'Quick Sherbert' by Exoticseed

Ahoy-hoy👋. I lack photos for Quick Sherbet but I got these ones! Just like the other journals this one will be wrapped up between Week 6/7 and than into a harvest entry. The Deets: The Good: -Big/Thick as hell and stacking more and more weight by the day. Figured she'd stop pushing but nah. Just keeps pumping new buds. She is starting to wrap up and Breeder notes do say 7/8 weeks for flower. Lines up pretty close with what they said and the loose schedule I had worked out. Neat👍 -Colors! She's easily the most colorful girl in the tent and I'm loving the purple and blue fades coming through. The bud itself is a blue/purple hue as well and that's just super. First time for me and this pheno. Good show! -She's going to put out well. Estimating the largest yield of any of my plants to date. She is that heavy and there isn't a fluffy main stack in there. Solid, chunky and sticky. The Meh: -No more stoner bends if I can help it. She formed well enough, but look at that height and wasted lower end. Had to take all those suckers and really missed the prune game on this girl. Looking to make some changes and have a plan to try and execute now. Looking for 6 week flips now and no more than 7. Since my multi-strain grows will be partly under the FM8, I do need to control height and keep things a little more even. The dual SF's gave me some flexibility but with the FM I'll need to up my LST game/method. -Heat's always an issue. I feel her fade would be much more profound if I was able to achieve the lower temps in late Bloom. Notes of the Week: -Everyone is starting to turn in with Glookies looking like she'll be the last to finish up. At the time of typing this, Gelato has already gotten the chop, Quick Sherbet will come down tomorrow (Feb 3rd) and Glookies/Malanasa will probably both come down on Saturday (Feb 6th). -Project #1, Tent #1 genetics have been chosen (officially). Will be running Lemon-Grass and Mango Sherbet by HSC, Blue Monkey by Exotic Seeds and Fat Banana from Seedsman. We ready to go, time to pop. -@WickedStix_ genetics came in the mail several days ago and all looks good. Doesn't look the cold or shipping messed them up and they're good to go for Project #2, Tent #2. Frozen Diesel is going to be stupid good folks. Pretty excited to get going on these ones... Thanks once again to Budx and Wicked for paying it forward and just being good people. -Seedling method will/is changing. Grilled multiple veteran growers on their methods and I've finally come to a conclusion... I've been cooking my seeds😬. Soil media has been far too warm/hot for such young girls and this explains their limited root system and early stunting. As soon as I transplanted in the past, they took off and all was well. No heat matt...more media. It took me 4 grows to figure this out. Wow😂. Anywho, learned a new method to use the heat mat but still reduce media temps. Will list this below (and yes, it worked). Thanks @Nor_Cal_Kannabliss! -Dipping into Canna now, and will probably be leaving FutureHarvest behind for a much more simple schedule. As previously mentioned, I'm happy with FH, but why so many additives/nutrients. Compile them! I really don't like having to measure out 11 doses from 11 bottles every frigging time. Canna results and schedules are impressive, so I've started to make the move. Rhizotonic XP is the first buy and will be used for the seedling process in order to expedite early growth. Hoping to land their whole line before it's time to start feeding the new girls who are just in BlueSky super soil and have been fed Miicrobial Mass. Around 3 weeks will be when feeding starts. I'm pretty sure I can get things in order before than. Done! Next entry will be her final day before the chop, and after being plunged into darkness for a bit. At the time of typing this, she has been harvested and is hanging to dry. Malanasa and Glookies still stand, but not for long. Final girl should be down no later than Sunday. Looking to do move the new set in as soon as these are down so we can go again. Cheers all and happy trails this week. Peace!✊👋 *Heat Mat Method* I don't have the heat mat thermostat to control. It cost more than the mat so I said screw that, but now I see I do need a means of regulation. I had some InkBird readers w/ probes kicking around, including two inline thermostats with probes. Cheaper than the thermostats and doesn't have to be InkBird...like at all. There's many options. Anywho, NorCal told me to take that inline and plug the heat mat into it. Take plastic wrap and cover the probe tip to protect from any erosion. Than make up a faux* pot of soil with the same amount of media and water as the actual seedling pots. Shove the probe in the soil and boom, direct read and direct control over the heat mat. Set to always hover between 72-74 degrees (21-22 degrees Celsius). The ambient tent temperature and humidity are now held at 76 degrees and 65-75% RH. Method and dialing in has been accomplished! Confident moving to next grow👍. If this is helpful, thank NorCal for this hot tip. Just another thing I feel I can check off the list moving forward.