Milky Way F1

bananomet Still a little cute baby. I noticed a little bit of stretching, so I have lowered the light to 40cm and increased the power to 40 %. Watered with 200ml of water and ramped up root juice. Still struggling with humidity, but I managed to at least stabilize around 50 %, while the room temperature goes between 27-29C. Update 05. 06.↓ Rain has finally arrived during the night. Temperatures and humidity are now more favourable. I added a little bit of silica today in 200ml of water to boost the thin stem. New photo added. Update 07. 06.↓ Plant looks healthy to me. Final weekly average comes to 150ml of water / 24h. Managed to keep the RH between 60-70 %.👍

bananomet Entering another week with a new set of leaves. I am honestly quite pleased how it´s turning out despite high room temps and low-ish humidity. New AC unit on the way. I should get stable 26C and with that, stable VPD by the next week. Watering, starting tomorrow morning, will be increased to 400ml of water. Gonna keep adding Root Juice and Silica with each watering. Update comes in the middle of the week. Update 10. 06. Growth is steady and compact. I won´t be doing LST with this plant. I´ve been told the F1 strains don´t like training and should keep her uniform. I´ll only open the cannopy as it grows. Watered 400ml today. New photo uploaded. Update 13. 06. May not look like it from the photo, but she effectively doubled her height since wednesday. I gave her 800ml of water today and it still looks like she could take even more than that. But let´s be conservative for now. Light bumped up to 100 % power and hightened 55cm above the top of the plant. New photo uploaded.

bananomet Nothing much has happened. Plant growth is nice and steady. She is taking 100 % power @50cm pretty well. Update 18. 06. Chillest grow I´ve had this year. I really love how compact it is. Clumsy me accidentally snipped off a little chunk of the big fan leaf in the back when replacing the humidifier tank. No biggie. Took off 2 lowest fan leaves as they were dipping into the soil. Tucked away some top fan leaves. Watered with 800ml of plain water. New photo uploaded. Update 20. 06. She grew 6cm in 2 days and drank all the water I gave her. Tucked away some more leaves. I can already see she´s in pre-flower. Small taco, mainly due to dry soil. Today she´ll get a liter of plain water. New photo uploaded.

bananomet I trimmed her bush, because she was getting quite mangled into herself. All the lower leaves and nodes were snipped. Makes it easier for air to move around, for me to water and the lower nodes weren´t getting enough light anyway. No mercy. 1200ml of plain water today. She may look like she started flowering, but the bright strings are in fact baby leaves. 32cm is quite big for a plant that is supposed to be compact. I am getting a little bit worried if she´ll even fit in the tent when she starts stretching. O_O --- Update 24. 06. Opening the tent today after returning home from work, I was honored with the sight of a nice, thick and beautifuly green bush. She also started flowering. I can see pistils just below the node. What a nice gift for my birthday. The smell is pleasant soft-green. Like a car mirror tree fragrance. The soil was bone dry and her pot light as a feather. Leaves started to curl due to heat stress. Watered with 2 liters of water mixed in with 1ml/liter of BB ActiVera and CalMag. I am unable to keep the temperature at 26C due to the current heatwave, but she doesn't mind it looks like. New photos uploaded. --- Update 27. 06. Heavy defoliation all lower nodes took place today. Watered with 2L of water with 1ml/l of BB FishMix. Soil sunk too much. Topped the pot with more LightMix. New photo uploaded.

bananomet Not much to add. I do nothing, she keeps growing.😅 --- Update 04. 07. She has slowed down her growth. Still no smell. Watering today with 2l of water and some nutes. New photos uploaded.

bananomet Milky Way seems to have stopped at exactly 60cm height. That gives me 10-20cm of room to raise the lights if need be. Watered 2L with 50ml runoff. pH 6.9 as an experiment since I´ve had better results in the past with pH around 7.0 in BB soil, than when I was keeping it at exactly 6.3 pH. New photo uploaded. --- Update 09. 07. Doesn't look too bad. New photos uploaded.

bananomet Watered yesterday with 2L of plain water with adjusted pH to 6.1. Noticed she grew by 4cm from the last time I measured her (or maybe the soil compacted?). New photo uploaded. --- Update 17. 07. Removed some toasted lower fan leaves. Watered with 3L water + nutes. New photo uploaded.

bananomet Not much to add. Fan leaves are fading to yellow, the buds are getting bigger. Let's just hope the trichomes mature before the last leaf drops. The weather does what it wants. One day it's 15C, then 2 hours later it's 25C, then 1 hour later it's 20C. I've already resigned from controlling every aspect of the grow. New photos uploaded. --- Watering 21. 07. 3L of water + nutes. Reduced calmag to 0,5ml/l and added 0,5g/l Epsom salt. I should get a 1000x digital microscope today, so I'll try to upload some nice trichome pics this week. New photos uploaded. --- Update 23. 07. Lowered light to 20cm above the main cola (40cm above the rest of the plant). --- Update 25. 07. She's taking the increased light intensity well. Watered 24. 07. eith 3L of water + nutes. I am running out of TopMax, but I have unsulphured molasses. Should I try instead? New feet pics uploaded (trichome check).

bananomet The buds seem airy and hairy. Very very hairy, never seen anything quite like it. The aroma is very mild citrus like. Very pleasant. Pull test feels like the yield won't be as high as I would like. Maybe 40g dry with any luck. Harvest in 2 weeks fingers crossed. New photos uploaded. --- Update 31. 07. 3l + nutes yesterday. She smells really good and the cola finally started bulking and is not that airy anymore. New photos uploaded. --- Update 02. 08. 3l water + nutes. Wonder if I should start preparing for harvest next week, or give her 2 more weeks. New photos uploaded.

bananomet Moved Milky Way into the big tent under stronger lights - ViparSpectra XS2000 @75 % power. The P600 running 100% power even at 20cm simply wasn't enough anymore it seems. Transformed the small tent into a microgreen growery. Watered today 3l + nutes. Ran out of topmax, so I've put in Blackstrap molasses instead. I'll give her 2 more weeks. Moving her to the big tent raised the RH by 10 % and thanks to having 100W light off, lowered temps of the system by 2C. 👍 New photo uploaded. --- Update 07. 08. Quick update. I wanted to water yesterday, but the pot was still too heavy. Today is still too heavy. Seems the water uptake slowed down significantly. Guess this is her last few days. I'll stop feeding now and water (only) smaller amounts when the pot gets lighter. New photos uploaded. --- Update 08. 08. Pot finally light enough to water. Gave only 2l of water and left over algamic+activera. Nothing else. Too lazy to check and adjust pH. Trichome check - not quite there yet, but I'll chop sometime next week. Maybe 12. 08. on the day of the Solar eclipse. New photos uploaded.

bananomet She's yellowing like crazy since I've put her in the big tent. The trichomes are not yet ready. I'll continue with plain water regime and chop her down on friday or saturday. --- Last photos before I cut her down tonight.