E, it is my belief that if all you had was a straw and a dixie cup you'd figure out some way to water effectively through the entire grow cycle. Lol. I didn't realize you were allowing that second 30 days to finish out the root ball in the five. That makes complete sense, and you should be able to do that with ease.
Can't quite tell - does that horizontal bar between the two poles adjust up and down too?Today I put out the first bits of my build as you go tomato cages. Its hardly right to call the cages though, as both of the plants getting the treatment were able to be propped up adequately for now, with just one wall of the triangle in place. It makes no sense to build an entire cage for a plant just needing help on one side.
This will change as time goes on and the buds get heavier and heavier, but as of today we have 2 plants getting some additional support.
Before:
After:
One mighty wall of support:
yes it does
Don't know what that ring is, but it looks very much like the ring right above it, just with the branches missing? As if maybe when you removed the first node growth the ring just filled in the space and now rings the whole stem?The bugs seem to be at bay again and today I pulled some of the dead leaf matter out from between the buds and just cleaned up some of the plants a bit, again. They do look better, and we are getting rapid bud growth and lots of green. The few bugs that still may be plaguing me are only very minimally affecting the plants.
See that ring around the base of this plant, wrapping around the trunk several times? Anyone know what this is? It is the only one doing it, and the plant has always been a bit of a runt. Could this be a fungus of some kind?
We are now very close to the @NextLight MEGA and getting 65-70K lux at the top of the tallest plants. The light is installed at a 25 - 30 degree angle so as to be right up and close to the shortest plants in the back of the room and still not crowd out the taller plants in the front of the room. So far, everyone seems to be loving it, and because of the bright light, trichome production is already fantastic here at the 3 week point.
Easier to control your bug issues in the winter before it gets warm again, yes? Nice color out of the gate too on those.The three White Widows and two of the Vanilla Kush look fantastic and are really going strong right out of the gate. They of course didn't yet use all the water that I gave them yesterday, so I just relaxed and let them ride today. Since the mouse crisis appears to be over, I lowered them a bit, and now have them sitting on the 3 gallon container and took the 500 ml beaker away. The light was kept where it was and the intensity was readjusted to 50%, with still 15k LUX at the canopy.
The bloom room was on its third day since watering and the lift method told me that they were 90% dry, so they got watered to runoff, using just over a gallon apiece. I am winning instead of the bugs, and the last spraying seems to have stopped them cold once again, and I note strong bud growth on all the plants. Temperatures have moderated in west central Missouri as of today, so it is going to be a lot easier (and cheaper) to maintain 79 degrees in the bloom room.
much easier. That's ok... I am ready for just about anything at this point.
Making them work for a living.Day 3 of Veg. Still no more water... making them work for a living. Tomorrow, they will get a watering just around the outside edges.
Why not a kitty? Ours was a chipmunk killing machine.
Allergic... no kitties at our house
I was going to make a very rude joke and I stopped myself! LOL!
Aww.....man! Come on Trala, go there! Lmao. I'm a trouble maker don't mind me.I was going to make a very rude joke and I stopped myself! LOL!
Congratulations on the seeds Mumma Bear
Awesome u have done a awesome job i wish u luckToday was watering day in the bloom room and those Bushmans and Amnesia F2s are all doing very well. The amount of green showing is very soothing to me after fighting those bugs so long, and the buds starting to form all over these plants is a very good sight. The Amnesias are 12 days into bloom and the Bushmans are at 14 days. This room is in its 12th day since the last feeding, so they will get their next shot of @GeoFlora Nutrients BLOOM on the next watering, 3 or 4 days from now. Here is the best looking Bushmans
And here is the prize Amnesia
In veg room #1 we have given up on the black diesel plants and have to assume that a mouse got them. I will be moving my solo cups to a warm spot downstairs when I need to plant these new seeds tomorrow or the next day. I have chosen to run all fems, and will be attempting to start old seeds from my quart jar in the fridge, and these will be 5 or 6 years old. I have started them by putting them in solo cups with 2 inches of RO water, and waiting to see tails. When I do see the tap root peeking out, I will plant them in a shallow hole at the top of some well watered soil and will cover them lightly. With a little luck, we should have some plants started very shortly.
While we work with these new seeds, we have offered a tempting treat of peanut butter on a spoon to our unwelcome guest in the veg room. I suspect that we will now be able to capture him on the Veg Cam.
For this run I have selected 3 seeds from 2 varieties... first, Paradise Original White Widow as this is an oldie but a goodie. They come from a bag labeling them as feminized FREE SEEDS. Who knows where I got them, but let's see if we can make these freebies sing for us. Next, another old classic from Barney's Farm, feminized Vanilla Kush.
Wow!! Big buds taking shape now, look at that flower room! So you really ran with the Candy, eh? If you don't have any problems after a few more days and see positive anything, I'm in. Lol. How kind of you to function as a guinea pig for us. Thanks! Lol.This morning was watering day in the veg room, on the 4th day. I believe that with this watering and the re-wetting of the last topical application of @GeoFlora Nutrients, that we will see a huge growth spurt on this watering cycle. We are at 8 days above ground now, and they are all rocking and rolling.
In the bloom room, it is day 29 and 3 days since the last watering. Knowing they would take it easily, they were watered to runoff and were fed their next round of @GeoFlora Nutrients BLOOM. We will wait to see what they look like on week 6, but I suspect that this will be the last feeding of the Bushmans, purported to be 45 day bloomers. I will believe that when I see it. The Amnesias look like they will go a bit longer. As an experiment and after a conversation with @Jon, I gave them all a small dosage of Sweet Candy to chew on this round, a vitamin, carbohydrate, phosphorus and amino acid supplement.
I am seeing no deficiencies and very little further damage from the bugs at this time.
