12/31:
They are both coming along nicely.👍
Today was the first day in which I fed them some Big Bloom and Boomerang along with humic acid, pH'd to 6.1.
1/3:
I've been letting them dry out a bit for the last two days. They've got roots coming out the bottoms now...I'll probably transplant them into 5 gallon fabric pots tomorrow or the next day.
I ordered a 4' 180w tube light with 578 LEDs..it has a 360 degree beam with 3000k and a bunch of 660nm. It's waterproof, so no worries about keeping it beneath my canopy to illuminate the lower branches and hopefully increase the density of those buds that never get much top-lighting.
Today, I mounted my two new 24w UVA LED lights (395-405nm) to my frame. I'll run them 6 hours a day from the time I put the plants into my closet, until harvest. It is my understanding that exposure to UVA, particularly during the vegetative stage, triggers many different plant defense hormones, which speed growth and can increase heartiness to withstand constant exposure to UVB without suffering as much cellular damage as usual.
I'm also ordering a 2' Solacure FlowerPower UVB (285nm-310nm) next week to use during flowering to stress the plants and increase trichome production.
1/4:
I did a few foliar feedings with big bloom and fulvic acid today.
1/5:
Transplanting day. I dusted their roots with magic dust and transplanted them into 5 gallon pots today. I had some excellent compost with biochar and myco that I mixed into their soil, too. I watered them in with about 2 quarts of their first taste of full strength veg nutes, plus mycorrhizal fungi, trichoderma, beneficial bacteria, and humic acid, then I sprayed them with biotabs boomboom spray when finished. The were moved into the closet under the quantum boards, UVA's, and a pair of MiracleLED blue bulbs. I'll start adding far-red spectra to the equation in the next few days.
@Fast_Buds, Ya I'm not sure who monitors this account, but if you're listening...
I'm a big boy...I can handle the truth. It's been well over 2 years since you sent me the FFT seeds.
Is it that you've shifted your business model away from trying to enter the photoperiod market completely, and decided to abandon the project entirely (along with the testers you employed to do diaries)?
That's understandable. But what is not understandable is why you'd just ignore us when we ask about it.