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Paradise Ice Cream / 250W MH
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lol I think I know the dude you speak of. In this case it's official, someone will have to come in and check things out. It's an engineering thing. I don't know when it's going to be, but it will be relatively soon.
In other news, I seem to have some minor tip burn (on two of my flowering plants). 1 ml per L of the Plagron Alga Bloom appears to have been too much. Maybe the enzymes got the existing nitrogen moving. I won't feed again until they show me that they need it. One of the girls is further along and smells amazing, even with the strange, curled leaves. The other is further behind but looks like it will be the heavier yielder, and I have a runt that looks like it won't yield anything. Since it's now in a Smartpot I'm waiting to see if it does better--if not, I'll cull it and replace it with an Ice Cream clone.
I took a lower branch for a clone yesterday; I'll replace the harvested plant in the five gallon Smartpot with it in a few weeks if it makes it.
In other news, I seem to have some minor tip burn (on two of my flowering plants). 1 ml per L of the Plagron Alga Bloom appears to have been too much. Maybe the enzymes got the existing nitrogen moving. I won't feed again until they show me that they need it. One of the girls is further along and smells amazing, even with the strange, curled leaves. The other is further behind but looks like it will be the heavier yielder, and I have a runt that looks like it won't yield anything. Since it's now in a Smartpot I'm waiting to see if it does better--if not, I'll cull it and replace it with an Ice Cream clone.
I took a lower branch for a clone yesterday; I'll replace the harvested plant in the five gallon Smartpot with it in a few weeks if it makes it.
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Hope everything works out for ya...
I'm still kicking myself over the budrot I experienced, even with a fan blowing on my girls, one outside the tent and my air conditioner blowing on 'fan.' I even had two passive dehumidifiers in the tent to keep humidity down, but to no avail. That thick, sticky, central cola would have been some GREAT smoke.
I'm going to try and ensure it doesn't happen again. A friend of mine is leaving town and offered me an armchair. Decided to ask her if she had a dehumidifier too and she had two, one of which is already going to someone else! I get the other.
Both the armchair and dehumidifier are going to end up in the growroom. That dehumidifier is going to be running 24/7.
I'm going to try and ensure it doesn't happen again. A friend of mine is leaving town and offered me an armchair. Decided to ask her if she had a dehumidifier too and she had two, one of which is already going to someone else! I get the other.
Both the armchair and dehumidifier are going to end up in the growroom. That dehumidifier is going to be running 24/7.
Took another Ice Cream cutting today...I may take two or three more in anticipation of harvesting the two remaining auto girls in the tent!
I'm going to blend the used soil from this crop with more coco and a little perlite and fill some Smartpots all the way up. I'm going to remove the roots and really break up and mix the soil up. I'll add a handful of pelletized bio organic fertilizer for agriculture (7-7-7 with bennies) and mix it in well, as well as some castings, azomite and leonardite, and I should be good to go. The fertilizer is supposed to make up a good portion of the media, but I'll err on the side of caution and use one handful per gallon.
The runty female doesn't appear to be growing any faster after moving to a Smartpot. If it doesn't pick up in time for my first Ice Cream clone to be potted up, it's a goner. I've wasted enough time on it!
I'm going to blend the used soil from this crop with more coco and a little perlite and fill some Smartpots all the way up. I'm going to remove the roots and really break up and mix the soil up. I'll add a handful of pelletized bio organic fertilizer for agriculture (7-7-7 with bennies) and mix it in well, as well as some castings, azomite and leonardite, and I should be good to go. The fertilizer is supposed to make up a good portion of the media, but I'll err on the side of caution and use one handful per gallon.
The runty female doesn't appear to be growing any faster after moving to a Smartpot. If it doesn't pick up in time for my first Ice Cream clone to be potted up, it's a goner. I've wasted enough time on it!
I culled the runt today and took my third cut; there were three stems perfect for cuttings at the bottom of the plant, like there were meant to be three cuts. I noticed a touch of botrytis on the runt and decided it wasn't worth the space anymore. I'll clean the roots out of the runt's container, blend in more coco, perlite and goodies and let it sit in anticipation of the first Ice Cream. I'd have pics, but I forgot my memory card at home. Soon, I promise!
The skunk fem I have growing just for a lark isn't doing well because the potting soil it's in holds too much water and it was in a plastic pot to boot. It looks to be doing a little better in a Smartpot since it can get more air and dries out faster. I decided to add more soil/coco/perlite to the pot to fill in the spaces--before I did, I put down a tablespoon of chicken manure, a tablespoon of bio organic agricultural fert (a new kind I just got in with soy meal and a few other goodies) and three tablespoons of worm castings. I watered it all through with aza, neem oil and pH down to adjust. I hope it likes the feed!
The first Ice Cream appeared to have rooted and I had it under the 400. I transplanted it into the five gallon Smartpot with my autoflowering fem in it. I suppose I should have waited to harvest the female and then amended the soil. Ah well.
Got my dehumidifier too--what a difference it makes! It's pulled several quarts of water out of the air in twelve hours.
I forgot my memory card (again), so no pics just yet, but I'm on it!
The first Ice Cream appeared to have rooted and I had it under the 400. I transplanted it into the five gallon Smartpot with my autoflowering fem in it. I suppose I should have waited to harvest the female and then amended the soil. Ah well.
Got my dehumidifier too--what a difference it makes! It's pulled several quarts of water out of the air in twelve hours.
I forgot my memory card (again), so no pics just yet, but I'm on it!
This autoflowering fem has been flowering for 45 days, around seven weeks. I think she needs another four to five weeks until she's really done (yellowing leaves). She's around two feet tall. I overdosed this one with high P guano. After a flush, she's doing better. The old growth is yellow/burned tips/ram's horn, but she's been budding right along.
This is a skunk fem. A little stunted because of overwatering and old roots in the pot, but she looks to be doing better today after I added more soil and organic fert to the pot. I'm going to let it dry out pretty thoroughly now.
My Ice Cream mom: she's the healthiest of my plants. I hope she yields good smoke because I think I'm going to want to keep her around.
This is my largest auto female. I trained her hard to get her to 'S' curve. Lots of ram's horn on this one. I removed a lot of yellowing/burned leaves this week. The new growth appears to be normal. This one is really funky and is overpowering my carbon scrubber. I hope she's a good yielder and smokes as good as she smells!
This is the top bud on my largest auto female: I think she has four to five weeks to go. The lower buds got much frostier overnight!
This is a skunk fem. A little stunted because of overwatering and old roots in the pot, but she looks to be doing better today after I added more soil and organic fert to the pot. I'm going to let it dry out pretty thoroughly now.
My Ice Cream mom: she's the healthiest of my plants. I hope she yields good smoke because I think I'm going to want to keep her around.
This is my largest auto female. I trained her hard to get her to 'S' curve. Lots of ram's horn on this one. I removed a lot of yellowing/burned leaves this week. The new growth appears to be normal. This one is really funky and is overpowering my carbon scrubber. I hope she's a good yielder and smokes as good as she smells!
This is the top bud on my largest auto female: I think she has four to five weeks to go. The lower buds got much frostier overnight!
Yeah, it could be pH, but I am now using pH down instead of white vinegar. She 'curled up' about a month ago. The old leaves won't go back to the way they were, but the newest growth is more normal. I think it could be pH or an overdose of phosphorus. Either way, she is doing better now. She is fattening and frosting up and she smells great!
I like that IC mom, shes a pretty one. And the 1st auto looks sweet too.
I have to agree on the ph, always the 1st thing to rule out. Since you know you overdosed on the P, could be that coupled with ph.
Those leaves are so clawed that it doesn't surprise me that they haven't straightened. They would have to some extent if it wasn't so severe.
If the new growth is normal, you nipped it in the proverbial bud. Had the same problem with SLH.
We keep growing right along with the plants.
I have to agree on the ph, always the 1st thing to rule out. Since you know you overdosed on the P, could be that coupled with ph.
Those leaves are so clawed that it doesn't surprise me that they haven't straightened. They would have to some extent if it wasn't so severe.
If the new growth is normal, you nipped it in the proverbial bud. Had the same problem with SLH.
We keep growing right along with the plants.
