Lighting Royal Queen; Royal Bluematic X1

[virginia gent]

Day 48 and this big girl needed a drink, 2 gallons of 5ml tiger bloom, 20ml big bloom and 1/8tsp beastie bloomz at 6.5ph. I think with the extra water the salts aren't building up as quickly on the bottom of the pot, accurate8 meter shows soil at top 6.7/6.6 and 6.5/6.4 at bottom before watering. The bud and resin development is very good and the color remains dark green.

 

[virginia gent]

Watered yesterday with a gallon of 7ml cal/mag bloom and a half cap of superthrive at 6.5ph, noticed some rust spots (last pic) on the old large fan leaves and I only missed one shot of cal/mag but have been giving less to avoid nute burn. Live and learn, next time I will increase cal/mag for flower and/or increased use of led lights. The buds are filling out well and she looks like she will be ready in about 10 days when I need to start my next grow. I think my recent problems may be from the fact that the seed used was bought over two years ago but kept in my fridge. If I keep to my schedule I will use all my seed by Christmas and will be able to get fresh seed, I will buy fewer seeds more often. I am still behind the lines in the MJ wars so less deliveries would be safer but I will take the risk.

 

[virginia gent]

Watered 1.5 gallons of 5ml tiger bloom, 30ml big bloom and 1/8tsp beastie bloomz per gallon at 6.6ph. Starting to get more orange in the pistols and a blueberry smell with fair resin production. This is day 55 for this plant and like every other RQ seed I have grown this one has been a pleasure to grow.

 

[Dazed]

Watered yesterday with a gallon of 7ml cal/mag bloom and a half cap of superthrive at 6.5ph, noticed some rust spots (last pic) on the old large fan leaves and I only missed one shot of cal/mag but have been giving less to avoid nute burn. Live and learn, next time I will increase cal/mag for flower and/or increased use of led lights. The buds are filling out well and she looks like she will be ready in about 10 days when I need to start my next grow. I think my recent problems may be from the fact that the seed used was bought over two years ago but kept in my fridge. If I keep to my schedule I will use all my seed by Christmas and will be able to get fresh seed, I will buy fewer seeds more often. I am still behind the lines in the MJ wars so less deliveries would be safer but I will take the risk.

Looking awesome bro.

 

[virginia gent]

Just watered with 1.5gallons of 10ml cal/mag bloom and a half cap of superthrive at 6.8ph (soil ph 6.4 before watering) and trimed some ulgy leaves. This has been a fun plant to grow and I hope the smoke is as discribed, I have three more to have fun with this year. This plant will be harvested by the middle of this month and a new grow started in my smaller drying tent before the end of the month. I just added two more 4ft t5s, total 4 in tent, and I am looking into a new led a little bigger than my 135w ufo or something just for flower. The wife gave me one twenty amp brakers' worth of electricty to play with and with both tents running I am almost out of juice. This grow I was able to use the larger tent for most of the flower period because a plant in the big tent didn't make the grade. The tent is 2ftX3ftX5ft so for one or two superautos in 5gal airpots an led around 200w actual or so should be ok with the 4 t5s for side lighting.

 

[virginia gent]

Day 63 and the bluematic has some interesting color and some beautiful resin covering her leaves. Started flush for harvest last Saturday and I will chop this Saturday.

 

[virginia gent]

Day 65 and I put her into the drying tent for some dark time before chopping. The color has really come on and she has turned into a beautiful lady.

 

[virginia gent]

After three days in the dark I have this beautiful lady drying. I hope to yeild 80gr.

 

[virginia gent]

The lower humidity (38-44%rh) has the buds drying too fast so I have them in jars and will burp them until the weed smokes in a joint, about 3 days maybe. First weigh-in is about 155gr and I expect that by this weekend I can give a more accurate weight, my guess about 120gr. I have compaired the bluematic yeild (5gal airpot) with a white widow yeild (3gal airpot), bluematic was about 5 days older.

 

[virginia gent]

Just call me Baldrick of Virginia, my clever plan to jar the buds early and burp often needs one thing. A place to burp. Both my tents are on 24/0 and need to stay that way for temps reasons. I have followed my friends Hansbricks and put everything in a paper bag in the corner of the tent. The buds rehydrated (sp) and should dry fine in the bag, why I haven't started doing this before is dumb of me. I really need to invest in the proper equipment and take the time to dry/cure/age properly. This old small tent was to be just for drying but my lust for more has once again appeared and I really like growing one plant at a time.