4x600 Strawberry coco\perlite grow

[fonzee]

Flowering day 33:
I gave around 2L of tap water per plant to rinse excess salts before mixing a new res with high EC and high PK.
I'm going to switch the timer to a minute 4 times a day instead of the current 3 minutes at once.
They don't need a drying cycle at this stage.

 

[pisspotgrower]

Looking good mate, thoes ladies should fill in real well

 

[fonzee]

Day 35 of flowering:
Washed my reservoir with bleach and mixed a new batch with the following:
*25% tap water, 75% AC water
*2ml\L H&G Coco A
*2.5ml\L H&G Coco B
*1ml\L H&G Enzymes
*0.25 ml\L H&G BudXL (sugars)
*1.25ml\L Hesi PK 13\14
*0.1ml\L ATA Clean

EC: 2.1, pH: 5.9

I've switched to a weaker water pump so now I can water 3 times a day for 2-3 minutes and get a more even distribution. I hope it won't kick the humidity over the roof.

Looking good mate, thoes ladies should fill in real well

I sure hope so

 

[fonzee]

Day 37 of flowering:

topped off 150L (!) in the reservoir.
50-50 tap and AC water
1.5 ml\L coco A
1.8 ml\L coco B
1.5 ml\L PK 13\14
0.3 ml\L BudXL
0.1 ml\L AtaClean
ph: 5.8 EC: 1.9

The plants drink a LOT when I give them 3 waterings a day- around 50L a day!

 

[fonzee]

Day 41 of flowering:
topped off 200L
80-20 tap and AC water
1.75 ml\L coco A
2.25 ml\L coco B
1.5 ml\L PK 13\14
1 ml\L Enzymes
0.3 ml\L BudXL
0.1 ml\L AtaClean
ph: 6.2 EC: ?

Buds are pumping up but I didn't have the time to take pictures today :-\
The trays that got supercropped in advanced budding didn't grow as well as the untrained ones but I believe the yield would be about the same.

 

[Don-roni]

הי אחשלי אחלה שטיח\יער

יש מצב להבין \צילום מאיזור ה-מצע ועד גובה תחילת התפרחת ( יעני התחתית של הגידול ) תודה מראש
שלך ואיתך
don roni

 

[fonzee]

Day 44 of flowering:
Everything is going well, nothing much to do at this stage except routine check-ups.
Temps got lowered to 24-25°C and a dehumidifier have been plugged to lower the RH and so far it is only able to lower it down to 50% which is fine enough for me.

The trichomes are already 50% clear and 50% milky, while the vast majority of the trichomes are already fully mushroom shaped. I want around 10% of the trichomes to turn amber before chopping, which should be in about 3 weeks adding up to a total of 9 weeks and a bit, which is shorter than what I was aiming for considering the photoperiod timer issues at the beginning.

After the next reservoir fill-up I want to give the plants 2 days of AC water with Ripen, fulvic acids and molasses, 1 day to dry and back to the usual regime. It should help them throw some secondary pumping.

הי אחשלי אחלה שטיח\יער

יש מצב להבין \צילום מאיזור ה-מצע ועד גובה תחילת התפרחת ( יעני התחתית של הגידול ) תודה מראש
שלך ואיתך
don roni

תודה דון!
הצמחות גדלו הרבה מעבר למה שהיה לי נוח לעבוד איתו אז יש הרבה חלקים עם דרדלה והקנופיה בערך מטר מעל המצע.
בזן שאני עובד איתו כרגע רק פריחה שמקבלת המון אור מצליחה להתנפח וכל השאר יוצא סוג ג' אז מצאתי שאם מורידים את הפריחה העליונה והיפה בהתחלה ומשאירים עוד שבוע וחצי - שבועיים את החלקים התחתונים אפשר להוציא כמות לא רעה בכלל.
ניסיתי לשמור על רגליים נקיות אבל זה ממש לא פשוט שאין לי כמעט זמן לטפל בהן יחסית למה שאני רגיל. מידי פעם אני מסיר עלים תחתונים כדי לאפשר מעבר אויר אבל הפתרון שלי לעניין האירור של החלקים התחתונים הוא פשוט המון מאוררים.

אחלה יום

 

[Don-roni]

קיבלתי תודה
מאחל לך קציר בטוח ומהנה

 

[fonzee]

Day 47 of flowering:

New res:
80-20 tap and AC water
1.5 ml\L coco A
2.5 ml\L coco B
0.75 ml\L PK 13\14 <-- ran out of this one, will top up to 1.5ml\L in a few days.
1 ml\L Enzymes
0.3 ml\L BudXL
0.1 ml\L AtaClean
ph: 5.9 EC: 1.8 mS

The runoff EC was 3.5 mS so I used the excess AC water and then some tap water to lower the runoff EC to 1.7 mS.

Temp: 19-25°C RH: 50-55%

Everything looks good except some mites issues, but really nothing significant enough to even think about at this stage.
I will need to clean the room very well after this cycle.

There was no runoff so I've increased the watering timer by 1 minute and I've put the dehumidifier on 30% RH to hopefully lower the RH in the room down to ~40% which I consider optimal at this stage.

Trichomes are 40% clear and 60% cloudy. No amber yet.
I believe the plants have ~2 weeks before the main colas harvest and a week later the lower buds will be harvested.

 

[Synthesis]

Looks great man I can't wait to see the final harvest shots. Keep up the awesome work.

 

[fonzee]

I've topped the PK to 1.5 ml\L raising the EC to 2.0 mS

Thanks Synthesis!

 

[fonzee]

Day 53 of flowering:

Made a new reservoir with:
80-20 AC to tap water
1ml\L Coco A
2ml\L Coco B
1.75 ml\L PK 13\14
1 ml\L Enzymes
0.3 ml\L BudXL
0.1 ml\L AtaClean
*pH: 5.8 EC: 1.6 mS

*Temps: 19-25°C RH:45-55%

This will be the last reservoir with nutrients - saturday night I'll flush them all and give them a res with only AC water for a day or two, chop the main colas and return to feeding the plants again.

One of the 2 big plants, a cut from a friend dubbed "Super Silver" (it doesn't look like SSH much), started to throw nanners, which is accepted at this stage. I pulled it out to another room, flushed the heck out of it and removed its large leaves. I will trim it tomorrow or the day after.
Yay, something new to smoke soon ~

I need to take some pictures... I know...

 

[pisspotgrower]

One of the 2 big plants, a cut from a friend dubbed "Super Silver" (it doesn't look like SSH much), started to throw nanners, which is accepted at this stage. I pulled it out to another room, flushed the heck out of it and removed its large leaves. I will trim it tomorrow or the day after.
.

All looking real good mate, cept im having a hard time wondering why getting nanners at day 53 of flowering is acceptable.

Sorry if i missed something like u were expecting hermies

 

[fonzee]

She threw 2-3 nanners after being ripe for a few days and for the whole cycle she and the Strawberries mother plant were either too wet or too dry.
Some strains pop nanners at this stage which is usually either sterile, too late for the pollen to create seeds or both. At least in my experience it isn't uncommon.

 

[pisspotgrower]

fair nuff, im my garden n most i know about hermies r totally not alright. Usually means your either stressing your plants so if u stop doing that u might not get hermies yer? and or either the seeds or genitcs ye got hold of r prone to this and id bugger em off n start again.

But if ur happy im happy, growing makes us all happy

Good luck look foward to seing the harvest

 

[KGB~Dragon]

Nice read Fonzee! Your girls and suspected transgender are all looking good my friend. Can't wait for the bud pics. Okay going to the store to buy a drool bucket now.
Good Luck!

 

[montehierba]

Great job amigo. ani maztul mett

 

[fonzee]

Day 58 of flowering
Everything looks just like it should - tray 2 has the largest buds and tray 1 is closing behind it. The more supercropped trays are having significantly smaller buds but just fucking tons of them and they seems denser as well.
Trichomes on all plants are fully formed and about 20 are clear and the rest are milky. No amber yet.

2 days ago I diluted the remaining 40L or so of watering solution with about 40L AC water. Today I moved the pump to the AC water reservoir and put 1ml\L of Enzymes and 0.25ml\L of Bud XL and 0.1ml\L ATA Clean. I mini-flushed the plants with this solution and they'll be getting it until I finish the harvest of the big colas and buds.

All 4 trays:

Tray 2:

A budshot from tray 2:

fair nuff, im my garden n most i know about hermies r totally not alright. Usually means your either stressing your plants so if u stop doing that u might not get hermies yer? and or either the seeds or genitcs ye got hold of r prone to this and id bugger em off n start again.

But if ur happy im happy, growing makes us all happy

Good luck look foward to seing the harvest

The plant did stress out a bit and I didn't select it from beans like I usually do. The next strain is one i've tested enough to believe it wouldn't hermi even if stressed a bit.
As I don't visit my garden twice a day I can't keep the stress next to none like some, but I don't think the plants on the trays are stressed at all.

Nice read Fonzee! Your girls and suspected transgender are all looking good my friend. Can't wait for the bud pics. Okay going to the store to buy a drool bucket now.
Good Luck!

I'll be starting to take off the larger buds today as I'm afraid they'll catch mold - some are just too big ;-)

Great job amigo. ani maztul mett

Thank you

 

[Synthesis]

This is going to be a monster yield - a few pounds of dry weight I'm guessing?

Enough to keep you busy for a while! haha nice man really awesome stuff.

 

[mack 10]

great thread! late, but here for the finale!
keep rocking it, and Bleah! them mites...hate em!
mack.