Live Canna

Well done to all and especially the winners    It was awesome to be a part of this! Thanks for all the organising, seeds and involvement!!

Ready 

And just like that, we are done   Plant #1 and the chosen one is as per the pics below. I trimmed up one bud properly to see the bud structure. The rest was wet trimmed of all big fan leaves(final dry trim to come) post drying.

So after 11 weeks of flower, she is looking grand. The plant I chose was slightly smaller than the other one, but I felt like the bud structure was nice, good colour, and frosty AF! This is some serious sticky icky goodness @Totemic

Thanks for the seeds and the competition, and all the awesome peeps who participated. It's a pity I didn't get to dedicate more time, as I really feel that if I had not neglected them for weeks at a time, that I would of turned up even better results. But it's a testament to the ridiculously good genetics as they really shown through even with the abuse.

Soil: Mix of Freedom farms and my own custom blend
Nutrients: BioBizz Bloom and Grow as well as molasses and some banana tea at the end  
Light: Phoenix Sky Sunplus 200 (240w)

Th pics don't do her justice really. Apparently 3 were excluded (+ my video) also as I hit the limit but there you go  

So I have decided today is the day of the chop. I checked trichomes over the weekend and the plant that I think I am going to put forward is #1 with slightly amber trichomes coming in. The rest is sitting with murky and some clear, but its time

So will cut down later and post pics accordingly either later or tomorrow.

Plant #3

Plant #2

So I took some nice pics last night   Gave her a good feed of plain RO water 2 days prior to that and flushed a little. All 3 have popped out more now. Plant # 1 I think will be my choice, but I think I have a week or so left (will check trichs again tonight). Plant #2 is frosty, but colouring not as nice. Plant #3 is growing some bigger buds, but not as nice looking as #1.

Plant #1 - Best looking so far I reckon. Beautiful bud colouring, pistils are darkening nicely, and leaves (although not seen in the pics so much) have nice colour to them too

I should be done in a week or 2 max I reckon, and then they will get the chop. I will check trich's tonight again

So we are into week 10 of flower.

I gave the ladies 2 feedings of banana tea and molasses last week, and I feel like they are starting to bulk up nicely too. Took some trichome shots as well, they are starting to go cloudy but overall still clear. So we still have some time.

Wow, you have grown some monsters there well done!  Looking stacked and frosty!

Nice training and good looking buds there!

Looking good! I am also going to take the microscope to mine later to see where we are at. I think I have the same one, as its super difficult to take pictures and have it in focus etc. Not for forum pics, but for me to see a bit better, I use the video rather and record, then I catch some better shots to check out.

Below is my normal schedule:

Veg
20:00 ON
14:00 OFF

Flower

20:00 ON
08:00 OFF

I find this works very well for Gauteng. My grows are in the garage, so in summer, the day is very hot, and the night a bit cooler. So most of the light on time is at night to compensate for heat. And then in winter its coldest at night, so again, thats when I run the lights to provide some extra warmth.

The more ideal times would be around  18:00 and not 20:00 to leverage  more of what I am saying above, but this makes watering/feeding/tending etc. more difficult, so I adjust it slightly.

Hey Sorry gents, only seeing this thread now  

Yes from my side. Thanks

So the latest pics are up. I have counted and she did 7 weeks of veg roughly and is now in week 9 of flower as I flipped on the specified date (Week 16 overall). The other day I top dressed the soil, and she has been getting mainly plain RO water since.

The buds are starting to fatten up a little which is nice. The frost is everywhere though and she is smelling good  Had a quick look at the trichomes the other day also to see where we are sitting and most are expectedly still clear.

Also looking good hey. I resonate with your earlier comment of 'feels like they standing still'. Thats where I am at. The frost is building like mad though, thats for sure.

Can't wait to see what happens over the next 2 weeks or so.

On 8/23/2021 at 8:26 PM, Stinger96 said:

Looking good..

Thanks bud! Appreciate it. They are definitely looking better now than the earlier days as I have spent some more time with them. I just hope they still fatten up enough and are not going to be small buds due to my lack of nutrients and watering. Time shall tell  

Latest pics

Kept up with the feeding this week, so they are looking a lot happier  Not perfect, but its what time allows right now.

Ladies are looking good. In need of a feeding again, but other than that they are looking nice and strong.

Ladies are looking stronger

They seem to be doing a bit better. Although the temps in the tent were below 10c a lot this last week.

They had two good feedings with molasses also, so I think this has contributed to them doing better.

So I have been once again neglecting the plants   They got a small feeding yesterday morning quickly and some more today. Other than that I think they have been dry for a week, so not grand.

Anyways   This is where we are at. Back middle has grown a lot and is really looking the best out of all.

21 hours ago, 420SA said:

@Live Canna your diary is overdue for an update. Please update within 24 hours

1st Warning

Yeah, correct. My bad. Work is taking its toll, will update shortly.

Looking nice and healthy bud!