Week: 9 - Day: 63
The Grow Northern HS1's LED have now been switched from a 20-4 lights on/off to a 24-0 lights on/off schedule and it will remain that way until harvest. Two of the units have been switched from a 80x80 diffuser to a 60x60 diffuser and are hung at 30 cm above the canopy while the other two remain on the standard 80x80 and are hung at 26cm.
In order for better light penetration and to allow hidden and shaded flowers to increase in size the plant was defoliated lightly using a clean sharp scissors. Also this week a second air stone was added to the DWC pot to help oxygenate the huge root mass thats growing in the solution.
Think Big was flushed for 24 hours in non PH'd water using Canna Flush, before receiving a fresh nutrient change at the start of this week. In the fresh nutrient solution bottle "A" of the bloom nutrient was increased ever so slightly while decreasing bottle "B", both bloom booster increased too.
Light bleaching damage can still be seen on the remaining fan leaves that got a little cooked last week. There seems to be some leaf tip burn in some areas of the plant and none in other areas, hopefully this is a good sign of finding the plants sweet spot.
Bar that Think Big looks pretty healthy over all including the root system which is slightly stained from the tea.
Growth has notably slowed as of now and the auto-flower comes in at a Height of 34cm, Length of 92cm and Width of 115cm.
Over the last few weeks this cannabis plant has managed to bush out extremely with plenty of bud sites developed all over mean while maintaining a flat even canopy.
Hopefully all the efforts of this intense plant training will have paid off and allow as much light to penetrate the plant canopy as possible.
Now that flowers have formed from each bud site, the plant will now be entering the generative phase where the development of the volume or breath of the flower will occur.
Looking at the flowers, notice some of the pistils on a few have turned amber while the rest remain white but eventually should also change as they grow older.
Plenty of THC has formed around the flowers and sweet leaf which is about 100% clear right now when using a 60x loupe to view the crystals.
This Think Big is the best smelling one out of the two that i have now had the pleasure in growing. The aroma seems sweeter and sweeter as the flowers now start to bud, still retaining that musky but Zesty lime scent.
Here is the weeks Dietary Nutritional details as the auto-fem currently drinks over 17L of solution a week.
This Weeks Feed:
Base Nutrients:
- Advanced Nutrients - Connoisseur Bloom A + B
Nutrient Additives:
- Advanced Nutrients - Bud Factor X
- CANNA - Boost
- CANNA - Zym
- Evoponic - Cal/Mg
- Grotek - Silicon
Nutrient Solution:
- PH: 5.5 - 5.8
- EC: 2.0 (2.3)
- Temp: 19 C
Environment:
- Lights On: 25-26 C
- Lights O: 20-21 C
- RH%: 40-50%