Second Grow In Soil - Gdps - Bay 11 Candyland, Boms - Atomic Bomb, Dnag - La Chocolat, Posi - Critical 47, Barn - Red Cherry Berry

One of a trio of flowering nutes you give to your plants in addition to or instead of, normal flowering nutes.
 
You give Open Sesame to get the plant to flower quickly, then there is Beastie Bloomz which increase the size of your buds (went from 56 grams to 80 with same light, same strain), then you finish in the later weeks with Cha Ching, which increases resin production.

 

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Flowering tent.​

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Candyland at 17 days.​

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Red Cherry Berry at 22 days​

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La Chocolat and Bay 11 clones. La Chocolat is taking longer to recover, but should make it. I have another clone of each that are 9 days old and will be potted tonight.​

 

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Flowering tent overview​

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LA Chocolat at 20 days​

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Red Cherry Berry at 28 days​

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Bay 11 at 20 days​

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Veg tent overview.​

 

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Looks like the second Candyland is female. Will be cloning it and the Red Cherry Berry clone that is in the tent.​

 

I topped/cloned the Red Cherry Berry clone that is in the veg tent. I will give it a week or so, then I'll transfer it to the flowering tent.
 
I'm doing something new starting with this clone.
 
Instead of cutting it, root gel (going to switch to honey once that's gone) and planting in a rapid rooter, I am planting it into a cottage cheese container instead of waiting for it to show roots first. I use a small plastic bag over the cup to provide the humidity the clone needs. It also allows me to remove the humidity dome from the tent, freeing up space.
 
I'll be topping/cloning the Candyland today.
 
Will be taking more pictures of the flowering tent plants soon. They are beginning to take off in bud production. Bay 11 being a 100% Sativa, is particularly interesting since I've only grown Indicas and Hybrids.
 
The plants in the flowering tent are loving the 260's even though they're very close to the tops of the colas, in fact one of the LA Chocolat's colas is just about touching the light. I'll be moving them up a few clicks today since they seem to be finished with their stretching.

 

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The RCB has already recovered from topping and will be transferred to the flower tent tomorrow at lights on. After that, Candyland gets topped/cloned and, after a few days, moved into the flowering tent.​

 

Moved one of the two Bay 11 clones into the Flowering tent next to it's already stretched and flowering sister. I didn't top it, since I want to see how it grows in comparison to its sister. I also already have another clone that I cut from the older sister right before putting it into the flowering tent because I was concerned that the first two clones (Bay11 and LA Chocolat) might not survive.
 
I also moved the topped Red Cherry Berry clone to the flowering tent next to its sister.
 
I will be topping the Candyland in the veg tent tonight if at all possible. I have one spare space in my flowering tent, and that is going to be for Candyland one she recovers from the topping.
 
More pictures in the next day or so. The next two weeks I should really see the flowering plants putting on weight. As it stands now, it looks like a September harvest.

 

It's going to be interesting to see how much more I get this time around. Last time it wasn't topped, nor did it get anything special other than a week or so worth of Cha Ching. It was also under a CFL for most of Veg. Still, I was very impressed with it and tried my best to ration the 30 grams or so that I got from it. Even though I like Indicas, I must admit I'm gravitating towards Hybrids, especially for non-nighttime use. This motivated my interest in Candyland, since there's a decent about of Indica in there.

 

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Red Cherry Berry at 34 days​

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LA Chocolat at 26 days​

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Bay 11 at 26 days​

 

 

To me using LED + HID defeats the purpose of switching to LED in the first place. I was using an 85w 3000K CFL (mogul base) in my flower tent to supplement the LED before I got the second light, but only was able to use it a few weeks, as the CFL generated much more heat than the LED.
 
I've been looking at getting a few from GHS, Chemdog being one of them. So many strains, so little space.

 

I topped the Candyland just now, with the rapid rooter cube being placed inside a soil filled cottage cheese container and covered with a plastic bag to act as a humidity dome.
 
A good misting to all the plants in veg. They look so nice right after I do so.
 

Yeah, they're legends. I'm going to get good at the strains I've got going, then scale down to one of each, so I can add three more strains to my flowering tent. Having a choice of six types would be wonderful!

 

 
I really liked my Red Cherry Berry and regretted not cloning it in my last grow, as it is a keeper for sure. In order of what I've grown, it breaks down like this.
 
1.Critical 47
2.Red Cherry Berry
3.THC Bomb
 
Mind you, THC Bomb is nice, but in retrospect, it has too much Indica for me, and I get sleepier than I would like to.
 
To grow for myself has changed my life in terms of health. Not having to deal with people who don't know their strains, unknown growing methods, etc, in addition to the savings and control over what and how much I have, is something everyone who smokes should look into.