Hi! A little late this week but it's been a good one, thanks for stopping in.
It's funny, one of my blue dreams and one of my berry bombs look like they could be siblings (both #2's in the pics below), dark green, super frosty, very berry smelling. Then my other Blue Dream and Berry Bomb are nothing like each other or their sisters. I'm thinking I've got mostly what I was hoping for coming out here, diversity. The plants that are so similar looking I'm assuming are showing the blueberry traits but I'm really curious to experience the difference in the smoke.
The candy cane hasn't seemed to be developing a lot this week but I think maybe it's just swelling up now. Everything else seems to be moving along nicely.
After seeing how acidic and hot the runoff was from my berry family, I decided to start running more regular cycles of non-feed waterings and I also did a florakleen watering. I checked some runoff today and the pH is back up into the 5.7 area which I thought was good but I'm hearing some people saying that they pH their water to 6.1+. This seems a little high to me from what I've learned, any opinions or thoughts out there? The runoff was still pretty hot, 1160 ppms which isn't necessarily hot for a feed but when I was putting in at 600 I think that's a bad sign. Any opinions on that? Do you measure your run-off regularly? What indicators do you look at to tell if you can feed heavier or water more?
I like the lightly burned tips
@Dudeski mentioned, I've got the Candy Cane right there. I've been holding back a bit on the rest because of the run-off and the few issues I've noticed through the run. I don't want to shock them or burn them or end up with a build-up issue either. Well lets look at some pics, I've got a couple of questions still that maybe you'd be kind enough to chime in and share your 2 cents?
Berry Bomb [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG]
Berry Bomb [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG]: That frost!
Blue Dream [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG]
Blue Dream [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG]
You can see that the two darker, frostier [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG] plants look to be far more mature than the [HASHTAG]#1s[/HASHTAG]. I've kinda loosely associated frostiness with doneness but I don't think that's necessarily true is it? The calyxes seem to be starting to swell a little in these [HASHTAG]#2s[/HASHTAG], do you suppose I can continue to give them the heavy bloom booster treatment and expect to get more size from it or is it too late? Is the swelling calyxes an indicator of ripening? It's not too easy to tell in the pics but even the biggest looking buds in the pics are not nearly filled in enough and are quite undergrown still so I'm hoping I can get them to grow larger before I have to try to flush a plant that's done growing.
I've been feeding all of these girls the same thing and I think that's maybe a bit of a problem too since they're at such different stages of development. How does your feeding regimen fluctuate through flowering? Do you keep your feeding the same the whole way through flower or do you adjust it as it goes? Are there indicators that trigger your changes? If you look at my #1's they're also at kinda different stages, or different parts of the same stage perhaps? Blue Dream [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG] has really got her stretch on and filled in so much this week, it's pretty remarkable. She seems like she's about to start really growing some buds. Whereas Berry Bomb [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG] is showing some flowers, they seem to have really just started to show up this prominently so she seems closer to the start of really flowering. She's very bushy though and looks like she should produce a lot more than her sister.
That's all I've got for now. I'll try to get the next update up on time, close to Wednesday
