Re: Lil Neutrino's 2nd Indoor CFL - Bagseed planted New Year's Eve during the blue mo
Lil N your talking about harvesting in 4-5 days? I went back and checked and you started flowering exactly one day before me. I am planning on harvesting a full 8 weeks... is this too long for my bag seed?
Nope, today is six weeks and three days in to flower iirc...got about another week and a half, two weeks or so and possibly even longer because she seems to have some sativa characteristics. I had meant that in the last four or five days she has really begun to fatten up her buds
If you stopped feeding her she is just using all her fans and sugar leaves to make bud....it is actually a good thing I think bro...make your pot really smooth instead of harsh.
She sure looks tasty bro. Great Job.
brother.
Thanks MH, the thing is I have not stopped feeding her. In fact, after the issue I had a few weeks back where I wound up flushing when this first started showing up from what I thought was a pH imbalance I have been feeding her fairly regular. I think I've watered three times since then (she didn't need water for a week after the flush lol) and twice have been with nutes. First dose was "normal" and the second dose was "strong" (second highest dosages listed on the bottles). It doesn't appear to be nute burn so I don't think I've overfertilized. I have religiously checked the pH of the solution before it goes in and then immediately checked the runoff. All have been within 6.4-6.6 so that should be perfect. I have been using the pH Up that I bought to raise the pH but have been having to dose it fairly strong due to the high acidity of the EJ nutes.
However I don't think potassium silicate is bad for plants...The Butcher had posted about using it to help ward off the detrimental effects of high temperature. I just found the following link, a summary of a Japanese study on the effects of potassium silicate on sugarcane:
Science Links Japan | Some Effect of Potassium Silicate Application on Photosynthesis of Sugarcane.
The appreciable effect of potassium silicate on photosynthesis was noted at high temperature condition of 39.DEG.C. rather than at 32.DEG.C. or optimum temperature for the growth of sugarcane plant. Transpiration rate of sugarcane plants applied with potassium silicate declined as compared with those of none potassium and potassium chloride treatments. Application of potassium silicate increased the chlorophyll contents in leal blades and leaf blade nitrogen contents, with suppressive effect on aging and withering of leaves. The stomatal conductance was higher in the potassium silicate treatments than in the none potassium and potassium chloride treatments.
I have been having temp issues lately with the warmer spring weather we've been having, average temps with the cabinet closed up have been 84-88F, even hit 90F briefly once. So I'd think if anything the extra pH Up has been helping as I don't think I've been adding enough to burn the plant...rough estimate would be about 5 teaspoons per gallon.
I am strongly considering the Meta-K still but I want to read up on it and figure out if it's worth applying at this point. Considering I am almost 6.5 weeks in to flower I am wanting to avoid foliar sprays if at all possible but soil applications I have to wonder if it's a bit late to do much.
Hi Buddy Do you have a way to check your
trichs? You can't really go by what the seed bank tells you, each grow is different and finishes different.
As does each strain,
Those are just ball park times. Hope that helps.
OldMedMan,
yes, i have a way to check them, 4x magnifying glass (sucks i know) They are already cloudy...i just want the plant to make more bud because i don't want to settle for what is on the plant right now ha
4X is better than nothing but may be a bit on the weak side. Do you have a camera with a macro mode on it? That's what I use...not as easy as a magnifying glass though lol. As OMM said don't go by the flower times listed for the strain, it's ok for a rough idea of when to really pay close attention but your grow variables will dictate the actual length.
And on a side note, I clipped some of the lowest buds that were never going to develop in to much so they wouldn't unnecessarily use up any nutes and smoked them last night. As expected the buzz was pretty mild, heady if anything due to the immaturity, with little taste...I didn't dry them much though. Anyway...the good news is there is THC in them albeit minimal. The bad news is that my gf found an immature seed
So hopefully it's an isolated seed because I'm going to be royally pissed if she hermied and I didn't catch it. I don't remember seeing any ball sacks anywhere and I've paid pretty close attention.
How about this... I think I killed all of my seeds! I was on a 
tokin one up and waitin for the pics good growin to yah brotha
And definitely fun!
