Two beatiful apollos flowering start to finish

roofwayne

roofwayne

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You use only super soil with that? I am way into organic. Now that I can grow, I want get more organic. I will sub. to see your organic, see if I can learn something....rw
 
Senseimilla

Senseimilla

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I use super soil starting around week 4 when they got their final transplant (surrounded in supersoil and topdressed). I've been using the Pure Blend/Pro product line through veg and early flower whenever I see yellowing progressing in the bottom leaves. My apollos and others I've heard of seem to like a lot of N even several weeks into flower so I'm planning on hitting them with some as needed up to 4-5 weeks if I see yellowing at the bottom. I'm hoping I can keep them green as far into flower as possible hoping the supersoil alone will be enough but with apollo I doubt it based on what I've heard. I just got cuts of both plants to root today so the genetic line will live on, which is great because I am very sure based on what i've already quick dried from topping that these plants are going to be super killer - if a plant can give me a body high from topped growth chutes in veg (from the males of the batch even) then it's going to be some crazy stuff when it's done. They're also the hardiest/easiest to grow plants of the bunch, especially #1 - nothing phased her that caused problems for the rest. I'm going to make the switch to aerated teas at some point but probably not for a while since the PBP wasn't exactly cheap so I'm gonna use it ;) And I've had good results with it before.

I'm a bit concerned that the buds are only this far along at 13 days I got these kind of buds between 7-10 days before and solid pistils from 14-21 days and i'm just now starting to get real pistils. Never grown in super soil before wondering if maybe the extra N might delay the flower development a bit.
 
Senseimilla

Senseimilla

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OK one apollo is lagging behind I think she is too close to the lights I'm moving them up before they go back under tomorrow about 5-8". The buds 4-5" down from the top seem to be fatter than the top buds closest to the lights which seem to be not progressing very much. The other one is the same distance from the lights but looking great. Still going to move lights up though. The healthier one is packing on the weight and the frost day by day. The other one was about the same last update and is slowly lagging behind the longer flower goes on. I'm going to give her a topdressing of supersoil tomorrow as I did do that for the other one in the last week.

Apollo #1 "Uno"
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Apollo #2 "Dos Santos"
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Senseimilla

Senseimilla

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I topdressed not because the plants looked like they needed it but because the soil in the pot wasnt' very even :) But sub recommends topdressing whenever it looks like the plants are no longer getting what they need from the dirt they are in. Apparently between 3-4 weeks in is a good time to topdress :)
 
Senseimilla

Senseimilla

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I'm liking what I'm seeing on my #2 plant... #1 is progressing but nowhere near as big... looks like she may need a week or two longer than #1, which is fine as long as she's worth it :) Looks like topdressing at 3 weeks was a lucky event if that's the only difference... i'm not sure if it's that or some other factor or just a pheno that is longer flowering. Both showed flowers the same time and were the same up to about the point I topdressed the one with extra super soil. Glad I kept clones of them. The clones will be just shy of 4 months old when I flower them out in a couple weeks - will be the oldest plants I've ever flowered since I've never gone from a cutting or vegged from seed much more than 2 months old. Tried sample lower buds earlier. #1 was good, #2 was really good - both as good or better than the commercial crap I usually buy and smoked clean and smooth.

Apollo 13 #1 "Uno"
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Apollo #2 "Dos Santos"
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nugbuckets

nugbuckets

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awesome.....looking forward to smoke report......great job....are you going to go air pots again? or whatever they call those....
 
Senseimilla

Senseimilla

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The next cut in is in a 5 gallong smartpot and the next after those will be 5 gallon airpots. Those were only grown in 2.4 gallon pots :)
 
nugbuckets

nugbuckets

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nice, i am leaning heavily toward 7 gal. smarts.....plan to pick a few more up......i am still dialing in percentages of super soil with smarties......because they are so shallow, and require more water, i pre-mix my ss and base, at transplant into flower pot....not ideal, but i am dialing it in.......i tried an airpot once, and it worked great, but bitch to clean, and re-use......i love being able to throw my smarts in the wash machine....huge bonus......stay green, nugs
 
Senseimilla

Senseimilla

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clean and re-use? I literally opened it up, dumped the old rootball out, put it back together and dumped new dirt in in a couple of minutes. I'm trying smarts and so far I still prefer airpots. The smartpots are harder to water and carry (even with handles), i'm finding they waste just about as much water... only thing they don't do is leak dirt. It's a lot harder to use my tie down technique on the smartbags but SUPER easy to do tiedowns to airpots due to the existing holes. Bottoms of the smart pots stay wet a long time and don't get air on the bottom where the airpots are dry quickly and get air to the bottom.
 
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