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Well here we go into Week 3 of flower! 👏😎 With seven 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.
4/12- Well the third week of flower is here and these girls are getting their groove on! Both are producing some beautiful flowers with beautiful snow white stamens that contrast against the green...so pretty!
Both were watered with 0.75g of dechlorinated water with Fox Farms Open Sesame added @ 0.5 tsp/g and Bembe @ 1 tbsp/g, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg. 1.2 EC.
I'm continuing with the daily routine of making sure they're watered, fed and turning their pots 1/4 turn twice daily to expose as much of them to as much light as possible!
4/14- I solved the temperature issue in the tent! I determined that my 4x4 did not really require any supplemental cooling and I wasn't happy with the amount of airflow coming from the IdealAir 14k btu portable A/C unit I use to cool the tents.
So I disconnected all of the ducting hoses from the A/C and removed them from the tent. Then, I cut a 5 7/8" circular hole in the right side door of the 4x8 and placed the A/C unit facing the tent. I fabricated an air collector from sheet metal that grabs all the cool air coming out of the front of the unit and puts it through a circular 6" short extension tube which I inserted into the hole I made in the tent door.
This puts ALL of the cool air directly into the 4x8 where it's circulated by the two 18" Hurricane fans and two 6" clip-on fans which now has temperatures running 78-79 deg. max with the HLG 650R's at max power pulling 660w at the wall each...I'm so relieved to get this issue under control with flowering occurring so that I can keep temp's in the ideal range to aide in trichome production and getting that beautiful fade and coloration as they finish!
My girl's recieved their usual watering of 0.75g of dechlorinated water with Fox Farms Open Sesame added @ 0.5 tsp/g and Bembe @ 1 tbsp/g, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg. 1.2 EC which they are doing very well on, showing no signs of any issues.
Their color, vigor and overall health remain consistently on point and both pheno's are going crazy stacking their beautiful flowers!
4/16- Yesterday was a 'dry' day as their 10g fabric pots were still pretty heavy, so I continued with the daily routine of checking the moisture level of the medium's, feeding when needed and turning their pots 1/4 turn twice daily to expose as much of them to as much light as possible!
Today they each recieved 0.75g of dechlorinated water with Fox Farms Open Sesame added @ 0.5 tsp/g and Bembe @ 1 tbsp/g, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg. 1.2 EC. I also removed a dozen or so shade leaves out of the inside on each to keep that light penetration happining!
4/18- Week Three of flower is behind us now and may the coming weeks be FILLED with beautiful buds! 😍
Watering continued today with 0.75g of dechlorinated water with Fox Farms Bembe @ 1 tbsp/g, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg.
Both are looking fabulous and have a plethora of flowers on them with the #1 pheno's buds, being further along by a couple of days, are a bit thicker and denser with some beautiful contrasts of greens, white and reddish-amber. The #2 phenotype is very close in appearance to her sister and only two days apart from her but her flowers definitely have a different appearance with more snow white stamens covering her flowers, unlike her sister whose flowers stamens had a yellowish tinge to them turning a reddish/amber as they mature and die.
It's been a great week for these girls and I foresee an epic fourth week coming up! Be sure to check in on their progress as things really get heated up! 💥
~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 flowering gets more intense... Grow Strong! 😎🙏~