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FIRST GROW (Cherry Gelato)

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4 years ago
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Indoor
Room Type
ScrOG
weeks 12-13
Defoliation
weeks 3, 7, 14
LST
weeks 4-5, 10, 12
Topping
weeks 5
Soil
Grow medium
19 L
Pot Size
1.89 L
Watering
0
Germination
4 years ago
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Used method
Rockwool Cube
Germination Method
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Week 1. Vegetation
4 years ago
12.7 cm
24 hrs
29 °C
7.5
No Smell
75 %
76.2 cm
After starting the plants in rockwool (bad idea) I placed them into red solo cups with Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil. This was NOT a good idea, I know that now. This soil is too hot for seedlings and I had some bad info on how to start them. If this doesn't prove them in a NOOB idk what does haha.
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Week 2. Vegetation
4 years ago
20.32 cm
24 hrs
29 °C
7.5
No Smell
75 %
76.2 cm
6 days later: Transplanted them into 5 gallon fabric pots. Started to Low Stress Train. I could have waited, I should have. Again, soil is too hot for them in this stage, the PPM outflow was around 4000ppm so yeah, definitely started burn them early.😅
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Week 3. Vegetation
4 years ago
20.32 cm
24 hrs
24 °C
8
No Smell
65 %
19 L
76.2 cm
There is another strain in these photos, but I'm only logging one for this diary. I defoliated leaves that I thought were dead, clearly I messed this up bad. Stunted growth even more, like an idiot. I have learned a lot from messing up this bad.
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Defoliation
Technique
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Week 4. Vegetation
4 years ago
25.4 cm
24 hrs
24 °C
8
No Smell
65 %
19 L
76.2 cm
watering them, just seeing how I can fix there issues. I increased my PH because the soil was lowering it soo much. Would water it with 8-> outflow would be 4-5ph So I was having a LOT of problems.
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LST
Technique
5
Week 5. Vegetation
4 years ago
30.48 cm
24 hrs
24 °C
8
No Smell
65 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
76.2 cm
As u can see... lots of issues. Still a ridiculous 4000 PPM in my outflow water.
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LST
Technique
Topping
Technique
6
Week 6. Vegetation
4 years ago
38.1 cm
24 hrs
24 °C
8
No Smell
65 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
76.2 cm
spread the plants out PPM is lowering slowly, around high 2 thousands at this point. Starting to learn a lot about cannabis growing in general. Its hard for me to look back and see what I did, but we all learn :)
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Week 7. Vegetation
4 years ago
38.1 cm
24 hrs
24 °C
6.8
No Smell
65 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
76.2 cm
I didn't keep a log on the plants numbers and its hard for me to look at each photo and remember what there number was. Next grow I'm going to do a much better job logging into Grow Diaries. I defoliated this week, they are now relatively healthy and could go through some stress, my PH is still going down due to soil and Im actually watering with a 3gallon watering pump and its causing issues with balancing the PH throughout the whole container.
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Defoliation
Technique
8
Week 8. Vegetation
4 years ago
50.8 cm
24 hrs
24 °C
6.5
No Smell
1600 PPM
65 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
76.2 cm
Just watering them casually, they definitely have some damage from the pain I put them through. No nurturance yet bc the soil is still so damn hot. outflow PPM was around 1600 now
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Week 9. Flowering
4 years ago
58.42 cm
12 hrs
24 °C
6.5
No Smell
1400 PPM
65 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
76.2 cm
Didn't have many photos this week because I was really busy. But I decided to flip because they where the healthiest they have ever been and where getting massive so I slipped them!
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Week 10. Flowering
4 years ago
58.42 cm
12 hrs
24 °C
6.5
No Smell
1400 PPM
65 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
76.2 cm
Nutrients 3
Top-Max - BioBizz
Top-Max 1.042 mll
Bio-Grow - BioBizz
Bio-Grow 0.43 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 0.43 mll
no major issues, not many photos . Sorry im busy haha. Everything is looking good, I decided to feed them a little bit because the soil was really running out of nurturance.
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Week 11. Flowering
4 years ago
63.5 cm
12 hrs
24 °C
6.5
No Smell
1400 PPM
65 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
76.2 cm
Nutrients 3
Top-Max - BioBizz
Top-Max 1.042 mll
Bio-Grow - BioBizz
Bio-Grow 0.43 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 0.43 mll
everything was fine this week, no issues. plants got really healthy!
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Week 12. Flowering
4 years ago
71.12 cm
12 hrs
24 °C
6.5
No Smell
1400 PPM
75 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
76.2 cm
Nutrients 2
Top-Max - BioBizz
Top-Max 1.302 mll
Bio-Bloom - BioBizz
Bio-Bloom 3.906 mll
So my humidity was crazy high now and I didn't have a dehumidifier, so this week they where chilling in some crazy humid air 😖
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LST
Technique
ScrOG
Technique
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Week 13. Flowering
4 years ago
71.12 cm
12 hrs
24 °C
6.5
No Smell
1400 PPM
50 %
18 °C
19 L
2 L
76.2 cm
Nutrients 2
Top-Max - BioBizz
Top-Max 1.302 mll
Bio-Bloom - BioBizz
Bio-Bloom 3.906 mll
starting to really get there. Because this is my first grow I don't really know if these are budding to fast or too slow. Compared to my other strain that hasn't been growing very much, it seems like they are growing very fast. Hopefully I can keep them healthy, There was a minor light stress happening causing the leaves to curl down, so I raised the lights and moved my dehumidifier out of the tent (Was getting to around 85 degrees in there)
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ScrOG
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Week 14. Flowering
4 years ago
83.82 cm
12 hrs
24 °C
6.5
Normal
1400 PPM
50 %
18 °C
19 L
2 L
38.1 cm
Nutrients 3
Top-Max - BioBizz
Top-Max 3.906 mll
Bio-Bloom - BioBizz
Bio-Bloom 3.906 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 2.604 mll
Started seeing yellowing on the top fan leaves due to light stress. - I backed the lights off and added more calmag into my feed. - once it was correcting I lowered lights back down Calmag is used during photosynthesize so before I resolved to permanently less light I increased the calmag intake. (top colas are around 60k Lux) Bud Size has doubled honestly, and some color is coming on one of my 4 plants. PS: if anyone comments on my putting rockwool in my soil, I know... super noob. This my FIRST grow EVER so let me have my moments please haha 😅
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Defoliation
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Week 16. Harvest
4 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Rated
8/10
Rated
had to chop a bit early due to some schedule error however it yielded really nice and i'm super happy!
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Spent 100 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
170.1 g
Bud dry weight per plant
4
Plants
4.88
Grow Room size
Hard
Difficulty
Positive effects
Euphoric, Giggly, Relaxed
Positive effects
Taste
Cream, Fruity, Sweet
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Day air temperature
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Lacrima
Lacrimacommentedweek 74 years ago
Happy Growing ! 😊💪
DoDrugs420
DoDrugs420commentedweek 164 years ago
Amazing decision of picking Cherry Gelato!!
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