Homegrown Cannabis Company Banana Kush

Well here we go into Week Three of Veg! 👏😎 With three weeks of initial growth behind them now, the Homegrown Cannabis Company's Kyle Kushman Banana Kush Auto's are doing great and sprouting new growth everyday. They're both exceptional specimens of the strain. It'll be exciting to see them develop, thank you for following along this journey with me. Growing these beautiful cultivars is always better with someone to share the experience with....come along and enjoy! 😎🙏 ~Grown 100% organic in a 10g fabric pot with Mother Earth 70/30 Coco/Perlite medium amended with 2tbs/g Down To Earth 4-4-4 / 2 cups/g Earthworm Castings / 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Flower Girl 2-8-4 and 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Bat Guano. ~24hr light cycle during germination / 19/5 light cycle for Veg & Flower ~Straight water ph'd @ 6.2-6.8 when needed, top dressed every 3-4 weeks and weekly Compost Tea's. 3/15- Week Three of veg....now things will get interesting fast with the phenomenal growth that both these girl's are exhibiting! I must say these Kyle Kushman Banana Kush Auto's continue to really impress me with their rate of growth, vigor and overall ease of growing. They take everything you can throw at them and ask politely for more whether it be LST, water or nutrients, they take all in stride without complaint! They both continue to receive nightly foliar feeding with Fox Farms Flower Kiss mixed @ 5ml/g and applied just before the 5 hour dark period. Daily watering's continue with de-chlorinated water to which I'm now alternating adding 5ml/g of Fox Farms Wholly Mackerel to for a feed and then switching to Fox Farms Microbe Brew @ 5ml/g and Fox Farms Big Bloom (OMRI organic) @ 10ml/g then each is ph'd to 6.4-6.6 @ 72deg. with a 0.4 EC 350-400ppm. I'll be top dressing them later this week with their first organic dry amendments. I'll be giving them a 60/40 mix of 4-4-4 and 3-9-4 @ 2 tbsp. per gallon of medium worked in by hand, then watered in. This should really give them a much needed boost for their stretch! When I water I soak the pots thoroughly, but not to the point of runoff. Twice a week when I water I add water to the trays under the pots to let the plants draw up the liquid into their pots to ensure that the medium is moist throughout for those roots to grow into! 😍 3/17- Both girl's are doing fantastic with the #1 phenotype approaching 6" in height and #2 not far behind! They both received a heavy watering yesterday in two portions. First, at the start of the light cycle, I gave each .5 gallon de-chlorinated water with 5ml/g Botanicare CalMag+ and 5ml/g Botanicare Silica Blast added and then ph'd to 6.5 @72 degrees using Alchemist PH Down to make the adjustment. This watering was given through the bottom of their pots by filling their drip pans and letting the fabric pots draw up the liquid into them, giving the medium in the lower half of the pots much needed moisture for the growing root systems. The second watering at mid-day was given through the top of the pots via pump sprayer which was filled with the identical solution used to water earlier and each received .25g each. Foliar feedings continue 4-5 nights a week and they both have a noticeable improvement in their overall appearance as a result of the foliar feedings. I have the HLG 650R cranked up to 400w at the wall now and still hung @ 40" above canopy which resulted in the tent temp's rising slightly requiring the IdealAir AC unit's thermostat to be lowered to compensate. I have the AC Infinity Cloudline T6 fan with Controller set on 'Auto Hi Temp' with it set to 79 degrees. It's been doing fantastic, adjusting the fans speed automatically, keeping tent temperatures no higher than 80.1 degrees with a RH of 55%. The AutoPilot co2 Controller is now set to a 900ppm setpoint, with a 100ppm window setpoint which has the co2 levels running 800-1000ppm's in the Gorilla 4x8. At this point I'm just maintaining their water and training daily, watching their rapid growth and anxiously awaiting signs of pre-flower which I hope will not be too soon allowing them to gain size! How much FUN this is! 😍 3/19- I water heavy yesterday and when I checked the girl's this morning their pots were still fairly heavy so I skipped the AM watering. I'll wait until the afternoon, check them again, and water then if necessary. They both are extremely vigorous and have a rich green color. The node spacing on both is looking great as is their overall development. I'll wait a few more days before top dressing them as they are looking really healthy and I don't want to overload the medium with unnecessary nutrients. When I do top dress, I'll use a total of 2 tbsp. per gallon of medium of a 60/40 mix of Dr. Earth Premium 4-4-4 and Dr. Earth Flower Girl 3-9-4, spread into the pots and worked in by hand. Afterwards, I water it in with straight de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5. 3/21- I decided to go ahead and top dress both girls with organic dry amendments today. I used Dr. Earth Premium 4-4-4 and Dr. Earth Flower Girl 3-9-4 @ 2 tbsp. per gallon of medium, with a ratio of 43%/57% respectively, which I spread around in their pots and then worked it into the top layer of medium by hand. After working it in, I watered it in thoroughly with .75g of de-chlorinated water with 5ml/g of Fox Farms Microbe Brew added to further inoculate the medium with beneficial bacteria and mycorrhiza which should really give a boost to my ladies as they get ready to go into pre-flower. Well here we go with Week Three of veg behind us and now there's nothing but excitement from here on out!. Thank you so much for following along so far! I hope you'll continue to follow my journey as things will be getting more exciting as the next weeks approach with the girls starting pre-flower... Grow Strong! 😎🙏