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OlderStoner
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DAY 69:
The plants have all been left under the lights with their timers working and it's been on mainly automatic pilot all week. Each one of the plants in veg grew and average of 4" in height in just 5 days. But the nodes and potential bud sites are not that numerous. Each of them has twin colas and the tallest ones are just under 20". I'm going to give them one more week and then all of them will move into flowering.
The male White Widow X was 86'ed and is in the compost pile not. I did cut off as many of the pollen sacks as I could and placed them in a sealed glass container which is being stored in the frig.
The female white widow X is giving me fits. It's grown to a total height of 37", that's another 5" in the last 10 days under 12/12. And the buds seem to be filling in nicely on both of the colas, or all of them I should say. There are two main colas and two additional ones which are growing perpendicular to these. All of the bud sites are growing and looking nice, but I don't see a single trichome yet. The trouble this plant is giving me right now appears to be the soil. And I can say I had to learn a hard lesson with this one. Top soil is a definite no-no if you want to be able to work with the plant. It got a nice feeding last week and the upper leaves seem to be greening up slightly. But that horrible pattern indicating iron or sulphur deficiency it still very apparent. I think we can chalk it up to a lockout due to soil ph. And here is the quandry. No matter how many times I flush it....and it's been flushed three times in the last 36 days, the ph of the run off stays above 7.0. It has come down from 7.5 to 7.2 but I think at this moment you could pour straight battery acid into that pot and that darn soil would pass 7.2 ph run off. The ppm was low at 860 so I gave it a little more of the bloom nutes. But that was after giving it almost 2 gallons of 5.5 ph water. I can only hope the smoke from this one turns out to be worth all the effort, otherwise I have to chalk this plant up on how not to do things. I did take two clones from this one and they are growing well in the FF potting mix. I at least get a second chance with the gene pool in this one.
The Cotton Candy plant is now 24" tall, with twin colas and I have moved it into 12/12. It has given me three clones along the way, one of them is doing nicely, the other two I took from the very bottom branches. And while I did see roots in the bottoms of their grow blocks, the plants are moving at a snails pace under 18/6. However, I do see some signs of growth above the ground. The cotton candy plant was put into soil very similar to the White Widow X female, but it's showing no signs of stress, no yellowing, nothing but nicely shaped, uniformly growing leaves. I hope this one turns out female. Should know in about another 2 weeks or less.
I am finding that the FF Ocean Forest potting soil is an excellent medium to plant those clones. One of the clones from the White Widow feminized plant I call Brenda is so healthy it has top fan leaves that are deep green and as big as my hand. All the clones have now been transplanted into bigger pots, but I won't know how many of them I'll be keeping until I sex their parents. Which won't be for another 2-3 weeks. And space and available light is now a major problem. Unless I get another source of light there will not be enough space and light for all of these plants. But I did this to insure that just in the case that I'm having with the WW X female, that I have something to fall back on.
Now, I picked up a bag of Coco soil and I want to try it out. The people at the hydro shop recommend it and it's supposed to let me get away from this terrible choice I made in soil. In the future, I will never again use anything but FF Ocean Forest or equivalent. The thing is that the cheap potting soil I bought may have been fine for this grow, but it appears that mixing in the top soil 50/50 with it is where I messed up.
The plants have all been left under the lights with their timers working and it's been on mainly automatic pilot all week. Each one of the plants in veg grew and average of 4" in height in just 5 days. But the nodes and potential bud sites are not that numerous. Each of them has twin colas and the tallest ones are just under 20". I'm going to give them one more week and then all of them will move into flowering.
The male White Widow X was 86'ed and is in the compost pile not. I did cut off as many of the pollen sacks as I could and placed them in a sealed glass container which is being stored in the frig.
The female white widow X is giving me fits. It's grown to a total height of 37", that's another 5" in the last 10 days under 12/12. And the buds seem to be filling in nicely on both of the colas, or all of them I should say. There are two main colas and two additional ones which are growing perpendicular to these. All of the bud sites are growing and looking nice, but I don't see a single trichome yet. The trouble this plant is giving me right now appears to be the soil. And I can say I had to learn a hard lesson with this one. Top soil is a definite no-no if you want to be able to work with the plant. It got a nice feeding last week and the upper leaves seem to be greening up slightly. But that horrible pattern indicating iron or sulphur deficiency it still very apparent. I think we can chalk it up to a lockout due to soil ph. And here is the quandry. No matter how many times I flush it....and it's been flushed three times in the last 36 days, the ph of the run off stays above 7.0. It has come down from 7.5 to 7.2 but I think at this moment you could pour straight battery acid into that pot and that darn soil would pass 7.2 ph run off. The ppm was low at 860 so I gave it a little more of the bloom nutes. But that was after giving it almost 2 gallons of 5.5 ph water. I can only hope the smoke from this one turns out to be worth all the effort, otherwise I have to chalk this plant up on how not to do things. I did take two clones from this one and they are growing well in the FF potting mix. I at least get a second chance with the gene pool in this one.
The Cotton Candy plant is now 24" tall, with twin colas and I have moved it into 12/12. It has given me three clones along the way, one of them is doing nicely, the other two I took from the very bottom branches. And while I did see roots in the bottoms of their grow blocks, the plants are moving at a snails pace under 18/6. However, I do see some signs of growth above the ground. The cotton candy plant was put into soil very similar to the White Widow X female, but it's showing no signs of stress, no yellowing, nothing but nicely shaped, uniformly growing leaves. I hope this one turns out female. Should know in about another 2 weeks or less.
I am finding that the FF Ocean Forest potting soil is an excellent medium to plant those clones. One of the clones from the White Widow feminized plant I call Brenda is so healthy it has top fan leaves that are deep green and as big as my hand. All the clones have now been transplanted into bigger pots, but I won't know how many of them I'll be keeping until I sex their parents. Which won't be for another 2-3 weeks. And space and available light is now a major problem. Unless I get another source of light there will not be enough space and light for all of these plants. But I did this to insure that just in the case that I'm having with the WW X female, that I have something to fall back on.
Now, I picked up a bag of Coco soil and I want to try it out. The people at the hydro shop recommend it and it's supposed to let me get away from this terrible choice I made in soil. In the future, I will never again use anything but FF Ocean Forest or equivalent. The thing is that the cheap potting soil I bought may have been fine for this grow, but it appears that mixing in the top soil 50/50 with it is where I messed up.
