C99 topped once then LST grow

Budder Fingers

Budder Fingers

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Feminized C99 from Female seeds via The Single Seed Center.

3.5 Gal Hempy buckets 3:1 coco/perlite

Nutes: Osmocote Plus @ 3 tbsp per gal supplemented with 5ml per gal Cal-mag and 2ml Hydroguard.

Water: at least 24 hour sit and ph down to around 6.0

Light: 400w combo HPS/MH bulb in air cooled hood
 
BeastGrow

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she continues branching out and stretching for 2 weeks into flowering so you only need half as many tops as you want to finish with.

if you flower now she will double in size. Looks like a 2+ zip

At this rate you might actually have to remove some of the lower weak branches around 2nd week of flower.
 
BeastGrow

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i've got a FS c99 in flower. she finishes in like 7 weeks! and the most frost and tropical smell of any strain. She needs support tho.. you might put up a few stakes and throw a net over her.
 
Budder Fingers

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I can smell the tropical already when I rub the stem, fruity.

I was planning on SCROG but one (out of 3) turned into a runt and I have a Wonder Woman in the room also that I brought back from the dead that is now a bush so I'm just going to see how they flower to learn for SCROG next time

I've got a baby wonder woman and a Blueberry Bliss Auto in there too so I think I'll flower the lot in another couple of weeks and see what happens

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mrrager420

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Nice. Love some c99. I got two diff phenos tho. One grows nothing but sativa leaves. The other had wider leaves in the beginning almost like a indica. More sativa now but leaves still not as serated as the other. 7 week veg just flipped to flower Monday.
 
BeastGrow

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Budder Fingers said:
Was she topped once?
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I believe I LSTd and topped 1 time. removed weak branches after 2nd week of flowering to promote more energy to the bigger buds. and then around week 4 or 5 i staked her up and tied up some of the smaller branches to the larger staked branches.
 
WattSaver

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Looks really nice BF, green and healthy. How long has it been since the transplant into the 3.5gal buckets? Have the roots hit the rez?
I like the idea of growing different aged plants, in different sized containers. There's a lot to be observed in one grow.
Subbed and watching your grow.
 
Budder Fingers

Budder Fingers

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Thanks Watts, the C99 got put into the hempy about two weeks ago.

I had to transplant early from the 1qt. I had them in some peat moss and they weren't happy, I thought it looked like nitro tox but it may have been an acidity thing.

I've been thinking about something I read on an osmocote pdf label and what you're saying about roots hitting the rez.

The label said within a week of application the moisture in the medium causes the granules to swell and begin releasing the nutrients.
So I thought it would be a good idea to mix up your medium and have it wet a week before you plant so the OC is already leaching.

Do you think the majority of nutes are flushed into the rez when you water or do they stay in the medium if using coco for example?
This also has me thinking that letting the coco dry out before watering as you do with soil etc, may not be necessary but keeping it moist would have the most consistent release of the fert.

I realize my questions are specific to coco mix cause thats what Im running and might not appply to straight perlite
 
Budder Fingers

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Re: different ages/containers - of course when you start you want to super crop /scrog / get a million ounces off your first grow but I think wisdom has prevailed and I've decided to do a couple of grows of various strains and training techniques to hopefully find something thats going to work well towards max yield/quality.

Although my similarity is going to be coco/perlite hempy and OC+ with the exception of the Wonder woman bush in soil (but still with OC+)


I used to grow many moons ago, recirculating top drip systems and had success with most of it. I tried that method again with a three part etc this time and had nothing but trouble thats why I went in search of an easier style.
'Soilponics' as you've dubbed it, just seems to make a lot of sense and a lot less headache.
 
WattSaver

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Budder Fingers said:
Thanks Watts, the C99 got put into the hempy about two weeks ago.

I had to transplant early from the 1qt. I had them in some peat moss and they weren't happy, I thought it looked like nitro tox but it may have been an acidity thing.

I've been thinking about something I read on an osmocote pdf label and what you're saying about roots hitting the rez.

The label said within a week of application the moisture in the medium causes the granules to swell and begin releasing the nutrients.
So I thought it would be a good idea to mix up your medium and have it wet a week before you plant so the OC is already leaching.

Do you think the majority of nutes are flushed into the rez when you water or do they stay in the medium if using coco for example?
This also has me thinking that letting the coco dry out before watering as you do with soil etc, may not be necessary but keeping it moist would have the most consistent release of the fert.

I realize my questions are specific to coco mix cause thats what Im running and might not appply to straight perlite
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I've never pre-soaked the medium with the OC in it. It's not necessary, but your plants look real happy so I can't say it's wrong. I am a believer in letting the buckets dry out, in both perlite and coco. if the medium is constantly saturated the prills will release too much food. This happened to me summer before last growing autos outdoors in 2gal buckets. We had constant rain for several days in a row, in-between the overfeeding and the hi ph, it fair fried the girls.

As far as the nutes I believe they stay fairly local but do drain down and through the medium and do end up in the rez.
 
Budder Fingers

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Ok fair warning, thanks man.

I'm only watering about every 4 days even though the coco is still moist but not saturated.

I had an idea for a visual rez check. I've ordered some translucent buckets, same size as my main ones. I'm going to drill holes in the bottom of my mains and sit them in the clear ones which will have the hempy hole
 
Budder Fingers

Budder Fingers

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Switched to 12/12 on the 26th of Dec.

Pics are after nearly 2 weeks flowering and they stretched pretty hard core. When I took them out of the room for inspection they flopped over.

So I pulled some tomato cages out of my vege patch and cut them to size for the two big girls.

I also did some pretty heavy crimping of stems to strengthen them up and they took it like champs and straightened up within hours.IMG_0170.JPG IMG_0171.JPG IMG_0175.JPG IMG_0176.JPG IMG_0180.JPG

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