Week 1 Veg
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THE FAT BANANA HAS LANDED!
I'm growing this girl on behalf of Royal Queen Seeds π¦ thanks again guys βοΈπ
This is one of the two brand new strains by RQS. The Purple Queen will soon be popped too, but the people of IG voted for this girl to be first in The Fox's Den πΊ
She was popped in a wet paper towel, which was folded and placed in an open plastic bag and put in a dark drawer. Once she popped a nice hairy tail she was transplanted into a cup and sprayed with 5.8pH tap water. Once she was in the cup, her germination bag was used to cover the top of the cup, acting as a humidity dome for her first full day above the coco.
It was just my luck that I had to get my steady hands to work so soon again. This little one didn't want to leave her old home, forcing me to very gently prise her seed case open from where it was split underneath. It was extremely hard to do this without either pulling the seedling out of the coco, snapping her or pulling her leaves off in the process, but yet again the operation was a success!
She was given her first light nutrient feeding on Day 5. Quick tip if you accidentally add a bit too much pH down to the mix (like I did); add a few drops of liquid silicon to raise the pH, it's better to do this than to add pH up.
After only 7 days she's a happy, healthy looking seedling. I can't wait to get this girl going!
Thanks for following and happy growing! πΊ
@biggreens420, @magnetous, seems to be a common thing! Haha. I left her to try and open up herself for most of the day, but she didn't make any progress so a couple hours before lights out I opened her up. I'm pretty sure she would have died otherwise. I only popped the one. I'll look forward to seeing yours too mate βοΈ I upload at the end of every week.
Haha Big G, check out my IG, I've got a nice little RQS merch giveaway for anyone in the UK thats wants to get involved. There'll be 2 winners! βοΈπΊ
The exact same happened to me too with one of the seeds, had to open the shell myself. We'll see how it goes for the 3 others that are popping right now after more than a week in the smart start! (against 48hrs for the first two)
Did all of yours open quickly?
I'll be putting my diary online next week as I wait for all the beans to be planted.
Indeed looks great man! I myself have some fat bananas (3) in the tent so I've been watching biggreen and your diaries close. It's my first time so I hope you can do a good report about the flush I still don't really get if you should just give water the last week(2?) or run the 30 liter threw it or both!? π Anyways this gives me good feeling about the strain good luck bro!!
@XII_XII_MRGreen, nice one man πππ for the last 14+ days I flush up to 30ltr every time until I have a low enough ppm value in the coco. After that I just water as normal, but by then they don't need feeding as much as they drink less βοΈπΊ
@TheFoxFarmer,exact same with mine bottom buds were a lot better formed than the top hope u get better top buds than me all my buds were like 2pound coin size at the biggest but solid as hell and grinds out well
@biggreens420, yeah it's more the light than anything. Her tallest top buds are foxtail-ish and light stressed, but the lower tops have normal structured top buds. All of her lower nugs are fattening up beautifully ππͺ cheers mate βοΈπΊ
I'm gonna give that a try because every time I transplant I water to runoff and could be slowing them down nice one fox looking nice and healthy beautiful roots as always
Amazing frost here!! You won't be running out of trichs with this one! The shape of the buds is so beautiful! The colors too! Nice one!
Mines are tricky... lot of amber trichs but they really don't look like they are finished at all! π
@Magnetous, cheers mate πβοΈ that's a strange one, although the trich's aren't necessarily my first indicator for harvest. I look at the whole plant, the bud structure and also how well flushed they are. I don't mind taking them a little further to get a better flush πβοΈπΊ