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Well here we go into Week five of flower! 👏😎 With nine 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. The #1 pheno is just about ready and the #2's 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.
4/26- Today they recieved .75g of de-chlorinated water each with the #2 getting Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz @ 0.75 tsp/g and 1 tsp/g of raw honey which was then ph'd to 6.4 @ 71 deg., the #1 receiving just straight de-chlorinated water with Fox Farms Sledgehammer @ 2 tsp/g which was then ph'd to 6.7 @ 71 deg.
My golly the #1 phenotype really looks phenomenal with hues of pink and purple showing at the tips of her rock hard flowers. I checked her trichomes and she's just about done. I'll be putting her in the dark for 2-3 days very soon!
The temp's are a constant 78 deg. during the light cycle and I'm running them down into the upper 50's during the 5 hour dark period. The RH is at 44% which is perfect right now as I have abundant air circulation in the Gorilla 4x8 with two 18" Hurricane fans, two 6" clip-on fans and one 10" floor mounted fan constantly moving the air. The HLG 650R is at max pulling 660w at the wall and it's currently at 32" above her canopy. Lastly, the co2 level in the tent, via a 50# tank and AutoPilot co2 controller, is running a constant 900ppm's during the light cycle.
4-28- I checked their pots this morning and they're still pretty heavy so we'll let them ride on watering for now. I'll check both later, so for now I'll just take a some pic's of them and give their pots a spin.
4/30- With the #1 phenotype in the dark the #2 is thoroughly enjoying her time alone under the HLG 650R! Today I fed her heavy with .75g of de-chlorinated water with Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz @ 0.75 tsp/g, Fox Farms Tiger Bloom @ 2 tsp/g. Fox Farms Big Bloom @ 1 tbsp/g and Fox Farms Bembe @ 1 tbsp/g added, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 71℉. I also gave her pot a 1/4 turn.
5/2- Today I took the #1 phenotype out of 'dark jail' where she spent 96 hours due to me being tied up harvesting another of my tents. I shot some pic's of her and then chopped her at her base. I went ahead and hung her whole in my now empty 4x4. My Drying Room is currently full so I'm doing the best that I can to keep the conditions in the 4x4 in a decent range. The temp's in the tent are in the mid 70℉ range and the RH is @ 45% (I'm running a humidifier in the tent along with a small fan on the floor to circulate the air) which I'd prefer to be higher (thus the reason for hanging whole - slow down the drying)to prevent the plant from drying too fast. She should be ready in 10 days or so!
The # 2 pheno which was like a twin to her sister in appearance, now has become a monster! She's developed huge thick cola's that are swaying in the breeze created by the fans. She's smelling super funky with an earthy, Kush aroma that's incredible and her flowers are beginning to get some purple hues showing up, which I was hoping to see!
She was heavy to the lift today so I let her ride on her watering for a day. Onward to next week where she'll be getting close to finishing 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 excitement builds... Grow Strong! 😎🙏~