Flowering Finally began on August 24th, which being the last week in August I was starting to get a bit impatient. Usually my outdoor grows start flowering earlier on in August. However once it did start, the amount of progress she made in just that first week was incredible.
Dinafem says that the blueberry cookies usually need around 8 weeks to complete flowering. Fortunately I will be able to harvest before the first frost and still reach an 8-10 week range.
I'm only having one problem right now...and that is sunlight hours. Unfortunately the safest part of the yard is only getting direct sunshine after 11 am and stops getting direct light around 3 pm. Four hours of direct sunlight is in my opinion the absolute minimum you should have, and even still you'd possibly experience some stretching. I've been lucky in that my internodal spacing is actually perfect and she's stayed fairly short and bushy.
Throughout the grow I've still managed to maintain the No PH'ing rule that I wanted to achieve with this plant. There was definitely some yellowing earlier on, but since she completely bounced back after being transplanted I'm attributing that to a too small container and often drought stress from drying out too quickly.
All in all I'm satisfied where the plant has gotten so far.
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best of luck to you growmie. Wishing u a successful grow and bountiful harvest
@DaSofaSurfer, I definitely agree with you that more often than not, when I don't ph it goes a little wonky.
And a secret between us... there's a couple weeks coming up where things get a little questionable, but I'm not sure if its because of underwatering(chronic drought, i was so busy for several weeks), outgrown container and the roots bound up, lack of extra nutrients because I only feed once a week, or because of ph.
When i checked the initial startup ph it was showing 6.6 and my area usually has the 2 different phs, springtime and fall. Fall usually spikes up to about 7.7-8.3
@Treighfunky, thanks tre. You should see the finish! Holy crap she got so purply red with the cold temps. I'm cutting her today before it freezes tonight.
@Treighfunky, thanks Treigh, this one has definitely turned out to be beautiful and strong. I've gotten lucky with a few good, unique and beautiful plants this year. 2020Garden good...2020year not so good. Lol
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