First Grow

[Meakanu]

They seem to flower when they want to really.

Of the 5 I've got going from the same seed stock, but very different parents, I had hairs forming on 2 at least long before flowering started. Those 2 had tons of hairs within a week. 2 other plants took a week before they started showing up. Then the last one, that's still got no brown hairs at 59 days, took over 2 weeks for hairs to even show up and another week and a half before it looked like the others did within a week or two.

And absolute worst case scenario... You got the wrong strain and instead of flowering in 10-12 weeks it'll be done in 8-10 weeks. Other than that there's nothing to fear from flowers showing up early unless it's happening in veg and veg has stopped which either means an autoflower strain or simply a strain that wants more hours of daylight.

Thank you for the informative reply. That really cleared things up for me.

 

[Meakanu]

Not my weekly update, just a situation and action taken.
My Alpine OG started getting some nutrient burn.
I feed the Alpine OG and the smaller Lilikoi behind it 1/2 gallon twice a day. The Smaller Lilikoi dose not have any nutrient burn and it’s been getting the same feeding as the Alpine. This puzzled me but I think I figured it out.
Because the Alpine is bigger it was probably sucking up more water then the Lilikoi between feedings resulting in a dryer medium and less run off witch probably allowed some salt build up in the Alpine OG’s pot. And is why I’m not seeing any issues with the Lilikoi plant.
Checked run off on both of them today and their the same. 5.8 going in and 6.3 coming out.
The action I took was I gave the Lilikoi it’s normal feeding and I gave the Alpine OG a full gallon of plan water pH to 5.8 and plan to give it another full gallon of plan water at 5.8 before she go’s to sleep. And resume normal feeding for her tomorrow. And going to start giving her a little more volum each feeding to insure I get enough run off to keep the salts down.
Thoughts?

 

[EventHorizan]

Not my weekly update, just a situation and action taken.
My Alpine OG started getting some nutrient burn.
I feed the Alpine OG and the smaller Lilikoi behind it 1/2 gallon twice a day. The Smaller Lilikoi dose not have any nutrient burn and it’s been getting the same feeding as the Alpine. This puzzled me but I think I figured it out.
Because the Alpine is bigger it was probably sucking up more water then the Lilikoi between feedings resulting in a dryer medium and less run off witch probably allowed some salt build up in the Alpine OG’s pot. And is why I’m not seeing any issues with the Lilikoi plant.
Checked run off on both of them today and their the same. 5.8 going in and 6.3 coming out.
The action I took was I gave the Lilikoi it’s normal feeding and I gave the Alpine OG a full gallon of plan water pH to 5.8 and plan to give it another full gallon of plan water at 5.8 before she go’s to sleep. And resume normal feeding for her tomorrow. And going to start giving her a little more volum each feeding to insure I get enough run off to keep the salts down.
Thoughts?

Sounds good..
When you checked run off dont worry about ph per se, its the Ec or salt build up were checking for.. But u did what i would.. So now you wait..
Except dont flush coco with straight water. Pour a cup of old res fluid in it and 3x pir size. Wait a watering and resume normal feed.

 

[Meakanu]

Sounds good..
When you checked run off dont worry about ph per se, its the Ec or salt build up were checking for.. But u did what i would.. So now you wait..
Except dont flush coco with straight water. Pour a cup of old res fluid in it and 3x pir size. Wait a watering and resume normal feed.

I was actually studying up on EC last night. Electrical conductivity. Pure RO water dose not conduct so by measuring EC your measuring everything in the water that’s not H2O. But also under the impression that EC and PPMs are essentially the same. Just multiply your EC by 500 to get the PPM or devide the PPM by 500 to get the EC. This is important to me because I only have a pen to measures PPM.
I don’t have a resavor. My run off go’s down the drain in my run off table never to be seen again! What is another option I could do to flush the Coco?

 

[Meakanu]

Sounds good..
When you checked run off dont worry about ph per se, its the Ec or salt build up were checking for.. But u did what i would.. So now you wait..
Except dont flush coco with straight water. Pour a cup of old res fluid in it and 3x pir size. Wait a watering and resume normal feed.

I’m not sure what you mean by 3x our size. Like 3x the pot size? It’s in a 3galon pot so run 9 gallons through it?

 

[EventHorizan]

I’m not sure what you mean by 3x our size. Like 3x the pot size? It’s in a 3galon pot so run 9 gallons through it?

Yes it would be 9 gal...
Now you see why its incredibly stupid to use big pots...
I use 1/2 gal pots so 1 1/2 gal flushes it.
I would prob just do what your doing, but run some reg strength thru it after the straight ro.
That way you fill up the cation exchange...

 

[Meakanu]

Yes it would be 9 gal...
Now you see why its incredibly stupid to use big pots...
I use 1/2 gal pots so 1 1/2 gal flushes it.
I would prob just do what your doing, but run some reg strength thru it after the straight ro.
That way you fill up the cation exchange...

Gotcha. Thank you

 

[Meakanu]

Yes it would be 9 gal...
Now you see why its incredibly stupid to use big pots...
I use 1/2 gal pots so 1 1/2 gal flushes it.
I would prob just do what your doing, but run some reg strength thru it after the straight ro.
That way you fill up the cation exchange...

I checked the run off PPM after adding the last Gallon and got a reading around 400 so I took your advice and PH 8 more gallons and started flushing. I checked my run off PPM a few times as I went and sure enough it took all 9 gallons to get my run off PPMs down around 150ppm. I then added 1/2 gallon of normal nutrients.
Thinking I’ll skip it’s morning watering tomorrow and pick back up like normal with it tomorrow evening.
Thanks for the advice bro!

 

[Meakanu]

Weekly Update time!
Today is day 15 of 12/12 and all da girls are doing good (I think?)

The SCROGing is over only up, up, up from here on out! I really enjoyed feeling the SCROG! Required some strategy, like playing chess with a plant haha.

Had a issue with the Alpine OG getting a little nut burn but she seems healthy and happy now after a good flush.

At this point I really only have one question.
I set the 2nd trellis 8” above the SCROG screen but idk if the tops will even reach it at this point? Looks like some might.
Stay waiting on da frost! Aww right

 

[Meakanu]

Got a question farmers.

I think I might need to defoliate the bottoms of my plants a little more. They have grown a lot sense i lollipoped them 3-4 weeks ago, and I’m noticing a lot of leaves that arnt getting light and looking droopy.

Sense I can’t put them back on the plant after I cut them off I figured I’d ask for some input from you more experienced guys.

 

[Meakanu]

I went in and did a final trim. I tried my best to remove only the small branches and not the fan leaves. I did have to remove a few leaves in a few spots but 80% of what I pulled was small branches. Looking at the before and after I can’t hardly tell I did anything!

 

[Meakanu]

Weekly update!!
Day 21 today and things are getting FrOsTy!! Haha
Finally figured out what was going on with the AlpineOG thanks to the help from @Thejoeybrown and @G gnome ,it was suffering from wind stress! I changed the angle of my fan so it wasent blowing directly on it and it seems to be much happier now! Thanks guys!
When I did my final SCROG sesh I had everything pretty even but seems the AlpineOG, Lilikoi and cheasel stretched a lot more then the LegacyOG. Guess it worked out though sense the streatchy fuka’s are more on the outer edges.
Turned off the LED’s to get ya guys a few natural light pics!
Aloha Farmers!

 

[Meakanu]

Weekly update!
Today is day 1 of week 5 of flower.
Girls seem to have stopped streatching, and I’m seeing a lot more bud growth and lots of tricome production!
Got one question;
How and when should I start the flush?
From the research I’ve done I’m under the impression that I should flush two weeks prior to cutting. Im assuming this intels running 9 gallons of plane water through my 3 gallon pots. 21gal through my 7gal and 30gal through my 10gal pots. And continue with my normal watering rutene after that but without any nutrients until harvest time.
I know all plants take different times to finish but from what I can tell the strains I’m growing are expected to finish up around 60 days. Roughly 8 weeks. So assuming that is correct I’m planning on flushing two weeks from today, at the beginning of week 7.
Aloha Farmers

 

[Meakanu]

Playing around with taking some pictures today. Thought these two shots looked prety cool.
First is the Legacy OG and the 2nd is a snap I took through the microscope of the Alpine OG.

 

[Meakanu]

I am a little worried about one of my plants in flower. It is the Legacy OG in the center growing in soil in a 10gallon pot, It is the biggest of all the ones I have going.
Out of the three legacyOG plants I have this one has the least amount of tricome production.
But what has alarmed me is the color contrast of its leaves compared to the others. This plants leaves are much lighter in color but it still looks healthy other then that. I haven’t noticed any other signs of difecentcys other then the lighter color leaves.
I tried to take a photo showing the color difrence.
Please let me know what you guys think.

 

[Stoeger]

She looks healthy. ..probably just a different pheno. I wouldn't worry.

 

[Meakanu]

She looks healthy. ..probably just a different pheno. I wouldn't worry.

Thanks for the reply bro.
That was my thinking also but with my limited experience I figured I should ask.

 

[Stoeger]

Thanks for the reply bro.
That was my thinking also but with my limited experience I figured I should ask.

I'm not an expert by any means, but I have two mottos when growing. K.I.S.S. and if it ain't broke, don't fix it :-)

 

[Meakanu]

Weekly Update time!

Today is day 1 of week6 in flower. The plant I was worried about finally told me what was wrong, (phosphorus deficiency). I posed more detail on this in the Cannabis infirmary forum.
Other then that everything else seems to be going pretty good.

 

[Meakanu]

Weekly update time!
Wrapped up week 6 and into week 7 today!
The plants are looking good I think! I think I was able to fix the one with the phorsphorus deficiency, she got her color back and her buds have grown quite a bit over the past week.
Going to start the flush today on the three growing in soil.
Going to continue to feed the ones in CoCo coir for 1 more week and give them a 5-7 day flush. Also I started feeding the ones in CoCo multiple smaller feedings through out the light cycle a few days ago and plan to continue that until flush time.