Gee's First Grow - Supersoil Fully Organic LED 2017

[Gee64]

Doing great there Gee. How are the temps doing? What strain next is What keeps me Up all night man! Cant decide to . probably Acapulco gold and Maybe white widow? A strong one and a chill one.. first the Chocolate mint og clones, Royal ak auto and white widow auto that I have growing.. the next setup is always wonderfull to dream about. How far are you with the next planning?

Im still not sure. I have some Malawi and some Panama Red Im dying to try but at 14 weeks in flower I will wait until I have 2 tents with 1 in perpetual bloom.
I have some Afgani Magnum Auto I want to try but really I guess it should wait for 2 tents and do it in the perpetual veg tent. I have some Purple Kush from Jordan of the Islands which is regular seeds and I will do some of that for sure. I also have some Black Hemmy from Kingdom Organic Seeds which is regular too. I think I will do 2 purple Kush, 2 Hemmy Blacks, and 6 feminized seeds to ensure a crop. If I get 1 Kush and 1 Hemmy that are females that will give me 8 plants. Ideally I want 9 so maybe I will get 3 females. Then I will try to usr some colloidal silver to get some feminized seeds from those two. As for the other 6 I have some feminized Waikiki Queen and some Feminized Chronic that I want to try so if I started the grow today thats how it would be but I know tomorrow I will change my mind lol

 

[NaturalSpirit]

Im still not sure. I have some Malawi and some Panama Red Im dying to try but at 14 weeks in flower I will wait until I have 2 tents with 1 in perpetual bloom.
I have some Afgani Magnum Auto I want to try but really I guess it should wait for 2 tents and do it in the perpetual veg tent. I have some Purple Kush from Jordan of the Islands which is regular seeds and I will do some of that for sure. I also have some Black Hemmy from Kingdom Organic Seeds which is regular too. I think I will do 2 purple Kush, 2 Hemmy Blacks, and 6 feminized seeds to ensure a crop. If I get 1 Kush and 1 Hemmy that are females that will give me 8 plants. Ideally I want 9 so maybe I will get 3 females. Then I will try to usr some colloidal silver to get some feminized seeds from those two. As for the other 6 I have some feminized Waikiki Queen and some Feminized Chronic that I want to try so if I started the grow today thats how it would be but I know tomorrow I will change my mind lol

Sounds great, but I am Sure you Will change just like me.

 

[Gee64]

This one Durban Poison cola is crazy. I had to finally bend it over.

A few with an LED flashlight to highlight the sugar
Today was watering day and also stretch is finished so its full on flowering now. With stretch over the roots really wont grow much now, so letting the pots get quite dry is now pointless as the roots will no longer chase the water, so I will be accelerating my watering schedule and more teas. Its time to let the microbes take over and push the gals through to the finish so I will still be feeding and top dressing, but mainly Im growing microbes now. The added moisture will increase both the volume and the activity of the microbes and I will greatly increase the EM microbes (Canadas version of Mammoth P) which are anaroebic microbes so the added moisture will really help them too. They are phosphorus specialists.

 

[Gee64]

The plants are now 20 inches from the light and loving it. I have 2 weeks to get them 2 inches closer for 18 inches in the last 3-4 weeks so that seems to be going quite well.

 

[Gee64]

I noticed all the bud branches on the colas were getting robbed of light by the buds above so I came up with these. I wedge them in between the main stalks and the bud stalks to push them out into the light. It was a sticky endeavor but wow do my buds ever have more access to light now.

 

[Gee64]

September 1st

November 6th
2 months and 1 week sure makes a difference!

 

[Pennywise]

Nice even canopy going on Gee

 

[Gee64]

Day 31 of flower

The buds on the long lanky Durban Poison sre starting to stck up nicely

The OG Kush is a beast! The other tops are bud sticks coming from the main stalk right below the cola and almost every top created by the manifold training is doing this. WOW! Heavy producer!

A Green crack cola. They are smaller around but the bud sites go along ways down and are super resinous. It smells just like icing sugar tastes

 

[Pennywise]

And they will just continue to stack, very nice.

 

[Gee64]

Thanks PW. I really wish I had been growing Ganja my whole life. Its so appreciative so quickly. I love it. Nexy year when its legal in Canada I will try some outside growing and learn from how Mother Nature does it.

 

[Pennywise]

We have some damn fine outdoor growers here at 420, you'll do well

 

[TheFertilizer]

I noticed all the bud branches on the colas were getting robbed of light by the buds above so I came up with these. I wedge them in between the main stalks and the bud stalks to push them out into the light. It was a sticky endeavor but wow do my buds ever have more access to light now.

Hey I like this trick!

Nice mainlining going on here. I tried this out once but it only really took with one plant and then some other things happened, I tried to lolli-pop and scrog it and it didn't really yield out much, but it had great structure. I tried to do more toping and fim'ing in this run to get more tops but I think I always tend to wait too long into veg to start doing that.

I feel the pains of having too many genetics on the wait list too. I was working so hard to preserve this Blackberry Kush I had in S1 form, that I accumulated Golden Tiger, Bangi Haze, Panama x Malawi, Khione, Forinicator, Black D.O.G ( just these three alone are like TRY US NOW!, I can hear them screaming from the fridge).

Those sativas with the long flower periods though, you could try to line them up with shorter flowering period strains. So for example, Golden Tiger is supposed to take 16 weeks, whereas my Blackberry Kush takes about 8-10, and so I figured some day I could run a tent with 50/50 and just have some more Blackberry Kush clones ready to cycle into flower at 8 weeks and would have a 2x harvest of the 8 week strain along with the 16 week strain. The hardest part would be controlling the canopy.

 

[Gee64]

Yeah I hear you lol. So many cool strains! Thats why I want to watch your grow. Over a long flower period im interested to see how your soil holds up and how/what you do to keep it working. It should be a really cool project

 

[TheFertilizer]

Yeah I hear you lol. So many cool strains! Thats why I want to watch your grow. Over a long flower period im interested to see how your soil holds up and how/what you do to keep it working. It should be a really cool project

Yeah I've been thinking about adding in some aerated teas but just using the EWC that I found. I didn't really like the look of the manure I could source locally, and honestly just don't want to bubble manure in my bathroom haha I have some EarthJuice stuff I could use along with the EWC in some teas and have a few bubbler pumps.

I mainly wanted to get away from having to pH and mix stuff up and everything because a lot of the times I'll get sick to my stomach because I have CVS and won't want to feed them and can only really muster plain watering.

 

[Gee64]

I add steer manure once in awhile but mainly just ewc in my teas. Yeah I hear you lol. The manure tea isnt the best smell in the garage

 

[Gee64]

Hey I like this trick!

Nice mainlining going on here. I tried this out once but it only really took with one plant and then some other things happened, I tried to lolli-pop and scrog it and it didn't really yield out much, but it had great structure. I tried to do more toping and fim'ing in this run to get more tops but I think I always tend to wait too long into veg to start doing that.

I feel the pains of having too many genetics on the wait list too. I was working so hard to preserve this Blackberry Kush I had in S1 form, that I accumulated Golden Tiger, Bangi Haze, Panama x Malawi, Khione, Forinicator, Black D.O.G ( just these three alone are like TRY US NOW!, I can hear them screaming from the fridge).

Those sativas with the long flower periods though, you could try to line them up with shorter flowering period strains. So for example, Golden Tiger is supposed to take 16 weeks, whereas my Blackberry Kush takes about 8-10, and so I figured some day I could run a tent with 50/50 and just have some more Blackberry Kush clones ready to cycle into flower at 8 weeks and would have a 2x harvest of the 8 week strain along with the 16 week strain. The hardest part would be controlling the canopy.

The article I read and followed on manifolding said always do it from seeds not clones because once the plant matures and the nodes start to stagger you cant efficiently manifold as the higher staggered branch will become dominant. Clones are older and already staggered so they apparently wont manifold as well.
I topped 4 times to 16 tops but its hard to manage and crowded. In the fight for light some branches lost out and are now shadowed runts. Next grow I will only top 3 times to 8 tops but it also means I need lots of seeds so next grow will also be a trial run to make feminized seeds.
I think on the plants that I will seed I will leave the two 2nd node branches to clone. 1 clone to hit with colloidal silver and 1 to pollinate to seed, leaving 8 tops on the manifold.

 

[TheFertilizer]

The article I read and followed on manifolding said always do it from seeds not clones because once the plant matures and the nodes start to stagger you cant efficiently manifold as the higher staggered branch will become dominant. Clones are older and already staggered so they apparently wont manifold as well.
I topped 4 times to 16 tops but its hard to manage and crowded. In the fight for light some branches lost out and are now shadowed runts. Next grow I will only top 3 times to 8 tops but it also means I need lots of seeds so next grow will also be a trial run to make feminized seeds.
I think on the plants that I will seed I will leave the two 2nd node branches to clone. 1 clone to hit with colloidal silver and 1 to pollinate to seed, leaving 8 tops on the manifold.

Colloidal silver is fun stuff. Have you used it before? You might find my last journal informative if not. I've yet to manage to get a lot of pollen out of it though.

Do you know much about mulching for potted plants? I think mine could benefit, but I don't trust things like hay or straw around here, not sure what else I could use. Thinking about just a top layer (1-2" deep) of ewc. Or maybe a mix of ewc/peat... Which I still have plenty of.

 

[Gee64]

Ive never used colloidal silver so I will definitely check your old jrnl. Thanks. As for mulch I havent used it yet but Ive read that it brings microbes right up to the surface so it has to help. Cedars and walnuts are supposed to be bad as they try to poison out competition but Im afraid to bring any in as it may bring bugs too so I will continue without for now. The plants seem really happy. Also I like to topdress my pots so mulch would be a bit of a pain. I have used ewc in veg and it works beautifully. It kind of forms a layer so right before the next watering i break it up with a hand rake and my fingers and the plants love it. In flower I use a mix of guano, feather meal, rock phosphate, oyster shells, azomite, kelp meal, bone meal and bulb food. It too forms a crusty layer that needs to be broken up between waterings but it does hold moisture under it and smart pots still let air in thru the sides. The plants love that mix in flowering alot. Every 2 or 3 weeks I add 1 cup of it to the top of a 10 gal pot.

 

[Gee64]

Im not sure if I mentioned this or not but I installed an app called WardenCam on my phone and my old phone. My old phone sits in the tent and I can log into it whenever I want to monitor remotely.

 

[Gee64]

Tbe old phone has no cell plan it hooks in through wifi