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OrganicPower Watering when dry 100-150ml of dechlorinated tap water. 2gal humidifier in tent set at 65%. I didn’t start taking pictures until week 3 after transplant.

OrganicPower Looks like 3 with good growth, 1 ok growth, and 1 runt. Watering when dry 100-150ml of dechlorinated tap water. Running tap water entire grow and not bothering with ph.

OrganicPower Mid week 3, up pot from 500ml pots to final 5 gal fabric pot. Transplanted the 2 smaller plants to give them more time to see how they develop. Some leaf fade can be seen in more natural light. Sometimes you just got to fit in the work when you can.

OrganicPower Haven’t been able to keep track and up to date. I’ve been recovering from surgery. But managed to keep grow going and here’s what going on. Topped #1, 2, and 3, the strongest growing, a total of 3 times for a 8 top manifold. I overwatered during the transplant and recovery phase causing all kinds of issues that corrected themselves over time with the soil drying out. They seem to be growing good again. I moved them over to the 4x4 and are now under Mars Hydro tsw2000 and Kind LED 450 with a 65w from the wall UFO Grow Star. A total of 660w from the wall of mixed LED power. Gonna top dress within the next week and hopefully flip to flower if all lights are green to go:) Update...slow growing #4 is now taking off. Hopefully I can hold her back a bit to let the others catch up:) Not to much of a height difference at the moment. I’ll keep pulling them down just don’t want her to get too wide. Going for just tops on her as well

OrganicPower Every couple days I’ll readjust the canopy pulling branches down. I defoliated #4 a bit underneath, basically anything touching the ground or close to it, being completely shadowed kind of thing. Had one blade on one leaf on #4 go necrosis, but that’s it? Couple tiny spots here and there if you look hard enough but nothing that progressed over the week, whatever the cause has been corrected for now:) Topped dress with Gaia Green All Purpose and Power Bloom, EWC, and a bit of fresh soil. Gonna flip in a few days if all looks good. Took the runt out and giving to a friend soon:)

OrganicPower Flipped these ladies to 12/12. This party is about to get started. Left a bit of room between the manifolded girls to hopefully grow some colas and let that light through to hit each entire branch. They all seem to look healthy so far and I’ll top dress with Gaia Green Power Bloom in a couple weeks during week 2 flower, just in time for when they should start packin at week 3. Lights are still at 30” and I’ll now stop adjusting tops (unless for a racer) and allow plants to grow freely to about 24” canopy to light and adjust then if necessary. Happy growing!

OrganicPower Fail #1 of grow followed up right away with fail #2. Decided to order a Mars Hydro TS 600 to go along side my TSW 2000 to ensure I had even and full coverage over the entire canopy…great! But while I was plugging the new light into the timer the overhang of the timer was making contact with the surge protector on/off switch turning the lights on and off 3 times very quickly with only a second in between. That caused a pod of LED’s in my 8 pod KIND grow light to fail. Now I have 2 not fully functional KIND K3 450 grow lights. Plan is to now replace all lights with newer Mars TS series lights. That’s not all…to eliminate the lights from continuing to turn on/off while installing the new light I plugged one in directly to fix the problem and move the timer over. When done I forget to reinstall that light back into the timer resulting in it being left on during the dark period for an extended 3.5 hrs. When I entered the room in the morning I realized what I had done:( It was Friday night and I was in a rush and didn’t double check. Dumb dumb lol. I will probably leave the old light until this grow is over unless I lose another pod of LED’s. Got the new lights on order just in case. Otherwise the ladies look healthy and are growing good. Gonna get in there and clean up underneath and prune any growth tips that didn’t make it through or that are crowding one another. Leaving all leaves unless near soil or blocking buds sites mid to lower canopy. These pics are at beginning of W2F. I will update tonight with beginning W3F. Grow on!

OrganicPower It’s warming up outside so the a/c and dehumidifier are working a bit. Got the lights on during the night so just a few hours at lights on they work a bit hard. Cleaned up underneath removing any sucker shoots and leaf that was near the soil. Not much really. Mostly on #3 as I didn’t train out the branches as much and she grew tighter together, so I removed mostly all inner growth blocking light and that allowed a lot more penetration and flow. Left a few leaves below to die off naturally…more the better. Gonna put some Grub Grenades in the pots with some yellow sticky cards. Not because I see anything, just being cautious. I do see what looks like Springtails but don’t seem to be an issue yet. Still looking green and healthy so I’m happy! Grow on! Update Made a few adjustments. I let the tops grow into the tsw2000, 18” to tops. I didn’t like how they looked so I raised it back to 24” where I’ll keep it. The “Kind LED” I know from previous grows that it can’t get closer then 24”. But this is my first run with “Mars” so I’m still figuring out the distance for my setup with additional overlapping light intensity from other lights. With that being said another pod failed so I’m down 2-Kind LED’s now. Gonna remove all old tech and use all newer TS series lighting. All Mars moving forward. Seems to be a great light and when compared to other quality lights you can’t beat the price!

OrganicPower Temps and humidity are getting up there and harder to control. Equipment is working harder to keep cool. Heatwave forecasted for next week:( Got old lights switched out for new Mars TS series:) Ladies might need to be watered everyday soon as they are taking a lot more every other day. Don’t want them to dry out to much. Added some mulch to help with the top layer from drying right out between waterings. Want to keep the top alive and not die off as the sides of the pot also dry up and really only the centre stays healthy between waterings. That’s why I have now decided in future grows that I’ll being going with large pots, like 30-45 gallon and fewer plants, maybe 1-2 and grow longer for bigger roots!

OrganicPower Heatwave is here:( Equipment is struggling. Hard to watch over grow room constantly. Surge protector tripping out as the equipment never cools down or has a break. A/C and dehumidifier running 24 hrs. Plus I had to hook up another a/c unit for the family. Got to keep them cool at night too. I’d feel bad if my ladies were cooler then my girls 😜 Got new lights but they were to intense even at the recommended distance. Just had to much light and to much overlapping made it to intense. I took out the 2 smaller 600’s and now just have the 2-2000’s in there but with the heatwave I had to dim them to 50% and now 25% incase I don’t get home in time from work and not able to open tent all the way as equipment is not doing the job in this heat:( also if the circuit trips out again then I don’t want the temps to sky rocket. Last few times it trip temps and humidity increased to 86F and 65% RH, mind you I corrected it within the hour of it happening each time, so not to bad and that’s at the top of the canopy and lower into it didn’t quite get that high as on the floor it only raised to 82F. And for my troubles I see what I believe is the start of burnt leaves:( I should have known better as the top growth seemed to be a bit lighter and stretchy:( I’ll have these lights better dialled in for next time! Grow on!

OrganicPower Week 07 and the heat wave is behind us. Didn’t update last week but not much to report. Some serious damage was a result of the heat, causing the lights and everything else to become too much for the girls. #2 took it the best and is still growing nicely packing on weight and some serious frost! Finishing much faster then the others. I might re veg her the smell is so nice. The two larger #1 & 4 have been hungry forever awhile and I never applied anymore Gaia:(