Serapis
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starting 3rd week of 12/12
The plants are sleeping as I write this, I'll post up some pics later in the day. I've stopped adding Open Sesame and have begun to feed with Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom and Big Grow and Beastie Bloomz. The plants are really reacting well to the nutes. I should have a flush coming up soon. The tips of the colas all have beautiful looking pistils and the colas are stretching upwards daily. The cola stems have also gotten really thick, indicating she is preparing to hold some weight.
The lower tips are budding as well, which is surprising given that the grow is LED and the lights don't penetrate much. I would love to drop some 2700k CFLs down beside the plants right now, but I have sworn this grow would be pure LED for scientific purposes, yield be damned. Depending on outcome, I may add other lighting on my scrog grow next.
I fed the plants yesterday and the nute soup PH was at 7.0 going in AND running off at 7.0! First time I have had that happen! The lime is working! I top dressed with dolomite lime about 3 weeks ago and it shows now. No PH problems. ?The readings on run off fluctuated between 7.0 and 7.1. Next watering I'll PH at 6.5 and stay there until flush.
The LED lights have to be raised an inch every two days. The dog collar choke chains are working great. An inch is two links. The canopy is even. Every plant is now the exact same height. That surprised me, as Runt was the biggest at one time. All plants have at least two colas, some have 4. I have learned with my newer plants to prune out the fan leaves that shade the two late colas. If you don't, they get stunted and eventually choked out by leaves. The next batch will all have 4 strong colas. Experience is a nice asset.
Seedlings:
The new plants continue to amaze me. They were only fed once and that was when they were in the solo cups and showed the first sign of yellowing. Once I transplanted into Miracle Grow Organic Choice and worm castings, they have really taken off. They are growing much faster than the first bunch ever did, I'm wondering how they'll do vegging another 6 weeks while the others flower. I'm not feeding them, except for Cal-Mag once a week. I'm letting MG do the feeding for now along with worm castings. Those that hate on MG are misguided. I recommend it strongly, especially the Organic Choice product. I do amend with MG Perlite.
clones:
I'm proud of the clones this time. The clones are now 9 days old. Not a single leaf has begun to yellow yet, so I'm not near planting yet. I have been removing the dome and misting and allowing the dome to stay off for 3-5 minutes twice a day. I also removed all standing water from the tray. The only thing in my misting water is SuperThrive. The clone cuttings are being rooted in Rock wool cubes and this time I squeezed out excessive water. I'm really impressed with these cloned tops. They look great and they will be fine plants.
When I lift the dome off the tray, I can feel the humidity and heat rise. The smell is incredible as well, a very strong herbal smell. I can't wait to get these into soil.
I promise to get pictures up in a bit. I have 5 bubblelicious seeds left and 15 plants going strong! I'm hoping to not need the seeds for awhile.
The plants are sleeping as I write this, I'll post up some pics later in the day. I've stopped adding Open Sesame and have begun to feed with Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom and Big Grow and Beastie Bloomz. The plants are really reacting well to the nutes. I should have a flush coming up soon. The tips of the colas all have beautiful looking pistils and the colas are stretching upwards daily. The cola stems have also gotten really thick, indicating she is preparing to hold some weight.
The lower tips are budding as well, which is surprising given that the grow is LED and the lights don't penetrate much. I would love to drop some 2700k CFLs down beside the plants right now, but I have sworn this grow would be pure LED for scientific purposes, yield be damned. Depending on outcome, I may add other lighting on my scrog grow next.
I fed the plants yesterday and the nute soup PH was at 7.0 going in AND running off at 7.0! First time I have had that happen! The lime is working! I top dressed with dolomite lime about 3 weeks ago and it shows now. No PH problems. ?The readings on run off fluctuated between 7.0 and 7.1. Next watering I'll PH at 6.5 and stay there until flush.
The LED lights have to be raised an inch every two days. The dog collar choke chains are working great. An inch is two links. The canopy is even. Every plant is now the exact same height. That surprised me, as Runt was the biggest at one time. All plants have at least two colas, some have 4. I have learned with my newer plants to prune out the fan leaves that shade the two late colas. If you don't, they get stunted and eventually choked out by leaves. The next batch will all have 4 strong colas. Experience is a nice asset.
Seedlings:
The new plants continue to amaze me. They were only fed once and that was when they were in the solo cups and showed the first sign of yellowing. Once I transplanted into Miracle Grow Organic Choice and worm castings, they have really taken off. They are growing much faster than the first bunch ever did, I'm wondering how they'll do vegging another 6 weeks while the others flower. I'm not feeding them, except for Cal-Mag once a week. I'm letting MG do the feeding for now along with worm castings. Those that hate on MG are misguided. I recommend it strongly, especially the Organic Choice product. I do amend with MG Perlite.
clones:
I'm proud of the clones this time. The clones are now 9 days old. Not a single leaf has begun to yellow yet, so I'm not near planting yet. I have been removing the dome and misting and allowing the dome to stay off for 3-5 minutes twice a day. I also removed all standing water from the tray. The only thing in my misting water is SuperThrive. The clone cuttings are being rooted in Rock wool cubes and this time I squeezed out excessive water. I'm really impressed with these cloned tops. They look great and they will be fine plants.
When I lift the dome off the tray, I can feel the humidity and heat rise. The smell is incredible as well, a very strong herbal smell. I can't wait to get these into soil.
I promise to get pictures up in a bit. I have 5 bubblelicious seeds left and 15 plants going strong! I'm hoping to not need the seeds for awhile.
