Starting Grow #12 - Indica Class of 2020

[Gregg]

A teaspoon of dolomite on the soil should help. Cut those dying fan leaves off and your buds will get fatter.

 

[NuggetMan]

Here is the thing, the leaves are NOT dying. So what would you recommend??? I normally don't pull off fan leaves if they are for the bud branch, I only pull the ones for the stalks. So you are saying to let the leaves in the buds replace the fan leaves??? I do not see how that would make them get bigger??? Your picture is exactly what I have right now... just my leaves aren't so clean looking but not heavily damaged. This is an all organic grow.

 

[NuggetMan]

*** UPDATE*** As of last Tuesday 08/04/2020 Week 17/Week 8 of flower ended, so now I am in the harvesting window (8 - 12 weeks for Indica), in other words Trichome Watching time! This time it's all depending on color. I have always tried to go "peak" but I want to "bend the curve" just a little just to change it up a bit... So 1st sign of amber anywhere, it's cuttin' time! One of them as you can see is so heavy I had to practically prop up all the other ones and still got some droopers. I'll fix them later. Only time will tell now... they smell good and sticky! Buds are packed and very dense! I can't wait for the end results!!!

 

[NuggetMan]

I did something different this time. I got rid of the bad fan leaves just to see if it will make any difference in bud growth. I am wondering though if this could be from growing organic this time and the extra long lights out they got earlier in flower because there are three here that look like right now, they are ready to go. My "half-breed" Is just now starting to slowly change color on the pistils, not like the other three. You can definitely see the difference in the buds. This has been a strange one for sure...

 

[SoOrbudgal]

I always cut out my old fans always if they are in the way or look sick. I wonder if those are a cookie strain ?

 

[NuggetMan]

***UPDATE*** as of 08/11/2020 (this past Tuesday) these ladies are at Week 18/ Week 9 of flower. Has anybody grown a self defoliator??? I cut this one down this morning and not much clean-up to do to it. These other three I am letting go til this coming Tuesday 9they will be 10 weeks into flower and I usually cut down by the end of week 10. 1 is skunky smelling, one is fruity smelling and my half breed is??? ***UPDATE*** - P.S. - as of yesterday three of them were taken down, all the indica plants are now hanging in the closet, the only one left to go longer is my half breed (the middle picture shown above). It's not ready yet, too many white hairs still with just a few turning color now... 1 was cut in the am, the other 2 were taken down around 3 in the afternoon.

 

[NuggetMan]

Again, all of these were organically grown with only 2 feeding on nutrients, 1 for vegging, 1 for flowering, pH 6.6 water, some molasses, and some Cal-Mag. That is it.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

So i'm trying to understand your feed times so am i correct that in it's whole veg cycle you only gave it " grow food " one time? I'm going to ask the same about the flowering you only gave it " bloom food " one time? All the rest of the food came from your soil simple yes or no will do LOL

 

[NuggetMan]

That was it! 1st 30 days using recycled FFOF with pre-mixed in Happy Frog all purpose veg nutes (6-4-5), then transplanted to 1/2 gal pots with FFOF add another 30 days, 60 days total no nutes! Final transplant into 3 gallon pots, add another 30 days no nutes! By this time I am into flower, I top fed with Happy Frog Fruit and Flower (4-9-3) nutes good for 30 days, then from there just water and molasses til harvest! very little nutrients used and i did use FF organic nutrients. so yes only 2 uses of nutrients for the whole grow!!! Oh, I did also use some FF Big Bloom as it is organic as well... the stuff I used was not intended for indoor use as I found out the hard way!!! OOHH That Smell!! OMG!!!

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Haaa haaa funny poo fishy LOL great job:big-smile: yes i'm banned from fish/bat use inside