Baker's Best: take 3

Hook Daddy said:

I don’t think you can jump to the conclusion that all plants with thinner leaves are sativa or all of them are more of a cerebral high, but you can imo say that it is a strong indicator. For instance, I have never seen a pure indica, or anything even claimed to be pure, that doesn’t have wide leaves. It gets confused the more the hybrids are around muddying the gene pool. Don’t get me wrong, some hybrids are among the best strains, it just gets harder to depend on leaf width to judge for certain, but as a general rule thinner leaves are sativa leaning, and extremely thin leaves are heavy on the sativa side, and will produce a more cerebral effect. You’ll find yourself turning up the music and get something done rather than watching a movie or sitting on the couch.

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Totally agree. I'd also throw flowering time into the equation. Typically a variety claiming to be nearly pure sativa that flowers in 10 weeks or less is going to be a different beast than a 14-20 week sativa.

Effect is also a bit confusing. Generally I like stuff that doesn't leave me feeling tired, and has more of an energetic kick. Tons of hybrids out there fit the bill, while at the same time there's plenty of more true-blooded sativas that'll leave you tired by the end.

In other words, it's easy to talk in generalities, but there's always outliers.

MtRainDog said:

Totally agree. I'd also throw flowering time into the equation. Typically a variety claiming to be nearly pure sativa that flowers in 10 weeks or less is going to be a different beast than a 14-20 week sativa.

Effect is also a bit confusing. Generally I like stuff that doesn't leave me feeling tired, and has more of an energetic kick. Tons of hybrids out there fit the bill, while at the same time there's plenty of more true-blooded sativas that'll leave you tired by the end.

In other words, it's easy to talk in generalities, but there's always outliers.

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I'm with you on the little energy tick instead of feeling zonked/zombie glued to the couch. I'd love to get a land race sativa that takes 4-5months to flower, though I dont think I have the experience to not ruin it, I dont even measure pH bc all the cheap methods are incredibly unreliable and I ain't got the dough to buy $80+ pH thermometers lol

This current grow I messed up somewhere. I did the "less is more" watering and feeding in the sense of amounts, maybe too much. Plus that 5 day period memorial weekend when I came back and them babies were DRY! . I fed nitrogen thursday, and the Lions Pride(2- 5.5- 5.5) has some N, so I thought giving a ~1/2 dose of (5-1-1) would be plenty to slow the leaf decay. Pretty soon I'll only have sugar leaves!

I'm a bit at a loss. My noggin keeps saying flush and just do a healthy normal dose of Lion's Pride, Which according to the bag is decent stuff. What do you guys think that have actually followed the grow some?



Lightened/edited this one below to make structure more visible. I have some hope for the short flimsy girl to give me a solid cola if I make it.


I swear It still looks like nitrogen deficiency. Which even if soil PH wasn't that good, nitrogen is able to be uptaken? Uptook? almost the broadest range of soil PH out of all nutrients. Trying to figure out what to do by midday, when I'll water+feed again. Lion's pride below

You had some nute burn going on earlier in the grow. I think the frequent salt/nute additions combined with getting too dry is causing you problems. There isn't really a good reason to flush soil (coco grows are the only ones that ever need it). I'd relax on the nutes a tad, and keep that soil more hydrated to avoid salt build ups during the dry back. I'm in soil, and in flower my plants get watered (with feed) every day at lights on. Watered to minimal/no drainage.

I ended up giving her a moderate flush. Normally I only water about 48oz(3 red cups) each. This time I put a gallon through each with decent run off. The encouragement came from several folks having the thought of potential salt build up and acidic soil.

Did the moderate flush at 3pm yesterday so I'll see what they look like after work.

Day 79 from seedling

Well it's only been a day and a half, but I really expected them to be almost leaning over from over watering, but they look alright. Buds look like they swelled some as well. I did throw an avg nitrogen feeding via another 15oz of water each yesterday since the yellowing is continuing and I likely flushed a lot of what I added before.



Not very trichome heavy compared to my previous grows, but it looks like it'll make it to smokeable and hold me over till my next tent filled run.