Stunger's Organic Soil Stealth Balcony: Landrace Mulanje & Other Sativas

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Update - A fraction more top dressing and mostly pictures

Yesterday I relented on my recent proclamation of a 4th and final top dressing, and I gave both 30L (8 gallon) pots 1 tablespoon each of Guano Phosphate, and I gave 1.5 TBSP to the 50L (13 gallon) pots. It's a is pretty tiny amount only a 1/16 of a cup, but I don't want them wanting and I don't want to overdo it either!

Today has been sunny and overcast and fairly windy which is great. Cooling overnight now too, my capsicums are all of a sudden busy fruiting. I trust the balcony girls know what they're doing!

The balcony line up today

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The Mulanje
This is the only plant that I can fully open the door for, only because it's at the widest part of the balcony. If I tried that with the other 3 plants there would be a good chance of canopy damage, which I'd like to avoid if possible.

Mulanje

Mulanje

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Some close ups - mostly pistils

Mulanje

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Mango Sherbert

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Honduras/Panama x Purple Honduras

Honduras/Panama x Purple Honduras

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Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje

Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje

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And the late afternoon view from the side window

The view from the side window

The view from the side window

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Thanks for dropping by good 420 folks! I hope you are all keeping safe, and your gardens are blooming. :ganjamon:
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Welcome to the jungle…cheers Stunger
 
Hi Stunger.

Was going through some photos today and came across a cpl I took from last seasons Sub harvest that I used as a supplement for a hunting guide.

I think you may benefit from it should you wish to go explore at some point in your locality.

Could post up in my off topic area and tag you in, as not to clutter your grow journal, just let me know what you think, and if you wish Ill put together some info.
 
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Hi Stunger.

Was going through some photos today and came across a cpl I took from last seasons Sub harvest that I used as a supplement for a hunting guide.

I think you may benefit from it should you wish to go explore at some point in your locality.

Could post up in my off topic area and tag you in, as not to clutter your grow journal, just let me know what you think, and if you wish Ill put together some info.
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Hey that'd be great DV8, I'd like to see what to look out for. Post here, or PM me, or chuck it in your off topic area and send me the link. It must almost be time for them here.
 
Update + pest control + Mango Sherbert day 14 water restrictions + pictures

Greetings 420 enthusiasts!

Pest Control

I found a second white buttery caterpillar a couple of days ago, it seemed a bit comatose which was probably from the spray I did earlier in the week. Overall, the plants seem fairly clean of bugs. The Mango Sherbert is going thru quite a bit of stress from the water restrictions that I am putting on her, and I have seen a few mites I guess as a consequence of that stress, but they are not in abundance, so she isn't putting up a welcome sign for them. However, this morning I carried out a further BT spray which I included about a dozen drops of Rosemary oil to a litre of spray. I did similar with just 4-5 drops a few day ago, which seemed to go well. My balcony smelt beautiful afterwards, of rosemary! On previous grows I have used Neem but I haven't so far used that on this grow, as I wanted to see how the rosemary went, so far so good.

Mango Sherbert

Today is the 14th day that she has been under droughting/water restrictions. She was looking 'ok' this morning, but by the afternoon she was wilting again reasonably badly after only having had a small 'survival drink' of water 2 days ago. I considered giving her a drink this evening and then I decided to instead give her one tomorrow morning. I won't harvest her for another 2-3 weeks, so I want to keep her well but hopefully in a survival mode that causes her to produce more oil/potency. Well that's the plan!

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These are all fairly similar each day, but I wanted to give a daily update on how the Mango Sherbert was coping for anyone who is interested in this process, and also, for myself when I want to look back to visually reacquaint myself with how it went.
Thanks for dropping by, keep well, and I hope your gardening is going great! :ganjamon:
 
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My balcony smelt beautiful afterwards, of rosemary! On previous grows I have used Neem but I haven't so far used that on this grow, as I wanted to see how the rosemary went, so far so good.
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Looking great, Stunger. :goodjob:

No neem in flower ( :cough: ) but have you thought of a soap to control the mites? Spray it on, kills the bugs it touches, then let it dry and wash it off.
 
nice win brother
 
Stunger, congrats on the GJOTM, well deserved. I’m now caught up and sorry to see your beautiful sativa go from great to sad. Good news on the seeds and the salvageable smoke. Cheers
 
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Looking great, Stunger. :goodjob:

No neem in flower ( :cough: ) but have you thought of a soap to control the mites? Spray it on, kills the bugs it touches, then let it dry and wash it off.
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Thanks Azi! I do include some Dr Bonner's liquid castille soap but more as a surfactant, altho I have used it alone in the past. I see this as a quick single spray to take the Mango Sherbert up to her harvest in 2 or 3 weeks. The overnight temperatures are dropping now so I think that should reduce the welcome for any pests, plus I would imagine that the droughting that she's been under may have hopefully toughened her up a lot against pests. They don't seem to have getting much getting a toehold on her up till now.
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nice win brother
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Thanks bluter!
cr8grow said:
Stunger, congrats on the GJOTM, well deserved. I’m now caught up and sorry to see your beautiful sativa go from great to sad. Good news on the seeds and the salvageable smoke. Cheers
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Cheers cr8grow! It was an absolute bugger to lose her but we live and learn eh.
DonkeyDick said:
Congrats on the gjotm Stunger! Go you!
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Thanks DD!
 
Congrats, Stunger...yours is one of the most informative journals on here, definitely
a well deserved win! :thumb:
And by the looks of the Mango Sherbert trichomes, the droughting is accomplishing what it's supposed to...
 
Carcass said:
Congrats, Stunger...yours is one of the most informative journals on here, definitely
a well deserved win! :thumb:
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Thanks Carcass! But no false modesty when I say there are many good folk on here who deserve it.
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And by the looks of the Mango Sherbert trichomes, the droughting is accomplishing what it's supposed to...
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I hope so, she is now in her 15th day of having to struggle without regular water. She is not pretty for it, and as I generally harvest more than I need I can afford to perhaps lose a little bit of quantity for the chance of a higher potency payoff.
 
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Thanks Carcass! But no false modesty when I say there are many good folk on here who deserve it.

I hope so, she is now in her 15th day of having to struggle without regular water. She is not pretty for it, and as I generally harvest more than I need I can afford to perhaps lose a little bit of quantity for the chance of a higher potency payoff.
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You've been droughting and doing the survival drink thing to the Mango for 15 days? WOW. How long are you going to continue that? And I guess you go back to normal watering post drought til harvest? Or is harvest directly after drought?
 
Update + Mango Herbert's 15th day of droughting + bud & trichome pics of each plant

Greetings 420 enthusiasts! It is the 15th day of the Mango Sherbert's droughting phase, I last watered her in the form of a small 'survival drink' 3 days ago. She is bearing up but since these pictures were taken, the sun is come around to fall on the plants and I can see she is flagging again, her leaves are now dropping quite a bit. A day with rain is forecast in 3 days time, I will probably give her a further survival drink today or tomorrow and then let her limp towards the supposed rain day and see if it happens. I want to keep her lean and mean but not harmfully stress her.

The leaves of her under canopy show the stress she's been under, many dead and dried off. But yet, many of her leaves are still functioning fine, if only to be looking a little bit worse for wear. My instinct is to remove the dead leaves because they 'lower of the tone' of the balcony, but I think what DV8 mentioned about plants and stress when water gets into cuts. By now the plant should have 'sealed up' all those dead leaves and is probably fairly strong now against infection, so I don't think I should risk compromising that at this point, even tho it looks quite tatty visually.

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Well that's where I'm at today, thanks for dropping by folks, hope you're all keeping well. :ganjamon:
 
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You've been droughting and doing the survival drink thing to the Mango for 15 days? WOW. How long are you going to continue that? And I guess you go back to normal watering post drought til harvest? Or is harvest directly after drought?
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Well it's ongoing 'experiment', I am planning on continuing to go hard on her until harvest in 2-3 weeks time. Altho it is not about punishing her, but encouraging her to produce a 'drought response' where her buds may gain increased potency. That's the idea!
 
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Well it's ongoing 'experiment', I am planning on continuing to go hard on her until harvest in 2-3 weeks time. Altho it is not about punishing her, but encouraging her to produce a 'drought response' where her buds may gain increased potency. That's the idea!
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The post you just posted answered the question too, and thank you. GREAT experiment. The keeping her lean and mean but not hurting her comment pretty much explains it. And it certainly does look as if the MS is responding as you want it to with the treatment. Have you grown MS before and maybe have at least a reference point in your head to how this compares trichome-wise with that (I assume) undroughted plant? Cuz she's all kinds of frosty, you don't even need trichome pics!!!
 
One more question @Stunger, and thanks for putting up with me. Lol. So the increase in trichome production....do you think it's MORE trichomes or BIGGER trichomes or both? It certainly looks like more, at least.
 
Hey fella, in my musings I was really only referring to the trauma associated with your ties, and referenced an insight from a professional. It was an attempt to point to a possible cause, or additional cause to that particular plants sudden and overwhelming demise.

What Im really saying is please dont let my analysis of one particular situation colour the rest of your grow, or paint you into a corner.

Through all your documentation of this and other grows Ive never had reason to suspect your growing style or inputs were anything but prime, and appropriate.

That Malanje kinda thrown everything for a bit of a loop, but I feel its more an aberration stacked against all the other girls youve raised and the 3 still being raised.

Im watching with interest in your droughting, takes à bit of fortitude to strangle out a plant, and you're holding the line superbly. Hope the weather remains on side. Im as good as certain when she finishes and goes on to cure it will have been well worth it.
 
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