Mandala Seeds Kalichakra Grow {comments welcome}

I started ten from seed; one of the was strangely deformed and didn't really germinate. While I was out of state for three weeks during a veg that lasted too long, two if them died, and the others nearly died. My roommate was taking care of them. He tracked spider mites into the room and only watered them (didn't feed them). Of the remaining 7, 3 were female. The best looking plant turned out to be female, and I have 8 clones off of her. I also have one clone off of another one of the females. They lost so much veg growth that I couldn't get many clones but were too tall to continue vegging, so I finally built a temporary flowering tent, repotted them into 15gal nursery pots and started them flowering. I was too embarrassed of how they looked for a while, but things are looking much better now. It's day 28 of flowering. They look maybe four or five days behind compared to another Kalichakra grow that I watched on breedbay. I think that it's probably from the stress that they went through just before flowering. I've been vigilant with the neem oil, but there are still a few signs of spidermites in my grow room.

I'm feeding them Advanced Nutrients Iguana Juice right now. From what I can tell, this stuff eats ph tester, so I'll be switching to Botanicare Pure Blend Pro for the next crop of 9 plants. I'm hoping to really get my feeding schedule for the Kalichakra dialed in with that second crop. They're in 50-50 coco pearlite. I veg under a 400w metal halide, and flower under a 1000w hps.

Without further adoo, here come some pictures chronicling their growth over the last several weeks as soon as I resize them to be postable.

I started flowering June 15, so this is 14 days in.

I got some new Liquid Karma this day.

Here we still have deficiencies, but there is also some droop and slight curling that I think was from overfeeding. I thought I feed the girls a little more than I could.

Three more days along. Clones are rooted and planted. The ones in the rockwool have been struggling from the start. I have way better success with the super plugs.

The signs of the over feeding and the deficiencies are waning. They look so much better. I'm going to post these, then the ones from today, and then I'll post all the pics from before the 29, when I started really keeping track of what was going on in there.

Here are today's pics. I'm so excited. They're working--at my last place, it was too hot, and those ladies just wouldn't work. The last little girl from then lived under cfl's for several months. She's bubblegum x silver haze and now lives in a 30gal container in the back yard.

They're struggling in a lot of these pics.

Today, I got a 20 gal container to hold water so that I can let chlorine evaporate out of it before I water. Plant number 1 took a half gallon of water today. That's the thirstiest that she's been yet. I'm most interested in #1 since she's the mother of my crops to come. The other two each drank about a quart as usual.

I'll be getting some mylar for the walls some time soon. I just saw something that I think I'm going to try in seemorebuds 3. The guy covered cardboard panels in mylar so that he could move them around and hang them where ever he wanted. What's everyone think?

nice. you should get some pretty f#%kin good smoke from those

That's what I'm hoping. I've never smoked this stuff before.

Yesterday, I got a 20gal rubbermade tote to fill with water so that the chlorine could evaporate out of the water. I'm not sure what the deal is with the chlorine. I haven't noticed any problems that I feel are related to it, but I hear so much about letting the chlorine evaporate out on here that I thought I'd see if I noticed any improvements in my garden this way. The rubbermade tote was only $4. I have two of them. When my new nutrients come in, I'm going to rig up a gravity fed hose into my flower room to water with. I'll use that through the second crop of this Kali, and then I should be able to afford to buy a 4x4 flood and drain table. It'll be nice to be able to automate flushing my plants half way through flowering and at the end. My last place was a huge closet attached to a bathroom, so it was really easy to flush in there. It's not going to be a problem with only three plants, but it would be a pain with the sea of green that I want to get going soon.

In today's pics, we have a nutrient burned leaf and a spider mite damaged leaf. I used neem oil weekly for like two weeks and have been using it every third day since I realized that I could. I hate those little fuckers. There seem to be only a few left. I'm going to bomb the room between crops, I think. They really just won't go completely away. The nutrient burn is slight, and doesn't really bother me too much. I know that I can pull my feeding back just a hair, and everything will be fine.

Everything is coming along nicely. The buds are really beginning to give me a good idea of what this strain does now, and the clones are taking off. Number 1 is really beginning to look good and like she might produce a good yield. More exciting than her is the prospect of growing nine of her with about two feet less useless main stem at the bottom next time. I'm going to top them back to maybe 8 inches when they reach ten and then grow them back up to 12. That should give me some good little bushes. Maybe I'll just let four of them go and compare what I get from them in October.

Look what came in the mail today! Now I'll really be able to dial my feeding in. And this is just in time because my other ph meter died.

So, here's the update from last night. It turns out that my tap water is only 80ppm. The pH of the water seems to vary from 7 to 7.5 depending on the day. That's not so bad. I think that I can build pretty much any nutrient mix I want with that as long as I'm careful. Turns out that I've been feeding the ladies that are flowering around 1024ppm and the recently planted cones are getting around 330. Can anyone answer why you want to let the chlorine evaporate out of the water? Does it change the pH when that happens?

Some of the nodes on the tops are beginning to grow together. I'm starting to see the beginnings of some colas. I should have lots of sorta small ones because of how bushy my two sativa pheno girls are. the little indica pheno lady might produce one huge one because she's less branched out. It seems like she's a little behind that other two maybe. I think it's because she was the least healthy of all my plants that survived at the beginning of flowering.

Has anyone on here grow this before? I found babygro's journal on this strain, but that person is inactive or something.

looks good dude im subscribed. I got a safari mix plant just gone into my bloom room. They say that it is of kalichakra and white satin perantage so im intrested to see ur kali develope.

mr west said:

looks good dude im subscribed. I got a safari mix plant just gone into my bloom room. They say that it is of kalichakra and white satin perantage so im intrested to see ur kali develope.

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Interesting. I'd be interested to follow that as well

She's having her first 12 hour dark tonight in a few mins lol. She's gonna streatch like a be-atch i jus know it lol.

yeah...mine did!

from what i've heard chlorine is one of the ingredients in salt and when you mix chlorinated water with different nutes or soils it can mix with available sodium making salt which is not good for plants. it will cause changes in the plants and lock nutes out so they wont feed regularly. this happened to me on one of my first indoor grows and all the leaves were droopyand yellowing. after looking it up on rollitup i found this was my problem and flushed heavily for a few days and my plants were happy again.
i try to let my water sit out most of the time but sometimes i dont have a choice,lucky i havent had this problem since