Blueberry Headband OJ Cheese Update Dec 29 Day 50 Flower
Have noticed an immediate response from the plants after the leaching and light raising. 24” seems to be the magic number. Work up from 30-40% strength at seedling and gradually move up to 75% at the end of veg. By the third to last week of flowering should be at 100%.
Have fed the Girls nutes Weds. Cheese got no N as it’s supposedly within three weeks of harvest. Next week will leach heavily and feed only water. The rest of the Girls got the full treatment. NPK and CalMag. This is three days after leaching. Tried leaving the exit fan on so the humidity wouldn’t climb too high during the evening. Turned the heater off as well so it wouldn’t be running constantly as the air was being sucked out anyway. The temp reached 59°F. A tad too cold. The next evening, even though the RH was still high, I left the fan off. Thought the heater was re-plugged in but no. Temp only went down as far as 62°F. Still too low but better.
The third night everything was plugged in normally and 65° was the nighttime low. Acceptable. Going to keep the nighttime temp there for the remainder of the grow. Colors should appear.
Blueberry Headband is doing well. #1 is sprouting new calyxes from the ground up and the flowers are turning a dark purple. It seems way ahead of #2 which seems to be behind them all. New calyx growth there as well but the buds are much smaller with virtually no red hairs while #1 looks like it’s almost ready to harvest if you were judging by the hairs. The aroma is intoxicating!
The Orange Juice is leaping ahead! Looks like it’s getting ready to harvest as well but there has been an explosion of new calyxes and swelling hasn’t started on any of the babes yet. The Cheese may be starting.
So, about three weeks for Cheese and 5 weeks for the rest.
By my guesstimation, these should’ve been vegged for another two weeks at least. That would be eight weeks!
Big learning curve this week as I metered my well water which I’ve been relying on more and more as bottled is expensive. Neither I nor my dog drink it. TDS is over 700 PPM. Almost double the safe consumption level of 400 PPM.
Have leached the plants once more extensively using RO water with a final .5Gal of PHed water with SuperThrive.
Blueberry Headband (1) from Humboldt Seeds, Cheese (1) and Orange Juice (1) from Dinafem Seeds.
https://www.dinafem.org/en/orange-juice/
https://www.dinafem.org/en/blueberry-headband/
https://www.dinafem.org/en/cheese/
Lighting
https://www.horticulturelightinggroup.ca/products/260w-qb-v2-led-kit
Soil Amendments
https://www.gaiagreen.com/product-page/all-purpose-4-4-4
https://www.gaiagreen.com/product-page/glacial-rock-dust
https://www.gaiagreen.com/product-page/mineralized-phosphate
http://www.seasoil.com/
Worm castings
Sunshine Mix #4
Epsom Salts
Molasses