Started 7 girls in a SCROG to open them up some more ... starting to flower and strecth seems to be nearly finished but all girls will remain at 25 inch canopy as this allows maximum light at 700 plus M/mol's per second and temps and hudmity all set where gonna watch these girls put on some serious weight over the next three weeks as flowering is about mid way currently
Narrowly mis calculated the girls where all underwatered but hey it's better than over watering as it damaged the CM no.1 pheno with one extra watering so the dry spells and underwatering seem to fix that problem also ...
4 girls are under 1 600w hps
3 GG
1 BC
And
ScroG has the following under 600w hps
1 GG
( green straw or dot )
4 CM
( orange straw or dot )
2 BC
( purple straw or dot )
( mini SOG AND TRELLIS NETTING )
ABOUT 6FT (L) BY 4 FOOT (W)
As of week 5 and day 5 the day of writing , we have the N ISSUE sorted the over / underwatering under somewhat control just hoping when pots dry again and are flooded they respond well .
The only girls still in fast strecth is the black cream she's had to get a second layer of trellis netting to make sure she stays 2 foot away from light as she's spitting out 600w and the other I tuned down to 400w as she's lower and was creating a heat spot at edge of canopy under the ScroG and temps where reduced inside the room by 3oC at a more reasonable temp of 24oC
Lights 18 / 6
NUTES micro , bloom 100% , PK buddy 100%
No Grow givin as the leaves looked shiny on some girls
Also gave each plant a feed with p.h water at 6.3 to 6.5 2lt per plant then main feed that same say which soaked all the pots but the girls seemed to enjoy the drowed pots and thrived off them 24 hours later some pots are looking dryer than normal .
So this has giving me good confidents we have the grow ready for the main part of flower starting which means we can all put a countdown of about 3 weeks untill chop . These girls have started to flower earlier than expected but the lights are set at 22 inch from canopy with the plants reciving around 600 - 900 m/mols per second across the room ... I think a mix of higher m/mol good watering and the right amount of nutes has put these girls on par to finish for their recommended harvest of 9 weeks from seed ... this is the start of week 6 so 3 full weeks of flower and there loaded with pistles ready to put the weight on already , seen some resin production start from all the girls very little so far but it's started also the flower site's are starting to gain in size as under the pistles start to form and gain weight , as I've ScrOG 7 girls ive opened them up for maxium exposures to the HPS LAMPS , the lower fan sugar leafs and flower sited are now getting fixed light penetration to individual site's... this will not change untill end of flower the girls will sit where there are now ...
Noticed that some girls look like there missing the N now as I've not included any this week because I noticed some shiny leaves so decided to cut it back as I've had problems in flower twice now with N toxicity so taken this a good idea to feed with PH water to run off Also to clear the soil of any build ups before flower ... currently feeding at 550 - 600ppm approx girls look okay and are being pushed super hard
Any advice on my growing would be a massive help ... happy growing and stay safe people ..
Unfortunately we've had to remove one black cream auto as she started to devolope male parts as well as female parts (hermi) so she got the cut... 11 girls still remain
Topped 9 of the girls after topping two plants and they should no slower growth or problems , it did slow growth by about 12 hours before lights out plants where doing super so another 6 got there heads cut off meaning with 9 plants we have 18 new tops and 21 tops altogether now
Also broke a branch on a plant yesterday noticed it looking like shit today so pulled it off
Also lights moved and airflow out increased as temps warm up I don't want GG genetics turning hermi as it has GORILLA GLUE #4 GENITICS which was a hermi itself ... but high high THC
@Lukush, check the new harvest phtots the big green on is in the description it's the photo of the plant still standing in the background is that big black cream although it's green in colour
@Lukush, I will do I can't belive the size of the green black cream she's released from the netting and she's massive I'll need to tie her back with some LST as her buds are just forming and are on course to dwarf the last set , smells quite fruity with all 3 plants but looking at the green black cream is werid
@Lukush, I got one out of the auto mix pack only plant that fitted the bill thoe out of a collected bunch the black cream are doing the best . Thoe in there own right the gorilla girl xl auto and the cream Mandarin xl auto are doing nearly just as good
@Igrowneil, love a game plan and sounds like u got it all mapped out, a fair few seeds ur popping fingers crossed u get 100% germination ๐ค i have heard and researched into dropping the temperature its risky im sure 2 weeks was the limit off the top of my head, as is darkness forn2 days before harvest. Im following u so will keep me eyes open andbget feedback I ain't got the fundamentals or the space to do that just yet but once I'm further into my development wouldn't mind giving ur technique a go myself. Fingers crossed u will have some seriously resinous smoke once harvest. Thanks for sharing technique, knowledge is power and in this game all these little tweaks help..
Happy growing mate and I hope ur next harvest is fruitful ๐ฏ๐ฏ
@Syrunz, germinating 12 , x4 gorilla girl xl auto, x4 black cream auto and , x4 cream Mandarin xl auto hopefully all 12 pop as I'm looking forwards to this grow as my 1st and 2nd ever grows turned out pretty good , now where back with double the power double the plants in the same size space as the last grow a lot more equipment to keep the environment stable at specific ranges through out the grow
as the week go on I'll reduce the temp towards 16oc will be the final day temp and night temp will be 3oc I'll also in the last two weeks before chop ill reduce the light to 400w to mimic winter coming along with the tempuature droping off over the days , this is the point the plant should produce more resin to protect the flower .... it happens with nature I could destroy a full harvest but it's worth a shot to improve THC degradation to a minimum amount heat and light both destroy the THC I believe so tempuature reduction done in a very slow and controlled manner should in theory be better for the plants flowers. I do belive I'll get the XL plants to 3 foot alone with the black cream in a ScroG type grow or LST I haven't fully decided yet