Re: DopyLemontree's DocBud High Brix Soil Blend - Headband OG & Bubblegum Combo Grow
Good morning!
Wow yesterday was a major garden work day...11 hours total..phew!
First, I manicured all the BG that was hanging for 5 days, and placed in jars to start the cure...After 4 hours the RH% stabilized at 67%. Gonna burp the jars every day till it stabilizes to 62-65% then open less often.
Second, I chopped the Headband OG, both plants, and trimmed for 4 hours, washed the buds with Doc's wash technique, and hung them to start the drying process.
I must say that this OG cut is a real pain in the butt to trim. Very leafy! Gonna phase this one out eventually. Gonna give it a 4th try though, as I have two of them ready to flip. This time I'm am testing something I pick up from Doc. I have 5 plants ready to flip, 2- Headband OG, 2- blue dreams, and 1 Bubblegum. I took the clones I needed, just in case I do want to run these again.
Then I hacked half the plants back, reducing the sprouting nodes by 50% and also reducing the height by 50% approximately.
The goal is we are going in to flowering with a large root ball supporting half the plant that use to be there. And letting light right through so I can see soil from above, which will get light to the lower canopy. I also reduced the number of bud sites, to reduce the amount of popcorn buds....less trimming...and focus the plants energy to the remaining bud sites.
These frankenstrains have such inefficient root systems, and last grow proved that by vegging them longer the root system was bigger and able to support itself. Now I'm taking the next step, bigger root system, remove some of the vegetation. Look at how I thinned this OG against the others that are not thinned out yet:
I did this to all of them, then gave them a foliar destress spray, and a deep Transplant drench with tea, and into the flower room they go.
Also note worthy, I read Doc's new instructions the other day, and wow!...so much better. The .5 to 1ml of drench per gallon on soil is so much clearer when figuring the GE, TP, and CAT. The tea is measured now at 5ml per 5 gallons of water. I realized that I had been feeding on the very low side previously. So this run I will be following these new instructions, and watching closely. I have 75 gallons of soil between these 5 plants. So I mixed up 75ml which is 6 Tbsp of TP, and 8 ml of tea in 8 gallons of RO water. Gave half on top, and the other half in the saucer. The soil sucks up the drench in the saucer in 2 mins...then gone!
What I'm doing in nothing new...I see other very successful growers applying this...it just new to me!
After that, I mixed up 10 parts water to 1 part bleach and cleaned everything, walls floors, tools, lights, all the paths I walk...everywhere!
It felt so good to do all that, and was well worth the day to do it. Being clean, organized and prepped is a good thing for me.
Phew! Time to partake in a sesh!
DL
I'll be hangn' round your garden from time to time... Ole Rooster out for now..
