Weather had been ideal. Temperature at 33 C high and 23 C low with 50% average humidity. And Grand Daddy Black plants stay in veg at 11 hours light with help from my fence lights.
After two week in 25-liters basket, Grand Daddy Black stinks. There is no flower yet but as she moves with the breeze, she exude skunky/grape smell. She is also responding well to Mycorrhiza. Her root is spreading all over her planting basket. There is no lack of water and her stem is robust.
Grand Daddy Black does well with topping/FIM technique. And the two main tops sprouted side branches well.
I think she is big enough to go into flower. However, I think she would be much bigger if I keep her in veg for a few more weeks. There is only 11 light hours. So, three weeks in my setting would be like two weeks in a tent set up with 18-hours light.
I have another Grand Daddy Black plant that I thought was a runt. I did not feed her and kept her in 2-liters pot for a month. Then I added Mycorrhiza. After that she grew and is not so small after all. As a matter of fact, she try to catch up. Last week I upsize her pot to 7-liters. Already roots also are poking out from side wall and bottom. I should let her run her course. However, I don’t have enough space in my planning. So, I am putting the smaller Grand Daddy Black plant into flower.
And I put the small Grand Daddy Black plantin a 20-liters basket. Then I put that basket on top of a 50-liters container. If there is root action, then she should have room to stretch. I do wonder if she would ever make it beyond 20-liters soil volume. Any root that come out of the basket will likely to carry arbuscular mycorrhiza.
This week, I fed both plants with sea weed/amino and molasses once. She looks healthy and does not seemed to need feeding. I think I’ll push her a little bit next week with phosphorous fertilizer.
This company @OriginalSensible has amazing genetics... really amazing! Nice plant man! Keep up! Lucky plants they have the proper outdoor opportunities ;).... and.... lucky you! Lol
@Ferenc, they recommended what would work for my poor man set up in wetbug infested tropical condition.
Vegging is going very well. I reserve my judgement until I see how the strains behave in flowering. Although I am very optimistic about @OriginalSensible Seeds.
Their Bruce Banner Fast version is indomitable against mold and bugs with super potent buds. Indeed very sensible.
you should try spinosad for thrips (or spide mites but i think that's thrips you got there) @Med_in_Tropic could be sprayed up to two weeks before harvest
@HerbalEdu, life cycle is shorter with higher temp. Decay rate is also faster. My interval is 1 week.
I don’t want to give “sublethal dose”. It would inly speed up hatching rate and build bugs immunity. So i do it fully or not at all.
This time i plan 3 doses. The aged plant does not need it. Leaves hardened already.
After spray spinetoram, plant smell lessen. No bugs = no immnunity response. I need to spray aspirin to stimulate terpene actions. @GYOweed thanks man, it is a good trick to increase potency..
@Med_in_Tropic, never heard of abamectin, but it's already really efficient without. i sprayed my plants with 15 day interval and it totally eradicated infestation in all of my tent with first apllication and i haven't seen remaining living insect or new hatch when i sprayed the second time.
spinoteram is a derivative of spinosad on the dow's exalt notice it say you can use it up to 3 day before harvest and it's certified for the food industries
https://www.certiseurope.fr/fileadmin/FR/Telechargements/Fiches_etiquettes/Exalt_-_Fiche_Etiquette.pdf
my spinosad notice have details for many vegetable, it's like trees (apple, pear etc.) 2 weeks before harvest, most underground plant like garlic, onion, potatoes etc. 15 days to 7 days before harvest and finally thing like strawberry, tomatoes and a few other 1-3 days before harvest
i think you can safely use it 1-2 weeks before harvest with cannabis (prolly even shorter)
edit: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17899400/ about abamectin it seem it help with some very resilient spider mites species
@Med_in_Tropic, yes immune boosters will drown them in sap. Of course wind and sun will help since you cant control humidity. Id hookup a solar fan and blow away those little bugs or get lady bugs and hover flies they pickem off the plants its cool watching them in summer here
Yes @sativaman, i meant dripping resin. In my climate it is wet and sticky in stead of hard as rock.
I calculate N content in yogurt. And it is better if you adjust ratio to 1 part yogurt to 20 part water.
N is roughly 1/3rd x protein content.
I gave too much yogurt and it made leaves curl. For me i don’t care since it was the last feeding. If you want to do it earlier, 50 ml yogurt to 1 liter water would be better.
Thanks @Med_in_Tropic. I have been learning about LAB (and other KNF stuff since deficiencies while growing A5 Haze) but did not thought about yogurt!! By too wet to soon are you talking about resin and oil? Might be good for my 25% humidity tent!
@sativaman, i always give yogurt ti last feeding. Yogurt bacteria make buds more potent.
Key word to search is “LAB increase terpene”
But i gave only one or two times otherwise buds get too wet too soon in hot climate.
@NugLife420, yes oh yes. I don’t have any grape smelling weed n my stash. I can hardly wait.
From now i better pay attention to harvesting and drying proper.
Wow , grand daddy took off hey!
Looks like one of your best yet mate, and good resin already for only 3 weeks.
Mine are 3 weeks in flower too but not as thick as those.
This one is really shaping up med 👍👍
@sativaman, she likes it hot. 😀😀😀😃
In theory, I can grow year round but buds will be to small wheat it get too hot. Buds rot when it’s too wet. This is actually the coolest and driest it would ever get around here. Probably my best harvest from in the next couple of months.
How I'm not following you??? what a galactic idiot I am... I thought I was following,sorry man.
This GDB, Original Sensible Seeds offered me some promotion seeds months ago,this was one of them but clip pack came empty :D
@HighRoller909, cheers mate 😀😀😀😀😀 I am flattered.
GDB performance remain to be seen. I am worrying about the Grand daddy purple genetic. GDP has notorious tendency to hermaphrodite. If these are okay, then OSS truly did a very good job.
I like your garden! That beauvaria is awesome.. keep up the fight! I bet you are like me and always have more buds than can possibly smoke anyway... and keep growing!
Oh yes @sativaman, much more buds Tha I can handle 😀😀😀😀😀. I don’t smoke that much. (Yet I have high tolerance)
And I even have plants that are not in my diaries.
Off season buds goes to edible.
Keep growing brother.
@Shooey, only the strong survive my set up 😀😀😀😀.
Put seedling in fertilized soil full of microbe kills a few plants. But the survivors are usually more vigorous. Some Time there is no survivor at all.
First grow, I don’t care for number of plants. And I only use the strongest specimen. Then if things work out, I clone. It takes more time and space.
At the moment, I am keeping three strains. Think that is my limit. To stay, a new strain will kick out one old strain.
@Med_in_Tropic, this sounds like the panama,just other way around,it was a sativa.effects to come slow,hit you very deep and last until next night.I blended panama with auto girl scout cookies which was shit but the combination was very heavy.I think I chopped the panama 2 weeks early and it was very hot towards the end,lost some potency.but it was still very good that everyone liked it.
Those seeds from Original Sensible was trials.They offered to send me some free ones to grow.I'm not complaining at all.Other 3 packs have seeds so I may give them a go.I'm just sticking with ACE nowadays as I find their strains amazing,truly amazing.At week 11 of flowering actually,I see huge colas and great aromas when I enter the room. :)
@HighRoller909, effect was slow to come. I guess that this is typical of pure Indica.
I lit one up in an evening and it didn't quite hit me. So, i lit up another one. Then i got high enough. But not only the effect last all night, it extended to better part of the next day. Had a very nice day 😀😀😀😀
I ended up blending Zamaldelica and Granddy Black together in my smoke. Make it more balance.
About getting empty packages, I hear you. Some thing wrong with the people organization. I had missing shipment before. Not quite the same but it still sucks. And there are other seeds companies with similarly modified GDP strains.
@sativaman, de-carbed is much stronger. I think smoking alone doesn’t get full THC conversion. Smoking de-carbed get nearly 100% conversion.
These are not de-carbed. They are crispy and yellow for two reasons.
I hung them outside the under heavily shaded cinnamon tree. Still, the light kills green color. I think it speed up curing. Smell still sweet and strong to me.
Second, i cooked the dried buds in microwave for a couple of minutes. I want to kill mold spores.
After airing out the stem buds are over dried and heat burnt on the edges. Still smeloing sweet and fruity. And they do still improve after a couple of weeks in the jar.
Good eyes!
i really hope it help keep thing under control, you should see the result pretty fast, thrips white dot on leaf should stop spreading right after first time spraying
@HerbalEdu, again thanks for your recommendation. Spinetoram seemed to be working on cannabis. It knocked mealy bugs out but on my hibiscus. It doesn’t quite eradicated mealt buga yet. So, two rounds per instruction.