FLOWER WEEK 1
My Base Nutrient Inputs: See VEG WEEK 6 for details of stock solutions A & B.
My grow weeks run from Monday to Sunday.
....and so it begins... Flower Time!!! These girls are finally spitting out some pistils.
The stretch is ON! The girls grew about an inch per day again this week. Laverne grew from 21 to 28 inches this week, and Shirley from 24 to 33 inches tall.
I raised the Electric Sky 300 ( Version 1, no dimmer 100% power!!) LED 2 inches on Wednesday, 3 inches on Friday, and 1 inch on Saturday.
Monday 2am - Watering Day - 2 Gallons each of water and nutrients as listed above. Laverne's runoff measured 5.9 pH and 1000 ppm, while Shirley's runoff was 5.8 pH and 880 ppm.
Wednesday 2am - Watered in 3 Gallons for each girl with nutrients as listed above, but dilluted down to 720ppm @ 5.7 pH
Friday 1am - Watering Day - 2 gallons each (1ml Si +3mLC/M + 10mL A + 10mL B)/Gallon = 5.7 pH and 640 ppm. Runoff - Laverne 5.8 pH 1600 ppm, Shirley 5.8 pH 1500 ppm.
Saturday 10pm - Watered in 2 Gallons tap water for each girl + 10 mL Cal-Mag = 400ppm @ 5.9 pH. Runoff - Laverne 6.0 pH 1130 ppm, Shirley 6.0 pH 1270 ppm.
The girls are growing strong, and I'm hoping these seeds take on their mother(s) ( Mango Sapphire X White Sugar OG) traits and produce some really frosty buds.
Thanks for Viewing,
Keep on growin'
DeaneR๐
@Cantwaitcantwait, Thanks, it's fun to watch the outcome. Credit goes to the people who did all the hard work to produce the two great Strains I used to make this cross though๐.
Cool! I'm about to pop my first crosses also :-D I reversed Barney's tropicanna banana which was more like tropicanna cookies probably and pollinated all that I had around :-D So have few crosses now. Also bought some regular seeds from Humboldt seed co. and got a male (not filling a diary for it though) so planning to have a few normal crosses. :-D Spraying cutting every day gets pretty tedious at one point, and mine was short so I was spraying for 9 weeks or so :-D Btw most of the seeds produced using colloidal silver should be female since you're using the same genes as the mother (I suppose ?? :-D)
@DeaneR, thanks! And thanks for the banana pun, never thought of that. And because it was so tedious and manual labour I declare it the Banana wank seed series ๐ There's surely ways to improvise on that ahah
@bobtheblob, True...should be feminized. It will be fun to see what traits carry forward. So far these beans are performing as expected. You're right, daily spraying was tedious. I haven't tried the STS method, but it appears easier. Good luck, and enjoy your new crosses...............you put the Banana in all the ladies, lol.
Looks amazing๐, lots of sugar!
How are you liking that light? almost
bought one myself, went with the viparspectra xs 2000
instead, pretty happy with it so far๐.
Smok'em if you got'em!!
@DeaneR,It's a really white light, or so it seems to the naked eye.
According to the info from viparspectra it has a nice spectrum
of light, actually quite high in the red and far red even though you
can't see it. The white cookie seems to like the light but I'll know a bit better
after another grow or two.I'm still liking my CLW 500 solar xtremes, they show a bit more red to the
naked eye and there's a red tinge in the tent, plants love these lights but their 400 watts each
at the wall compared to 240 watts from the viparspectra.
Later!
@northernMike, Thanks Mike๐, I like what I'm seeing from these girls in early flower. I was an early adopter with this light, and therefore, it was expensive compared to a lot of the new china LEDs available on the jungle website. She's a little dated now as far as efficacy, but the plants sure do seem to like it๐. It's very difficult to photograph under. I need a filter to put over my tablet, of some sort. That xs 2000 looks like a good deal @ about 1/2 the price.