Hey everyone!!! Sorry about the few day delay..things so far are looking great!! Thanks for all the kind encouragement!!!
Today: June 19th, Day 26 of Flowering..
On the 17th, I mixed up a nutrient mix and started it on bubble. Everything that I have been using was kept the same except now I am up to 5 gallons of water per feeding to make sure all the ladies get a good drink... I ran out of EarthJuice Grow so this batch, instead of the normal 120ml of grow, I only had 50ml so in contrast I upped my BioWeed by General Organics a double dose, 20ml for the 5 gal. Other than that, my Earthjuice line was mixed to the Reciculation amount (undercut to 4 gal amounts bloom, catalyst, micro, meta-k)(I usually always undercut recommended by a little) added 20ml Cal/Mag, 20ml BioRoot, 60ml Humic acid, 12ml Liquid carboload, 4tbsp molassass, 10ml of snow storm, 10ml of gravity and 20ml of my Naked "blue machine" fruit smoothy.
Today, the 19th, My mix was ready, 1051ppm and 4.8ph a little low for my liking but my soil so far has been doing an excellent job at buffering the ph so I went for it. The ladies were really dry today, used my cheepo moisture probe and it registered on the dry end 3/4 down...also noticed that it was rather hard pushing the probe down into the soil, so I know the roots are just packed into the soil...Thank you Myco mix!!!! lol
I also had a visit today from my master grow friend from Norcal, who grows nugs unlike any I have ever tasted, and actually turned me onto earthjuice in the first place.
He really was impressed with what he saw with my grow and said I was doing an excellent job which made me feel great...even though he still refers to my grow as "the little project" compared to his massive greenhouses...lol... He gave me some good pointers though that would really increase my yield...
First he said that I should supercrop all of my University Hill's OG's and Chemband's since they were more lanky and were longer finisher's than my blue dragon's. He said even with the buds already in development it is not too late at 4 weeks to supercrop and that it will allow all the lower bud sites on the supercropped branch to grow upwards...almost in an "L" shape..So he helped me supercrop my plants, and also recommended that I remove any additional branches below my SCROG screen (lollipopping) as well as do a much heavier defoliation.
It was funny that he told me to defoliate because right before he came over I was reading a great article about defoliation and increasing yield...heres the link...
https://www.-----.com/ic/showthread.php?t=174163
He was telling me that I should count down 3 to 4 fan leafs down from the cola, and trim anything below that, unless it was not in the way of any lower budsites. He said its ok to go semi-heavy with it, as long as your no longer than 4 weeks into flower...
So today my ladies go there hair did...lol gave them a fine defoliation removing a good plastic shopping bag full of fans...they look beautiful now, all of the lower budsites are receiving tons of light and my canopy should breathe better now, less chance for PM or molds...after trimming and pruning today, my hands were really sticky, almost as if I rubbed up on the yellow sticky cards...but smelled great!!! My blue dragons smell like blueberry pankakes...really strong scent... My chembands have a very sweet, citrusy kushy smell, and my University OG's smell like a skunky, sweet, OG.
So far I couldn't ask for things to go better. I have noticed that since I switched out my 400w MH for the 400w HPS, the buds have really been getting a lot of girth, fattening quite a bit, but I did notice less trichome formation than when I had the MH running. I think I am going to run my HPS for another 2 weeks and then switch back to MH for final bloom...