Second grow journal. 1x Watermelon Zkittlez

[90Gizmo]

The SS rods are a good idea. The arrow shafts are a bit chunky. Thank you for the kind words but everyone's cats are beautiful. Loki, thought, is a very good example of that. Both cats follow me to the grow room and like to stick their noses in things. It's not that I'm trying hard to get them into the pictures but mostly it would be hard not to.

 

[90Gizmo]

My color vision is not the best and often I press the "enhance" button so I can see colors better. I guess that's was bad idea when posting. But I'm a newbie and don't know what's normal color yet. Other than the leaf claw the plant looks very healthy... much better than first grow. Live and learn is okay by me as long as I can smoke the results. It's growing wild right now and covered with pistils.

I haven't been measuring light distance rather seeing distance and intensity to get the target PAR. Now targeting me 500 to 700 PAR. My DLI is probably high but I'm greedy.

 

[90Gizmo]

Day 30. I'm working on correcting nitrogen deficiency. Even so the plant is big time in pre-flower with at least a dozen stalks sprouting pistils which I hope will form fat colas. I've got some automation working with control of lights, duct fan speed and a home made swamp cooler. I'm watching the controls like as hawk as it is totally unproven. The two Whiskey Zulu sprouts are in veg now and I've moved them into the big tent and am giving them more light.

 

[90Gizmo]

Day 37 Watermelon Zkittlez: Another week and buds are starting to form. Plant is 16", doubled in height in 10 days. Training done, I'm letting shoots grow up now.

Day 27 x2 Whisky Zulu: Experiment in progress. No LST. Instead I trimmed the first five fingered leaves on node 3 to allow more light to reach stalk growth on node 1.

 

[90Gizmo]

Day 40 of wishful thinking. It looks to me like the color is improving. I spooned in 5 TBS of Gaia green power bloom and watered it in with some fish imulsion to give the flowers a potassium boost.

Day 30 of the little ones. Both are self-identifying as female.

 

[90Gizmo]

Automation, now with heat. Getting a little cold at night and it's barely fall. So I placed an electric radiator near one of the air inlets. Turn it on at 64.5F and off at 67F seems to be working. Third chart shows what the humidity does when the light goes out.

 

[90Gizmo]

Oh! Day 41 and loaded with trichomes

 

[90Gizmo]

I don't know why I've been calling it Watermelon Zkittlez. It's Trizzlers.

Trizzlers Day 52: 10 days later and there's 13 big colas getting fat. And that many more smaller ones. I'm hopeful I can keep it alive for another 3 or 4 weeks and then it might give a decent harvest. I gave it a half dose of 0-0-50 and plan to only give it call-mag for a while. Chasing whatever's wrong hasn't worked out for me. I bought more of these seeds for re-do because it looks like it could be a fantastic grow when I get better at it.

2x Whiskey Zulu Day 42: Same soil as the Trizzlers! (Actually, it a soil-less medium.) Colas starting to stretch. Started it on GO BioThrive and Cal-Mag. Picture is right after watering and before leaves perked up.

 

[90Gizmo]

This is my 5 gallon no-soil recipe: 4 gallons of this organic mix. 2 quarts additional perlite. 2 quarts short coco fibers.
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[Going2fast]

Hey I grew trizzlers last winter. Got it as a freebie from nasc. Pulled 8oz off of her and had my first polyploidy Bud. A little airy but heavy skunk smell and nice anti anxiety weed. One of my faves.

 

[90Gizmo]

Okay, you made me look that one up... So far all my plants end up looking like mutants before I'm done but that's not the same thing.