Hello Everyone,
The Crack Mack Cannabis plant is about halfway through her flowering cycle. We are at day 99 for the entire life of the plant, and 29 days into flowering cycle.
 Strain: | Crack Mack |
|---|---|
 Dominance: | Sativa |
 Nutrients used: | MaxiBloom 5-15-14 |
 Phenotype traits: | Tall/BigLeaf/Terpene profile not yet known. |
 Lineage: | Green Crack/Big Mack Superstar/Miracle Mack. |
 Current growing stage: | Flowering. |
 Current plant age: | 99-TOTAL/29 Days-FLOWER |
 Sex: | Photoperiod/Auto recessive |
 Location: | Syracuse New York |
Her stretch phase is complete and she turned out to be quite large in her overall proportions.
This measure is from the floor up, and we can see she is almost 5 feet/1.5 meters tall.
This is a pretty impressive overall stretch, and had I not employed some super cropping, this plant would have likely overgrown the tent.
We can see what I mean here by looking at how high the overhead light panel is raised.
It is almost maximum height with only eight inches distance between the panel and plant currently.
I think it is likely that this is where the light will stay for the rest of the grow, and currently I am at about 68% capacity and will be increasing this intensity in the next week.
I stopped by HTGSupply General Hydroponics Store in Syracuse NY, and they helped me pick out an appropriate bloom feed for the Crack Mack.
My biggest concern is the depleting nitrogen, causing fast yellowing in the foliage. At week four this is a little extreme and the guys at the hydroponics store agreed with my assessment and were super helpful with finding the solution for a proper nutrient supplement.
My first visit to this place and I'm super happy with the guys who work there, they were very friendly and helpful.
At this point in the grow I can say confidently that this Crack Mack cultivar takes after her Green Crack mother in so many ways.
I am hopeful that we'll see some Big Mack Superstar traits with the terpene and bud profile, but if that does not happen I will still be happy because this plant is my creation, and was an accidental creation at that!
Just because she wasn't planned doesn't mean I love her any less.
No matter what happens this is going to be some fire bud I think. The Green Crack actually had me tripping the first couple of times I smoked it until gaining a higher tolerance, and no cannabis has ever made me trip to the extent that the Green Crack did.
I couldn't be happier with how the Crack Mack is coming along. Her bud profile has started in a slim way, but the pistils are starting to explode in growth in a way that is suggestive of large buds to come.
What do you all think of how the Crack Mack is looking?
I'd love to read your thoughts in the comment section!
Thank you for stopping by!
Have a good day! -@futuremind
Are the yellow leaves you see on the plant old leaves that are going to fall off?
Correct.
The buds take stored nutrients from the leaves to make the buds big.
It's a natural process and usually starts from the bottom of the plant.
Some types of cannabis don't turn yellow as much, some even more. It's a unique plant with many traits.
I should have read these comments the other day. I hope we didn't mess up but few days ago..idk maybe a week ago. We noticed yellowing leaves on the bottom. My son cut them off. That's ok? Out next time let them fall off naturally?
(And honestly I thought maybe he was over watering to I read this)
There's truth to this during later flowering, but since writing the comment I have figured out that I was wrong.
The reason for my yellowing leaves is pH is too low. I use a pH adjusting fluid for tap water to lower it, and didn't know that the nutrient feed I'm using lowers it even more, so after I suspected it might be pH I tested and found it that this is the problem my plant is having.
Right now I'm in the process of adding high pH water to try to raise up the soils pH.
In many cases yellowing during the plants vegetative stage is indicative of overwatering. Things can get complicated with cannabis cultivation 😂
That's what I thought too was over watering. Well, now I'm all intimated again 🤣😳🤪🧐 PH levels. How do you test the soil? I know there's kits for water, so there's one for soil too?
And ummm.. What's optimal?🧐🤔🤔
(So glad you don't mind the questions! 🤗🤗🤗💯)
Since your plant is growing outdoors, letting it catch natural rain water or collecting rain water to water with if you have the ability to might be the best practice if you're limited on supplies and knowledge base for pH adjusting. That is likely what I would do if I was growing a cannabis plant outdoors in the woods.
Yes there's so many different types of testing kits. Probes, litmus paper, liquid indicator dyes. It's overwhelming indeed. There's different types of testers for both water and soil and the testers I'm using are pretty basic.
I think my next post should be about pH. I'll delve as deeply into it as I can, because it's a deep topic lol. It would be easier to explain these things with some photos and what not.
What is optimal range also varies depending on the type of soil being used, but general rule of thumb is to pH around 6. A little lower or higher is usually fine but if it goes below 5.5 or above 7 then serious problems start happening.
I don't mind the questions at all ✍️🤓🔎
Well, right now it feels like we're in a drought lol but a couple weeks ago up to a month ago we were flash flooding 🤪
I'm in Louisiana... The weather changes every 5 minutes😳💯🤣
We had a cool snap for about a week or so also at the end of July. The highs was in the 80s with lows in mid 60s😯🤪
Right now I'm not going to test anything and keep watering as needed. She seems to be doing fine but I am interested for future grows. Or if she starts having issues. 🤗
I was wrong. I found out my yellow leaves are from low pH. = too much acid.
but in late flowering it's normal to have some yellowing and dropping. I'm in early/mid flowering and this shouldn't be happening.
🤗🤗💯 thanks for asking, I came to ask the same thing
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Thank you @rachaeldwatson. I'm still learning and figuring out stuff too. The learning never stops 🤗
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It's growing amazingly. you are doing a great job.
Thank you @itwithsm. This grow has been testing my patience. I'm ready for the harvest :)
She's my height!
What do the terpenes have to do with anything?
Glad you found that store.
I'm very tired, can you tell? A play coming up that I am not ready for, garden kicking out food that needs to be both harvested and processed, fighting a court case. Not sleeping well!
Thank you @owasco!
I never would have guessed this plant would get so big!
I hope you've been able to get some rest since you wrote this message, it definitely sounds like you have a full schedule!
My sleep just did a flip flop after months of sleeping past noon. Now I'm up 3-5 am and in bed by 8-10 pm. Literally a 12 hour shift and it can shift in no time at all with no indicators that it is getting ready to shift. Maybe I'm a lunatic :D
Looking awesome bro! I hope they don't get burnt by being so close to the lights. That's cool the guys at the hydro store helped you out. I love how most cannabis growers are so helpful! Nice job so far bro!!
Thank you bro!
That is a good observation with the overhead panel. Thinking I'll raise the panel to maximum height today, which should give a good 10-12 inches and that will be pretty optimal.
The toughest part is knowing when to blast this light to max power. Will probably raise intensity to 80% today with the height adjustment and then will probably just blast her to max power at week 5 because production should be amping up at this point.
Feeling like she's gonna have some torpedo nugs soon.
I never knew you usually measure the height of your plants
It’s really cool though and it looks like your plants are doing well
Thank you @rafzat.
I like to keep a measure of how big the plant is overall because this helps predict how much bud it will grow.
Dude that is one killer plant!
Thank you bro! She's in rapid development right now.
it is tall i think that we will see big buds there :D
Thank you bro, I think you are right. She's gonna have massive buds :D
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