Are these indoor plants? I assume they are since the next pics you mention are outside.
The only thing you can give indoor plants to get them to have thick and dense buds is quality light. I mean, nutes are required for the stage of development they’re at, but its the quality and intensity of light that are the reason for a nice thick and dense nug to be produced.
What is the light being provided? Make/model/Kelvin/watts
I agree with @ItsOzzie . They look droopy, like they are over watered, and possibly have a pH issue going on.
These are all under the sun, not indoors.
The quality of light is around 100k - 150k lux. The sun.
The mix of the soil is very diverse, with silver sand, yellow sand, garden soil as the base, bone meal, blood meal, epsom salt, for late release nutes in the bottom of the mix, and some perlite plus wood dust and wood chips, with some rock crushed into tiny pieces for aeration of the substrate to be high.
The garden soil mentioned above has been soaking in Guano for 20+ years, easily.
And as for their nutes they are as following, for seedlings going into vegetation they receive a mix of neem cake at 5-1-1 ratio of NPK, for vegetation they receive a mix of 20-20-20 NPK keeps them balanced, and healthy very efficiently, and for flowering they get a mix of 5-15-45 NPK, and if need be 5:1 of phosphate:nitrogen respectively.
And yes they might seem droopy for now thats because the sun is setting, now as the next day an hour ago from when the sun rises they take shape of ‘praying leaves’ readily. It’s not the water at issue here neither the PH.
And at any rate i have to water them twice or thrice a day, we receive 40°C with little to no humidity. And in areas like ours, these babies must adapt first.
Ah, gotcha. I thought maybe you took pics of indoor plants during lights off so their true color would be visible.
The next set of pics you posted looked much better.
With sun as your light source, nug density is all going to be related to how healthy they remain, and how well you match the development stage with the required nutrients. I usually cut all N at about the start of flower day 14 and increase P and K quite a bit to feed them for flower production.
That bat guano is some great stuff! I use it in all my waterings. What are you using for magnesium and calcium?
Ty for that much appreciated mate, and for Calcium i use Bone Meal, even later on diluted with water, the hype for coffee grounds is not real, its basically a scam for rookies but bone meal is dependable for sturdy and healthy growth, and for Magnesium i use Epsom Salt, which in turn also has sulphur, it helps in keeping the creepy crawlies away too.
And i have live banana peels fed in the soil and decaying in the trench with smaller plants, they would also do wonders for them in such vital time, because it’d be releasing that good stuff all the way through their flowering. And add to the soil for further batches to come too.
Looking pretty good. As mentioned earlier you should keep an eye on the droopy leaves. As far as nutes you seem to be going organic so i cant help much there, I’m using the FF Trio on my run again. Keep us updated and happy growing.
It’s amazing how you learned from the bottom up my friend @HasHtronaut93 !!!
Trial and error is definately the way, you have to go with the materials that you have available
Not everything that is good for one Person is also good for another person, and that’s what you found out.
You found out correctly that you are far away from laboratory conditions and now you‘ve reached a level with your system, your practise, your priorities …
You‘ve reached a point, where you can handle the conditions you have with the plants needs and that is, what all is about.
Maybe just a thought, but what about finding out which strains get along well with the climatic conditions you have there, where you live and try to get some and see the difference
@Softy has posted an interesting link about landraces
Dude thanks for the appreciated acknowledgement, i really would like to thank you guys too, you helped me out in a time when i was a blank slate.
And for that i will remain forever greatful.
The strains i can’t get to figure out because we buy cannabis, and if we get seeds from that bag we would germinate and plant those seeds. We ask our dealers for their strain and race, but they are dealers and not seed banks or certified breeders they don’t know what they have, we took those and made what we have today. Without a choice or any say in that.
But we did what was needed to be done and got here with very hard work, dedication and relentless efforts to perfect our art of breeding and growing the best plants that we can. Given our resources and weather, we have now achieved perfection.
Breeding time, breeding climate, budding climate, budding time, vegetative state and all that follows according to climate, pests, and diseases too. @Rex_Kramer
Here is the latest from yesterday, all of them, pruned and cleaned them all and freshened the place up sprayed the place with insecticide. Had some trouble with the biggest plant in the batch.
I’ll leave that for another time.
Been a while since the last update so here is the due report on it. These were taken on the day before yesterday. All of these are in flowering stage, ranging from week 1 to week 7.
This here is the bigger White widow, entering week 7 of flowering with hints of raw mango, and gas mainly.
This is the other smaller White Widow in week 2 of flowering, it has yet to develop strong odour that can be smelt from far away. But it’s coming on nicely.
And another Sour Diesel, also in week 4 of flowering, but it had been slightly foxtailed, very slightly, but it is all good now, started to group those buds together nicely. This one is a bit more vegetative than the one above.
This is an unknown breed, its a hybrid, but sativa dominant, and this one was foxtailed quite a bit. But now that the season has shifted, and the cooler breeze is setting in, it is also showing signs of recovery. In week 3 or 4 of flowering, not sure exactly.
This is a landrace, sativa dominant hybrid, but with great taste, with long and slim bud structure, not like the ones above at all, because the ones above are fat and bulky, but this is slim and long like a sausage almost. It has hints of guava, and green sour mango. In week 2 of flowering.
And this is the smallest Sour Diesel in the batch, the smallest that i have grown till yet. It may be around 12-15 inches in height. Idk how it switched, i doubt mainly due to the 12-12 shift in daylight triggered it naturally. And in week 2 of flowering for it
And last but not least, this is the smallest of the white widow mentioned above, it’s the smallest one i have grown yet and also the smallest in the batch. Around the same height of 12-15 inches. Week 2 of flowering for it.
@Rex_Kramer@Wargoat@LalaLand
What do you think of them so far? Besides the tiny puny ones of course. They are bonsai looking mfs, so pay no heed to those small lady midgets
Do comment your thoughts and and suggestions that you guys may have.
@Bentgenetics@ELI@SJ1
How are the ladies in your view? I hope to start cultivation from almost end of October carrying over to next year till the end of March, because there are more besides these, in seedling stage, and some which would be germinated in this week. So that the batch would be carried over into the next year. And btw we have been cultivating non stop since December last year till now, it has been very very long and hectic 10 months, till now.
Coming out beautifully like a freshly baked loaf of bread, the aroma, the texture, the visuals all look stunningly better than any of the previous batches.
The development in these ladies was halted because of the last point of summer just before it shifts to winter, with cold breezes replacing the summer air entirely.
But now they all are in good health, and on point with their flowering and its development.
Here they are, do comment your thoughts guys about what you think of them…?
This one is in the last hours of its life.
This White Widow was flipped to 2 days of darkness, and today it will be given the ice shock treatment just before dawn, around 2 hours before sunrise and it’s harvest.
The leaves just propped up idk why, and it exposed its flowers and thc has taken on a very glittering appearance, and its feed and carbs were cut a week ago, water was cut 2 days ago.
The pistils just darkened within 2 days of darkness, all by themselves.
Its life was 4 weeks of seedling, 12 weeks of vegetation, and 12 weeks of flowering respectively.
Tried out a sample it gave me a nice bump.
, and smelling like a strong pungent fuel, it’s Sour Diesel, in flowering week 4.
