[SpaaaceCowboy]

Originally Posted by inthefire

Are they in veg or blossom?what pmm are you feeding them at?
What pheno are you seeing most?

they are 34 days into 12-12-...No idea what ppm I am feeding them because I don't have a tester..The plant was looking deficient (esp. N) so the last feeding I gave her a max dose of 20-20-20...

Main pheno I'm seeing is sativa...thin leaves however, they are small....Also plant did not stretch all that much it seems - possibly due to the deficiency ?

[SpaaaceCowboy]

***not sure why I can't edit my posts***

but also, there really is not much for odor either.

[inthefire]

are you testing ph ?

[SpaaaceCowboy]

Originally Posted by inthefire

are you testing ph ?

no i'm still a noob...But someone suggested I get these two testers....what do you think ?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007FM...110_SY165_QL70

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007VK...110_SY165_QL70

[SpaaaceCowboy]

here's a few pics I took yesterday in day 44 of 12-12

[lost in a sea]

yeah the first is a soil pH tester i think and the second an ec meter to test the nutrient/salt strength of solutions.

you also need either a pH chemical tester or pen form of tester to check your run off coming out the pots and what you are feeding them because it wants to be 6.2-6.5..

lol your grow is class! i love it!!

[SpaaaceCowboy]

Originally Posted by lost in a sea

yeah the first is a soil pH tester i think and the second an ec meter to test the nutrient/salt strength of solutions.

you also need either a pH chemical tester or pen form of tester to check your run off coming out the pots and what you are feeding them because it wants to be 6.2-6.5..

lol your grow is class! i love it!!

Lol, thnx....

Neither of these does runoff ? So I would need a third tester for that then ?

[Linda Brodie]

Hi, all. I'm new to this forum and stumbled across the thread while looking for more info on Kerala Krush. It's an old thread, apparently, but there are some recent entries, so here goes.

I live in southwestern Oregon and grew Kerala last year in my outdoor grow. She was troublesome but turned out to be a really good smoke. I had received 4 free seeds from Royal Queen Seeds last year after ordering some other strains through them. The seeds were untreated, all four of them popped, and I kept only the first two to show female. I cloned a mother plant just in case we liked her and I'm so glad we did!! We gave the mother plant to a friend a couple of months ago after taking 4 clones from her for this year. The mother plant would be about 11 months old now, not big because I kept chopping her head off over the winter due to lack of space in my greenhouse, and very, very bushy. My friend immediately fed her up and starting blooming her. She looks to be making some really beautiful buds right now but has several weeks to go. All of the literature I've found says she wants a full 10-12 week bloom time to mature.

Although I have been growing outdoors for 4 years, I had been flying by the seat of my pants until last winter when I met my very own Grow Guru. I've received some schooling, now, and my education is on-going. LOL I don't remember who said what on this thread but I've experienced the yellowing, the Sativa Stretch and the long bloom time growing her outdoors in less than optimum conditions so I thought I'd share. Kerala is a hungry girl!!

Basics: I'm about 42 degrees lat. at 1400 feet on the north-facing side of a thickly wooded ridge. I have this little east-west slot through the trees through which I get my limited amount of sun. You work with what you have, right? As an amateur grower, I don't feed and water quite right, I'm sure, and I've never tested my soil or water. I have a private well on my five acres. No guerilla growing as I'm on Oregon's OMMP and can legally have up to 12 plants for me and my other half. I grow in raised beds over clay and serpentine rock and the bed soil is amended generic garden soil. Last year I used mostly Fox Farm and Happy Frog nutes and soil amendments. This year, I've added some coco fiber to lighten up the heavy soil and an E.B. Stone organic compost with all of the goodies to enrichen it. I dug worms out of my beds this spring for some chicks a friend has so I think my soil is starting to get really good. I generally treat my garden as if I'm growing outdoors in pots.

Kerala, as I said earlier, is a hungry girl. She grew well and was tough. She eventually reached about 7 feet in height. My Blue Dream last year hit about 10 feet but had a little bit better sun position in the garden than Kerala did. This year, Kerala has the choicest sunny spot. She stayed yellowish all last year. I know now that I didn't feed her near enough. Blue Dream was happy with the food I gave her, as were the other girls in the garden, but it was never enough for greedy Kerala. While growing, Kerala did the usual stretching for the sun so I didn't find anything unusual in her growth habits or structure. She looked just like the Blue Dream in that respect. I pinched and pruned her a bit but never got severe with her.

Come harvest, we had the rainiest September on record in 2013. We had to take some buds off of all of the plants (except the Cheese, which is another story for another time) at the end of the month to protect the plants from breakage and mold, rot, etc. We left the rest of the buds on for experimental purposes. October turned cold but the rain mostly stopped. We left the experimental buds on as long as we could--to the middle of October--and we're so glad we did.

Kerala had absolutely no problem with the cold and wet once we took the large buds off. She started turning pretty colors--reddish and goldish--with the light frosts we were getting every night. Blue Dream and my Sour Kush also started looking pretty colorful with the cold.

There was a very noticeable difference between Kerala's early and late harvests after curing. Enough that we keep them separate from each other. She's a quick, powerful Sativa high with a sweet-spicy/fruit taste and scent. I'm so glad I kept a mother through the winter!! The longer she can bloom, the better the harvest. If you have the room indoors, or live at the right, more southern latitude for outdoor, anyone who can grow Kerala will be very happy they did. She really, really, really wants a very long flowering time and would have gone into November for me if the weather allowed for it. And she's very, very, very nitrogen hungry. If I can figure out how to post them, I'll add pics of her from last year's garden. I broke my camera and haven't been able to replace it yet so pics of this year's Kerala will have to wait a bit.

I had a bloom problem in my green house while the girls were little. Some light issues I didn't understand and didn't address until it was almost too late. I was able to reverse the bloom and send everyone back into veg (thank you, Grow Guru!!) but it was bitch to do so and I caused some damage. I also did some inadvertent super-cropping and I'm getting a kick out of how that affected all of my plants. I'm on a limited income so replacing everything and starting over was not an option. As part of re-doing the lights, pinching off all of those damned tiny little flowers and giving high doses of nitrogen, I managed to kill my 4 Cheese clones and severely burned the Green Crack. Kerala never even blinked at the high dose of nitrogen! She never even tipped her little leaves!! She just turned dark green and asked for more, the bitch.

Some friends replaced my fried Cheese babies out of the kindness of their hearts so now I've got 9 strains in my little garden of 12, with Kerala being 1/3 of my garden. She is growing great guns, starting to put on huge 7- and 9-finger leaves and stretching for the sun, but still wants more nitrogen than I'm giving her. I have managed, so far, to keep her a darker, richer green than last year but every other strain I have is a richer, shinier green right now. I'm starting to experiment again (oh, crap!!) and am custom-mixing Kerala's food for her. Right now, she's getting a double-dose of Age Old Grow formula with a bit of seaweed, bat guano, Cal/mag and some other nitrogen-heavy goodies added in. Another few days should start showing whether or not she's truly happy with me. I'll triple the dose next time if I need to. Oh, and she's thirsty--very, very thirsty! She loves the heat in my little sun-trap of a garden. I'm having to water her almost every day in between feedings. That could possibly be due to my soil mix--more amending will be going on before next year's garden.

The Kerala mother my friend is blooming is taking her own sweet time, of course. He's been blooming her for three weeks now and she's just starting to spiral like the long, skinny Sativa colas do. My friend also had problems with finding the right nutrient level for her but she seems happy as a clam now. He thinks she'll be ready for harvest some time in August. I can hardly wait to sample a Kerala that was given all the time she wants for flowering!! If I can get another camera, I'll take a pic of her and post it, also.

Except for some pics, I think that about covers it all. Kerala is picky but is worth the effort even if she doesn't get her full bloom period. My ol' man prefers Sativa strains so I'm willing to go the extra effort to get the best harvest I can from her this year. I'm not quite that picky, myself. The other strains in my garden are Green Crack, Jack the Ripper, Critical, Blueberry, Snowcap, Sour Diesel and Sour Dream.

Happy growing, all! Update me on your Keralas, will you?