--BIG UPDATE--
Hey 420magazine!!
I hope everyone is having a great start to the new year, especially in your gardens!! I know this year has been pretty great for my ladies and I so far thats for sure! So with this update I will be bringing you updates with changes to the grow room, the ladies current progress and more!! So lets get into it!
It's official..... the ladies have officially been
FLIPPED!!!!
Let 12/12 begin, cannot wait to see these ladies start flowering!
Firstly I will start with an update on each of the ladies progress and what I plan on doing with each different lady!
WARLOCK::
This lady has definitely grown the most out of all three plants I have going, even with the stunted growth early on it is the bushiest and thickest plant. Her stem is also the thickest of the three. Over the past two weeks I have been slowly taking off unimportant lower growth, only taking 2-3 small branches or leaves a day. Three days ago I tied down all of the main branches so they were vertical to promote new top growth. Today I pulled all of the lower branches up through the (now open) middle of the plant, and cut off all of their small lower growth. Watered with plain Denver Tap on Thursday, Nutrient Feeding tomorrow. She was positioned under the front-half of the ScrOG Net... tucked through the front 8 rows.
BERRY GARCIA::
The B.G. is also very large and bushy, lots of vigorous growth... she would be the MVP however Warlock was stunted for a little over a week while the B.G. had a smooth take off. HOWEVER, the other two girl's leaves humble in comparison to this ones. They are so broad and she is poopin' out 7-bladers! Very attractive plant overall, one of her branches was broken off during a watering a little over two weeks ago and the "twin" branch so-to-say has had some wicked gnarly and compact growth. This lady was also watered on Thursday with Denver Tap, she will get Nutes tomorrow. Put her under the back half of the ScrOG Net, back 7 rows.
ALIEN DAWG::
So this lady has had the most problems of the three by far, looking back I definitely went way...
WAY to hard on the Nutrients... haha
oh well, lesson
learned!! I have since nurtured her back to health as best I could.... She is definitely
much healthier then she was earlier in Veg, showing lots of new growth and seems to be pretty resilient thank god. I decided to cut my losses and just do a semi-flux(?) type grow with her... I dunno, just experimenting, if I had the gear I would keep her in Veg but it's just not do-able right now. Received plain Denver Tap watering on Thursday,
LIGHT Nutrient Feeding tomorrow. I put her on the right side of the ScrOG Net to let her Tops grow upwards.
o all three have been flipped, I have decided against the 36-hours of darkness, I have scene evidence that plants can be given a 36-hour dark period before flowering and not hermie, however... not
enough evidence to feel
100% confident. The lights went off ## minutes ago and tonight is their first 12 hours of darknes, new light schedule is::
LIGHTS ON :: 11:00 AM
LIGHTS OFF :: 11:00 PM
Tomorrow they will all be given their first Flowering Nutrient Feeding, new growth on the
Warlock and
Berry Garcia will be tucked under the ScrOG Net for the next two weeks (or until it is full, whichever comes first).
Alien Dawg will remain untouched, those Cola's will do what they do.
Awesome news to report, a very knowledgeable and VERY kind grower AND member of this community has helped me step my growing game up (more on this later). I now have a 2' x 4' x 6.5' Grow Tent for my ladies! There is more than enough room for all of them. I also received a rooted High-Brix
Strawberry Diesel clone, and have it under one 27-watt CFL set on 24 hours of light. I am going to Veg this beautiful little lady for a little while... still need to decide if I want to flower a tiny plant, or veg it for a very long time..
Anyways...
ON TO THE PICTURES!!!
Here is the new grow tent, very pleased with its construction.. no regrets or problems with this as my first grow tent.
Here are the Warlock and Berry Garcia under the ScrOG Net... Warlock up front and Berry Garcia in the back.
"Twin" branch so-to-say on the Berry Garcia that has gnarly growth.
Broke (half-way ish) a branch on the Warlock today while tucking... tightly bound it back together with string... hopefully it will recover.
Here is the new High-Brix Strawberry Diesel clone.
Other than that, I just have one last thing to to do.
Seraphim, has gone above and beyond to help me get my grow room situated better to that I can start running things smoother. He also hooked me up with that beautiful clone, this is one of the things I was hoping to get out of this community, some cool contacts in my state who are willing and ready to meet... and exchange advice, ideas, techniques, clones, etc. VERY EXCITED I met
Seraphim, very cool dude, gave me loads of great advice. so again....
THANK YOU SO MUCH..
Everyone should go check his journal's out... He grows some very beautiful medicine :::
Seraphim's Strawberry Diesel - Mineralized Supersoil - LED - Indoor Grow
Seraphim Goes High Brix with Strawberry-Diesel
That's it for now.. Hope everyone enjoys the update!! PEACE!
I will get a Ph tester for sure... at least the PPM meter will help me monitor the amount of nutrients she is fed. I might pick up some cheap Ph strips just in the mean time.
