- Female seeds C99 - plant magic - supercropping - 250 watts -

puffdatchronic

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Hi guys, so ,I'm back on the horse with a c99 grow , currently at week 2 of flowering, using a brand new line of nutrients. Plant magic to be specific I'm using most of the range , including calmag+ , silicon, bloom and bloom boost.

I'm also trying out using a bigger pot this time holding approx. 20 litres of soil along with a respected canna friendly soil in biobizz allmix.

So this grow went a little off my planned route to start with, as I had planned on flowering VERY early, and had (or thought I had) switched the light cycle at around 9 days of growth. The plant had been growing very fast and it was approx. 6 inches tall at this point. HOWEVER after 2 weeks of "flowering" I noticed my timer had a segment pressed in at 1 am until 2 am! . At this point the plant was around 1.5 feet tall and quite branchy

Now as anyone who follows my grows knows, I grow in a closet, I do not have a lot of vertical room so this was a big problem, so what i did is switched my timer to 12/12 and supercropped. I snapped the main stalk without mercy, to leave it just hanging there. I was so brutal with it that I thought there was a chance It would just fall off, and at this point I would have been ok with that as i needed the height reduced. But lo and behold the next day it had started growing upwards again, but the effect seemed to slow the upward growth significantly ..

basically while the plant worked on fixing the breakage and forming a big knot in the stem, upward height was slowed while all other branches caught up ... excellent. After another 5 days or so i felt the top was getting to tall again , so boom.. another snap. Again 1 day later growing back towards light but more slowly .. all other branches catching up more.

So I'm at 2 weeks flowering now, buds are forming fast, plant is looking excellent. I'm not gonna supercrop anymore as stretch is slowing down to a stop but the main stem did make one last gasp attempt to be taller than the rest. But the plant is significantly shorter than it should have been and i'm thinking the other branches are considerably stronger and more prominent. Smell is non existent except for a pink bubblegum smell to the stems.

I'm very happy with the plants health , I have to say , look into supplementing with calmag and silicon. I see the benefits already.. these shots are of week 1 and today week 2. notice in the week 1 shot i had just performed the supercrop.

At the moment for week 2-3 shes getting 1ml calmag, 1ml silicon, 3 mls bloom per litre of water and is taking 3 litres of water every 3to 4 days. stay tuned

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puffdatchronic

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Hey Puff, sorry to hear of your issues with the lemon skunk, I know you would've been pretty bummed about it!
This C99 looks pumped already, full Puff style!! Love it. I reckon you'll end up with some solid buds after your awesome super crop :-D
I started up a new journal so to speak too if ya want to pop in and say hey :)
https://www.rollitup.org/t/a-few-pics-before-the-journal.890361/
cheers mate, hopefully this will be my best grow yet I feel the cal mag and extra pot size will definitely help with my yield and plant health further down the line. The silicon to.. do yourself a favour and google benefits of silicone in plant growth, actually very surprising but it appears silicon is a pretty vital element that is overlooked in indoor cultivation, its abundant in the earth... but not indoors..

I will certainly sub to your grow mate , see you there :D
 
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puffdatchronic

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day 18 of flowering today, just had a good look at her there and noticed that she is frosting up already. all the forming buds sugar leaves look fuzzy with crystals ,I'm really excited for how she is gonna turn out. Might have to actually reveg this one stretching has pretty much stopped also. sorry for the hps pics , i'll get her out for a proper pic at the start of each week

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edit: couldn't resist getting a non hps shot to :)
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eastcoastmo

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cheers mate, hopefully this will be my best grow yet I feel the cal mag and extra pot size will definitely help with my yield and plant health further down the line. The silicon to.. do yourself a favour and google benefits of silicone in plant growth, actually very surprising but it appears silicon is a pretty vital element that is overlooked in indoor cultivation, its abundant in the earth... but not indoors..

I will certainly sub to your grow mate , see you there :D
Good shit bro, so glad it's going well for you. She's looking massive....and has some lovely frost already :-D
Man, I've been using silica in my grows for the past 3 years, I don't grow without it now. I firmly believe it works as it does help with cell structure!!
 

puffdatchronic

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yeah eastie, actually noticed you listed silica in your diary after I posted that. it's good stuff like :)

ok so today marks week 3 and she was due her first week 3-4 feed. so she got some boost as well. 1ml calmag, 1ml silicon, 4 ml bloom, and 1 ml boost. Plant still 1000000% healthier than I've ever had one before at this stage and I have like 2 yellowing leaves right at the base which is normal I think being so far away from the light.

Had a bit of a nightmare today with her. Woke up to find I had run out of electric, so I brought her out of the closet went and bought electric and then ended up sidetracked for 10 mins. Went back upstairs to realise I had left my closet open so my entire bedroom lit up with hps light. Not good. Hopefully the fact that it was daylight outside and I had my curtains closed was enough to not have anyone notice.

Secondly she is too big and floppy to move around now, she completely folded over on me and I nearly had a heart attack thought I had broke the stem, but she seems fine and I have some makeshift string tying her up now. Might go get some tomato cages or something later.

The most notable thing about this run of c99 is the smell. She is starting to stink which I've never had a c99 do on me before, but the stink is absolutely glorious, pink bubblegum and tropical fruit. You could literally smell this all day and not get sick of it.








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so instead of going out today which I don't want to do I came up with a very ghetto and makeshift tomato cage substitute lol. I made a stake out of a bit of coat hanger, I tied a big loop of wire from an old unused phone charger around the top of the plant and then finally tied a loop of string around the main cola going to the top of my closet to support the weight. Its working so far she isn't all floppy anymore, but looks like the photo shoots are staying in the closetfor the rest of the grow.

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eastcoastmo

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Damn bro, she's so fat for 250w hey! Looking gorgeous and I bet you could nearly eat her, especially with the smells you are describing lol. Top work bro, looking forward to seeing how dense those buds get :-D
 

puffdatchronic

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Half way home, week 4. :)

coming along nicely , losing lower fan leaves now but I am reluctant to switch to a high N feed at this stage, I don't think these leaves are productive anyhow.

rest of the plant looks fine.

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TokingQueen420

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Looks real good I have one in flower around the same age showed sites December 13th, yours smell like pineapple at all? Mine def does it's so nice. I'm enjoying growing this one.
 

puffdatchronic

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Looks real good I have one in flower around the same age showed sites December 13th, yours smell like pineapple at all? Mine def does it's so nice. I'm enjoying growing this one.
There is a few hints of pineapple, and also grapefruit its a very hard smell to pin down, tropical is the only way I can describe it.

day 32 today and the buds are starting to look beautiful. Defo looks like its gonna be well done at 8 weeks IMG_20160122_163956120.jpg IMG_20160122_164015440.jpg IMG_20160122_164026484.jpg IMG_20160122_164049930.jpg
 

TokingQueen420

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There is a few hints of pineapple, and also grapefruit its a very hard smell to pin down, tropical is the only way I can describe it.
I know exactly what u mean, think I smell pineapple, then grapefruit, it's just nice. My girlfriend is loving it. Wish mine were as big and nice as yours. I only vegged about 3 weeks to keep it small.
 
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