Week 5
----- Day 29 -----
Fed 1100ppm at 6.4ph 23 Liters
Everything's good.
No real updates. Front right Glookies stretched a bit but has stopped.
Plants are perfect, couldn't ask for a better beginning to week 5.
*Update*
Easy day, end of light cycle. 3 new pics.
---- Day 30 -----
Some fun photos today for this easy day.
Humidity in basement FINALLY hit 40% this morning. Within 5 days it should be 30-35% residual basement and 45% tent for a good residual humidity.
The hand shot has my fingers and palm forward from the bud tip, the bud tip is actually past my hand but it's nearly impossible to get a perfect shot with my arm in the tent and my other one far out trying to take a photo i can't see.
The Tropicanna Popcorn nugs are already bigger than my thumb... gonna be fun in 4 weeks to see bud finishing sizes
Wedding Cake - Cherry HubbaBubba smell
Tropicanna Glookies - Pink Bubblegum with a strawberry like hint peaking through.
Tomorrow is feeding.
Today is just emptying water from buckets from dehumidifier.
*knock on wood* it's easy streak from here on out... 35~ days roughly left. here we grow!!
*** Update ***
Took some measurements. Wedding cake is monstrous already. Upto 1.5 inch wide, 14inch long (it was longer than the 12" ruler). Popcorn nugs on Tropicanna Glookies already 1inch wide 3 inch long at the top.
Beaaautiful.
Slow and steady from here on out.
----- Day 31 -----
Beautiful as usual. Fattening up nicely.
1200 ppm 6.4 pH 23 Liters
If anyone is wondering why I switched to Blackstrap Molasses I put up the Nutrition Facts..
in 20 grams you have carbohydrates, potassium, Calcium, Iron, B6 Vitamin, Magnesium, Zinc.. and that's only the "significant" nutrients (Human based for that picture) It also contains micro traces of copper and more.
pH is quite nice too, with the nutrient regiment i'm on, it finishes itself at 6.4pH so I don't have to manipulate it with pH up/down...
Loving everything so far.
Humidity in basement was 39% today, SO damn close. Tent closed at lights on (highest residual humidity point) was at 48% ... woo hoo 3% more to go!!!
------ Day 32 ------
Wow. Wedding Cake larger buds I can't even wrap my hand around.. These buds are going to be mooooonstrous.
Humidity was under 40% in basement, tent was 48% this morning. Great news for me.
Easy day, pretty much standard operating procedures from here on out.. feed, drain dehumidifier, strengthen stems by shaking plants, open/close tents... rinse repeat.
Both plants are amazing, great genetics so far regarding bud structure building/plant size.
----- Day 33 -----
47.5% residual humidity
Fed at 1150ppm 6.4pH 23L
Everything's perfect, 30~ days left.
----- Day 34 -----
48% humidity in tent, i'm a happy camper.
Everything's perfect. Bulk has started, front right Tropicanna Glookies had double in thickness and diameter top buds of most stems.
Wedding cake 14 inch stem I've named Big Bertha. Excited to watch her fatten up on the couch so-to-speak.
I'm now on autopilot. Fed yesterday while half asleep, didn't even remember doing it. Thank god I take pics of ppm/pH before every feeding for data.
One more feeding this week before week 6 happens tomorrow.
This week Liquid Koolbloom ends, KoolBloom Dry begins for maximum bulk on week 6 first feeding (2 days into week 6)
----- Day 35 -----
Last day of week 5!!!
Fed at 1150ppm 6.4ph 23L
Plants are perfect, humidity is great.
Smell is RAMPED up now. Strong candy weed smell.
Really curious how the wedding cake turns out. Just put some beans in the cup yesterday, heard great things about their wedding cake and since I could not get Jungle Boys ANYWHERE, I decided too try Canuks. Looks great btw
@TopShelfTrees,
One things for sure, they are friggin JAM packed with bud. Massive weight for even the tiniest nug. The tropicanna I could squish to near nothing and it'd pop back out to normal. Wedding cake is like trying to press in a brick.
Going to be monster yields.
Canuk seeds generally LOVE cal/mag btw. I notice Cal/mag issues on Canuk genes more than any other bean companies ive tried so don't skip out on the cal/mag.
Well, I felt like I should give this a proper ending.
I used Canvas Labs to get a Health Canada level screening of all parameters available (was like $700 bucks) and it came back showing lead and mercury.
I freaked the hell out, contacted them, and they ran samples to an even higher level lab, it was quite an intense experience.
I had massive, massive anxiety... am i smoking lead and mercury tainted pot? How did it get into my grow?
So BAM I chuck all my ferts and re-buy a newer better brand
So BAM I chuck the felt vivosun 7 gallon pots. (Why? Cause who's frigging kidding here, do you trust anything made in a manufacturing plant made in China, sold to a supplier, slapped with a label from some rich dude who pays for it and calls it vivosun on amazon's platform where they routinely send crap so bad it breaks upon use or doesn't work at all so they delete the product and you can't get your money back cause its just gone from product detail info for returns. (That was my colloidal silver, the previous example was a box fan))
So BAM i kill my 4 darling 5 foot tall, 6inch diameter trunk 11 month old plants.
And of COURSE Canvas labs comes back saying there was a lab error, there was no lead and mercury.
So that was a nightmare, and I killed the above plants.
This whole scenario sent me back massively financially and while waiting for my upgraded production medical license also, has caused a lot of time between my last postings of grows.
Shiiiiiit that was long. Posted for anyone who was curious, I use this as a diary mainly as well for long term retrieval of issues how I fixed them and results etc etc. for any necessary future need.
I was originally hesitant about posting why I killed them so blamed it on hydro. I asked a lawyer friend If it's safe to talk about it happening, they said yea, so that's why I'm mentioning it now. I would have kept these ladies alive for multiple flowering rounds.
Ramble over