Trouties Critical Jack Journal

How goes the battle troutie? Mines showing a minor P def, otherwise its filling out pretty good for a cfl grow. How far from harvest? I"m thinking end of feb on mine , you must be a week or 2 ahead though. I'm still a little unsure on the when to harvest bit, only done one so far and I think I let it go a little too long, but it was good bed time smoke. Are you gonna keep it in the dark for a day or two before the chop?

sorry guys had a week away ..... (pics to follow shortly)...

thanks everyone for posting i feel i have been neglecting you guys and i feel bad.... so i'll take a few pics today and upload them ....

i had to ask a third party to water my three girls while i was away..... i got the (rain) water ready marked the correct level on the jug and left the following instuctions ... one jug each sunday, and one jug each on wednesday....
massive growth in 7 days, much yellowing all over on all my plants the Critical jack has blown up loads and looks quite beefy now , the " green o'matics look two tone green/yellow and FAT!

mellokitty said:

might have to add some batshit to the mellotea.... good stuff troutie.....

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well i thought a slighty more advanced soil would help..... and the addition of batshit had giving me much larger buds and there is no mistaking that ... they are much chunky'r then the last round ... my problem lies with yellowing leaves i though more P... and K would make a difference... but here at week 8 they've turned yellow and crispy again

what do you think ... i'll post pics now ... ish

vacation was great .... HoT ... enjoyed ourselves to the max...

all three Critical Jack center
main top Critical jack
Gom Bud
GOM #4 getting fat
GOM #5 smaller but its no light weight
Critical Jack .... Looking very yellow and still got 20+ days to go (suggestions PLEASE)
GOM Bud ... a little fox tailing?? what do you think??

Day 45 for the Critical jack (center)... i think?

all three ... Critical Jack is clearly taller and now starting to fill out.... i thought last grow i had given too much nutes .... as they went yellow/brown/crispy .... i have not given any nutes so far and its happening again

i would love advise on what i can do to improve my grows

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I think the c.j. looks pretty good just need you to nurse her back

I've got a couple crispy yellow leaves at the way bottom, but it doesn't seem to be progressing. I gave it a light veg feed right as it went in to flower. This week I gave it 2 light flower feedings due to purple edges on newer growth ( looks like P def to me) . My flower food also has N in it.

I would think you could give it some N, The leaves may not come back, but hopefully it will prohibit any further yellowing.
Also those buds are looking plump, mine are still all white hairs, but it looks like I've got something to look forward too.

yeah the critical jack is 11 days younger then the two green omatics and is due to take about 2-3 weeks longer ... so thats about 4-5 weeks, its going to look plump by the the time its done , however it might not do so well if its leaves all fall off

I would try a little more watering...? Perhaps twice a week isn't enough for them...
I tend to water mine a little everyday and never see any (hardly) yellowing. When I do, it's usually to do with under watering. As for the nutes, I can feed them every day and they love it, but I do tend to feed them maybe once or twice a week just to stay safe.

i tried to make it a simple as possible for my "third party"... so i gave them a good water the day i left, and upped the amount of water, so the next two waters would be three days only..... it worked ok.. but did result in periods of water logging and i'm now waiting until the soil drys before my next move

i'm sure its lacking .... the older leaves have yellowed (and come away), and there is slight purp'ing around the edges of some bud leaves... i can't get to grips with nutes, to the point they scare me a little ... but i really want to be able to grow plants out full cycle without them looking scabby

i was thinking half strength bloom nutes, mine are N2-P6-K3.5 ...what do you think??

i'm feeling well rough temps 103f... slight heat stroke hahaha ... i've been waking up every half hour just to remeber how much it hurts

I hear ya on the nutes, I'm hoping its one of those things that gets less confusing with experience. Factor in the unforgiving nature of autos and the feeding paranoia peeks.

Mine got 2 light feedings, my bloom nutes are 2-4-4 npk, no burn yet. Also had a little bud booster and calmg + in the mix. If yours is just starting to show purple on the edges of the bud leaves I'd hit it w/ some P asap. I thought my problem was heat stress as I was happening close to the lights... then the purple came on fast.

i thought the problem was too much nutes with my first grow but they now seem to be displaying almost the same symptoms (but much later)... so it must now be lack of.... 1/2 strenth bloom was my next best guess... it makes my head hurt and i hope it does become less confusing, this being my second real grow i still feel a little lost

when i stopped using phUP and phDOWN i was able to keep my plants green till the end

not using up and down myself.... don't think its a ph problem either as it would have arrived much earlier i would have thought... i have been away from my post for a week and hadn't seen much yellowing before i left .... but when i got home it was like a banana plantation

on another note ... been checking my last two GOM's for readyness ... not quite is the answer as usual LOL... but i have noticed with the little one (that is now clearly foxtail'ing) that it may contain some seeds?? ... i have noticed no herming at all .... but then i kinda grew these ones out on auto pilot and haven't paid much attention to them at all, but there are clearly bright green seed shapped things within the bud clusters in one area...

i'm not sure but i think thats what i'm seeing, is it true that seeds from this situation are likely to be FEM and AUTO?? .... or is this folk legend??

troutie said:

on another note ... been checking my last two GOM's for readyness ... not quite is the answer as usual LOL... but i have noticed with the little one (that is now clearly foxtail'ing) that it may contain some seeds?? ... i have noticed no herming at all .... but then i kinda grew these ones out on auto pilot and haven't paid much attention to them at all, but there are clearly bright green seed shapped things within the bud clusters in one area...

i'm not sure but i think thats what i'm seeing, is it true that seeds from this situation are likely to be FEM and AUTO?? .... or is this folk legend??

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well considering the only genetics in the tent are female and automatic it only stands to reason that, in fact, that's what they would breed. only problem is the offspring will have hermie tendencies.

Chummerbum said:

well considering the only genetics in the tent are female and automatic it only stands to reason that, in fact, that's what they would breed. only problem is the offspring will have hermie tendencies.

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Yes, I would also agree with the hermieness of stressed, mixed, ruderalis genetics. They will however, be both female and auto.
Equal genetics (strains) will have a higher chance of success. In this case we can't say whether your seeds came out of stress or hermied polination as you haven't seen any real signs of the dreaded yellow bananas.
It could also be the female flower your talking about, too. Lots of strains start growing little sack type things usually under the buds or around the calyx areas. Pistels will end up coming out of these rather than pollen. I have these on my cheese plants currently as did my mate during his last grow of cheese.
Do you have a close-up photo of these little sacks? That'd give us a better idea

Vrey nice any thoughts on bloom nutes ?

yeah cumbers .... this ones acting up funny .... and got some propper foxtailing too, i could as you say be female flower thinggies .... i'll have to wait and see i guess