Day 56 since seeds planted. Week two of 12/12 light flowering stage.

Conditions: 1.5mS/cm. Ph 5.5, CO2 = 900ppm, Light 12/12 @ 900 – 1000 PPFD, Day 80F. Night 70F(min) RH Day 50% Night 40%

CO2 usage. About 6 Lbs. in 16 days.

Have been pushing the light intensity. As 1K PPFD is approached, @ 24hours, there tends to be signs of light stress. Backing to 900 PPFD. The signs of stress dissipate.

Going to try and transition the “dud” girl to a “gent”, by spraying it with a solution of Ag (silver). There are many references. to the term "colloidal silver".. Only Ionic silver is made using electrolysis...

General directions to make are to take distilled water and 99.9% IONIC silver, apply voltage for a period to create an Ag solution.

Distilled water started at 0ppm / 0.0uS/cm. Need, Ag (wire or ingot), beaker, magnetic stirrer (optional) and constant current power supply (could use dual 9V battery’s)

After 24 hours @ 20V in a 500ml beaker created an 8ppm solution. There was some particles floating in the solution. But had a filter set up and used that the clean up the solution. (Probably not necessary). Going to make anther batch of Ag solution, with a longer voltage dwell time. See if the PPM concentration can be increased.

Update: After 48 hr @ 20+V.. reached 12 PPM.. From online documentation. 13 PPM is about as high as can be expected at room temperature.

Started to spray the “dud” just to see if pollen sacks will form. Also sprayed just one. (1) Cola stem on one gal, as a control, just in case the “dud” does not respond or crashes.

Note the removal of stem grown, leaving the fan leaves on the lower portion of the new Cola stems. Want the plant to have the leaf area for strength. But don’t want ”Larf Bud” growth that would happen on the lower Cola’s without the trimming.