day 79 - nearly done
Welcome back. It's been a few weeks since the last post, and not much has happened... they are all slowly progressing towards the finish line.
Here they are just over a week ago on day 71, with the very tall Dinafem Cookie centre rear, then going clockwise, Blue Amnesia, Toofless Alien, and Night Queen...
....and today on day 79........
You can see the colas filling out, but that's about it. I've been a bit better at watering them, and they are reasonably happy.
Here's the Cookie....
Quite a lot to fit in one frame, and my photography ain't the best these days, but she's laden with some nice looking buds.
Here's a cola shot.....
Blue Amnesia is also a tall girl.....
No doubt about this one being an Auto.... flowering on 24/7 as she's meant to!
She's also filling out well....
The Cookie and Blue Amnesia are both very similar in structure, predominantly a main centre stem with a few side branches lower down. They had time for a good stretch after they moved from the Solo cups into the 25L airpots (quite late on day 33).
The Night Queen is also doing reasonably well after the late move and numerous episodes of severe dehydration early on....
She didn't get as tall as the other two, but she's a stocky one....
The Mephisto 'Toofless Alien' - my last one..... she was already well into flower by the time I moved her out of the Solo cup on day 33, so she didn't stretch at all.
One main cola developed, and it's quite solid and juicy, and close to finishing, but there's also been some side action since the move into the 25 L airpot, which is at a different state of maturity to the main cola....
The main cola is there in the centre and front while the less mature side branches rise up at the back.
Here's a closer look at the main cola....
... and a different view....
My 6 inch intake fan broke down about a week ago, I walked in to see my tent looking like a balloon!
As a quick fix, I had to replace it with my 6 inch intake fan, and use a 4 inch fan for intake instead.
That's made managing temps difficult in this hot spell, and I recorded a max of 38°C at one point.
I use 6 inch (150mm) Hyperfans for intake and extraction. Each one comes with it's own speed controller so I can adjust each one to get enough extraction to manage the heat and get a bit of negative pressure. Now I have my shiny new 6 inch Hyperfan back on the intake, I'm able to manage temps a bit more, and I'm running between 25-30°C.
I have 4 more seedlings on the go, they popped 10 days ago after I planted them direct in Coco in Solo cups.
Here they are on day 3 - clockwise from the top left, Blue Amnesia, Night Queen, Colorado Cookie and a day 2 Daiquiri Lime under wraps....
As always I love Night Queen for it's heavy hit, and Blue Amnesia is a tasty big producer.
The Dutch Passion 'Colorado Cookie' is an old favourite and the Daiquiri Lime has earned me a spot on the Dutch Passion blog in the past.... another masive potential yielder!
I'm pleased these both germinated, as they were from stock I got almost 6 years ago in April 2016!
100% succesful germination for 18 grows doing 4 plants each time.... I can't be arsed to do the maths.
Here they are today on day 10.....
I've got 2 bags of Coco ready to move them into bigger pots, but all I have are the 25L airpots that are currently in use.
I might get some cheap plastic 5L 'normal' pots and move them over in a few days time.
I've got some 5L airpots, but they are tricky to move into 25L airpots later on. The roots get disturbed and that can slow down growth for upto 3 days at a cruical time.
I figure the smooth conical shape of the regular 5L plastic pots will be easier to transplant as I can use the pot to make the right shaped hole in the coco in the 25L airpot, remove the pot and pop the plant in the hole.
The current grow is at day 79... and they probably have another 3 weeks on them, so I won't have those 25L airpots available for the new grow until after day 30, which as you've seen from this grow, is WAY too late.
Have a nice weekend and stay Corona Virus free. Wouldn't it be great if Cannabis was the cure!
Here they are just over a week ago on day 71, with the very tall Dinafem Cookie centre rear, then going clockwise, Blue Amnesia, Toofless Alien, and Night Queen...
....and today on day 79........
You can see the colas filling out, but that's about it. I've been a bit better at watering them, and they are reasonably happy.
Here's the Cookie....
Quite a lot to fit in one frame, and my photography ain't the best these days, but she's laden with some nice looking buds.
Here's a cola shot.....
Blue Amnesia is also a tall girl.....
No doubt about this one being an Auto.... flowering on 24/7 as she's meant to!
She's also filling out well....
The Cookie and Blue Amnesia are both very similar in structure, predominantly a main centre stem with a few side branches lower down. They had time for a good stretch after they moved from the Solo cups into the 25L airpots (quite late on day 33).
The Night Queen is also doing reasonably well after the late move and numerous episodes of severe dehydration early on....
She didn't get as tall as the other two, but she's a stocky one....
The Mephisto 'Toofless Alien' - my last one..... she was already well into flower by the time I moved her out of the Solo cup on day 33, so she didn't stretch at all.
One main cola developed, and it's quite solid and juicy, and close to finishing, but there's also been some side action since the move into the 25 L airpot, which is at a different state of maturity to the main cola....
The main cola is there in the centre and front while the less mature side branches rise up at the back.
Here's a closer look at the main cola....
... and a different view....
My 6 inch intake fan broke down about a week ago, I walked in to see my tent looking like a balloon!
As a quick fix, I had to replace it with my 6 inch intake fan, and use a 4 inch fan for intake instead.
That's made managing temps difficult in this hot spell, and I recorded a max of 38°C at one point.
I use 6 inch (150mm) Hyperfans for intake and extraction. Each one comes with it's own speed controller so I can adjust each one to get enough extraction to manage the heat and get a bit of negative pressure. Now I have my shiny new 6 inch Hyperfan back on the intake, I'm able to manage temps a bit more, and I'm running between 25-30°C.
I have 4 more seedlings on the go, they popped 10 days ago after I planted them direct in Coco in Solo cups.
Here they are on day 3 - clockwise from the top left, Blue Amnesia, Night Queen, Colorado Cookie and a day 2 Daiquiri Lime under wraps....
As always I love Night Queen for it's heavy hit, and Blue Amnesia is a tasty big producer.
The Dutch Passion 'Colorado Cookie' is an old favourite and the Daiquiri Lime has earned me a spot on the Dutch Passion blog in the past.... another masive potential yielder!
I'm pleased these both germinated, as they were from stock I got almost 6 years ago in April 2016!
100% succesful germination for 18 grows doing 4 plants each time.... I can't be arsed to do the maths.
Here they are today on day 10.....
I've got 2 bags of Coco ready to move them into bigger pots, but all I have are the 25L airpots that are currently in use.
I might get some cheap plastic 5L 'normal' pots and move them over in a few days time.
I've got some 5L airpots, but they are tricky to move into 25L airpots later on. The roots get disturbed and that can slow down growth for upto 3 days at a cruical time.
I figure the smooth conical shape of the regular 5L plastic pots will be easier to transplant as I can use the pot to make the right shaped hole in the coco in the 25L airpot, remove the pot and pop the plant in the hole.
The current grow is at day 79... and they probably have another 3 weeks on them, so I won't have those 25L airpots available for the new grow until after day 30, which as you've seen from this grow, is WAY too late.
Have a nice weekend and stay Corona Virus free. Wouldn't it be great if Cannabis was the cure!