DobeWan's First Grow! LA Confidential & 24K Gold - LED - 3x3 - Coco

[DobeWan]

LA2 progress. Most of these leaves had most of this damage last night, so I consider this a success given where things were going.

The top I showed last night (the first shot) is at the top right of the photo in this canopy shot, and flipped upside down. There is progression on those leaves, but given how much damage they took in the previous 24 hours, I expected dead leaves, not leaves I can match up.

I've rotated the base 45 degrees or so clockwise to get a better view of the damaged leaves in the back of last ngiht's shot. I know it looks bad, and you couldn't see two of these badly affected leaves last night, but the comparison is very positive - very little progress. Again, last night's shot first.

The big brown blotched leaf that you can see is a good comparison. The patchy higher leaf and the almost destroyed leaf on the right actually look almost the same. I should have showed you guys these last night too, I didn't realize the shot I took last night didn't show enough until I sat at the computer, and then I was too frustrated to take more!

LA1 had more progress of the intraveinal chlorosis than of the necrotic brown spots and still looks yellow streaked and unhappy. I'm not going to sweat her that much more - the bud growth throughout the yellowing has been fine relative to LA1, and she just needs to hang on about 2 more weeks.

Both 24Ks have some intraveinal chlorosis down low, but it's not so much to get too worried - I knew there'd be some given how strongly it set in on both LAs. Still a ton of green for the plants to eat while I flush. Hopefully I keep it that way.

Just looking at the photos without reading the history would give you a different story, but I consider this update a very positive one!

 

[Canada Guy]

Umm maybe I'm crazy... your plant doesn't look all that bad... there is still a ton of healthy green leaves above and below, why can't you just pick off the dying yellowing ones and continue on? Some of this might just be their genes... ok I'm not a pro so don't take any of my advice without your own independent research.

That purple colour is looking damn fine!

 

[DobeWan]

Only issue there CG is it would take basically every fan I have left from veg, which I always understood was the fuel for the last part of flower. Every fan I left on LA2 is affected to some extent by the damage - what's left green is the new growth from the beginning of flower in the middle of the plant.

The purple is exaggerated a bit by the lighting, but it really does look nice! It came in around the weekend when I seemed to really nail the temperature and humidity. Hopefully in round 2 I can get fatter buds with even more purple.

 

[Canada Guy]

Only issue there CG is it would take basically every fan I have left from veg, which I always understood was the fuel for the last part of flower. Every fan I left on LA2 is affected to some extent by the damage - what's left green is the new growth from the beginning of flower in the middle of the plant.

The purple is exaggerated a bit by the lighting, but it really does look nice! It came in around the weekend when I seemed to really nail the temperature and humidity. Hopefully in round 2 I can get fatter buds with even more purple.

I know... that sucks... as far as I understood only green leaves actually make food via photosynthesis. Yellow leaves don't do squat.. but I may be wrong...

 

[Pennywise]

The yellow leaves are toast at this point, as long as the new growth is healthy they should fine.

 

[DobeWan]

I know... that sucks... as far as I understood only green leaves actually make food via photosynthesis. Yellow leaves don't do squat.. but I may be wrong...

I don't think you're wrong. There's some green left in the veins of some of those leaves, wonder if that counts?

The LAs just need to hang on and stay green where they are still green a little longer. The 24Ks are for now still well positioned to rock it the rest of the way - there's far less damage from my 2 recent deficiencies, so if I've diagnosed and fixed correctly things should settle back down in a few days and be mostly green. At least for a few days it'll be someone else looking at them - but I'm sure I'll request photos!

Whatever happens, Kushy Kush and LA2 are just waiting for their chance to go into the flower tent... the roots came through the smart pots and the plants are growing like bushes at this point rather than trees. The stalks have thickened significantly and everything just looks beefy in the last few days. The main stem growth on both (neither was topped) has almost stopped, while everything else is just filling out; I guess they're reaching peak maturity? I'm really interested to see how these do in flower.

LA2

Kushy Kush

I thought I'd post a comparison shot of LA1 from round 1 at the same point - the difference is crazy, and it's almost entirely due to my far better sense of when and how to defoliate that these 2 are shaped far better for results going into flower!

 

[DobeWan]

The yellow leaves are toast at this point, as long as the new growth is healthy they should fine.

Awesome! Just have to hope I've turned the tide.

 

[Pennywise]

Fingers crossed

 

[Canada Guy]

How thick is the stalk exactly?

 

[DobeWan]

You're not asking me about my girth are you CG? That's a little personal...

 

[Canada Guy]

You're not asking me about my girth are you CG? That's a little personal...

I meant LA2.. Funny guy...

 

[DobeWan]

I don't have paper tape to measure circumference, but diameter looks like about 1.2 CM? No idea if that's good or bad at this point, it just seems to have gotten thicker in the last few days.

 

[DobeWan]

I reconsidered - I blew most of my free time for the night on my plants (again), which is going to prevent me from doing photos tomorrow night. I figured I needed some positive photos before I left! And since I can't post up any more until Monday at the soonest I didn't want to go so long between flower updates.

We're at 46F!

Let's get the LAs out of the way first!

LA1 might look ugly, but her buds actually look far more appealing than LA2s, which never seemed to do much of anything vertically. These buds actually look not bad considering the recent added frost and slight twinges of black / purple.

We've talked plenty about LA2. Moving on!

Now to the part I can take some actual pride in - my lovely 24K ladies!

They're starting to get some brown hairs, and I'm guessing based on my complete lack of experience they're 4ish weeks out from finishing. Plenty of time for these colas to get big and save my yield goal!

24K1 is easier to get a closeup of, being in front, but blends in with her sister in back in the longer shot! The lighting minimizes the yellow on the lower fans, but it's still a vast improvement over the LAs.

24K2 is still my favorite. Even missing a top she still looks great. These colas at the top of the canopy are really filling in nicely. There are 8 colas in total at or near the top (count the stems - there are actually 9 stems considering the one I broke), and they all look nice like these.

I expect I'll be on here between now and Monday, but I'll be away from the plants starting Friday morning and ending Monday afternoon. Send happy thoughts to my plants while I'm away, please!

 

[Canada Guy]

DW, I am super jealous of your grow! You already have 20x the amount of bud I had from my first grow and you haven't even cut them down! I can't wait to see your 10th and 50th grows, there will be colas big enough to smoke you! Tons of respect for your dedication and desire to do better. I will pray to the plant gods that your ladies thrive in your absence.

 

[DobeWan]

Thanks man, much appreciated! It's my nature to try and do everything I can to get things right, so I guess I set high expectations for myself. I'm pretty excited to take another crack at this in a few weeks. Definitely going to dial down the update frequency though!

 

[DobeWan]

One last shot, I'm up way too late. So at 46F she's coming up on her 8th week. DNA says 7-8 weeks flower, I guessed more. I'm really not sure how people judge when they have a certain percentage of amber trichomes. Based on the advice you guys gave previously, where would you say I am in relation to starting flushing? This shot is from the top cola of LA1. I found amber in other shots too, but this shot was about the clearest one I got, and of a calyx on the main cola.

If I'm close I'm going to be inclined to start flushing before I leave Friday morning, rather than waiting until Monday.

 

[GrimReefer83]

Subbed along bud, keen to see them finish off! Some good looking trees with the set up you have .
Not surprised to see Penny here .

 

[Lady Antheia]

Looks like you could go ahead and start flush if you want to. I started flush earlier than I had planned on Betty, but it was because I started seeing nute burn from the ripen formula. Grr! Each day I measured the runoff to get a feel for how long it took to flush the coco.... My 5 gallon pot took four days to get down to 200 ppm.

 

[DobeWan]

I couldn't leave without first sharing this... maybe it's a good omen!

 

[DobeWan]

Subbed along bud, keen to see them finish off! Some good looking trees with the set up you have .
Not surprised to see Penny here .

Thanks Grim! Glad to have you join! You've missed many of the ups and downs but I'm sure I have a few more in store before reaching the finish line! And of course I'll be going perpetual once this one is done in a few weeks, but you'll get an early peek at the new ladies to go into flower here!