The Down Time Cometh
VPD 1.14kPa
CO2. 800ppm
1000-1280PPFD
47-52 -ish DLI @12hr
Total Day 63
Bloom 21 days/28 since flip
It's that time! 21 days into bloom, 28 days since we flipped to 12hrs. The plants have been defoliated and they have been given their top dress of phosphorus releasing bacteria and food for them to process. Now it's time to sit back and watch the flowers get swole! I planted some cover crop in the pineapple and the tangie. I noticed it's helping keep the topsoil moist in the other 2 pots. Plus I seeded the pots with worms, I want them to have the organic matter that they need and want to survive. I removed the net. It wasn't serving any purpose this time. The plants didn't stretch too much. All it was doing was blocking the light.
First off the Tangie! Tangie tangie tangie.... My my my... She's on day 62 and she looks like she's still got some way to go judging by all the new petals shooting out all over. She won't be done by day 70 but maybe by day 90 or 100 for sure. The side colas are already as tall as my thumb and twice as thick, meanwhile, the top cola is as big as my whole fist and just as thick!!! She's frosty AF. If you tap her, the whole room smells of orange and fuel. I'm gonna need to get some more seeds of this cultivar. Now that I know what she likes, I can really try to push her.
Second up is the pineapple Express. I think she's finally starting to pick up some color. She's flowering nicely and she's praying daily but still looking a little in the lighter side over the past 3 weeks, I have given her a top feeding each week and it's still not enough!! I gave her the rest of the NLS Autoflower super soil. It helped so I gave her 4Tbsp of Gaia Green All purpose and 4Tbsp of Gaia Power Bloom, 1Tbsp Glacial Rock Dust and 1 of Basalt Rock Dust. I have also started giving her the GH CaliMagic cal mag in the bases. 1ml per 2L I don't want to give her a full dose because it might be too much magnesium. I hope the extra nitrogen is helping. She's huge, she's got a huge stalk.. like a tree.... She's got lots of flowers. She probably needs food.
She's drinking water again. Takes her 3 days to go through 2 gal.
Third is the MAC. She's FINALLY finished stretching. While all the other plants were starting to flower, she was still stretching. You can see the top nodes got SOOO long. She's def a stretcher. Good to know for the future. They make for good scrogging plants. The flowers aren't building very quickly but they're coming along. The way I trimmed her, there's only 4 to 5 flower sites on each stem so hopefully they'll get chunky. Everyone got a top dress of the NLS Flower Power so that should get the flowers going. It's a good inoculant for phosphorus producing bacteria and gives them the food they need. I still have enough to last me 2 more grows and I'm not about to throw it out.
And finally the Blue Dream. She's full steam ahead! Those flowers are forming so quickly. She's only 3 weeks into bloom and already forming domes and second layers. The spacing is pretty close between the buds so it's possible that they'll turn into big giant buds. Always an easy cultivar to grow that give back. I trimmed her up nicely so there shouldn't be any larf on her. Super excited about her. She's going to be a winner!!
This is boring time. Just water and watch grow. At this point I'm not going to load the pineapple with anymore nutes. I don't want to overdo it on the nitrogen during bloom. Besides she's focusing on flowers not leaf growth. I have her plenty top dress for the amount of soil that's there. The other things I'm happy about is the LACK OF GNATS!!! Those shitty castings I got on Amazon were such a long battle to fix. Finally I don't have any adults and no babies. I just sprinkle some mosquito bits on the top soil; that's it! The moisture from the soil releases the BTI from the bits into the soil preventing and gnat babies from taking hold. Just in case any adult gets in and wants to lay babies. It's so nice I can leave my tea uncovered and not have a fly in it instantly 🤣
To keep busy, I'm going to be amending the soil from the Earth boxes. I put worms in there too eat up all the root matter and process any other food in there. I need to add neem, help, crab, alfalfa meal, insect frass, ag lime, oyster shell, dolomite lime, gypsum, basalt, glacial rock dust, langbeinite and rock phosphate. Some charged biochar, humic acid and castings from my worm bin a little perlite and some fresh peat to replace any that has broken down. It will have a month to sit around and have the worms decompose everything. Then it'll go back into the earth box for my summer auto grow. Sweet Zombie (because it should be dried and cured in time for Halloween) and some purple gelato. 1 SEED, 1 EARTH BOX, 10 + GALLONS OF SOIL. I'm going to direct sow, so I'm expecting then to get HUGE!
Week 8 time lapse link will be in the comments. From now on the time lapse will get boring. It's hard to see flower grow compared to foliage.
Anyways Happy Growing and Happy Easter ðŸ°ðŸ£
