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Howdy folks. This is another BlackJack grow, from Nirvana Seeds. I am attempting a sea of green style, so three small clones, twice transplanted, then flowered. BlackJack is a good strain - Black Domina x Jock Horror. The projected flowering timeline is 8-9 weeks.
I transplanted using BX Pro Mix, and side filled with a mix of 10 parts BX Pro Mix: 5 parts worm castings: 1 part Fox Farms Happy Frog soil. Everything is looking good and I am only giving water.
My lighting is a 300 actual watt full spectrum LED, with a smaller pod that is 1/6th that again.
This is day 44!
Day 51 since this batch of BlackJacks were cloned. Adjusting to new containers and amendment, just slowly growing away. I have only given water and will continue with this for some time, and will eventually transplant to a larger container. Tally ho!
Day 58 for this trio of BlackJack clones. I feel like these plants are struggling a little because of temperatures. Not sure about nutrients. Its spring and so my furnace isn’t running as much, my tent is slightly cooler near the floor, just a theory for this trio. I top dressed with worm castings and a very small amount of blood and bone meal so this should give a small boost. I cut off some of the damaged veg. after photos.
Day 65 for these BlackJack clones. Deficiency kicked in this week and ravaged many of the leaves. I top dressed with BX Pro Mix, worm castings, and a small amount of blood and bone meal. I have only irrigated once though. I plan on transplanting once more with these three, so it may not matter.
Day 72 for these BlackJack clones. They were struggling as they ran out of soil amendment. I’ve now transplanted and they look much better. It did slow them down as a later generation of BlackJacks have basically caught up. I bottom filled with BX Pro Mix, then side filled with a mixture that was 40 parts BX Pro Mix: 5 Fox Farms Happy Frog: 5 worm castings: 1 ASB Greenworld Sheep Manure Compost: 1 ASB Greenworld Black Earth: 1 ETI Greenhouse Gold Seafood Compost: 1 Blood and Bonemeal pellets: 1 Green Gaia mineralized phosphate (guano): 1 alfalfa meal compost: 1 pulverized egg shells.
Day 79 for these three BlackJack. Whereas it was running out of amendment previously, now it appears as access. In particular, the amount of funky top material growing. I’m trying to be disciplined with watering so overtime I will flush it out and use it up.
Day 86 for these three BlackJack clones. I think its starting to clear some of the amendment. I will continue with water. The earliest I would flower would be next week. We’ll see what kind of room there is. I’m curious, as it pushed out so much growth because of nutrients, if all those will turn into budsites if I don’t trim it off.
Day 90 for these three BlackJacks. Early turn around as I’m putting the three into flower. I took some clones and trimmed up, however after examining the plant closely I did elect to top dress with some blood and bone meal, mineralized phosphate (guano), and worm castings. I’m trying to keep my flower tent full, so onward.
Day 96 for these three BlackJack clones. One week of flowering complete, seven weeks to go. Just stretching at the moment. I’ll only be giving water for another week as it uses up amendment. My flowering tent is a 6’x4’ DIY hung mylar design similar to my veg. tent. My flowering lighting at the moment is two 300 actual watt full spectrum LEDs, 96 watts of yellow LED supplementing that spectrum, and I’ve thrown in 64 watts of fluorescent just for fun.
Day 103 for these Blackjack clones. Two weeks of flowering complete, six weeks of flowering to go. Apologies upfront for picture quality - its been a busy week of real life work, cannabis chores, upgrades, and pest management. I’ll reflect the lighting change next week, but as temperatures rise it exposes pest management. It was time to completely go through my tent, even in flower, clean, defoliate, and spray down with a little 90+% ethyl group alcohol. Yes, I’ll take the hit of the trichomes I dissolved and the stress to the plant, so pests don’t get out of control immediately under the new light. In flower, I’d like to keep to the proven strategy of lady bugs, but the local provider is a couple weeks out of supply, and moving around amongst businesses is complicated these days. Thus, bad photos in my garage (I was taking the task seriously), and the disappearing vegetation. After photos, I fed 0-10-10 Alaska Morbloom with a popsicle stick dip of blackstrap molasses and Plant Prod MJ Spike (CalMag).
Day 110 for these three BlackJack clones. Three weeks of flowering complete, five weeks of flowering to go.
A general address: finally reflecting the new high pressure sodium flowering light. This replaces the LEDs in my 6’x4’ tent. It is a 600 watt Vivosun HPS setup! Still adjusting to the benefits and drawbacks compared to LED, for example taking photos. I have experimented with plastic filters and have been shown some cheap products, for now just taking pictures with my phone with “dramatic” effect seems to be the best combination of colour and resolution for now. I’m not lugging them in and out based on the location of my tents. I will also shout-out to Hellishjam and BudXs 🤙🏻🇨🇦 who are constantly supportive and encouraging.
This strain is where I see the light improvements, its a generation that has mostly been under the HPS - wow! I didn’t see buds this big in my previous BlackJack grows, certainly not at weeek 3. I had recently fed so I’ve only given an irrigation of water, then it will be back to food next.
Day 117 for the three BlackJack clones. Four weeks of flowering complete, four weeks to go. My goodness, so this is a HPS light system. These plants will kick the ass of my previous BlackJack attempts. Not over powering smell thanks to other plants in my garden, but faint and sweet. Last watering was food, 0-10-10 Alaska Morbloom with a popsicle stick dip of blackstrap molasses and Plant Prod MJ Spike (CalMag).
Day 124 for BlackJack. Five weeks of flowering complete, three weeks to go. Looking fabulous. Subtle, sweet, alluring smell. Last irrigation was a feeding, likely the second last, 0-10-10 Alaska Morbloom with a popsicle stick dip of blackstrap molasses and Plant Prod MJ Spike (CalMag). The mites are moving on in, everywhere now. I left enough foliage that its on the fan leaves, but its annoying to look at. I informed them that I had ladybugs incoming by weeks end ... they didn’t seem to take the memo.
Day 131. Six weeks of flowering complete, two weeks to go. This is the one that the grow diary community has been waiting for ... its horrible! My best buds ruined by mites, its fitting that I crown the arrival of the HPS with added heat and reduced humidity for the mites. This should be a lesson in the rapidity of mite colonies. Can you actually be calm and not flip out? How do you react with this adversity? Disappear off Grow Diaries? Flip out and toss the plants? Get desperate and spray chemicals everywhere? The ladybugs arrived mid week. It will take some time to pick through the plants and thats the excruciating waiting. I have been redirecting them to these clones as their distribution is erratic. They don’t see beautiful buds ruined, they take the first insects they see. I will probably flip things and look to budwash first, then dry trim. You won’t see ol’ Beans disappear when the rough patches hit. Consistency, friends.
Day 138 for BlackJack. Seven weeks of flowering and I would have projected one week to go. I’m doing things in waves, the first half of my mited tent was put outside midweek to get further picked by the ladybugs, but also general predators and mother nature. She rewarded me with a downpour and thundershowers which largely took down the cobwebs. So droopy and overwatered haha. There is still a large amount of mite web residue and hoping that doesn’t cause bud rot. I am preparing for an extra intensive bud wash. I think I can save some of it .... 😥. I’ll put the other half of the flower tent outside later this week. Not really worried about dark/light with harvest, I’ll do it this evening into the night.
Things could have been much, much worse. I did compost and chuck alot of matter and salvaged the best remaining crowns.
I did a bit more vigorous budwash than usual. I added a much more harsh first step:
Container 1 - 20Liters of water, 1 cup hydrogen peroxide, 3 tablespoons lemon juice concentrate, 3 tablespoons of baking soda. I really sloshed everything around (fan leaves and all) and let the buds soak as I began to wet trim.
Container 2 - after wet trim I agitated the buds around in water mixed with 3 tablespoons of lemon juice concentrate and 3 tabespoons of baking soda.
Container 3 - rinse them off in just water. Hang to dry.
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