Emmie's Organic Strawberry Cough: August 2020

Dadbod said:
Hello Emilya! I am going to follow along; i just popped two Strawberry Cough seeds on Aug 12th.
I am a total newbie and am using soil and implementing your watering techniques ; I would love it if you could pop into my journal and offer your insights. I am really looking forward to seeing how you grow your SC!
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Hi Dadbod! I would be very pleased to watch your SC's as we move forward with this. Mine is really looking good this evening and will need some water in the morning, when I will take some more pictures for you all. As soon as the new grow bags get here, she will be transplanted to her final 5 gallon pot.
 
Veg, Day 28

Ms. Cough surprised me this morning and did not need watering. I believe this is a slow down, and along with this lower first leaf damage, I would say that she wants out of that 1 gallon container. I will take care of that as soon as the package arrives.

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She is ready to go at this point, so we will get her transplanted asap and as soon as the cloner frees up, we will take a few clones.

Here she is, strutting her stuff this morning:

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Veg, Day 35

Ms. Strawberry is a remarkable plant. She is spreading out and turning herself into a bush without any training whatsoever. She will be an amazing producer once allowed to go into bloom and we will allow her to do that as soon as we are able to take some clones in a week or so.

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Veg, Day 37

Strawberry is having a bit of a problem today and after comparing her symptoms with NYCD next her, I have determined that they are both hungry. It was also watering day, so I gave them the next dose of GeoFlora Veg. We will check in a couple of days and see if the color looks better in this very complicated plant.

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it's hard to tell, I always think the bright yellowing areas is from the light when looking at a picture.
She does look good though. what does the GeoFlora schedule call for?
 
are all your plants on the same schedule and get feed together?
 
PK1 said:
are all your plants on the same schedule and get feed together?
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No... there are lots of schedules going here. So far I have been feeding them on landmark days, such as when they are transplanted to the next container. The once every two week feedings make things a lot easier to schedule, but since this is the first time I have used this system, I am keeping a very watchful eye out for any feeding problems.
 
Emilya said:
I am keeping a very watchful eye out for any feeding problems.
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i am sure they will do great with your eagle eye and determanation!! keep it up Emmie:blunt:
 
Transition, Day 1

We went 41 days into veg with this monster and she responded accordingly. This plant reminds me of white widow the way she is branching out. This is going to be a very bushy plant. She immediately got a tomato cage so as to be able to hold up all the weight, and it was a bit of a chore carefully stuffing her in there. In there she is, and she is on to bigger and better things than that old veg room could possible give her.

I have not even attempted to clean her up yet... that will be for another day and I probably stressed her enough just caging her. She is a week into her last veg nutes and after a week of transition should be ready for her first round of bloom nutes.

Now we see how she acclimates to the MEGA, which is putting out a massive amount of light.

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Good morning Em. I got the Geo Flora free trial to use in the future. Maybe outdoors next summer. Or a top dress if my soil runs out of gas running the Nevilles Haze. Now I'm wondering about our mulch and how to get it into the soil. Are you just laying it on top and watering over it?
 
stoneotter said:
Good morning Em. I got the Geo Flora free trial to use in the future. Maybe outdoors next summer. Or a top dress if my soil runs out of gas running the Nevilles Haze. Now I'm wondering about our mulch and how to get it into the soil. Are you just laying it on top and watering over it?
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Yes, and to combat my bug problem I was going to put some mulch in the bloom room today. The granules will fall into the cracks and be mostly out of sight after a while, and yes, I will just water normally, right over it. @GeoFlora Nutrients are indeed making this the easiest organic growing I have ever done.
 
Emilya said:
Yes, and to combat my bug problem I was going to put some mulch in the bloom room today. The granules will fall into the cracks and be mostly out of sight after a while, and yes, I will just water normally, right over it. @GeoFlora Nutrients are indeed making this the easiest organic growing I have ever done.
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I used similar feed on tomatoes this year scratching it in every two weeks. I'm sold that the process is solid. Hope I'm up for a @GeoFlora Nutrients run next spring!
 
We took 4 clones of Ms Strawberry today and put them in the bubble cloner. I haven't trimmed her up more than that and probably will need to clean out the middle of the canopy before the end of stretch. She is still transitioning, but in the next day or so, it looks like Bloom is going to start. She also got a good layer of Pine Bark mulch so we can start taking better care of that top layer of soil and maybe prevent some bugs that I see starting to invade the room.

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Slot a1 is not being used this time. B3 and C1-C3 are the coughs.
 
Bloom, Day 2

Strawberry started blooming yesterday, and today just confirmed it. She is adjusting to the tomato cage well and seems to have found a place to anchor most all of her willowy branches. This is going to be a fun one to watch as she fills out, and I am still hoping that she is going to stretch out a bit more as we move into bud set.

She also is loving the @GeoFlora Nutrients and although she has to be a very heavy feeder as bushy as she is, she is not showing any problems or lack of nutrition.

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Gorgeous! Love how bushy she is. Looking forward to seeing how this strain stretches and produces...Strawberry is heavenly.

Also love that you are running geoflora nutrients. I was so close to buying those instead of Dr Earth for my bloom amendments.

When do you plan to quit feeding the dry bloom amendments during the grow? To my understanding, they take a couple weeks to break down. I'm around week 5-6, and pondering doing one last feed (recharge included)
 
Abstrakt said:
Gorgeous! Love how bushy she is. Looking forward to seeing how this strain stretches and produces...Strawberry is heavenly.

Also love that you are running geoflora nutrients. I was so close to buying those instead of Dr Earth for my bloom amendments.

When do you plan to quit feeding the dry bloom amendments during the grow? To my understanding, they take a couple weeks to break down. I'm around week 5-6, and pondering doing one last feed (recharge included)
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I would never stop feeding a blooming plant. I don't understand this modern belief that we need to starve our plants at the end so as to have better smoke. There is nothing further from the truth and an organic grow is the proof of this fallacy. In a regular organic grow, the minerals are built into the soil, and the microbes are there to process them... and none of this goes away, right up to the day of the harvest. Why should ANY grow work any differently?

I will faithfully feed these plants, right up to the end, within reason of course. I mean, if it is 3 days till chop and it is feeding time, that would be silly, because of course there are still microbes and some nutrients running around in there still... but I am certainly not going to on purpose try to "flush" them at the end.
 
Emilya said:
I would never stop feeding a blooming plant. I don't understand this modern belief that we need to starve our plants at the end so as to have better smoke. There is nothing further from the truth and an organic grow is the proof of this fallacy. In a regular organic grow, the minerals are built into the soil, and the microbes are there to process them... and none of this goes away, right up to the day of the harvest. Why should ANY grow work any differently?

I will faithfully feed these plants, right up to the end, within reason of course. I mean, if it is 3 days till chop and it is feeding time, that would be silly, because of course there are still microbes and some nutrients running around in there still... but I am certainly not going to on purpose try to "flush" them at the end.
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Beautiful, thanks for the insight Emilya!
Makes perfect sense. The reason I ask was because I've seen a couple dry nutrient growers stop around 5-6 weeks and proceed with just water and molasses from there on out.

Do you still use recharge? It has worked wonders for me and so easy to brew.
Want to use it as late as late as possible in my bloom for the additional microbe activity. DGC fam says the recommendations to stop early is mostly for hydro. Using once a week now...
 
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