4/4 Happy Easter
Week 2 of flower has begun, she has almost double in size and the flowers are maturing. The pistils are beginning to show as she is growing in the tent. Will water tomorrow.
Should be a nice warm weather week so Banana may go outside to take in some sun this week.
If the Magpie's beat Hotspur's and Harry today, I promised Banana a double shot of Fish Shit next feed. Nana loves her some football
(update: A tie is not a win sorry Ltl Nana)
4/5 Today the whole family is outside in the sun. They all had a big drink of water with HTG stump tea and a small shot of fish shit, PH was adjusted to 6.5 +/-
Little Nana (aka Nana Une) aint little no more. She is 4 weeks younger than Gorilla but a lot bigger. BUT Nana 1 is in a three gallon cloth smart pot and Gorilla G is in a two gallon cloth pot.
The pistil formation starts flower so she is right on schedule to grow some big ass banana cola buds
Family photo by age: Aunt Gorila G, Nana Une and babies: Nana Deux, Nana Trois, Miss W Widow and Miss Pineapple E
4/6 Full bright sun slight breese 80 deg RH 24. Its hard to leave Banana in side the tent on a day like this. The plant really responds to the sun. the top leaves kind of angle up almost like a V.
I do bring her into tent before it gets dark. the tent light stays on till 12:00.
Picked up some Roots Organics Potting Soil today, Amended soil by top dressing, I added a few handfuls and worked it in the existing soil.
Roots Organics Potting Soil has all kinds of bat crap, worm guts and fish with feathers in it so how can it be bad. Its also got stuff in it I can't pronounce or spell so what the hell, Nana like it.
4/7 Had to do a flush, I feed scheduled feed and noticed the run off water was at ph 6.1 and the bottom most leaves having issues.
I flushed with regular tap water. Checking run off with each half gallon added. Banana is in a 3 gallon cloth pot so it took about 4 gallons of plain water to get run off at 6.5 ph.
She is setting in the sun draining, I will add week 6 nutrients with cal-mag as she drys out. Also add a little more soil as needed.
4/8 Banana is growing like a bitch expanding her buds and filling out the tent, I had to raise the lights a couple of inches (1inch =25.4mm), the flush seems to have helped the overall health of her too. The leaves are big and green, some of the very lower leave were pruned off. The white pistils are forming in all the buds.
The tent's humidity was a little high so I cranked up the de-humidifer and set it to 45
4/9 The soil has dried out enough to take a feed and check look. I feed 1/2 gallon water with 2 teaspoons of Boomerang 1/4 teaspoon of organic cal-mag and adjusted PH up to 6.5.
The second 1/2 gallon had a variation of feed week 6 at half strength adjusted to 6.5 ph. The run off was fairly clear and is reading 6.5 ph.
Gonna be in sun today as long as clear skies
4/10 I need a bigger tent! The damn banana kush is growing up and out. I think it really is a banana tree. She is about 24" inches tall x 22" inches wide and growing. It really has responded well from the flush, sun and nutrients, The bud sites are developing and and expanding with new white pistils throughout the plant. Gonna be some colossal buds on this baby when she matures.
This will be the end of week 2 in flower and 10 days till 4-20 day
I looked up the strain you're growing and it looks tasty af. Nice choice! I'm sure pressing some rosin from that would be awesome.
Good luck with your grow!
PS. Watch out for the flying lizards.
Looks Great, nice and healthy, some big fan leaves💪.
It sure looks nice outside where you are, still frost in the garden here,
so we still have a ways to go
before some plants can go outside.
Later👊.