SOIL Grow journal 📓 2021

[SoOrbudgal]

I clip the tips off a few just to kickstart them alittle just old habit. Not sure if it really does kickstart the rooting as i've got 2 GG#4 clones in a cup of water now clipped an soaking for 7days so i'm still waiting to see nubs. It's gonna take few weeks i guess, i never count how long frankly i ignore them LOL just check if they need more water in cup. These will be for a fall/winter grow indoors. I want to try just 2 photos under my newer light get them really big an trained in veg. Well that's my hope LOL

 

[amy24]

Haha sorry for the late reply! I ended up mostly losing the two clones in the crazy heat wave! I panicked and gave them a bit of seaweed fertilizer to try to help them out but ended up totally nute burning them, had to laugh at myself. The one with the nubs is kind of holding on I think because it didn’t have roots, the other one just died, oh well! Focusing on trying for some for the fall/winter too

 

[amy24]

I went away for about two weeks and had a neighbour and family water for me. I missed my garden but was so excited to see my girls! All doing great! The two weird revegging clones both got super bushy, they allllmost look the same now with the one I pinched the buds off looking slightly smaller. The two in the ground just thriving away. I need to keep them below my fence line and they are getting taller, so started working on bending them back and away from the middle of the plant some more. I tried to go slow and pull back gently but I still cracked some by accident and still by the next day, they were pointing back up at the sky. I noticed one stem/branch that had broken earlier had the craziest bushiest branch so wasn’t too worried - those breaks at this point seem to serve the plant well. I remember reading on here that healed breaks are like turning to two lane of nutrients to a hiway of nutrients and have to agree!

a couple questions…

-I have some poles with two branches attached, one lower on the pole and one more upper, the middle of the plant is looking pretty sparse, should I let one of the branches go so one pops more to the middle and one stays on the pole?

-I accidentally crossed a couple branches as I realized I should be making dinner not working on my plants 😉 should I uncross them or will they be fine?

-the very first signs of flowering are starting which means the “big stretch” is happening right? Or am I wrong? I totally can’t remember the timing, just trying to figure out how much taller they could get… I can go read on this again too.

I did a liquid fertilizer application right away, and am going to add a new layer of compost/meal/mulch again tomorrow. Probably mush some banana up in there too cus I have a bunch and they are high in the nutrients for flowering.

Thanks everyone! Good luck with all the extreme weather!

 

[jacoby37]

Those are perfect...so much fun watching you work this grow.

 

[DeadlyFruit]

Beautiful garden! I love all of the greenery.

Spacing the branches is kind of an art. As a general rule you move them away from the Center to open up the space to airflow and light but if you are sparse in the middle you may want to let a couple shorter branches grow there but ultimately it is a judgment call. I have started just letting mine grow naturally when outside as it is pretty cool to see how big they get. I know that isn’t an option for you because you want to stay belo the fence line. If they are starting to flower now you should see a few weeks of crazy growth but there is a genetic component. Some grow a little, most will grow somewhere between a little and up to twice their height and a few can go three times. If you check out the seed literature it should give you a plant height that it commonly goes to.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Those are looking really good gal. Yes the stretch of pre flower is on who knows for sure how much taller i just guess maybe 12-24" but you never really know LOL. Both the big bushy pics 2nd & 3rd remind me of my pre98BubbaKush and my Peanut Butter Breath many tiny off shoots. Time now to trim up those and lower half alittle for the late summer bud building on the bigger branches. I remove center tiny shoots an you'll see little at a time what needs to be done. Let the light shine

 

[amy24]

Thanks so much for the advice and compliments! I so appreciate the community! I will do some more trimming, and also try to just bend more to keep them horizontal. Two feet would def make them too high for the fence. Maybe I’ll top the two centre ones and let them bush out a bit in the middle?

 

[amy24]

Thanks So much! 😊

 

[amy24]

Hi again

My husband put some wire mesh around the two in the garden and I started “scrogging” them through. Haha might not be perfect but enjoyed getting to use the lingo! I bent them gently to a hole that didn’t put much stress on the branch but that it could easily bend to. I used a couple upper Velcro things to hold a few in place, but will probably release those as they grow bigger. I also topped the tallest branches that were in the middle, just a little bit, cus I’m a hoarder haha 😂 Hope it wasn’t too stressful putting them through all that effort again!

The two huge bushy ones were making me a bit nervous with how dense they were, so decided to really thin them out, just kind of went through and cut every second skinny branch, and a bunch on the bottom of the plant. As I trimmed, I noticed a few dusty white spots, worried it could be the beginning of powdery mildew, or maybe some leftover bug nest or a combo of both? Saw some little bugs that looked a bit like black and white mini ladybugs? Also a few little black specks that I thought could be soil or maybe eggs? Then I also found a sketchy “sore” on one of my branches, that Velcro stuff is supposed to be soft but it looks like it was cutting into the branch a little…now, it looks almost like a bit of mold forming…I’ll include a closeup. Should I chop that branch off? I could be being paranoid but I was the opposite of a hoarder this time and tried to really cut away anything that caused me worry. Since it revegged, there are a lot of dense bud/curly leaf areas so I really just wanted to open it up to lots of air flow. I included zoom ins of that too, and some before/after pics of the ones in totes.

Any advice would be again appreciated. ❤️🌳💚

 

[DeadlyFruit]

Nice lush plants! Yes, anywhere you attach something is going to get a little damaged - the breeze moves the plant a little and that constant rubbing will do it. I just try to move the contact point around a little so it isn’t constantly rubbing in the same place and the damage stays manageable. Keep an eye on it but I doubt it is mold, just where the outer green is scraping off and showing a lighter interior. The plant can heal that level of damage pretty easily.

 

[DeadlyFruit]

Also, if you are worried about bugs and they are not yet in bloom spray the foliage with insecticidal soap and dust the ground with diatomaceous earth.

 

[amy24]

Thanks so much!!! ❤️ I have some diatomaceous earth- I noticed some people have it sprinkled right on the leaves? Is that ok to do?

 

[amy24]

Hmmm so something is definitely wrong with that branch. It’s so weird! Came home after a couple days away and it’s just sagging away while the rest of the plant is happy? I guess I’ll just cut it off but wondering if I should keep my eye out for any other issues…. The two plants in the totes look a little droopy at times, maybe just so thirsty? I’m going to get a pic next time they look super droopy. Will make another post about the branch too but wanted it recorded in the journal.

 

[MeEasy]

That looks to me like bore worms they're the catapillar of a moth they suck I had em alot when I lived up in Albuquerque I grew in the mountains up there

 

[amy24]

Thanks for the info! I’ll look into those!

 

[Rwise]

I am seeing hemp borers this year here in OK, some good info in the bore worm thread, link with great pics from CO. check it out.

 

[DeadlyFruit]

If they are like the squash boring bugs (the adults of these look like big black and orange wasps) they can kill a plant pretty quickly. They lay their larvae in a stalk/vine and that larva blocks the water flow so that the plant always looks wilty in the impacted area and farther up the stem no matter how much you water it. The larvae has probably been in place for a little while now, growing. Look up the stalk for frass. This will show you where the larvae is. Sometimes you can extract them with tweezers but usually it is a write off.

 

[amy24]

Thanks for the replies!!! Not great news, but I’ll see what I can do.

 

[amy24]

Rwise Read something on one of the threads I saw you on about using BTK to kill them? I have some - was thinking of just really stripping the bottom of the plant to see if I can see any burrows? Then spray with BTK tonight, put some diatomaceous earth around the plant… I don’t have any neem oil, saw that as a suggestion, but I do have neem meal? 🤞🤞

 

[DeadlyFruit]

If it’s killable that should do it! Good luck!