Hello fellow horticulturalists. Good to be on this forum, learned a lot and read a lot . I am a hobbiest of gardening and have some experience on how to take care of a plants full life cycle. Cannabis has been so far the most exciting and challenging part of my experience, while learning and applying theories on photosynthetic response of cannabis I found myself to be very passionate on this subject and decided to make a grow journal. Cannabis strain undergoing experiment: "Bakerstreet" (Hindu Kush) Indica FLOWERING TIME OUTDOORS: Early to mid-October Here is some technical data for us the geeks. Lighting Hardware used in seedling stage: - Commercial Hydroponic LED - Full Spectrum 450-600nm. Ppdf is 1900 Micromoles (µmol) 1900 Micromoles is 0.0019 mol per second. Full Sunlight at midday is about 0.0025 mol or 2,500 micromol (µmol). Light period 18 hours in a 24 hour cycle. Slowly reducing light cycle by 1 hour to adjust to outdoor light conditions 15h. DLI (photosynthetically active photons) 1900 (µmol) x 18 (hours) x 3600 (seconds per hour) = 123120000 µmol , or 123 mol / 24 hour period. 64800 seconds = 24 hours x 0.0019 µmol = 123.12 mol. Lightning used during vegetative Growth: 1 Led Cob light, true wattage draw 50w. Par Value = distance from bulb = 6" (umol 2200) to 30" (umol 210). Plants vegging around 500. - MEDIUM - Soilless mix out of love - NPK 0.2 - 0.3 - 0.2 60% Promix HP 40% mix - Sphagnum peat moss, coco coir, aged softwood bark, perlite, worm castings, bat guano, feather meal, bone meal, blood meal, sulfate of potash, kelp meal, and volcanic ash. VEG NUTRIENTS; Base veg (part 1) NPK= 4-0-1 All Purpose veg (part 2) = 2-3-7 Bloom flower (part 2) = 1-4-7
15-9 or 16-8 is the best for close time matching to what outside should be come late May. Higher then that and you risk flowering at setout. BNW
3rd day from starting post. Recovering from over watering. Feminised Bakerstreet strain. Sent from my SM-G965W using Grasscity Forum mobile app
What size of pots are you using? Do you plan on transplanting into another pot or are you planning on putting them into the ground? Looking good right now. How old are they?
IMO: Time to potup up will relieve the nute burn issues add 25% perlite will add much needed air, avoid root compaction time to consider hormones and the effect light has on them nice and good luck
They are 2.4L pots. 0.7 gallon. They will be going outside mid May. Iam planning in transplanting 2 of them them into 15L pots and the other 2 into raised garden bed. Hopefully the 2.4l pots will be enough untill mid may transplant. These plants except the tiny one are about 3 weeks old. Sent from my SM-G965W using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Thank you for your feedback. The soil was bit compact, that's because when I topped up the soil I compacted it and I guess they struggled at the time.. Will definitely add more perlite. Thanks. Today they look much better and alive Sent from my SM-G965W using Grasscity Forum mobile app
This is how they look today, they seem to be praying to the light Gods. Sent from my SM-G965W using Grasscity Forum mobile app
You’re good to top now or Fim depending how many tops you want. I fimmed last grow and topped this grow. Just personal preference. But she’s big enough to do so. I’ve done mine smaller than that. Sent from my iPhone using my fingers.
Good looking plants too btw. Keep it up. The grows only get easier as time goes on and the more you learn. I’ve learnt a lot from these guys and girls here on GC. Sent from my iPhone using my fingers.
Pinched her above 4th node. Wanted to do it above the 5th node but I fat fingered the leafs on the side and snapped them . Hope she will recover well. Guess I topped and not fim . I'll fim the other one later see the differences in future. Sent from my SM-G965W using Grasscity Forum mobile app
She’ll be fine. Just keep giving her some love. But not too much lol. When I started my first grow I swear I looked at them every half hour and worried about every little thing. I still look at them often because... well.. who doesn’t lol but I try not to overthink and get excited over anything. Most of the time if something does go wrong you can fix it in time and she’ll recover. Yeah go ahead and fim the next one if you want. It’s all about experimenting and what works for you. Keep me posted. I haven’t done a side by side top vs fim in the same grow. I’m curious on how much more or less you’ll get from either one or if they’ll both be close to the same. Sent from my iPhone using my fingers.
I topped my bakerstreet at 3rd. I wouldnt put outside before the 24th. Looking great. Does yours also grow 3 shoots per node? I just noticed mine was doing that when I cut the last batch of clones from her. Sent from my SM-A530W using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Ya 3 .. Ya they gonna go out on may 24. Can't wait Hehe. Sent from my SM-G965W using Grasscity Forum mobile app
I’m in Northern Ontario and I don’t think mine would be able to go outside at all in May lol. I think we’ll have snow on the ground till June the way it snows this winter. 12ft this year. Just shy of a record. Sent from my iPhone using my fingers.
I might however keep em in pots and move them inside at night when it gets colder. Sent from my iPhone using my fingers.
Before may 24, an average, it looks like the night lows are between 8 and 10 celcius. But may 20th and beyond the lows start from 12c, 14c average here in TO. And 15h of sunlight. Mid Aug / Sept should start to flower from what i found out using solstice calculator. Should be good!. My friends indicas survived and fully flowered when the lows were around 10c. Sunrise and sunset times in Southwestern Ontario, May 2019 Yeah if put out in early may they could start to flower as the light cycle is 12/12.. Sent from my SM-G965W using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Yeah you guys down south didn’t get the winter we got lol. Here’s a picture of my back yard. And yes that’s where my lawn is supposed to be lol. Mind you that pic was taken in the middle of winter and the banks have went down a lot since but just to give you an idea. Pretty sure I won’t be doing anything outdoors till end of May or early June. Sent from my iPhone using my fingers.
Damn. Maybe all that snow will super feralize the ground. Sent from my SM-G965W using Grasscity Forum mobile app