I'm feeling a lull in enthusiasm these days. I've only been at this since early April and it's been a mad dash getting everything sorted out, so something has always been on the verge of happening, everything new. At the same time I've been jugggling growing schedules and trying to keep plants alive in three different soils. Whew. Now I have a couple jars of very good cannabis and the next plants to be harvested don't look like anything I'll want to smoke. Huh, sort of a new perspective for a guy who's been smoking whatever brickweed he could get his hands on for the last 25 years. I'm already getting all picky and unimpressed.
The next harvest after the Keralas will be the Hawaiian Snow 4-5 weeks from now, so until then ... meh.
I get to work with Doc's kit though, so that'll be fun to watch. I recharged the soil in the potted flowering girls yesterday with the mineral amendment included in the kit, along with 2 lbs of worm castings each. I spread the amendment evenly across the top, covered it with worm poop and carefully watered a quart over all the soil. I had slow watered them the day before so the soil was already wicked and saturated. Next week, I'll give the Kerala3 a shot of cationic drench, and the JDs will follow a week later.
I'm puzzled about the growth rates of this batch. It looks like they're all going to be short, despite the fact that I vegged them much longer than their sisters/mother. Kerala3 looks like she's going to end her stretch between 25-30 inches, as short or shorter than her sisters, who only got 16 and 28 days of veg, 4 and 7 inches tall. This one got 74 days of veg and was 10 inches tall when I finally flipped her. The JDs slowed a bit in the last 3 days, so they aren't going to break much past 30 inches either. Their mother went into 12/12 at 30 days and 7 inches and finished at 31 inches with a single cola. These cuts were flipped at 60 days and 10 inches tall. This batch of seedlings is slow, too - they're as tall at 3 weeks as the previous batch were at 2 weeks. But everyone looks healthy!
Here's the weelky update. The Keralas look bad - everything I hate to see in a finishing plant. I'm toying with the idea of making kief and hash oil out of one. and using that to dust the buds on the other one. Cook up some thin hash oil, dip the buds in it and dust them with the kief. Like breading chicken - egg wash, flour, set aside to dry. The solvent would continue to evaporate, right? And the resin remains should glue the kief to the buds ... I think. Does anyone know how this is done? Seems like it could make the Kerala worth fooling with - nice party favors, y'know?
Here's her devine ugliness, Kerala1, soon to be kief and hash. I've been trimming dying buds and I was shocked to find I had a dried ounce already, so she'll be a good yielder, at least.
Kerala1 - 107 days - 91 Days 12/12 - 70 since pistils
And her sister, who's looking ok I guess. She has good hard buds and she's a little sticky - we like that. These are the buds that'll get encrusted.
Kerala2 - 105 Days - 77 Days 12/12 - 69 days since pistils
The Hawaiian doesn't look all that great, but she's stable at least and the brix readings are steady at 13/15. I gave her a topdressing of 2 lbs worm poop, azomite and some granulated mycos. She's gotta hang in there and grow calyxes for another 4+ weeks.
Hawaiian Snow - 107 Days old - 91 Days 12/12 - 57 since pistils
Those were the remaining plants in mineralized soil. The rest are all in Doc's kit and lookin' really fine, especially the Jamaican Dream cuts. I finished their trimming and I think they do look quite fetching.
JD1 - 78 Days - 18 Days 12/12 - 10 days since pistils
Kerala3 - 102 Days - 36 days 12/12 - 17 since pistils
White Panther - 20 days old
Caramelo - 18 days old - What's up with the droopy habit?!
JD3 - 19 Days
And the SLH reveg is coming along nicely - no issues!
