All organisms need energy to fuel metabolic reactions for growth and development. However, no organism can use direct light energy for their needs. The light energy must be converted to chemical energy through a process called photosynthesis. Photosynthesis converts the light energy...
This is the start to week 5 of this nutrient challenge. The plants have continued to grow rapidly. The Slurricane clones have been in the Autopots for 4 weeks now and will have to be switched to flower due to their sizes. ...
Monday started the 3 week of this nutrient Challenge. The AutoPots were filled with the nutrient solutions on Day 1 of the second week (June 19th). The plants did start up -taking the solution as soon as this was done, so the the...
This week I started my next nutrient challenge. I will once again be using my Gorilla 5x5 tent with the Grower's Choice ROI-E720. The clones that will be used are from a Slurricane plant and they will be grown in the Autopot sytems....
It has been about a month since I cut down the plants. The plants dried for a total of 14 days with a combination of use of both a humidifier and dehumidifier to maintain the humidity in the tent between 58 and 63%. ...
We are now 6 weeks into the flower stage of growth. Three of the plants started fading about a week ago, which surprised me. Last winter in my first nutrient challenge the same thing occurred. I am beginning to think that the...
It has been 3 weeks since my last blog and I apologize. The holiday season has been very busy as well as planning our stores Grand Re-Opening in our new store space on Draft Ave. in Stuarts Draft. As usual the beginning phases...
I have finally started the next nutrient challenge. This is the one that many have been waiting for. This will pit the winner from our first nutrient challenge, Lotus, against the winner of our second chaIlenge, Athena. I will be using different...
I completed the 2-week drying period for the plants on Tuesday of this week. I trimmed the 2 Dakine plants on that day and got 8.5 ounces off the front plant and 5 ounces off the smaller back plant. There was no mold...
We are getting close to the end of the growing phase of this challenge. All 4 plants remain healthy, and the buds are continuing to develop and swell. The Athena plants continue to drink about twice the amount of nutrient solution as...