She's looking nice thus far meng. Although I was wondering about the quantity of fan leaves. One of the first things I noticed was that it looked a little bare. They say a full plush canopy is the goal of every set up. I'm just saying. It still looks great, I just wonder how big they'd be by now if they were able to collect more light. What are you using for lights? Tell us a lil about your grow.
I don't see a "meng" on this topic, so I assume you're speaking to me.
1) The lady is bare because her leaves were destroyed by spider mites. I kept only the functional leaves, as the rest were so spotted that there was almost no chlorophyll left in them. She's up there as proof that the mite war can be won, and still get a decent harvest, esp if one gets to it before putting to flower.
2) The ladies still in veg are very lush, but it is still good practice to trim out the lower tiny branches that will never see the lights and never produce flowers worth the price of electricity and nutes.
3) I veg under 8 - 10 23w cfl's, with a total nominal output of 800-1000 watts, in soil/sand/vermiculite, in 3.5 gallon bins, inoculated with myco. RH with a humidifier is around 60%. Under flower I have two ladies, switched about a month apart, under 6 - 23W CFLs for a total nominal output of 600 Watts. RH is around 30%.
4) I am not a heavy feeder, but once a week I try to give the vegging plants a dilute all-purpose formula for edibles (NPK plus trace elements) plus a dose of homemade Sugar Daddy for the magnesium and sugar. I feed the ladies in flower a couple times with a blossom set, which has no N, plus the occasional dose of sugar daddy. Mostly, though, once in flower, their diet is mostly plain tap water, which is high in minerals anyway, so I don't need to use a lot of nutes.
5) I check them daily for any signs of mites and spray them down well with water now and then to keep the buds clean. Once in flower, I only use the diluted homemade dish soap and cooking oil formula as a preventative spray. The plants still in veg, however, get preventative sprays of either neem oil or Safers, but only occasionally. They also get plain water sprays to keep them clean.
As I improve my regiment, and let them get larger before switching, I notice they are happier and healthier. My goal is bigger, but fewer plants because of space limitations and also to stay within the legal plant count. We won't mention the number of clones..... ;-)
