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Re: Dick23rk's 1st Journal - 1st Hempy - CKS Autoflower Candy Cane & Amnesia Haze - 2
**Update - April 18th - Day 35**
Hope everyone is doing well today. Here we are 35 days in from sprout on these wonderful genetics from Crop King Seeds. All the girls are still stretching away and appearing healthy. I think my reduction on the nitrogen yesterday during feeding is already being noticed, they just seem a healthier green today for some reason. All the girls were very perky when I first woke up and looked in on them.
So, today we will cover measurements, training, nutrients and everything else that falls in here.
We will start with the measurements.. I will include their previous measurements from last week as well as todays so that we can see the exact differences and how each is doing compared to the other.
Here are the differences in 6 days:
Amnesia #1: Was - 3.5" tall x 7" across
Now - 6.5" tall x 12" across
Amnesia #2: Was - 4.5" tall x 10" across
Now - 7.5" tall x 13.5" across
Candy #1: Was - 3.5" tall x 8"across
Now - 6" tall x 12"across
Candy #2: Was - 3.5" tall x 9" across
Now - 6.5" tall x 12" across
(All-in-all I am pretty happy with this progress for the size of the girls. They are trying to grow frantically)
Now on to training.. I haven't really done any LST on these girls, mostly leaf tucking. They didn't grow up fast enough at first for me to be confident enough to start bending them over while only a couple inches tall. Maybe the next grow I will start tying shoots down for more light penetration. However, there has been lots of leaf tucking going on with the 2 FIM'd girls, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. Today was the first day I was really able to do any leaf tucking on the naturally grown girls, this went fairly well, opening up some space for light to the lower growth areas.
Speaking of lower growth, I have snipped the very bottom shoots off all 4 of the girls that weren't getting very big and will only produce some very tiny popcorn buds. These shoots were all under 2 inches long and would not have caught up enough to catch some good light. Hoping that I didn't do this to late in the plants cycle, but these plants seem pretty tough so lets hope they take it well. I will re-measure in a couple days to see if they stunted or not. Having these lower no good shoots gone I am hoping to aim more of the energy to upper branches for budding.
All of the girls are seem to be ok with the lowered nutrients. I had to cut back on some of that nitrogen intake, there hasn't been any burning or leaf curling but I could tell there was an abundance. So this is what I did with my nutrients: (Micro has 5% N and Gro has 2% N)
Was mixing - 5ml Micro, 10ml Gro, 3ml Bloom and 1ml Armour Si (all ml per US gal)
Now mixing - 3.75ml Micro, 7.5ml Gro, 3ml Bloom and 1ml Armour Si
All I changed for the time being was the Micro and Gro, cut them back to 3/4 strength from full on the schedule I am using (not the one supplied by GH)
Will see how all of this goes for the next week, tomorrow is the start of week 6 so just before week 7 begins I will be pushing a lot more Bloom nutes and cut back on the Gro to make up for the added bloom nutes. By then we will be off to the races and watching some buds form and hopefully fill out.
Other than that there isn't to much else that has changed. I found a couple more of them darn maple bugs in the tent this morning chewing on a couple leaves. They couldn't have been in there to long because I only noticed a couple of spots. It seems they don't like the girls I have in there that are all in bud, haven't found 1 bug on their leaves. So I pulled them out and killed them, hopefully soon it will be warm enough outside they will go that way for heat and sun instead of towards my tent. (Cons of having a DIY tent and no exhaust system.. BUGS get in!!)
Well that's it for today folks, I don't think I left anything out here. If anything else comes up I will be sure to let you all know. Best of luck all and have a happy Monday! Take care.
All 4 Crop King girls
Amnesia #1
Amnesia #2
Candy #1
Candy #2
**Update - April 18th - Day 35**
Hope everyone is doing well today. Here we are 35 days in from sprout on these wonderful genetics from Crop King Seeds. All the girls are still stretching away and appearing healthy. I think my reduction on the nitrogen yesterday during feeding is already being noticed, they just seem a healthier green today for some reason. All the girls were very perky when I first woke up and looked in on them.
So, today we will cover measurements, training, nutrients and everything else that falls in here.
We will start with the measurements.. I will include their previous measurements from last week as well as todays so that we can see the exact differences and how each is doing compared to the other.
Here are the differences in 6 days:
Amnesia #1: Was - 3.5" tall x 7" across
Now - 6.5" tall x 12" across
Amnesia #2: Was - 4.5" tall x 10" across
Now - 7.5" tall x 13.5" across
Candy #1: Was - 3.5" tall x 8"across
Now - 6" tall x 12"across
Candy #2: Was - 3.5" tall x 9" across
Now - 6.5" tall x 12" across
(All-in-all I am pretty happy with this progress for the size of the girls. They are trying to grow frantically)
Now on to training.. I haven't really done any LST on these girls, mostly leaf tucking. They didn't grow up fast enough at first for me to be confident enough to start bending them over while only a couple inches tall. Maybe the next grow I will start tying shoots down for more light penetration. However, there has been lots of leaf tucking going on with the 2 FIM'd girls, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. Today was the first day I was really able to do any leaf tucking on the naturally grown girls, this went fairly well, opening up some space for light to the lower growth areas.
Speaking of lower growth, I have snipped the very bottom shoots off all 4 of the girls that weren't getting very big and will only produce some very tiny popcorn buds. These shoots were all under 2 inches long and would not have caught up enough to catch some good light. Hoping that I didn't do this to late in the plants cycle, but these plants seem pretty tough so lets hope they take it well. I will re-measure in a couple days to see if they stunted or not. Having these lower no good shoots gone I am hoping to aim more of the energy to upper branches for budding.
All of the girls are seem to be ok with the lowered nutrients. I had to cut back on some of that nitrogen intake, there hasn't been any burning or leaf curling but I could tell there was an abundance. So this is what I did with my nutrients: (Micro has 5% N and Gro has 2% N)
Was mixing - 5ml Micro, 10ml Gro, 3ml Bloom and 1ml Armour Si (all ml per US gal)
Now mixing - 3.75ml Micro, 7.5ml Gro, 3ml Bloom and 1ml Armour Si
All I changed for the time being was the Micro and Gro, cut them back to 3/4 strength from full on the schedule I am using (not the one supplied by GH)
Will see how all of this goes for the next week, tomorrow is the start of week 6 so just before week 7 begins I will be pushing a lot more Bloom nutes and cut back on the Gro to make up for the added bloom nutes. By then we will be off to the races and watching some buds form and hopefully fill out.
Other than that there isn't to much else that has changed. I found a couple more of them darn maple bugs in the tent this morning chewing on a couple leaves. They couldn't have been in there to long because I only noticed a couple of spots. It seems they don't like the girls I have in there that are all in bud, haven't found 1 bug on their leaves. So I pulled them out and killed them, hopefully soon it will be warm enough outside they will go that way for heat and sun instead of towards my tent. (Cons of having a DIY tent and no exhaust system.. BUGS get in!!)
Well that's it for today folks, I don't think I left anything out here. If anything else comes up I will be sure to let you all know. Best of luck all and have a happy Monday! Take care.
All 4 Crop King girls
Amnesia #1
Amnesia #2
Candy #1
Candy #2
have a great week and enjoy the spring!
