring forward the outdoor season to mid-May.

Gingobeaz The plant is doing very well. Every now and then, some leaves were removed and LST was applied to create a reasonably flat surface. The drip irrigation is also working very well. After one week of flowering, there is very little sign of stretching.

Gingobeaz The plant is smaller and more compact despite coconut and wick watering than the one in soil. I would attribute that to the phenotype and the strain. Both systems work very well. I had to deal with powdery mildew despite low relative humidity. I installed two extra fans and pruned and defoliated earlier than usual (day 16 of flowering). The plant didn’t seem to mind, though, and looked great again the very next day. I also sprayed it with a mixture of whole milk and water—that’s supposed to help against powdery mildew. I’ll give it another treatment next week, and hopefully that’ll get rid of it so the buds can grow.

Gingobeaz Flowering is going well so far. The buds are slowly taking shape, and you can already detect fruity, sweet terpenes. Unfortunately, the powdery mildew is back. Since I can no longer spray the plant, I’m dabbing the affected areas with hydrogen peroxide. I hope I can contain the infestation. Vivosun has received an update that allows you to display two sensors (indoor and microclimate). The indoor sensor is located directly above the plant canopy, and the microclimate sensor is placed on the rim of the pot. It’s really interesting how different these values are. This calls into question the whole discussion about VPD, etc. SANlight is now also achieving very high VPD values in their lab because they take the average of these measurements.

Gingobeaz There’s a slight case of powdery mildew here too. But I’m not giving up on the plant just yet. The terpenes are already great, and I’d really like to see it through to flowering.

Gingobeaz The battle against powdery mildew continues. I just sprayed Putolyt at a 1:25 dilution during the dark phase. I’m going to repeat this twice a week—maybe I’ll be able to get it under control that way. If the buds had gotten mold, they would have been ruined by the powdery mildew anyway. Otherwise, it’s a really nice plant. Very frosty, and the smell is fruity!

Gingobeaz We’re in the home stretch! There are still about two weeks until harvest. The reservoir for the wick irrigation system—which is still working perfectly—was filled one last time with a fertilizer solution (5 L). Starting next time, I’ll only use Final Part to support ripening. The powdery mildew has been contained but isn’t completely gone yet. Twice a week, I spray the plant with a 1:50 mixture of Purolyt and distilled water. Even though the plant has suffered a lot, the flowers still look good and are full of trichomes 💎.

Gingobeaz BT 53 - I've switched the fertilizer to Terra Aquatica Final Part. The powdery mildew is still there, but it's been kept under control by spraying with a 1:20 Purolyt solution. The plant has about a week left, then I'll wash the buds again in hydrogen peroxide and hang them up. I hope nothing gets moldy in the process.

Gingobeaz Und Ende. I harvested the plant on day 56 of flowering. I probably could have left it for another week, but because of the powdery mildew, I didn't want to take any chances. The buds were roughly wet-trimmed and washed with a 1:10 solution of water and 3% hydrogen peroxide, plus two additional buckets of water (one warm and one cold) to hopefully kill the powdery mildew spores. I hope this works, since the buds are super compact, quite thick, and frosty.