Hi guys. :Sharing One: Update time. :thumbs:
My plants are all 38 days old today. Flowering along very nicely, some getting sparkly, others not so fast. Some nice and healthy, others, not so very. I'll explain.
This is an aerial view of my Cream Caramel with just some cfl lighting. She is very horny and wanting to reproduce with a passion. Her flowers are sticky and smell like sweet berries with a spicy cinnamon or clove smell... and it's a thick smell, sluggish like syrup through the nostrils. I love this weed.
This is the whole bunch of them. Got the GN off to take some pics just before the lights go off. They're all thirsty in these pics. I've been trying to imitate nature a little bit, keeping the soil constantly moist for a few days, then letting it dry a day, start from the beginning again with constantly moist soil, then dry... repeat... There experiencing a dry period now.
On the left is the Cream Caramel, then the Sweet Afgani Delicious behind her and just to the right. Then the tall Fast Amnesia and behind her to the right is the Easy Ryder. Downward leaf canoeing and clawing on the FA can be seen here. She's a wide one. And causing me a bit of heart ache. She's growing like mad and is unhappy and I don't know what to do with her.
First the not-so-bad stuff...
Here's the CC up front with some of that clawing and canoeing going on as well. This is new for her and I didn't see it the last time I looked in before taking these pics. So if I didn't oversee it, and I don't think I did, this has come about in the last five hours. In the background is the SAD with lots of yellow tips. I know why that is. I gave her too much seabird guano. I did that on purpose, though, trying to push her into growing up some more. Didn't work. It just hurt her and all of her tips are yellow and I'm sorry.
This is a Cream Caramel flower getting sticky. That white thing is not a bug- believe me, I ran over and checked as soon as I saw that pic.
...and so is this...
...and this is the top of the Cream Caramel...
...and so is this...
oh, this one is also the top of the CC...
This is the top of the Easy Ryder, droopy wanting wetness...
and getting sticky.
I wanted to show you the healed branch. But I forgot and while I was putting the pics on the computer the lights went out and that will have to wait. *sigh*
Here's the problem child. Notice the canoeing all over her.
I've explaind the feeding frequency. What they typically get during a cycle is 400-500ml tea consisting of a combination of worm poop, kelp, alfalfa, molasses, epsom salt, fish, chicken poop or seabird poop, OR Biobizz Grow with or without fish OR Nirvana with or without fish OR just pH'd water. I've been upping the molasses since she's started flowering.
I'm thinking nitrogen overload because she also has some burned tips. But then I think that that can't be right because she's growing like crazy. Well she's stopped now, I think. But she was. He last feeding before this dry period was 3ml / L Biobizz grow with 2ml / L Nirvanna, at 6.5. Before you ask or hope to read what my soil pH is, I have no idea. The only runoff I get is what runs out of the holes on the side when feeding and since I feed reaaaaal slow, it's not much at all and it gets sucked up with a syringe and goes right back up top.
Here on one of her branches you can see why I say I don't think she has a nitrogen overload. It looks like she's neeeding more nitrogen. Or iron???
:dunno::dunno::dunno:
But this is happier looking...
CC on the left and FA on the right.
and the other way around...
I was planning on giving them all just plain water and molasses in the next few hours. Anyone think I should do something different? I know, I don't really put out the right info for a good diagnosis. Sorry. Temps go up to 28°.*c/ 82.*f on a warm day and down to 21°c / 70°f when it's a cold day and lights are out. Humidity is about 42 on average. The GN is roughly 44cm - 48cm above the tops.
I don't have a soil pH checker cuz I never needed one. A question; could I take a teaspoon of the soil from one or the other pots, add it to about 50 ml / ~1.5 oz of water that's been pH'd to 6.5, stir it for a while and get a reading that would let me calculate my soil pH?
Sorry if that's a dumb question. But I thought I'd ask before I go futzin more shit up.
Thank you for having a look.
Much Love to you, AFN!