nMEEKS
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Time to do a super speed grow show, with some heavy black outs due to my lack of photo capturing in my own garden this cycle. As I mentioned at the beginning of this extended update, HigherSolutions was generous enough to give me some of his Starfighter crosses to test grow. I germinated 4 Shadow Star and 4 Space Jam seeds, both reg crosses, and ended up with 3 female Shadow Star and all male Space Jam. :confused:
Here goes:
I decided to incorporate 30-40% perlite into my coco coir for this run because I prefer more frequent irrigation in the peak of flowering, but the water holding of pure coco was causing wet feet. The added perlite dramatically helped with drainage and made the balance of irrigation timing less of a fine line for me.
and then at 38 days:
Now these remaining three, very attractive, purple SS ladies, along with 5 new White Master Kush (ivory cut) plants are in the final flush stage and will be harvested in about 10 days time! I can't wait to see if the classic black cherry soda aroma and taste will carry on through the curing process, because one of the plants already stinks heavily of sweet black cherries! I have been experimenting with doing dry trimming rather than wet, and the increased post harvest aroma/flavor is dramatic so I'm really excited for this harvest. :rolleyes:
I also did a refresh to all my current genetics in the stable, so all my mother plants are freshly cloned copies of their previously root bound ancestor. Check out this happy new Alien Grenades plant:
And of course, as I referenced earlier when talking about grow automation, I was able to sneak away from my ladies to go visit home for the Thanksgiving/Chanukah holiday at the end of last month :). A much needed vacation, I always love visiting Seattle, even in the winter.
Thanks for following along, I hope you saw some cool stuff and/or learned something new, that was my goal apart from just updating those who were curious.
I'm not sure how often I will be posting in the upcoming weeks/months (I have falsely promised to get things back on routine in the recent past), but either way this thread has an expiration date built into the title, so I really hope everyone enjoyed this years grow log, it would have been nothing without your continued support and provoking questions, so thank you very much!!
-Meeks:smug:
Here goes:
I decided to incorporate 30-40% perlite into my coco coir for this run because I prefer more frequent irrigation in the peak of flowering, but the water holding of pure coco was causing wet feet. The added perlite dramatically helped with drainage and made the balance of irrigation timing less of a fine line for me.
and then at 38 days:
Now these remaining three, very attractive, purple SS ladies, along with 5 new White Master Kush (ivory cut) plants are in the final flush stage and will be harvested in about 10 days time! I can't wait to see if the classic black cherry soda aroma and taste will carry on through the curing process, because one of the plants already stinks heavily of sweet black cherries! I have been experimenting with doing dry trimming rather than wet, and the increased post harvest aroma/flavor is dramatic so I'm really excited for this harvest. :rolleyes:
I also did a refresh to all my current genetics in the stable, so all my mother plants are freshly cloned copies of their previously root bound ancestor. Check out this happy new Alien Grenades plant:
And of course, as I referenced earlier when talking about grow automation, I was able to sneak away from my ladies to go visit home for the Thanksgiving/Chanukah holiday at the end of last month :). A much needed vacation, I always love visiting Seattle, even in the winter.
Thanks for following along, I hope you saw some cool stuff and/or learned something new, that was my goal apart from just updating those who were curious.
I'm not sure how often I will be posting in the upcoming weeks/months (I have falsely promised to get things back on routine in the recent past), but either way this thread has an expiration date built into the title, so I really hope everyone enjoyed this years grow log, it would have been nothing without your continued support and provoking questions, so thank you very much!!
-Meeks:smug:
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