I apologize for slacking on my diary this past week. I had some medical issues that are now behind me....back to GROWING STRONG! π
9/6- The FastBuds ladies aren't called fast for nothing...they'll be going dark in a day or two as they're in fade and trichomes are milky with just a few amber starting to show, just the way I like it!
Lite water for all the FB's, the Seedsman Gelato OG's and Zkittles are some thirsty girls....they drink 1 gallon/day. All got de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.7 @ 75 deg. 225 ppm, FB's 1/2 gallon/ea., Seedsman's 1 gallon/ea. Did my daily leaf tuck on the Zkittles and Purple
Lemonade's. The Gelato OG's are leaning hard on the sativa pheno with long, thin fingered leaves so light penetration is not an issue and the FB Crystal Meth's have wide internodal spacing so light penetration isn't an issue with them either.
9/8- Yesterday morning I watered the Seedsman girl's with 1 gallon each of de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 @ 74 deg. with 2 tbsp/gallon unsulphured molasses and 1 tbsp/gallon Neptune's Harvest Seaweed Extract. FastBuds received 1 gallon each of de-chlorinated water
ph'd to 6.8 @ 74 deg. to flush. Starting today the FastBuds will not get watered any more and will go into 48 hrs of dark tonight. Watered the Seedsman Gelato OG's and Zkittles with 2 1/2 gallons de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.8 @ 76 deg. split evenly between them.
9/10- Spread the Seedsman ladies out in the tent after taking out the FB's(going dark) All got 1 gallon de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.7 @ 74 deg. I went through all three of the Zkittles and defoliated all the inner lower leaves that weren't doing squat and any big leaves
that were either crossing over each other or blocking a lot of bud sites. The Gelato OG #2 in SOHUM is STACKING like a champ, the #1 in Natures Living Soil/Happy Frog is a little behind her sister. I don't know if it's the fact that the SOHUM soil is extremely fluffy and
airy or something else as the two plants exhibit really stable genetics with near identical structure and appearance, but the one in SOHUM is definitely working it! I hung all four of the FastBuds girls tonight and they are looking and smelling fucking AWESOME!!! The
Purple Lemonade strain has some definite genetic variations happening as the #1 pheno was a runted little shit with fox-tailed bud structure and super thick but long fingered leaves. She's not much on looks but is gonna be some good medicine as she's frosty and
smells like a bowl of lemons! The #2 pheno is 180 degrees different...taller, indica dominant with beautiful bud structure and coloration. She's absolutely gooey with resin coating her dark purple, almost indigo buds! The #2 Crystal Meth grown in the SOHUM Living
Soil that damn near killed her due to EXTREME acidity made it to harvest but she was a disappointment in that her buds never stacked and remain loose...we'll see how she smokes! lol The #1 Crystal Meth is like the #2 Purple Lemonade pheno...she's the choice
pheno...beautiful structure, color, indica dominant phenotype with dark purple/maroon, resinous buds that have a strong eucalyptus aroma.
9/12- Finally the end of Week 8...whew! The four FastBuds girls are hanging in 66 deg @ 60% RH for the next 7-10 days. The four Seedsman's have 1-2 weeks to go with the Gelato OG #2 looking like she'll be the first, followed closely by Zkittles #2. Continuing with de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.6-6.8 @ 74-76 deg with 5 ml/gl of CalMag+ added every other watering.
I'm running all 10g fabric pots- Six of them are filled with Fox Farms Happy Frog mixed with Natures Living Soil Autoflower Concentrate, two are filled with SOHUM Living Soil. Every pot's medium ph's @ 6.2-6.8 except one SOHUM which is @ 5.2-5.4! WTH? Don't know how she's alive!
Must be genetics, maybe that strain was breed in hydro for past generations, i have a plant that drinks 7.5 ph water and when i lowered it to 6.3 she started getting sick. Had to go back to 7.5 ph. Smh.
Hi, im getting into growing and use sohum, what does the " 2 1/2g" mean when you say "2 1/2g straight non-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.4". And what type of water do you use, Ro, Tap, Etc.
Thank you any help is greatly appreciated.
@CainHeim, I use well water from the tap which runs around 200ppm and 7.4-7.8 ph before I adjust. The 2 1/2g was referring to how much TOTAL water I gave which was split evenly between my plants. DON'T over water.... biggest 'noob' mistake. Let your plants tell you when they are thirsty and take care of what you can't see (the ROOTS) and the rest will take care of itself! Good luck with your grows and Merry Christmas! ππ
@TheCannaProphet, thanks for the reply. I got fungus gnats in my NLS as well. For whatever reason they all disappeared after my first application of SLF100 even though it's completely unrelated. Not sure how or why but they never came back.
@HashCakes, Thanks for checking out my diary! I had two growing in SOHUM soil and one did excellent, the other had issues. When I checked the ph of the SOHUM with the plant with issues I found that it was @ 5.2....WAY too low. I don't know if it was a bad bag or what but it pissed me off. The NLS plants did really well but using it brought Fungus Gnats, which could have only come from the NLS as I've NEVER had them previously. So now I've gone back to my Ol' Reliable Mother Earth Coco/Perlite with 100% Organic Dry Amendments or Liquid Nutrients depending on the run. Hope this helps you...Grow Strong! ππ
I have the seeds Gelato OG in my Run 2 diary & one of them is a freaking monster!! By far the biggest plant in my tent! Canβt wait to see how yours turns out friend! Happy growing!βοΈπΌπ±