G-1-3 Grows With a Little Help From NASC

[Gee64]

Today was a good day for the girls they are trying their best to recover from their ailments. They got fed a full strength flower feed. It consists of 5 Tbsp of Power Bloom 2-8-4, 2 Tbsp of Mineralized Phosphate 0-9-0, and 8/3 Cups of EWC (thought it was my 1/2 Cup, nope 2/3 cup lol) watered in with 1.5liters of RO water. Both plants Brix line was pretty crisp so I'm hoping to confirm my suspicion that this new bag of EWC has higher Calcium content. If this is the case I will need to use less Dolomite lime water in my watering rotation.

Tent Shot

Amelia, @North Atlantic Seed Co Bermuda Zour

Elsa, Brothers Grimm Cap Junky x Princess Haze

Outdoor purple punch

Looking good. Amelia looks like she could use a bit of calcium but still high enough brix to be safe, Elsa is rocking the brix reading!, and that outdoor one looks potent!

It's pretty cool to actually be able to see which ones consume calcium faster and how calcium affects brix/overall health.

 

[Gee64]

Hows the brix on the Outdoor PP?

 

[g-one-three]

Looking good. Amelia looks like she could use a bit of calcium but still high enough brix to be safe, Elsa is rocking the brix reading!, and that outdoor one looks potent!

It's pretty cool to actually be able to see which ones consume calcium faster and how calcium affects brix/overall health.

Yep I'm hoping to get Amelia back up towards 20 because she's tested there before. That flush really brought her number down. I wasn't giving but 40 ppm of Dolomite water every other week and got some lockout issues after getting this new bag of EWC.

Hows the brix on the Outdoor PP?

So this was an extra seed I popped and didn't have room for. I just set it outside in a half gallon pot. She's not organic but been getting Mega Crop as kind of trial run to see if I can grow with synthetics too lol. She's pretty frosty and smells nice.

Can you Brix synthetic plants as well?

 

[Gee64]

Can you Brix synthetic plants as well?

You can. They don't usually brix very high, but you can still check and you can definitely watch her calcium levels to avoid an issue there. It would be cool to see what she reads, and then see if pests show up and what kind of pests they are.

Commercial EWC is all over the map, it is what they eat so...

It's actually why I started my own worm farm, I couldn't get consistent results with commercial EWC. I had a brand that I used for years that was fantastic and then it was gone and all other brands sucked so the wife got me a worm farm for a gift. Life's been good ever since.

Commercial EWC is screened pretty heavily so you get the EWC but it's rare to get much life with it, and barely a worm gets thru. Using my own has put worms in every pot in both my tent and my house. When I recycle my soil in tubs I find worms everywhere. They even hatch in my solo's when I pop seeds.

I have played with dolo water ppm's a fair bit and find that 70-75ppm seems to be the sweet spot.

I only grow sativa's for the most part but the BK cross I made for outdoor growing which is a 50/50 cross seems to require a fair bit more, so I leave it at 75ppm but use it every 2nd watering once flowering begins. That's dictated by the refractometer.

I'm not sure if that's an Indica thing or just the strains I crossed (11 Roses x Cinderella99) but it uses roughly twice as much over it's lifetime as the full sativa's do.

Flushing will definitely lower brix as calcium flushes out bigtime, it's heavy stuff and it gets really mobile in water. I try not to get runoff when I water for that reason, and also found that once your rootball fills out that constant proper moisture is way better than a wet/dry cycle.

I do let the surface dry out once every couple weeks just to see if the soil is crusting, but overall brix seem to be steadily higher if you can keep her damp.

 

[g-one-three]

You can. They don't usually brix very high, but you can still check and you can watch her calcium levels to avoid an issue there.

Commercial EWC is all over the map, it is what they eat. It's actually why I started my own worm farm, I couldn't get consistent results with commercial EWC.

So I'm thinking this is the way I'm heading, also to get rid of all these extra leaves and larf. Would a two tier be enough? Lol I only have 2 tents and a small raised garden bed.

 

[Gee64]

So I'm thinking this is the way I'm heading, also to get rid of all these extra leaves and larf. Would a two tier be enough? Lol I only have 2 tents and a small raised garden bed.

I use a 4 tier Worm Farm 360 and it does 2 tents and some house plants. It gives me 4.5 gallons every 2 weeks, which slowly builds up until I rebuild my soils and add 25% EWC, then it gets low until it slowly builds up again just in time to rebuild soil again lol. I just had a 2nd one given to me so in a couple months I will have lots

I do grow extras purely to feed the worms with, which requires extra EWC, but it's hard to get enough kitchen scraps alone so it works better to grow plants in veg and constantly trim them until the pots run out of food, then chop and start a new pot.

 

[g-one-three]

Just checked on the girls and they are looking good especially Elsa. I took a Brix reading from both girls and found that the feeding benefited both of them and their Brix rose.

Elsa, she's mighty happy right now and seems to be enjoying her recent feeding. Her Brix line is nice and fuzzy right into the 18-19 range. She will hopefully hit the 20's with the next feeding and fish water.

Amelia, she is trying her best to get back on track. Her new growth is light green and she still has a couple of newer leaves showing that slight deficiency from last week. Her Brix line is much more defined and she will probably need a dose of Dolomite water on her next watering. At the point where her branches meet the main stalk she is getting some thick knuckles, I don't know if it's an issue but it just caught my eye.

#FullNets

 

[Ke0ncp]

Have to LOVE full nets!! Great work!

 

[g-one-three]

Came home after 2 days away to find my girls exploding with growth. About 3" since sunday's measurements. I'm going to flip them before they grow out of the tent. So tomorrow will be flower day 1. Tomorrow they will get a normal Bloom feeding with Dolomite water.

 

[Bill284]

Came home after 2 days away to find my girls exploding with growth. About 3" since sunday's measurements. I'm going to flip them before they grow out of the tent. So tomorrow will be flower day 1. Tomorrow they will get a normal Bloom feeding with Dolomite water.

Still fantastic
Hope your doing well my friend.



Stay safe
Bill284

 

[g-one-three]

Still fantastic
Hope your doing well my friend.



Stay safe
Bill284

Thanks Bill, things are going well. Works keeping me plenty busy so the girls are getting minimal attention, they seem to enjoy my absence . Hope all's well up north, also can't believe the size of your outdoor girls haha.

 

[Bill284]

Thanks Bill, things are going well. Works keeping me plenty busy so the girls are getting minimal attention, they seem to enjoy my absence . Hope all's well up north, also can't believe the size of your outdoor girls haha.

Thanks buddy.
We are doing well.
Don't work too much.
You need time with the family and some relaxation with the garden




Stay safe
Bill284

 

[Kaldean]

Came home after 2 days away to find my girls exploding with growth. About 3" since sunday's measurements. I'm going to flip them before they grow out of the tent. So tomorrow will be flower day 1. Tomorrow they will get a normal Bloom feeding with Dolomite water.

Hello mate @g-one-three
I keep getting lost in here with all the notifications
And yes mate, their really flying now int they, awesome, good luck with keeping em in ya tent

 

[KeithLemon]

Gorgeous

 

[g-one-three]

The girls are doing well and need one more day of drying before I'm able to give them there calcium. For there second day of 12/12 Amelia shot up another 1" so she got tucked and trimmed for the final time. I was able to get almost exactly 1 branch per square with her. Elsa has not really shown any signs of the stretch but I'm assuming it's coming with those Haze genetics.

Day 2 of 12/12

Amelia will bounce back tomorrow and be standing straight up. In 2-3 weeks I will do a final trim of any branch that does not appear to be a main cola. My last grow I was not selective enough and still ended up with quite a bit of larf.

I will also start regularly adding in Silica to help stiffen the branches after they are set. Amelia (kush) has much sturdier branches than Elsa (haze) so I don't want her getting whispy.

 

[g-one-three]

Day 4 of 12/12

Just a quick watering .5 liter, after yesterdays 1 liter of Dolomite water. I've been finding that the sweet spot for water has been around 1.5liters per pot.

I've finally gotten my lights out and lights on environments back under control.

 

[Kaldean]

Day 4 of 12/12

Just a quick watering .5 liter, after yesterdays 1 liter of Dolomite water. I've been finding that the sweet spot for water has been around 1.5liters per pot.

I've finally gotten my lights out and lights on environments back under control.

Hello mate @g-one-three
Your ladies are flying now
the one on the left, Amelia, looks darker than Elsa, is that an issue or genetics ?
And you lost me with the watering,
I thought you was on the wick thing, but I see you said 1.5 litres is the sweet spot, is that what their drinking from the reservoir ?

 

[g-one-three]

Hello mate @g-one-three
Your ladies are flying now
the one on the left, Amelia, looks darker than Elsa, is that an issue or genetics ?
And you lost me with the watering,
I thought you was on the wick thing, but I see you said 1.5 litres is the sweet spot, is that what their drinking from the reservoir ?

Thanks @Kaldean, I think they are ready to produce some healthy buds. Amelia has always had a darker green to her leaves from the get go so I'm thinking that it's genetics. I'll get a good Brix reading on both of them later tonight to see how they are.

I do have them on the wicking bases but I'm not utilizing them unless I'm traveling for work. It's kind of an in case of emergency deal. Once the plants are wove into the netting it can be a real bummer if you have to change plant heights.

1.5 liters seems to be the sweet spot as far as drying out within the 3ish days right now. I top feed every Wednesday and need the soil relatively dry. I anticipate increasing the watering frequency on these girls probably to every 2 days. I've had issues with overwatering in the past and increasing the frequency and not the amount seems to help keep me in the good lol.

 

[g-one-three]

Day 5 of 12/12

Don't mind Elsa looking disheveled, I trimmed her unders up so she's a little rough looking.

I'm hoping to get a Brix tonight but I may run out of time before bed.

 

[g-one-three]

I was able to get up and check the girls Brix this morning, about 11 hours under the lights.

Elsa came in at 16-17 with a mildly fuzzy line. Amelia was at minimum 18 with a super fuzzy line, it was hard to gauge where the middle of the line was but 18 is probably conservative and I'm happy with it.

This week's menu is fish ferts and full bloom nutes. I may mix in a light ppm Dolomite Water for Elsa because she seems to need more Calcium than her tent mate.