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June 05 (Day 83)
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Tent: 77F-79F (Day) / 68F (Night)
Rh: 48% (Day) / 44% (Night)
Water Temp: 68F-70F
PH: 5.4/5.3
PPM: 720/740/700
Leaf Temp: NA
Plants are drinking more solution today.
PPMs steady
PH steady
A few more amber trichomes today on MQ4
More MQ3 pistils still need to change color.
Added 10ml of Orca mixed well in 1L RO water in morning.
Added 10ml of Z9 mixed well in 1L RO water late afternoon.
Added 20ml of AN Overdrive mixed well in 1L RO water late evening - PH dropped to 5.3
Water temps hit 73F late evening, Added frozen two liter to bring temps down. Tent was 82F
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June 06 (Day 84)
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Tent: 77F-79F (Day) / 68F (Night)
Rh: 48% (Day) / 44% (Night)
Water Temp: 68F-70F
PH: 5.4/5.3
PPM: 720/740/700
Leaf Temp: NA
Hot outside.
Rotated frozen 2 Liters.
Leaves really yellowed up today.
Water temps hit 78f, tent ambient temps hit 90f.
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June 07 (Day 85)
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Tent: 77F-84F (Day) / 68F (Night)
Rh: 48% (Day) / 44% (Night)
Water Temp: 68F-70F
PH: 5.4/5.3
PPM: 720/740/700
Leaf Temp: NA
Purple is really coming out in the top and exposed buds. Bottom and inner growth is still a bit green.
Trichomes just quite aren’t ready yet. 70% milky with a few ambers on MQ4. Going to try and limp through this week with the hot temps. Probably going to be more relaxed about temps and beneficials since I’ll be chopping next week.
Water change:
PPM in system before water change: 690
10Gal RO water
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80ml rhino
100ml of Sensi Bloom A+B
20ml of Overdrive
Mixed well in flexitank, then drained and added new solution to system.
Final PPM: 800
Final PH: 5.4
Temp: 66F
Added 20ml of Orca later in day.
Added 20ml of Z9
PH climbed to 5.5 later in day.
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June 08 (Day 86)
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Tent: 86-90F (Day) / 82F (Night)
Rh: 49% (Day) / 49% (Night)
Water Temp: 72F-80F
PH: 5.5/5.7
PPM: 800/780/760
Leaf Temp: NA
PPH dropped to 780
Reduced lighting hours to better control heat issues. Dropped from 20/4 to 16 hours on and 8 off.
Tough day. Tent temps averaged to 88f and water temp averaged around 76f and even went up to 80f at one point.
Just kept rotating frozen two liters all day. It takes longer to freeze a bottle than it does to use it reservoir, so there is some delay.
Added 20ml of Orca in morning - PPM dropped to 760 after top off.
Left tent doors open.
PH went up from 5.5 to 5.7
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June 09 (Day 87)
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Tent: 84F-88F (Day) / 80F (Night)
Rh: 48% (Day) / 49% (Night)
Water Temp: 68F-70F
PH: 5.7/5.4
PPM: 830/800
Leaf Temp: NA
PH holding at 5.7
PPM went up to 830 overnight - water level has a noticeable drop.
Added 18ml of Orca in 1.5L of RO water
Add 15ml Z9
Add 20ml Overdrive
PH dropped to 5.4 by end of day.
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June 10 (Day 88)
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Tent: 84F-88F (Day) / 74F (Night)
Rh: 48% (Day) / 49% (Night)
Water Temp: 70F-75F
PH: 5.4/5.1
PPM: 850/830/780
Leaf Temp: NA
PH dropping. Dropped to 5.3 in morning
PPM went up to 830 overnight - water level has a noticeable drop.
Added 20ml of Orca in 1.5L of RO water - PPM dropped from 850 to 830
Add 15ml Z9 in 1L RO water - PPM dropped from 830 to 820
Added 2L plain RO water. - Ppm dropped to 780
PH dropped to 5.1 by end of day.
Clipped test bud one off MQ4 week ago. Dried in 3 days at 50% humidity in closet. Pulled when spongey, trimmed and tossed in jar with boveda pack. Burped for the week several times a day. Tested... and its dynamite. I could chop MQ4 tit now with no regrets. While the smell and flavor isn’t quite there yet without more cure, it surely sticks to side of jar, dense nuts, frosty AF. I smoked on it all day to test. The head change is really nice, heavy at times.
I may do a water change tomorrow just to give MQ3 a bit more time to curl in the pistils - maybe run until Sunday when my schedule frees up to enjoy the chop process. Since the ph is on the drop, I’ll need to decide.
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June 11 (Day 89)
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Tent: 86-88F (Day) / 78F (Night)
Rh: 48% (Day) / 49% (Night)
Water Temp: 78F
PH: 5.5
PPM: 800
Leaf Temp: NA
Water change:
10Gal RO water
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80ml rhino
100ml of Sensi Bloom A+B
20ml of Overdrive
Mixed well in flexitank, then drained and added new solution to system.
Final PPM: 800
Final PH: 5.4
Temp: 67F
Added 20ml of Orca later in day.
Added 20ml of Z9
Fans on full maximum like last several days. I think I’d add more passive intakes to this tent on the next round if I expect to grow into summer months - which wasn’t planned originally.
Rotated frozen water bottles all day.
Lights are still 16 hours on and 8 off to reduce heat all week.
@DreamIT, Thanks for commenting and following my grow. I can't say I'll be this detailed in future diaries, but details are the goal of this diary. Cheers mate!
@MrHightimes, Thanks for the positive props man. I had your MQ diary bookmarked and you did a phenomenal job on that one.
So far this strain is not flinching at anything I throw at them. Still a long way to go, but so far I'm happy with the growth and progress. Happy growing! Cheers!
The amount of effort you put into documenting this grow is definitely not lost on me, and congrats on the amazing results!!! Also, really diggin the breakdown format you had for your harvest entry. Looking forward to your next 🤙
@MyWeedAccount, Thanks so much for the kind words man! It was a lot of time to document and post it, so I'm unsure when I'll post another diary as detailed as this one.
I'm hoping to start up the next run in September! I'll surely be following your grows and your unique cooler DWC system. Have fun with your grow!
woah those look sooo gorgggg! nice grow man, do you by any chance have any extra night owl seeds? if so do you think i could get just one. Im from virginia and we just legalized weed in july and i really wanna start growing😍
@jeffhardi, Thanks so much for the kind comment. Congrats on the legalization in VA! I am in Canada but follow @myweedaccount for Night Owl/Mephisto diaries - He's located in VA and may be able to offer some suggestions. Night Owl won't be doing any drops until later this year, but you may be able to find some stock at seed banks in the US. Also, check out Mephisto and Roc Bud for solid auto genetics.