Flowering day 35:
Approximately mid way through flower according to parents.
First straight forward week of flowering with no issues. This week I lowered the lights down to 12 inches and she took to it well and still reaches up for the light. I also reduced humidity to 47.5% from 50% Bud growth is still consistent but seems to be slightly slowing it appears some of the lowest buds have a bit more girth than the flowers up closer to the light I’ve noticed since budding started. this plant even has bud growing from the main stalk down near the bottom I have never really seen growth like this (reminds me of an armpit) lol but I do usually lollipop but decided not to with this plant want her to grow naturally. I already started twisting and pulling one of her offspring.
Spider mites are under control a few speckled leaves nothing major. I go in and squish new baby’s every 48 hrs before watering to keep them in check hopefully this week there will be zero left everyday is dramatically less
She is up to 3L of nutrient water every 48 hrs and is bone dry I think I might have to water everyday from now on she is real thirsty I also upped the Ghe bloom by 1ml over the recommended schedule I’m using for this week. I’m wondering if the pot drying in 48hrs has to do with growth slightly slowing hopefully water every 24hrs helps before she reaches the swelling stage. I have tucked and tied together some leaves for more light instead of removing leaves but seems it’s week 5 and this is last good time to do it I may defoliate a few leaves that have spots or block light.
Nutrient:
100% nutrient feedings per 48hrs 15-20% runoff at ph 6.1
Per gallon
Ghe florabloom 7ml
Ghe floramicro 4ml
Ghe CaMg+ 4ml
Ghe floragro 1ml
coco is a forgiving medium mate. make an error and it can be instantly flushed away if needs be. I love it as a quick grow throw together too. As long as you keep the ph around 5.8 going in all will be good. It leeches calmag from the plant and nutes so have some handy as your going to hit the most needy bit next. The gnats area pain in the ass but if you cover the surface with decent sand , the larvae get stuck and the adults cant get down to lay eggs. you can also try a 20%milk/80 water in a spray bottle to wet the coco surface and mist the plant with it too. it wont smell or do any damage at all but will kill any soft bodied insects as they breath through a membrane on their backs often and suffocate from the milk deposit. It will go straight through the coco too so no horrible stinky residue
@Ganjagrandaddy, thanks for the advice, yea I’m liking the coco compared to soil I just got the watering down I was still watering like soil up to a few weeks ago. Just waiting on some mesh pots coming today I’m going to try with my clones either way much better with coco.
Yes I been feeding CaMg+ which is organic base for soil but the bottle is almost done I feed usually 4ml per gallon throughout the grow. And will get some CalImagic once this bottle is done.
Adult Gnats I got under control they can’t fly far either to the floor to get squished or on the sticky pads it’s the young ones. I’m going to try the milk idea I recently used 9 parts water to 1 part alcohol and it literally destroyed spider mite population was only a few stragglers left and on another plus side it didn’t kill all my pistils on my flowering plant like insecticidal soap that killed barely any mites just pistils lol. So I totally believe and will try the milk lol thank you.
@Grnhead, thanks bud it’s a fun process found out some cool things along the way. So weird best weed I’ve ever smoked was on vacation in Jamaica called Columbian Gold (some really Skunk bud) and it turns out was one of the parent plants to Skunk No1 small world no wonder I like this particular skunk so much. Can’t wait to see what the lemon adds to it was a smelly one to