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On this stage i simply put the seed in soil and add a bit of tap water wich was left under the sunlight for three days. Later on i check PH levels and root growth for transplanting.
I suggest to use some dark towel or duck tape to cover roots area from direct sunlight or simply use a dark plastic bottle if you wanna give a try.
Te soil was mixed also with half tablespoon of RQS Bat Guano for extra ( P ) and extra ( Ca ) and a bit of epsom salt. I surely add mycos later on when transplanting
The seed is sprouted and now i'm just watering with some 6.5ph water.
Next weeks i will start to add some extra nutrients in little doses from " Linea Herba " wich is an italian company.
17/05 UPDATE: i'm going to add some other pictures at the end of week 1 -> 21/05 👋 peace, see you!
21/05 UPDATE: the little lady was transplanted out, tonight she can see the moon and the stars 😁
Week 2 is now started, the little plant is doing really well, she completely recovered from transplant in just 1 day even if the humidity is very low! Now, on day 9 from sprouting stage, i'm adding and mixing very little doses of fertilizers in 1l of harvested rain water ( PH 7,7 EC 136us/cm ), the meter said PH 6,5 EC 300us/cm after adding all components, just to be sure not to have deficiencies and to enrich the soil with some microbiological life 😁. I'm watering with this solution only once. Let's see if i'm guessing right. Hope so 🙏🙏
26/05 UPDATE:
Today i found a pretty lovely animal under my crop. She's a wild, very curious lizard searching for some food. Gonna give her a name because It seems she's not scared about me, doing my human things 😄
The princess is doing great, one upper leaf shows a very little bit of ( P ) excess but, because it's organic RQS guano my only source of phosphorous ( premixed in soil ), the leafs are not burned at all, even the tips are good and this is fine to me. At the start of week 3 i will add some nutrient at 1/4 of recommended dosage. Unfortunately the humidity is low as always.
Week 3 is started and i'm adding some fertilizers 1/4 of the strength. EC meter said 400us/cm PH 6.5 after mixing all together so should be fine. From now i guess i will use fertilizers 2 times per week
The lizard is always there hunting for bugs because the soil is often moist and she enjoys such humid place.
Honestly the plant could be bigger on this stage but, due to low humidity and strong winds, it's good enough and i'm happy of the resilience of this plant hard exposed to dry wind.
Thanks RQS Team. 😁
(30/05) UPDATE: The plant is starting to grow bigger now ( day 16 ) thanks to the giving of fertilizers and a little more humidity in the air. 🙏
Week 4 has come but the plant those days was very stressed due to winds and high daytime temperatures. After all she seems to be healty and that's a good sign because this means she can resist pests and also my goal is the taste ( i'm growing organic ) not only the final weight.
Today ( 04/06 week 4 ) i've raised the fertilizers ( 4th application from the beginning ) especially the amendments to make sure she recovers from the stress of past days. I'm a bit scared in making LST right now so i will wait until lower branches can be bended, maybe i don't do it at all. Hope she will do her best. Peace 👋
06/06 UPDATE: Today i've trained the plant with LST because the flowering is near so the stem is hardening and this was the last call.
10/06 UPDATE: The plant is starting to flower at the end of week 4 and i was just in time previously to make LST. There was a little N deficiency so i raised nitrogen levels (Herba Sprint 2ml/l ) on the second giving of fertilizers. The lizard came to drink some drop of clean water but she was fast and i wasn't ready to take a shot, she's still there 😁
11/06 Today is the first day of week 5 and the flowering is starting. I will add blooming fertilizers and also some extra nitrogen because the deficiency is always there. After all she seems medium to small sized but as i said i'm putting all my efforts to have better taste rather than better weight because i smoke only with vaporizers. stay tuned for updates. peace. 😁
13/06 Feeding day, hope the nitrogen deficiency stops. I've noticed that pine castings compost has the ability to lock nitrogen, so half of the potting soil i've used ( pine compost ) is locking nitrogen. Maybe i will add more mycos to solve this problem.
15/06 The plant is in full flowering now, i'm using organic molasses ( NK 2-4 ) with some added myco and bacteria, i also mixed some RQS organic bat guano to the top of the soil to support flowering and of course i'm not using the other fertilizers. At the end i removed 1 fan leaf
18/06 Week 6 is starting right now and i moved her to a better place with more light exposure. Finally organic custom molasses seems to starting take over, she looks beautiful ( the bottom discoloured fan leaf is an old one ) and has recovered from previous N def. Newest internodal stems are stretching a bit so i will continue using molasses next feeding.
20/06 Things are getting really hot here, today the temperature reached 32°C but the lady is always doing great, now she is very greeny and bushy thanks to the bacteria and mycos that are decomposing pine castings compost. I just watered with plain water with biological lemon juice to adjust PH to 6.5
22/06 today i made LST to lower branches and make air circulate so i moved pot another time, in a cooler environment, under an almond tree because is too hot here. The production of resin is clearly visible in leafs near colas. I'm very happy of her vigour 😁
Yesterday 25/06 was the start of week 7. She is wonderful, very greeny and super healty
29/06 She continues flowering as should be, main cola looks amazing and super fat, better pictures coming at the end of week 7
02/07 Week 8 is started.
The plant shows K def in one older fan leaf but i'm not afraid at all because she's very healty and bud sites are super strong so they have all the potassium needed to make fatty buds ( thanks to mycorrhizas ). Is becoming hard to have trainers because the plant is very small sized and colas are owning all the stem site so there isn't a free spot for trainer and this is, at the end, a good new 😁
I guess she should be very ready in four to five more weeks and i'm searching mainly for flavour, if i'm right i have 1 to 2 more weeks for adding organic fertilizers and flushing enough through pot later on.
09/07 end of week 8
Bottom buds are growing a bit and main cola is fattening. I guess this is the last week of feeding and later i will just use plain water and bio lemon juice to adjust ph
she has started to have some amber trichomes especially in top colas and i have stopped adding fertilizers from 07/07 but i will wait another week because i should cut down the entire plant.
So the final countdown finally came off.
In first days of life the little plant suffered from low humidity, stronger winds and little colder outdoor temps and the days passed by. When she started to flower, she was very short sized because of stress and also suffered of lack of nitrogen, but, very slowly were forming nice compact buds, rich in resin. Today i can tell you that buds are compact and super smelly. In half veg stage i started using bio fert wich was a mix of: molasses with harvested outdoor bacteria and mychorriza, i also added RQS mycho in soil and a bit of RQS guano.
When i finally cut down the plant i checked roots and they were strong and relatively fatty, with beneficial worms and insects, survived to the using of bio fert and they were released to nature 😁
Edday
