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Had some slight problems with the seed shells not popping off of the Cheese and Hulkberry seedlings. The fat banana looks good so far, some slight yellow coloring on outer edges of the fan leaves.
Any suggestions from the pix above would be helpful to identify what kind of trauma the plants are going through and how to address it.
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Regarding all pictures from 6/17/19, any help would be truly appreciated!!
This week my cheese strain died, she never really got off the ground from the jump. I think "nutrient lock" is the main culprit with her demise. But Fat Banana and Hulkbuerry are going quite well in this environment that I've created, I'm still only using 1/3 of the recommended nutrients from "recipe for success" starter kit.
All in all, this was a good week, I started pruning some of fat banana's bigger fan leaves that were blocking the inner nodes from exposure to the light. I also started "LST" for fat banana by bending her all the way down and i topped the main cola at the 6th node. I'm going to let hulkberry grow for another week before I start to pruning or LST'ing her.
Unfortunately, i found powdery mold on some of the fan leaves midweek, so I used Neem Oil for 3 days and it all disappeared, i know-how using pesticides is a touchy subject in the grow-community. But fortunately, i only had to use it for a short period in time, because i caught it in the early stages. Fat Banana bounced back like a true champ, I added some new equipment to the grow, a fuel pump to make feed changes easier and an air pump and airstones to aerate the water adding more oxygen for nutrient uptake.
This week was perfect, i up'ed my nutrient regiment by half or the recommended dosage. Both strains have responded very well to my nutrient recipe and the daily foliage spray twice a day of "thrive alive green". LST isn't any issue with these two strains as they have both responded very well to the training. Fat banana went from 6 tightly growing cola's to 12 spaced out cola's, especially since i topped her main cola last week. As you can see she has diverted her energy in developing the nodes down the lower part of her stem, which I've exposed to my grow light with the help of the low-stress training. I'm still LST'ing Hulkberry tho, no rush since she hasn't grown a bigger root system like fat banana. I'm going to wait before i top her for another week maybe two, I want to see the difference between the to strains in how they respond to being topped at 6th nodes (fat banana) verse at the 9th nodes (hulkberry)
I honestly have to say but it might have been a blessing in disguise that my "Cheese" strain died off. It's allowed fat banana and hulkberry to flourish under my 600W light in such a tight space, plus i can say its much easier to change two buckets then it is three,
(Log date week 7, day 49) So this week was a mixed bag, Tuesday started off with me finding a spider web on one of the lower fan leaves on my Hulkberry plant and noticed some bite marks on some of Fat Banana. In my haste to give rid of the spider mites, i caused some minor wind damage to some of the fan leaves on Hulkberry which caused some copper spotting and a stunted Fat banana cola. After i correctly treated both plants for spider mites and wind damage, they both bounced back and started to recover quite nicely.
I also noticed a difference between topping these plants at different times; i topped fat banana when it had 4 cola's but i waited until hulkberry's roots reached to the bottom of my 5gal bucket and she had 8 cola's. A BIG difference in their recovery and overall structure, where fat banana jump out the gate with explosive veg growth and hulkberry struggled for two weeks just to develop it's first set of fan leaves. To now whereas hulkberry is much bigger, greener and bushier than fat banana. Hulkberry has responded much better to the additional stress whereas fat banana has struggled or stalled due to the stressful conditions. All in all wasn't too bad of a week, except for the power going out for a couple of hours on Saturday which raised my grow-room temperature to 90f, i was able to put out a couple of fires this week without any adverse long term effects. I also topped hulkberry on the last day of the week and I'm going to continue to feed them Technfloa at the full recommended strength since they have both responded very well to last week's formula.
as always my pic are in chronological order
Mr. O.G.T
Today 7/30/19, day 57 and the start of week 9. I'm still continuing to alternate between days with my pesticide treatment (especially after finding that bug living on one of hulkberries fan leaf) and thrive alive green daily foliage spray as a prophylactic solution against any possible pests or mold going into these last few dog days of veg. I will flush them with distilled ph'd water for two days this weekend in preparation for flower. Then I'll start them on some "flower fuel" bloom booster on top of my secret for success flower recipe at 1/4 of the recommended strength.
Outside of that still no adverse issue to report for the end of the 8th week. After my last trim, they both have responded very nicely, I was kind of worried about fat banana stalled growth. But one thing I noticed when I topped her at the 6th node, yes the main stem stopped growing but it developed many bud sites up and down every stem. Whereas hulkberry was topped at the 8th node, she has mainly focused on developing long stems and only 2 or 3 bud sites along her stems. Even though hulkberry in structure, is much bigger than fat banana and has a way bigger root system. Fat banana is bushier and has developed way more bud sites than hulkberry. I can't tell which strain will yield the most at this point only time will tell!
Also, a big shout out to "J"@RQS, thank you for the excellent customer service. Another reason why Royal Queen Seeds is top 3 in breeding!!
Week 12, Day 83 from seed and 3rd day of flower.....The 5 day of this week officially marked the start of the flowering season!! So I flushed both of these bad boys with ph'd water for two days and then today I switched them to 12/12. I gave them their first dose of bloom nutrients and then lollipoped them as you can see, pixs . Grateful no issues to report for the past 3 weeks have been trouble-free!! I'm going to leave the MH bulb in for an additional 2 weeks to prevent any stretching before switching to the HPS. But so far they are still loving their environment. I'm also in the process of keeping clones of fat banana and hulkberry while i try this new strain of Peanut Butter Tree.