********Week 1 Flower - Sept 19 to 25, 2020*******
We switched to flower this week and put in the first SCROG layer.....been busy😃
These girls have some very thick main branches and are pushing out some huge fan leaves💪 They were easily stretched out horizontally to fill in the net and the topping helped to keep the canopy at an even height. The girls are in the same tent as another strain that is known to grow big and will benefit from a SCROG. I don’t feel these girls necessarily need one though. To combat this I decided to set the Cream 47 on boxes before putting in the netting. I set them on boxes which put them 10” taller than Gorilla Girls......may still not have been enough but that is what we are running with🤞😃
Pest maintenance this week as we are getting the last days I am able to comfortably spray the girls. Lost Coast Plant Therapy to keep the gnats, aphids and thrips in check😃
Had a small mishap this week and a damn fan fell on one side of C471 while opening the tent. The net helped to not make this more disastrous but it still set her back a day or two. She has bounded back now and that side of her is coming back and getting taller.
At the end of the week I finally gave in and started to pull some of the upper fan leaves😗😗 There is so much leaf in this little 3’ x 3’ tent that it is impacting airflow.......would love a 4‘ x 4’😃 They have reacted very well to the removing of the leaves and those branches are standing up taller and look more healthy the next day!!
Keeping the waterings up and getting a fair bit of runoff from the feedings but that is best for Coco to avoid lockouts and pH issues. There were only three feeding days this week. We switched to bloom nutes for base and added silica for supplementals. Vitamin B and Kelp coming from B52 and sweetener for the microbes from bud candy. As well as Sensyzime to let the enzymes clean up the root zone because they have been in the pots for a few weeks now.
Little more detail:
Sept 19/20 - Day 1
- Plant Therapy @ 5ml in 1L water. Ph to 5.4.
- Folier spray applied to whole tent half hour before lights on, used 3/4 of mixture
- Feeding mixture was Sensyzime @ 1ml only
- 25ppm and 5.2pH......missed it a bit.
- each girl given 3L
- SCROG put in
Sept 20/20 - Day 2
- Sprayed the last of the IPM mixture on the tent tonight.
- Noticed several small shinny spots on leaves later today.....suspect from Folier spray on leaves.
Sept 21/20 - Day 3
- Nice full strength week 1 mixture applied today
- Rhino Skin, Cal Mag @ 2ml, Sensi Bloom A&B , B52, Bud Ignitor, Bud Candy @ 1ml.
- 625 ppm and 5.7pH
- 3L given to each girl.......not enough runoff.....bump feedings up to 4L going forward.
- silica added today.
- freaking fan dropped on C471 today in the one corner🤬 Could have been worse👌
Sept 23/20 - Day 5
- CalMag @ 2ml, Rhino, Sensi Bloom A&B, B52, Bud Candy, Bud Ignitor @ 1ml.
- 850ppm and 5.9pH
- 4L given to each girl.
- better run off amount
That wraps up the first week of flower........Cream 47 was more of a transition week while Gorilla Girl was well in flower. The net is in and the lights flipped. The girls were ready for flower and now we just need to keep giving them what they want for the next 6 weeks and then coast from there👍 Hopeful they will find another 12” of growth in them but not sure they will stretch that much in the net....time will tell. Sweet Seeds girls making me smile again with anticipation of some fat colas from these girls😃