Jon's Second Grow, First Grow Journal, Soil Grow Autos & Photoperiod

[Bill284]

Scrog Update
Grow Day 98
Flower Day 24

I honestly don't know what to say about this. I have no personal reference point whatsoever. All I know is the difference between a healthy plant and one that needs something, and I'm fairly decent at fixing whatever needs fixed. And to me, all these guys look healthy. The few lower yellowish leaves on the Blueberry are just pre-flush and pre-CalMag supplement, and her new growth looks great. The Pineapple Upside Down Cake looks like the lightest green-leaved plant of all of them. Not sure why that is in the picture, you can tell all of their truer colors in the group shot from far away showing the whole thing. I love seeing the different colors of the different strains and how they bud and such. The Pineapple runt, the smallest, bushiest plant the whole grow and definitely a different pheno than the other Pineapple, is bringing up the rear relative to the size of her buds so far too. The Blueberry Muffin and Jelly Rancher, along with the larger Pineapple Upside Down Cake, are all relatively similar in size and developmental pattern. I'm pretty happy with the stacking I have going on. The bud formation is not as fast or as developed as the Jelly Rancher who is solo, not if I compare the two JRs or any other bud in the scrog. At LESS time than the 24 days of flower this scrog is on, the solo Jelly Rancher destroys all of these plants. And these plants are pretty damn sweet. Anyway, all stats are being maintained as is since last posted. Regarding nutes I am barely using any of the Grow Big at this point. Just Big Bloom and Tiger Bloom mostly with a touch of the Grow Big, plus molasses and calmag plus iron. I've decided the Blueberry doesn't like the molasses as much as the other plants, so with her I am alternating adding molasses to her water versus doing it every time for the other three plants. So much for one nute mix. The Blueberry also likes the light to be farther away from her tops than the other plants do, so I had to move the light up to accommodate her. The plants are now starting to pray so I suppose I found a sweeter spot overall for the light. Other than that nothing's changed. I'm just emptying the dehumidifier daily, maintaining a super consistent environment, and keeping them fed. Haven't touched a leaf since the last post. Just watching buds grow hoping someone that knows what they're talking about tells me I'm either doing this okay or I have something to attend to here that I am not capable of seeing. Ha.

Anyway, on to the pics. There is the group shot, then left to right closeups of the scrog, then bud closeups of each strain. The photos are accurately labeled for a change. What do you guys think?

Different phenos Different strains Different days always amazing my friend.
They all look like healthy happy ladies.
Its great to see how each forms in their own way, side by side.
Nice work.
Bill

 

[Bud Love]

Scrog Update
Grow Day 98
Flower Day 24

I honestly don't know what to say about this. I have no personal reference point whatsoever. All I know is the difference between a healthy plant and one that needs something, and I'm fairly decent at fixing whatever needs fixed. And to me, all these guys look healthy. The few lower yellowish leaves on the Blueberry are just pre-flush and pre-CalMag supplement, and her new growth looks great. The Pineapple Upside Down Cake looks like the lightest green-leaved plant of all of them. Not sure why that is in the picture, you can tell all of their truer colors in the group shot from far away showing the whole thing. I love seeing the different colors of the different strains and how they bud and such. The Pineapple runt, the smallest, bushiest plant the whole grow and definitely a different pheno than the other Pineapple, is bringing up the rear relative to the size of her buds so far too. The Blueberry Muffin and Jelly Rancher, along with the larger Pineapple Upside Down Cake, are all relatively similar in size and developmental pattern. I'm pretty happy with the stacking I have going on. The bud formation is not as fast or as developed as the Jelly Rancher who is solo, not if I compare the two JRs or any other bud in the scrog. At LESS time than the 24 days of flower this scrog is on, the solo Jelly Rancher destroys all of these plants. And these plants are pretty damn sweet. Anyway, all stats are being maintained as is since last posted. Regarding nutes I am barely using any of the Grow Big at this point. Just Big Bloom and Tiger Bloom mostly with a touch of the Grow Big, plus molasses and calmag plus iron. I've decided the Blueberry doesn't like the molasses as much as the other plants, so with her I am alternating adding molasses to her water versus doing it every time for the other three plants. So much for one nute mix. The Blueberry also likes the light to be farther away from her tops than the other plants do, so I had to move the light up to accommodate her. The plants are now starting to pray so I suppose I found a sweeter spot overall for the light. Other than that nothing's changed. I'm just emptying the dehumidifier daily, maintaining a super consistent environment, and keeping them fed. Haven't touched a leaf since the last post. Just watching buds grow hoping someone that knows what they're talking about tells me I'm either doing this okay or I have something to attend to here that I am not capable of seeing. Ha.

Anyway, on to the pics. There is the group shot, then left to right closeups of the scrog, then bud closeups of each strain. The photos are accurately labeled for a change. What do you guys think?

Hey jon
Lookin beautiful in there..
Great job matey
Peace to ya

 

[Jon]

Lemon Skunk #1 Autoflower Update
DAY 78

I NEED SOME INPUT PLEASE GUYS!!!! If y'all have a moment I'd really appreciate it, @Bill284, @Bud Love, @Virgin Ground, @stone Otter, @Michael Hunt, @Emilya, @Diatomacious, @Ivumlow, @Farmer Reading, @jonoldstyle and anyone else who may have something constructive.

So just yesterday I posted about this plant and showed pictures of her new growth and the calyxes (not sure if this is the right word) swelling with red hairs first then popping out more bud density and such. I acknowledged she's close. I wanted to and figured I should let her go at least till all this new growth either joins the bud completely or makes itself a new bud out of the existing bud as a few have. I was going to do this despite the trichomes showing a few amber.

Well I just checked and the trichome pictures are below. This is more amber already than I want. However, the new growth and such. So my couple questions are:

- SHOULD I harvest this plant now or tomorrow? Is she going to continue to get more and more amber if I let the new growth finish and wait? I really don't wanna turn this plant into a CBD experience. So do I sacrifice any further growth of the buds for my preferred amber amount or close like it is now?

- Does anyone have any idea, based on this and yesterday's post about this plant, if this new growth thing will just keep happening as long as I keep the plant alive since it's an auto? If so I should harvest NOW.

HELP!!

 

[Emilya Green]

Lemon Skunk #1 Autoflower Update
DAY 78

I NEED SOME INPUT PLEASE GUYS!!!! If y'all have a moment I'd really appreciate it, @Bill284, @Bud Love, @Virgin Ground, @stone Otter, @Michael Hunt, @Emilya, @Diatomacious, @Ivumlow, @Farmer Reading, @jonoldstyle and anyone else who may have something constructive.

So just yesterday I posted about this plant and showed pictures of her new growth and the calyxes (not sure if this is the right word) swelling with red hairs first then popping out more bud density and such. I acknowledged she's close. I wanted to and figured I should let her go at least till all this new growth either joins the bud completely or makes itself a new bud out of the existing bud as a few have. I was going to do this despite the trichomes showing a few amber.

Well I just checked and the trichome pictures are below. This is more amber already than I want. However, the new growth and such. So my couple questions are:

- SHOULD I harvest this plant now or tomorrow? Is she going to continue to get more and more amber if I let the new growth finish and wait? I really don't wanna turn this plant into a CBD experience. So do I sacrifice any further growth of the buds for my preferred amber amount or close like it is now?

- Does anyone have any idea, based on this and yesterday's post about this plant, if this new growth thing will just keep happening as long as I keep the plant alive since it's an auto? If so I should harvest NOW.

HELP!!

The trichomes tell you the answer. My vote is to harvest now. She will continue to foxtail or fauxtail out until she completes out, and then she will likely die. You have already stated you don't want to take her that far, so yes, harvest. The fact that she can do this, and survive past her harvest date, is a tribute to her strength at this point, and not being starved to death at the end.... but sad but true... at some point, there has to be an end.

 

[Jon]

The trichomes tell you the answer. My vote is to harvest now. She will continue to foxtail or fauxtail out until she completes out, and then she will likely die. You have already stated you don't want to take her that far, so yes, harvest. The fact that she can do this, and survive past her harvest date, is a tribute to her strength at this point, and not being starved to death at the end.... but sad but true... at some point, there has to be an end.

Thank you so much not only for the response but for the immediacy of it. I really appreciate that, as this was to a small extent a time sensitive request. I don't really like to tag a bunch of people like I did here and ask for help like that, at least not help I need right away, cuz I don't like to put people on the spot. But I needed to hear from those with much more experience than myself and honestly this is the best place I know to attain the information I need. The pool of talent here is pretty damn large. Anyway, I did a little research between the post and now and discovered exactly what you said and what I suspected - YES, this plant will just continue to do what it's doing until it either dies or I kill it. I hadn't had buds like this before. All my other buds, even the ones from this grow, are pretty much buds that grew like I am "used to" buds growing from what I've seen in others grows and stuff, both online and live. For example, the Pineapple Expresses are complete sativas. Tall, buds grow exactly and only like only sativa buds grow, with the twists, and all that lovely sativa-y stuff, (lol). I have three of those autos, and one is the exact same age today as this Lemon Skunk, 78 days old. But the PE is still shooting white hairs out of the very top bud and the side buds, like, normal white hairs that have been doing this all along. NO weird growth. Only taller and fatter. I personally find it really easy to tell when sativa-esque buds are done. Cuz they won't DO the weird growth thing no matter what, just get more amber (I'm not counting if you stupidly let it foxtail from too much light or something like that). Even the Gorilla Zkittlez, mostly an indica, did not do this weird growth thing (as I'm calling it), although now I'm wondering if it would have had I let it go a lot longer. It seems to be something either indicas or indica hybrids do at least from what I've now seen. And I get that the LS is also getting fatter and adding weight every day, but I see that depending on what you want from the buzz there is a point of diminishing returns, just as with photo buds. Guess I thought it was different for some reason. Anyway, I'm gonna leave her overnight in the bathtub under the veg light as she has been for tonight and start her 36 hours of dark in the morning so that at the end it will be dark when I chop her down, as it's easier to control minimal light while chopping at night, imho. No sun to compete with.

Thanks again for your input. Having already come to the same conclusion you did, I might normally say something cliche, like "great minds think alike." Only that's not exactly it in this case. Thanks for sharing, Emilya, I appreciate you, and have a great night.

 

[Bud Love]

Lemon Skunk #1 Autoflower Update
DAY 78

I NEED SOME INPUT PLEASE GUYS!!!! If y'all have a moment I'd really appreciate it, @Bill284, @Bud Love, @Virgin Ground, @stone Otter, @Michael Hunt, @Emilya, @Diatomacious, @Ivumlow, @Farmer Reading, @jonoldstyle and anyone else who may have something constructive.

So just yesterday I posted about this plant and showed pictures of her new growth and the calyxes (not sure if this is the right word) swelling with red hairs first then popping out more bud density and such. I acknowledged she's close. I wanted to and figured I should let her go at least till all this new growth either joins the bud completely or makes itself a new bud out of the existing bud as a few have. I was going to do this despite the trichomes showing a few amber.

Well I just checked and the trichome pictures are below. This is more amber already than I want. However, the new growth and such. So my couple questions are:

- SHOULD I harvest this plant now or tomorrow? Is she going to continue to get more and more amber if I let the new growth finish and wait? I really don't wanna turn this plant into a CBD experience. So do I sacrifice any further growth of the buds for my preferred amber amount or close like it is now?

- Does anyone have any idea, based on this and yesterday's post about this plant, if this new growth thing will just keep happening as long as I keep the plant alive since it's an auto? If so I should harvest NOW.

HELP!!

Chop em Jon , ready enough for sure

 

[Jon]

Chop em Jon , ready enough for sure

Thanks BL! They're in 36 hours of darkness as we speak.

 

[Bill284]

Thanks BL! They're in 36 hours of darkness as we speak.

Congratulations Jon. Should be some good smoke from that harvest.
Enjoy.
Bill

 

[DeeBoy]

I was reading @Dabeast09 and he was talking about how much he learned on his first grow. That really is the best part I think. The knowledge from the first grow, at least I think, should make your second much much better. I made a TON of rookie errors on my first grow. And I kept my first grow journal on paper - I have a nice notebook on it. One of the pages (actually, it took two pages) is a list I made at the end, and since then, as I realized all the mistakes I could identify that I made on Grow one. As I am realizing there are more newbie growers like me on here than I previously had thought, I was thinking it might be helpful for some less experienced growers to see a list of mistakes another less experienced grower made and identified from grow one, and the solution that has been implemented for this grow two.

So here we go, and this is the oversimplified version:

Mistake: I tried to cram 6 8-gallon pots into a 5x5. This is WAY WAY too much. There may be someone who could make this work, but that someone is not a first time grower. The tent quickly got overgrown like a jungle.
Fix: This time I am using 5 5-gallon pots in the same space and trying a SCROG grow.

Mistake: I started my seeds in the final 8 gallon pots. This is problematic for anyone except maybe Emilya could make it work. My understanding now is to never do this. The poor seedlings have no idea what to do in all that space.
Fix: I am starting my seeds in Dixie cups and transplanting when they have an established rootball.

Mistake: Not only did I start the seeds in the final pots, I also had them live their first two weeks of life in my closet until I moved them to the tent, because I was overeager and started my seeds before my lights arrived. Their first two weeks of life took place under a regular light bulb and one 22 watt bar led. LMAO. By the time I moved them into the tent they were ten inches tall and only had their first two sets of leaves. I did all I could to recover from that stretch, but the plants were basically permanently stretched at that point.
Fix: I started the seedlings in the tent, under the real light. They LOVE it. I figure seeds pop out in nature into full sunlight and do just fine. This "seedlings should only have a little bit of light" thing I hear over and over mystifies me. Why? It makes no sense to me. As long as you don't go over say 600 ppfd your seedlings should be fine. If you see a brown tip or discoloration, simply raise your lights.

Mistake: I used PLASTIC pots with drainage only at the bottom. This is basically the worst choice I could have made. Choked the roots. Compromised my drainage. Etc.
Fix: I am using cloth pots this time so that my roots get the air they need. Toss up between cloth and air pots.

Mistake: I had no idea how to water so basically I just watered when I felt the plant needed water. That's bad enough to do it with no system. But then I compounded my ignorance by simply dumping a gallon at a time right on top of the soil whenever I watered. I also didn't begin watering to runoff until halfway through veg. My watering was so bad it's absolutely astounding that I got any bud at all, much less that it came out pretty well.
Fix: I am watering with a system and a tiny understanding of HOW to water. I read Emilya's How to Water a Potted Plant and use it as my bible. I will be watering to runoff every time post seedling as well.

Mistake: I had no idea about nutes and used only Tiger Bloom for budding and blackstrap molasses for the last month or so. I did it willy nilly, adding the TB when I "felt" it was time. Lol. What a maroon. This is next to useless and basically was a waste of money.
Fix: I studied my ass off and this time am using, for this run, the Fox Farms nutrient trio, and will follow their feeding schedule with the tweaks as I have learned them. It may not be the best but it's plenty good, and since I'm using FF soil I figured I'd stay with FF nutes. Regardless, the important part is that I will do it with a system and using a three part integrated nutrient package. I also have CalMag Plus if necessary, Great White, and a couple other things I may or may not use. There will be no guesswork this time, or minimal at least. I know to start at at least half of what they recommend if not less. I know FF will burn my plants if I use too much. And with a natural looking light this time I should be able to more readily recognize a problem.

Mistake: Defoliation - I had no clue. We can argue defoliation all day long, but in my mess of a tent it was absolutely necessary the thing was so overgrown. But I kept hearing "don't take off any leaves." So I didn't for a long time. I got a jungle. Completely unmanageable. And the predictable outcome. Good colas, and a ton of flarf. Minimal yield (10 1/2 ounces of real bud from six plants in a 5x5 is terrible, let's be honest). Etc.
Fix: Again, I studied. Learned a lot here. Made a philosophical and behavioral decision and will do targeted defoliation per the suggestions of some folks I believe have it down. Absolutely will not allow my tent to be overgrown and out of control, with compromised air flow and all that.

Mistake: some would not consider this a mistake, but I grew bagseeds from the dispensary the first time. Lots of folks do this, I guess it's personal preference. But now I know a bagseed, while likely female, is also way more likely to become a hermie. It wouldn't exist if it weren't a hermie itself. I won't do bagseeds again.
Fix: I went with good genetics. I went this time with all Humboldt Seed Company seeds. Dependable genetics for sure. So that won't be an excuse. I know I'm at a good starting point.

Mistake: I never thought a lick about humidity the first time, only temperature. I can't imagine how badly I compromised my yield due to that. It's vital. Last time the plants just got whatever that day held for them. No control.
Fix: Learned of the importance of controlling humidity. Have several ways to do so now. AC, adjustable fans, humidifier, open or closed doors, etc., and I have a dependable gauge with which to measure rh. The goal is to control it every step of the grow start to finish.

That's a very partial list that includes some good "lowlights." LOL. I'll see if I can dig up a few pics of the jungle. Anyway, if any newbie growers made or are making any of these rather common mistakes (I now know), here's what I did to fix them for what it's worth. We'll see how these remedies take.

Will post a pic or three after the humidifier arrives today and I get that thing going. Very excited to give my girls 70% instead of the 45-50% they have gotten so far. Hope the damn thing works.

I am a new grower and this is my 1st post. I must say that I am learning much from your mistakes already. I love what you are doing here. And your idea with the combined cups for the seedlings is genius! I'll be watching!

 

[Jon]

I am a new grower and this is my 1st post. I must say that I am learning much from your mistakes already. I love what you are doing here. And your idea with the combined cups for the seedlings is genius! I'll be watching!

Well hello @DeeBoy, welcome to the forum. I'm honored your first post was in my thread, thanks. Yeah I sure made a ton of mistakes, and that's a real partial list off the top of my head. But they are almost all so easy to correct. I wish I had known then what I know now. Lol. Don't we all. I've accepted now that learning to grow is a process, and unless one gets really lucky, they are not likely to produce top top notch bud the first few grows. At least I think. But that said, check out my journal if you like. You can see the results of my decrease in errors. It's a decent grow so far I think. Anyway, thanks and welcome and glad you're along for the ride!

 

[Bill284]

I am a new grower and this is my 1st post. I must say that I am learning much from your mistakes already. I love what you are doing here. And your idea with the combined cups for the seedlings is genius! I'll be watching!

Welcome to 420magazine @DeeBoy
You have picked a great member to follow.
Happy growing
Bill

 

[RetiredRN]

Scrog Update
Grow Day 98
Flower Day 24

I honestly don't know what to say about this. I have no personal reference point whatsoever. All I know is the difference between a healthy plant and one that needs something, and I'm fairly decent at fixing whatever needs fixed. And to me, all these guys look healthy. The few lower yellowish leaves on the Blueberry are just pre-flush and pre-CalMag supplement, and her new growth looks great. The Pineapple Upside Down Cake looks like the lightest green-leaved plant of all of them. Not sure why that is in the picture, you can tell all of their truer colors in the group shot from far away showing the whole thing. I love seeing the different colors of the different strains and how they bud and such. The Pineapple runt, the smallest, bushiest plant the whole grow and definitely a different pheno than the other Pineapple, is bringing up the rear relative to the size of her buds so far too. The Blueberry Muffin and Jelly Rancher, along with the larger Pineapple Upside Down Cake, are all relatively similar in size and developmental pattern. I'm pretty happy with the stacking I have going on. The bud formation is not as fast or as developed as the Jelly Rancher who is solo, not if I compare the two JRs or any other bud in the scrog. At LESS time than the 24 days of flower this scrog is on, the solo Jelly Rancher destroys all of these plants. And these plants are pretty damn sweet. Anyway, all stats are being maintained as is since last posted. Regarding nutes I am barely using any of the Grow Big at this point. Just Big Bloom and Tiger Bloom mostly with a touch of the Grow Big, plus molasses and calmag plus iron. I've decided the Blueberry doesn't like the molasses as much as the other plants, so with her I am alternating adding molasses to her water versus doing it every time for the other three plants. So much for one nute mix. The Blueberry also likes the light to be farther away from her tops than the other plants do, so I had to move the light up to accommodate her. The plants are now starting to pray so I suppose I found a sweeter spot overall for the light. Other than that nothing's changed. I'm just emptying the dehumidifier daily, maintaining a super consistent environment, and keeping them fed. Haven't touched a leaf since the last post. Just watching buds grow hoping someone that knows what they're talking about tells me I'm either doing this okay or I have something to attend to here that I am not capable of seeing. Ha.

Anyway, on to the pics. There is the group shot, then left to right closeups of the scrog, then bud closeups of each strain. The photos are accurately labeled for a change. What do you guys think?

Looking great jon!!

 

[Jon]

I can't help myself. I got really lucky with the microscope camera today while I was checking trichs. I LOVE this picture. There's something about the colors, the shape, whatever, that just grabs me. So I found a company that will take this picture and make me a cover for the front of my bass amp that will replace the cover that's on it (plain black, like almost every amp). I'll have this pic on my rig!!!!!

Good pic? Or just me?

 

[Virgin Ground]

Enter that pic in next months Photo of the Month contest??
Plants all look great over here.

 

[Jon]

Enter that pic in next months Photo of the Month contest??
Plants all look great over here.

Hmmm....never thought about the contests.

Yes, I would say great is an understatement of how good your plants look.

 

[Jon]

Lemon Skunk #1 Harvest Update
Day 79.5 (36 hours of darkness will give you the half day)

These are both my favorite posts and the most bittersweet. It's great cuz now you just have to dry and cure and soon you'll be smoking your weed you just spent months caring for like a newborn baby. But at the same time, it's over. For this plant anyway. Growing her was so much fun. But as @Emilya reminded me, everything must come to an end. It was time for her.

This was one of the prettiest autos of the nine. Beautiful, large buds that all grew with extremely minimal larf. Dark green sugar leaves. The plant got darker as she grew. The buds are covered in trichomes. It smells like sweet Lemon candy of some sort. She grew evenly and took to training very well. She took every nute I could possibly stuff in her. And she seemed to really like finishing in the natural sunlight. This plant basically spent it's first 65 days of life in a tent under LEDs with a 22/2 light cycle, and spent her last two weeks living outside by day and in the dark by night, getting around 14 hours of sunlight a day. It seemed to pump up the trichomes, and the buds seemed to "even out" in a way they weren't in the tent. This plant also never once had any issues, it's basically the only plant of all nine autos that I never had to fix red spots or yellowing leaves on. I had very low expectations for this plant, as it was basically a freebie seed I would never have bought, and this girl exceeded all of them. Definitely the best yield yet, as there is very little waste weight on those buds. I'm hoping when she's all cured and trimmed she will hit over three ounces of finished, perfect bud, no flarf included. Her wet weight as I hang them to dry, ie, as little stem as possible and nothing but the sugar leaves, is 12.31 ounces, which potentially can become 3 finished ounces depending on what she loses in the dry. The buds are pretty damn dense. I'm pretty happy even getting anywhere CLOSE to three ounces of great bud from one little plant in less than 90 days.

Anyway, five down, four to go for the autoflowers. I'll post the final smoke and final trimmed weight numbers as soon as I can, but I thanks to this girl I'm getting closer to my goal I thought I wouldn't reach of pulling a pound of finished bud from these nine autos on my first try. The last four are gonna make or break us on that goal, but we'll be close regardless.

Photographs:

- Trichomes on Lemon Skunk #1 at harvest time
- Wet trimmed to hang to dry weight picture with all the buds
- Photo of the stem of the plant with scale reference. I was impressed with this stem for such a little plant. It's a bonsai tree.

And onwards we go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Emilya Green]

 

[Diatomacious]

Does anyone have any idea, based on this and yesterday's post about this plant

I guess I fell off the wagon I have this post marked as watched but have not been getting updates on posts until you tagged me (and I just saw that). Computers.

Good choice on taking the lemon... she looked ready in the whole plant pic IMO. Hope you pull some flavor out of her.

 

[Jon]

I guess I fell off the wagon I have this post marked as watched but have not been getting updates on posts until you tagged me (and I just saw that). Computers.

Good choice on taking the lemon... she looked ready in the whole plant pic IMO. Hope you pull some flavor out of her.

Thanks. Yeah, I'm starting to see when a plant "looks" ready a bit more accurately. Growing four different strains of nine autos has helped alot cuz it's so easy to carefully and closely watch those little girls. Autos or not, they still grow like pot plants. That said, I've also learned that you can have a plant that has 100% green leaves and it can still be ready. A lot of the leaf turn has to do with what you do with nutes.

 

[Jon]

Weekend Sadie Update
Day 100 Grow
Day 21 Flower

My girl has hit the century mark! 100 days since she sprouted today!

Just two things of note regarding Sadie between last post and now.

- I saw a few leaves starting to yellow just a tad so I flushed five gallons of clean water through her yesterday, as it was watering day for her. Then I waited a couple hours for that to dry out a little bit, and followed that up with a CalMag plus Iron only feeding. It'll take care of that right away, I've already seen it with this plant and now I know how she is going to respond. At least in this case, lol.
- I decided it was time to begin supplementing her reds in a big way, so I changed the lighting a bit. She is still getting the same overall par numbers, around 1300 or so, but now the combination is the two blurples on BLOOM only, so that on either side the plant is bathed in that red light, ON TOP OF adjusting the output on the full spectrum quantum board to maintain the same par numbers. So the quantum board sits at 80% full spectrum with added IR, and the blurples on 100% and only the reds, and the plant is getting a ton of the best of both worlds, to the best of what my technical limitations/capabilities allow. To my eyes she still shows no signs whatsoever of not liking the par numbers. You can see the difference in some of the pictures with the reds now added.

Other than that she is just doing her thing, stacking away, frosting up, and getting fatter. Interestingly, comparing the two Jelly Ranchers, this one and the one in the scrog, shows a few differences. This is despite that the two plants started out as nearly identical. I was and am almost certain they are the identical pheno. So I kind of expected them to grow pretty much the same way. They are, for the most part. But I see this plant stacking bigger and faster than the one in the scrog in less time. Conversely, the buds on the Jelly Rancher in the scrog are frostier than these in more time. Size wise they are the same size plant overall. The JR in the scrog has more bud sites, for obvious reasons, but other than that they're the same plant. My theory is this: a plant has a certain amount of energy to it, it's a specific amount, and it is finite. So when you bud it, that energy is going to be distributed to the number of buds you have. The more buds, the less intense each individual bud will be, and vice versa. So if that is accurate, I think the solo Jelly Rancher is growing buds at a faster rater because it's energy is distributed to fewer spots than the JR in the scrog. Just a theory. It could also be because the solo plant is getting hit with a total of 956 real watts of power versus the scrog JR which is getting hit with 680 real watts of power. Both are godawful awesome wattage numbers, but maybe it makes a difference and this is an example, I don't know. I also wonder if the buds are growing faster and bigger on the solo plant because she's budding at par numbers 200 points higher than the scrog. All of these may be factors.

In any event, she's pretty damn happy going into the weekend. Have a great weekend everyone. Go Sixers!

Photographs:

- Sadie side view
- Sadie top view
- Stacking pic 1
- Stacking pic 2
- Bud closeup 1
- Bud closeup 2