Greetings from down here.... it's day 25 of Multi Strain Madness and it has been a bit hairy dealing with 4 plants of different strains and different ages. I have 3 separate buckets off nutrient, labelled to avoid confusion, and I have separate spreadsheets on the computer to track what I'm dosing in each bucket and feeding to which plant..
It's been a good week in the tent, despite the ambient temps being up in the mid 30s still.... humidity at 80-90% with the occasional serious thunderstorm...... Autumn down here means torrential rain and flooding. But it should cool down too! The changing of the seasons also means a lot of the beasts out there go to beddie byes for the winter. So hopefully the snakes are gonna piss off for a bit...... we were gonna go for a swim the other day and I saw a little snake in the pool..... about 50cm long, swimming quite quickly towards me from the other side. It looked like a tree snake, so I grabbed a little plate that was lying around, and scooped it out..... it fucking went for me the fucker, so I legged it, got my phone out and went to take a pic of it as it went and hid in the rocks just beside the pool......
I sent this pic to a snake ID place, and they immediately texted back (on a Sunday) - WARNING THE SNAKE IS A JUVENILE EASTERN BROWN SNAKE - highly aggressive and seriously venomous, more so than the adults, cos they don't regulate how much toxin they deliver (some snakes will dry bite you as a warning).... these just give you the whole lot.
Anyway, back to the grow..... here they are....
Clockwise from bottom.... Night Queen, Toofless Alien, Cream Mandarine and Pineapple Express.
The Toofless Alien is the largest.... about 30cm high and roughly as wide. I have removed some of the huge fan leaves from the main stem to allow the side branches to get more light and develop more quickly. She's on an EC 1.0 feed the same as last week, just with the usual 0.1ml/L increase in Nitrogen and Silicon. She likes about 4 Litres a day, an increase from the 3 of previous weeks, so I expect her to take off soon! Once those branches get a little bigger, Ill stake her out a bit.
Cream Mandarine is next at 26cm, she's also on the same EC 1.0 feed as the Toofless Alien and although she is flourishing, she's a little smaller than the Alien so far. Once again, I have also removed some fan leaves from the main stem..... I have done this for the last few grows.... the plants get such big fan leaves that the new stems are completely shaded from the light. I only do 2 at a time so as not to stress the main stem.
The Pineapple Express is next, officially at day 20. She has what the Toofless Alien and Cream Mandarine had last week, so she's on EC 0.9. She's 22cm tall and I have just removed one set of (massive) fan leaves. They have a really wide leaves and deep, heavy serrations, very distinctive and very Indica by the looks of it. She looks like she's happy and growing vigorously.....
Finally the Night Queen, only 11 days old, and looking good. She's on an EC 0.8 feed, I've started giving Multizyme and Silicon this week.
I must remember to add more Coco and level out her medium tonight .
That's it for this week, next week there should be some preflowers on the Alien and Mandarine, and hopefully they'll start stretching out a bit.
Thanks for dropping by, good growing karma to all!