Lighting CBD Skunk Haze - from weakling to buds, regrowing plant from window sill

[HolyTHC]

Hi AFN!

This time i took more than 2 months old weak plant from window sill and decided to try to get from her something good. She was weak and thin, new nodes were microscopic and surely no noticeable buds would grown on her, if she would further sit on window sill. So, i replanted her to 6l air pot with coco, added shrooms and bacilla there and after few days under normal lights when new nodes has grown a bit, i defoliated her hardly. After that and some time i started to form bush of her and now it is done and she is gaining wight and strenght before flowering. All this took 15 days from moving her to my grow box.

Feeding her with DIY CalMag + bit of Hesi TNT now, tea bout 500ppm. Installed Blumat-maxi for drip, letting osmotic water + DIY CalMag 200ppm now.
Giving Cellmax Root booster also.

Here she is, in few photos, whole period.

 

[Bunny]

Very nice work looks like she's got the perfect structure


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[HolyTHC]

Yeah bro, i did her some time for that, thought it's better than have a mess.
In these few days i stretched her even more and removed all bottom nodes again, as i need only 10 colas and center, not more. Plus i want at least a month of veg for her, to give some time for root development. So i think now in about 10 days she will be ready for flowering.

 

[HolyTHC]

Enough of vegging! Switched to 13/11 + 20 minutes of 730nm sunset yesterday.
Feeding ~500ppm by hand once a week + ~400ppm by Blumat.

 

[Bunny]

She really looks perfect for flowering now bro. Should be a good show.

 

[Bunny]

Love the sunset lighting idea,what light do you use for the 730nm?

 

[HolyTHC]

Yeah, i wanted her just this size, before stretch.
I use chinese 30W chip of 730nm. It's for sunsets mainly, but if i use it together with main lights for second half of day - plant is growing as mad, but it has to be used wisely, just not to make plant stretch too much. HS1 has just enough of 730nm too, so i use that additional 30W as tool,. when needed. This last week i have been using it for second half of day plus sunsets also, but now it will be only sunsets, as plant will shoot anyway. You may see the difference in photos
All this is because this far- red 730nm is making plant to feel that it is in shadow and makes it grow stretch faster, this also is said in Emerson effect.

It must be used wisely, but it can do some boost, you seen it with Kraken, you see it now
As for sunsets - this far red impacts some protein which is responsible for phase switching and by doing that virtually adds couple of hours of darkness for plant. Last time i made Kraken to flower on 14/10 with this, later switched to 12/12, and by doing that i extended flowering for more than a month. These are really interesting things things to watch and to try. Later in flowering i have couple of real UVB leds of 280nm, these are damaging and will be used for short periods only, but should make plant react to such an attack and make more oils. Just for testing, i have seen photos of this kind of experiment somewhere on the net, but it is worth to try it also.

 

[HolyTHC]

Today is 3 day after switching to 13/11 + IR sunsets, she stretched even more, so from today it will be only main lighs and 12/12, IR is completely off from now. Let the flowering begin.

 

[HolyTHC]

Here we are, one week into flowering. Without IR she is not stretching much anymore.
Started to feed with flowering nutes, brewed fresh bacto-tea with Bactobloom.
Shes about 55cm height now.

 

[thehazzle]

Nice save!