McToker Grows Again ~ CFL/HPS Hempy Bucket ~ Bag Seed

Blue Apollo - Apollo 11 x Blueberry

From the breeder:

This is a cross between my favorite blueberry and Apollo 11. The Father is Apollo 11 a high producing super potent strain many of you have heard about or maybe grown yourself. It is low in odor having a faint citrus like smell. The mother is Blueberry I obtained from DJ Short via Dutch Passion. The Blueberry mother is a high yielder with the soaring blueberry high and delicious blueberry smell. It gives large buds that are rock solid. Blueberry has been a favorite of many growers for years now and has won many awards. Your mouth will be watering every time you tend your plants. Try to wait until they finish before you sample some, I know it will be hard to wait. The females have blue/purple stems particularly in the seedlings and the leaves or buds also tend to turn a bluish shade at the finish. Both blueberry and A11 are hardy vigorous plants with very nice buds.

Here's a link to a few bud shots from someone on these boards that grew it out

http://boards.cannabis.com/1810665-post69.html
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Very nice. :) Thanks greenatik.

I read in another thread that growth rate under MH seems to be nearly double of that under CFL's. I don't know if it's true, but, these babies are really taking off. Mrs. McT hadn't seen the plants for two days. When she looked in on them last night it was "Holy growth rate Batman!!!".

During this mornings feeding, I noticed some slight discoloration in the leaves, particularly in AK#1 (2nd pic) and BA #1 and #2 (3rd pic). Not sure how well this will show up in the pics.

They have been on half strength nutes until now. I'm thinking I need to escalate the CalMag and the nutes. I'm not quite certain if I should go to 3/4 strength or just move on up to full strength.

Today, the 10 plants took an entire gallon of water/nutes. I'm guessing that it may be safe to start watering every other day, now. Surely, the tap roots have all reached the reservior by now. I know. Don't call you Shirley.:D

Had to move the light and the temp sensors up about 2 inches, again.

I'm really liking how AK#1 is bushing out. The tips of the auxilliary (side) branches are about the same height as the main stem. The bagseed on the last grow certainly didn't do that.

Today was the first time for "every other day" feeding. They took 2 whole gallons. We bumped them up to a full dose of CalMag and up to the "mid-sized" vegging dose on the Pro Gro.

All signs of heat stress have disappeared. I'm thinking that the lighter coloring is most likely a Calcium/Magnesium or Nitrogen deficiency. The new dose should take care of that.

Just got our new ph pen in the mail today. Sure is a lot more accurate and easier than either the litmus paper or the drops and test tube method. Managed to get the water/nutes right on 5.8 for the first gallon and 5.9 for the second.

We went ahead and ordered a ppm pen this morning, too. The place is not far so we should have it tomorrow.

Time to start teaching Mrs. McT how to do the feedings. She'll have to take over for a while next month while I'm in the hospital. Gotta go back and see if they can put my inards back together. It's the follow up to the emergency surgery last October.

She's a bit aprehensive about doing the feedings. I told her I'll have it all written down for her. I'm sure she'll do just fine.

my wife had to feed my plants one time while i was in jail (i had to turn myself in for a warrant). she did a fine job (well decent enough) and all were fine except one. but it was a male so it worked out for the best!

*crosses fingers*


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Looking real good :)

I just went back through the thread to figure the ages of the plants. Some were closer together than I remembered. ;)

Bagseed = 5 1/2 weeks (a definite runt)
All the AK and BA are within 5 days of each other so I'll call it = 3 weeks

Just trying to figure out how much longer we might be vegging and an approximate harvest time. I'm hoping that they are ready to put into flower mode before I go back to the hospital. It'll be close. I figure it'll be easier on the Mrs. if she doesn't have to deal with the switch. Looks like we could be harvesting anywhere from late August to mid-September.

Plants are taking 2 1/4 gallons now. Moved them up to full strength nutes.

I don't know where I got the notion that vegging takes 8 weeks. We did go that long on our first grow and, afterward, realized we had vegged longer than needed. I went back and looked at the nute tables for both the Pro Gro we're using and the FF table. Looks like we're about a week away from going to 12/12 for flower.
WooHoo!!!

Here's today's pic.

Still some slight discoloration to some leaves. Bumped the Cal/Mag to 2 TSP per gallon with today's feeding.

It's getting a bit crowded in the tent. I have to pull out a few plants just to get the watering done. I'm thinking about tying a band of gardening tape around each plant to lessen the crowding a bit. I'll try not to bind them up so tight that it drastically reduces the light to inside branches.

If anyone has another idea to lessen the crowding, I'm open to suggestions. No, I'm not ready to start moving some outdoors, yet. I was hoping to wait untill they started showing their sex. We're still looking at going into flowering mode this Friday or Saturday. That way we should have them all sexed and be on a stable routine that will be easier on Mrs. McT when she takes over.

Instead of waiting until this weekend we went ahead and swapped out the MH bulb for the HPS bulb and set the timer for 12/12.

I measured the smallest of the plants today. They were already at 10 inches tall. The taller ones are at 14 inches tall.

We'll start the transitional feedings tomorrow (1/2 grow & 1/2 bloom nutes).

We had initially planned to LST these babies but, they bushed up so nicely with side branches (potential bud sites) almost the same height as the main cola. If the main colas get too much taller than the rest of the plant, we'll just do some bending and tying later on. We felt that we ended up with too many plants to have the room to LST like we had planned.

The smell coming from this batch is a wonderful sweet odor.:) It's not at all like the predominantly skunk smell from our all bagseed grow last time. We don't know if it's the AK or the BA that is responsible for the tasty aroma.

Now comes the really fun part.:D