First Grow in 23 years, Banana purple punch auto

[MoT]

8 hours ago, brock1 said:

Its not light on the buds a lot of people remove the leaves for. Its the green leaves in the shade they remove. Its defining the fine line as to weather a leaf get enough light for the photosynthesis to justify the energy the leaf uses. If it getting only a little reflective light its doing more harm than good 

 

Ah okay, it's me being thick again then ain't that a turn up for the books

[MoT]

11.07.23 49 days after sprouting

So around 21 days or so, into proper flowering.

Bit of a pointless update but was bored, HAHA, i was looking at her with the led on this eve and thought I'd lost all the trich's......  maybe not .
I'm off with my questions again, would it be worth me getting a supplemental UVB bulb? I've been reading that it will boost resin and trich production, or is that utter bollocks, bear in mind i'm running a "none grow specific LED" in the 6500k range.

I know she is nowhere near ready yet, but in your guys opinion, is she looking alrightish, i'm not BLOWN AWAY (or am i just putting myself down) but i am pretty surprised at yet again, the difference only a few days can make, crazy! , I did give the leaves underneath the slightest clear out, even though it probably wasn't needed, only the ones that were literally getting no light at all.

Kinda fishing for affirmation I guess, and an answer regarding the UVB

Thanks all

[Killuminati7]

Just leave her let her finish and your be good , don’t go feeding her much more can see burnt tips 

[MoT]

1 hour ago, Killuminati7 said:

Just leave her let her finish and your be good , don’t go feeding her much more can see burnt tips 

She has had the burnt tips since day one (you know what i mean) without much progression, the only thing i've fed is BB top max which is  humic and fulvic acid , i'm going to have to cut back i think on my starter soil creation, never done it before and , i was told months ago maybe i got it a little hot, but i let it "cook" before use, she''s still running off the original, thank you for the response, i will make DAMN sure she gets ridiculously flushed closer to time....whatever closer to time ends up being :/ 

 

[mysticriver]

12 hours ago, MoT said:

would it be worth me getting a supplemental UVB bulb?

there a study that was done by, iirc dutch passion, on their test they got a 19% increase in secondary metabolites & flavonoids [oils; terpenes]

ask @MIGRO - he has a link to the findings

 

edit- oh & personally I wouldn't take off many if not any leaves as the plant is so squat its not necessary 

mystic

Edited July 12, 2023 by mysticriver

[Shumroom]

Looking good brother 

 

UVB is something you might want to add to your setup at some point,

but I wouldn’t worry about growing without it.

 

You’ll still get very good results without it,

you are on track for a nice wee harvest of sticky buds  

 

As @mysticriver says,

you don’t really need to remove any leaves,

it’s not like she’s a towering bush shading half of herself from the light 

 

Keep up the good work.

 

Atb

 

 

 

[MoT]

Thank you @Shumroom and @mysticriver

[MoT]

I don't think there is a snowball in hells chance that she is going to be done in 4 days, the 8 weeks advertised lol, but that is fine, she's still throwing out white pistils and frosting up, i actually thought i'd got mould on a couple of the lower buds, but it was  just more frosty and pistils thank god, no picture update this close to the last one, as while it may interest me, i highly doubt anyone else gives a shit

 

I know it's hit and miss, but i hope she starts kicking out some purple hues, wondering if i should start flushing her now, as that will give a week or two to see where she is sitting at, any thoughts?

 

Got a UVB on the way too, just a little 26w 10.0 , I figure every little helps to a degree, also got some 150gm mesh on order as i'm going to ATTEMPT to construct a screen tray for once i harvest, hopefully not getting too far ahead of myself.

 

I couldn't help myself and took a couple of tiny little buds off, obviously too early and trichomes clear, and commited the sin of using the microwave to super quick dry them with no cure, was a smooth smoke, but got halfway through and thought i was going to pass out/ start hallucinating, i've never felt that before..... wasn't overly nice but holy shit i'm hoping with my loupe in hand, and a decent dry and cure, I may have something rather nice!

Edited July 14, 2023 by MoT
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[iShouldCoCo]

It looks like a fantastic grow for the first time with newfangled 21st Century gadgets!

 

That's gonna be a crop to be proud of as it is IMO.

 

 

[MoT]

2 hours ago, iShouldCoCo said:

It looks like a fantastic grow for the first time with newfangled 21st Century gadgets!

 

That's gonna be a crop to be proud of as it is IMO.

 

 

Aww, thank you , i sure hope it is, just gotta get a flushing done right and, then dry it right, and then cure it right :o , nowhere near out of the woods yet

[MoT]

So, i've decided to take it upon myself and do a fairly heavy, but still technically partial flush as of today, 5 hours ago as @Killuminati7 pointed out, the continued browning at the tips likely means overferted, and the last thing i want is absolute trash after this long, i'll get some photo's up in a bit of the drip drip runnoff i've gotten, and the side of the fabric pot (which was the main reason i  decided too much salt, as @GSZZ mentioned when i asked a question about aerating runnoff for reuptake..., runnoff is "brown water" drip drip drip, so i'm  HOPING still enough nutes in soil to last a further week minimum, and then some more flushing in a week or so, to drag even more out , i was getting a bit of a grassy smell again and while no one else is going to bat an eyelid at that outside the house, i don't want it inside either, or i'd be growing a lawn.....,, will be a pointless image upload to a degree, other than there has been a fair bit of browning pistils, trichs are still 95% clear, but i'd like to see her use the nutes in her leaves at least to an extent.

 

I'll still add a little BB top max, until a week later (its fulvic and humic acid) and a little CAL-MAG, that is unless anyone tells me to just stop all this, and go water only , i'm learnding again....

 

SHE DOESN'T SEEM ANGRY AT THE FLUSH SO FAR,SO....WE WILL SEE.... As pointed out she is apparently a 56 day/8 week popped to flower, but i can see it being closer to 70 days personally, i'll be keeping an eye obviously.... Thanks everyone

Edited July 15, 2023 by MoT
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[Killuminati7]

Don’t bother proper flushing just carry on with a smaller feed till she’s filled out more you should be good mate  

[MoT]

Just now, Killuminati7 said:

Don’t bother proper flushing just carry on with a smaller feed till she’s filled out more you should be good mate  

 

I'm thinking with the colour of the water, still holding off on any nutes, i will actually upload them shortly LOL, it looks like bad quality beef/chicken stock

[Killuminati7]

Are u hard water , if not I’d add some cal with your just water, ovo let her dry out now after flushing her , you should be good bud I find autos fatten right up last few weeks 

[MoT]

Just now, Killuminati7 said:

Are u hard water , if not I’d add some cal with your just water, ovo let her dry out now after flushing her , you should be good bud I find autos fatten right up last few weeks 

Pretty likely hard water, but i've got no specific readouts, or the tech to do so, or the money tosend it off and have it checked LOL, i know its in the mid 8.0-9.0 ph range, which means jack shit, but @Shumroom keeps saying it shouldn't be an issue in soil, and even though i trust their knowledge, i'm still buffering it down slightly, because it's fucking horrible water , it certainly scrubs everything off you without soap....and i don't think that is a good thing at all, vile stuff having had the soft stuff in corny and dev, that makes soap turn into plumes of beutiful suds, but doesn't really strip you of dirt