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Not many pictures and I'm focusing on the previous generation plants right now.
My plan is to grow to the 5th node, top down to the 3rd, leave only 2 nodes. From 2 new mains, keep 1st/3rd node growth tips. Once you get to 4th, top down to 3rd. Voila, 8 spaced mains.
June 6 - Germination date
Things going great so far. One seed was transplanted a little too early and to a container without the best drainage and didn't realize for a long while. Reverted back to solo cup until she recovers. May just be these 3 and the other kept for the next grow.
Have just finished final repotting. Tied everything down. Gave a huge drink.
Should be pretty smooth sailing for awhile now until I install tomato cages. Also decided to get a few decent pictures for a change.
Have been continuing to lollipop until I get my desired shape, plucking palm sized leaves or bigger, or if they are blocking growth tips.
Currently supplementing this grow inside of a tent for a couple extra hours of quality light a day. Soon going to leave in the tent to start flowering but I feel I should let it grow a few more inches in veg first. Don't want this effort to go to waste. Have let all growth tips stay now and they are developing into 1 inch branches.
Started flowering Sept 12
Photos taken Sept 14
Finally have the girls in the tent by themselves and this being my only grow, can focus more of my attention to them.
Finish off week 3 in 2 more day. The plants havnt stretched a lot, but look fairly healthy. Been throwing nutes at it with no signs of overfeeding.
Lots of healthy looking buds starting. Not as many as my last grow, but my thought for these was same pot size, same size roots, just less branches and mostly only the 8 mains. Hopes to get the same amount but condensed onto singular branches instead. See what happens.
Had an issue with WPM. After 2 days of 40% milks 60% water spray in the morning, 2 days of 1tbsp/gal baking soda spray, and a few days of high pH (8.0-9.0) and it seems all gone. Letting them dry a bit in case in affects anything I'm not thinking about.
Thinking my week 3 defoil in a few days will be pretty slim. Open up the flowers to direct light, but a lot of my fan leaves were already attacked by WPM and are now being drained by my plant and turning yellow. Going to keep mostly all I have.
Things going well. Waiting for the girls to fatten up more, just finished week 3 and took pictures.
WPM was beat but a bit came back. Once again going with the high pH spray (8.0-9.0) each morning. Keeping it at bay. Still feeding nutes for now but thinking of stopping very soon, even sooner for 1 plant which grew quite a bit of green vegetation.
Pictures taken 3 weeks into flowering. Its 3.5 weeks now. Started as pretty basic potting soil, most of the nutrients im sure are gone.
When do you switch to just pH corrected water to feed? Thinking 1 more week for my yellowing plants, and less for my very green one. Thoughts?
Personally, I don't really stop feeding my plants. But the general rule of thumb is around 2 weeks before you plan to harvest. Since you're at W3 now, I'd say around W6,7, or 8 (depending on your strains flower time) is when you'd need to consider stopping feeding
Just started week 5 on Oct 10 (Saturday). Nothing much to report. Losing fan leaves at a healthy pace. No big problems. 9-10 weeks flowering time for these strains so many keep the nutrients for this week as well and then quite.
Oct 14 - I have given the plants nutrients again as the fan leaves are dropping quick and the buds still have to mature and grow a bit. Upped the call-mag too. A lot of leaves lost that I would of got with a more intense defoilation in week 3 anyways. Just hoping to slow it down.
Tiny spots of WPM appeared again. Once again started spraying the plants with 60% water, 40% milk with baking soda mix. Amazed at how easily this takes care of it. Next grow gotta prevent it beforehand though.
Feeding them 1L of the 3 part nutrient blend (1:2:3) with runoff water, corrected to 6.3pH for the first day.
And next day just 6.3 pH runoff water.
The photos are about 6.5 weeks into flowering out of the 10 weeks my seed packs said. I'm not used to growing sativas, this long flowering time always sketches me out lol.
Any tips or thoughts? Ended on this feeding schedule because one plant seemed like it was getting nute burn from any more feed. Seems to be only very gradually losing leaves now.
First time with sativas. Not used to having a long flowering period. Any thoughts on how my plants are doing or what I expect to see for healthy plants over the next weeks. If I wasn't told otherwise I'd be harvesting these already.
Check diary for better info.
Still giving nutrients @ 6.3pH every other day, rain water @ 6.3pH the rest.
Bit of WPM returned again. Tried to start under a few tiny fan leaves that were blocking light from buds. Did a light defoilation to fix this issue, back with the milk spray solution to put that to bed. Gonna keep up with this or a high pH (8.0-9.0) water spray in the mornings.
3 weeks until finish for Skunk strain, 4 weeks for the super lemon haze and amnesia. Seems to be stable and not losing any leaves now that I resumed feeding. May only flush at 1 week out and stop nutes then. Not a lot of reserves left in the girls.
Oct29 - The dates my plants should be done is Nov 14 for Skunk (9 weeks), and Nov 21 for Lemon and Amnesia (10 weeks).
The Skunk strain is looking near finished already. Top buds are turning amber I believe (harder to tell as past nitrogen burn has made leaves edges and spots brown) The inside buds pretty cloudy and developing nice still. Did a flush on Skunk in preparation for harvesting, as it may be done before then. Might be flushing the amnesia strain in a few more days, lemon looks like its on regular target though.
Oct 30 - I have inspected the plants closer. One could be ready for harvest any day now, flushed and giving just plain 6.2pH rainwater. One is slightly behind that one, and one is still like 1.5 weeks away. I have decided to give them all 6.2pH rainwater and am going to flush the other two tomorrow. They still have quite a bit of green vegetation on them and will survive fine without nutes.
This grow I have learned that I have been burying my plants deeper when repotting, since up to the first set of leaves can grow roots I found out. So I was trying to avoid stretch. Doing this though stopped my tap root from getting real long and thus making my plants way shorter than intended.
Also next grow I am planning autos is finishing pot with LST, so it will be completely different from my previous grows. See how it compared.
Been on 6.2pH rainwater for a couple weeks now. Got the WPM contained and gone. Quite dry in the tent. Maximum of 1.5 weeks left for both strains. Thinking 1 more may be done any day now.
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