8/12 - From the trials thus far, I will say that manifolding probably isn't for me. This is an even slower veg than using the scrog last time. I am still probably a couple inches away form flipping to flower (to allow the colas some time to grow, so that they can maximize size during the stretch period. I also want to be able to take a clone of this plant for myself even though a friend of mine should have at least one started already.
I topped off the pot with a small mix of manure, worm castings, and some of the mother earth coco peat. The leaves are showing the faintest discoloration (likely a deficiency as I have been water only for 10 weeks now), so this last inch or so of topping I hope will provide enough into the roots with watering to last another week or so, until I transplant into their final home. I did happen to look at the roots of the plant I took out last week, and the roots had made it to the edge of the pot, but are by no means close to becoming rootbound. I am just looking for a little more vertical growth now before flipping to flower, to ensure that I don't get stuck with small colas.
8/14 - Watered with close to 2L of water given today.
8/18 - Watered today, somewhere around 1.7L. I have made the decision to transplant this week, right before they need watered again (likely Thur or Friday) and will then flip to flower next monday, the start of the 13th week.
@buddha61, I slept on the Topanga hoping for a rerelease even though I have a few OGs. Smoothie and Zkittlez should be fun grown a few zkittlez crosses so far pretty impressed with plant structures on them πͺπ½
@MMTSavage, I'm not a huge fan of the 'gas' of Sour Diesel, so Snake Oil doesn't sound like one I would enjoy a lot. Either some sort of Christmas, or New Year sale, lol. TBH, I have $100 that is stuck in Coinbase (tried to do online payment and messed up), $80 of which went into Bitcoin on coinbase, so I am prepped to buy more when another sale comes up lmao.
As to what I am going to run next, I am going to run 4 autos (Fastbuds Smoothie and Zkittlez), have a few seeds I want to get rid of, and try them in a proper grow (tried them in place of a couple males, but they were too far from the lights, in soil I had never used, etc). As for the GPS/HB seeds, I will likely pop a pack about a month out from the autos finishing, so that I can start to veg before pulling the autos and flipping to flower in the 3x3. Which pack, I'm thinking Topanga Canyon, find me a OG keeper, and then move to one of the purple strains to find a keeper, If I keep flowering in the 3x3, I'd like to keep at least 4 mothers so I could have strains going at the same time. Not sure I could keep more than 4 moms in the 4x2 either.
Damn man, she's looking frosty! How you feeling about GPS' stuff? It's hard to tell with the light, but a little yellowing on the bottom in week 5 isn't too big of a deal, just keep an eye on it (I think your top dressing/tea solution ideas should be fine). Good luck my dude!
@buddha61, That's good to hear man, I've picked up several of their packs, but I don't have any of the strains you listed so I'll be interested to see how they turn out for you. I just ran Golden Nugget (straight fire), currently running Skydweller (it's OK, really stretchy and OG-leaning, only in week 2 of flower but I didn't take any cuts because it was so fussy), and just popped some Dynamite Diesel (just popped up out of soil).
I might pick up another pack of Skydweller to try it again, maybe it was just a weird pack as all the phenos shared the same stretchy traits, but aside from that my GPS experience has always been awesome. I'll make sure to keep an eye out for those Pig Whistle, OBS, and Sundae grows!
@RussianPetrol, I should also add that I now have 5 strains of GPS seeds to try. Aside from the other 9 beans I have of this and the Chinook that is growing, I have Pig Whistle, Orange Blossom Special, and Sundae Stallion.
@RussianPetrol, I did just finish filling the pots with remnants of the soil mix for transplant. We will see how it settles, and does for the next week or so, after the next watering and just play it by ear. So far, I am impressed with the GPS stuff, but obviously it is still early, and a small sample size, so time will tell.
@buddha61, last time I did manifolds, I trimmed back like how you mentioned, but in retrospect I wished that I hadn't. The colas will form the same size anyway, and I would have had more lateral buds for a larger yield overall.
@MovingOn, Thanks, I appreciate that. I learned a bit myself from this, my first manifold, and when I do it again, I will have a better idea how much of the lower branches I can trim back. I left more than I would have preferred here because I didn't trim but the lowest. Now I know I could go up about half the total height of the cola, and I will be left almost nothing but the cola mass.
Great journal my friend lots of detail. Well done on the manifold and the finished product looks good, looking forward to the final weigh in and smoke report!
@MMTSavage, I'm jealous. I wanted to give the Banana Orange Daiquiri a try, but ended up missing it when the vultures cleared the feminized stock last week.
Looking good so far man! Excited to see how these turn out.
As a big fan of mycorrihizae myself, I've used that exact mycorrihizae product before and had good results. I think the full powder form of some of the more expensive stuff (great white, etc) is nice to have and saturates the soil a bit more thoroughly, but for transplanting right around the roots I think the Bigfoot stuff will work for you just fine.