Homegrown Cannabis Company Banana Kush

Well here we go into Week 2 of flower! 👏😎 With six weeks of initial growth behind them now, the Homegrown Cannabis Company's Kyle Kushman Banana Kush Auto's continue doing great and are stacking their flowers and getting fuller everyday. They are now both in flower and are looking very special! They're both exceptional specimens of the strain and it'll be exciting to see them go through flower with you. 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. 4/5- Week 2 of flower and both girl's are happy, healthy and stacking flowers! Both BK's are still stretching a bit and are fairly tall at 18" for the #1 and 19" on the #2 BK, both having great node spacing and a ton of flower sites all over them! I've switched up their feeding slightly with the addition of Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz and Open Sesame which are given alternately three days a week. In addition, I'm now supplementing their water once a week each with Unsulfured Molasses and Honey @ 2 tbsp/g and 2 tsp/g respectively. The Molasses gives a boost to the microbial colony as well as being loaded with essential minerals and micro-nutrients that the plants love. The Honey really promotes healthy root systems and is a natural anti-bacterial which I've used for decades with tremendous success! I now have the HLG 650R pulling 520w at the wall and will wait to give them max power when I start adding UVA more than likely by the end of this week. Adding UVA for 4 hours in the middle of the light cycle for the last 2-3 weeks of flower really turns on the trichome production and, although I can't prove it yet, has possible positive effects on the terpenes as well. Environmentally, the 'daytime' temp's are a steady 77.4 degrees F and drop to 65 degrees F during the 'nighttime'. The RH is staying around 42-46% which I'd like to be higher to lower the VPD but as the girls both appear healthy and happy I'll let it ride! I also put the risers back under both of their pots to ensure that the bottom of the fabric pot gets adequate airflow preventing a possible anaerobic condition from the roots not getting any oxygen, therefore killing them (it only takes 20 minutes of oxygen deprivation to kill cannabis roots! Keep this in mind when watering...don't drown your roots!). 😎👍 4/7- I checked their pots this morning and they were still fairly heavy and the bottoms were still wet so I skipped watering today. They're both looking MARVELOUS with BOTH phenotypes closely resembling each other...how cool is that!? Both ladies are super healthy and in flower. They're only three days apart and might as well be twins with both measuring in @ 20" with nearly identical structure, node spacing and flower sites. I really don't have to do anything to either of these ladies at this point, other than water/feed and I turn both girl's pots 1/4 turn each day to give the entire plants plenty of light as they're on autopilot! 4/9- Well this weeks almost in the books and both Homegrown Cannabis Companies Banana Kush Auto ladies are looking absolutely FABULOUS!!! 😍 They both are shaping up to be a HEAVY yielders as their size, structure and the multitude of flower sites tell the tale! The key will be keeping them thinned out enough to keep the light penetrating down deep into their canopy's so all those bud sites get PLENTY of love from above! All I'm doing at this point is making sure they're watered, fed and turning their pots 1/4 turn twice daily. They are starting out flowering strong and are both stacking their flowers. Trichome production should begin soon and as they progress in flower I'll start supplementing them with UVA light for 4 hours a day in the middle of the 19 hour light cycle which will really boost the trichomes! Both of these ladies are so east to cultivate with their structure and node spacing, light penetration isn't an issue and they have tolerated everything thrown at them with a smile...I really LOVE this strain from Kyle Kushman and the Homegrown Cannabis Company !😍 4/11- I defoliated both ladies this morning as they both had way too much growth that was really blocking the light penetration down into the canopy...now they're gtg! Both were watered with 0.75g of dechlorinated water with Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz added @ 0.5 tsp/g and then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg. Well, there goes this week...next week promises to have some noticeable flower development happening with both girl's going into their third week of flower! ~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 into flower now... Grow Strong! 😎🙏~