Day 71 update
I found another 2 shed snakeskins, one on the roof, above my grow.... going down onto the same drainpipe as the last one.... but this was well over 1.5metres long, and quite fat as well...... plus I found another skin on the deck a metre from the door...... I have a shit load of snakes, all wanting to keep warm in the glow of my room..... SHIT !!!
Anyway........
All is well here, the girls are all well into flower, but have different finishing times due to the training early on in veg adding a couple of weeks to BAM2 and TD.
TD is advertised as a 70 day finish, and BAM is 75 days. BUT as you might remember, I got mixed up naming the plants when I sowed the seeds
, and I reckon BAM1 is actually the TD, which would explain why she is much more advanced than the BAMs. They are still on a base nutrient mix of House and Garden Coco nutes, with Roots Excellurator, Multizyme and Bud XL, all delivered by the Blumats, and I also handwater with the nutrient soup plus molasses and either PK 13/14 (Top Booster) or Top Shooter, depending where they are at the moment.
Here is BAM1 (even though I think she is TD, I'm gonna stick with the original name till harvest).... she's a big girl, just over a metre tall and wide, with loads of big fat colas. Mid way through the grow, I snapped the main cola almost completely off, but managed to splint her in place, the main cola kept growing but the side branches must have thought I'd topped her and so pushed out bigger lateral colas?
She's been taking Top Shooter at 1ml/L but I neglected to bring the EC back down to 1.6.... instead hitting 1.8 for a week, so the leaves got a bit cooked, and the trichome production was delayed, but I fixed that and all is well again. Her buds are getting quite heavy, I have 8 on yoyos to stop them falling over lol
BAM1 front view
bud tip
On day 73, I got fed up with the brown leaves and all the fan leaves getting in the way, so I went on a trimming spree...
and she now looks a lot better, with more airflow for the buds in the last couple of weeks.
BAM2 was kind of mainlined in a succesful attempt to control some sort of bug that was eating the leaves, I was pretty agressive with the trimming and topping, putting her back at least 2 weeks, but she's looking great now... plenty of 'main stems' all stretched nicely, ready to bulk out. She's on PK13/14 and molasses for a week, and will have the tent all to herself for at least 2 weeks to finish off.
BAM2 from the front
BAM2 a bit closer.
TD (or is she BAM1?) is in 2nd place in terms of finishing, still a few weeks to go, but her buds are developing well. She's just under 70cm tall and is on Top Shooter at 0.5ml/L, and I am making sure to reduce the EC back down to 1.6 to avoid burning her up.
TD day 71
But the buds on TD are nice and frosty, so I think that's why BAM1 was late in frosting, because I had the EC too high with my hand feeds.
TD bud
I also gave her a bit of trimming as her fan leaves have always been a problem, combined with lack of stretch, meant the buds were finding it hard to poke through....
TD day 73
I'm gonna run BAM1 for another week before considering a 7 day flush, which will make her 86 days.... we shall see, she looks like she has more to come, 95% of her pistils are white and new bud growth is visible on a daily basis.
Finally, with you lot off to the Dam recently making me jealous.... this is what we have lined up for later in the year.... I went in '92 and it was mental, with joint rolling competitions, tasting sessions, street parade with a 50ft long lit joint while people were throwing joints into the crowd!
Thanks for checking in, more soon.