WiFi, a Taste of California...

[smilley]

Day F22

Day F22

Some more miscellaneous pics.......

 

[smilley]

Day F29

Day F29

All the plants are doing well. A week ago, I rotated all the plants except one a 180 degrees to let the backside buds get some dirct light. I'll leave them like that for 2 more weeks and possibly rotate them again. I know this isn't the recommended procedure but some of the front fan leafs were getting some bleaching going on and this seems to help. All the plants are getting 6.5ml/gal PBP Bloom, no additives.

 

[Bmac1]

Looking great smilley.

The leaf curl you showed above, is something I am seeing on one of my phenos as well.

I notice that you dont have saucers or anything of the like under your pots. Are you watering to runoff? I am about a week or so behind you this go round and in much bigger pots. I am having trouble watering to runoff as I cant exactly lift the pots to drain them being they are in a vscrog.

I think this is what is causing it for me. Maybe a little nute build up in the pots. I am thinking that I am going to start giving them just plain water every 3-4 feedings to see if that helps.

Keep up the good work dude.

 

[smilley]

Hi Bmac1. No, I don't water to runoff. I just lift each pot daily and add a liter of feed when they get light.

They're a little finnicky aren't they. I don't know what's causing the leaf curl. It's not looking too serious right now but definitely something is causing it. When I first detected it, it was only 1 pheno, now all but one pheno have bit of it. I already cut my planned feeding by 20% so I'm not going any lower this run. My night time temps have been dipping to 10C and I think this may be causing it. I just don't know. I backed all the plants off from the light thinking it was heat stress but no change. It's not a big issue so I'm just going to monitor the situation. Not going to mke any big changes at this time.

And the clones are finicky too. Latest batch of clones are 4 weeks from cutting and less than half are fully rooted. This time round I did everything perfect, I just think some of the phenos are slower rooters than others. Still looks like 100% survival, just slow.

Sounds like you got a nice long veg into your new batch, I hope it translates into a bigger harvest for you.

 

[Bmac1]

My last group of cuttings were 100% in about 10-12 days. I Was a bit worried given the last time i only got a couple and it took about 20 days.

I fired up a thread with some pics in the vert forum to, check it out.

 

[Joshua Ntr]

It could be a combination of environment and macro lockout. Sorta hard to say but if I were you, I would raise the ph of my nute solution and top feed. It would also be wise to invest in a soil meter(good one) if you plan on running soil or soiless mix. My experience with leaf curl has always been low root zone ph and environment. I once added 1 gram of epsom salt to a gallon of water and sprayed a few branches. This cured my leaf curl for that situation.

 

[smilley]

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It could be a combination of environment and macro lockout. Sorta hard to say but if I were you, I would raise the ph of my nute solution and top feed. It would also be wise to invest in a soil meter(good one) if you plan on running soil or soiless mix. My experience with leaf curl has always been low root zone ph and environment. I once added 1 gram of epsom salt to a gallon of water and sprayed a few branches. This cured my leaf curl for that situation.

I agree it could be environmental. I ph all the nutes to 6.4 and the plants show no sign of macro lockout. I'm just going to live with it, the plants are nice and healthy and budding up just they way they should. Someone once told me that "the claw" was caused by too much nitrogen. I don't know, but the leaf curl going on isn't as severe as "the claw". Welcome to the mag Joshua, I'm looking forward to seeing some of your work......

 

[primobud]

Nice looking Plants there smiley.

 

[smilley]

I repotted the clones from the dixie cups to their intermediate pots. 10 plants for the final crop (4 in the veg room and 6 in the flower room). Notice the plant in the center. I bought some colloidal silver and I'm going to try and reverse this female with the hopes of producing feminized pollen. I'll start misting it tomorrow and put it under the flowering light in about week. The colloidal silver is only 19ppm so I don't know if it's strong enough. We'll see......

 

[smilley]

Day F36

Day F36

Half way through. All the plants re healthy and getting 6.5ml/gal every watering. I've also been misting the plants daily with Liquid Gold. I think it's basically potash with fulvic acid. I've used it before and I think it increases bud growth. I'll mist till the end of week 8 and thn discontinue.

 

[smilley]

Sorry for the crappy pic. The arrows indicate seed formation. The Cheese pollen wasn't viable but the HSD pollen was. It doen't look like any of the main colas got pollinated and if they did it'll be very light. Probably going to get 50 - 100 seed. So I think technically, the hybrid is HSD x WIFI. This is what I'll be growing next season. I'm quite excited about the cross as the HSD has tremendous resin production and great vigor. Mated to the wifi should produce a great hash plant.

 

[silver hawaiian]

Next year sounds fun already

 

[primobud]

Looking good Smilley boy!!! Sorry the cheese pollen was fucked, it didn't work for me either. You did a good job.

 

[RB26]

Whoa! Good looking plants and that cross sounds awesome. You have some balls man...pollinating a plant in your main flower. What's to stop that branch from rubbing up on your other ones and pollinating the rest of the room?

Either way you got it dialed, great work compared to last run. My only suggestions would be to get rid of some of those huge fan leafs, it'll open up the rest of the bud sites and eliminate the possibility of fluffy lower buds.

 

[killerweed31]

plants lookin so lush green healthy, great job bro

 

[smilley]

Next year sounds fun already

I expect the cross to finish around 11 weeks since the HSD takes 12 and the wifi only runs 10 or less, we'll see....

primobud - Too bad about the cheese pollen, by the looks of your plants and the yields it would have been a nice cross too. Maybe you'll send me some f2's if you follow throu on your breeding plans?

IC OVO - Thanks dude, they're coming along nicely. I pollinated that plant in the furnace room. Had a nice air draw to the return air duct. An hour after pollination I sprayed her thoroughly with water to neutralize all the residual pollen. I don't see any seeds forming on the adjoining plants and none in the upper colas of the pollinated plant. I've taken your advice and cleaned out a bunch of fans and tied up any floppy branches. The next batch of pics were taken before trimming....

killerweed31 - Thanks for having a peek and thanks for the compliments...

 

[Coconutz]

Getting them to stack!
Nice job!
Took me a couple runs to get her stacking right!

 

[smilley]

This is the female I'm trying to reverse with colloidal silver. I think the sprayer that I'm using had some cleaning residue in it and may be causing a bunch of damage. She started to do that "claw" thing the second day of spraying and the leafs are getting speckled and ugly looking. This is a poor effort on my part, and the plant is down below the canopy and not getting good light, i think I have a contaminated sprayer. It's not a big deal as this is just an experiment. I'll continue spraying for another 10 days and if I don't see any balls forming I'll trash her.

 

[smilley]

Coconutz - Thanks for looking in man. Are the plants in you album wifi? They look awesome. Feel free to post some pics here

 

[smilley]

Day F43

Day F43