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**Chefbjy** · 08-26-2018, 07:30 PM

Gc are definitely in the lead now. First day of mh high temps of 83f humidity sitting at 48%. Not much to report otherwise. Had to turn the ac down to 67f and it's still 74 in my room wtf?? It's a high of 62f today and not sure why my room is warm. Unreal I'll be trying to figure out wtf is going on here. I know the bulb is good and don't know why I have so much heat in my tent when I'm pumping cold air in through my passive intake.

There's a skywalker auto in the pictures. But the gc without the pellet is surpassing all of these sprouts. Front center. I should have went straight to soil and skipped the pellets. Maybe they would have been closer in growth idk 😆.

**Chefbjy** · 08-29-2018, 01:59 AM

Kelp and humic acids day foliar feeding this time instead of tea. Will be getting some humiplex by dte and looking into shalijit very soon. But picking up some dte soluble root enhancer https://www.downtoearthfertilizer.co...owth-enhancer/ for transplanting and other beneficials. Pics of the girls will be up later. But how does my soil look?

Tomorrow is shopping day and the worm farm will be my first stop for castings and tea needed for multiple reasons. Root enhancer and rock phosphate are on my list as well. I 'm waiting till the 1st to get the rest plus a compost brewer. And then I should be brewing my own teas in 2 weeks tops. Anything I should add? 🍻

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**Chefbjy** · 08-29-2018, 09:50 AM

Forgot to mention I'm picking up the fabric pots too. Pics after 6 hours from foliar.

**Chefbjy** · 08-29-2018, 04:39 PM

They didn't have humiplex at the grow shop and didn't even know dte had a root enhancer or endo lol .So I went ahead and got some kelplex and this stuff from roots organics endo/ecto mycorrhizae...pretty much the same thing minusa few beneficial bacteria. Will be added in a solution tomorrow for watering. Adding this to my soil before transplant as well. I have other plants to use this on but wanted to see if it helps with my cloning. 🍻

**Chefbjy** · 08-31-2018, 10:52 AM

The leader of the pack5 nodes got topped today at 3rd node. Both strains are doing well, though I have one dgth that looks a little dwarfed compared to the rest. So far she's the same height as the rest just as many nodes, but you can see she isn't as bulky as her sisters. Waiting for recovery and will be transplanting in the next couple days. Will wait to see how they take to transplant then top the other 2 gc and the dgth. Looking at the leaves now I can definitely tell them apart and they didn't make a liar out of me at all 😆. Though I still labeled my new pots already I don't think I could mix them up. They have their own defining characteristics.

**Chefbjy** · 09-03-2018, 12:37 AM

Transplant day...final homes. They wanted to widen out a bit more in the one gallons. Seems like the roots didn't want to go to the bottom of the pots just circled around. I had to knock off a good inch or two of soil from the bottom. Maybe my soil is too rich for little girls, I'm not sure. The fabric pots will help them stretch out a bit more I hope.

I'm not sure if I want to keep all 6 through flower in the tent. I may have to take one of each or atleast one out to the shop. Thinking my space might get a little too crowded but we'll see. Not vegging these girls very long I guess 😉. That's another reason I may move... I want clones and may just take the smallest 2 and veg them a bit longer. Campesino would that be a problem? Since I have 2 of each required for the challenge...you guys wouldn't miss the 2 plants would you? I just want clones from these $pricey seeds 😆.

Anyway 3 hours after transplant. Foliar feeding will be increasing to daily with a variety of organic solutions. I.e. liquid bone meal, kelp, humic and fulvic acid to name a few. Getting the rest of my parts together for my brewer and will be rocking out some teas shortly. Happy growing!! 🍻 ✌.

**Chefbjy** · 09-04-2018, 12:31 PM

Topped 2 more, one gc and one dgth. Gc topped at 4th node and dgth topped at 3rd. Trying to keep a balance with heights 😉. Thinking of just doing a fim to the other dgth. And letting one of each go a bit longer...the dwarf especially.

Don't know why but the dwarf dgth has a bit more vertical growth, where as the rest are working on the lower growth tips and fattening up. This one I'm thinking of removing from the challenge and see if I can clone a few dwarfs. The gc I haven't topped yet may get excluded from the flip date as well and be a mother plant. Trying to clone the tops of the ones that were cut. The pic without the bottle was the first top cut and looks better then most tops I've tried cloning 😆. Even though it looks sad now I think it will take. Used clonex gel even poured 1ml into the hole and dusted with mycorrhizae over the gel...fingers crossed.

Have a bit of yellowing on the gc that was topped before transplant. Foliar with epson salt solution today. My soil is pretty loose in the pots, not much compaction after soaking the soil before potting. Lots of room for roots to go. Added a tsp of mycorrhizae to the yellowing gc as well. Think I'm set to proceed with the plants that have been topped for challenge girls 😉. C'mon growth tips lol.

**Chefbjy** · 09-05-2018, 02:45 AM

So my wife thought she was doing right by getting me a compost tea. I'm not completely sold on it. I told her this company is owned by the people that invented ddt, and as many of you know roundup and other genetically modified products. She got me some pure blend tea by botanicare. I said I want to make my own and she tought this would be easier. I'm not sold on the video on botanicare.com and I can't find info on it being certified organic. Going to go to omri and search, but I don't think I should use it. I can take it back and get some more mycorrhizae instead. I have to go get the stuff myself to make my brewer but I'm glad she thought about it 😆. I told her when she sees all the brews I can make with it she'll be sold on the investment.

She's always trying to go conventional instead of economical, but I will sway her from that with organic mj 😆. I'm really kicking myself for not doing the Vegamatrix with coco Campesino. And is still like to try coconot... did you get that song stuck in your head? (inside joke). You'll be seeing my brewer in action soon, and I'm looking into emulsifiers now. Aloe with karanja oil and shalijit as a drench and IPM. Thought I'd share my resource http://www.chascience.com/horticultu...dic-powerhouse

**Chefbjy** · 09-05-2018, 05:04 PM

Don't know about you guys but this looks like a flower to me. I believe these are autos and not real sure if they are even gorilla cookies at this point. So I guess this is a bit of a mystery strain.

At this point I'm bewildered and have no idea what I'm going to do with them. They must be some kind of lowrider superfast strain. Because my Skywalker .auto I'm doing a light schedule expirement with is a 76 day from seed strain and doesn't have pistils like this one. Here's the others which also look like flowers instead of growth tips. I'm skeptical but I think my seeds were mixed up. Guess I'll find out in another week.

Top dressed all plants with roots organics uprising foundation to take a bit of guess work out of top dressing. There's a pic with ingredients. Foliar with kelplex today as well. Going to put my brewer together now, tea will be coming tomorrow if the soil dries out like it is now. Little warm in the tent today but manageable and not alarming. Seems to be a consistent high temp of 82f max on warmer days.

Trying to avoid the subject of the removal of the idk autos but it's a slap in the face. I may have to run a 3rd light on in my shop inside a tent in a dark corner. If I can do this without contaminating my shop grow with light I'll be able to finish them but it's going to be a very tricky process. So the only strain I have to do the dark period left with is dgth. And it's way too late to get other photos going at this point. I'll be down one plant in my tent but will try to maximize the grow to fill it. What a year it's been for me with seed mix ups and too big of a heart to cull 😆.

**Chefbjy** · 09-06-2018, 11:56 AM

More gc pics or whatever these are, all 3 present. 2 of which definitely look like flowering has begun 1 not so much but believe it's trying to. Looks like I'm running into a metal deficiency iron, copper or zinc I presume with new growth coming in kind of yellow.

I'm hoping I will wake up and all those leaves will unfold and they will burst with growth but I still think they're in flower mode. I'm thinking of taking them out before dark period begins so they only get 4 hours dark by moving them into a dark room. If they are autos I don't have to worry about light leaks. The challenge is going to be getting them more light when I haven't got the room and not messing with my photos light sched. Not to mentio n I can't keep moving them here and there it gets to be a pia and I'm not always here to do so.

I'm still lost and when I see buds for sure seedsman will get a nice pic of them and the nice mistake that screwed up this whole event for me. 😠 I'm really upset so I may be ranting sorry. I've still yet to blow my top about it and have lost interest in them. Just want to focus on the dgth for now and kick the gc outdoors with a poor light for night time hours in my bathroom or something. I'm lacking patience to tend to the gc as a whole just because there's nothing I can do now but let them bud. #madafaboutthis #plantneglect #fml.

**Redwasp** · 09-06-2018, 04:26 PM

Don't lose interest. Still a chance for some nice smoke. And even better a chance to learn a little more. Every single plant teaches us something. And I know you cant cull them so may as well do your best.

**Chefbjy** · 09-07-2018, 09:43 AM

Brewer up and running, worm casting tea today. Lst and fim final dgth pulling out of dwarfism with sativa like growth compared to get sisters that stayed fat and squatty. I believe I'll have plenty of height so the hps is going in before lights on today. Maybe I can get some better verticle growth with the not gc photos and my Skywalker auto that's my expirement.

Guess the not photos will just suffer for awhile till I decide to move them out of the tent. I have no idea what I'm going to do with them still but I want the tent to be filled up with photos not autos. My plan with the Skywalker was just to finish outside and with some cfls and my veg light, but since I have more autos then what I had planned, I'll see if I can set a tent up in the shop on the other side of the bloom wall. Hoping it works out so I don't have light contamination and I can finish the not photos with the Skywalker. I think they're a faster auto then my Skywalker since my Skywalker is around 5 days older doesn't have a main cola like the not photos and is still growing growth tips and branches. Though it's really small and think I stunted it at transplant it should make some big fat buds. Wish me luck with my endeavors 😉!

Dgth pics with the misfits and a slight problem with the wtf gc. Maybe overwatered maybe ph not sure yet but she looks haggard. Wierd leaf splotches and looks like they're crumpled a bit. Stupid plant 😆. I'm not happy with them so she could die for all I care. I'll nurse it back to health though since I decided to continue watering it. Lol I was going to let it dry up and shrivle but the wife said I better not 😉. I'll see what I can do though this makes for a lot more work to set up another grow area and more wasted energy. I'm not worried about the work as much as I am about the energy bill 😢. Welp gotta see what I can do in the shop ✌.

**Redwasp** · 09-07-2018, 10:02 AM

Looks good

**oldjarhead100** · 09-08-2018, 06:24 AM

I dread my electric bill lol Plants are looking healthy

**Chefbjy** · 09-08-2018, 10:03 AM

Trying to root the lowest growth of dgth and promote more top growth to the fim one and still doing lst.

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