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This is a heavily amended soil with a soil content of 1.026-0.35-0.35.
Since this is my first time using this soil and amendment ratios, this will largely be water only, maybe some teas if I start to see anything going on and possibly a top dress right before flower. I've also planted cover crops with the seeds.
I germinated the seeds directly in the hot soil. I placed the seeds approx. 1cm down into the soil and kept the soil moist with a humidity bell over it, I remove the bell when the seed comes above ground. Within 3 days the seed was above ground, this pictures above are 7 days after breaking ground. Using the surrounding plants to offer shade to them so they don't get blasted by the flower light on the other side of the Orange Sherbets.
Plain PH'd water and giving em a bit more light slowly, one of the leaves started to curl upwards so I moved it a bit more in the shade and raised the light 4 inches and they leveled out in a few days. Fast growth, feeling pretty good out of the gate for day 14. Keeping an eye out for any deficiencies but I'm pretty sure this soil should carry through to flower with a bloom top dressing in pre-flower/start of flower. Always a fun learning process trying out new things.
Some mag deficiency started showing up and I top dressed with 1 TBL of Uprising Foundation and that is taking care of itself, noticed overall slow growth and top dressed about 2-3 days ago with 1 TBL of Uprising Grow and most of the growth you see has happened since that feeding. The soil should be rich enough and I'm literally top dressing with the same stuff I amended with. I'll keep on a normal top dressing schedule from here on out. I also think I went a little overboard with the clovers, had to do a little landscaping while LST'ing.
Deficiencies have gone away and they are growing more and more each day, a little spindly in my opinion for a cheese, but hopefully their branches will bulk up a bit before putting on flowers.
Going to spread them out this week and transfer them into a 14 inch tray to do so. Healthy growth, a lil N-tox on the smaller one, but nothing too major. Looking forward to these flowering, now the fun begins! I am going to top dress with some Uprising Bloom and Foundation this week, 1TBL per pot.
These plants kinda exploded once I spread them out a bit. They caught some thrips from the Gelato.OG I brought into my tent from a friend. Put diatomaceous earth in the soil and put Cucurmeris predator mites on em and it is working in spades. I've got time-released breeding bags that are hanging so I should have enough predator mites to last the extended life cycle of a thrip. Will def have to wash these buds when done though. Rapid growth and healthy plants, started to show a big of Mg this week again so I did the foundation. They both look like they've got enough nitrogen, if not too much on one plant, so I'll hold on on the bloom for a bit since the soil has 0.5/0.5 PK in it.
Still growing up and stretching on week 3 of flower. Starting to show some yellowing, went out of town for a week and came back to a good bit of color change, not much to do about it at this stage other than keep feeding and make sure she is getting even watering.
Another week down, the buds are coming on nicely an looking great, the fade is starting to come on a bit earlier than I anticipated. The soils got plenty of food in it, ph is great, microbes are happy, so I'm guessing she's done uptaking nutes. I'll stop feeding and just do plain water until she tells me she is done. The smell right now is a sweet funk and has come on in the last week, when the lights shut off at night, I can smell them coming up from the basement through 2x carbon filters.
Ended up deciding to feed for 1 more week to make sure, and yeh its done taking up nutes. Apologies for the rushed pictures, I'll be taking some nicer photos soon before harvest and trimming her up a bit more. Going to let them run out another week or so any see what they do, they are extremely frosty and the smell is very pungent.
What can I say about these two plants! The light colored one is Chocolate, Sweet, with a bit of stale refrigerator behind it on the smell and the smoke. The dark one is denser and the best way I can describe the smell and taste of it is.... Turkey Gravy and Hot Sauce. The hot sauce is really pronounced, vinegary an slightly spicy followed by a rich fatty taste of turkey fat. It is mind blowing. I'd really love to get the "Stinky Cheese" pheno again as I call it, but the Chocolate is an incredibly smooth an enjoyable smoke.
@the_canna_scientist, same with my royal dwarf. It says 6-8 weeks flowering but my lady spent 4 weeks in veg stage. I'm going to push another 2 weeks of flowering (I don't doubt the plant will make it. She still looks healthy). Once I hit that 6 weeks of flowering I'll take either just the top cola or perhaps the whole thing. Looks like we will be harvesting the same time :D only your bounty looks a lot bigger :')
@Namlah, I'm planning on 2 more weeks, but according to RQS, its 9-10wks from seed and 8 weeks of flower, mine veg'd for 4 weeks, so I'm just gonna watch the pistils and watch the trichomes. I gave em their "last" feeding this week, but they aren't taking up nutes anymore obviously. I really don't think they'll go to 12 weeks total, to get the 8 weeks of flower after 4 weeks of veg.
@the_canna_scientist, Aweomse I looked at that line before talking with a friend and coming up with a Super Coco - and I must admit so far I am just blown away at how well these girls are doing at the end of week 3 I am looking at as much as 6 to 10-inch plants! Will be watching!
@MrJones, Soil has been amended with Roots Organics Uprising line, instead of top feeding like the Orange Sherbets in the other diary, I pre-amended RO original soil with
RO Uprising Foundation, Grow, Bloom, Phos Rock, Elemental and Bioforce. Trying to see how long they'll last on the initial amendments. Would like to do water only with 1 top dress moving into flower.
@MrJones, They are great nutes, but I'll think I'll go back to a non-amended soil and just top-dress. Feel like I'm losing a bit of control in the soil since I didn't add enough Mg initially, and now starting to see a bit of Ca pop up as well. The thrips they got from the gelatos, haven't really slowed em down, just a few leaves here and there and the predator mites will take care of that over the next 2-4weeks.
They are doing great, nice recovery, I am going to plant some Cheese Soon, or maybe a Skunk - so many seeds and so few grow rooms! Happy Farming My Friend!
the_canna_scientist
