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Well here we go into Week four of flower! 👏😎 With eight 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.
4/19- Week FOUR of flower's here and man-o-man is these girls are looking SWEET!
I watered them with 0.75g of dechlorinated water with Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz added @ 0.75 tsp/g and raw honey @ 1 tbsp/g, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg. 1.2 EC.
Now this strain is supposed to be a 56-63 day cultivar but I'm a betting man and I say there's no way either of these fine ladies pushing 58 days are close to finishing! I've been giving them 4hrs/day of supplemental UVA during the middle of their 19/5 cycle and I'll be switching them to Fox Farms Cha Ching on their feeding very soon.
Now, these girl's are basically on autopilot and all I'm doing is making sure they're watered, fed, has their pots turned daily and I'll probably remove some foliage from the #2 pheno as she's the BUSHY one!...that's it, easy peasy lemon squeezy!
~💚HAPPY 420 EVERYONE!!!💚~ Have a happy and lifted day!...and don't forget to 'pay it forward' 😎🙏
4/21- The Banana Kush ladies are rolling and continue to stack their flowers forming some beautiful cola's and they have an intoxicating aroma of berries coming off them!
I watered/fed them with their usual 0.75g of dechlorinated water to which I've now switched to and added, Fox Farms Cha Ching @ 0.75 tsp/g, and 0.5 tsp/g of raw honey, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg. I also gave their pots a 1/4 turn and removed a dozen or so leaves from the #2 phenotype to keep her opened up to the light.
4/23- Today they recieved .75g of de-chlorinated water with Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz @ 0.75 tsp/g, Fox Farms Microbe Brew @ 0.5 tsp/g and Fox Farms Kelp Me Kelp You @ 0.5 tsp/g which with my starting ph of 7.4, brings the ph to a perfect 6.5! Gotta love it when you don't have to adjust the final ph...awesome! I also rotated their 10g fabric pots 1/4 turn each.
The #1 phenotype at 57 days from seed is on her way. This is a 56-70 day strain and I see her finishing up somewhere in-between the two. The #2 pheno is only a couple of days behind her sister but I think she'll more than likely go towards the higher end of the suggested grow time.
4/25- With 60+/- days of growth and four weeks of flowering behind them, these 8-10 week cultivars are coming around the 'final eighth pole' my friends and and will be finishing up soon with the #1 pheno being the furthest along. The #1 phenotype, although only two days older than her sister, is markedly more mature with her pistils dying off and turning orange and her calyx's developing beautiful shades of pink and purple! I'll only be giving her straight de-chlorinated water from here on out till harvest to finish flushing her.
The #2 pheno is basically a twin of her older sister, the only difference being that she'll be under the light for a week or so longer than 'big sis'. Both pheno's are sporting rather small leaves with narrow blades and have, what I'd call moderate node spacing. They didn't really require any defoliation as light penetration was never an issue with this ladies!
Environmentally, the tent temperatures are maxing out during the light cycle at 79 deg. and I'm running them down to the mid 50's during the 5 hour dark period, which really helps with bringing out the gorgeous colors in some strains! The HLG 650R is running at max, pulling 660w at the wall and remains @ 34" above the canopy.
Today I watered the #2 phenotype with 0.75g of de-chlorinated water to which I've added, Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz @ 0.75 tsp/g, and 0.5 tsp/g of raw honey, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg. 1.2 EC, I also gave her pot a 1/4 turn. The #1 recieved the same amount with the exception of only having Fox Farms Sledgehammer added @ 2 tsp/g to finish her flush which I've already begun and her pot was also turned.
Well, onward to Week Nine from seed and Week Five of flower where things are gonna be heating up in the tent with the #1 finishing up and the #2 bulking up! 💪 Be sure to check in on their progress❣️❤️
~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 excitement builds... Grow Strong! 😎🙏~