Indoor BR549's Poisoned Fantasmo Trainwreck Decay Extravaganza!
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DAY 50: Another update. This is one of those updates you want to put off; the grow apparently is not going to be one of my best. The plants are starting to have problems. Soil pH is fine, water pH is fine. I dunno. I've been leaning towards trying another approach next time around, and weeks like this sure don't argue against it.
Fantasmo Express:
Nothing wrong with this girl, except, as you can see, she has a droopy branch. Plant yo-yos to the rescue!
The first wave begins to wither...
Sweet Trainwreck:
This one's starting to have some problems at the lower level. On one hand, it's problems. On the other, it's just the lower leaves that were going to have problems eventually anyway, right?
(still working on those photography skills!)
Red Poison:
Okay, this is the one that has me worried. It's had slight deficiency problems from the start, but now it's stuff like crispy leaves and such. Which is a shame, 'cause it looks so cool!
Toof Decay:
This one's doing great!
Okay, seven weeks down; let's see some fattening up, girls!
Fantasmo Express:
Nothing wrong with this girl, except, as you can see, she has a droopy branch. Plant yo-yos to the rescue!
The first wave begins to wither...
Sweet Trainwreck:
This one's starting to have some problems at the lower level. On one hand, it's problems. On the other, it's just the lower leaves that were going to have problems eventually anyway, right?
(still working on those photography skills!)
Red Poison:
Okay, this is the one that has me worried. It's had slight deficiency problems from the start, but now it's stuff like crispy leaves and such. Which is a shame, 'cause it looks so cool!
Toof Decay:
This one's doing great!
Okay, seven weeks down; let's see some fattening up, girls!
Nute change alert! All plants are now getting this:
1.5 tsp Big Bloom
1.0 tsp Grow Big
1.0 tsp Tiger Bloom
0.5 tsp Microbe Brew
0.5 tsp Boomerang
.25 tsp Kelp Me, Kelp You
.25 tsp Beastie Bloomz
No more Cal/Mag or Silica. I figure the Silica has done it's thing by now or it's worthless anyway. The Cal/Mag I'll start up again if it looks like they need it, but I'd rather not.
The fact that all the plants are switching to Beastie Bloomz at the same time is coincidental, and only due to my breaking* the Fantasmo Express and starting her on the flowering nutes earlier than normal. The Fantasmo Express is getting the full two weeks of Open Sesame and Beastie Bloomz because of her longer time frame; the others are getting only my normal week and a half. So F.E. will switch to Cha-Ching about half a week AFTER the other three.
And a group photo to justify the post...
As you can see, the Red Poison in the front left is really struggling. Fortunately I have the other three seeds...
*And, the longer this grow proceeds, the more I'm thinking of it as a great new training technique rather than a mistake. It may not have been orthodox, but it's the only plant in the grow with a decent canopy.
1.5 tsp Big Bloom
1.0 tsp Grow Big
1.0 tsp Tiger Bloom
0.5 tsp Microbe Brew
0.5 tsp Boomerang
.25 tsp Kelp Me, Kelp You
.25 tsp Beastie Bloomz
No more Cal/Mag or Silica. I figure the Silica has done it's thing by now or it's worthless anyway. The Cal/Mag I'll start up again if it looks like they need it, but I'd rather not.
The fact that all the plants are switching to Beastie Bloomz at the same time is coincidental, and only due to my breaking* the Fantasmo Express and starting her on the flowering nutes earlier than normal. The Fantasmo Express is getting the full two weeks of Open Sesame and Beastie Bloomz because of her longer time frame; the others are getting only my normal week and a half. So F.E. will switch to Cha-Ching about half a week AFTER the other three.
And a group photo to justify the post...
As you can see, the Red Poison in the front left is really struggling. Fortunately I have the other three seeds...
*And, the longer this grow proceeds, the more I'm thinking of it as a great new training technique rather than a mistake. It may not have been orthodox, but it's the only plant in the grow with a decent canopy.
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Well, you've probably seen the last of the solo Fantasmo Express photos in this grow. I just got everyone back in the tent, but she was a pain. Her limbs are WAAAAAAY too thin; she was flopping around like a squid out of water. I'm afraid she'll spend the rest of her life stuck on yo-yos.
DAY 57: I am a bad parent...
We all knew I was doing something wrong from the way the Red Poison was progressing, and I finally figured out what it was: Too much faith in my pH tester. I calibrated it at the start of the grow and hadn't checked it since. Well, now I have, and it was way off. The 7.01 test solution measured 6.5. Which means I was probably taking perfectly fine water and ruining it's pH. Brilliant. Okay, that's enough beating myself up-let's move on. This is the day I was supposed to flush the three faster plants, but I think I'm going to skip it on the Red Poison; the last feeding it got was the first decent feeding she had. She looks like shit, but if you look at the close up, the leaves near the budding sites are still fine, so I have hopes. Plus, in spite of all this, I guess I got a red one after all...
Red Poison:
Toof Decay:
Look at this baby! Even with the abuse these girls have obviously gone through, she's doing great. I may have to update my answer to the world's dumbest cannabis question:
Q: Can anyone grow pot?
Former A: No, some people can kill a houseplant with a glare at twenty paces.
New A: Well, maybe if it's Toof Decay...
Sweet Trainwreck:
Another one that's doing well. She and the Toof Decay will get the flush as soon as I finish this post. (For Fox Farms users, this is the second flush on the feeding chart.)
Fantasmo Express:
Okay, this one is offically a pain. Pretty much every branch is on a yo-yo now. Once the other plants are out of the tent, I can maybe rig something up with bamboo stakes to spread out the buds. All I can do now is watch and hope it isn't too moist in there...
One good thing about all this; whenever I do hit rough spots, my first thought now is "wait until next grow" rather than "I can't do this", so I've definitely improved since the eighties...
We all knew I was doing something wrong from the way the Red Poison was progressing, and I finally figured out what it was: Too much faith in my pH tester. I calibrated it at the start of the grow and hadn't checked it since. Well, now I have, and it was way off. The 7.01 test solution measured 6.5. Which means I was probably taking perfectly fine water and ruining it's pH. Brilliant. Okay, that's enough beating myself up-let's move on. This is the day I was supposed to flush the three faster plants, but I think I'm going to skip it on the Red Poison; the last feeding it got was the first decent feeding she had. She looks like shit, but if you look at the close up, the leaves near the budding sites are still fine, so I have hopes. Plus, in spite of all this, I guess I got a red one after all...
Red Poison:
Toof Decay:
Look at this baby! Even with the abuse these girls have obviously gone through, she's doing great. I may have to update my answer to the world's dumbest cannabis question:
Q: Can anyone grow pot?
Former A: No, some people can kill a houseplant with a glare at twenty paces.
New A: Well, maybe if it's Toof Decay...
Sweet Trainwreck:
Another one that's doing well. She and the Toof Decay will get the flush as soon as I finish this post. (For Fox Farms users, this is the second flush on the feeding chart.)
Fantasmo Express:
Okay, this one is offically a pain. Pretty much every branch is on a yo-yo now. Once the other plants are out of the tent, I can maybe rig something up with bamboo stakes to spread out the buds. All I can do now is watch and hope it isn't too moist in there...
One good thing about all this; whenever I do hit rough spots, my first thought now is "wait until next grow" rather than "I can't do this", so I've definitely improved since the eighties...
