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[Mr Pot]

I see... candelabra structure is my goal too. I have only one sativa in this run (Belladonna) and she's tall af and I've only topped it once. I'm afraid to prune her a bit more because I don't know if it'll produce too dense main colas (there's like 4 main and 4-6 other potential) and I actually supercropped her like 10 days ago because she was getting too tall. Just started adding molasses last watering and will have to wait and see the buds getting more dense. I'm adding close to 1 tbsp per almost 2 gal (1 3/4 gal).

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I've pruned a bit more after the pictures were taken.. They're more like the ones you described but I'm going by trial and error.

 

[Mr Pot]

I didn't plan their structure this time because I wanted to see how each strain reacts to LST and topping. Did actually missed two toppings and had a great result. Even when you sort of "freestyle" their LST you can get multiple main colas. Of course it's always best to plan but for me so far it's ok. Next run I'll plan a bit more.

 

[Mr Pot]

I guess it would have shown already! The pictures were taken a week ago. I'm not struggling with any deficiencies and this can be tricky later but they look fine to me as well!

 

[ZigZag]

Just keep em happy and they should be good to you!

 

[Mr Pot]

This is day 81 from seedling and my plants have entered the fourth week of flowering 3 days ago (day 24 of flowering).
I've started to add molasses last watering - almost 1 tbsp per 1 3/4 gallon (6.5L). I've collected a bit of information here and there and decided to use a bit more than the usual, anyone has a review on this?
Tried to duct my dehumidifier from the room into the tent and the temps went waaay high (higher than 90F, 40% RH). Decided to take the duct off and use normally in the room; temps are now between 78 - 85F / 55 - 65% RH. It's a trade off I can't afford, I don't want my buds to cook inside the tent. I'm watering around 6 - 6.5L (almost 2 gallons) every 3 or 4 days depending on their response. The environment isn't the ideal, I truly need an AC to optimize my grow, I know, but I can't afford one right now.

I've pruned a bit more since last week and the lights are 12 inches from the tallest cannopies - they're bulking up fast!

Does anyone think that I'm using too much molasses?

Mr.furley I've followed your tip and so far so good! Raised the quantities and lowered the frequency, I'm getting almost 20-30% of runoff every watering and the pH is standing between 5.5 - 5.9 (couldn't control it so well so far but it's never lower than 5.5.

ZigZag Pruned a bit more the sativa, let's see how this goes!

Thanks for the suggestions and reviews,

Mr Pot

 

[Mr Pot]

I do have a question about pH. Does anyone knows if the pH of the runoff water is exactly the pH of the roots? Someone once told me that it's not like that and in order to know best the roots pH I should calculate an arithmetic average. Any thoughts?

 

[Mr Pot]

Also need a second opinion about CaliMagic. Read it in the bottle that it should be applied to water before any other nutrients (I'm using GH Trio). Anyone know something about it? Started doing that ever since..

 

[Mr.furley]

Mr.pot, I am truly glad to here your getting a better ph results. In time you can fine turn that system to your needs to better your growing Style.
With your run off Ph the numbers will change from the first drop to the last and my understanding is the faster you grab the runoff the closer number is to the rootzone number.
I add calmag first this is a common practice.

 

[Mr Pot]

I just cut the ends off the clones because they shouldn't be so leafy in order for them to focus on root growth instead of upwards at this time.
The ends that were cut off the three biggest plants are simply a sign of intruders in my garden. I've struggled a bit with mites - one week before I took these pictures I found an infestation in one of my clones and this probably spread in the tent. Simply sprayed all plants with water and a bit of Neem Oil for a couple of times in two weeks, something like 2 times a week for two weeks. Never had any other issues with that.

Of course they can always come back and if they do that'll be a shame because they're in mid flowering.

 

[Mr Pot]

That's funny, I didn't applied camg first since like two weeks ago because I wasn't aware of that. Don't know if they would have a faster veg growth but next run I'll do that since day one. Nice tips, Mr. F, thanks!

 

[ZigZag]

I use PH perfect nutrients for coco that have extra calcium and magnesium to balance the properties of the coco but I still use Cal/Mag. I add it to the 5 gallon buckets I use at 1/4 strength every time i water. Then PH the water to anywhere between 5.5 and 6.5. Then as I need the water I add the nutrients. Seems to work fine. FYI_ During my last grow I was getting some signs of calcium and magnesium deficiencies which led to others as well, but once I started adding the 1/4 strength Cal/Mag and stronger nutrients every watering everything picked up and went well.

 

[Mr Pot]

Tika, Canuck147, D.A.A.S.69 anyone knows about organic molassss quantities?

 

[Tika]

No - but I we would like to know probably several opinions on it .

 

[D.A.A.S.69]

Morning Mr Pot, I live down South where people make their own molasses, Blackstrap is cleanest it's gone thru more boilings, we've used all kinds down here on our plants and the kind you buy at the grocery store works just as good as any as long as it is unsulfered, Grandma's Unsulfered, Brer Rabbit makes a blackstrap, unsulfered, they all work fine as long as they are unsulfered, doesn't have to have the word Organic on the bottle, people around me still use mules going around circles grinding up the sugar cane and that's as Organic as you can get, but the grocery store kinds that are unsulfered still work just as well, hope that helps some, it is really good on biscuits also.
Good luck. We use 1-2 tablespoons of molasses a gallon of water every 3-4 weeks.

 

[Mr Pot]

Must be nice to make your own molasses, I live in a big city therefore I don't have this privilege.
The bottles here don't say unsulfured but I looked the nutrition facts and there isn't sulfur in the composition, don't know if it can be called by other names but that's it.
You don't use every fed watering? GWE says some things about molasses (http://www.growweedeasy.com/how-to-improve-cannabis-smell) and I heard from users experience, yourself included, that could be a good thing to use 1-2 tbsp instead of 1/2 tsp. I've seen people adding every watering, kinda tricky!
Thanks for the review.. I'll figure it out and post the results!

 

[D.A.A.S.69]

I only use molasses 1 time every 3 or 4 weeks, we have tried 2-3 times a month, but we had better luck with only once every 3-4 weeks, mainly for feeding the soil, but it helps with bud production. I would be very careful with to much sugar regardless what some on here say, especially like one quarter cup to a half cup ,that's funny to me but everyone is different, I don't know if this is true but I heard plants make their own sugar, so I would be scared using that much sugar. We use tablespoons not teaspoons, I'm not very good at putting what I want to say on here, that's about all I can say .
in every grocery store for miles around here they all say either sulfured or unsulfered, , make sure it says unsulfered on the container.
Down here it sells for less than 10bucks a gallon.Homemade much less.especially if you know the folks making it. Sugar cane fields everywhere, kids chew it instead of chewing store bought gum. Adults too.
you've got some beautiful plants.

 

[Tika]

MrPot..I use the trio too: don't k ow what is correct as I have heard the same about calimagic first too.
My order is:
The purple
The green
The pink
Calimagic
Terpinator
Stir & pH.
In flower I add liquid Kool bloom before Terpinator ( for some unknown reason).

 

[Tika]

Sending ZigZag a note on your time Mr pot..
Aya doing fine..gracefulnin structure...

 

[Mr Pot]

Hello my friends,
this is day 86 from germination and day 29 of flowering stage. I've started adding molasses since last week and they're responding well. I had some thoughts about adding molasses because people say a lot of things about it, but I'm adding every watering and if they're not reacting well I'll cut that in half and so on.

My runoff water is never above 1000 ppm and I was wondering if I shouldn't do a strict schedule of nutes, pure water, nutes, pure water and just keep my ppm around 1k until the 2 last weeks when I'll only pure water the plants. They're looking nice and starting to fill up the stems with beautiful buds. Take a look!

I read about how much weeks I should have for their flowering stage. The recommendation of the breeders is around 60 days for flowering for all three strains (8+ weeks) and I'm waiting until the last weeks for a personal microscope checkup on them to be sure they are harvested in the right moment. Nebula said somewhere in GWE that the breeder recommendation can be about weeks after the plants starts to show budlets and I thought that's a very important information because it could change my flowering to 2 more weeks than what is proposed. That's a tricky factor and I'll make this decision the last weeks before harvesting, although I don't have time and logistic for 2 more entirely weeks (and the 1+ week of drying).

OBS: Finally learned to upload pictures.

 

[Mr Pot]

For those who wonder how are my clones, I've cloned Xingu 3 times, Durga Mata once and Belladonna once as well. This is an experiment and that's why I'm keeping them in solo cups, otherwise I wouldn't do that, I'd just transplant them to a bigger container and probably wouldn't have 5 clones inside this very tent because of its size. So far so good, they aren't blooming as their mothers but they surely will produce some buds.