Day 106
Day 35 Flowering
Hi everyone,
So, yesterday it was 3 days since the last res change... 4 days till the next. As (the H&G product) Top Booster needs 4 days to have the deisred effect, and about 15L water has been used, it's time for a top up and add the Top Booster. EC had dropped from 1.3 on day 103 to 1.1, so they're feeding, and could possibly take an increase in EC.
Top Booster is essentially PK 13-14 with added Iron (Eddha Fe) to aid absorption and help the leaves stay green.
It stimulates rapid fruit and flower formation by providing the plants with a large amount of phosphorus and potassium over a period of 3 to 4 days.
Phosphorous and Potassium are important building blocks for the plant.
Phosphorous is needed for the root formation and influences the respiration and photosynthesis within the plant. It also plays a massive part in the flowering and ripening process.
Potassium is needed for the absorption and transport of nutrients in the plant. It also has a beneficial effect on the ripening process.
After adding 1/3ml/L Cal Mag to buffer 15L RO water, I added 22.5ml A&B to make an EC of 1.2 then 55ml Top Booster (recommended dose was 1ml/L - so I added slightly less). In it all went, and the reservoir EC went to 1.4 (an 0.1 rise from the last res change).
That was yesterday, this afternoon, at lights on, I immediately checked them out, and all seemed well.
At the next res change, I will reduce the Base nutrients to EC1.1 and add the final H&G product, Top Shooter.
Top Shooter is the liquid version of Shooting Powder (PK 20-9), it forces a new stage of growth when the girls are almost ready to be cropped. Some other flowering stimulators will add density to buds but taste and aroma will be compromised. By adding a new layer of growth to each flower, House & Garden Top Shooter ensures a better end result without compromising the quality of buds. If the plants have all the optimum conditions of heat, light and CO2, this product will form another set of flowers over the existing flowers, forming nice fat, dense buds!
I will use this for the last 3 weeks, with a 24 hour flush between each weekly reservoir change, followed by standard pre=harvest flushing before the chop.
I'm thinking of using pineapple juice for pH down in my final flush.... I had some really zingy Lemon Haze recently which I know from reading AB's threads can be flushed with Lemon juice. Although Pineapple doesn't have as low a pH (pH 3.2-3.6) as lemon juice (pH 2.0-2.6), it should have some sort of positive taste effect on the final product?
Here's some photos...
- general view - notice the 2 new 3" clip fans on the right to aid air circulation under the canopy
- closer at scrog level
- plenty of bud growth in the canopy
- developing cola tip
andd for those of you who like bud porn, here's some little nips... the weed equivalent of Patsy Kensit in Lethal Weapon 2...
With any luck, the Top Booster will be the cannabis equivalent of a top Hollywood Cosmetic Surgeon, and together with the Top Shooter should swell those babies up big time!
More soon, thanks for following my grow!