Dates
1 DNA Fem Sour Kush- Day 31
1 Dinafem Fem Cali Hash Plant- Day 26
5 Nirvana Aurora Indicas- Day 25 (One male)
1 Serious Seeds Fem Chronic- Day 21
2 Nirvana Aurora Indicas- Day 19
Plants
1 DNA Fem Sour Kush- Starting to throw out alot of pistils i think it's only going to gain two more full leaf sets so i only imagine it getting a little taller. Really beautiful plant as far as structure, has a little nitrogen deficiency goin on but i fed it today so it should be fine. Smell thus far is oddly sweet kind of like root beer.
1 Dinafem Fem Cali Hash Plant- Pretty shrimpy plant but hopefully it fills out a little more this week. I saw some pistils had started so i assume it's been flowering for around four days but def the smallest of the pack in proportion to it's age
5 Nirvana Aurora Indicas- The biggest one turned out male but im not that bummed cuz it was almost the size of my SK with only like 3 leaf sets but yea you can see the pollen preflowers in the pictures. Other than that i'm pretty pysched about the other 4, some are pretty big and healthy with only one runt-ish plant to speak of which could still easily turn it around. I'm hoping these sex by the end of this week so i can start figuring out the numbers better and get new seedlings in there.
1 Serious Seeds Fem Chronic- Really happy about this plant because i thought it was guna be a huge bust and it really looks healthy now. Excited to see the good genetics shine when it starts flowering
2 Nirvana Aurora Indicas- My other little ones are healthy but there seems to be one mutant (PIC EIGHT) cuz it's leafs are oddly curled, the plant is small, and on one leaf set it just never grew parts of the leaves but if i've learned anything thus far it's not to doubt these plants and just see how it goes so i'll roll with it
Nutes
Just fed every plant with 1 tbs of pure blend pro grow, thats the mid-sized vegetative suggestion on the bottle but i did this for a number of reasons. Although almost all plants are at different stages in growth and similar feeding seems therefore counter-intuitive I #1 believe the 2 little ones can handle the dose and want to give them a nice amount of nutes to establish good lower growth #2 wanted to up the dosage for the ones that need it (the main AIs, Chron, and Hash) and #3 saw that the lower foliage on the SK has yellowing out so although it is in flowering i felt a nitrogen dose was needed and that the 3-2-4 formula of the pbpg is not restricting the plants flowering needs.
The feed was ph'd at 6.8
And for clarification my pots are 25.5fl oz so they just a bit bigger than 16fl oz party cups
Observations (all based on my experiences in this grow)
So for people looking at this thread to compare their own plants here are some things i've noticed.
-Flowering can usually be identified on days 20-25 for females however the pistils will most likely be on the second newest leaf set and not at the apex of growth (the very top)
-Inter-nodal growth can and usually has happened before the plant sexes
-Stretching is going to happen on a larger scale than you would think when the plant is a seedling because of the 12 hours of darkness it receives even as a seedling which is unnatural for the plant seeing as in nature the seed would germinate in the ground during a vegetative time of outdoor weather
-Little pots= more frequent watering which may lead to staggered watering so be prepared to have nutrient rich AND pure water both ready at watering time
Lights and temps
80-85F
16%RH
150w hps
26w 10.0uvb Reptisun Bulb on same cycle as hps maybe 6-8 inches away from plants
Pictures
1- what i just fed with
2-Overview
3-AI
4-AI
5-SK Top
6-SK
7-Male AI (look at preflowers)
8-AI
9-AI
10-Male AI (look at preflowers)
11-AI
12-Overview
13-Hash Plant
14-SK nodes
15-SK
16-AI
17-Chronic
18-PH
ask questions if you got em
the cali hash plant is only on it's second leaf set and just looks sooo stupid and sickly for it's age. certain AI's look promising however 1/2 will be male anyways so im bummed about that because some look terrible. the chronic stretched way to much and is a mutant and like is pretty much in the same boat as cali hash plant. the other AI's are too young to be judged but for now its just the sour kush for the winnnnnnn
but no sign of balls to speak of i keep procrastinating starting a new seed but i'll do it this weekend when i do another pic update
