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Day 25 Veg:
Terribly Bad News:
My grow is almost all automated. My RH, temps, lights and when needed, watering and feeding can automate for about 7 days. I'm trying to make my own strains that are different than what I currently have. So, to add to my current stock of Gorilla Glue and Blue Dream fem pollen collected from bananas that occurred during my last grow, 3 strains from Purple City Genetics: Lemon Berry Crisp, 14 Bombers and HeadHunter fem/photo seeds. So, I flew to Jamaica for 8 days to seed hunt, leaving my current grow to run on autopilot. At some point during the trip, the main timer controlling the LED became disconnected from its power source by a freak accident, leaving the ladies in total dark for an unknown number of days--at least 4 (I had a friend drop by to check the auto-watering system was correctly feeding and not under or over watering. He did not know when my dark period was, so the dark tent did not cause him to worry. However, at 8am when he was there, there should have been lights. That means it was at least 4 days, but I think it was more. I think it was all 8 light cycles; because, the ladies showed almost no growth from the day I set the water system up. Three days before I left, I topped the plants to split the main stalk. The topping I did had only sprouted a few millimeters in 8 days, which was close to where they were when I left. The growth is yellowish/brown and the leaves are curled under. This makes me think they were w/o light for all 8 cycles and the 8th cycle being when I noticed around 4pm--11 hours into its 18 hour cycle. I think in my hurry to set all the automations for 8 days which requires me to switch my digital timer out with an analog. To do this I had to remove the wire tie keeping the timer securely attracted to its power source. In my hurry to get to the airport, I didnt replace the wire tie which allowed the mass of the earth to warp space. It is this warping of space that caused the timer to come dislodged from the power. In other words, gravity took over where my stupidity stopped.
But, overall when I first found them, they looked sick, but not too far gone. I assessed that 66.6% of the plants look they could recover. All 3 strains are mostly green with some slight yellowing. At this point, I did not know how long the lights were out. HOWEVER, once I restarted the light cycle, within a couple of hours all three began to show signs of extreme stress. All the leaves on all plants are quickly and drastically shrinking, turning yellow with the ends and edges dying as they curl under even more.
The main stalks are losing their colosr. So, I decided to do the same process I use when young vegging plants have transplant shock.
I raised the light to lower the amount of intense light causing the light shock, switched it to 24 hours of light to provide as much photosynthesis time as possible, usually 14 days of 24/0 light, and raised the humidity level to 85%; however, I have not added humidity due to the insane amount of rain we have had, which is keeping the RH in the upper 90's. If needed, I will add a pan of water with a rag touching it on one end and attached to the fan on the other to up the RH as the ladies recover.
9:32pm-- almost 30 hours into their recovery, it is now obvious that 14 Bombers is dead. All leaves are either dead or almost dead and it shows no signs of any new, green growth. To the contrary, it is shrinking and turning white.
LBC is not looking happy, but not all her leaves are dead; its stalk is still mostly green and there is signs of fresh, new green growth from inside the bottom node. However the tops I split will probably be removed tomorrow if they dont show recovery. There is no need to waste what little energy the photosynthesis provides on necrosis. I needs to concentrate the growth on the bottom nodes. If recovery stalls anymore or doesnt show enough recovery, I will probably top it back down to node 2 or 3 then essentially repeat veg starting around day 12-15 since that is where they were in height at that time.
Headhunter--like LBC it is still mostly green with dead leaf tips and some dying edges. The stalk is mostly green and it is showing some new, green growth on the lower nodes.. I think it is suffering from some light shock that LBC seems to not show. Hopefully, once the light shock passes, new growth will reoccur.
As for 14 bombers, I will not be dropping another seed this grow.
LBC and HH will no longer follow the grow parameters I set for these 3 plants: make lots of clones, once it is obvious there is at least 1 strong clone growing from each plant, flip the original mamas and flower them while the clones veg to become isolated mama plants that will provide many generations of clones.
Instead, I am dropping 6 of my newly acquired Jamaican seeds: 2 strawberry, 2 raspberry and 2 Jamaican Kush. These 6 plants will become seedlings and hopefully catch up in size to LBC and HH over the next 14 days as they recover from the light loss along with another topping topping in a few days to remove all stems and leaves that appear to be draining and straining the plant as the dying parts use up the little amounts of energy and nutrients being produced.
I do not plan to do any excessive training other than some very basic LST, topping and lollypopping.
New Green Growth
Terribly Bad News:
My grow is almost all automated. My RH, temps, lights and when needed, watering and feeding can automate for about 7 days. I'm trying to make my own strains that are different than what I currently have. So, to add to my current stock of Gorilla Glue and Blue Dream fem pollen collected from bananas that occurred during my last grow, 3 strains from Purple City Genetics: Lemon Berry Crisp, 14 Bombers and HeadHunter fem/photo seeds. So, I flew to Jamaica for 8 days to seed hunt, leaving my current grow to run on autopilot. At some point during the trip, the main timer controlling the LED became disconnected from its power source by a freak accident, leaving the ladies in total dark for an unknown number of days--at least 4 (I had a friend drop by to check the auto-watering system was correctly feeding and not under or over watering. He did not know when my dark period was, so the dark tent did not cause him to worry. However, at 8am when he was there, there should have been lights. That means it was at least 4 days, but I think it was more. I think it was all 8 light cycles; because, the ladies showed almost no growth from the day I set the water system up. Three days before I left, I topped the plants to split the main stalk. The topping I did had only sprouted a few millimeters in 8 days, which was close to where they were when I left. The growth is yellowish/brown and the leaves are curled under. This makes me think they were w/o light for all 8 cycles and the 8th cycle being when I noticed around 4pm--11 hours into its 18 hour cycle. I think in my hurry to set all the automations for 8 days which requires me to switch my digital timer out with an analog. To do this I had to remove the wire tie keeping the timer securely attracted to its power source. In my hurry to get to the airport, I didnt replace the wire tie which allowed the mass of the earth to warp space. It is this warping of space that caused the timer to come dislodged from the power. In other words, gravity took over where my stupidity stopped.
But, overall when I first found them, they looked sick, but not too far gone. I assessed that 66.6% of the plants look they could recover. All 3 strains are mostly green with some slight yellowing. At this point, I did not know how long the lights were out. HOWEVER, once I restarted the light cycle, within a couple of hours all three began to show signs of extreme stress. All the leaves on all plants are quickly and drastically shrinking, turning yellow with the ends and edges dying as they curl under even more.
The main stalks are losing their colosr. So, I decided to do the same process I use when young vegging plants have transplant shock.
I raised the light to lower the amount of intense light causing the light shock, switched it to 24 hours of light to provide as much photosynthesis time as possible, usually 14 days of 24/0 light, and raised the humidity level to 85%; however, I have not added humidity due to the insane amount of rain we have had, which is keeping the RH in the upper 90's. If needed, I will add a pan of water with a rag touching it on one end and attached to the fan on the other to up the RH as the ladies recover.
9:32pm-- almost 30 hours into their recovery, it is now obvious that 14 Bombers is dead. All leaves are either dead or almost dead and it shows no signs of any new, green growth. To the contrary, it is shrinking and turning white.
LBC is not looking happy, but not all her leaves are dead; its stalk is still mostly green and there is signs of fresh, new green growth from inside the bottom node. However the tops I split will probably be removed tomorrow if they dont show recovery. There is no need to waste what little energy the photosynthesis provides on necrosis. I needs to concentrate the growth on the bottom nodes. If recovery stalls anymore or doesnt show enough recovery, I will probably top it back down to node 2 or 3 then essentially repeat veg starting around day 12-15 since that is where they were in height at that time.
Headhunter--like LBC it is still mostly green with dead leaf tips and some dying edges. The stalk is mostly green and it is showing some new, green growth on the lower nodes.. I think it is suffering from some light shock that LBC seems to not show. Hopefully, once the light shock passes, new growth will reoccur.
As for 14 bombers, I will not be dropping another seed this grow.
LBC and HH will no longer follow the grow parameters I set for these 3 plants: make lots of clones, once it is obvious there is at least 1 strong clone growing from each plant, flip the original mamas and flower them while the clones veg to become isolated mama plants that will provide many generations of clones.
Instead, I am dropping 6 of my newly acquired Jamaican seeds: 2 strawberry, 2 raspberry and 2 Jamaican Kush. These 6 plants will become seedlings and hopefully catch up in size to LBC and HH over the next 14 days as they recover from the light loss along with another topping topping in a few days to remove all stems and leaves that appear to be draining and straining the plant as the dying parts use up the little amounts of energy and nutrients being produced.
I do not plan to do any excessive training other than some very basic LST, topping and lollypopping.
New Green Growth
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