I am posting in the newb section because this is my first post and I have a question about airy buds.
I am no rooky gardener and although I don't partake in the benefits of THC, I have grown a few plants in the past, just for something new.
The story on the plant is: I got the plant 4 weeks ago, from a friend that didn't know jack about these plants and allowed the plant to contract mites and allowed it to become very undernurished. Kind of like getting a dog off the streets. The leaves were all yellow, filled with spots and it's in a 1/2 Gal. pot. Also, the plant has been outdoors alsmost it's whole life and I don't know exactly when it started flowering, because it was in that stage when I got it.The plant is appearently an auto plant for it is in full flower and it's July in the North. We have close to 16hrs of daylight. I also have no idea what strain it is either.
I got the nutes to it, it looks ten times better and I have the plant on a 12/12 cycle of the closet and the greenhouse. I don't feel that the plant will benefit from replanting and don't want to add mite medicine due to it being in the flower stage, and once harvested it will go back to it's owner cured and in a jar. I am an organic farmer and appreciate clean goods. I believe the owner wopuld rather burn mites than chems.
Here are the finer points of what I have done to the plant:
Day 1.......Heavy flush with 7.0 well water. started the photo cycle change. The soils start PH was 7.0 also.
Day 2,3....put it in the Greenhouse for 12 hrs and back to the closet for 12. Temps. are 30
degrees F. lower in the closet holds 61 degrees F.
Day 4.......Watered with a bat Gauno tea Ph'd to 6.5 and she perked up big time from then on.
Day 5,6,7.Only watered as needed with 7.0 well water continuing photo cycle.
Week 2.....trimmed out all the dead leaves a few of the lower limbs and lollie popped the plant. I pinched a
few really stretchy tips also.
Added in a mollasses tea folier every other day. and watered with 7.0 well water. also
introduced CO2 to the closet...1 psi for 12hrs. a day for 3 days. yeah a complete
drench....she showed signs of a lot of new growth, but no tightening of the flowers
Week 3.... I gave one folier of mollasses and worm casting tea, but sraight 7.0 well water all week and
still on the 12/12, cut out the nightly CO2. She is still showing very good growth, but no
tightening.
Week 4.....No ferts at all this week so far just well water and 12/12 photo.
From what I have gathered from the owner and the time that I have had the plant, it may be on around week 7 or 8 of flowering.
I am pretty sure that the pot size is the main culprit, but not sure what direction to go now. Possibly need warmer nights, maybe I need to folier spray the Jamacian Bat tea? The mites may be causing more harm than I realize too.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.......
I am no rooky gardener and although I don't partake in the benefits of THC, I have grown a few plants in the past, just for something new.
The story on the plant is: I got the plant 4 weeks ago, from a friend that didn't know jack about these plants and allowed the plant to contract mites and allowed it to become very undernurished. Kind of like getting a dog off the streets. The leaves were all yellow, filled with spots and it's in a 1/2 Gal. pot. Also, the plant has been outdoors alsmost it's whole life and I don't know exactly when it started flowering, because it was in that stage when I got it.The plant is appearently an auto plant for it is in full flower and it's July in the North. We have close to 16hrs of daylight. I also have no idea what strain it is either.
I got the nutes to it, it looks ten times better and I have the plant on a 12/12 cycle of the closet and the greenhouse. I don't feel that the plant will benefit from replanting and don't want to add mite medicine due to it being in the flower stage, and once harvested it will go back to it's owner cured and in a jar. I am an organic farmer and appreciate clean goods. I believe the owner wopuld rather burn mites than chems.
Here are the finer points of what I have done to the plant:
Day 1.......Heavy flush with 7.0 well water. started the photo cycle change. The soils start PH was 7.0 also.
Day 2,3....put it in the Greenhouse for 12 hrs and back to the closet for 12. Temps. are 30
degrees F. lower in the closet holds 61 degrees F.
Day 4.......Watered with a bat Gauno tea Ph'd to 6.5 and she perked up big time from then on.
Day 5,6,7.Only watered as needed with 7.0 well water continuing photo cycle.
Week 2.....trimmed out all the dead leaves a few of the lower limbs and lollie popped the plant. I pinched a
few really stretchy tips also.
Added in a mollasses tea folier every other day. and watered with 7.0 well water. also
introduced CO2 to the closet...1 psi for 12hrs. a day for 3 days. yeah a complete
drench....she showed signs of a lot of new growth, but no tightening of the flowers
Week 3.... I gave one folier of mollasses and worm casting tea, but sraight 7.0 well water all week and
still on the 12/12, cut out the nightly CO2. She is still showing very good growth, but no
tightening.
Week 4.....No ferts at all this week so far just well water and 12/12 photo.
From what I have gathered from the owner and the time that I have had the plant, it may be on around week 7 or 8 of flowering.
I am pretty sure that the pot size is the main culprit, but not sure what direction to go now. Possibly need warmer nights, maybe I need to folier spray the Jamacian Bat tea? The mites may be causing more harm than I realize too.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.......
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