Spara's 1st Grow - DWC - Bubbler - LED - Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

Okay Ladies and Gents, its that day of the week again, Nutrient Change Day. Everyone is looking good, some really nice shots to come. First though, a group shot. FYI, Yes, I know they are too tall, or my tent it too short

We are currently in week 7 of bloom.

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

As usual, our first up is Cotton Candy. Her buds are coming in very nice. Played a bit with a microscope camera, and you can see her trichomes are just starting to form.

Not sure if that is on schedule. Expected harvest in 3 more weeks if I believe the strain info.

Standing shot of Cotton

My Favorite Crown of hers.

My Favorite Crown of hers. Another Shot

My Favorite Crown of hers. Another Shot again.

More Buds and Crowns

And More

And More

Her nice arms

And the weekly Root Shot.

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

Next up, Strawberry, who is gonna be a real go get'r.. Her buds are coming in very nice. A few shots below.

Strawberry vs Cotton Comparison. Cotton is on the right.

Strawberry on her own.

Nice Bud

Another Nice Bud

And one more for good luck

Obligatory root shot.

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

And Last, but not least. Okay, least in a few ways, but still an interesting learning tool.

Vixen standing Tall ( a little bent, but tall )

Some Vixen Buds

Some more Vixen Buds

And More

4 for luck this time right?

Her Arms. Once there were 8 nodes. Now there are 3.

And yes, a root shot.

 

[Mars Hydro]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

Looking great!

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

Looking great!

Thanks, I am very pleased for a first run. I have learned a ton, all of which will be used in the future. I am also extremely glad I went with your company's light. It has allowed the large margin of error in my LST techniques to not be as detrimental as it could have been, as you can see by how close they keep ending up to the light.

Thanks again for your comments, highly appreciated.

 

[premedgrow]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

I just started following your journal today, as I am a newbie to this site and the whole growing experience . Your plants look incredible. Can't wait to see the final results.

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

From the looks of your setup, you went the same route I did. Balls to the wall all out get it right the first time. Love it.

Thanks, I am anxiously awaiting first harvest. Should be interesting indeed.

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

Appologies, using a low end USB Microscope I bought online with a manual zoom/focus and an unsteady hand. I didnt want to chop a nug off just to get a pic. So this is what we kinda see. Was short on time or would have been many more.

Cotton 2

Cotton 1

Vixen 2

Vixen 1

Strawberry 2

Strawberry 1

 

[Sonora]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

I think you're closer to 5 weeks than 3.

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

That's what I was guessing as well by the trichromes. They look like they are just forming now.

 

[Sonora]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

I love your big rootball pics.

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

Questions for those more experienced ( Everyone falls into this category ), Fan Leaves, how heavily do you remove them and at what intervals? Not looking for any particular "Right" answer, just looking for opinions

 

[Sonora]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

I remove all the foliage on the bottom 25% off the plant. I remove any leaves that look like they've taken more damage beyond singed tips from nute burn. And I'll be more aggressive than that if the plant tells me to do so. It's more art than science - different strains in different environments react different ways.

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

So tomorrow is the Nute change day for the 3 Ladies under the Mars II Hydro 400. This weekend we did the Auto Berry Fem Nute change as well as her one and only topping. Here are the pictures from the weekend below. Hope everyone had a good Easter.

Pre Topping - 5th node appearing

Pre Topping - It stuck its head out, time for it to come off.

Berry Root Shot

Post Topping - Headless Horseman strikes again.

Next Day Berry - Yay, she didn't die

Next Day Root Shot - And they didn't fall off

2 Day After Topping - She handled the clipping like a champ.

2 Day After Topping - The Nodes are responding VERY Well

And another Root Shot

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

Okay, so its been a busy day. I got the change completed. Took the standard photos, and replaced the ladies to their resting positions. Mostly unharmed. By mostly, Strawberry, due to her size, had a nugget knocked off. Nothing major with the number left. This gave me a chance for an up close look ( sorry, no photo atm ), and she appears to just be starting to get cloudy tri's so shes looking good.

First up, we have Cotton. The others will be posted tomorrow.

Tall and proud, LST Free lady for the most part.

My Favorite Cola

Bud Shots

More Bud Shots

Love Me My Cotton

Mmmmm, pretty lady making my GF Jealous.

Obligatory Root Shot

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

Okay, so its been a bit without an update, so figured I best get to it.

Nute change was done yesterday, so I will be posting the pics later today as time permits.

I have had some time as well to get a few more shots under the microscopey thing I have been using. Trichromes are coming in very nicely. Cotton and Strawberry are almost fully cloudy at this point, and Vixen is at about 10% AMBER. Keeping a close eye on her for the harvest. Shes getting some fat juicy buds right now.

Berry is doing extremely well. She is about to begin her 5th week Friday.

Stay tuned for the pictures to follow.

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

As promised, yesterdays photos. Going in Reverse order, primarily because of the surprise she has given me, we are going to start with Vixen.

Vixen standing Tall

One REALLY nice crown

Another angle of that crown.

A different crown.

more nice buds

and more

And even more bud shots.

Standard Root Shot. Shes doing very well down there if I do say so.

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

Next up, the girl with the most, filling out nicely, we have Strawberry.

Her lovely little Trichromes

Standing as tall as Vixen.

Nice crown

And another

And yet, another

Group bud shot

And of course, my standard shot of her lovely roots.

 

[Sparafucile00]

Re: Spara's 1st Grow - DWC Bubbler LED Cotton Candy/Strawberry Cough/Early Vixen Jour

And last, but never least, the true star of my show, we have Cotton Candy.

Cotton is the smallest of the 3 plants, has the average number of crowns. but the buds have not formed as large as the others, nor have her roots. Not sure if this is due to overcrowding in the tent ( I am heavily leaning towards this ) or my poor LST skills with the others, but I completely plan to try again with Cotton in one of my future runs ( very soon ). I still have 6 more of her seeds left to play with.

And for the main event....

Her lovely Trichromes filling in nicely

Tall(Not as the others) and proud

Her sweetest crown(imho)

Same crown, different angle

different crown, if I do recall

One of her stalks.

Her roots, smallest of the 3, but still nice and clean.