Hail The Leaf's 4th grow...

theloadeddragon said:

really? hmmmm...... want an apple?

whats your set up like?

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4x4 tent, Lumatek 600w dimmable ballast running on 75% with a hortilux HPS bulb, and adjust-a-wing reflector. One fan blowing in, one blowing out. Bioterra soil, Biocanna and BMO nutes.

Here's a Chiesel that more or less represents what's going on with the rest...photographed in natural sunlight.

not good...

The 3 Toe seed has turned into a plant that doesn't resemble 3 Toe, so I'm trying to figure that one out...I guess it'll be called ?2 from now on. Strange

over watered bad water.... feeding?

Water is coming from a 4 stage osmosis filtration system...introduced them to nutes about a week ago, when they were moved into the tent - 10-12ml of Biovega, Rhizotonic, and Cannazym every 2-3 days.

how old are the plants?

it sounds like you have super charged the microbiotic environment, and the NPK has not been sufficient for the amount of micro nutrients your plants root system is being exposed to......

They look a bit happier today, think I was under feeding them when I introduced nutes.

Have 2-3 gallon bucket to keep water in for mixing the plant's nutes, have mosquito dunks and sticky paper...bugs don't stand a chance.

Plants were fed from the bucket w/mosquito dunks today, they look better. Had another bug breakout last night, think I squished and sprayed them all though.

Alrighty, measurements today: Blue Cheese - 12", Cheese - 9 1/2", Cheese #2 - 2 1/2", Chiesel #1 - 11 1/2", Chiesel #2 - 11 1/2", Lemon Skunk - 13 1/2", Lemon Skunk clone #1 - 13", LS clone #2 - 9 1/2", Whiteberry #1 - 13 1/2", WB #2 - 11 1/2", ? - 9 1/2", ? #2 (should be a 3 Toe be sure doesn't look it) - 7 1/2".

I came across some earthworms by accident today, so I added one to each pot of 5 of the girls, BC, Chiesel #1, LS, LS clone, and ? #2. I've got them marked and will be monitoring any noticeable differences in growth progress, etc...

I'm trying to be patient now that I've got the headroom, and will be vegging this round until they hit 15-18". Cheese #2 will have to continue vegging in the closet as it's too small right now and will hold up the entire rest of the grow. I think they'll be ready to flower next week though.

My small pots are clean and ready to go to start the next grow, but I've got one dilemma: I'll be doing both seeds and clones and I'm not sure which to start first...or at the same time since it takes clones a week or 2 to get going?

I might start grow #5 off in the next few days, since I'm too broke for my next dream order from Attitude I'll be using seeds I already have from previous orders and plants that hermied. So far it's looking like 2 Chiesel, 2 Cheese, 1 Blue Cheese clone, 1 California Hash, 2 3 Toe, 2 Bag Seeds, and 2 Whiteberry.

I've just taken my Blue Cheese clone for the next grow, and I trimmed up a few others. I've made a sad attempt at Uncle Ben's topping technique, sad because it's hard for me to tell where the first and 2nd true nodes are since I lost alot of bottom leaves to bugs and nute issues so far...but I've tried so we'll see...

Check the PH on you water, They look way under nourished, yellow leaves, purple stems...Good luck girl......JR

Yeah, they look like shit in those pics, I'll take new pics soon, they look much better now. I held off on starting their nutes for too long, they are getting plenty now...

Pics, fresh from today: Blue Cheese, Cheese, Cheese #2, Chiesels, Lemon Skunks, Lemon Skunk clone #2, Whiteberry #1, Whiteberry #2, ?, and ? #2 which is supposed to be a 3 Toe, but looks nothing like it.

As you can see I tried an attempt at Uncle Ben's topping technique on the Blue Cheese and Whiteberry #2...not sure if I did it right or not.

Measurements today: BC - 7", Cheese #1 - 10 1/2", Cheese #2 - 2 1/2", Chiesel #1 - 13", Chiesel #2 - 12 1/2", LS - 17 1/2", LS clone #1 - 14", LS clone #2 - 11", WB #1 - 15 1/2", WB #2 - 9 1/2", ? - 10 1/2", ? #2 (should be 3 Toe) - 8 1/2"

Only a few more days until I go into flowering, I want to start tomorrow but I'm waiting for the BC and Whiteberry I topped to catch up a few inches. I picked up some Canna PK 13/14 but I've never used it before...it says to use only once 3 weeks before harvest, if that's true it'll last a long time.

Alright, I'm getting too antsy since this grow is waaay behind schedule, so I've gone and done it, timer has been changed, and as of tomorrow, they'll be on 12/12. Obviously Cheese #2 is too small to flower, so she'll go into the veg closet with grow #5 for awhile until she's big enough.

We're in day one of flowering, woo hoo! I'm more or less going by the Canna feeding schedule and feeding every 2-3 days, but here's where I start to increase the amount of BioFlores and sllloooowly back off the BioVega. I've found if you pull the BioVega too soon or all at once instead of slowly decreasing it, disastrous things happen. So the girls got their usual nutes this morning with a bit less BioVega and Rhizotonic and a bit more BioFlores and Cannazym. I also gave them all some BMO Flower Power. I've decided to try Humboldt Nutes Big Up powder on some of this grow: BC, Chiesel #2, Lemon Skunk, LS clone #2, Whiteberry #1, and ? all got their first dose this morning. If I see a noticeable difference between these girls and the ones that didn't get it, I can decide if I want to keep using it...

The girls in all their current glory...gave the usual BioCanna nutes today with a nice dose of BMO Flower Power. I've got the entire BMO line on the way, they are doing package deals with all 4 bottles and starting the bidding at some ridiculous price...I got mine for just over $10, with shipping and everything all 4 large bottles were $22...for a whole line of killer nutes. That's just silly. Had to raise the light/reflector up 3 chain links today, plants are about to go crazy in height.