Just wanted to throw a brief update out there. Temps have been quite cool over the last two days, allowing for favorable conditions in the grow rooms. This trend will shortly be ending, and with it my attempt to run the lights during the day. Growing at night will help immensely in my fight against high temps, so I'm switching the on-off time. I'm going out of town this evening, so the lights will go off at 6pm (par usual) and then stay off for 24 hours until 6pm Friday, when they will come back on and stay on until 6am.
The plants all look fine. The leaves atop tall girl have been drooping consistently--not sure if it's heat stress or what, but it's probably much warmer near the hps than it is where my thermometer sits. Oh well...thats why I'm switching the hours.
All plants were watered and fed today--3 tbsp big bloom, 1.5 tbsp tiger bloom, 2 tbsp indonesian high phosphorous bat guano and a healthy pour of molasses (I never measure this, I just pour until it seems "right"). I also used the filtered tap water this round instead of distilled (tap water has higher pH)--the tiger bloom apparently lowers pH, as they suggesting raising the pH to between 5.6 and 6.3, so using higher pH tap water should help that more than the distilled. Either way, I don't have an effective method of measuring pH. The strips I have tried on the runoff are pretty useless, so maybe I'll buy new ones and see if I can get results.
On the hermie front, the wide girl is prolifeating her pollen sacks. My buddy never came home yesterday, so I'll have to wait for the move. Tall girl does appear to have the same sacks, though far fewer in number than wide girl. Shorty is still short, at 11.5". Tall girl is 28.5" and wide is 23.5". Growth is, I think, slowing down a little now, which is good for everyone except shorty!
I have 9 little seedlings that have sprouted out of my 15 or so I started with. Only one germinated and failed to sprout (my fault--soil compacted a little much I think). Once the two tall girls are out, i'll have room for some 12/12 from seed girls. I may just throw some of the seedlings in there now just for fun.
No pics this morning...I'll try to throw some up before I take off.
. Also, in the case of hermies, pollen sacs devolop in little groups or clusters. Growers use the term "spitting banannas or nanners." As I said before this is quite common late in flower when the female is crying out for pollen. If you have ever seen one you would not mistake it. I wish I had pics of the ones I've had. Many times there will be a single bannana shaped sac but occasionally I have had clusters of sacs as well. So just trust me, those are pollen sacs 100% guaranteed.
