Excellent update. They look fantastic bud! You're going to have some really top shelf smoke soon.
Thanks Blaze, I think you're right, and I'm really stoked. The buds are beautiful brother, I wish you could see them - silver sparkling trichs, against a pale green background, shining blue in the light. The buds are so much more similar, than the leafs are.
Just your average ol carestaker grow eh.
Full of stunningly beautifully sexylicious very well grown specimens of the ganj.
Hugs my brother.
Hugs back at you brother, and thanks for the kind words
I forgot how much easier it is when you are all set up and perpetual. These look pretty nice considering they were put in garbage bags and stuffed in a closet for a day.
This deserves a second look CareStaker! How absolutely beautiful! I just love this grow. Of course the ECSDH is still my favorite. I just drooled all over myself.
Doc. She's got a great berry-sugar stink going on now, with that Chemdog reek in the background, so nice! I know you like hybrids - she's got some indica in there to round things out, so I think you would like her. The SSSDH leaner I had prior was quite nice.
Plants look amazing CS. Simply gorgeous!
Thanks ganjabro, I hope they finish well! One girl freaked out - Buddha Tahoe. She put out ~10 sacks down low, which I pinched out. I didn't find any nanners in the buds, which is a good sign that she's not intersexed, just stressed. She's building some great buds too. Calyx clusters, with only stacked bracts for leaf. They aren't that big yet, but I suspect they will be big bombs by the time she finishes. SSD is fast and fat, but she might not be the high yielder. ChemD is very interesting too, she's got a great stink all her own, totally different from her cousins in there. It's got me wanting to take a sample way way early, just to see what she's got going on.
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Soil to Soil/Coco transition. In case anyone has interest - I'll prattle a bit about my changes. I've watched the plants and have modified my watering style to accommodate. Watching plant development and pistils closely in flower has indicated that my earlier guess was correct, that watering more frequently would yield better health. Since adding a 30% mix of coco, I've shortened the interval between fertigations by about 1 day. I now feed when the pot is somewhat dry, and not almost totally dry. Also, I've begun the practice of spot-feeding with 1 liter, here and there between full waterings where I drench them. It seems to give them a little charge the following day, but it's too early to tell if this is helping. I'm not overfeeding, currently 850pmm which includes 400ppm Ca/Mg/micro. My base water is 70ppm currently, not quite RO clean, but very few minerals. All the plants are now on the same feed schedule, but they got there at different speeds. ECSDH has been on this same feed for almost 3 weeks, the others just 10 days. I'm bump up slightly next week, to about 950ppm, and then I'll roll off.
Given that I haven't futzed them all up, I'm thinking of upping the coco content, or even going full coco for the next run. Watering every 2 days isn't that bad, I'm at every three days now. Peace friends.
Edit: Update on 707 Truthband. She's still great, but she's changed quite a bit in cure. She's now got some couch lock to her. The sativa-like energy that she once has is still there, but it's only really prominent in the first 30 minutes. She then relaxes you just a little too much, so night time use only - at least for me. Total daywrecker. What a way to kill one though.
I'm smoking her right now, trying to sleep soon. The sour is diminished after 3 weeks cure, and now there's a slightly minted chocolate on exhale, thick and chewey. Then comes the almost instant contented feeling.
Her buds are extraordinary looking and feeling. They have that crusted sugar feel, tacky to the touch, and those swollen calyxes filled with orange pistils. Potency is very good, but not a knockout. I'm not fond of knockouts anyway. Us spoiled growers have a strain for every occasion, and I can think of a few that would be go really well with this herb. Netflix all day.