PotChimp's BP Farmer's Pride Power Grow

[PotChimp]

Looking good, can't wait for some bud porn. Should be soon that buds start to form and then BOOM!

With 500 watts of HPS light pushing 68,000 lumens down on them, I hope I get a little better BOOM than the rest of these grows I've done. Being out of weed a few weeks after curing a whole closet crop sucks.

 

[Mark Green]

Tis never good when you run out!

 

[PotChimp]

Tis never good when you run out!

Nope, nope.....
I better not do a time-lapsed series of photos with my Tangerine Dream grow. Somebody's going to see it and think locusts are attacking my plants.

 

[Blue Planet Nutrients]

wassup PotChimp? Nice journal ya have here

 

[PotChimp]

wassup PotChimp? Nice journal ya have here

Thanks. Hope I manage to keep it that way. I don't think I'll have too many problems this time out, now that I have enough light to keep the plants photosynthesizing the food, CO2 and water away. As long as the fans don't malfunction.....

 

[Mark Green]

Tip on the fans clean them. I just cleaned mine, still got to get to the cooltubes..

 

[PotChimp]

Mine are all inline fans (except the canopy ones) and can't be disassembled to clean. I could blow compressed air through them from time to time, I guess.....

 

[Mark Green]

I can not speak for yours, compresed air will help get some of it out. My 8in Inline comes apart in 3 pieces. The shell for two parts and the fan wheel thing (kinda looks like a rotor). Dust gets all up in them over time.

 

[PotChimp]

All 4 plants seem to be in good health. Volume of the canopy has increased to approximately 1/2 the useable size of the tent, leaving 16" of room at the top for light ballast movement. First signs of pistils are forming slightly at the nodes on all 4. The original "Flo" and Warlock plants are lighter green in appearance than the others, and have purple coloration of their stems. I will use full strength nutrients at this point for all of the plants. The Ultimate plant is starting to turn its branches upward towards the light in response to the bending. If the 4 main branches on the Quasar plant separate from its own weight, it may lay itself out flat. If not, training for this plant may be necessary.

 

[Mark Green]

Gotta love seeing the first sight of those little white pistils!

 

[PotChimp]

Flowering : Day 4

The beginning signs of flowering on the Quasar plant

This pic was taken just after watering (the Quasar was showing wilt and was dry a full finger depth into the pot). I will be applying more nutrients with Cal-Mag in two days; the original Flo and the Ultimate are showing signs of deficiency still. I am going to slightly dilute this mixture to a 70% solution for the Quasar plant; it is dark green in appearance and I want to avoid overfertilization.

 

[PotChimp]

The canopy is starting to flatten out. I need to thin them soon, and trim the underneath out.

 

[PotChimp]

Soil Ph was 6.8 seven hours after the plants were given the Transition dose plus Cal-Mag at full strength. I gave the Flo, Warlock, and the Ultimate most of the mix, then a small amount to the Quasar followed by water to dilute; it looks dark green but shows no other signs of nitrogen overdose that I see.

 

[Mark Green]

Love the node spacing on that last pic!

 

[PotChimp]

Thanks, Mark. The 500 watts of MH light this time around made a big difference. I hope the same amount in HPS will too, come smoke time.....

 

[Mark Green]

Oh I'm sure it will get them girls kickn!

 

[PotChimp]

I'm glad the next dose of nutes is the Bloom one. The original Flo is showing purple veins, and I'm not sure how much of it to contribute to phosphorus deficiency. The pic that the seedbanks show of this strain tells me to expect some color here, but other deficiencies are showing too. It probably has a little game of catch-up from me shorting it on the nutes during its cold root period when it quit taking them up. This next time will be the third full strength dose for it since then and hopefully it will look normal. You'd think growing next to that Quasar it would know how to look and act like a weed plant.....

 

[PotChimp]

Flowering : Day 8

Now the signs of sex are visible by eye.

I am training this Ultimate plant in the hope that I can get it to spiral. There's not a lot of branching on it.

One thing I am considering is grafting my stunted freakseed to it.

I trimmed the lowest branches off of the Flo and Quasar, and a few leaves off of the Warlock. Magnified, I am seeing signs of borderline excessive nitrogen in the Quasar, phosphorus deficiency in the Flo, and slight nitrogen deficiency in the Ultimate and Warlock. Again, one of the problems with running multiple strains in the same grow. I mixed the Bloom dose of nutes for them, but I have to add more molasses to reactivate it. I'll try this -

Warlock and Ultimate : Full strength

Flo : Full strength and possibly adding 1/4 ml of Farmer's Pride Bloom to the remaining 1/2 of the nute mix.

Quasar : dilute the altered mix for the Flo plant with water to 50% strength and apply.

 

[PotChimp]

Flowering : Day 9

Flower development seems good so far.

A little extra helpin' of Bloom for Flo (man 1/2 ml comes out to like 8 drops so it probably won't help much putting it in the last 1/2 of the nute mix but at least it won't be enough to hurt I hope). The Quasar got the diluted mix.

I need to stop thinking in terms of getting all of the plants leveled off so that I can give a straight equally mixed dose every time across the board. This altering of nutes for specific strains is ongoing, and I will have to watch each individual plant and add or dilute accordingly at each feeding. Damn having to do algebra every 5 to 7 days to provide 4 different hybrids a tailor-made nutrient program and document it all in a way that it makes sense to any observer this chimp's just too dumb for that.....

 

[PotChimp]

Ooh ooh ooh..... AHH AHH AHH!!!!!!