| Beginner grower, so a number of things went wrong, including all but one of the C. Indica (Cindi) seeds dying. However, the one was a female, which sprouted and still thrives under 200w of flourescent light. She is prolific, and as a small gardener, I find I am pruning and discarding a lot to keep her manageable.
Six cuttings rooted easily with cloning liquid, in an Aeroponic system under the same flourescents as Mother. I used Formulex at about 1-1.2ms, ph 5.5-6.2 for both Mother and Clones.
I transferred them to a 40litre NFT system under a 400w and 600w light side by side. I used Ionic Grow at about 2.0ms, with some Rhizotonic, and a few drops of Superthrive for 3 weeks of 18/6 lighting. I used a shower extraction fan and clip on fans in the room to keep the garden ventilated.
After 21 days all plants were the same height, about 50 cm. I switched to Ionic Bloom & Boost, and switched to 12/12.
After 1 week pistils were visible on all plants. After 2 weeks buds and pistils were forming. On advice, I added advanced nutrients Big Bud according to their website calculator. Lots of sticky resin was forming after a week of this. After 3 weeks of Big Bud, I switched to their Overdrive. Both are flowering boost additives to the normal Bloom solution. 3 days before harvest I used a flushing solution. At harvest they were about 80cm to the top of the biggest cola.
I think towards the end the roots were so dense they impeded flow, so I increased the steepness of the flow and added a bigger pump and spreader bar from the aeroponics tub I have.
6 plants yielded 2400g of trimmed colas, about 400g small buds, and about 1000g of trimmed off sticky leaves. Which ended up as 800g trimmed dry bud plus 400g dried skuff. Even the skuff is quite a potent smoke.
Garden Information for this report Outbuilding with about 10ft x 10ft total space. 2 mylar lined sections with HPS lights in one for veg & flower, and a smaller one with flourescents for Mother and clones. Extraction direct out of the bigger room. Ozone generator on timer when it got smelly. Ionics nutrients, superthrive, and Advanced nutrients Big Bud and Overdrive resulted in about 4-5oz per plant. |
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Report added by: BudAbbott
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