Mcloadie's Second Grow Journal

[mcloadie]

My harem with flash before lights on, notice the shitty lookin leaves that never recovered from hit.

These buds produced propeller like top growth and have requested permission for take off....permission denied.....

Bud shots, some of these buds are denser than others, but all are acceptable, rapid growth of flowers.

Overall health is acceptable, plants will NEVER recover completely from a hard hit, that's why I don't even like them to wilt.....ever. Next feed goes like this; 3 gallons of water, 2 tbsp. molasses, 2 cups dr earth pot growin soil in the sock, 3 tsp. go calmag, 15 ml. liquid blue. Same as always....24 hrs. bubblin, use within 24 hrs.. The dr earth soil is probly as potent as any fertilizer I have. At this point I would normally dress the tops of the pots with fresh soil, but if they all don't get it....none do.....so, the tea will take all the goodies from the soil that would normally be released slowly, milk em all out at the same time and BAM!, the girls get the dose! Trust me kids, the photos always make everything look better than it is, I will continue to strive to improve yield......quality is there.....yield is just not what I feel is nominal. BTW, Ph of the concoction is 6.5, wish I had one of those meters you guys use for hydro, it would give me more information, which would allow me to make better informed decisions as to my regimen..........which is no formal regimen at all. I read the plants, I know what they've had, I know the strain, I know where they're at in they're life cycle, and I decide what the dose will be according to all that info............1 day before application. By not taking notes I'm developing my diagnostic skills, and eliminating evidence should the hypocrites decide to F with me. IDK about where you are, but here in hillbilly land the cops are really like nazis, and when it comes down to it they do whatever they want to....which forces me to do whatever I want to.............better not to surprise me....haha!

 

[4twenty4all]

Checking in Mcloadie! Looking good. In regards to your issue, do you have any light leaks or green lights that are staying on? Some of your buds look to be flower/vegging to me anyway. They are frosty and I like the tight dense ones Peace!

 

[mcloadie]

Checking in Mcloadie! Looking good. In regards to your issue, do you have any light leaks or green lights that are staying on? Some of your buds look to be flower/vegging to me anyway. They are frosty and I like the tight dense ones Peace!

No light leaks or green lights, I changed to a non organic nutrient regimen. Could they be getting too much nitrogen?, potassium or phosphorous? I may be paranoid and giving em too much N, I starved the last run and yield was less than nominal.

 

[mcloadie]

I got on the live question answerer that the mfgr of my light has?,.........LOL..........LIVE?..........LOL....well, kimberlee told me that my light should be 12 to 16 inches above the canopy, and at that height it had a footprint of 42 x 50 inches......in flower. So, I pulled the light down 4 inches and had to retie every single string holdin up the leaners, just tryin ta dial things in.

 

[fish cake]

get more bolts

 

[mcloadie]

get more bolts

LOL, I cut everything off it when I retied the strings, but I think it looks cool and I haven't gone huntin in ages.....so today....it's there!

 

[BigIrishDoode]

makes me wanna play with my crossbow, cant put my bolts in my grow they are faded red=pink! no pink in my garden!, they look pretty good, i wing it sometimes , and im usually right on, but after having 3 plants go wonky in flower lately im following the schedule tightly and seeing great results, i guess thats a way of playing it by ear ,deciding when i need to go by a plan or not, but im in study/research mode with organics again ,testing on veggies, etc, your results look to be good and frosty nugs are soon to be had!

 

[spring2012]

I noticed the arrow as well...Or bolt...The girls look nice and appear to be taking off! I watched a grower use 100% grape juice one time. seemed OK. not sure if he checked the PH.. He also tried curing buds in a jar full of fruity pebbles. Only on you tube!

 

[wildbill38]

Good Weed my fine friend MC. Plants are looking stellar and have some reps on me.

 

[mcloadie]

Good Weed my fine friend MC. Plants are looking stellar and have some reps on me.

Thanks wb!

 

[mcloadie]

I noticed the arrow as well...Or bolt...The girls look nice and appear to be taking off! I watched a grower use 100% grape juice one time. seemed OK. not sure if he checked the PH.. He also tried curing buds in a jar full of fruity pebbles. Only on you tube!

It's a carbon arrow....30"....that grape juice will eat the chrome off a bumper....25% and a Ph of 3.......that's hot!

 

[4twenty4all]

Hey Mcloadie! put a thermometer at the canopy and check heat. If your lights are too close you will burn your oils and lose your smell totally. Could be heat stress too.....

 

[mcloadie]

Hey Mcloadie! put a thermometer at the canopy and check heat. If your lights are too close you will burn your oils and lose your smell totally. Could be heat stress too.....

82 degrees, 49% Rh. I have had this happen before, and have seen it on specific strains.....but not such big helicopter leaves, last time was on the biggest buds I ever grew...we will see what happens next........Thanks bro!

 

[mcloadie]

Plants in flower at 45 days today....that's since the flip.......2 weeks til I even start lookin at trichs. That's allotta bud growin time!

 

[mcloadie]

Checking in Mcloadie! Looking good. In regards to your issue, do you have any light leaks or green lights that are staying on? Some of your buds look to be flower/vegging to me anyway. They are frosty and I like the tight dense ones Peace!

Double checked for light leaks......none, shit, I forgot how dark absence of light is!

 

[mcloadie]

I am a bit comforted this morning, ALL the nexikush fems are showing a ton of new growth on the buds, when I grew this plants parents the buds got HUGE, my best was 4 oz from a plant....finished! The next run on my other journal will be much more productive with the larger pots............pow 33 is cut off nutes, molasses and water......they should be only 7-10 days out.

 

[4twenty4all]

You are tearing it up my friend!

 

[mcloadie]

You are tearing it up my friend!

Thanks 420, I am never satisfied with the cannabis yet, I have been satisfied with ornamentals I grew, but the weed is a little more challenging, especially without a proper lab. I don't have the resources to grow outdoors, if I did, the indoors would just be a hobby like enterprize! need a large commercial greenhouse to grow some holiday specific crops and try to get ahead a little, I could grow those, and some organic tomatoes, make some money, and I could afford to get a place that I could grow outdoors and quit scrapin by, even here, where it's so f'n hot in the summer that the plants only have a few hours at teperatures under 100 degrees!, this is absolutely the most challenging outdoor environment I have ever grown in.....sometimes I watered 3 times a day........a six foot plant is a miracle! I am used to the small plants being 8'.

 

[mcloadie]

Good morning friends, everything is looking good, I have noticed rapid growth on the flowers, most of it being vertical, I'm hoping they fill in the skinny shoot that shot out of the top of alot of the flowers. The growth is mostly evident on the sativa doms, alot of new pistil production, and the rapid growing light green bud leaves. There is still quite a bit of time for these flowers to fill in and grow bigger, I'm backing off the nitrogen now, the bpn liquid blue should have enough in it ta keep em green and give enough energy to produce flower material. I am really concentrating on what's happening cycle wise, I have to get this shit nailed down, I'm confident the next six plants are poised better than any I've done in the past and I anticipate a great run with em. I am putting white widow mycorhizal powder in the bucket with the molasses and brewing the shit out of it, I have my doubts as to whether this stuff is even alive..............I guess I could use a microscope.....no foam......I put it in yesterday afternoon.

 

[wildbill38]

Good Weed over here MC.