New Grower CF - Do Si Dos and Super Silver Haze.

[Clem Fandango]

Issues with calcium and magnesium due to PH sinking to around 5 in all pots. The two Autos stalled with bud development and had obvious necrosis and yellowing of shade leaves.

After the overwhelming response to my infirmary post I took it upon myself to try to remedy the situation.

All plants were given a light feed and strong mix of Calmag two days ago.

The autos reacted well to this with a noticeable fattening of buds and the trichomes perked up.

With that positive feedback, today the job was to bring the pH up.

Dosi do 1 was flushed out with 14 litres of 6.8 pH water in two batches, run off now reading 5.9.

Dosi do 2 was also flushed with 14 litres with runoff reading 5.8

SSH was flushed with 8 litres at 6.8 which gave me a reading of 6 pH.

Next step will be a feed plan until done set at 6.5 pH and a single one off foliage spray of Calmag at 15 ml per litre.

Side note; the SSH has been put into the cardboard box dark chamber for the last 5 days and seems to be responding well. I need the whole tent for it soon and am crossing my fingers that the autos finish up soon before the SSH muscles too much room from them. The only other measure I can take is to remove the SSH from the tent, bring the ts 600 out as well and use the lung room until tent is available. That will be last resort though.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Ok, so today I had to reconfigure the tent. The fan placement was rearranged to accommodate the exploding SSH.

All plants responded well to the flush out yesterday. Today they were fed at 6.5 pH and received a foliage spray of Calmag. I gave them a good misting therefore put three fans on them and vented the lung room to avoid high humidity and or rot setting in. Hopefully, they'll be ok. As of tomorrow I'll be regularly adding Calmag to the feed albeit at significantly smaller doses.

I should have an EC, TDS pen tomorrow plus some more calibration fluid for my pH pen so I can be a little more accurate with my feeds and water.

I'm starting to get hopeful that the results may not be as woeful as I suspected them to be.

I do really need them to get a giddy up though.

This bloody photo is going bananas. I had to tie it even further down today as well ..

 

[Clem Fandango]

So I messed up my week count and am actually now at week 10 with the first Do si Dos and week 9 with the second. Week 1 of flower switch with the Super Silver Haze.

Wakey wakey

I played around with light height and ended up cooking the tops of the plants a bit. Light quickly moved to a less burny distance.

I also bought a PPM meter finally and found out my starting water has a ppm of 400. After sourcing the correct water analysis I saw it has a high Cal Mag content. I have to work around that until I get myself a cheapish reverse osmosis set up.

The smaller DSD (week 10) is about a week away from chop. It's looking ok all Things considered.

The second DSD (week 9) is fairing much better, and looking ok apart from the scorching.

Then there's the Super Silver Haze,
I did a defol and more bondage to keep her as low as possible until the Autos finish. I also have her doing 12 hour stints in the darkness of the cardboard box. She is a great plant and very forgiving. I have scrog coming and am chomping at the bit to give her more room to spread her wings. I'll never do 3 plants in the tent again. It's a massive pain in the arse.

Lastly and not really worth a mention is a mini DSD that will probably go outside once the other two DSD's are finished. This one is just a bit of fun and if it tanks it tanks, no big deal.

That's it. Tune in next week for CF's dog's breakfast grow update.

 

[Clem Fandango]

We've had high humidity here over the last week and my tent was sitting at about 62% for too long ... Went to water this morning. F#ו bud rot on one bud on the smaller DSD. Pretty annoyed after all the grief this f'n thing has given me (or me it, depends on your point of view). As it was a few days from ready anyway with quite a few milky trichomes and a amber here and there, I though better chop it now and lessen the risk of the other (better) DSD falling foul of this shite.

The rot had just infected the first top cm of one bud.
It was quickly removed and brought to a separate room.

The plant was then taken out of the tent and chopped. Bud was trimmed back as much as I could as I want a fast drying time to mitigate potential mold explosion.

I then made an emergency dry box

I bagged the (visibly) infected part of the bud and removed it.

Here's the bit where if any one were to read this they may shake their head.

I stuck the rest of the bud in my mushy dehydrator.

I Intend to make a batch of canna milk/tea/coffee with all the trimmings as soon as I find out how...


Pray with me to the imaginary cloud man that I caught this in time and that I can keep my humidity in the tent low enough for the next two weeks to get the second DSD over the line

 

[Clem Fandango]

Not too much happening, I introduced a more powerful fan and tightened the LST down a bit to spread the colas out a bit and get more airflow between them to try and negate any mold issues.

Defoliated the Super Silver Haze again, she's growing really well and I'm loving how it looks. Finger crossed that she doesn't go tits up before finish

Before defol

After defol, not gone too crazy. I left a lot of the fringe fan leaves and cleared a lot of the middle out.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Dry weight of the problem child was 83 grams. Loose buds and had to throw away one cola due to mold. All in all not unhappy, as I have something to smoke even when it can't really be classed as an efficient or overly successful grow.

The second DSD faired a lot better and was chopped today, much more weight and a healthier plant overall. I had to bodgy up a bigger dry box to accommodate the extra.

The Super Silver Haze can now spread out and has the tent for herself. I scrogged her today and set her comfortably in her new airy spot. She is sticky as fuck and stinks. I love her.

And lastly my yoghurt DSD that sits mostly outside, is going to spend it's entire existence in it's yoghurt container.

So that's it for this week.
I've learned quite a bit over the last 3 months. Stepped on my dick a lot too. Some mistakes made through carelessness and some through not reading articles thoroughly enough and applying measures incorrectly.

Next run will be much better, the AK from Seed Stockers is chomping at the bit.

First let's get this Super Silver Haze over the line.

Boomshanka.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Not much happening, another day another cm. Everything looking ok, humidity is a bitch at the moment. However the girls seem to be coping ok.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Two photos I took yesterday evening and a snap from this morning.

The SSH is doing well. Very pungent and sticky. I have been feeding her 2 litres of nutes 3 times a day. Since I adopted this method she has really started to fill out.

Then there's the sole surviving Do si do in a yoghurt tub. This thing gets fed multiple times a day and loves chilling with the herbs, summer flowers and plantain. Not sure what will become of her but at the moment she is doing well.

Ok, See you next Monday.

 

[Clem Fandango]

SSH is ticking along, Trichomes starting to milk up with the odd amber here and there.
I'm in love with this plant.. seriously... it's starting to get a little weird, like those freaks that marry cars and trains and shit. If you see me on Jerry Springer you'll know why.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Weekly update.

Was feeding about 2-2.5 litres at 600ppm 3x daily for 2-300ml runoff. This runoff started to rise so I've dropped back to 2x 3 litres 2x daily.

Trichomes are 60 - 70 % milky but only 1% amber. I'm guessing 1 - 2 more weeks before harvest.

She gets more and more silver and shiny each day.

The Do-si-do in the yoghurt tub is also doing ok considering it's an auto on a photo light schedule.

I had one of my big fans shit itself during a three day humidity wave which had me sweating bullets about mold but I have a small but good clip on fan and another 50w large fan still going so I think airflow should be ok.

The SSH was stunted, burnt, underfed, and generally mistreated for the first half of her life and you can see the result of her hard upbringing in the overall size of plant and flower. Nevertheless despite everything she is producing more than acceptable flower with an aroma that takes me back to me teens.

Cross fingers the next week or two are mishap free.