puffdatchronic
Well-Known Member
Well, I wasn't going to do anymore journals, but on hearing that Kite High is gone I have decided to do one in his honor.
Seeing as he mentored me on my first journal of C99, and seeing as he loved the strain it seemed a fitting thing to do to remember the guy who improved my skills by 100%.
Even more fitting as the plant I am growing sprouted it's first leaves on the day that Kite passed (23/9).
I am using a 250 watt hps and some chilli food called chilli focus and I have topped just above the second node for the 4 cola effect.
I'm currently on day 17 of flowering and will add updates every Thursday from here on to mark each week passed.
Here is how it sprouted
Yes, Twins, very rare. I actually seperated them at this point and put them in individual pots. They both continued growing just fine! Unfortunately my other half only lets me do one at a time So I had to kill one.
The remaining one I vegged for 22 days using the Gas Lantern Routine. A daily light cycle of 12 on - 5.5 off - 1 on - 5.5 off. The point of this is to save electric and heat build up. The mechanics of it is the 1 hour "on" of light in the middle of the night destroys the flowering hormone and keeps the plants vegging.
I have found on the 3 occasions I have done it that plants veg just as fast this way as they do on 18/6. It does not cause hermies.
Here she is after 22 days of veg and topped at node 2 , approx 10 inches and very bushy. I did not need to nute this plant at all as my potting soil comes with approx 3 weeks of food in it.
So to trigger flowering , I just remove the 1 hour of light in the middle of the night. So it gets 12/12. Here she is at 2 days of flowering. You can see she reacted very quickly to the change.
She continued to stretch about an inch a day , here she is at 1 week of flowering, she begins to stink now. Seems to be a bit of skunk leaning pheno or something. I say stink, but its not to bad. Tends to stay contained to the room it's in, though sometimes I can smell it downstairs. Hopefully the buds will smell more fruity than this dank aroma. Nice boxer shorts too.
On to 2 weeks flowering then. The smell getting stronger and stronger. Going to have to go and purchase some odor control. These are the last pics for now
She began to show signs of hunger after these pics. Was getting some N def and Mag Def. So I decided to swap from the biobizz grow I was using and gave her a dose of full strength chilli food yesterday. Well, she looked stunning today, she greened up so amazingly. I got a few leaves twisting to the side a bit, so I will ease back on the dose next time. Hopefully she won't burn on me, but she looked very happy today apart from 2 fans twisting a bit.
Next update on thursday for week 3 of flowering.
Seeing as he mentored me on my first journal of C99, and seeing as he loved the strain it seemed a fitting thing to do to remember the guy who improved my skills by 100%.
Even more fitting as the plant I am growing sprouted it's first leaves on the day that Kite passed (23/9).
I am using a 250 watt hps and some chilli food called chilli focus and I have topped just above the second node for the 4 cola effect.
I'm currently on day 17 of flowering and will add updates every Thursday from here on to mark each week passed.
Here is how it sprouted
Yes, Twins, very rare. I actually seperated them at this point and put them in individual pots. They both continued growing just fine! Unfortunately my other half only lets me do one at a time So I had to kill one.
The remaining one I vegged for 22 days using the Gas Lantern Routine. A daily light cycle of 12 on - 5.5 off - 1 on - 5.5 off. The point of this is to save electric and heat build up. The mechanics of it is the 1 hour "on" of light in the middle of the night destroys the flowering hormone and keeps the plants vegging.
I have found on the 3 occasions I have done it that plants veg just as fast this way as they do on 18/6. It does not cause hermies.
Here she is after 22 days of veg and topped at node 2 , approx 10 inches and very bushy. I did not need to nute this plant at all as my potting soil comes with approx 3 weeks of food in it.
So to trigger flowering , I just remove the 1 hour of light in the middle of the night. So it gets 12/12. Here she is at 2 days of flowering. You can see she reacted very quickly to the change.
She continued to stretch about an inch a day , here she is at 1 week of flowering, she begins to stink now. Seems to be a bit of skunk leaning pheno or something. I say stink, but its not to bad. Tends to stay contained to the room it's in, though sometimes I can smell it downstairs. Hopefully the buds will smell more fruity than this dank aroma. Nice boxer shorts too.
On to 2 weeks flowering then. The smell getting stronger and stronger. Going to have to go and purchase some odor control. These are the last pics for now
She began to show signs of hunger after these pics. Was getting some N def and Mag Def. So I decided to swap from the biobizz grow I was using and gave her a dose of full strength chilli food yesterday. Well, she looked stunning today, she greened up so amazingly. I got a few leaves twisting to the side a bit, so I will ease back on the dose next time. Hopefully she won't burn on me, but she looked very happy today apart from 2 fans twisting a bit.
Next update on thursday for week 3 of flowering.