Update with pics: seven weeks completed
Update with pics: seven weeks completed
The pics below are from two days ago, day 50 of 11/13. Things are developing very nicely even though the Malawi still is acting like my problem child. The canopy:
On the deficiencies:
I followed Dubi’s advice to increase NPK levels which did both plants well. Of course, the leaf damages won’t go away and new leafs will not grow at this stage in flowering, so it’s all about saving the buds now. But I could tell that increasing the feeding was the right decision, as the rate at which the girls are loosing leafs has drastically been reduced from several dead leafs each day to a few per week. It turns out that the soil mix–BioBizz Light Mix–is very light indeed and requires constant feeding of high levels of BioBizz Grow.
The Zamaldelica
This girl is really putting on some weight (just look at that floral development!). Her buds are the largest I have grown so far (though all my previous grows were indica-dominant hybrids under cfls). All white pistils and steaming along. Great bud to leaf ratio. She emanates a sweet fruity smell that’s very pleasurable and nothing like weed at all. (My wife thinks it smells more like something is decaying though.) This is a fantastic plant.
The Malawi
The buds on this one are thin and wispy. Pistils are half brown which kind of puzzles me: Her leaves are super thin, she stretched more than the Zamaldelica and showed pistils and trichomes later; so one would naturally expect her to have a longer flowering time. But now she looks like she’s about to start finishing up. My only explanation is that she thinks she’s going to die because of the deficiencies and tries to hurry all she can. To test that theory, I’m about to flower a clone of this same plant in a different, more strongly pre-fertilized soil mix. See if it goes longer. I kind of feel I didn't really do this plant justice.
On this last picture you can see the new generation next to the bigger flowering plants.
These are all freshly rooted clones in 2.4 liter pots. In the back there are 4 Panama Hazes from ACE, in the front you can see 3 Purple Haze X Malawi and the Malawi clone. I intend to let them grow into small columnar plants s.o.g.-style. On all of these I’m using BioBizz All Mix and watering with just plain ph’ed tap water for the moment. According to the guy in the grow shop, the All Mix is much better with the organic nutrients than the Light Mix. It’s pre-fertilized with worm casings and, I think, algae and might thus be a little on the hot sides for sensitive sativas. This is, of course, why I stayed away from it and chose the Light Mix on those other plants, but having seen what too little fertilization can do, I’m willing to try the stronger mix out. It’s my first time with pure sativas and I just have to try different things out and dial in what works for my particular situation.
Update with pics: seven weeks completed
The pics below are from two days ago, day 50 of 11/13. Things are developing very nicely even though the Malawi still is acting like my problem child. The canopy:
On the deficiencies:
I followed Dubi’s advice to increase NPK levels which did both plants well. Of course, the leaf damages won’t go away and new leafs will not grow at this stage in flowering, so it’s all about saving the buds now. But I could tell that increasing the feeding was the right decision, as the rate at which the girls are loosing leafs has drastically been reduced from several dead leafs each day to a few per week. It turns out that the soil mix–BioBizz Light Mix–is very light indeed and requires constant feeding of high levels of BioBizz Grow.
The Zamaldelica
This girl is really putting on some weight (just look at that floral development!). Her buds are the largest I have grown so far (though all my previous grows were indica-dominant hybrids under cfls). All white pistils and steaming along. Great bud to leaf ratio. She emanates a sweet fruity smell that’s very pleasurable and nothing like weed at all. (My wife thinks it smells more like something is decaying though.) This is a fantastic plant.
The Malawi
The buds on this one are thin and wispy. Pistils are half brown which kind of puzzles me: Her leaves are super thin, she stretched more than the Zamaldelica and showed pistils and trichomes later; so one would naturally expect her to have a longer flowering time. But now she looks like she’s about to start finishing up. My only explanation is that she thinks she’s going to die because of the deficiencies and tries to hurry all she can. To test that theory, I’m about to flower a clone of this same plant in a different, more strongly pre-fertilized soil mix. See if it goes longer. I kind of feel I didn't really do this plant justice.
On this last picture you can see the new generation next to the bigger flowering plants.
These are all freshly rooted clones in 2.4 liter pots. In the back there are 4 Panama Hazes from ACE, in the front you can see 3 Purple Haze X Malawi and the Malawi clone. I intend to let them grow into small columnar plants s.o.g.-style. On all of these I’m using BioBizz All Mix and watering with just plain ph’ed tap water for the moment. According to the guy in the grow shop, the All Mix is much better with the organic nutrients than the Light Mix. It’s pre-fertilized with worm casings and, I think, algae and might thus be a little on the hot sides for sensitive sativas. This is, of course, why I stayed away from it and chose the Light Mix on those other plants, but having seen what too little fertilization can do, I’m willing to try the stronger mix out. It’s my first time with pure sativas and I just have to try different things out and dial in what works for my particular situation.
Love to see such beautiful peaks in your indoor landscape.
