420 Magazine's Official Girl Scout Cookies Comparative Grow By Emilya

[BooWho2]

Hi Boo! Great to see you! What are you thinking is the recommended amount?

From the web: Mix 1/2 Tablespoon (8 mL) of concentrate to 1 gallon (3.79L) of water. Mix well. Gently feed SNS- 209™ solution directly onto the root area of the plants every time you water or fertilize for a minimum 5 consecutive watering's (may be added to reservoir) or until infestation reduces.

Have I missed something important?

With these natural remedies that are not poison, but change the plant in a way to make it undesirable to the pests, it makes sense to keep doing it as long as it is needed. I was fighting the bugs on a third front, by attacking the larvae with the poison in mosquito dunks, but I stopped doing that a month ago... and the bugs continue to be held back. I have resigned myself to the reality that I am no longer in a zipped up enclosed tent... I am out in the open in an attic. Bugs do get in and when running all the yummy organic soil, nutrients and microbeasties, of course the bugs will come to play too. I can either seal the rooms or resign myself to constantly battling the bugs. Now that I know that a natural remedy actually works as long as you get on it right away, I am sold. If I am going to have to use something anyway, it totally delights me that I don't have to use poisons in my grow rooms and I am now a @Sierra Natural Science customer for life. Outdoors, I can only imagine the numbers and variety of critters that come to be pests on your plants. SNS seems to be a fitting addition to the other natural things we can do in the garden to repel pests, such as marigolds, mint plants and liberal use of lactobacillus spray.

Thanks Emilya. I am quite sure you have not missed something important. I was referring to these directions on Google:

DIRECTIONS FOR USE: Add 1/4 oz (1/2 Tbsp) per gallon of water every time you water or fertilize for 1-2 weeks. Follow up with applications every 14-28 days, as needed. Discontinue use 2 weeks prior to harvest and allow the rosemary to flush out naturally.

I saw the directions you posted above there too. And then there's what's in my actual bottle:

I think I was interpreting the directions as it not being an every time, lifetime of the plant kind of thing. Which is why I asked. I'm pretty sure I decided that it was too much to keep track of so I decided to throw it in every watering cycle and it seems to be doing a very good job - so I’m actually not breaking the rules! Thank you for the quick response!

 

[Emilya Green]

Bloom - 2 weeks, 1 Day
Geoflora Feed - Day 7
Wet/Dry Cycle - Day 3
Number of fast waterings - 1
6 Days since last SNS Foliar, SNS 209 given on each watering
Length of Grow - 2 months, 3 weeks, 5 days

Today was the 3rd day in the wet/dry cycle and all was as expected... the girls had mostly used up all of their water and they wanted to be watered. They could have easily gone another day or two in the big containers, but they each happily took a gallon of water before producing runoff. If we wanted to get crazy I bet I could get them to take a 2 day cycle soon, I am just not sure I want to work that hard.

There are now good amounts of trichomes showing up on some of the sunleaves and the buds keep stacking daily. So far no one is struggling with the weight of the buds and I don't think that is going to be an issue inside these tomato cages. A few more leaves have dropped to the ground, but a close examination showed that the plants are getting rid of unused leave at the bottom of the canopy... those that are not getting a lot of light. Approximately 2 or 3 leaves have dropped from each plant but this doesn't worry me... the plant is just doing what it needs to do. The leaves that are dropping are being taken for their phosphorus, so we are still playing catchup from what we did at the start of bloom with the nutes. On my next round I will time the flip so that we end up giving bloom nutes 1 week earlier than I did in this grow, and we will compare the response.

 

[BooWho2]

I bet that room smells ah-mazing.

 

[Emilya Green]

I bet that room smells ah-mazing.

It is like a little slice of heaven up there, and getting nicer by the day! Even with the filter and the fans I can smell it when I get home in the afternoons. So far I have not been able to smell it while standing in my yard though, so the filter is still working. If it wasn't so hot up there I would go up and sit with them and read a book... but not tonight. Tonight it is Missouri hot. It is a wet heat. It is what happens when it is 95° outside with 156% humidity. August is always like this around here... oppressively hot. I am able to keep it under 95 in the grow room attic, but barely, under this metal roof. Good thing the plants don't mind. Me, I am downstairs in the solar powered air conditioning, enjoying 73°. Don't tell my plants.

 

[Emilya Green]

Bloom - 2 weeks, 2 Days
Geoflora Feed - Day 8
Wet/Dry Cycle - Day 1
Number of fast waterings - 1
7 Days since last SNS Foliar, SNS 209 given on each watering
Length of Grow - 2 months, 3 weeks, 6 days

With each passing day the girls look more impressive. The buds are building very fast now and definitely trichomes can already be spotted all around the room. Many of the plants have achieved the canopy average height of about 1 foot away from the light and seem very happy to be there. My LUX meter says it is not lethal up there, so lets just wait it out and see what happens. All of the plants are strongly reaching to the sky, telling me that the water yesterday was not too much for the girls. No more leaf loss was noted in the last 24 hours and the bugs are very minimal but even so, I will spray again with the PC on the next watering day before the mix that I last made goes bad.

First a couple of shots across the top, showing what I see standing at the edge of the canopy.

It wouldn't be an update without bud shots

Here is what the underneath looks like today

And lastly, the view from the chair

 

[Emilya Green]

Bloom - 2 weeks, 3 Days
Geoflora Feed - Day 9
Wet/Dry Cycle - Day 2
Number of fast waterings - 1
8 Days since last SNS Foliar, SNS 209 given on each watering
Length of Grow - 3 months

There really was nothing to be done today except stand and admire the plants. I was hit with a distinctive odor on some of the girls today... not all of them are doing it, but a definite orange peel smell coming out of there... very pleasant!

Just a few pictures tonight... everyone have a great evening!

 

[Hash Hound]

looking good Emilya
I'll be testing some Geoflora in the near future and it's nice to see it working so well.

 

[BooWho2]

That's so interesting.. my indoor GSC has a nice, creamy smell and I was trying to figure out what else was there. It's a slight orange! Thanks Emilya!

 

[Emilya Green]

looking good Emilya
I'll be testing some Geoflora in the near future and it's nice to see it working so well.

It's good stuff! I hope you have great luck with it!

 

[Emilya Green]

That's so interesting.. my indoor GSC has a nice, creamy smell and I was trying to figure out what else was there. It's a slight orange! Thanks Emilya!

sort of almost an orange zest I think...

 

[BooWho2]

sort of almost an orange zest I think...

An Orangesicle ice cream. That's exactly what mine smells like. Thanks Emilya!

 

[Costanza]

These are looking so good. I can't wait to see what they look like in a month when the buds start to really fatten up. Its going to be drool worthy

 

[Emilya Green]

drool worthy

That is exactly what I am going for!

 

[Bud Love]

They look amazing… great journal Emilya..

 

[Emilya Green]

Bloom - 2 weeks, 4 Days
Geoflora Feed - Day 10
Wet/Dry Cycle - Day 3
Number of fast waterings - 2
9 Days since last SNS Foliar, SNS 209 given on each watering
Length of Grow - 3 months, 1 day

Today was watering day and they all took their allotted gallon and a bit, without complaint. Next watering will be after a 4 day dryout, simply because it will be feeding day, so I will just go 2 fast waterings on this 4 week cycle and will reset back to zero. I am treating feeding day as if it is immutable, and must happen on that 14th day. I am seeing some signs of mobile deficiency down low... a few of the fans getting that "I want to turn yellow" look, but nothing to get alarmed about. This is in addition to supplementing potassium with the Terpinator being added with each watering, so these plants are really starting to pile on the need for nutrients.

The tall phenos do seem to have found their height as several of them are now at that same foot away from the light height, and the short versions are about a foot below that. I am curious if we are going to see a difference in the buds that corresponds to the height. We will know in a few weeks!

I put off spraying again because we went out to eat this evening and I ran out of time. I work from home tomorrow... it will be a better day for that.

Here are the pictures!

 

[cr8grow]

Emilya, catching up, great updates and progress. Mine went from sweet to absolutely putrid at around week 4 flower. Now much tamer, but fuel is in there. Cheers

 

[Emilya Green]

Bloom - 2 weeks, 5 Days
Geoflora Feed - Day 11
Wet/Dry Cycle - Day 1
Number of fast waterings - 2
10 Days since last SNS Foliar, SNS 209 given on each watering
Length of Grow - 3 months, 2 days

The money shot:

Some of the individual beauties in this garden:

There are definitely several phenotypes in this garden. Some are short, some are tall. Some are very straight structurally and some are more viney, like this last shot, almost reminding me of a white widow or other sprawling variety. It is going to be very interesting comparing these buds as they continue to mature.

A few more leaves dropped today, but still nothing alarming. All of the leaves being cannibalized here 3 days before the next feeding are at the lower edges of the canopy where there is very little light. Examining the leaves tells us that they are being wiped of their phosphorus and even some potassium, but everything else seems to be left intact. The middle parts of the leaves die leaving good amounts of green and light yellow on the leaf. None of this drama has gone up even as far as the first third of the canopy. The plants definitely know what they are doing and I am here just to observe it happening.

Up top and the buds themselves look spectacular and they are stacking furiously, especially after each watering when we see an obvious growth spurt. When we next water we will be arranging the plants around the room into different spots again, so that no one is the way they are because of the light they are finding themselves in... they all have had an equal chance at the light and the available airflow. This next time I am going to try to arrange all the tall ones around the periphery, while putting the shorter ones in the center to enjoy the greatest PAR, instead of just randomly moving them as we water.

So, without further ado, here are some of the buds that caught the camera's eye this evening:

 

[Trala]

Looks fabulous girlfriend.

 

[Azimuth]

Beautiful.

Can you take some pictures of the lower leaves that you speak about? The ones showing P and K issues. That will help us see what you're seeing.

 

[Emilya Green]

Beautiful.

Can you take some pictures of the lower leaves that you speak about? The ones showing P and K issues. That will help us see what you're seeing.

I will do that this evening