Photoperiod Barneys Farm - Peyote Crit/Watermelon Zkittles/Mimosa X Orange Punch

[Cannaficionado]

Just a update. Shared the pic in live chat but I went in and did my 3 week flower defoliation today. Its a couple days early but it seems like these girls have done their thing. Shoots aren't really pushing new nodes out anymore just stem elongation so I figured it's Sunday. Might as well get in there and get it done today.

One thing I shared in the chat was those 2 oddball branches on the mimosa. Was told it might be polyploidism. From what I can see after doing some quick research is that it definitely is. Increased vegetation ribbon like main stem, basically every box for that is checked. Worried that once the buds swell up and get dense there that the dreaded botrytis will rear it's ugly head. I did find what looked to be spider mite webbing on some of the stuff I trimmed off already and that is what sent red flags up. The vegetation on those branches at the top is super dense already, 4 fan leaves on each side of the nodes and 4 branches coming out too. I dont think it was mite webbing because it was like a wispy ball that was just barely stick to a branch. Hopefully it was some kind of lint or something that just blew around and got stuck. I've had 0 pest problems this grow, no fungus gnats, no bugs of any kind at all. I see them dead on the intake screens on the outside of the tent every now and again but nothing on the inside. That makes me think that maybe just maybe a mold already took root in that denser vegetation. Im gonna be keeping a VERY close eye on that plant over the next week or so. That strain is a fan favorite so it would be a shame to have to scrap it. Tried to get a pic of the wispy thing I found but my phone was across the basement on my work bench, I tried to get up and take it over there but when I got up I must've brushed it against something the wispy little ball was gone so I couldn't get a pic. Its was very find shiny white contorted strands in a very loose "ball" is the best way I can describe it. Anyway that's all I got. I know in the one pic it looks like im really manhandle that top but I just curled my fingers in to keep my prints out of the pic.

Thought id circle out the 2 polyploid branches on the mimosa so yall know where the trouble spots are. One smack dab in the middle of everything so if the rot shows it's ugly head you can guarantee this whole grow is scrapped.

 

[kfigerm]

naah, no panic. I'll keep my fingers crossed it will work out. Those polyploids can grow nice to the end and will reward you most times with a potent product. But if you fear mold, it's better to keep an eye on them. I'd be happy if i was to find some polyploids.

 

[Cannaficionado]

naah, no panic. I'll keep my fingers crossed it will work out. Those polyploids can grow nice to the end and will reward you most times with a potent product. But if you fear mold, it's better to keep an eye on them. I'd be happy if i was to find some polyploids.

Its just weird to me that they only started this formation after I split the one branch after lst. They grew the first 3 nodes like normal then all of a sudden after like a week I noticed they weren't growing up anymore and during a defoliation is when I noticed those to branches were super thick and leaves were just spilling out of every node there after.

Thats what I've been told is increased yeild and potency. I got humidity dialed in pretty well. Just temps are kinda wild right now they are staying with the 70s but throughout the day it will vary between 70-78 degrees all day. So hopefully the airflow and low humidity will help mitigate any molds from taking root.

 

[KingRatt]

Its just weird to me that they only started this formation after I split the one branch after lst. They grew the first 3 nodes like normal then all of a sudden after like a week I noticed they weren't growing up anymore and during a defoliation is when I noticed those to branches were super thick and leaves were just spilling out of every node there after.

Thats what I've been told is increased yeild and potency. I got humidity dialed in pretty well. Just temps are kinda wild right now they are staying with the 70s but throughout the day it will vary between 70-78 degrees all day. So hopefully the airflow and low humidity will help mitigate any molds from taking root.

Ive had temps in the mid to high 90s at times during flower when the tent is packed and during summer during lights on. If your humidity is good an in check you shouldnt have any issues, just keep an eye on those super thick wierd fliwer clusters, thats where itll happen!

 

[Cannaficionado]

Ive had temps in the mid to high 90s at times during flower when the tent is packed and during summer during lights on. If your humidity is good an in check you shouldnt have any issues, just keep an eye on those super thick wierd fliwer clusters, thats where itll happen!

Thats what Im scared of. Humidity is in check though, it doesnt go above 55% right now unless Im in there screwing around, and right after I water (to be expected) but drops down to 55% within a couple hours. One thing I noticed is Im watering daily now. Never had to do that in any of my previous grows, not till the buds were really packing on weight. But thats only since I stopped watering to 15% runoff

 

[Cannaficionado]

Had to water today. 1 gallon each of plain spring water with yucca pH to 6.45.

Stretch is over, plants are no longer producing any new leaves and we are rolling into bud production.

Over all plants are doing pretty well. Some minor problems here or there, but nothing Im concerning myself with. Let the soil dry out a bit too much. Pots were light as air today but no droopieness so all good. Noticing that the watermelon zkittles, even with yucca is still taking forever for the first bit of water to sink into the pot. Noticed that the last couple times so I even added an extra tsp of sledgehammer to each gallon. Still sat on the surface for about 15-20 seconds while slowly sinking in. Other 2, the water just runs right in. Not worried plant seems fine just a note.

Tried to get some good pics of bracts and stuff but Im too shaky to do it today. Kept coming out blurry and pretty indistinguishable. Theres multiple pistils coming out of all the preflower bracts and the tops all have pistils spilling out too. Its definitely a nice sight to see after not growing for a year. Gotta love it.

Thats all for today.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Quite a difference 4 days makes

Raised the light a bit, the stuff closest seemed to be struggling the last couple days. Or it was just hungry, watered today, had some calcium deficiency signs popping up on the older leaves. Tops were starting to yellow again which meant it was time for magnesium sulphate again. Treated with a foliar spray and a tsp in the water.

Also fed a 1tsp of grow big and 3/4 of a tsp of tiger bloom. Noticed the older leaves turning yellow, probably leeching N and I added the tiger bloom to keep the flowering nutes in balance. Seemed to do do the trick because everything greened up dramatically over the day today. This will probably be the last time I will foliar spray epsom salts though. So I'll have to do further corrections from the soil to avoid spraying buds.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Took some pics today while I was screwing around in there.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Forgot to make this post on Wednesday, but it was day 28 of flower.

Seems like everything is going well. Battling calcium deficiency/lock out again. Magnesium isn't helping much at all. Did a foliar spray last week and added a total of a tsp of epsom salt to my water over the last 4 waterings. I took it slower this time because I wanted to see if this issue was the same as before, its not. Because Im watering almost daily now, and the rust spots are still progressing, tops were all yellowing but are starting to green back up so I thought it was like last time where Magnesium got locked out from an abundance of calcium so it couldn't take up either. But so far the green is coming back but the rust spots on older leaves are still coming in every day. Only thing is its only a few leaves scattered around the plant on both the mimosa and watermelon. So I did a slurry test on both plants soil yesterday before work, came in at 6.58ph so my soil isn't out of whack. Im thinking maybe I just dialed up my lights too much too fast and it couldn't process nutrients fast enough. With the dehumidifier the plants are transpiring faster than they ever have before and I think this is what caused my imbalance. And sure enough. After I bumped up the dehumidifier by 5% they started slowing down with the transpiration, and the progression of rust spots has slowed but not halted. Its only been 2 days since I raised the humidity slightly so we'll see how the next week plays out.

Other than those 2 plants the Peyote Critical is taking all this abuse like a damn Rockstar. Slight burned tips on older leaves but other than that the girl is just enjoying being alive. I almost think its impossible to screw up this strain nutrient wise unless you have no clues how to feed plants.

Thats all for today

 

[Cannaficionado]

So I am definitely battling some king of major lock out or perhaps actual deficiency on both the mimosa and the watermelon.

Its the classic rust spots from calcium deficiency but this time I don't think its calcium deficiency. They are forming on the last and second to last sets of fan leaves that pushed out right before the stretch ended, I dont have pics of symptoms in particular, but everything is all over. And a good 40% of each plant is starting to look like shit.

Again the peyote is doing fine.

Took some general pics, and you can see what Im talking about there, looks like the mimosa is starting to turn purple too but with all the yellowing and dead spots its hard to see it. A couple leaves on the watermelon are turning purple too but Im wondering if this is all lock out symptoms, and phosphorus is locked out too. Some pics are lights on and some are lights off, and there's a eagle eye of each plant if you wanna zoom in and look around. Im about 35-40 days away from breeder reccomended window so I don't know if its worth trying to fix what's going on. Its probably gonna be more like 45-55 more days though. They all ran a little longer last time.

i did give both the watermelon and mimosa a heavy watering on saturday. Even when they started to run off they didnt really seem to pick up much weight. So I basically flushed them almost. A medium strength feed and I pumped 2 gallons of water through each. They ran off quite a bit for the first gallon and after the second it barely ran off at all. The ppm of the feed was about 450 and what I was figuring was there was hydrophobic spots in the soil that had heavy salt deposits trapped in them and I loosened all that shit up when I gave them all that water. Becauss thats what kick started everything. All that yellow and dead spots is from saturday sunday and today. Though it seems to have slowed down a ton overnight.

I gotta figure out something for the future too. All the gardening stores near me are dropping fox farm everything besides dry ferts and the trio. And Im not really liking that I only have 1 healthy plant every grow even though they all get treated the same. I know each plant handles everything a little differently, genetics and whatever. But its gotta be inconsistencies in the soil or something, because I find it hard to believe treating all 3 the same and theres basically nothing wrong with one whole plant, not a single rust spots, no yellowing nothing.

Anyway, if anyone watching has some ideas. I wanna stick with soil, so Im thinking of maybe leaning towards the organic side, that way all I have to do is water and top dress once or twice. I was really liking fox farm because I thought I was getting the hang of it and it just keeps throwing me into the same exact spot Im always in no matter how much I try and tweak it. Last time the mimosa was the healthy one this time its the peyote, both times at around the same time the watermelon just started spiraling. Hopefully I can actually smoke this one though.