Mar 10th
- with the move to 10 gallon pots yesterday, the feeding for each plant was bumped-up to 1.5 L each, to help introduce the new soil to Nutrients. It will take 3 or 4 days to dry before the next feeding. Waiting for the pot to lighten...
- now that I know the 2 Golds and a God are going into flower this weekend... there is no use in running TWO tents at 19hrs each. Side by side! So this time the Maui’s will spend a few days in the big tent, before finishing their autoflower term when they go back to the other 19 hr tent Sunday. SAVING SOME HYDRO $ that’s all.
Big tent gets Dark Sunday then goes to 12 hours shifts
Mar 11
- these plants are healthy and growing; so I forged ahead and carried out a full FIMming assault on both the Acapulco & Colombian. 8 Bud, side-sites on each plant and the Top have now been FIMmed. Clean, easy and tasty
- FIMmed the top-bud on the Blue God
- FYI, that big white air conditioner / dehumidifier is not running. It will be positioned really soon, working out the exhaust and drainage needs... It is going to help ensure this crop has environmental Control come the end of June !!
- still applying a Foliar treatment of Ocean Magic @ lites-out.
* Foliar applications to continue to be daily until the 3rd week of Flower
- LST training will be a daily thing now to check-on and refresh.
Mar 12
- trimmed 2 fan leaves from the Acapulco and Blue God. These were big leaves up top, they had to go
Mar 14th,
- switch to Flower is delayed for a few days as I FIMmed a few sites on the Colombian and a bunch on the Acapulco
They will be on a different lite-cycle by the weekend
Mar 15
- light reduction has began and will be slowly lowered over the course of the week, until its at 12/12. This subtle shift is being used vs 36 hours of Dark, because of a FIMming job that I carried out the other day. By using a slight reduction daily, the plant will have a chance to recover accordingly, instead of waiting in the dark. It will realize there is less light and slowly move into Flower on its own. Thats the plan anyway...
- Flower nutrients will be used in 2 or 3 weeks, its still too early yet
Mar 17th
- the Maui Wowie has moved back to its own tent, mainly for better environmental control.
(Lower temp & humidity in late flower)
- A/C & DeHumidifier ready for battle in the 4x4.
- soil moisture checks, say whether or not they get fed tonight
- added some Folic Acid to the Foliar spray this morning. I’ve been waiting to introduce it and will do so for the last few weeks before Flowers actually show-up.
- “OHD” is the manufacturer of this folic acid and there is some proven science out there about huge increases in your plants Nutrient absorption, from the soil... and throughout your plants.
** I had to try it at $10/oz, with next day delivery (still took 2 weeks lol )
Use = 5 ml/L or 1 Tbsp/Gal on its own or added to your Foliar applications.
- plants fed and a little Kelp Meal was also scratched into the soil prior to watering. 1st time ever. Trying to get my head around soil amendments and not OD’ing your plants...
Is there a good time to remove the big Fan Leaves “up-top”, from your month-old Vegetating plants?
With so much fresh growth beneath them, wondering what brings the best results to FIMmed plant that will see light LST. Nothing drastic. Fan leaves are BiG
looking at the photo right now would be a perfect time, I myself use this same technique, but you should remove the second set of fan leaves from the top they are the biggest and blocking the most light.
What is causing the RED stems on the fan-leaves of my plant.
The Blue God is in week 3 of Flower. 2 other plants are getting the same diet and light and the B.G. is the only plant with red stems.
How do you tell if it’s a deficiency or over-feeding?
How can I turn this around?
No need to worry, some strains will get red stems no matter what you do and it does not require "fixing".
Your plant will grow and flower just fine with its red stems.
Hope this helps,..........
Organoman.
Why is this Indica so short?
Week 5 of Flower finds this otherwise healthy Blue God standing tall at only 15” from the soil.
Five week Veg?, 3100K lites?, I have no solid reasons to this point.
Funny because it’s the first plant Indoors that I have not Shaped or HST’d.
Erm Indicas are notoriously short but even they can stretch alot when flipped it all about how long you veg them for :) it could just be a short pheno :) lower temptures can stunt growth :)
@1Right_Angle,
Its a intresting diary, nice back to back of similar strains.
I also like the fact your growing most some pure strains like the panama malawi and the mauwi wauwi.
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@DoDrugs420, Thanks for that, sorry I missed this… its still an amazing smoke.
Going to follow this HST style on my next grow.
Have a great flowering season
@XII_XII_MrGreen, im giving credit to time Brother. I let it happen. I might have looked like a phuking mosquito to the poor plants… but lots of small moves seems to be the winner