New round of Aurora Indica from Nirvana :cool:

[starramus]

This is the product I am using. https://www.amazon.com/Garden-Safe-...46651690&sr=8-1&keywords=neem+oil+concentrate

I don't know if what you are using is more or less concentrated.

 

[Cocho]

Hello again all!

It's been a while since last time now. Been waiting out the last flush, letting her dry up a bit while I monitor the development.
She does not look better, she looks way worse than last time. There's almost no green leaves left, and everything has turned yellow or fallen off.
She's still alive though, but I'm not sure I'll be able to harvest anything from her when harvest comes. Because it sure looks like she'll start draining the buds for nutrients any day now, if she haven't started already.

But she's still alive, for now.

So today I decided to feed her for the first time since the flush. So I mixed 1,5 liter (0,4 gallon) of water with 52ml BioWorm, 3ml CalMag, 5ml Bloom, 1 teaspoon Molasses.
I made sure to pH everything extra carefully before feeding. I also took my time pouring, making sure everything got absorbed into the soil, so that the runoff came from a fully saturated? soil and not just the feeding water rushing through because the soil didn't have time to absorb it all. So after about 10 mins I saw the first sign of run off. I gathered some an measured it. It looks fine. It was in the 6.0 - 7.0 range.

I also made sure to examine the run off, try and see if I could see any bugs. And if there were any they must have been really tiny. I'm not sure if I want to use Neem Oil more at this point, since it's closing in on harvest and I've heard that Neem Oil tend to taste really bad? I'm not sure here. Does any of you know?

I also have a theory why problems like these might happen to me. The light I'm using is a 200W CFL bulb, and even though it's a powerful bulb for what it is (a CFL after all) it's till nothing like a 250W HPS.
A HPS, in my head, would be better at drying up the soil inside a grow space, am I right? And therefor a better choice if damp grow space, moist soil were a problem? So maybe the thing is that the pot I'm using might be too large for this setup? I'm currently using a 15 liter (4 gallon) pot. This is just me trying to figure out what caused the issues this time.

Last time I had problems with early stage root rot because the soil I was using then (cheap soil) got way to compact and didn't dry up good.

Still.. I'm not sure. I use the "stick my finger in the soil method", and I never feed if the soil is still moist. And I dig my finger in there good. At least one knuckle down.


Anyways.. here's some pictures taken after feeding her today.

As you can see, she's really light in color. Not looking good at all.

There's still some green in there. But mostly newer/smaller growth further down on the plant. I'm not sure what to take from that, maybe some of you have a good answer for me?

There's still a few weeks left until harvest. Hopefully this feeding will turn things around a little.

Here you can see some redness on the tips of a yellowing leaf. Probably some deficiency, but I'm not sure what is what these days since there's so much going on at once.

That is all I've got for now. I really want to say that I truly believe that she's getting better, but I'm not to sure about that. One can only hope that this feeding will give her some new strength.

At least I can't see any bugs in the run off, and she's still alive.

All feedback and advice is more than welcome.


Take care everyone. I'll be back with another update in a few days if everything goes as planned from now on.

Peace and love!

- C

 

[Cocho]

Greetings!

Hope you're all having a good weekend

I decided to take some more pictures today. She's "perking" up a little, and kind of looks better even though she's really pale looking.
Hopefully the nutrients gave her a little boost. Time will show I guess.

Anyhow.. I inspected the buds today with my loop.
I have a battery powered 60-100x loop with a LED light at the end, which I use to see if the tricomes have changed color to the desired milky/amber ratio.
And as of today (12th of January 2019) she has 100% milky tricomes, as far as I can see. I have not inspected every single millimeter of the buds, because I can to touch them with the loop every time I want to inspect them, and everything just gets sooooo sticky. You know "a 4 year olds chocolate covered Legos sticky". Plus, I don't want to poke her to much since the loop also tend to leave tiny marks here and there.
But I did a respectable search all over, and all I can see is milky.

So in my mind I want to leave her a few more days (maybe even a week?) before considering harvesting her.

With that said, here's some pictures. I know they don't represent the total "picture" since I can't really show you the tricomes themselves, but at least you can see how she's looking as of now.

So what do you think? Should I leave her for more than a few days (to a week)?
It's kind of hard to know at this time, since you never know how long they'll take from milky to amber.

Again, hope you're all having a good weekend.

Peace!

- C

 

[Cocho]

Quick post from me again.

Not an update, but more of a "hey look at this" type of deal.

Took this picture today;

And as you can see, this cola is turning slightly purple in the edges, which is super awesome if you ask me.

Some of the buds have a 60% brown hairs on the top, but most of the hairs from there and down are white.
This one as you can see have about 10%?? brown hairs I would say.

But it's still looking kind of cool.

I get a few more brown hairs every day, so I'll keep waiting. Most of the tricomes have turned milky white, but I guess I'll have to wait for some amber ones so that the hairs will have the chance to ripen too.

What do you guys think?

Anyways.. hope you're all having a good week. I have the week off, so I'll be drinking beers relaxing while this horrid winter is ruining everything outside.

Peace!

- C

 

[Locrian99]

You are looking at the trichs on the buds and not the sugar leaves right? Seems like there is an awful lot of white pistils still.

 

[Cocho]

I forgot to go in depth on that, but yes. I'm looking at the buds. That is why I've been trying to figure out where we're at.

The pistils are mostly white, even though most of the tricomes I've seen on her this far are milky white. That being said, some of the buds have a lot more brown and curly pistils than the one on the picture here.

So I'll keep watching her for now. Looks like there's still a little while left.

 

[Cocho]

Hello everyone!

Quick update from me again.

There has been a lot going on with this one lately, most of it kind of stressful, but she's still alive.
There's still yellow leaves, but I can also see some fresh green here and there, so she might be fully recovered and just "shedding" the old yellow leaves since they'll never return to their former glory.

Anyways. I've been monitoring the feeding closely, more so than ever before, to make sure everything turns out like I want it to.
So I've been double measuring the pH, mixing the nutrients in separate containers, making sure everything goes as planned, and I believe the pH is back to normal.

Today I gave her some nutrients. Normally one would start starving the plant at this time, but since she's almost out of leaves and I actually don't believe starving this one would do me any favors, I've decided to feed her as long as possible and maybe just give her pure pH-regulated water the very last feeding. I'm not sure yet.

But today I started with 0.3 liter (0.08 gallon) of pure pH-regulated water. Just to start her of with something fresh. Then I started feeding her the 1.4 liter (0.37 gallon) of pH-regulated water mixed with; 50 ml BioWorm, 2 ml CalMag, 5 ml Bloom and 1 teaspoon Molasses.

I then made sure she drained off good enough and removed some of the dead leaves here and there. I also tied her a little tighter to spread the "crown" out a little, so that the lower branches and buds would get more light.

She's not looking to pretty, but like I said.. she's still alive.

As you can see, she's still kind of pale looking. But if you look closer, there's some newer greener growth happening here and there. Hopefully this is a good sign

So there' still hope for this little girl. She smells good, and it does not look like she's "cannibalizing" her own flowers. So she's still retaining nutrients of some sort.
I've not seen any more bugs since maybe 4 feedings ago. So I believe that problem is solved. So maybe I'll get to see this one turn in to a pretty little matured plant after all?

I've also been checking around with a microscope/loop I have acquired just for the purpose of looking on to the tricomes and pistils.
And I see a lot of milky tricomes here and there. But there's also a lot of white and pointy pistils all over. Some have darkened and curled up, but not enough yet.
I'm looking for about 60-70% brown and curly pistils. I want the effect to be heavy, but not the type of heavy that just annihilates you and puts you to sleep.
Anyway, I believe she still have a little way to go before harvest, so I'll keep checking her for time to time the next week, and by next feeding all depending on how she looks, I'll either feed her or give her that final pure water starvation "flushing" before cutting her a week later. Time will show I guess

So what do you think? Am I out of the woods yet? Do you think she'll do okay?

Thanks for keeping up with my "blog" here. I really appreciate it!

Take care!

Peace and love


- C

 

[starramus]

Your "unattractive " girl will get you plenty high. I see plenty of trichomes. Be sure to keep her going until you have some amber if that is what you are striving for. You are easily out of the woods.

 

[Cocho]

Yeah. She's like a Kvensk hooker (Kvensk = kvääni = Finnish/Norwegian dialect/people), looks a little rough, and can probably kick your ass and rob you, but she's still a woman. Hehe!

But it's good to know that she will provide ^^

 

[starramus]

LOL Sounds like a couple I met in Karlsruhe a long long time ago.

 

[Cocho]

Hello all!

Harvest is coming (soon), so I just wanted to post some pictures here to show how things are coming along.

Right before I came on here I was checking her out with my loop, and I see about 1 in 5 amber trichomes and 4 in 5 milky trichomes, but there's still a few white pistils here and there, and all the amber/brown pistils haven't curled up yet. So I wanted a second opinion on her.


So here she is;

So what do you think? Should I wait or should I cut here this week?

And remember I don't want the product to place me in eternal sleep after only 2 puffs hehe!
So some white pistils and more milky than amber trichomes are preferred, I guess.
But I don't want to take her too soon.

Peace!

- C

 

[farmerjim]

Im so sorry I've missed this journal! I've been MIA for a bit but actually grew 1 Aurora Indica with the Dark Harvest Grow Challenge strains! If you haven't chopped yet I would definitey take a peek at those trichomes - ambers come hot and heavy once they're ready. Amber is the color of my energy and Im def not afraid of couchlock lol

I got my AI tested after cure and came in at 15.7% THC - I forget the yield - I'll have to check my Instagram posts - maybe 5 oz - definitely the best looking bud of the Dark Harvest bunch

Would love to know how harvest went!

 

[starramus]

I am not seeing what you are seeing. Maybe it's the photo.
Under magnification I am not really seeing any amber. You should wait at least for some amber trichs. After all of the give, and take, and frustration you want something with a little bit more of a sedative effect? Really better late than too early. I know you are itching to get some tokes, but WILLPOWER man!

 

[starramus]

Have you had a sample puff yet?

 

[starramus]

Smoke report???

 

[starramus]

Have we been trolled?

https://vimeo.com/318380844

 

[LurkingInTheGrass]

starramus please tell me, we are the tea in the video. Im still a few years away from that sad old man

 

[starramus]

LurkingInTheGrass you can plug yourself into whatever role you choose. I am anarchistically (not a word) minded. I'd kinda like being the troll. Ever wonder how many forum members have alternate user names?

 

[LurkingInTheGrass]

LOL - my leanings are more towards entropy

are you suggesting that starramus is your anarchistic side? and that you have an ALT? it would be funny if alltatup was your Universally Connected side

but, if everybody ran ALTs - then there would only be a handful of people actually communicating. and? do the ALTs communicate with each other?

ay caramba - a thought experiment rabbit hole. methinks its time for another hit
{8o_~

 

[Mr.furley]

Would not be the first time I had a conversation with someone with a Multiple Personally Disorder off on raging tangent mumbling to their other self all the while I'm just trying to get an answer if they want Diet Coke or regular.

I can imagine any Shenanigans afoot around this place.

LurkingInTheGrass remember to always past to the left.