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Re: Cookies, Limes and Blackberries - TT's tasty DP treats

PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2016 6:12 am
by teetee
Day 58

OK, I hold my hands up..... I've been a bit busy with work and family so haven't been able to give my Dames my full undivided attention. So no leaf trimming/lollypopping.... just 5 or so litres of feed daily and a quick peek inside to make sure they're still alive.

They are all well into flower, and were on PK 13/14 last week at EC 1.0, and now they're on nutes, Roots Excel, Microzyme and Top Shooter at EC0.9.... I'm gonna start adding molasses if I can be bothered to make some up.

Here they are, Cookie front left, Blueberry front right, and the enormous Lime at the back....
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The Blueberry is tall, with some massive fan leaves....
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Her flowers are nice and sparkly and there's a definite blueish colour....
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The Cookie is most developed in terms of flowering, smelling lovely and lots of frost but I think she's been overcooked a little, as some of her bigger leaves are turning rusty.... any suggestions? I've raised her light and might drop her feed to 0.8.

Here she is.....
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Last but not least, the Lime, still not enough light, but she's going for it, her buds are filling out nicely, she is going to be a monster!
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Her main cola is a mass of bud....
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I think the lighting issues are part of my lack of enthusiasm, the spares still haven't arrived (things take ages to get here), so I've ordered some more LED's, 2x Skyline 400W panels..... I can't wait, and hope they come soon to give a boost to the last part of the grow. I can get used to them and be ready for the next grow.

After chatting with Autoberry, I decided to take some action with the Cookie yesterday (day 60). Those rusty leaves pointed to two things:
1. EC too high - Top Shooter is strong stuff
2. Cal Mag deficiency - as the lights are on 24/0, the plant is chowing down the Mag

Top Shooter is a flowering stimulator (NPK 0-20-9) that needs to be given in the weeks after doing PK 13-14, at much lower EC..... every grow I've done (except the last one) has had one plant where I've overdone the Top Shooter. :roll:

When I checked the Top Shooter blurb, it does say it is a very strong agent that requires a lot from your plant. It can cause burn, and they recommend a flush before using it, plus a flush each week while on it. Something I've never done, I must admit. :roll: :roll:

I flushed the Cookie or 24 hours, initial run of EC was 2.1, but dropped to 0.6 after 20L of EC 0 rainwater.

This morning I mixed up a proper nute mix for Cookie, (not a watered down version of the feed given to the others)......

EC 0 rainwater with increased Cal Mag, brought upto EC 0.4 with base nutes then the usual additives (Roots Excellurator, Bud XL, Multizyme, Kelp) and a touch of Top Shooter to make EC 0.8.

10L of that was fed to the Cookie and the run off was a consistent EC 0.3, so she's definitely taking up what she needs after a 24 hour flush, and should carry on just nicely!

Anyway, thanks for taking a look, more soon!
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Re: Cookies, Limes and Blackberries - TT's tasty DP treats

PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2016 1:53 pm
by ledbud
i think it might be cal/mag deficiency bro. when plants are big as yours they can take some EC abuse.
you got it sorted now, they will be ok.
many times i have neglected my grows but still get good harvest and nice buds.
happy growing karma bro.
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Re: Cookies, Limes and Blackberries - TT's tasty DP treats

PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2016 11:39 am
by teetee
Cheers ledbud, I've upped the CalMag from the usual 0.2mL/L to 0.4mL/L, and they are very happy on that.

Here's the latest on day 67

The girls are progressing well in the mid stages of bloom. Here they are with the Cookie front left, Blueberry front right, and the Lime at the back....
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The Cookie is the smallest but most advanced in terms of flowering. She's on an EC 0.9 feed, standing at 80cm high and is 60cm on her sides.....
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Her buds are thick with trichomes.....
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The Blueberry is least advanced in terms of bud size, but she's a big girl, over a metre high and around 55cm on her sides so I'm expecting more from her these next few weeks....
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She is on an EC 1.0 feed, and is under the Helios 6. Her flowers have some lovely coloration.....
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The Lime is also doing well, she has been under only one Photon 126 panel, same as the Cookie.....a week or two ago, I had lazily moved the Photon back to stop the cola tip getting burned, so the plant was tending to lean forwards to get the light from the other plant's lights.

I finally received some spares for my Helios 2's yesterday (cheers 'M'), 2 LED chips, enough to get one of the units going, so that's now on the left side while I raised the Photon to the max, and moved it over the main cola again. A few well placed yo-yo's and were back on again! The delivery took a fair while to cross the planet, but they got here in the end!
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Her main cola is 130cm high....
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....while the rest of her stands at 110cm and she's 120cm wide, and 85cm deep, choc full of nice chunky bud sites....
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They don't have long, maybe 2-3 weeks for the Cookie, and the others 4 or so.
That's it for this week, thanks for taking a nose around!
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Re: Cookies, Limes and Blackberries - TT's tasty DP treats

PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 9:56 pm
by ledbud
looking sticky icky bro, your Blueberry is big so she will take longer.
you have some skyline so its going be bling bling.
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Re: Cookies, Limes and Blackberries - TT's tasty DP treats

PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:04 pm
by teetee
cheers Bro, got 2 chips from M over the weekend, so one Helios 2 back in action, two more chips are on the way for the other one.

The Skylines are in transit, should be a week or so away!

I'm really looking forward to smoking the Blueberry, so I hope she gets bigger.... a longer finish would be good.

I'm hearing good things about Auto Night Queen.... so that's next on the list.

Re: Cookies, Limes and Blackberries - TT's tasty DP treats

PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:37 pm
by ledbud
i also love Blueberry, got some from last year in small jar.
only smoke 1 or 2 a week, got about 10g left, will have grow some autos soon.
never done Auto Night Queen, will want see what she like.
my mate dont like autos so its photo plants for now.
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Re: Cookies, Limes and Blackberries - TT's tasty DP treats

PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:31 am
by teetee
It's been so long since I smoked photo weed.... how does the Auto stone compare? In the old days of Autos, everyone was saying how low in potency they were, but now these DP Autos are getting so good, whats your direct comparison Bro?

Re: Cookies, Limes and Blackberries - TT's tasty DP treats

PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 1:25 pm
by ledbud
i think autos same as photo smoke this days bro.
i had AutoUltimate and Ultimate they just the same smoke.
i like autos because you can have few types plants but photos we take cutting and only 1 or 2 type plants at a time.
i can see the point growing photos from seed, i get better results with cuttings.
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Re: Cookies, Limes and Blackberries - TT's tasty DP treats

PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 7:25 am
by teetee
You should get Des Frans mate, that would be one productive mother.....

AB highly rates the smoke, the strongest he's ever had!

Re: Cookies, Limes and Blackberries - TT's tasty DP treats

PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:27 pm
by ledbud
Des Frans nice but she get to tall, got some barney's liberty haze cuttings.
will be ready for next grow.
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