Black Cream Grow Diary (CFL/LED)

[FreeTheWeed]

Hey Andraxx. I'm about three days away from harvest. Trichs on the plant are starting to get nice and amber. Anyway my BC is about 24" tall with one big cola and a few small sidebranches. I'm guessing yield is going to be about 1/2 oz. It was around Day 30 that my plant took off but I have had fan leaves falling off the plant pretty regularly. I'm in flush right now and almost all the major fan leaves are pretty yellow and dropping off. The bud smells like a grape / berry / caramel candy all mixed together and is turning this awesome dark purple color.

Looking back at my grow journal, I was pretty light on the nutes. Made sure to feed once a week max with 1/4 strength veg nutes. (Switched to flower nutes around the 5th week) Also watered an additional time during the week. That's pretty much it. I think this strain likes to dry out a bit so beware keeping the soil too moist.

Good luck dude! Hope it work out for you.

 

[Andraax]

Day 24

Day 24

The Red seems to recover well. However, one day after watering, tips of some leaves show tiny signs of discomfort (still cannot tell if it's deficiency or nute burn). Seems this strain is almost hydrophobic. But she reacted well to the LST, some of the side branches are now at the same level as the main stem:

The green shows still no sign of improvement:

 

[Andraax]

Day 24

Day 24

Uploaded the wrong images. I really wish you could edit your posts here. So these are the real day 24 pics.

The Red:

The Green:

 

[GP73LPC]

you should be able to edit when you reach 50 posts.

i think.

you PM when you reach that stage.

 

[Andraax]

Day 27

Day 27

The Green had to go!
Continued the LST of the Red, which turned out well so far. However, leaves are still showing signs of deficiency, maybe less than before. I think the troubles root back to me spilling the plants on the floor back then. The soil was to loose and moist after I put them back, and therefore I think the root system has developed poorly.

The Red is the only left - please grow me a nice bush:

 

[Andraax]

Day 29

Day 29

She seems to be recovering quite well, and flowering has started:

 

[Andraax]

Day 30

Day 30

Although the over watering (nute deficiency?) hiccup surely diminished vegetative growth and probably will affect final yield, I'm going to finish this grow. I'm still a newbie, but I learned my lessons (I think), and this is a good chance to learn even more.
However, she is progressing better again, and I'm curious what will finally come out of this.

 

[Andraax]

Day 31

Day 31

Older leaves still tend to turn yellowish, but it's not a big issue any longer, and she is overall progressing nicely. Of course I would prefer all leaves to stay green until senesence - hopefully I will learn how to achieve it with this strain (did go well with Cream Caramel, which I grew before).

She is stretching quite a bit lately:

Canopy looks good:

Some early flowers:

 

[Mikenite69]

Looking pretty good so far can't wait to the finish line.

 

[GP73LPC]

 

[Andraax]

Day 32

Day 32

The overwatering problem finally settled, another issues arises: eagle claws showed up at the newest leaves.

 

[Andraax]

Day 33

Day 33

Roughly half time.
Eagle claws stayed the same. Because I think it might be heat stress (up to 29°C as it's quite hot outside), I increased distance between the LED and the canopy, and I'm leaving the tent open during light hours.
Green shows almost no development, flowers are progressing though.

 

[Andraax]

Day 34

Day 34

Maybe eagle claws are improving a bit (growing it away?).
More stretching going on, and I spread out the branches a bit to get more light to the lower leaves/flowers.
Main and side stems start to show the black/purplish namesake trait - I'm very curious how this develops (pics soon to follow).

Some flower shots:

 

[Andraax]

Day 35

Day 35

Not much to say. Green development is stuck, flowers are progressing. Trying to separate branches a little. I'm really surprised how she does not show signs of dryness (drooping leaves), even when the soil is bone dry.

 

[Andraax]

Day 37

Day 37

New leaves do not show any more eagle clawing, but the older leaves stay clawed. I think I finally got the knack with this strain - keeping dry, dry, dry...even when she is completely dry, she can do a day longer without watering and is happy.
Bud leaves begin to show dark purple/black coloring (see the pics without LED, which were taken on day 36 actually).

 

[Andraax]

Day 38

Day 38

The bud leaves are now becoming all those wonderful colors why I wanted to try this strain. I think you can even see it under the LED now, but I will make some CFL-only shots on the weekend. The "former main stem" is again the highest tip, but not by much, so I hope colas will develop evenly.
Still very curious how this grow will develop in the next 30 or so days till harvest.

 

[Andraax]

Day 40

Day 40

Not much to say - let pictures speak, here are the promised CFL-only shots:

 

[GP73LPC]

nice

check out the stickied thread called white balance led trick or something like that ( in the led subforum)

lets you take pics with the leds on and get almost true colors

 

[Andraax]

Day 41 to 44

Day 41 to 44

Sorry guys for not updating earlier.
Close up shots are from day 42 and the overview from day 44 (after that the battery of the camera was out of energy).
Resin production has started as you can see in the close ups.
Roughly 3 more weeks to go, I hope buds will add more mass till then - small size is probably due to the problems during veg.
@ GP73LPC: I will check the white balance trick soon^^

 

[Andraax]

Day 46

Day 46

Thank you, GP73LPC.
These pics are under LED lightning, and I tried to adjust whitebalance. I`m not sure I did it right, as the colors are not entirely true either (a little too greenish), but the new pics look fantastic.