Alright guys and girls, I took more pictures last night before bed, so we'll get to those in a moment. I checked out the trichs yesterday on tall girl and wide girl (but not shorty...she was all the way in the back and I didn't feel like moving the others at the time...I was lazy), and was moderately surprised to find mostly cloudy trichs on wide girl, with fewer on tall girl. Both still had some clear-headed trichs, so I figured they could handle one more solid feeding before they get their 2 week water only flush. So I used molasses, tiger bloom, big bloom, cha ching and superthrive. Watering with the sand has really become an art--I have to dig a small ditch around the stem to channel all the water down the center of the pot (and not let it run off the top to the edges where it just goes right out the bottom). I pH'ed my nutrient solution to 6.9 going in, but my runoff measured 7.5 across the board. Not sure why it is so high, I've been carefully monitoring the pH ever time I give it anything, but whatever. I purchased one of those little soil pH tester kits but have yet to use it...maybe with some free time later I'll give it a whirl.
So from here on in the plants will receive only water and molasses (unless you all think I should use water only). This is a hard decision to make not knowing the expected flowering time of my bagseed strains, as I don't really know how long it takes the trichs to turn amber. And I don't want to begin flushing for two weeks when they are 50% amber...two weeks from today would put it at 69 days flowering...
Otherwise, things are going well. I took lots of pics yesterday, so we'll see how many I can get up...
We begin with Tall girl...kinda dark pic, sorry
You can almost see how she is beginning to push out some new bud growth similar to wide girl...
Close up of the top--sorry about the cat hair, it just gets in everything I own.
Couple middle buds...
Lower branches, still filling out nicely.
Next, Wide girl. I need to illuminate the plants better for these full plant shots...
Here's a top down shot of her top. The leaves look so shitty but that bud sure looks nice.
I like it.
Close up, another angle.
And another...
This is a bottom-up shot trying to show the buds along the stem...didn't work too well though. The buds along the stem are also starting to shoot off new projections of wonderfulness.
Shorty, always bringing up the rear.
Those lower buds really extend the entire way to the main stem. You can't see from the pics, but once they are harvested and trimmed those lower branches are going to be a nice size. And some good pot!
Here is the next generation of wonderful plants, ready to roll. I'm going to leave these 5 girls un-topped, as they have pretty descent node spacing and already are developing buds.
Here's the first one I topped, looking nice! Those are going to be 4 main colas for sure! It will be interesting to see how these turn out, because she is still in 12/12 lighting and has been since before I topped her. Had I already known the sex, I could have topped and let those cola's veg for a few weeks before going 12/12 (which I will do with at least one of the blue cheeses), but this will give me a nice baseline for comparison.
That little girl in the back there is the top from the above plant. Her first few days of life were dicey--she got really limp, to the point I thought it was done for--but now she is standing strong and has undoubtedly grown some roots. I probably should have taken off that bottom set of fan leaves, but whatever it worked! So one more female for me to play with...I wonder what happens if I topped her above the second node...would I get 4 colas? I assume topping a clone works just like topping anything else...
Here are the other 3 girls I topped (and disposed of their tops...I've got no room to take on any more plants!). I selected these because they had gotten the most stretched and appeared to be developing a little more slowly because of that. None of these will have the growth rate of the first one I topped, at least not initially, because the growth that becomes the 4 new cola's has barely started to poke out from the node (the one in the back is clearly the worst off--I may have actually topped above the first node on that one because the distance to the second node was so great (stretched).
Here's my solution to the damn a/c shutting off--a hose and a bucket! Now this thing could probably run 3 days straight before the bucket would fill up, and even then I don't think it would shut off...just flood my bathroom and keep on trucking...
So that was quite an update. Hope you enjoyed it. I'm going to get high.
