Once again I have been undone by auto flowers but thanks to my set up which is especially designed to deal with the vagaries of autos while simultaneously keeping me in a manner to which I have become accustomed, I have made an end run around them. Let me explain....
It's pretty clear due to many posts (reddit) that the Blue Powers F4 have a disproportionate amount of rubbish genotypes with regard to structure. I pruned the fuck out of the Three BP taking the lower 3 sets of branches off two of them and the lower two off one. They looked fine after that but were obviously going to be a bit small. I was due for my next run in February 5, but then I discovered that my biggest BP was in fact a male, I don't mean it hermed because it did not have any pre pistils like the other two, then I saw it was in fact covered with pollen sacs so she had an early death.
The roots are dying off perfectly and to my surprise there is no algae at all, even in the cracks where the light gets through, so that must mean it needs to get a foothold in order to spread.
I have the two mango isles that will come down in a week or less, and the Blue Nerdz on the right a couple of weeks after, so it looked like I could start three more right now which I did.
2 mango phenos plus a Blue Nerz nearly three weeks behind
Not wanting to grow another unknown quantity I dropped three Grape Deebo as it's tried and tested.
They came up fast one in under two days and two under three days
I'm happy I was able to fix up the two Blue Power because I'm sure they'll have quality buds, and they could still stretch their way out of trouble.
However it's not all bad news because this has prompted me to reevaluate how I start the plugs, I am not confident that the pyramid slurry mix is consistent with it's nute additives, because there's definitely different textures when the plug is dry. I used to just soak the plugs, but now I am soaking them in pH'd water thoroughly then I squeeze the water out then check the ppm and I keep doing that till I get the plugs down to 2-300 ppm that way I can know they all begin from the same base. It's possible that the BP's are just extremely sensitive and need very little nutes, at any rate these new Grape Deebo have had their plugs prepared like that, although that doesn't explain the male.
This is my last Blue Nerds auto and it's produced it's normal large tight buds with the fruity smell but no purple at all yet!
And here's a few more Mango Isle shots.
It's pretty clear due to many posts (reddit) that the Blue Powers F4 have a disproportionate amount of rubbish genotypes with regard to structure. I pruned the fuck out of the Three BP taking the lower 3 sets of branches off two of them and the lower two off one. They looked fine after that but were obviously going to be a bit small. I was due for my next run in February 5, but then I discovered that my biggest BP was in fact a male, I don't mean it hermed because it did not have any pre pistils like the other two, then I saw it was in fact covered with pollen sacs so she had an early death.
The roots are dying off perfectly and to my surprise there is no algae at all, even in the cracks where the light gets through, so that must mean it needs to get a foothold in order to spread.
I have the two mango isles that will come down in a week or less, and the Blue Nerdz on the right a couple of weeks after, so it looked like I could start three more right now which I did.
2 mango phenos plus a Blue Nerz nearly three weeks behind
Not wanting to grow another unknown quantity I dropped three Grape Deebo as it's tried and tested.
They came up fast one in under two days and two under three days
I'm happy I was able to fix up the two Blue Power because I'm sure they'll have quality buds, and they could still stretch their way out of trouble.
However it's not all bad news because this has prompted me to reevaluate how I start the plugs, I am not confident that the pyramid slurry mix is consistent with it's nute additives, because there's definitely different textures when the plug is dry. I used to just soak the plugs, but now I am soaking them in pH'd water thoroughly then I squeeze the water out then check the ppm and I keep doing that till I get the plugs down to 2-300 ppm that way I can know they all begin from the same base. It's possible that the BP's are just extremely sensitive and need very little nutes, at any rate these new Grape Deebo have had their plugs prepared like that, although that doesn't explain the male.
This is my last Blue Nerds auto and it's produced it's normal large tight buds with the fruity smell but no purple at all yet!
And here's a few more Mango Isle shots.
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