Diary:02/09/07: 8 Pots of Plants

I've made a few changes. Let me try and sum them up in chronological order.

On day twelve (30/09/07) I flushed as planned. Before flushing I repotted the three bigger plants into 15L pots. The medium was really dry and dusty so I gave them about 2L of pH'd water. The smaller plants also had a good drenching.

Since day twelve I haven't watered the plants as it has taken quite a long time for the pots to begin drying up.

Today, day fifteen, I have decided to fit an RVK 8" inline extractor in place of the TD-500 6". Even though the temps have been good to me, I feel that once I crank the two 600W lamps on together the heat level might rise; so all is in preparation. This operation took a couple hours, but I'm now pleased to have greater pulling power in the extraction department.

I am about to take one or two cuttings from each of the larger plants and dump them in the propagator. I bought a cloning kit so all the necessities should be in the box. These cuttings will be moved, along with the stragglers, into a veg room which I will finalise tomorrow. I was hoping to bloom eight plants, but I now think taking a few cuttings and keeping the existing stragglers alive in a seperate room is just as good an idea.

Here are the latest pics. Presenting The three bigunns

The rest of the pics with a partial sighting of my latest batch of medicine loosing moisture.

The new addition/replacement in the garden is the extractor. As mentioned, I don't think the TD-500 will handle both lights while maintaining the current climate. The RVK is the new recruit. I tried to obtain a bracket for it but my local didn't have one in stock. Instead I've chained it up. Its a bit noisy in its current configuration, but I hope to obtain some rigid ducting and scrap as much flexy as possible. The spigot plate hole took ages as i didn't have a jigsaw to hand, so i drilled millions of holes.. enjoy the attempted photoshopped pic of the new big hole and closed sliding door way.

I've made a few more changes.

I've taken two cuttings offa each of the larger three plants. These have been in the propagator since yesterday in the same room as all the rest.

I've fitted the TD-500 extractor to a 1x2m floor area veg room. In the veg room is a single 125W Blue 6400K daylight bulb that currently illuminates the stragglers ~(minus 1)~ and six cuttings from the bigger three. There are a few instruments I need to get for the veg room but I've used that space before so it should be adequate for now.

So there are a hopeful 9 in the veg room..

Back to the new bloom room. The bigger three have had throughout the night and all day to recover from having their lower most branches amputated. As from tomorrow my lights will come on later and 12/12 commences.

Today I fed the bigger three with F1, H2, Barricade, Mother Earth Bloom, Sensi Bloom at and EC of 1.2.

The Veg room occupants had Mother Earth Grow, Barricade, F1, H2 at ans EC of 1.0.

I'm not up to photography right now as the bud featured in an earlier pic is leaving me somewhat couchlocked all day and night.

Hello, A few more changes have happened.

The veg room is operational and the clones are still alive.... No roots showing yet though, but standing strong... they get daily misting with Formulex... The three struggling plants are now developing much better, only slower due to the 125W Envirolite as oppose to 600W HPS... fingers crossed..

I'm now 9 days into bloom with the three bigger plants.

They have gotten F1, H2, Barricade, Mother Earth bloom, and Sensi Bloom over a week with feeding commencing every other day. Yesterday they had a good flush. Tomorrow, or possibly the day after, I shall add liquid carboload to their diet. Previous attempts at big harvests required that I used as many useful amendments in the right proportions to achieve 100%+ g/W harvests. I'm planning on repeating history.

After one week I'm certain these are all girls. They are equally doing well so my future mothers, cloned from these beauties, should reward me heaps in future if I can do this right.

I shall post some pics of the veg room soon.

In the veg room are 3 25/26 day old Big Bud that arrived as clones, that are surviving well in 15L pots under 125W of enviroliting.

The six G13 cuttings appear to be very much alive, still to show roots though. One has started to display her roots since dropping the veg room lights from 24/0 to 18/6, though only one day has passed since dropping the lights.

I've been able to take a few pics. You can see the development of the Big bud plants in comparison to the blooming G13s.

here are a few more.. I'm so stoned recently I don't feel to take good pics

just droppin by to check. everything looks good to go.

Thanks for dropping by Forwhat420.... I'm glad someone is paying attention lol

Hello readers, and welcome back!

I'm very happy with the overall development of the three (supposed; I do have to wonder) G13 plants that are just about to end their second week in bloom.

Yesterday, I think it was as I was very very stoned last night, I gave each plant F1, H2, Barricade, Mother Earth Bloom, Carboload and their first installment of Big Bud. The resultant EC was around 1.8 so I tipped half away and topped of with tap water until EC1.4-1.5 was met. pH was a cool 6.4.

The noticeable difference in appearance since before feeding, around 24 hours ago (could be 48hrs), and now is major. The amount of visible pistils is putting a smile on my face.

I'm paying close attention. A source of information told me that:

1. I should Veg for 1-4 Weeks then switch to bloom
2. I should feed plants with only bloom nutes and no amendments for the first two weeks of bloom
3. I should apply Big Bud between weeks 3 and 5 with the bloom nutes
4. I should apply Overdrive between weeks 6 and 8, maybe 9, with the bloom nutes

That was the suggested regime in short. I wondered how to make best use of Big Bud and Overdrive. I think that the two weeks that was suggested to apply bloom nutes only is just a guide for the duration that it takes for plants to start showing their pistils. I really think that as soon as a plant shows her pistils she should have full doses of Big Bud. I've seen what the use of this amendment does for plants. It stimulates pistil growth. If I'm correct in all my assumptions than my next bloom cycle with the other strain of plants currently in veg should display the same speed of progress. Well, I'll see over time.

I purchased a much needed soil moisture meter today which should prevent me from constantly potentially saturating the soil with water when I need not be.

I've also added a slightly more powerful oscillating fan. This too could be a contributing factor to the acceleration in pistil growth, though the fan was added a couple of days ago.

I think it's a photo day as I'm so impressed with how healthy these girls look. Enjoy!!!