5/17 Week 8 ... and the state of the grow is unsettled
This grow has fought us since germ and it is showing no signs of giving in. Just cannot seem to find their "happy place" environmentally or nuet wise.
They doing ok-ish this is not a big yielding strain no matter the ad copy but havent had this much issue with it indoors before.
Starting at baseline with the lighting HID 300w 16 inches above Baba LED moved towards front of tent.
Both lights tilted very slightly towards each other hopefully giving better dispersal.
Still showing nitrogen sensitivity so reducing Bloom to 8ml/gal while increasing PK to 6 so PK does not suffer, will watch for deficiencies
Looking at going considerably over on these now, nothing coming up behind them so zero space issues, see what happens.
Continue to leaf pluck when one needs to go
Evening feed 5/17:
They look better and some experimenting with the lights showed me the angle tilt needed increasing and HID increased to 450w giving a total of 600w in the tent.
Should not cause too much heat issue. Still have 150w in reserve
5/18 PM
Pic of lights - Seems to be working out managing to cover base of tent with both lights giving a 5000k and 3000k spectrum. Buds building faster now in particular on Baba,
Hadnt gotten sick we would have thought of this weeks ago, aint that inspired. Man this Cov-19 stuff will cloud your thinking.
Keeping HID at 450w
Pics of plants - doing better
Nuets - Running low on Soul Peak so gradually working in the KoolBloom to make it last. Seriously think the Soul Peak is better.
5/18
TAHTA TA TAHHHH! Baba found her happy place and is bulking very fast.
See how long it continues
Re-did the lights
Had to drop wattage on HID due to heat even after a redesign of the extraction to eliminate drag on air movement.
For 14 hours they will run at 450 watts but for 6 hours a day will drop to 300 watts. This should keep any problems from occurring.
Just hard to run that Metal Halide at more than 300 watts in warm weather without AC which aint happening.
HID to 300/450 watts, 13 inches above Baba at a 20 degree tilt to disperse light.
LED at full 17 inches above Athena with a 20 degree tilt.
Coincidentally that puts them at the same height.
Added a 30 watt 2700K LED on Baba and Athena give them some more red. See how it works.
Nuets as is
5/20
Pics
After viewing tricones beginning to walk down the EC to flush in a couple days. Plan 10 day flush.
That puts them finishing about the middle of week 11.
Not perfect but nothing so far with this grow has been lol
Adding the 30 watt 2700K LED in the bottom seems to be helping, lot of increased lower growth WHICH I WILL TAKE ... π¬
Seriously every bud counts lol
5/21
Buds continuing to build at a decent rate finally.
Had to re-arrange the tent my wife's plant is getting big
Holding nuets where they are till flush, plan to begin flush during week 9.
Working on a tactic to harvest Sally ahead of Jane without hurting either
After a talk with her and looking seriously at what we have here I am going to break up the feeds.
Athena will need to go into flush first she is furthest along. So start it on week 9.
Sally ... we are going to do something unusual for her and Jane.
Since flushing Sally per normal would be just no good for the twin Jane we are going to flush but then put the plants on organic bloom.
So big initial flush with agent to clean out the salts then shifting her to light organics to continue feeding the twin without having to revisit the flushing issue.
No idea how long the twin may go
Baba will just play by ear on her, continue the light Bloom feeding keeping her PK up until we see the go signal from her. Hoping she goes a week longer than the others.
5/22
Lights to full weather is cool today and time is short
Holding nuets here till new week then begin flush on Athena
Buds still building nicely on Baba
Almost forgot the twin:
Here is the plan we flush the pot same time as Athena but on the next feeding we introduce organic bloom nuets for Jane instead of a flush as normal.
We dont smoke so not overly concerned with harshness just want the pot clean. The organics will belay any further need of flushing. Best we can do
5/23
Need to start flush now so Athena and Sally on water only till I introduce organics to Sally.
No agents
Baba staying on feed
Anti-Thunderdome...?
See the two pics of Sally.
Did one seed enter ... two plants leave or is she just that messed up?
Seed was very slow to take up water and sprouted slightly oddly on the towel, thought little of it at the time.
So popping replacement just in case but WTF? π³
hi @rhodes68 . these are genetic mutations. As a rule, the smallest plant will barely grow and sometimes even dies. I have already witnessed by a well-known grower that the two plants grow well without problems. It has happened to me 1 or 2 times, put the seed in the water and two root tips come out. only once did both grow up but the little one barely grew and ended up dying π. good luck mate π
Germed from very small seed (glares at QC)
Mary is on her own feed, propping her up with H2O2 and begun light feeding again at every irrigation.
No idea what to do next, did not respond to recharge, and kangaroots did not seem to help so I am down to H2O2
Hey there,
Thanks so much for running a diary of our genetics π
Let us know if you need any assistance, weβre more than happy to help.
Happy Growing !!! π±βοΈπ΄ππΏπ³
@Med_in_Tropic,
Thank you
I am happy with the produce just wasnt as much as we would like from 3 plants.
We are looking into a photo strain of LSD see if we can get that yield up
@Med_in_Tropic,
Baba is about a week behind the other two which are now bulking up though not at the rate we would like for sure.
Plus there is still Jane no telling but we will see.
Think there will be a good bit, at least enough not to have to grow it again for a few months
@Med_in_Tropic,
Yeah we gonna end up with a good bit of it, hasnt helped being sick off and on the whole grow but it is what it is err?
The CBD plant on the other hand is looking amazing so not sure wth is the deal
Hello friend. How are you? π
I recovered from my illness and started writing my diary again. if you are interested - subscribe. π
MJ's medicine helps a lot, you know what I mean?π
Annoying loss of any control with their decision to flower.lol My only moan about autos. Loved the look when these flower but they did feel a little twiggy budded once cured. Seeing these amazing colours in flower halfway through then the twigs being boring colour to the buds is a killer. , if you nor done them before it will makes sense. nice bud and varnish goodness but nice. good work so far. hope they get busy soon , they flower quickly when they switch.
@rhodes68,they will take some getting through. They have to be the most attractive buds ever when flowering. Never had anything grow so psychedelic looking before. Ironically I am smoking the last of my Lsd-25 after I became "Dankrupt" and had to negotiate an Oz back from the "distributor " I move my harvests with. lol I got 3 different phenos from each seed. 2 had the amazing colours but were opposite ends of the grow spectrum with 1 going big and another very wide and squat and a totally green all round that you would only know it as Lsd-25 if you had smoked the other phenos too. tasted the same just looked like "a sister from another Mr" or a "cuckoo in the nest" . lol I am a big fast buds fan and now they are moving into fast flowering photoperiod strains too. I think I may be a lifelong subscriber.lol
I am currently running 3 of the tester strains with 9 more to do and so far for us on this side of the market , they are a winner . They grow very well like an auto , maybe not as fast initially but they do find their feet once rooted up. They are also running new batches of autos through the forum here too. lots of new lines being tested here as "Fbt " or FFT on fast buds page. They are contact able through the message ap here and as an obvious customer and buyer of their products , it could be worth hitting them up and with your enquiries on their new strains being tested and if they want you to run a couple too. They are great guys on their message App and very helpful. Nothing to lose bud.
@Ganjagrandaddy,
Well we continue to do what we can to delay flowering (heh maybe) but by now all other grows of LSD-25 have flipped.
This is the fourth go round for us on this strain, its (LSD) medicinally unique so we grow often.
Actually looking into a photo variety to grow next time but heck still have 14 seeds of this so π
@FoTwenny,
Grown this strain four times now, rule number one two and three are all Do not stress theses plants.
Well if you can help it
They just dont take a lot of stress and still produce well and if you can keep em happy enough you may get the green pheno, trust me thats the one you want π
You have plenty of light so thats no issue you prob enjoy the results a LOT, we do.