Bloom, Day 8 Pollination Day 4
One of these buds is unpollinated. The other 3 are expecting. Can you tell the difference?
I agree its the second pic. the others have brown on some of the pistils
Bloom, Day 11
It is really starting to look nice in the bloom tent! All yellowing has stopped and the plants are definitely still trying to stretch. It has to be the very bright lights though that are discouraging a lot of stretch because there are only a few branches, and mostly on one plant that seem inclined to put on a lot of extra inches, but even they are taking it very slow. I had turned down the lights just a little bit after seeing a little bit of irritation up top, but tonight I cranked it right back up to full output, just to see what happens.
Today was watering day after I noticed a little first stage droop and I gave them water with 1tbl/gal Terpinator, and on the last gallon in, I mixed in some Recharge.
The buds are all looking good, and I really can't tell any significant difference between the Vulx plant and the others at the moment... but then again I can't tell a difference between the Andesite plant either.
I will start off the pictures with one of our pollinated buds, 4 days behind the bloom day:
I could hit it again with some more of the pollen/flour mix and catch the rest of those pistils... and I might do that tomorrow if I get bored.
Here are some shots at canopy level, so you can see how well the rest of the buds are progressing here at 11 days in...
Keep working at it, and the consistency will come. Consistency is the key since everything we do in the grow is cumulative, and doing things right all the way from the beginning really makes a big difference down the road when you need to count on those roots. And then when you are starting out, to have so many unknowns, and things you are seeing for the first time and having to learn how to recognize and react to them... yep, we all have made mistakes; that goes along with learning. Each time you will get better and each fiasco will have come with a lesson so as to not repeat that mistake, so progress is there and you still have gotten a bit to smoke, and now you take all of this gained experience and you try an even better variety... It just keeps getting better.
I'm willing to bet you have the tools to plan and execute a grow much to your liking as we type!
Bloom, Day 14
First, let's cover the pollination project. I have not gone back to do a second application of pollen for exactly the reason that I am going to show you... pollen tends to get away from you. There is an active thread asking this question... just how careful do you need to be?
In the area of the tent that I was concentrating on, on Tara, I don't see any obvious spontaneous pollination. Clear across the room, M&M however is showing clear pollination of 3 bud sites. However it happened, most all of the pistils on those three buds got it.... we are going to get hundreds of seeds from M&M too.
On Tara, we can see the effects of pollination 10 days in. Already I am seeing swollen calyxes, working on seeds within
We should be at the end of stretch at this point, and it turns out that the strong lights have done their job very well. M&M and Tara found little reason to stretch as much as Red did, probably because at the start of bloom she was off in the left side where the light was not so intense, but all of the branches that decided to take off changed their minds when they got up to the point around 12" from the light where the PAR is near 800. They seem to have stopped at that height, and are not complaining at all, and on Red there are about 4 kolas that look like they are going to be outstanding when they fill in.
Trunk size on all of the plants has increased as expected too:
Note the frost already starting to show up on this bud. The strong lights and the good nutrition is allowing this to happen... it takes no more than that. It appears that things are going to get quite frosty in here very soon.
Lastly, a view under the canopy. All systematic leaf dying has been halted. The microlife appears to be easily keeping up with the enhanced feeding needs of the fully blooming plants, and the additional potassium being supplied by the Terpinator is really making a noticable difference at this stage of the grow. Knowing that all things are cumulative, I am getting very excited about the overall effect from supplying this added potassium all through bloom, and I am thinking very seriously about adding potash to my soil mixes from now on to automatically supply this need in the soil. I know that others do this regularly... now I understand why.
Wow that really sucks about the mold thing and your cat eating one of your seedlings I hope things get better for you soon
Slow and steady SaltyHave a good one yourself. I'm putting together a platform to keep the water storage totes off the ground. How I feel when it's done will determine whether it was a good morning or not.
