I'm on pins & needles.
Blue you my boy!
Updated pics of those gorgeous gals please sir. Guessing experiment will begin sometime in 2022? Can't wait.
The girls are at day 49ish, one pheno looks like it will be ready abit later than the rest, one pheno looks like itl be ready abit sooner. This is my first run with this strain, first run with living soil (only previously used hydroponics), and also my first run with led lights. Let me tell you this has been a huge learning curve and not without mistakes.
firstly the leds, having only used hps and mh lighting for flowering in the past, the lower leaf temperature caused by the lack of infra red in the leds has seen me chasing my tail with the vpd. I’ve came to the conclusion (just through experimenting on this run) that the girls like it when the air temperature is higher.
With hps I would enter flower at 28-29c right up until the end of stretch, then I’d taper down to 26-28 until buds stopped swelling and then drop it down to 24-26 and sometimes down to low 20s for the last couple weeks. Now I’m finding they like it around 30c until after stretch and then taper down to around 27 as the buds stop swelling. I gave them a couple days at 24 and they didn’t like it, leafs dropped and theys stopped drinking (according to pot weight). So now I’ve realised this I feel in a better position for the next run.
this being my first run ever using soil and least of all a soil that I’m not supposed to feed, I kind of assumed that the 56l pot of ecolife brand living soil and the numerous top dressings I applied would get me to the end unscathed, unfortunately that wasn’t the case. About 2week ago I noticed the onset of phosphorous deficiency, I top dressed with bat guano and fed a phosfate solubilising microbe based tea, a week later the def had slowed down but I wasn’t out the woods yet, so every watering since then I’ve given them a guano tea at around the 1.4 ec mark. It’s helped the buds swell abit but I know things could have been much better. I know for next time to more heavily amend the soil.
my next run will be in the same tent but I’m now thinking I might run a bed with the same brand soil (albeit abit more heavily ammended) and the recycled soil from these 4 pots that I will also amend. I’m nipping away to Tenerife for new year so transplanting into a say 400l bed just before then should see me coming back to plants that have rooted in and not drank all the available water. Anyone wanna chime in about this that has experience with no till living soil beds, feel free. I need the help lol
here’s a pic of a bud on each plant and one shot of the full tent, as you can see they’re in the senescence stage and are starting to cannibalise the leaves.
thanks for showing an interest mate