Photoperiod Cannaficionado Grow Thread. (Organic)

[Cannaficionado]

Was in the tent today and a few nodes on the Slurricane #7 are shooting out preflowers. Not very many. But she's just about 5 weeks old as of tomorrow.

About 3 more weeks of veg and Im flipping these girls to flower.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Its a day late. But yesterday marked the end of week 5.

Slurricane #7 S1

I did a pretty heavy defoliation and partial lollipop on this girl. Spread her branches out more so light can get down to the emerging secondary branches from the 2nd round of topping hopefully over the next 3 weeks to a month those branches will catch up to the canopy amd I will be flipping to flower.

Having some definite problems, not sure what exactly but the pale leaf tips are back and theres one leaf on there thats pointing to sulfur deficiency but its the only extra pale leaf on the plant. So Im not really sure about it. Been thinking of ordering some elemental sulfur amd adding a ⅛ to 1/16th of a teaspoon when I feed for flower which is coming up in about 10-14 days. Im not sure if I should do that. But I definitely think I should foliar spray some magnesium. Im really starting to think the cal/mag ratio is way out of whack. After all my veg feed is 6% calcium and 1% magnesium and usually I see closer to a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio not a 6:1.

Forbidden Jelly

This plant is doing a little better but definitely showing signs of sulfur deficiency. All the new growth is coming in very pale and thats what's got me thinking sulfur deficiency on both plants. Once again I think its because my organic fertilizer doesn't have any in it, by now I think anything the soil was amended with is pretty much depleted.

Did the same defoliation and spreading of the branches. Only difference is because she's shorter by almost half a foot I haven't done a second round of topping.

Thats all for today thanks for stopping by

 

[Cannaficionado]

So I think I figured out what was wrong with my plants, and thats too much light. I raised my light to take pics for my weekly update and forgot to lower it back down. Today all the pale tips are almost fully green again, amd the one super pale leaf on the slurricane is completely green except for the brown spots it had. Same with the Forbidden Jelly. After I noticed this I used the photone app and got a NEW paper diffuser and sure as shit where my light was at before at 50% power was blasting the tops with 700+ppfd. With the nutrients not being balanced right I think it was just too much light. Sitting at 450-500 right now and plants look great

 

[Cannaficionado]

Another week down. Plants are starting to not look so great. Forbidden Jelly seems to always be droopy and its hardly growing anymore, and the Slurricane #7 is showing a lot of interveinal chlorosis on the tops plus some brown spots popping up.

Ive just been giving them ph'd water when the pots are light, and some microbes once a week. The microbes have a little bit of food though so maybe thats causing problems its like a 1-.5-.5 or something and its got some iron and copper and molybdimum. Im wondering if they are starting to get hungry and I should mix in the flowering nutrients and flip over to flower. Might help a bit.

Took this pic 2 days ago after watering they look a tad worse today.

 

[Cannaficionado]

This may prove to be a big mistake, but my plants are really looking like shit. The Forbidden Jelly is just droop city. Every single leaf is drooping and its not over or under watered, I think I just suck at maintaining organics. But just like every grow, right around now I have nothing but problems, and after the flip the plants perk back up and then revert to crap again by the end of flower so I guess we'll see how this plays out. The Slurricane #7 has interveinal chlorosis and marginal chlorosis on a lot of the upper leaves and rust spots coming in on older leaves.

Since I chose today to flip to flower I did a heavy defoliation on both plants. Also top dressed with 5 tablespoons of the 2-6-5 Flower Garden, and added 1/64 of a teaspoon of magnesium sulfate. The calcium in this mix is super high at 8% so I tried to offset it a bit. Even though Epsom salt is readily available, I figured mixing it in to the top dress will dissolve it slow enough to help offset the calcium a bit.

Heres the pics, first is both plants followed by the Slurricane #7 and the Forbidden Jelly

Ps. I think after this grow I will be working out some money and giving Build A Soil a go. Im not sure which soil Im gonna go with but I might just fork out the $450 to get the no till complete kit. Idk yet but I think a lot of my trouble is coming from my soil, and my nutrients. I think the combo created a pretty big imbalance, so Im just going to try and go for something completely tailored to growing cannabis.

 

[Cannaficionado]

I just realized I forgot to make my weekly update on Saturday again!

So its been about 7 days since the flip to flower and the girls are stretching like crazy. The Slurricane #7 has grown at least 4 inches in the past week. Before the flip they were about 1ft plus a bit more from the light and today they were about 2-3 inches from touching the light. The Forbidden Jelly isnt stretching as much but its growing at a consistent rate compared to her tent mate. Relatively the same height in comparison. I might have to put her on a stand so she gets even ppfd. Because right now she's about 6in shorter.

With that said I have raised the light to the top of the tent, and bumped the power up to 80%. May be a week or 2 too early to bump it up but Im trying to control the stretch as much as possible on the Slurricane, she's definitely stretching pretty close to a half inch per day right now. 3 weeks of that will have her needing supercropping and I really haven't done much supercropping. I know its nothing to be scared of and it may actually make the plant respond positively to that kind of stress, but its a, I dont want to if I cant prevent it, kind of situation.

Heres some pics, with them getting as big as they are now Ive kiddy cornered the plants in the opposite corners of eachother. Slurricane is still on the right, but now in back and Forbidden Jelly is in the front on the left.

Ive also been doing a shit ton of research on bioactive living soils and I think that Im going to pull the plug in October and buy the build a soil take and bake artisan soil building kit. Yes its 600 bucks but as far as I can see it will be worth the investment. It makes 70 gallons of soil that is basically good for a lifetime of use comes with a 100 fabric bag to do the mixing in, cover crop straw, organic inputs, and compost. You name it its there. Its a water only recipe and as far as I can tell besides adding some organic inputs every now and again to feed the biology in the soil you really dont have to do anything but keep it moist. I know its gonna take some practice to get it working right but I think after this grow Im gonna ditch the individual bags and get a custom grassroots living soil bed that will fit perfectly inside my tent. Their current bed that fits a 3x3 is exactly 3ft on both sides and my tent is only 35.5x35.5 so custom bed figure 34x34x1ft. I dont need the extra half foot in height. But that will be about 60-65 cubic feet of soil. So it will take almost the whole take and bake kit.

Thats all for today. Thanks for stopping by.

 

[Cannaficionado]

I messed up, after raising my light and bumping the power from 50% to 80% i forgot to put it back on schedule. A week after flipping to flower they got 36 hours of constant light .

Gave her 24 hours of straight darkness to try and rebalance hormones. Will be keeping a close eye out for herms

 

[Cannaficionado]

Keep forgetting to make my posts Saturday. I will probably be making every other post late as my mandatory Saturdays at work started so every other week I'll be at work during 80% of the lights on time. This past Saturday I was just too busy.

So I've been keeping a very close eye on the girls since the light fuck up. I think they were just starting to get back to re-vegging, but they seem to be ok. Theres calyx/bracts at almost every node one both plants, no signs of balls forming so I think I might be in the clear.

Sluricane #7 S1 is doing great. I think both girls aren't liking all the light they are getting as the tops are a little droopy but about 1/3 of the way down the slurricanes leaves are praying. Pretty positive its the light this time. Also was going to water yesterday but forgot so I watered each with a half gallon of plain water with a surfactant. Sluricane is stretching like crazy and isn't transpiring as much water as the Forbidden Jelly but growing much faster. Healthier plant over all, I would say.

The Forbidden Jelly is a little worse for wear right now. Droopy all over again. This one is a combo of drying back too much and a bit too much light I think. She was almost bone dry today. Seems like unless the environment and water levels are perfect shes just a drooper. Humidity had been in the low 50s and I think thats why she is transpiring so much faster than the other plus she is closest to the intake so all that fresh air runs past her first. I opened up the intake in the back too, to help pull fresh air into both of them a little more equally.

Thats all for today.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Thought I would make a little update. Girls are looking pretty good. Slurricane looks exceptional, the Forbidden Jelly is more the ok one.

Sluricane #7 S1 has had about a good 14-15 inches of stretch in the first 2 weeks almost to week 3 so hopefully she slows down. Super spaced out nodes which will make for easy trimming later one. Lovely structure on this girl. Minimal training and all tops are roughly the same height, within about 6inches.

Forbidden Jelly hasnt really been stretching much at all which is very unlike the last time I grew it. Last time she looked more like the Slurricane at this point. She's stacking up very nicely just a lot of vegetation. Will be doing final defol on both girls Sunday morning. First pic is more of a comparison between the 2 but the second shows how tight the nodes are stacking.

Edit:

Forgot to add that I watered the slurricane and the forbidden jelly 2 days ago with some synthetic nutes. Very low dosage but I watered 1 gallon between the 2, and that gallon had 1 tsp of tiger bloom (about 1/4-1/2 the normal dose) 1 tsp of microbe brew(1/2 the norm) snd yucca as always. Instead of adding more dry amendments I just gave a little bump. Of the flowering nutes and some microbes. Im trying to wait to do a top dress until I see the plant looking hungry for something and so far it hasn't been looking hungry at all.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Another week down!

Stretch appears to be over on both girls and all tops have have turned into colas now. Multiple pistils shooting out, no more new vegetation, we are now in full flower swing.

Top dressed with another 5tbsp of the Flower Garden mix and watered it in with some fox farm kangaroots. Each plant received about 3/4 of a gallon with the Kangaroots @ 1tsp per gallon. Its not organic but it has a decent culture of myco and trichoderma and less available fertilizer than microbe brew, everything being less than 1% in the npk ratios.

The Slurricane #7 S1 is doing great. A little droopy before feeding and watering the dry ferts in but better now. Also defoliated and spread the branches open a bit wider so all the lowered are getting light relatively easy. Pictures will be added today, as I took all of them in portrait mode and they wanna rotate as I add them

Forbidden Jelly is doing ok too. She was super droopy again before feeding and watering, but perked up again. Defoliated her to and spread her open just a bit. She's much shorter now that the stretch has finish so I took one of my saucers for my 10 gallon pots and flipped it over. They stand about 4 inches tall so it helped out a bit getting it closer to the light. Again same here, pics will be added later.

Alright photos added right after the lights popped on this morning.