Dutch Passion Grow report 30x Dutch Passion's Orange Hill Special (Fem)

[Ken357]

The girlies!

 

[derek420colorado]

Great start Ken, keep up the good work!

 

[F.N.]

I am looking forward to this diary for sure 30 plants DP seeds are so viable they will germinate if just ask them to LOL. Best of luck in your endeavors mate

 

[Ken357]

Well guys, I think the first funky pheno's are revealing themselves... Check out the 2 little ones in this pic. They're much slower than the rest. We're now at day 10. Overal I'm very satisfied with their progress though. Very vigorous 'till now. All I'm giving them at the moment is ph'ed water with half strength "H&G Roots Excellurator" root stimulator and a daily spraying, right before lights out, of half strength trace minerals with a drop of fulvic acid. I'll add a drop of fish extract (N boost) to the water starting next week because coco is almost inert when it comes to nutrition. Lightly elevated N (less P) during veg is a good way to keep the males away. Like I mentioned before, I'm keeping stress to an absolute minimum to suppress the chance of hermie's. I even kicked my girlfriend out!

 

[Ken357]

A few more pics for y'all

 

[Ken357]

Today I, very gradually, turned down the heat in the heated propagator from around 78F (25C) to 70F (21C). This to ensure the added beneficial fungi (Mycorrhiza and Trichoderma) can flourish. As these fungi need time to develop you can never start to early. The lower temperature will hopefully also help suppress the potential hermie genes. Outside of that, not much to mention. The old adage comes to mind: "No news is good news"

Happy weekend to all! Sharing one! ;-)

PS Anybody else have problems typing in MS IE11? It seems like my keyboard is leaving out letters whilst typing...

 

[sour.b]

PS Anybody else have problems typing in MS IE11? It seems like my keyboard is leaving out letters whilst typing...

You are probably just stone mate:Sharing One: haha

Looking good in the nursery Ken..

 

[Ken357]

Well peeps, another week passed and I thought I'd share a few new pics. I've been upping my watering frequency because the girls are really starting to drink. Still maintaining a very light feeding of around 0.6 EC, pH of 6.0 with a drop of N added. I alternately use H&G Roots Excelurator, BioBizz Fish Mix, and Aptus Startbooster all at less than half strenght to avoid any salt build up in these small pots. Today I took the pots out of my propagator due to the ladies bumping elbows. They're spaced a little further apart now. I also exchanged my T5 for a bigger 125W CFL @ 6400K.
I'll try to get some better pictures up this week. But for now I'll just post these 2:

 

[Ken357]

Here's a question for y'all... Only two of the 30 young'uns have this problem. I could swear it was a phosfor deficiency but they've all had the same treatment. I gave them a few drops of phosfor boost right after seeing this and since then it hasn't progressed. I also sprayed all 30 with a light solution of H&G Magic Green. Day and night temps are all perfect. At 21 degrees C (70F). Anyway, have a look at the pics and feel free to shed your wisdom. They'll all be moving into the big room next weekend. Started an extreme flush on the previous grow last Wednesday. Gotta leach the coir before these OHS siblings move in.
The last picture is of the 2 runts. They suffer from stunted growth.
Thanks guys. Have a great weekend! [emoji6]

 

[Ken357]

The girls moved into the big tent today in the big pots of heavily flushed coir. I added a handful of calcium, beneficial bacteria, and fungi through the coir before planting. Yesterday I soaked the coir wit a light ph'ed solution of H&G Excelurator and humic acid. I turned on my 3 600W Dimlux @35% output power for 18/6. I topped the taller plants to induce side branching and control height. Some pheno's grow tall and stalky so if I didn't know better they would be suspects of masculinity. 2 plants stayed kinda small so I kept them in the front so I can eyeball them closely. I'm kinda worried they might go hermie on me.
Here's some pics again. I took the pics in plain hps light so please excuse the colors.