[nomoreschwag]

I had another diary thread, but I let it die out, and in the process my growing got lazy In order to keep myself motivated and growing AAA bud again. I'm gona start up another and hope that I can get some tips and pointers from the other growers here and continue to improve my growing skills.

I'm growing in a Mills Pride C-25 cab with air cooled hood and 400w HPS from HTGsupply.com. Passive intake through a 8"x8" dark room lavour and a 4" Vortex fan pushing air into a Cannon carbon filter keep the cab no more than 5 deg above ambient.



Right now I have 5 plants in my cab. Most of them are still in the early stages of flowering. 2 NL#5's, 1 AK, an unknown Hawaiin Sativa, and my own cross that I have named 'Purple Bastard'.

(Left to Right) AK, Hawaiin, PB, & NL#5. The Other NL went into flower the day after this pic was taken.



Here are a couple closeups of the Purple since its the only one with actual buds right now, and one of my last decent NL harvest to remind me of what this cab can do...

[SEEDYNONO]

yep yep grow that dank man.

[nomoreschwag]

Thanks dude!

I would really like some guidance with the sativa I have growing...
A friend brought back a small sack of buds from a recent trip to Hawaii. The buds were packed in coffee so they didn't smell or taste like anything but coffee really, but the high was amazing.
I've never tried to grow a strait up sativa so I'm a little nervous from all the stuff I've read about them being much pickier and harder to grow. I think I have a pretty good handle on the indica's when I actually put a little work into it. I'm ready to have some proper head stash, please help me

[nomoreschwag]

Alright my sativa is at 30 days of flower now. I have given her nutes twice since the 12/12 switch and she still looks like she's a little nute burned. I just don't get it... Her feedings have consisted of 1/4 strength PBP with LK, Cal-mag, micro-blast, and blackstrap. PH around 6.5

Any help from you indoor sativa growers would be greatly appreciated

[Chamez]

could that be nitrogen deficiency instead of nute burn.

[nomoreschwag]

It looks like a deficiency from the leaves that fell off while watering, but all of the little leaves up around the buds are almost all curled under. Is that a sign of nute burn or something that just kinda happens with sativa's?

[Black Ra1n]

Hey man, nice clean setup. I'm not absolutely sure, but my sativa as well as a few other's I've seen all do the same thing. Not too sure if it's a lack of nitrogen or too much, but I would think if it was too much there would be some burning on the leaves, but there seems to be none.

Good luck with your grow man...

B/R

[Scientist]

It's pretty hard to burn with PBP bloom. If your saying 1/4 strength of 30mL (30mL = 2 tablespoons) I would work up to one tablespoon per gallon and beyond. She looks huunnnnnngry!! Don't giver any sorta Nitrogen blast - just a medium heavy dose of PBP bloom (I use LK as well in flowering at about 1-2 teaspoons per gal). Feed every other watering pref. when the soil is not too dry. for example, if it takes 3 days for a 3gal pot to dry out almost completely (plant is reeeal thirsty) after a nute+watering, i will water completely w/ plain water. and then assuming it will take another 3 days to dry out completely, i will go only 2 days and then nute+water time again. repeat.

Peace mang you got some fine lookin girlies

[Mr GreenJeans]

Hiya nomoreschwag
Do you give your girls CalMag+? Looks like they could use the "accelerated" dosage of 2 tsp / gal. If you don't have CalMag+, give them each a teaspoon of dolomite lime / gal, add veg nutes to a concentration you're comfortable with, and they should improve. If that works I'd keep up the dolomite lime each feeding for a few cycles.

Good luck, I think they will be fine. I love sativas!

[nomoreschwag]

Thanks for all the replies and kind words everyone

Scientist Ya 30ml Full strength on the PBP. Whatever the bottle says is full strength is how i measure it for the additives.

Mr GreenJeans I just started useing Cal-mag. The last feeding they all got some but only a half strength of the regular feeding level (2.5ml). They were still lookin deprived tonight so they got the accelerated dosage (10ml).

I watered the sativa two days ago (when the pic was taken). I gave her strait water on that watering. She should need water again in 2-3 days. I'll give her a 1/2 strength dosage of nutes and see how it goes.

On my last grow my nutes got too hot and spoiled. Killing a couple plants along the way before I figured out what the culprit was. I have ordered all new nutes plus a couple new additives to try, but it has been really hard to feed any of them very hard after having it kill them not all that long ago...

I harvested the Purple Bastard tonight (the plant I figured out the nute thing with). I didn't write down when I set her to flower DAMNIT, but I've got a pretty good idea. I would guess her at about 7 weeks, 10-12 days sooner than my NL. Trichs were mostly cloudy with the first sign of amber here and there. She's not the heaviest yielder, but the colors are amazing and she has a nice frosting of resin and a pretty nice stank. I'm thinking she'll be worth keeping around for a while
Here she is tonight before I went at her with the scissors.






Minus the sativa, here's what left in the grow cab. The plants on the ends are NL about 2 weeks apart. And the middle plant is AK.