Just got back from 4 days on the lake, boatin, floatin, tokin. Everything looks pretty sweet… The little girl (Bhumi) is funny… bc she’s in such a small pot (~.2-.25 gal) and bc of the cold temps early in her life, she’s like 10-11 inches tall, and basically just one solid cola with no branches lol. The other auto, Sahasrara, is about 1.5ft, bc she also had cold temps, but she has a bigger pot (~.6-.7 gal). She doesn’t have any branches either, but she’s tall enough that she’s tall enough that she isn’t just one solid cola, there’s a bit more node spacing. And true to her genetics (Critical Purple), she’s turning slightly purple at the edges of some sugar leaves. The photo period plant (Fawzia) looks great… much bigger and branchier than the others even though she started weeks later. I’m sure it’s a mix of warmer temps, a bigger pot (~1.5 gal, I think), and being a photo (she didn’t launch into flower like the autos). I topped each of her 2 main tops shortly after this pic. That should be all the training we’ll do, other than removing some of the lower popcorn branches. Nutes-wise, the photo in veg is getting Dr Earth tomato ferts once a week, and the flowering autos are getting Buddha Bloom. They all get silica every other watering.
It’s way too freakin hot… temps in the high 90s with temps in the low 100s coming up. So I’m getting a kelp tea going with a bubbler to speed it up. Then I’m going to add some aloe to it and spray it as a foliar. Hopefully that should be a good preventative measure to ward off heat stress
Absolutely, but I water with that 2x per week… I was thinking, for the autos that are already mid-flower, that a foliar with silica might affect the smoke…. Gotta admit I can’t remember the recommendations about mid-flower silica foliar lol. I googled it, but the results were mixed.
I know some folks use it up to two weeks from finish with no noticeable taste or smell in their bud. I think Jerry used to run it that way. But, I believe he cut back his neem oil to 1 or 1/2 tsp. in late flower.
Just some note-taking so I can look back on it later… I put 1/4 cup of kelp meal in a bucket with ~ 1 gal of water and put my air pump hose in there to bounce it all around. Tomorrow I’ll add about 3/4-1 tsp of the aloe extract then spray like crazy. I’ll spray my moms curry leaf tree too, cause it’s living out in the heat.
Well… it unexpectedly rained today which cooled it from 100F to 90F… and this weekend is kinda cool, so I’ll save the kelp tea until Mon or Tues… but here’s some cacti porn lol… cacti blooms for some reason (rarity?) seem the coolest
Happy Fathers Day to all!! Making deer chili and a salad from home-grown sorrel, basil, and cucumbers, for my pops. Think I’ll add feta and sliced cherry tomatoes and make it kind of a Greek salad.
Okkkkkk, so some lessons learned lol. My mom has been in NYC for 2 weeks, and I’ve been house/plant sitting for her. The heatwave came and it was like 6 straight days of 100F temps. I did the kelp/aloe foliar, things were great. Then I spent 1 day at my gfs place without checking on the plants…. When I got back, they looked HORRIBLE! From just one day if not getting watered… I guess when your clay pot is only .3 gal, the soil will dry out damn fast in 104F heat and direct Sun. In retrospect, I should’ve put them in the shade, or watered every day… sad stuff lol. So, the one in the smallest pot looks the worst… potentially dead, I dunno. I checked the crystals, and they’re kinda cloudy, but no amber. I think she gets a couple more days to do whatever she can, then a chop. She’s super crystally, just premature. The second auto, in the larger pot (~.6 gal), suffered, but clearly lived. All the fan leaves died or the edges burned, but the rest of the plant looks quite good. She’ll go to completion, even if she’s limping slightly on the way there. The photo in the biggest pot looks great. She didn’t burn at all… she wilted up, but bounced back after a good watering. I removed her lower branches, and she’s responded well to the second round of topping, resulting in multiple good looking bud sites. Lesson: when growing in tiny, tiny pots, in extreme heat… they can’t even go a single day without being cared for. Sigh. Lol