FLOWER WEEK 2
My Base Nutrient Inputs: See VEG WEEK 6 for details of stock solutions A & B.
My grow weeks run from Monday to Sunday.
Great progress this week....I'm real happy with the growth this week.
The stretch continues! Laverne grew from 28 to 33 inches this week, and Shirley from 33 to 37 inches tall.
I raised the Electric Sky 300 ( Version 1, no dimmer 100% power!!) LED, 2 inches on Monday, 1 inch on Tuesday, and 1 inch on Thursday and Friday.
Tuesday 8pm - Watering Day - 2 Gallons each of water and nutrients as listed above.
Thursday 8pm - Watered in 3 Gallons for each (5mL C/M + 5mL A + 5mL B + 5mL Astro)/Gallon = 620 ppm @ 5.5 pH. Laverne's runoff measured 5.8 pH and 1700 ppm, while Shirley's runoff was 5.6 pH and 1580 ppm.
Saturday 9pm - Watered in 2 Gallons for each girl (5mL C/M + 5mL A + 5mL B + 5mL Astro)/Gallon = 620 ppm @ 5.8 pH. Runoff - Laverne 5.8 pH 1480 ppm, Shirley 5.7 pH 1470 ppm.
Looks like these buds should stack well, and I like the spacing. Also decent trichome production starting. The buds have a floral perfume smell at this point.
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.