Last week of flowering before harvest!
Luckily, the weather got way nicer with me during this week.
Those last days, I had terrible humidity levels, reaching 80%!
Was a new problem for me, happening because I was closing the growing tent for the first time, trying to keep smell indoor and not out of my house ^^
Weather made the air humidity verry low during this week, (30-40% outdoor), so I been abble to reach the expected 50% in the grow tent.
Perfect for the drying process, which arealdy started ^^
I'm verry happy plants didn't suffered from this... It last one week, but no issue, beside leaves dropping down.
Fun fact, Lady #2 who had bio-heaven during all the grow, was way more resilient to this, leaves started to drop like 3 days after Lady #1.
I noticed in previous week that Bio-heaven was also helping with underwatering.... What an interesting product!
Plants been harvested, and hooked upside down in the grow room.
My cheap 50$ smell filter working verry well. It also creat a benefical airflow for the drying process.
I had a sample, and I can already tell you that she's aptly named :D A little couch-lock effect, which is why I decided to not wait too much amber.
Second important thing : she make me SUPER GIGA hungry. Haven't felt this since a long time. I litterally eated food for 3 days in an evening, going to bed and sleeping with bad stomach all night 😝
I'm going to organize myself about that, filling my fridge with the right food, either way I may become verrrrry fat in the next months 😝
Harvest update incoming ;)
Rqs is always a good choice....
but to get the purps,,, choose some sweet seeds.... " red family"
they have abunch of reds/ puples/ black strains
i grow a few of them and got a high rate on reds... my favourite is the dark devil
they are awsome smelling and tasting... the variety is from light pink up to dark red nearly black,,, and they taste like flowers// arabic perfume and heavby lemon/ fruit
Iam growing atm the Purple Queen from RQS... we will see ... but she already has lots of red and purple in the leaves and stems
@Mrs_Larimar, Oof removed my own comment by mistake... But yes, Purple often taste earthy... And you are also right, sometimes it come with berry hints that surprise you times to times :)
The "purple taste" I'm looking for isn't earthy or lemony at all. Be sure when I'll find it, that I'll stick to it for looooong time :D
@PurpleWorship, 1st of all hi 👋
And 2nd in having a bit of trouble in my tent. Some leafs are getting this brown rust spot on them, do you know what that may be ?
@Mrs_Larimar, Thank you :) I'm honnestly not verry happy of my pictures... The problem is the weight of the plant, I can't really move it to take pictures out of the tent,
it's too heavy and I hurted my back the last time :S Taking correct pictures with the light above the plant isn't easy. I'm happy it's still decent to you.
I am really enjoying this diary and am Looking forward to your results.
I agree with you that soil accumulation is such a pain.
Instead of compost maybe consider making some sub cool super soil small batch. That gives you some of the broad organic nutrients and you can re use the soil easier than if it had been broken down outside. I use one of those spinning composters to make and age my super soil and you can keep it inside. 😀
Here is the recipe I use, I use a tumbling composter they usually have a divider in the center so you can age each side separately.
This recipe makes enough for one side. so the first round you will have to make your batch twice and fill each side. You need to wait 6 weeks before its ready so It takes a bit, but if you only use one side up and then make a new batch and refill that side you will always have one side "cooking" and the other side ready to be used.
Subcool’s Super Soil Recipe Improved, Small Batch :
1 ten gallon bag of high quality Organic Potting Soil Such as “Roots Organic Soil”
8 cups coco coir
8 cups perlite
3 to 6 pounds of Organic Earthworm Castings (1 lb. of casting = about 1 gal.)
10 ounces of Blood Meal ( 10 oz. of blood meal = about 1 & 1/2 cups)
10 ounces of Bloom Bat Guano ( 10 oz. of guano = about 1 cup)
10 ounces Fish Bone Meal ( 10 oz. of bone meal = about 1 cup)
6 ounces Rock Phosphate
1&1/2 tablespoons Epsom Salt (magnesium sulfate)
2 tablespoons or 1 oz. (liquid measure)of Dolomite Lime
1 tablespoons or 1/2 oz. (liquid measure) of Azomite (trace elements)
1 teaspoon of powdered Humic Acid
Drench with water in the composter.
Spin Daily you should not have to add more water after the initial drench
Use on bottom 1/5th or up to bottom 1/3rd then fill the rest of the pot with your base soil mix.
For base Soil I use this recipe for each 5 gallon pot and I mix it indivually to maintain the ratios
4L of Blue sky organic potting soil or sunshine or promix
2 L coco coir
2 L ocean farms
2 L perilite
2 liters worm castings
You can transplant a clone into a 5 gallon pot using this method and since it will take awhile for the roots to get down to the super soil mix you can feed with half strength nutrients right up until switching to flower. Once in flower they should be reaching the super soil at the bottom. Then I continue to feed at half strength organic nutrients with a plain water every other feed.
The spinning composter is the big game changer for me once I got that this became so much easier.
Hope you find some of this helpful, I enjoy your diaries !
@PurpleWorship,
@DrDuhboto, Yeah, that make sense... The only right way to me is to find a way to reuse my soil.
I been considering hydro, but then I remembered that I'll need non-organic nutrients that I can't make myself. Not working for me.
What you mention must be the only way.
I had problem with reusing soil. I def wasn’t going to use any garden soil. But i reused biobizz light mix and poisoned my plants. Not flushed enough. Lately I’ve been mixing old and new soil with better results. I don’t want to keep buying soil either but agree losing about 4oz I’m not risking it till I know more.
I use biobizz too. biogrow, biobloom and topmax. I put the algamix and activera in foliar spray too. But when they run out i think i will just spray with water. Whenever i see deficiency i think lockout is more likely the reason.
High bro,
Is gets expensive buying soil every time.
Ive actually started with garden soil and a bit of bought soil and compost. And the less garden soil And compost i add, the better it goes. I dont buy soil speciale brand for cannabis, but i get to look at ph levels and usage for veggies or spices. I like adding a 30% of seed and clone soil because its airy.
Hydro is Deffenitly a great option i think in your case. Youve got it all sorted out so you will manage that. Im still not experienced enough for that transition. For that i need to upgrade my measuring devices to a better level.
Keep up the good work!!!
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