Hello Everyone,
After some slight complications I have decided to start another journal. Currently I have 2 tents up and running one veg and one flower. The veg tent consists of 2 ladies one is a Pineapple Chunk the other a Deep Cheese. Which were grown in 1 gallon hempy cups, allowed to get root bound and transplanted between 2 to 5 days ago. They now reside in a dwc setting one with a constant drip.
All ladies are suspended in net cups and filled with a Super Coarse Perlite. Aside from the drip all other's are homemade DWC setups with a central air pump, connected to a distribution controller. From there they are connected via tube into the bottom of a 5 gallon lowe's bucket feeding an airstone.
My nutrients consist of the following at reduced rates to compensate for the lack of heat produced under LED's.
(Veg) Flora Nova Grow - Floralicious Plus - Silica Blast - Cannazym.
(Flower) Flora Nova Bloom - Liquid KoolBloom - Floralicious Plus - Silica Blast - Cannazym.
Flushing with Clearex - Cannazym.
Veg occurs at 18/6 and Flowering at 11/13 (on/off).
Currently in the flowering tent I have 2 Dutch Passion Blueberry's that were mainlined and have between 14 - 21 days left until harvest including flush time. Their growth structure varied as they were allowed to take any shape they found efficient once placed in the flower tent. In all honesty I've had nothing but trouble with one and the other is a pleasure that smells of blue berry. However the majority of the trouble was self cause, as things that are not maintained or noticed in hydro settings tend to spiral out of control quickly. I will let you decide which one looks like the pleasure and the pain.
The Pleasure and best looking / smelling of the two is expressing orange/blood/red pistils at about 80%. I do not harvest based on this fact alone but its good to know that she is nearing the end of her cycle. Her buds have yet to pack on weight, but based on how many pistils are present on each "top" I expect a decent amount.
The Pain on the other hand has the most trichome production out of either. The buds however were stunted and are now as a result larfy and small. I knew the risks of growing this strain due to reviews and the unfortunate negative review's that follow its genetic stability and likelihood of turning into a hermie. In my mind however I would like to dismiss 80% of the negative reviews as poor growing environments, and possible problems that are bound to occur. Pain has however started to put on some weight, and is now combating a possible root rot, that she has struggled with since veg. This is self induced as I solved the problem with Cannazym and then stopped using it all together. The issue has been rectified and is applied as a precautionary measure as reduced rates to all future plants.
The last and relative new comer is a Vanilla Kush from Barneys Farms. She is beginning week 3 and or day 15 of true flowering. It took about 2 weeks for flowering to occur so that was chalked up as transition. This young lady has been a joy all around, I have yet to have a deficiency, or any real discoloration of the leaves nothing. She was the only one to receive silica blast upon entering the tent, the blueberry's received it mid way through flowering. Her structure is stout and almost uniform with a slightly larger main cola in relation to the others. VK was going to be one of my mothers but I decided to take clones during flowering, as I have done with one of my blueberry's as well. On that note all clones rooted and started to re veg, however they never transitioned back to normal leaves and resembled a smooth single leaf. They were culled. Getting back to Silica I notice a considerable difference in structure when compared to the mainline blueberry's. Nice and sturdy, almost woody and continues to expand. The training received by VK was a simple FIM, and removal of lower nodes while preserving fan leaves to maximize efficiency. VK is currently undergoing a flush and res change, she was also fed a foliar feed on select fan leaves to help with potential growth. I hope to keep her well maintained throughout the grow with hopes of a great harvest.
More to come on the veg tent and pictures will follow tomorrow for the flowering tent, and once my ladies recover from transition in the veg tent I will post.
Any questions comment or concerns are welcome, this will be an on going project as I will be attempting a somewhat sea of green setting with clones in the near future.
Enjoy
After some slight complications I have decided to start another journal. Currently I have 2 tents up and running one veg and one flower. The veg tent consists of 2 ladies one is a Pineapple Chunk the other a Deep Cheese. Which were grown in 1 gallon hempy cups, allowed to get root bound and transplanted between 2 to 5 days ago. They now reside in a dwc setting one with a constant drip.
All ladies are suspended in net cups and filled with a Super Coarse Perlite. Aside from the drip all other's are homemade DWC setups with a central air pump, connected to a distribution controller. From there they are connected via tube into the bottom of a 5 gallon lowe's bucket feeding an airstone.
My nutrients consist of the following at reduced rates to compensate for the lack of heat produced under LED's.
(Veg) Flora Nova Grow - Floralicious Plus - Silica Blast - Cannazym.
(Flower) Flora Nova Bloom - Liquid KoolBloom - Floralicious Plus - Silica Blast - Cannazym.
Flushing with Clearex - Cannazym.
Veg occurs at 18/6 and Flowering at 11/13 (on/off).
Currently in the flowering tent I have 2 Dutch Passion Blueberry's that were mainlined and have between 14 - 21 days left until harvest including flush time. Their growth structure varied as they were allowed to take any shape they found efficient once placed in the flower tent. In all honesty I've had nothing but trouble with one and the other is a pleasure that smells of blue berry. However the majority of the trouble was self cause, as things that are not maintained or noticed in hydro settings tend to spiral out of control quickly. I will let you decide which one looks like the pleasure and the pain.
The Pleasure and best looking / smelling of the two is expressing orange/blood/red pistils at about 80%. I do not harvest based on this fact alone but its good to know that she is nearing the end of her cycle. Her buds have yet to pack on weight, but based on how many pistils are present on each "top" I expect a decent amount.
The Pain on the other hand has the most trichome production out of either. The buds however were stunted and are now as a result larfy and small. I knew the risks of growing this strain due to reviews and the unfortunate negative review's that follow its genetic stability and likelihood of turning into a hermie. In my mind however I would like to dismiss 80% of the negative reviews as poor growing environments, and possible problems that are bound to occur. Pain has however started to put on some weight, and is now combating a possible root rot, that she has struggled with since veg. This is self induced as I solved the problem with Cannazym and then stopped using it all together. The issue has been rectified and is applied as a precautionary measure as reduced rates to all future plants.
The last and relative new comer is a Vanilla Kush from Barneys Farms. She is beginning week 3 and or day 15 of true flowering. It took about 2 weeks for flowering to occur so that was chalked up as transition. This young lady has been a joy all around, I have yet to have a deficiency, or any real discoloration of the leaves nothing. She was the only one to receive silica blast upon entering the tent, the blueberry's received it mid way through flowering. Her structure is stout and almost uniform with a slightly larger main cola in relation to the others. VK was going to be one of my mothers but I decided to take clones during flowering, as I have done with one of my blueberry's as well. On that note all clones rooted and started to re veg, however they never transitioned back to normal leaves and resembled a smooth single leaf. They were culled. Getting back to Silica I notice a considerable difference in structure when compared to the mainline blueberry's. Nice and sturdy, almost woody and continues to expand. The training received by VK was a simple FIM, and removal of lower nodes while preserving fan leaves to maximize efficiency. VK is currently undergoing a flush and res change, she was also fed a foliar feed on select fan leaves to help with potential growth. I hope to keep her well maintained throughout the grow with hopes of a great harvest.
More to come on the veg tent and pictures will follow tomorrow for the flowering tent, and once my ladies recover from transition in the veg tent I will post.
Any questions comment or concerns are welcome, this will be an on going project as I will be attempting a somewhat sea of green setting with clones in the near future.
Enjoy