Photoperiod SWICK bed grow: Pink Kush, Tangerine Dream, Amnesia Lemon and Alpha Dog!

[lazylathe]

Around 8 days after flip. These girls are looking good so far!
The will be given a medium strip next weekend and a clean up around week 5.
At week 5 they will also be topped up with some more Dark Matter soil and EWC. I will also be giving them the odd top watering to add some cal/mag.
Otherwise only pH'd water in the SWICK and forget about them! LOL!!! They are my children and get looked in multiple times when I am home!!

8 days ago they looked like this...

Today they look like this...

Some of the leaves are bigger than dinner plates, see bottom right leaf.
After transplant a few showed these odd bright green/yellow blotches on some leaves and tips but they are all gone now.
I would imagine it was from the adjustment to a slightly hotter soil amendment. Will be doing the same type in a few weeks so they should have another big boost of growth!
Also had to turn on the exhaust and carbon filter, these ladies are super stinky!

 

[lazylathe]

6 Days after the post above, brings us to today!
15 days since the flip and they are monsters!

Each plant was removed from the SWICK and pruned!
Everything from the ground to about 6 inches was stripped as well as some of the larger fan leaves.
A vast difference from what they had grown into!

So far zero deficiencies have been seen, so I am very happy with it to this point.
Still 2+ months of flower to go...LOL!
I think the last topping with Dark Matter soil and EWC has done wonders for the ladies!
Roots are growing out of the bottom of the fabric pots as well, so the root system is good to go for full SWICK action.

So far I added 8 gallons to my SWICK a week ago and the perlite was still slightly damp and the pots had a damp line about 6 inches high from the bottom. Pots were dryish on top under hay but damp 2 inches down, worked perfectly for drawing the root system down!

Tonight at lights on after the prune, everyone was very slowly hand watered till run-off was seen from the very bottom of the fabric pot.
Tonight's cocktail was:
EM-1
Microbial Mass
Kelp
Compost Tea
Organic cal/mag
all mixed in R.O water and pH'd to 6.5

This was before the haircut and water
Canopy shot

Full frontal, these ladies are straight from the 70's!
Full bush mode...

After a few hours of work, the canopy looks like this.
Much nicer and more light penetration and better air circulation!

And I moved the ladies to the 20th century!
Full frontal is nice and clean now!

I also discovered that my earthworms are turning into eels!
They are escaping the pots and living under the pots and in the SWICK...
When I find them on the sides of the fabric pots, they seem to be glued onto the fabric and are difficult to remove.
They seem happy and the things keep multiplying in the pots, s o they must be happy!

And some of the Timothy Hay is starting to sprout!

And lastly I had to do all this with the pad of my right hand baby finger missing...
I sliced it off at work on Friday afternoon, oops! Damn thing would not stop bleeding for almost 16 hours.
100% would not recommend!

Next weekend will be week 3 of flower, so they will get their last soil based topping and first flower amendment then.
It will be a mix of Dark Matter, EWC and Gaia Green Flower Booster dry amendment.
They will continue to receive pH'd R.O water with EM-1 and cal/mag for the rest of the grow.
Towards the end of flower I may add another type of flower booster, not sure yet!

 

[lazylathe]

The Mighty Mini Tangerine Dream...

Broke the last inch of the taproot off but planted her anyway to see what happens.
Grew slowly but steadily and self topped herself at the first node.
For 12 hours she sits on a bucket so she can get light, poor little girl!
She has been happily flowering away when I noticed this interesting bud formation!

A polyploid bud!

 

[lazylathe]

Still talking away to myself in the thread and grow room! At least no one argues with what i say or do!
Guess it does have some perks...

At around day 40 from flip and things are starting to shape up now!
A few of the dodgy seedbank have thrown a few cal/mag issues on a leaf here and there. All the other plants are perfect so not sure what their problem is.

The one Barney's Farm Amnesia Lemon has thrown some odd leaf coloration's on the odd leaf, quite pretty!

The worms in the bin were fed again as they were hungry! Need to pick up a bag of organic compost to give them something to do.

The worms in the pots were also fed and I found this at lights on tonight. Makes me happy to see the worms thriving in the pots! Also visible is the small grass shoots that are in all the pots. Also had a cool mushroom in one for a few days.

Canopy shots are difficult due to the baffle the seals the door to prevent light from entering the grow room. The room is wall to wall full and nowhere to stand for a good shot.

And a few bud progress shots!

I need to bring another light into the room to take better pics. The QB's are just too bright for the camera to compensate. Time to do some reading...

 

[lazylathe]

I did a bit of research on the new COB light I picked up on impulse from my hydro guy.
Due to the size of this grow, my QB was not quite enough and the left hand side area was quite a bit dimmer. Not good!!

Each COB is rated at 50Watts, so I have added an extra 150Watts to the room.
It is not ideal at the moment and I think I want to redo the lighting with more distance between the QB's and possibly and COB between each board. We will see...

So they are called Ceres DIY COB LED Grow Light Bar and are mnade by MX-LED growlight company.
Not a clue who they are but they claim to have been doing this for 15 years.
The specs for the light are:

Technical specifications:
Power: 50W per COB
HID equivalent: 100W
LED Qty: 1PCS 50W COB
PPFD: 307μmol/m²/s @ 0.45m (17.72 inch)
Lumen: >6000LM(@3500K)
N.W: 2.8kg
Cold forging radiator, efficient heat dissipation.
Dimmension: Track length:1m Lamp size:Φ135*180mm
Coverage: 0.4m² @ 0.45m (17.72 inch)
Voltage: AC85-265V
Work Frequency: 50/60Hz
CCT: 2700K/3000K/3500K/4000K/5700K/6500K
LED Type: CXA2540
Accessories: power cable, hanger
Recommended For: Full-cycle growing from seedling to flower

It's been on for almost a week now and the plants under them seem to be packing on more weight now, could just be the phase as evryone is bulking up! The smaller runt TD is enjoying her own litle spotlight for the runt that could!
I call her "Billy, The Punk Rocker"!