Another week has gone by (it seemed like less ...
) and it's time for an update!
My minions are apparently thriving - boom times in microbe-ville - yay! - and Despicable me is celebrating right along with them.
It's been a long time since I had a plant like this Carnival, and I don't think the entire bloom room has ever looked this good. This light setup is just what the room needed - powerful and well dispersed across the canopy. I'm getting penetration down well past a foot into the canopy and the corner plants don't suffer at all. At this plant height, I have them about 15 inches from the 185 watt corner panels and 20 inches from the Advanced LED XML350 at 325 watts. As near as I can estimate, that's 1000+ umols across the sky.
My soil is also thrumming with health, easily obliterating the weekly dose of trimmings I give it, dewing up the underside of the lid - all those good signs we look for. This is effectively a second run soil mix - a blend of fresh, middle and older soils, mixed and left to cook. I have two 27 gallon bins and I'm alternating recycling between them. I take soil out of the oldest one while dumping the old rootballs and trimmings into the other one. They each hold about four pots worth. I also have a bin of older soil and I'll dump a couple gallons of that into the other bins from time to time. Right now I have about 30 gallons of soil cooking and 90 gallons in use.
Temperatures have been very stable - typical of this time of year - at 80 high/68 low - and humidity has stayed above 50 in the bloom room. The veg room is starting to fall and I'll have to decide whether to move into a tent or fix up the understair veg space I'm using. It works great when it's working, but I'm starting to see signs of environmental problems I think. Freddy's Best is running extremely slowly and the CarnivalA clone isn't doing so great. The plants just look a little stressed in general. My whiteflies also are gearing up for another population explosion, driven by my dropping humidity - gotta get me some more SNS 209.
I haven't been doing anything unusual with the drenches and foliars. I spray the bloom room with Brix every 10 days or so and all of them get DeStress weekly. The past few weeks the bloom room has been looking so good that I've Brixed weekly. I alternate Transplant/Tea and Energy/Tea with TransWater in between until it's time for Cat drench. I've been sure to get an Energy/Tea drench right before the Cat without water in between and it seems like that might have helped to load the cation sites. They still get one TransWater after the Cat before returning to straight Energy Water Energy until chop. I've been doing the Recharge and EWC within 2 weeks of the flip.
I can't think anything else that might explain what I'm apparently doing right.
I'm going to start splitting my updates into two posts - bloom and veg - 'cause I'm having trouble squeezing all my pics into one post.
Go figure. So ... nuff jawboning ... here come too many pretty pictures!
I don't think BH x UH is going to take the 12 weeks that I thought it would. It's looking a lot like a 10 week strain, putting the chop at next Tuesday. The pics don't show it, but the inner and lower buds have all finished, gone all brown-pistiled without much sign of new ones, and the upper buds are happily foxtailing. I considered letting it go a couple more weeks, but I stuffed a 9th plant into there today so I could really use the space, and I'm currently much more excited about the upcoming Carnival and DrG and Channel+ than I am about another BH cross. It's bound to be good weed with those genetics but I frankly have quite of lot of that particular high for the foreseeable future.
So I'll take her while she's fresh and innocent, incorrigible roue that I am.
Utopia Haze x Buddha Haze - 132 days old - 62 days 12/12 - 50 since pistils
Tikal ... well, Tikal can apparently run forever, so it's a matter of finding the sweet spot, the point of diminishing returns. I'm likely to take this one early, too, partly because I have another one right behind her and the high is thick enough to benefit from an early chop. Plus I need the space. This one is looking better than the first one - nice solid VERY aromatic buds all down the stems.
Tikal1 - 140 days old - 62 days 12/12 - 50 since pistils
I have one of those plants that just takes off on its own here, folks. This one didn't get treated any differently than the others, but she's in the z-z-zone! It's been 12 days since the second Cat and she just got an Energy feed yesterday. Calyxes are puffing up and she continues to stack the trichs. My first pheno always finished between 9 and 10 weeks, and I have this one scheduled for 10 which is 2 weeks away. I can't really tell how ready she is at this point.
Carnival - 127 days old - 53 days 12/12 - 43 since pistils
Channel+ is doing her best to mimic Carnival. Su-weet! This should be ready in 3 weeks.
Channel+ - 117 days old - 33 days 12/12 - 23 since pistils
DrG is a bit behind Channel+ with the trich production but she's growing some nice fat buds.
DrGrinspoon - 121 days old - 49 days 12/12 - 39 since pistils
Y Griega is looking mighty fine, too. I have to get into the inner growth and trim some of that off though - she's a thick growing one.
Y Griega - 115 days old - 33 days 12/12 - 23 since pistils
Purple Haze looks like it's going to be manageable. It put on another 7 inches since the flip 13 days ago, but that's nothing like the 5-6 inches a week that some of other strains ran. I've been doing a little super cropping ala Duggan's method. The stems on this strain pinch really nicely, so I've done that to the two mains to slow 'em down. No sign of pistils yet.
Purple Haze - 65 days old - 13 days 12/12
That's it for the flowering girls. I have pics of the first Carn x UH clone in the next post of the veg group, but she went into bloom today - the 9th plant.
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