- WEEK 8 -
----- Day 50 -----
Woo hoo. End is in sight and the plants are still PACKING the pounds on.
Big Bertha is 11 inches long, 2 inches wide.
The hidden massive Gertha is 8 inches in circumference in the middle in just bud alone and isn't even the largest part of this 8 inch long nug...
Fed 1150ppm 13L 6.4pH
5-15+ days left.
2-4 days till I start looking into trichome finish period.
Forgot to take a regular full shot and shots of tropicanna glookies. oh well. Later tonight if I remember.
I stopped bud candy cause I'm using a lot more molasses and its literally a sugar in itself so why put in bud candy which is just sugars... seems redundant.
----- Day 51 -----
Easy day of watching.
Some nice bud shots today. The whole basement smells of weed candy. Back right Tropicanna is pineapple gummy bear, front right is just gummy bear.
Wedding Cake is like sweet weed, you get the regular smell of pot but instead of skunky its sweet but that Tropicanna is just alllll candy no weed smell at all.
I did the first 60x shot today. 5% cloudy 95% clear on the Tropicanna. Long ways to go.
I'll be doing the Wedding Cake later tonight, got side tracked.
----- Day 52 -----
Fed 1200ppm 6.4ph 12 Liters
Tropicanna Glookies is going full blown purple. Should be covered in dark purple coloration within the week.
Wedding Cake is just fat. Super fat large nugs.
Easy day. Forgot to take trichome pics of Wedding Cake will do that later today probably.
Well, the largest bud is 1 foot in circumference now... rofl
----- Day 53 -----
Easy day. Fed some water, they're getting thirsty again.
I'm going to do a 13L feeding , then next day 5L water. So that's what I did today.
I'll be dropping the Kool Bloom Powder & CaliMagic by day 56 and only feed 1/2 strength molasses only.
Will pick the buds off as they finish, not gonna do 1 big chop unless it manages to turn out that way.
Colors are going wild.
Will check Wedding Cake & Tropicanna trichomes before lights out will update pics then.
----- Day 54 -----
1300ppm 13L 6.4ph fed
Here's some pics.
Wedding Cake is nowhere near ready by the trichomes. Barely any cloudy, no amber.
----- Day 55 -----
Tropicanna really turning purple now starting to infect the leaves at top of canopy.
Can't wait for what Day 63 holds for all these ladies.
Not going to check trichomes till probably day 58
Easy day, last fert feed with chemical nutrients tomorrow, after that its just molasses.
----- Day 56 -----
Didnt even bother with ppm/pH.
Molasses. roughly 30-50ml in 13-15 Liters.
Smoked a tester of the Tropicana Glookies (Sativa)
God daaaamn. Shits fire. Extremely strong. Very Cerebral and its not even at its peak yet...
I've chosen Tuesday as Harvest day for both Tropicana Glookies plants (they're clones of each other)
A single Wedding Cake testing nug is drying right now, I'll judge when it gets harvested based on the high, and if not sufficiently near my level i'll give it 2 days before drying another nug and trying again. I want heavy ass couch-lock.
6 days for Tropicana.
Probably 8 for Wedding Cake.
Will send samples off to Canvas Labs for testing like I've done in the past and will be making both edibles and bubble hash and will post those here as they happen.
Once thats done I will see if I can restart veg mode in this grow, and if so I will keep this going until the plants die (and just make side diaries for each individual plant variety grow).
Should be interesting.
*** update ***
Where'd the 1.5 Liter water bottle go?
rofl
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