Mephisto Genetics Hubbabubba K.I.S.S. grow journal

[HubbaBubba]

Looking good man, I think you have the starts of a deficiency there, maybe Iron?

It does look like Iron deficiency, maybe my soil is getting close to 7 pH and Iron lockout. I think it is also stress from changes in her environment. Seems to be a pattern, artificial lights stress the plants using more minerals than my tomato food gives.
It also looks likes light burn, maybe from the sudden shock of 200w of CFL

I'll stick with the K.I.S.S and see what kind of buds and yield she gives.
Should I snip the ugly leaves so light penetrates the canopy better?

 

[Iamlegend2121]

Yes, for sure showing deficiency. I think it is mostly stress from changes in her environment. I am gonna stick with the K.I.S.S and see what kind of buds and yield she gives. But it does seem to be a pattern, artificial lights stress the plants and they use more minerals than my tomato food gives.

Should I snip the deficient leaves so light penetrates the canopy better?

I wouldn't snip them untill they get necrotic looking. Those leaves aren't dead yet lol. If you snip those that just started showing the deficiency it will just jump to other leaves.

 

[sour.b]

Nice experiment man... Crazy how you actually don't need much!

 

[HubbaBubba]

Nice experiment man... Crazy how you actually don't need much!

Thanks sour.b.
I am a little surprised that the plant is doing so well on just bloom nutes.

I added more CFL lights to warm up the grow room, 250 watts of CFL now. The grow room gets supplemental CO2 from my heavy breathing and plants in a higher CO2 environment are supposed to like warmer temps. At the moment the CO2 is 800 (400 is normal) and temp is steady at 29C. I wonder if it will make a difference.

 

[HubbaBubba]

@Think here is an update, the flowers look better than I can capture in photos.

I bet there are 100 bud sites on the plant

Main Cola

 

[Iamlegend2121]

Looking good, she's a beast!

 

[HubbaBubba]

Looking good, she's a beast!

Thanks, I sniped and vaped a popcorn bud yesterday and got.... nothing worth mentioning, too early.
She might go more than 80 days. If those flowers really fatten up, wow

She will give far more than I need. So I am thinking about lollipoping, snipping the lower popcorn buds to save energy for higher quality upper colas. What do you think?

 

[Iamlegend2121]

Thanks, I sniped and vaped a popcorn bud yesterday and got.... nothing worth mentioning, too early.
She might go more than 80 days. If those flowers really fatten up, wow

She will give far more than I need. So I am thinking about lollipoping, snipping the lower popcorn buds to save energy for higher quality upper colas. What do you think?

I have never tried it personally, but I plan on doing it in the future. When you have a tall plant like that you end up getting popcorn on the bottom. Personally I hate popcorn buds I just throw them into the hash pile. I don't even attempt to trim them.

 

[HubbaBubba]

She is drinking over 2 liters a day, that has to be good. The colas aren't as photogenic as Sour Crack, but they are getting heavy enough to need support. Is there anything better than flowers getting chunky? I'm having fun with the flash today... 3 pics of the same flower.

No Flash:

Flash on...all the Trichomes pop out, long and short

Flash in a dark room, seems over exposed.

 

[HubbaBubba]

Day 67 showing about 1% amber trichomes, no bubblegum smell yet. I wonder if she was traumatized from the nute burn that delayed flowering, and the sudden change to CFL lights, and the stem crushing for canopy shaping...3 times.

12 colas tops like this in the upper canopy, more in the middle. Maybe the supercropping helped.