Juanita in the rain

THC level from self- grown medicine had proven too strong for me. Even those with mid level THC is much more higher than bag seed. As a care giver to my sick mother, I need to be able to get up when needed. With CBD strains, I should be able to enjoy ganja much more often and still feel comfortable about be ready at all time. Spicy CBD had grown big. I germinated two but only one had come up after 7 days. The one that had not come up is still alive but I am popping more seeds just in case. I also popped one Sweet Love to compare. For a sativa, Spicy CBD started out really strong. After 7 days, she is nearly as big as one month old sativa Haze/White Widow hybrid. I am impressed. May be it is because I learned to water seedling less (???) To my fellow nubes, I just want to share how I germinate and handle the seedlings. Note that there are many ways to do things and get the same results. This is the way that work for me. By “me”, I mean I am a clumsy person. Germination – I used hydrogen per oxide to soak seeds for 24 hours. It is faster and I seem to get healthier seedling this way. Concentration does not seemed to matter much. As a guide, I use 1 lid of 3% hydrogen peroxide pour in to 10 lids of water. It is about 3 ml of hydrogen peroxide to 30 ml of water at 40-50 degree C. Up to double or half the dosage seemed to be getting same result. Next is to pour the seeds on a couple of cotton balls. Cover the seed with another cotton ball. Then drain out the water. To make sure that the cotton balls are not too wet, I put in a dry cotton ball underneath the already wet cotton balls. This steps was totally unnecessary for Spicy CBD and Sweet Love. Their tails were already reasonably long after soaking. Having the root grown too long only invite broken root disaster during planting. Selection of vessel. Cups must not be big. Too big of a cup can stunt growth because it leads to over watering. 16 oz solo cup is normally recommended. My favorite cup is, however, 22 oz cups because it have rim at the bottom to help cup stand straight. Opaque does not to let light interfere with root development. Then, I cut the drainage slits around the bottom circumference. Later, during transplanting, it will be easier for me to cut off the bottom of the cup along these slits. To be sure of good drainage, I cut one or two more center holes at the bottom of the cup. To make cuts, I first soften the plastic with a lighter then cut with paper cutter. I think it is safer and easier to make cuts on soft plastic. Some time, just keeping the lighter on one particular place for a few seconds more is enough to burn jagged holes on plastic cups. Seedling does not need food for the first couple of weeks but vegging plant will. So I start with fertilized soil. I use 1:1:1:1 recipe. Worm Casting : Peatmoss : Pumice (or pearlite) : Coconut Chunk (or more pearlite). Then I make a dimple on the cup and put a seed with short root stub in. Then gently fill the soil over the lids. And three to four days later seeds should sprout. First watering – I the seedling, need no water until another 3-4 more days. And less is more. With small starting cup, plant will be transfer later. So, no need to worry about salt build up. And water the plant just a little so there is no run off. I prefer to nurse my seedling inside a light box for three to six weeks. Indica generally grew faster and I keep them inside only for three weeks. Some sativa, on the other hand, refuse to leave the nursery until six weeks old. My opinion is that light setting should be at half strength during the first week. Then the intensity can be increase every day until the seedling is stronger. For those who put seedling outside right away, a dome should be used to protect seedling from creeping, crawling, and flying seedling eaters. I cut up plastic bottles to use as protective tube or dome. It is important to leave good ventilation holes but not so big that strange creatures and take a bite of the young cannabis seedlings.

Spicy CBD grows vigorously. Much faster than what I came to expect of sativa. Perhaps CBD genetic contribute to the vigor. I pinched the top at the third node already. Amazing that there are three nodes after only 10 days. Two other spicy CBD's decided that they want to come up after all. They are only two weeks behind their faster sister. If there were big space this would not be an issue. It is likely that they will be shaded by the bigger batch mates. Watering 15 ml once every two days by automatic pump. No nute.

Time to go out. Two is mature enough and they deserve fresh air and sunlight. Both Spicy CBD and Sweet Love are growing well. Spicy CBD grow much stronger than my sativa experiences. Could be because of vigor from hemp =gene or just hybrid in general.

There were strong thunder storms during the week-end. Soil was soggy. And Spicy CBD grew robust very quickly. Last week she was still in a cup, one week later she is sporting three tops. She us responding well to topping. I am tying her down with wire and try to spread the first level of topping in a triangular fashion. With her vigor, I can see that I need to be diligent with topping else she could turn in to a tree and draw unwanted attention. Two other Spicy CBD that I started two weeks after the first one is also following the same strong grow pattern. Wonderfully refreshing for a sativa dominant strain to grow so strongly in wet condition. I do like CBD genetic. I still think CBD plants has commercial fiber hemp genes in it and that make them much stronger and easier to grow. Spicy CBD vegetative vigor is not quite the same as Indica strong growth. Indica has much bigger leave faster and more difficult to pinch when young because the apex leave buds is very close to the next level of leaves. Spicy CBD has longer stem and smaller leaves at two weeks old. Sweet Love Sweet Love is also growing very well in the hot and wet equatorial land. Comparing to famous strains, she is much faster. However, when grown beside Spicy CBD she is slower. And she is not so easy to pinch. There is not much distance between the top leaves and the layer underneath. I need a scissor to do the work instead of my clumsy fingers and thumbs.

It was hot an fairly dry last week. Spicy CBD continue her robust growth. She is not as fast a an indica. But she is surely faster than other sativa dominant strains in the same patch. Plant 1 responded well to topping and training. I pinched off one top buds from a branch that escaped last week. Put that in my mouth and the taste was peppery. I hope she doesn't burn the throat when somke. Of the two other Spicy CBD that were started later, I'll put them in clay orchid containers. 10 liter capacity. i want to compare two different brands of worm casting. One is double the price of the other. After a month, I should transfer the winner into larger container while figure out what to do with surplus plant. Sweet Love Sweet Love is coming along well. She was pinched after the third nodes. She did not seemed to be properly stressed. Instead, Sweet Love had grown three nodes within a week. I like her. 16% THC against 11% CBD should get me reasonably high with enough medicinal quality.

Both Spicy CBD and Sweet Love are doing well in hot humid and raining tropical climate. I pinched the older plants again. This was the second round of topping. I think this is enough for a while. Hope they will veg a little longer so I can pinch them one more time. Testing two different brands of mold on two other Spicy CBDs. Putting them in 10 liter clay orchid pots. The only difference is the brand of worm casting No 2 plant is slightly bigger, putting her in a more expensive brand. Worm casting has no smell could be from African or Blue Worm. No 3 plant is slightly smaller, putting her in a cheap brand. Worm casting stinks. This is very likely a local night crawler known as pheritima peguana. It is notorious for stinking smell and feed on manure. Feeding: Friday by soil drench with concentration per liter (2 ml molasses _ 30 ml worm tea + 1ml sea weed) Saturday by soil drench with concentration per liter (1 gram 10-52-34 + 0.5 gram micro nutrients) Mold and Insect control Friday by spray (2 ml molasses _ 30 ml worm tea + 15 gram Trichoderma Hazenum + 15 gram Beauvaria Basiana + 5 g Bacillus Subtillis)

OK – worm casting trial is obvious after 1 week. The more expensive brand – 2 USD per kilo is very good. The cheap worm casting brand 1 USD per kilo is a waste of good seed and time. Leaves on Spicy CBD with better worm casting has darker shade of green. And it is generally bigger and healthier. Leaves on the plant with cheap worm casting is lighter shade of green and growth is less. Increasing yield to just one gram of dry buds would more than pay for better worm casting. I suspect that it is from what were fed to the night crawlers and how long night crawlers were left to feed. And I notice that on a better quality one, texture of the casting is more smooth rather than peat moss like. I think that better fed and longer fed worm produces more humic acid. Also the smell betwwen the tow brand are different. And this is explainable by the species of worm. Thai night crawler is notoriously stink. However, I don’t think the quality is different from species of worm. I think different species of night crawler should produce the same quality of casting regardless of ethnicity. The earliest Spicy CBD is still going well. Much better than other finicky sativa plants. I hope that she doesn’t flower next week so I can pinch her for the third time. Sweet Love is also coming along wonderfully. Mold and Bugs Management: After last round of anti-bugs fungus spray, white fly diappeard. House fly and horse fly are buzzing instead. Every time I till the soil, I cut some night crawler in half. The top half survive and would grow tail again but the bottom half became fly food. This week, I sprayed friendly microbes to fight mold and aphids. Not because it was needed but since I am spraying my blooming Punky Lion might as well direct the nozzle to all my grows also. Feeding regime Saturday: Soil drench to three plants. Concentration per 1 liter (20 ml + 3ml Molasses + 1 ml sea weed, 1 g phosphate heavy fertilizer ) Thursday: Soil drench to three plants. Concentration per 1 liter (20 ml + 3ml Molasses + 1 ml sea weed, 1 g potassium heavy fertilizer) Friday: Spray to three plants. Concentration per 1 liter (20 ml + 3ml Molasses + 1 ml sea weed, 1 g potassium heavy fertilizer, 1 ml humic acid). Saturday: Spray Concentration per 1 liter ( 3ml Molasses +, 1.5 ml humic acid). The weather is overcast, I read that humic acid makes leaves takes on darker green color and it would need less light. Sunday: Soil drench per 1 liter ( 30 ml worm tea + 3ml molasses+2ml humic+1 ml seaweed)

SCBD till vegging after all two weeks in 12 hours sun. I think they’ll veg for three months. And after two weeks, the difference in quality of worm casting really shows. The one with cheap worm casting doesn’t grow as much despite humic acid nor other additives. Got myself more bags of the good worm casting for my up-coming projects. Sweet Love is coming along slightly less vigorously than Spicy CBD. I was expecting that with more Indica ratio, Sweet Love should be stronger. Apparently, CBD gene result in more robust growth. One branch of Sweet Love was broken from over training. But no, it did not take root so easily like my experience with Punky Lion or Mobydick. Feeding Date Day Age 13 Tuesday 50 14 Wednesday 51 15 Thursday 52 16 Friday 53 Spray (2 g/l Bacilus Subtilis + 7.5 g/l Trichoderma Harzenum + + 2 ml/l molasses + 1.5 ml humic) 17 Saturday 54 18 Sunday 55 Soil drench per 1 liter (1 g 10-52-17 +2ml humic+1 ml seaweed + 2 ml Cal Mag) 19 Monday 56

SCBD still vegging after nine weeks in 12 hours sun. The seasonal grow pattern is similar to land race sativa growing in Thailand. The growing season is sowing at the beginning of rain. With overcast sky and storm toward fall, Thai land race sativa flowers. Harvest is around new year when the air and the soil are dry. If I am lucky, I think I can harvest around Loy Kratong festival. Plant number 1 keep going without noticeable issue. She is fine with her third topping. Looks like the new tops would continue to veg a little longer. Plant number 2 had out grown the 12 inch pot. And I transplanted her. Her roots were filling the side of the container. Not quite root bound but in a week should would have been there. For new repotting soil, I went crazy on worm casting because i think that it worked so well during grow comparison. I mixed in 5 kg of worm the good worm casting to recycled soil from Punky Lion grow. Put the soil in a laundry basket. In the garden soil under the basket, I put in 1 kg chicken manure, 1 liter cow manure. I took the chance to churn the soil and kill nutrient stealing roots from near by plants. And I saw active earth worms in the soil feeding off the cow manure. Plant 3 – I can’t be bother with this one. Think I’ll keep her in the same 12 inch container but just add the magic worm casting and some manure. Let’s see how far she can go with small 10 liter pot. If she bonsai it will be lovely. SCBD is a tough strain and won't stress out so easily. Sweet Love is coming along. She is easy and is not complaining about anything. She not racy hot. Just a low maintenance girl that is comfortable to be around. Feeding scheme Friday Spray (2 g/l Bacilus Subtilis + 7.5 g/l Trichoderma Harzenum + 0.5 g iron supplement + 2 ml/l molasses + 1.5 ml humic + 1.5 g 10-52-17 ) ) Saturday On Saturday when there was a break from the rain, I fed the girls only a little. Not with main nutrient because I just sprayed her the day before. Instead, I fed the girls organic supplement including; worm casting tea, molasses, humic acid. Soil drench per 1 liter (3 ml molasses +100 ml worm tea +1 ml seaweed).

SCBD and Sweet Love are still vegging after ten weeks. Plants are in nice round bush shape. I think they’ll keep going this way for a couple more weeks. Then I have two last weeks to get the plant to be as strong as possible for decent yield. So, I’ll be feeding them with nitrogen and additives that promotes root and green color. Feeding Scheme Feed once on Thursday by soil drench per 1 liter (21/21/21 +1 ml seaweed + 1 ml humic + 1.5 ml chitosan/B1 + 0.5 iron ). And a little extra treat with left over milk on Friday. Soil drench 200 ml whole milk per 1 liter of water. Saturday night – sprayed with anti-mold microbes. Just because I have some left over from flowering plants. Sunday night – give additives by soil drench per 1 liter (3 ml molasses + 1 ml seaweed + 4 ml humic acid (TPI brand) + 1.5 ml cal mag + 0.5 iron ).

SCBD and Sweet Love did well in the rain. SCBD size has double within one week. Sweet Love growth is not so much. Still waiting for that magic flowering signal. Feeding – New source of calcium / magnesium. The product is called Re-Bone. It is like a sand and has 8.5% calcium oxide 3.5% magnesium oxide and 1% iron. I checked the pH in dissolved water and it was 6.5. So it won’t raise pH and already has iron supplement. With continuous rain, feeding was not practical. So I sprayed friendly microbes on Friday night. And water with even nutrients on Saturday morning. Also top dress the soil with Re-Bone sand. About 60 gram per plants. Friday night: sprayed (2 g/l Bacilus Subtilis + 7.5 g/l Trichoderma Harzenum + 2 g Beuvaria bassiana + 2 ml/l molasses + 1.5 ml humic + 0.5' g 10-52-17 ) Saturday Morning: Soil drench per 1 liter (21/21/21 +1 ml seaweed + 1 ml humic ). Top dress with rebone 60 gram

Vegging Week 12 in 12/12 Out Door Light Spicy CBD is doing fantastically well. The girls stretched an inch a day. Leaves are green and smell like a proper ganja plant. Bush is getting wider and taller. Spicy CBD loves the tropical climate. Plants are shedding some lower leaves. Seemed to be needing nitrogen. Aside from top dressing with worm casting, I am feeding vegging fertilizer. Also added boron micro nutrients beside the usual cocktail of organic additives. Looking into my other flowering grow, I want to prevent calcium deficiency at flowering stage. So, I am adding cal mag as top dressing by “Re-Bone” supplement. This is a cal-mag-iron supplement in sand form. Will also spray cal mag on leaves with the weekly microbe insect/mold prevention regimen. Sweet Love is doing well but is not as big as Spicy CBD. pH is a little low at 5.9. It is okay for vegging. But I should lay off low concentration humic acid to the soil to rais pH a little bit. This product give me water pH of 5.5. Feeding: Wednesday Soil drench per 1 liter (0.5 g 10-52-17 + 1 ml seaweed + 30 ml milk + 20 ml worm tea ) Thursday Soil drench per 1 liter (2 ml TPI humic + 0.5 g micro nutrient ) Friday Spray (2 g/l Bacilus Subtilis + 7.5 g/l Trichoderma Harzenum + 0.3 g macro supplement + 4 ml/l molasses + 1.5 ml humic + 1.5 ml Mg Boron+1.5 ml Seaweed Saturday Soil drench per 1 liter (0.5 g 21-21-21 + 4 ml/l molasses + 1.5 ml humic + 1.5 ml Mg Boron+1.5 ml Seaweed2+ 2ml chitosan) Sunday Spray (1.5 ml/liter CaO 15% Mg 8%)

Vegging Week 13 in 12/12 Out Door Light Juanita lacrimosa - Crying Juanita - well nobody can see tears in the rain. Spicy CBD is doing really well in raining climate. Spicy CBD is growing like a local. Seven finger sativa looking like a Thai. This week the young ladies stretched. She is over a meter tall. They are still not in “pre-flowering” stage yet. May be it is because of her hemp gene, Spicy CBD either loves the tropical climate or adapt to the wet balmy climate well. I am keep feeding with 21-21-21 fertilizer as they seemed to be working. Adding some boron in hope that it may convince the ladies to start putting out. Sweet Love is doing well. It is obvious that the size is much smaller than Spicy CBD. Feeding Friday Spray (2 g/l Bacilus Subtilis + 7.5 g/l Trichoderma Harzenum +1.5 ml Seaweed Sunday Spray + 1.5 ml cal mag) Feeding: Starting with bloom fertilizer. Soil 9/14/34 + micro nutrient Saturday soil drench (1 gram per liter 21/21/21 with + 1.5 ml Mg Boron + 1.5 ml cal mag + 0.5 gram/ liter iron supplement)

Week 14 Flowering Week 1 out of estimated total 8-10 Weeks Finally the plants started to flower. The top of the plants are still vegging. There are some branches that started to flower at the begging of the week. By the end of the week, the flowers are showing legitimate pistils and little forming buds. The two Spicy CBD’s are stretching and form in to big round bushes. There are three big cola’s to each. Actually, I topped the plant three times aiming for eight tops. However, Spicy CBD what to grow only three main cola’s. And they grow big side branch on their own. After big rain, lower leaves turned yellow. Could be needing nitrogen or just shedding three months old leaves. I fed the plant with half strength 21-21-21 fertilizer twice. And I am planning to keep feeding them with vegging nute next week. Sweet Love is flowering in the same manner as Spicy CBD. The top is still vegging. And mid branches are flowering. Feeding Feeding: Wednesday soil drench (0.5 gram per liter 21/21/21 with + 1.5 ml Mg Boron + 1.5 ml cal mag + 0.5 gram/ liter iron supplement) Saturday soil drench (0.5 gram per liter 21/21/21)

Week 15 Flowering Week 2 out of estimated total 8-10 Weeks Flowering is not uniform. Lower branches flowers well. The top branches show effect of light leak and is holding back on flowering. The two Spicy CBD’s are stretched to 150 cm / 5 ft large bush. I’ll need to trim the lower small branches. I may need to trim the top of as well. The only thing that is holding me back is that the branches that it will produce. I am sure that it’ll take root well. Who else would will want cannabis light? 50/50 CBD. Sweet Love is flowering in the same manner as Spicy CBD. She is much smaller and more manageable. Feeding: Wednesday soil drench (0.5 gram per liter 21/21/21 with + 1.5 ml Mg Boron + 1.5 ml cal mag + 0.5 gram/ liter iron supplement)

Week 16 / 3rd week into flowering for lower branches. They are getting bigger. Sweet Love is stretching. Her wide leaves are waving in the wind. Spicy CBD had grown into 5 and a half ft tall bush and seemed to be getting bigger by the week. There is no way that 24 liter pot of soil can support this. Roots must have went to in the soil. The two Spicy CBD’s continue to stretch and grow new top. The height is to 165 cm. I have trimmed of sucker branches. No thought of keeping them for clone. First there is no space. Secondly, if I want to clone, I can well use the top cola that is happily vegging. So despite of effort to top and train these girls, they are wild. May be it’s the hemp genes that make Spicy CBD takes tropical climate so well. Despite pH problem that I have with my smaller grow, Spicy CBD and Sweet Love keeps growing. They do complain when I don’t feed them enough nitrogen. Bottom leaves yellows. When I feed them, they grew more top. Feeding: Wednesday soil drench (0.5 gram per liter 21/21/21 with + 1.5 ml Mg Boron + 1.5 ml sea weed) Friday (top dress with 1 liter of worm casting + 0.25 kg of cal mag enriched sand)

Week 17 / 4th week into flowering for lower branches. Spicy CBD are 170 cm / 5 ft 8 in tall. Most of the plants is in full vegging mode. Good news is that the middle part starts to flower. Along the bottom few branches, pistils are turning brown and buds are fattening up. Well, as much as a sativa could be fatten any way. Think I’ll harvest a few branches a week at time for Spicy CBD. Great for home med. After feeding last week, I get burnt leaves. And after top dressing with cal mag sand, I get this white spots on lower leaves. Again, I err on the side of over feeding. Last week, there were different insect buzzing about, and after spraying with anti-insect microbes, they were still buzzing. However, three days after spraying, I start to see white flies in coma along the leaves. Yeah, worked much better and safer than using poison. Sweet Love is developing along the same story as Spicy CBD’s. Vegging on top and flowering only on the lowest branches. Except that she is around 80 cm tall. Look nice and lovely. Feeding strategy: They plants are in veg and they can use nitrogen. There isn’t enough nitrogen in the soil from worm casting and microbes. However, I don’t want to encourage them to continue vegging. And the light should encourage plants to flower. We have passed the fall equinox and the sun is changing to winter spectrum. Still 11 to 12 hours here in the equatorial tropic. So, I am giving them bloom nutes. 9-14-34 NPK. This should give enough Nitrogen while start to build up potassium. And I am giving them onbly half strength. Mold is not an issue at the moment. So, I’ll focus on insect population control. Soil seemed to have too high pH. My new pH meter had not arrived yet. But if plants complained, there is room to adjust. So, I can do this by feeding them with frut compost tea (store bought) and yogurt. This will adjust the soil to be more acidic and give Nitrogen in the form that doesn’t burn the plant. This week activities: Sprayed with anti mold / anti insect microbes. 5th day of the week. Feeding, half strength bloom 0.5 g/liter x 2 liter 9-14-34 fertilezer. Feeding with yogurt 1 liter yogurt / 5 liter of water. Feed by soil drench abut 350 ml once on 7th day of the week. Next week, I’ll be away for the entire week. They should survive if they get enough water. To be sure, I’ll spray them with anti insect microbe the night before I leave. Until next week, happy growing.

Week 18 / 1st Week Full Plant Flowering 5th week into flowering for lower branches. I was away for six days. And there was no rain. Plant was left under care of a friend who left the plant under watered. As a consequence, the ladies bloom. Top of the plant started to flower regardless of light leak. Spicy CBD are 180 cm / 6 ft tall. The two ladies are similar in height and mass but has some differences. Number 1 has three fingers leaf and many small sucker branches. Some of these branches were broken from wind and earlier rain. Number 2 leaves are nine-fingered and goes straight up. Still, I was lucky to have topped these girls. Otherwise they would goes on in height. 6 ft is about my comfortable limit. This morning, I have seen little sign of buzzing insect. Still got bitten by mosquitoes so the community is less but still there. Good enough of control for me. Sweet Love is one meter tall and is gloriously showing wide indica leave. She also started to flower on her top. Okay – count down to harvest starts. These should be finished in 8 to 10 more weeks. That is by mid January like most landrace Thai would. Feeding strategy: Next week, I’ll nurse them back from too dry conditions by water a little by little twice a day. Then, I’ll feed them a quarter strength potassium with sea weed. Spraying with ant- insect microbe but no need for mold control yet. Live free from big corporate poison.

Week 19 / 2nd Week Full Plant Flowering for Plant 1, Plant 2 just started Spicy CBD Plant 1 with seven-fingers phenotype is flowering nicely. Height is stable at 180 cm. Trimmed of some sucker branches. And the flower looks nice without smell at this early stage. On the other hand, Spicy CBD Plant 2 with five fingers phenotype has various issues. First she is stuck in pre-flowering stage. Height exceed 190 cm. I try to help her decide to start flower by feeding 1.5/ml per liter of sea weed additive both by spray and by soil drenching. Also starting to bend her by hanging some weight on the top colas. Spicy CBD Plant 2 also has bug boring hole in her trunk. There must be a high beetle having a great time somewhere in my garden. Most annoying is that Spicy CBD Plant 2 flower on lower branch rotted. Pistil are all brown. Could be nutrient burn but I doubt it. I cut a minor cola out entirely. Flower was at 5 weeks old. And trichome is still clear. This pheno is a CBD strain with week resistance. If I lose this particular Spicy CBD five finger pheno plant, there won’t be any tear in my eyes. Sweet Love is 3 ft (90 cm) tall. Flowering continues but not developing as quickly as Spicy CBD number 1. I have also encouraged her to put out a little faster by feeding her sea weed as well. Looking nice, I do like growing this one very much. She is not overly big. Saw spiders and a praying mantis. So, unless there is a heavy infestation, I won’t use anti-insect microbes. Let it be as natural as possible. Watering – temperature had dropped to 30 degree with overcast sky. Humidity is at 76%. And the girls were …. thirsty. Whatever the ladies want. Watering was for 4 liter per plant per day. Feeding – they still don’t seemed to like much nute at this stage. After feeding with phosphorus and potassium, I get yellow leaves and burnt tips. So, this week yogurt was fed once. 1 liter homemade yogurt to 5 liter of water. Safe enough on nitrogen with loads of elements to replace leaching caused by 3 liter per day watering. Okay – count down to harvest starts. These should be finished in 8 to 10 more weeks. That is by mid January like most landrace Thai would. Feeding strategy: Next week, I’ll nurse them back from too dry conditions by water a little by little twice a day. Then, I’ll feed them a quarter strength potassium with sea weed. Spraying with ant- insect microbe but no need for mold control yet. Live free from big corporate poison.

Week 20 / 3rd Week Full Plant Flowering for Plant 1, Plant 2 just started The girls are recovering well with higher watering level. But one big cola just died. Should have taken action when I saw hole in the main stem of plant 2. One week later the biggest, potentially most productive cola died. Other plants had split stem from overweight buds. But the cola was alive and okay after propped up with wire and support. This branch with hole just died. I had this in my garden before, And I split this main stem open. Sure enough, the core of this stem was eaten by a fat caterpillar. Some kind of moth. So one big tall cola was removed. Oh well, she is not flowering any way. Spicy CBD Plant 1 with seven-fingers phenotype continue to flower. There is a small sign of cal mag deficiency. So, this week I fed them with 0.8 ml/liter cal mag solution. This is half of what I used on my other grow. But my other grows had magenesium overdose and nutrient lock out. I am trying bisection dosage experiment Height is stable at 190 cm. Flower starting to smell nice. On the other hand, Spicy CBD Plant 2 other than borer moth attack, still is not flowering. Well, this is 12/12 sun light schedule already. Let’s see if she will ever flower without the help of PGR. Sweet Love is in her flowering stretch. She is 95 cm tall. Flowering continues. Leaves showing splotches as she is demanding more cal mag. I like my plants to be around 3 ft to 6 ft. tall. Below 3 ft is too small for individual pot grow. Above 6 ft is too big. Watering – temperature had dropped to 30 degree with overcast sky. Humidity is at 76%. And the girls were …. thirsty. Whatever the ladies want. Watering was for 4 liter per plant per day. Feeding – 0.8 ml/liter cal mag. Sprayed with Trichoderma harzenum to prevent mold. And Beauvaria bassiana to prevent more insects

Week 21 3rd Week Full Plant Flowering for Spicy CBD Plant 1, and Sweet Love 1st Week Full Plant Flowering for Spicy CBD Plant 2 The girls are demanding potassium. They pulled what they need from older leaves and there are signs of potassium deficiency. And since I have fed them yoghurt and worm casting. I think even standard bloom nute would have too much of Nitrogen. So, I added just single component fertilizer, potassium chloride. Around 300 ppm. Spicy CBD plant 1 with seven-fingers soldiering on with her flower. There is no special issue. Story of the week is with Spicy CBD plant 2. She finally is putting out. And her top started to flower. Yeah. It means that she will be with us for two more months. Sweet Love is the one in the garden that is asking for potassium the loudest. Some leaves show classic potassium deficiency quickly. Usually when too high potassium is added, there can be nutrient lock up. If I try to fix with adding more nutrients, there can be burn. And with pH all out of whack there can be calcium deficiency. This round, I’ll do this the Buddhist way and try to do address the cause with the middle amount of what is needed. Feeding - Tuesday Evening – mixed 1 liter yoghurt to 5 liter of water. Fed 2 liter to each plant. Wednesday Evening – Molasses concentration of 2.5 ml/liter. Thursday Evening – Potassium Chloride of 0.5 g/liter. Friday Evening – Mold and bugs prevention spray. And since I just fed potassium the other night, I added a little cal mag . (Trichoderma harzianum, Beauvaria bassiana + Calcium/magnesium/boron)

Week 22 4th Week Full Plant Flowering for Spicy CBD Plant 1, and Sweet Love 2nd Week Full Plant Flowering for Spicy CBD Plant 2 One older branch of plant 2 is ready for harvest. Trichome is yellow. There is not much smell to this. No matter, I intend that CBD plant would go to infused oil for my insomniac friends. So, I am harvesting this branch for testing effect. Last week feeding was bad for the girls. Or it could be lack of rain and humidity in the season. The girls are loosing leaves and demand more water. I water around 6 liter each day to keep the leaves from drooping too much. And from a sample harvest, the flower structure is kush ball type. Not much on small branches. So, I pruned off as many small sucker branches as I can see. Took off like 200 gram of these branches from SCBD and Sweet Love. Feeding strategy, holding off on mineral feeding both potassium and micro nutrient. Feeding them with milk yoghurt and molasses. Pest control, in area near the grow, I have aphid infestation. Spraying anti-mold and anti-insect combo on Thursday. Feeding - Tuesday Evening – mixed 1 liter yoghurt to 5 liter of water. Fed 2 liter to each plant. Wednesday morning – Molasses concentration of 2.5 ml/liter. Thursday Evening – Mold and bugs prevention spray. And I added a little cal mag . (Trichoderma harzianum, Beauvaria bassiana + 1 ml/liter Calcium 9% Magnesium 6% )

Week 23 5th Week Full Plant Flowering for Spicy CBD Plant 1, and Sweet Love 3rd Week Full Plant Flowering for Spicy CBD Plant 2 Spicy CBD Plant 1 – looking much nicer after sucker branches are trimmed off. No more leaf issue. However, one branch was broken off. Look the trichome, and they seemed to be okay. So, I dried it. This branch will join earlier partial harvest in curing. Early tasting of Spicy CBD, it is chili pepper spicy. Smoking it is like smoking mentholated weed. Nice but I haven’t acquire the taste for this. What is would be perfect for is Thai cooking. Blending this stuff in spicy food would be a perfect fit. Spicy CBD Plant 2 is doing great. Again, trimming worked well. Sweet Love is just coming along. There is an awful lot of leaves. On paper, she should be ready after 7 weeks. This means, Sweet Love has only two weeks left and I should be flushing. I don’t feel that she is quite that ready. And I am feeding her one more week before I plain water flush. . This week I fed a quarter amount of potassium and phosphorus aside from terpene enhancing milk and molasses. Pest control, Aphids in area nearby are sick. They are taking sun bath on top of hibiscus and magnolia leaves. No more white powdery colony. Next week, I’ll spraying anti-mold and anti-insect combo just so these guy don’t develop immunity. Feeding - Tuesday Evening – mixed 1 liter yoghurt to 5 liter of water. Fed 2 liter to each plant. Wednesday morning – Molasses concentration of 2.5 ml/liter. Friday: 0.5 ml/lite fish bone tea. 0.25 g/liter potassium salt. Friday Evening – Mold and bugs prevention spray.

Week 24 7th Week Full Plant Flowering for Spicy CBD Plant 1, and Sweet Love 5th Week Full Plant Flowering for Spicy CBD Plant 2 This week we had a cold spell. The weather is a bit drier than usual and it is actually good range for weed. VPD T RH % Hottest 1.88 28 50% Morning day 1.40 23 50% Night 1.21 18 41% Spicy CBD Plant 1 – keeping watch on fluffy buds. Spicy CBD Plant 2 is Early blooming phase. Weird thing is that the plant has two main cola’s. One cola is flowering well. The other looks like it can keep going forever. Sweet Love – High leave to flower ration. Not much flower and a bit fluffy. Trimmed flower smell really spicy. Yeah, this is the reason I keep the plant going. The flowers are not that dense. Smell in the garden is so so. Plants are tall and lanky. Spicy CBD is also very slow. But the taste in combination with high CBD is very different. I am sure I can find a use for this. Cooking Thai food is an obvious choice. Pest control, Aphids in area nearby plants are sick from previous spray. They are taking sun bath on top of hibiscus and coffee plants. To be sure that there will be no more new brood, I sprayed anti-mold and anti-insect microbes. Problem is that it leaves white flour marks on leaves. This is our dry season so there is no rain to wash off the plants. Nute uptake should be slightly near standard level. Taking this opportunity to give some potassium when I can. Still have to be careful. There is no rain to wash off extra fertilizer and salt build up. Feeding summary Monday evening – Molasses concentration of 2.5 ml/liter. Fed 2 liter. Tuesday Evening – mixed 1 liter yoghurt to 5 liter of water. Fed 2 liter. Wednesday evening – Molasses concentration of 2.5 ml/liter. Fed 2 liter. Thursday evening. By concentration (1 ml/liter fish bone tea, 0.3 g/liter potassium salt 0-0-60, 1 ml/liter compost tea). Also spray mold and bugs prevention spray. And I added a little cal mag . (Trichoderma harzianum, Beauvaria bassiana)

Week 25 8th Week Full Plant Flowering for Spicy CBD Plant 1, and Sweet Love 6th Week Full Plant Flowering for Spicy CBD Plant 2 This week we had a cold spell. The weather is a bit drier than usual and it is actually good range for weed. The cold spell is over. Temperature is back to normal with dry air. Humidity and VPD: Hottest part of the day during the week T 35 degree C, Humidity 50% VPD 2.85 Coolest part of the night during the Week T 22 degree C, Humidity 43% VPD 1.45 Means that this is good for flowering plants, sativa drinks at night and conserve water during the day. This help fatten the buds. Spicy CBD Plant 1 – few spots of molds. Two nuggets were removed. Spicy CBD 1 has two main cola’s. One colas is two weeks faster than the other. On the more developed cola, Trichome looks ripe enough on lower branches but is still clear toward the top. Next week, I’ll harvest part of Spicy CBD 1. Spicy CBD Plant 2 also has two different cola’s. One is still in early blooming phase. And another is mid blooming phase. Sweet Love – trichome looks ready. However, there is a lot of leave. I’ll harvest her in the middle of next week. She is going to water curing to make edible. No feeding on Spicy CBD plant 1 and Sweet Love. Light compost tea feeding on Spicy CBD plant 2. Sprayed Trichoderma harzenum to reduce mold risk on the last week of bloom for Spicy CBD plant 1 and Sweet Love.

Week 26 Sweet Love is ready for harvest. Part of Spicy CBD plant 1 is also ready. Spicy CBD plant 2 is a few weeks away. Plants are developing differently on different parts. I think I may explain it a little better with a video. Temperature is back to normal hot with humid air. Humidity and VPD: Hottest part of the day during the week; 34 degree C, Humidity 64%, VPD 1.9 Coolest part of the night during the week; 24 degree C, Humidity 73%, VPD 0.8 62 days of flowering for Spicy CBD plant 1. One branch looks ready. And is dripping wet. However, trichome is still clear and just start to get cloudy. And I have started to trim off the bigger fan leaves. I think next week will be a good time to harvest for this branch. Another branch still looks like it has a few more weeks to go. 50 days of flowering for Sweet Love. Sweet Love is small. The buds looks fluffy and light. Does not look like she would yield much. The smell is very much green mango with a hint of pepper spice. Pulled off fan leaves. On some part, trichome is ready. On most of the plant, buds are ready. I'll throw away the part that is not ready. I don't think they'll do much any more. And Sweet Love is in the shadow of Spicy CBD. 50 days of flowering for Spicy CBD plant 2. One branch looks good. A few more weeks for buds to ripen. The other branch is still young with hardly any flower. Light Feeding with yoghurt and molasses to encourage potency. A dose of light compost tea and another dose of potassium salt to help ripen flower. Bugs and mold are in check. VPD is down a bit but I don’t see a need to spray anti-mold microbes with such fluffy buds. Feeding summary Monday evening – Compost tea ( 1.5 ml / liter compost tea + 1.5 ml/liter humic acid). Tuesday evening – Yoghurt ratio ( 1 liter yoghurt to 5 liter of water) Wednesday evening – Molasses ( 2.5 ml / liter). Thursday – none Friday evening. 1.5 ml/liter compost, 0.5 gram / liter potassium salt, 0.5 ml cal mag.

Week 27 – Staggered harvesting Spicy CBD both plants and cut off branches that are very late into flowering. Readiness of Spicy CBD buds is easily identified. Brown pistils pretty much correlate to yellowing trichome. There are many branches that still vegging and in early flowering stages. After harvesting nearly 300 gram of wet buds, I removed about another 300 grams (wet) of late flowering branches. It pains me but I am growing other strains and don’t think methuselah cannabis plants will produce good quality buds. After the buds and branches were removed, plants looked much more manageable. ‘ll finish this grow In two more weeks. . Temperature is hot and slightly more humid. Very comfortable for frogs and lizards. Humidity and VPD: Hottest part of the day during the week; 34 degree C, Humidity 64%, VPD 1.9 Coolest part of the night during the week; 24 degree C, Humidity 73%, VPD 0.8 Light Feeding with yoghurt and molasses to encourage potency. A dose of light compost tea and another dose of potassium salt to help ripen flower. Bugs and mold are in check. Still is a good idea to spray anti-mold microbes at this final stage. Feeding summary Monday evening – none. Tuesday evening – none. Wednesday evening – sprayed with trichoderma 8 g / liter Thursday – Compost tea (1.5 ml / liter sea weed + 0.3 l/liter potassium salt + 1.5 ml cal mag) Friday evening. Yoghurt ratio ( 1 liter yoghurt to 5 liter of water) Satur evening. Molasses ( 3 ml/liter)

Thank you for coming along for the long ride. Without your support and comments, it would have been much harder. You guys have been great. This is the final grow entry. I have been harvesting a few branches at a time. And there is only one last cola left. It will be another week or two of waiting. By that time, the first batch will be fairly cured for smoke report. So far, the dry weight tally is around 70 grams from both plants. I expect about half an ounce (15 grams) from the drying buds and what is remaining in the soil. From 6 ft plant growing for half a year, the yield is small. Flowers are small and fluffy. Buds also gradually mature from different section. And a couple of time, I clipped and tossed out large chunks of vegging cola’s. This grow is complicated to harvest. And my routine is to cut the branches that were ready. Put it in water for two days. I change water every 12 hours. Hang to dry for two to two and a half day. In my weather, it takes only 48 hours to dry in the shade. After this, there is still some smell left. And as the dry buds age, the smell developed into like cough drops eucalyptus menthol sort of smell. Happy growing, Summarizing the grow: Big positive is the refreshing effect. It is a mild clear head sativa. Great as pain medicine for day time use. It does not help knock you out if you really need sleep. Full of positive energy that get you live and rest well. Spicy CBD is large and tall plant. Strong resistance against bugs and mold. Tolerates heat, fertilizer, and water well. Should not be topped out side. And she takes really long time to finish. Buds is sativa fluffy and yield isn’t big. Highly recommended as day time medicine for people who need it. Great if you grow your own and have time to harvest a few branches every week to keep your medicine. Great for ache and pain. My only ailments are from over exercising and stress. I can’t comment on other stuff but I would imagine that this is great for arthritis also. Do not grow this if you want, a quick production or big production. There is no body buzzing effect. There is no space out psychedelic high. It is relaxing but won’t suit the need as strong sleeping aids.

Growing this is, however, was troublesome for me. Spicy CBD would be better grown indoor where light hours can be shorten. It took me six months to get 50 grams out of a plant. Spicy CBD was more than 6 foot tall and thin. Branches were flowering at different time. In the tropic, she get too comfortable and would not die. The top grow keep on vegging. Then after a few weeks these branches started to flower. At the same time, the top part continue to grow. This is why the flowering time is so long. Each flower would mature withing 8 weeks. But it had been almost two months from when the lowest branches started to flower and the time that upper branches begun to produce. And Methuselah cannabis isn’t good. The yield on new cola’s diminishes as plants get older than 6 months. Toward the end, I threw away good amount (200 grams wet weight) of top cola’s that were not flowering. Note on my weight – I get 1 gram of dry weight out of around 9 grams wet. It is the way that I harvest, dry, and cure. Spicy CBD is tolerant to hot temperature, over watering, mold. Quite resistance to insect but could use a little help outside. She likes organic but will take any moderate amount of fertilizer. In short she is very easy to care for. Net effect is that I don’t like growing Spicy CBD because she is sensitive to light. She needs short hours to mature. At 12/12 - hot - humid temperature, the top seemed to keep vegging forever. At the same time the flower keep developing. Would be good if you grow this in Europe where winter is short. For grow – I give her a 6 in the tropical out door condition.