Raffael Hey there, after the Frostbanger didn't want to cooperate, we let this beautiful specimen move into the bed. It's already been dealing with a slight trip infestation, but I'm feeling good about it :)
The substrate consists of 70% soil & 30% peat, along with a homemade fertilizer mix of short- and long-term fertilizers like alfalfa, cow manure, bat guano, algae, fish meals, and some rock powders. Plus, it's regularly boosted with bokashi juice and various homemade ferments & EM :) There are also about 2-300 compost worms, springtails, white and other pill bugs, some predatory mites & nematodes, and the full package, you know? :D
It's only the second run in the new bed, so it's still getting settled in.
Current temperature: 24.5 degrees
Current humidity: 75%
VPD: 0.75
Raffael The apple strudel is such a mix, I'm curious if it stays that way because in the first run in the bed, there was a plant in that spot that only grew half as big as the others :D but there are enough worms in there that should actually mix everything a bit more.. & the bed has been around for about half a year now, so it's really settling in :)
I really thought that if you don't top, they grow completely differently, but it's the same with every plant that all the shoots go to the same height, but isn't that too much? I can't really imagine that with 50cm spacing and 40%, I'm curious to see how it goes on.
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Week 3. Flowering
13d ago
1/9
50 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
23 °C
Day Air Temp
Weak
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
70 cm
Lamp Distance
Raffael Apple Strudel Auto – Week 4
The Apple Strudel has now completed its fourth week and has also started to bloom, currently it is at bloom day 5. In terms of growth, it remains rather compact and is clearly behind the other two plants in size. It is currently only about one to two centimeters taller than the Banana Purple, although the two appear quite similar in growth overall. The other two plants, on the other hand, are approximately twice as tall.
Otherwise, the Apple Strudel looks very good and healthy. The leaves look good, and there are no other noticeable issues. Let's see if it gets a growth spurt in the coming weeks and stretches a bit more, or if it generally belongs to the smaller plants.
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Week 4. Flowering
6d ago
1/9
55 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
Weak
Smell
60 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
45 cm
Lamp Distance
Raffael Weekly Update: Apple Strudel Automatic
After feeling like the brakes were pulled a bit on the Apple Strudel in the last few weeks, there was finally the necessary wake-up call. Just like the Banana Purple Punch, it suffered from the lack of light and only received a meager 200 PPFD in the tent chaos. So it’s no wonder that the last two weeks were a bit lackluster and the pictures looked pretty monotonous – especially when compared to the impressive lead of Guava and Z-Up.
Fortunately, this changed when I moved the lamp two or three days ago: The light has shifted, and now the Apple Strudel is also getting a solid 500 PPFD. The light boost for the Banana Purple Punch kicked in immediately and showed clean flower sites right away. For the Apple Strudel, I’m really hoping for the same effect, even though it seems to have stagnated a bit in comparison so far. Overall, it looks great – absolutely healthy, no issues, except for two or three isolated thrips that I immediately removed. Since then, thankfully, it’s been quiet; it was probably just a tiny, freshly arrived squad.
In summary, it’s now: Hang in there. The Apple Strudel still has to be patient until the other two (Guava and Z-Up) are ready for a partial harvest. Only when I’ve halved the big ones will the tent picture balance out again, and hopefully, they’ll all be on the same level again. Until then, the smaller strains have to hope for their last weeks, where they can finally receive their full light output. No use in anything else!