Update Day 27:
The girls are looking great! They're responding to the LST really well. This is my first time LST'ng weed, but I have trained green bean vines and watermelon vines. It's actually pretty easy. The plant pretty much tells you which branches need more light. I am having a problem with my bigger plants though. When I pull the tops down they reach out of the pot. I've have to start curving the top bak toward the pot. The smaller 3 plants are handling it the best. They are all contained within the pot. Basically I caught them before they got too big. The smaller ones look a lot bushier than the larger ones. I still think its going to dramatically increase my yield of all of them though. I'm also tucking leaves to give the branches more light as well.
They are smelling great! My favorite is the Berry Ryder. It's slightly skunky with a hint if fruitiness. The next is the critical jack it just smells skunky. The strongest smelling is by far the Mazar. It smells really skunky
I'm still waiting on my SNS to get rid of these gnats. They haven't gotten much worse but still annoying. My vinegar/dish soap/banana peel trap isn't catching any. Guessing I did something wrong. Ill have to do some more research.
The larger plants are all showing 6-8 white pistils on the tops. The 3 smaller plants are all showing 2 each.
I have been having a problem with brown spots. I lm pretty sure this is a nute def. I was using a very small dosage of nutes not even 1/4 strength of the
schedule. I've now increased my nutes today to about 1/2 strength. I fed each of them aprox 3 cups today. I included:
1 tblspn Molasses
2 tsp epsom salt
1tblspn Big Bloom
1-1/2tsp Grow Big
All per 1 gal
Hoping this will make a big difference I'm a little nervous about burning them or ph lockout. I am only using ph drops which are ghetto. My water that I air bubble is aprox 7. After I added my nutes It was about 5! I added about 4 drops of ph up. Now 2 things occurred to me. First, hydro grow big probably has lower ph then soil grow big. Secondly, my water is brownish green after I add nutes. How is the color supposed to be correct when I add drops if the water isn't clear?! Lol So, I took a gamble. I have a chart that shows me nute uptake at different ph levels. I guessed my ph was now at aprox 5.5 - 6 or orangish/yellow lol. According to my chart there will still be much better nutrient uptake at this level then if I go over 7 and i know my water is 7. I figure lower is better than higher ph. I can't wait to get a decent meter but that's just not in the budget.
Here's the pics....
Blue Cheese
Berry Ryder 1
Berry Ryder 2
Berry Ryder 3
Critical Jack
Mazar
The Group
