Root Development vs Plant Growth

Northern Lights !?!

Let's see, the very last time I had some NL was in 1989/1990. The taste was killer, so was the buzz, but the taste was awesome.

Almost at the 8 week point... I'll take pic's of the plants tomorrow along with pic's of the final background plant which will be harvested tomorrow.

I didn't give a feed at the mid-way point this time, but let them dry right out, waiting till today to feed them, which is 6 full days. Remember these are only 500ml pots. On saturday or sunday next, I shall start the flushing process.

Here's their final nutrient feed:

Sensi Bloom A, 23ml (2.55ml pl)
Sensi Bloom B, 23ml (2.55ml pl)
MET Bloom, 14ml (1.55ml pl)
Fulvic Acid, 14ml (1.55ml pl)
Barricade, 1.25ml (0.13ml pl)
Carboload, 10ml (1.11ml pl)
Cannazym, 22.5ml (2.5ml pl)
Overdrive, 28ml (3.11ml pl)
B52, 15ml (1.66ml pl)

EC: 1.4

You may notice that every nute/additive has dropped in level aside from carboload and cannazym. After the last root pic's it seems that a lot of roots may start dying off towards the end of flower, so I've upped the cannazym to aid in this if it is indeed true.

I've also upped the carboload, more in hope that it will be excessively used as the plants (which are already very resinous) create yet more and more trich's.

Your Grandfather said:

Northern Lights !?!

Let's see, the very last time I had some NL was in 1989/1990. The taste was killer, so was the buzz, but the taste was awesome.

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I got my seeds today... how's that for service? Ordered them yesterday, and here they are.

The second pic' are from their white label; master kush, afghan kush, sensi star, white widow and super skunk.

Still waiting on my light though... but I ordered that late yesterday afternoon, so it should get here by tomorrow.

I just noticed, that the sensi star pack has 11 seeds in it... a freebie.

Mines Mines Mines!

The final background plant taken today at 8 weeks. There was a fair sized cola on this plant so I decided to save it and let it dry naturally. I turned the bottom of the plant into oil. The total wet weight of the plant was 72g. By the time I'd removed the lower buds and trim the cola was down to 49g.

The height of the plant was 31.5"... with the lower buds to tip of cola coming in at 18.5". The main cola itself measuring 11".

I'm expecting to get from 10g to 14g dry weight off the cola that I have drying.

Here are the main 6 plants with 9 days to go... in the first pic, you can just make out the mother plant in the background, she's all bent and leaning this way and that. I didn't bother too much with her because I thought she'd be oil by now.

But she's hanging on. I got enough oil now for the next couple of days. so she might just survive till harvest.

I've lost interest in this grow since picking up my NL seeds, I also got my UV light today. Another 7 days to go and I can germinate the NL seeds... lovely.

wtf do u feed them bitches!

Here's the root pic's...

I'm not sure if you'll be able to see them the same way I do from the pic's... but I see a definite downgrade from week 6. Not so much since week 7.

Weeks 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8... in that order.

That is just fuckin amazing! I would have to say that you have been able to keep your root system so healthy "99% perfection" that the need for further root development is not necessary, bottom line! Nice work Skunk, you have opened my eyes to the underground world of plants. Given the correct nutrients, at the correct levels, the plant DOES NOT need excessive space be healthy.

Question, why did you use Cannazym, rather then Sensizym?

Thanks for the compliment DCG...

I use cannazym because it is made from organic materials, so has a very long shelflife. Sensi zym, is pretty much touch and go in my country. My hydro store did a side by test... and sensi zym didn't actually work at all, whereas cannazym ate away the roots in a couple of days.

Sensi zym used to be, and I imagine still is, a good product. It just has a very short shelf life, so by the time it gets to my country and sits around for a couple of months, the active ingredients go off.

so do you feel it all went as planned?

did we learn anything?

i did.

I'll find out on the final weigh in. With this amount of veg time, per plant i should get 1.5-2.0 oz per plant. I divide by a 5th usually of the wet weight of the plant just after removal of the fan leaves, before the final trim.

On this occasion the plant weighed in at 72g (so I'd call this a half oz plant), but the plant still had 9 days to go, and never received the best of the light. I turned quite a bit of it into oil, and just left the 11" cola to dry.

The colas on the other plants are around 18". I'll do full measurements next week, saturday, and weigh-ins. For these guys I'll take pic's while they are on the scales.

I've learned a lot from this, but I'll save the summing up for after the harvest.

I've given the flush, and they'll sit in that for the next couple of days. Which gives them plenty of time to dry out before harvest. Also to help with the flush i have used Final Phase.

Final Phase, 22.5ml (2.5ml pl)

I read a while back in this thread about you trying this from seed as well....what happened to that? or are all these plants from clones?

I don't need to do the seed version. Wavels has already done it, and I'm confident that the same thing could be achieved, both from seed... and in soil.

can someone sum this thread up into one simple sentence i got tired of reading. =)