Sep 15: Panama Lime has a great lemon smell and the buds are finally starting to put on weight. Trimmed some small ‘suckers’ or branches that weren’t going to amount to anything.
Cookies G13 has these two huge ‘clubs’ that produce lots of leaves but minimal bud. I’ve always been suspicious that these would rot and today there was a shrivelled leaf which is a sign of bud rot starting. That was the last straw so I beheaded this thing and will use the immature flowers In a tincture.
Fimming worked perfectly on the Panama Lime producing four colas. But on the Cookies G13 it didn’t seem to work, and it may have caused it to grow those two ‘clubs’. I’ll try fimming again I’m sure but for now I think I’ll stick to topping as it’s more reliable.
New growth on Cookies G13 is a bit yellow so also included some SuperBloom in the nutrient mix to provide N.
Sep 18: hazy today from fires in CA and OR which are about 1,800 km away. This haze blocks light including UV which is what promotes the formation of THC in the plants. So global warming causes fires, and the smoke affects THC production in my buds half a continent away. Great.
@Pokan187, thanks. This one is from several seasons ago, but yeah it was a pretty good. Boveda are fine, but humidity packs are a commodity biz so I just buy whatever is the best deal. Humidity packs are totally worth it by the way…worth the minor price.
@Northern_Ent,Ha brilliant dude thank you really.. Here I was half expecting a weird stupid answer and you come up with something intelligent very cool. Much Respect brother... I use a product to achieve the same kind of idea but very cool of you to think outside the box..
@DeadwebsiteBoringcommunity, I agree it sounds silly but the soap lowers the surface tension of the water which means that it is better able to penetrate the leaves. Science, or at least wishful thinking. 😎. Pesticide formulations often use the same trick to deliver their active ingredients. I was reminded of it buying some fancy peat based medium that mentioned using a “wetting agent” which is just a surfactant which is just soap.
@Epokwan, the breeder calls them Superautos. They did start flowering early, and will finish in time, but wow what a long winded plant. Absolutely gorgeous though and the Panama Lime testers are really nice. I likely found it on Seedsman using their search filters.
Looks awesome! I think my plants are growing at about the same pace as yours, I'm only in week 4 though, hoping to see the same things as you've got goin on
@siz3thr33, thanks, I’m excited about these ones. Your California Snow look good, but you’re likely a bit early with the bloom nutes. Your day 21 pic show you’re still in vegetative growth so they need a fertilizer with more N than PK to grow big.
My plants also seem to like getting a bit of molasses every week or so throughout the grow. Make sure its unsulphured blackstrap molasses which is cheap at the grocery store. 😎. Good luck.