PART I
It’s update time in Serpent’s Sweet Garden and I knew I was overdue a fuck up and that’s what happened a couple of nights ago.
I was trimming SS #1 at the back left, there’s not a lot of room between that side of the tent and the wall so it’s a balancing act and yep, you guessed it the inevitable happened and I went arse over tit. I had two options, fall and rip the tent, or try and do as little damage to the girls as possible. In a split second, I went for option two. Fortunately I missed the main/bigger colas but did accidentally supercrop around 4 side branches, luckily none of them snapped completely off, so we’re still in the game.
Overall though, things are going in the right direction (ignoring my clumsiness), calyxes are fattening up nicely, pistols are browning, trichs are starting to cloud up and wow, they aren’t half sticky. I know you shouldn’t have faves, but KK #1 is leading the way for me, she really is a lovely plant.
That said, SS #1 is baffling me as she’s still showing yellow leaf tips and edges which seems to have got a touch worse. As I’ve mentioned, on one hand it looks like nute burn, but on the other it looks like toxicity. I do think the up and down temps caused lock out, although with jadenugs recent comments about pH, it could be a combination of both as I’ve never pH’d when using Oldtimers, it’s a bit of head scratcher as she’s flowering nicely.
As for feed, they’re still on the following…
4ml per litre Plant Magic Oldtimers Bloom
1ml per litre Plant Magic Oldtimers PK 4-8
1ml per litre Shogun CalMag
While temps/RH have been OK at…
Lights On: 25-28C / 37-40% RH
Lights Off: 18-19C / 45-48% RH
PART II
Overall, I’m pretty happy with how things are going :) The plants are flowering nicely, the calyxes are putting the weight on as the buds get denser while the trichs twinkle like stars. I’ve also continued trimming, not loads, just leaves here and there when I think they need to come off.
That said, they’re showing the start of foxtaling, especially on KK #1, I’ve read all kinds of conflicting info on this, it’s genetic, it’s a heat problem etc etc, it is what it is.
The trichs are still clouding up, but I didn’t fully inspect them last night as I couldn’t find my jewellers loupe (I’ve probably done the stoner thing and put it somewhere ‘safe’ but fuck knows where that is!), so I’ll take more dodgy macro shots over the coming days as I like them to be on the amber side.
I’ve also given them a final push of feed upping the bloom and PK 4-8 as, depending on the trichs, I’ll start knocking them down so they can get around a week’s flush. I’ve also used the last of the CalMag, I was in two minds whether to buy another bottle, but as I’ll be stopping it soon anyway, I decided not to and shared what was left between them. So last night, feed was…
5ml per litre Plant Magic Oldtimers Bloom
1.5ml per litre Plant Magic Oldtimers PK 4-8
0.7ml per litre Shogun CalMag
Temps and RH have been OK at…
Lights On: 25-28C / 38-42% RH
Lights Off: 18-19C / 48-52% RH