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[Emilya Green]

Candy Dawg is definitely doing something special and is rapidly spreading out to the limit of the 5g bucket so we will have no choice but to let her go vertical. This is going to be a huge plant by the time I'm ready to go to flower.

The 818 Headbands are growing rapidly after the transplant. All of them have been topped at least the first time and the two larger ones are now getting severe LST training. They are still at a 3-day wet/dry cycle so I'm not yet ready to put them in their final 7 gallon containers to get ready for sip. From my previous experience I know now to put them into dry sips while I wait for the transplant to take and then slowly introduce them to the idea the bottom watering. This next month is going to be very exciting for them and they will be living in Veg Room #2 under the nextlight mega after this next transplant. I'm still waiting for them to complete the wet dry cycle and get down to one day before I'm willing to transplant them but I fully expect that to happen in this next week or so.

 

[Emilya Green]

Today was watering and feeding day in the veg room. The candy dawg is spreading out very nicely and I'm sure that if I gave her a secondary topping in all the places I'll be able to, she could easily produce a pound. That's the goal anyway!

The headbands are on about a 5-day wet/dry cycle, and after feeding and watering today I'm sure that they will really start speeding up their water usage. When they get to 2 days or so, I will be moving at them into their sips.

 

[Emilya Green]

Version 2.0 of the electric dipstick is now built and tested. It can be seen even under the bright light and it's much more stable than the first version. You can see here that I have 3 inches of water in my tubs. The math is easy in the 17 gallon tubs because 5 gallons of water filled it up to the 5-inch mark, so I now have 3 gallons of water in each tub.

I have got to stop crowding plants in the smaller veg room #2 because I'm consistently getting mold coming out of there. These plants have been sprayed with SNS 203 for about a week now and they are recovering and getting greener by the day. Feeding and top watering helped a few days ago and in the middle of the feeding period I will top water them once again. Right now we're not seeing the typical sipping praying leaves, but given a little time I think we'll get back into things after the move into these new tubs. For now the lights are on 18/6 and we will continue to veg until the plants look healthy.

 

[Sparkey224]

Nice @Emilya Green
Big plants, big buds.
Hope you are having a great day!

 

[Emilya Green]

The o. gelatos and the critical kush in the bloom room are doing better by the day. Today was 7 days into feed so they got another top watering and I carefully went through each plant trimming where necessary and spraying SNS 203 liberally. They're getting greener and the very tops of the plants are starting to rise up and pray. We are at day 79 of their life and we should be ready to go to bloom within 2 weeks.

While doing the work today I rearranged the tubs into configuration #2 with two rows of three tubs sitting vertically. The plants still have plenty of room between them for air flow and the plan looks like it's working well. The big light is still on 80%, we will save the full brightness for bloom.

 

[Emilya Green]

Candy dawg has responded wonderfully to the training and to the recent nutrients. I show 16 active bud sites and the plant that really wants to be a producer. She is 54 days old today and you never could tell that she had suffered from stunting during her grow.

 

[Emilya Green]

The 818 headbands are rapidly outgrowing the 1 gallon containers but they still have not achieved the proper wet/dry cycle that I want before transplanting. Looking at the size of these plants, even if I suffered a 2 week stunting after transplanting to the sip containers, I still would have no problems with the size of these plants. Wet/dry or sip from the start, I think we end up at the same place.

 

[Jack420]

Looking great over here em !!!!! Hope u had a great new year !!!

 

[Emilya Green]

The headbands are 19 days from transplanting to these 1 gallon containers and they are still not ready to up pot. They are at best still at a 5 to 6 day wet/dry cycle, so I continue to wait on them.

Our Candy Dawg has suddenly become a huge plant and well on her way to be coming even bigger. She is also starting to use a lot of water so the funk seems to be over, having lasted at least 3 weeks. As much of a mood as she has been in she's still has been able to grow significantly and she is becoming a plant that wants to be noticed.

The O.Gelatos and Critical Kush in the big soon to be Bloom Room are also coming out of their funk. They were not being treated very well in VEG room 2 and were already yellowing because of mold and malnutrition, not to mention lack of air flow and being crowded together, and I also physically ripped them up off of the soil sitting underneath them, tearing out a significant amount of roots that were growing under the bags. Talk about transplant stress! But they're coming out of that now and starting to Green up very nicely. It's a combination of having to reacquire the rez water contact in the new sips, balanced with suddenly getting the right nutrition due to my top watering every 7 days, and them being sprayed at least every other day, if not every day, with @Sierra Natural Science SNS 203 to kill any mold, mildew or bugs that might be hanging about.

I'm seeing that they're starting to use water out of the sips and the water level suddenly is down to two and a half inches, meaning that I've used half of the water in the reservoir. I can also see it in the leaves. When I first moved to this room only the very tip tops of the buds we're praying or even above horizontal elevation but today I'm noticing that this is going down the stems and now the top 6" of the plants are praying. This is progress, but I'm still vegging. I have at least another week before I feel comfortable letting them go to bloom. I like to leave my plants with at least a week left on the veg formula when I make that switch so that at least the transition period is still being powered by veg nutes, and then as Bloom actually starts they start getting the bloom formula.

 

[Trendkill2]

Hello Em, and Thank you.
Total newbie here, first post, on my first grow, totally absorbing all the knowledge you put on display here.
So glad I found this site and forum, everyone's experience has been soooooo helpful.
Like a lot of people I found your thread on how to water this crazy weed, and have reading your forums diligently, lol.
I love the fact that when I got to the end of this particular forum, that your next up grow will be
818 Headband from Cali seeds. For this is the exact strain I have been growing for my first grow ever,
and can't wait to see if I've been doing this right or not, heck I'm not even sure I'm doing this post right, lol.
Peace, Chris.

 

[Emilya Green]

It is time to switch to bloom! If these plants double in size during stretch I am in trouble. They are about 5 days from the next feeding point where they will get the bloom formula. The top watering at the 7-Day point seems to have had a dramatic difference and the plants are well on their way to looking well fed again.

I will keep spraying the SNS 203 until the mold situation is totally gone, but it seems to be pretty much in check now except for a couple of places in the room. By the time we actually start blooming that problem should be gone. Today is -1 day of transition. At 7:00 p.m. they start their first long night. Their first day of actual bloom is probably strain dependent and is predicted to be 7 to 11 days away from today.

They have been in veg for 85 days and they are well ready to go to bloom. The plants and their containers seem to have adjusted to the new sip containers and are now pulling water pretty heavily. The biggest plants have the reservoir down to the last inch and a half and I probably need to water in the next day or so.

 

[Emilya Green]

Candy Dawg really loved her top watering the other day and she is really growing fast now. I'm not sure I could go another month with her without going to bloom but I will let her call that one. For now she seems to be showing me where her main colas are.

 

[Cola Monster]

Your girls are beautiful Emilya!

 

[Emilya Green]

The headbands are just going insane with growth and they really want to move to their final 7 gallon sip containers, but first they are showing me how they are going to reduce the 7-Day wet/dry cycle down to at least a 3-day cycle very quickly. I'm just being stubborn now but they could be transplanted any day.

 

[Emilya Green]

Candy Dawg is officially enjoying sip level water usage these days and is really strengthening her branches and widening out as much as she can above the 5 gallon bucket. Today I topped the dominant growth once again, creating eight new bud sets at the top of the main tower. She is massive but looks to be well fed and feeding time is coming up again very soon.

Here are the dominant four branches on the plant after their new topping.

 

[Emilya Green]

818 Headbands are growing fast and sucking up water faster than ever before. I am getting massive branches and trunks and know that I'm setting up for a successful sip transfer in the very near future. My next gallon of SNS 209 is showing up Wednesday and then I will be ready to start the new sips. Until then we continue to work on the wet/dry cycle here in the traditional hard sided containers.

For reference these plants are 48 days old and are now 24 days in the 1 gallon containers.

 

[Emilya Green]

The dual-footed sips are ready to go. The 818 Headbands are on about a 3-day wet/dry cycle now and they are ready to be transplanted into their final 7 gallon containers. I will probably get to that tomorrow night as tonight's project was cleaning up Veg room #2 by getting all the cords off the floor and making room for my three dual-footed 17gal sips with a 5 gallon bucket sip in the middle of them.

 

[Emilya Green]

At 28 days in the 1 gallon containers the headbands were ready to transplant and they showed it by going to a 3-day wet/dry cycle and then stalling out, going back to a five to six day cycle. So here they are two per sip in their 7 gallon grow bags. We will see now how long it takes them to transition to the new watering system. Today they were fed and watered from the top and the reservoirs were filled.

 

[Emilya Green]

Candy Dawg is really going at it now and she also was ready for feeding today. She got a half a cup of GeoFlora veg, watered from the top and the reservoir filled. She has been moved over to veg Room 2 to sit in the middle of the rest of the plants to enjoy the nextlight mega that is in that room.

 

[Emilya Green]

In the boom Room we are four days into the transition. Today was feeding day so they got the bloom formula of GeoFlora, and they were watered from the top. As time has gone on I can see that the leaves that are above horizontal now extend from the very top down almost two feet into the plant, and this tells me that they have once again grabbed hold of the sip reservoir. The mold problem that I've been dealing with is going away but I still need to spray SNS 203 at least every couple days to keep it away.