New Grower Mara's continuous grow

[kfigerm]

I aim to one to two weeks after the stretch has finished - depending on the looks of the sugar leaves, when there are starting to grow many and still are dark green and - last indication, produce trichomes, it's time to start for me. That's often somewhere between week 7-8.
Perhaps that's too late, but that's what I do. My current grow I just started with the full bloom nutes at ~ day 53 for one and will start today with the two other girls at day 55.

But I have this from old bro science and haven't thought about it since I started growing again..so I'll sub..what's the best sign to start feeding full bloom?

 

[kfigerm]

thanks for the reps. I'll take them. But I'm somewhat unusual, because I don't have a problem with lost of sugar leaves and don't bother with foxtails...most growers don't like them, for me it's all simply more "open" space for more ripe trichomes.
But I don't have to bother with bag appeal too..just stuff myself.
Good Luck!

 

[Mara Cachafa]

7-weeks-old, time fer an update:

The girls were getting unruly so I had to drop in an 18" wire hoop to spread the tops some more and keep them out of the lights [you can see the red wire (left), white wire(center), black wire(right)]. They're all in flower now. Still very thirsty (1.5 liters in the morning, and 2 liters at night). A few days ago I switched feed to the reduced-nitrogen flowering formula (week 6-8 on the feed schedule). Here's the deets:

Gnome MothMan #1 is 51 days old (top view, upskirt, bud):


Mephisto Double Grape #2 is 49 (top view, upskirt, bud):


Mephisto Double Grape #3, at day 44, was the first to flower, now showing some frost:


The next crop opened first leaves yesterday, but I'm logging today as 'day 1' for all 3. The humidity domes came off this morning. Mephisto Mango Smile #1, Moth Man #2, and ILGM Gold Leaf #3 (not counting 3 Gold Leaf S1's I grew from an accidental self-pollination):

The new crop is getting the same regimen as the last: 3-gallons of coco/perlite, feeding General Hydroponics Flora series & CalMag according to the feed schedule posted a couple of pages back, topping at 3 weeks old, and spreading with hoops to keep the tops out of the lights.

To stay "NY legal" I won't start 3 more 'til the big girls get chopped next month (?). I'm having a blast watching the girls grow and learn new tricks. Vaping some righteous street weed since my jars are officially empty. Thanks for all the advice and encouragement from all o' y'all Live Stoners!

 

[Frank the Dank]

Looking excellent my friend…keep it up

 

[Mara Cachafa]

I put in a nursery shelf on the unfinished side of the grow dungeon (reclaimed crawlspace) under an HLG100 at 4000k. The rectangular vent in the back wall goes 35' up through the roof with a wind turbine extractor. There is an 8" electric vent too, but I haven't had to turn it on at all yet with the big girls 7 weeks old.

 

[Mara Cachafa]

Happy Friday! Here's an 8-week update. I can't get the whole grow area in one photo since adding the nursery on the left, but here's the view from the door:

I think the big girls are done stretching. Leaves were getting pretty dark (too much nitrogen?), so they switched to bloom feed a couple of days ago (week 6-8 on the feed schedule). They've each been getting 1/2 gallon twice a day (1.75 liters?), aiming for 10% runoff. The pH of the 15GL reservoir drifts upward, so I've had to add more pH Lower before each watering, targeting pH 5.8 - 6.0.

Gnome Moth Man #1 is 58 days old.


Mephisto Double Grape #2 is 56:


Double Grape #3 is 51 days old, my frostiest plant yet:


The nursery girls are a week old. They started getting stronger nutes yesterday (week 2-3 on the feed schedule). ILGM Gold Leaf #3, Mephisto Mango Smile #1, and Gnome Moth Man #2:

Mango Smile (center) came with a warning that she might go 7 feet tall. She's already a leggy little thing, twice as tall as her sisters.

That's it for this week. A tip o' the hat to all you Live Stoners who got me this far!

 

[DCLXVI]

Looking very nice indeed. 7ft on the mango? Better get the @Vapo style tie down on that one.

 

[Mara Cachafa]

Looking very nice indeed. 7ft on the mango? Better get the @Vapo style tie down on that one.

Mango Smile is my first Sativa dominant (85/15). I don't think I can go as extreme as @Vapo, but I'll definitely top her early, spread 'em, and LST or super-crop as needed to keep her below the lights. I might remove the wire hangars and ballasts from my lights and screw the QB's right to the ceiling (with 1/2" airspace). I covered the rough-sawn wood overhead with aluminum trim-coil to eliminate the fire hazard of lights touching wood.

 

[Mara Cachafa]

Happy Friday! Here's a 9-week and 2-week update. Here's my first attempt at a panorama shot to get the whole 6' x 7' space:

Gnome Moth Man #1 is 65 days old today:


Mephisto Double Grape #2 is 63. I super-cropped the 3 tallest colas to get them under the light:
The super-cropped tops flopped down past horizontal, so I made wire supports:

Mephisto Double Grape #3 is 58. I super-cropped one cola that was 10" above the others:


The babies are 2 weeks old, on track to get topped above a 4th node later this week.
ILGM Gold Leaf #3, Gnome Moth Man #2, Mephisto Mango Smile #1:


I figured out that I can save a lot of "pH Lower" (and labor) by adjusting only the 1.5 gallons I need for one watering, instead of adjusting the whole reservoir. When I was trying to keep the whole 15-gallon reservoir at pH 5.9 it took a dozen milliliters of pH Lower initially, and another milliliter or so every 12 hours (before each watering). Now I only need about 12 drops of pH Lower right before each watering. @Mañ'O'Green explained that the phosphoric acid in the "pH Lower" reacts with the nutes, and whatever else is in the water, and loses strength. So now I add the nutes to the whole reservoir without adjusting the pH 'til later.

Thanks to all o' y'all Live Stoners for all the help, encouragement, inspiration, education, and camaraderie. Another report next Friday, if life endures.

 

[Mara Cachafa]

It's Friday, so here's a 10-week and 3-week report. Sorry the panorama isn't better quality:

MothMan #1 is 72 days old, building bud. I snipped off a little larf and vaped it already.


Double Grape #2 is 70, very sticky:


Double Grape #3 is 65. Frostiest plant I've grown:


The little girls are 3 weeks old. I switched to full-strength nutes a couple of days ago.
Gold Leaf #3 got topped on day 18, above node 6:


Mango Smile #1 also got topped on day 18, above node 6:


MothMan #2 will probably get topped tonight:


Just a quickie today because I have a lot of visitors for dad's 100th birthday. Thanks to all!