Xare
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Iam working with an Indica variety from seed I made last season.
Clones were taken from a few of my mothers and rooted via bubbecloner.
Then transplanted into 2 Liter Hempy buckets: 25% verm / 75% perlite
To get 25 Hempy's under my 400 watt HPS
Triggering flower with 12/12 when the clones reached 5-7 inches.
Day 23 of Flowering...
Ive trimmed the bottom 1/3rd or so of these plants twice now. On the First and the Third week of flower.
The canopy looks a bit uneven because I moved them before the pics. I put the small ones in the middle to get the most light. I have a few that are smaller then the others because I think I trimmed them too much in the first week. But the rest are all about 16-18 inches tall now.
Besides the first few weeks, when I was using diluted nutes. Ive been running with a 5 micro / 10 bloom lucas formula. Ive read that a 400 watt HPS light does not need full 8/16 lucas. And they seem to like how ive been feeding them. So iam gonna keep it at this ratio till the plants tell me different.
I use GH Hardwater Micro and my well water which is very hard and Alkaline. After I mix up a batch of nutes I still have to use about 6ml of PH down to get my PH to about 6.0
Right now iam just using a drop tester kit to check the PH and guessing on the PPM...
I water every other day with 1 cup of nutes per hempy bucket. That works out to 1 and 3/4 of a gallon of nutes every other day for my 25 plant SOG
The extra 1/4 gallon I spray on the tops of the buckets on the off water days. I use a 2 gallon pressure sprayer to mix my nutes in. But when I water I use the sprayer to fill up a bucket and I measure out 1 cup per plant and just pour it in.
The plants do drink up all the nutes very fast. I tried going as far as two days between waterings but the plants did not like that.
The 2 liter hempy buckets have a 1/2 inch hole up about 2 inches from the ground level. I covered the hole with some burlap, and this was not a good idea because it seems to allow mold to grow. So next time iam gonna use screen or just put small holes in the side instead of a big one.
The Strain should be an early finisher, iam gonna guess around 60 days. It has some Kush - Indica traits like Pointy water leafs instead of round ones. And a very spicy flavor.
Iam worried that alot of my light is being blocked by the heavy leafage. The space is cramped with the 25 clones and some of the bud sites are blocked.
Maybe next time I should run with just 16 clones, 4 rows of 4 instead of 5 rows of 5.
The yield will tell me what I need to do
Clones were taken from a few of my mothers and rooted via bubbecloner.
Then transplanted into 2 Liter Hempy buckets: 25% verm / 75% perlite
To get 25 Hempy's under my 400 watt HPS
Triggering flower with 12/12 when the clones reached 5-7 inches.
Day 23 of Flowering...
Ive trimmed the bottom 1/3rd or so of these plants twice now. On the First and the Third week of flower.
The canopy looks a bit uneven because I moved them before the pics. I put the small ones in the middle to get the most light. I have a few that are smaller then the others because I think I trimmed them too much in the first week. But the rest are all about 16-18 inches tall now.
Besides the first few weeks, when I was using diluted nutes. Ive been running with a 5 micro / 10 bloom lucas formula. Ive read that a 400 watt HPS light does not need full 8/16 lucas. And they seem to like how ive been feeding them. So iam gonna keep it at this ratio till the plants tell me different.
I use GH Hardwater Micro and my well water which is very hard and Alkaline. After I mix up a batch of nutes I still have to use about 6ml of PH down to get my PH to about 6.0
Right now iam just using a drop tester kit to check the PH and guessing on the PPM...
I water every other day with 1 cup of nutes per hempy bucket. That works out to 1 and 3/4 of a gallon of nutes every other day for my 25 plant SOG
The extra 1/4 gallon I spray on the tops of the buckets on the off water days. I use a 2 gallon pressure sprayer to mix my nutes in. But when I water I use the sprayer to fill up a bucket and I measure out 1 cup per plant and just pour it in.
The plants do drink up all the nutes very fast. I tried going as far as two days between waterings but the plants did not like that.
The 2 liter hempy buckets have a 1/2 inch hole up about 2 inches from the ground level. I covered the hole with some burlap, and this was not a good idea because it seems to allow mold to grow. So next time iam gonna use screen or just put small holes in the side instead of a big one.
The Strain should be an early finisher, iam gonna guess around 60 days. It has some Kush - Indica traits like Pointy water leafs instead of round ones. And a very spicy flavor.
Iam worried that alot of my light is being blocked by the heavy leafage. The space is cramped with the 25 clones and some of the bud sites are blocked.
Maybe next time I should run with just 16 clones, 4 rows of 4 instead of 5 rows of 5.
The yield will tell me what I need to do
