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The 2 GG auto seeds germinated in just over 4 days from being planted directly into the medium. The strawberry pie auto seeds from Fast Buds still haven't arrived, but they should be here within 3 days and I will get 2 of them into pots as soon as they come in.
The light is currently 24 inches away and I'm running it at about 5-10% power.
Humidity - 60-65%
Temp - 78-82 F
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Week 1. Vegetation
4 years ago
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10.16 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6.6
65 %
21 °C
11 L
55.88 cm
Nutrients 2
Home Grown Tomato, Vegetable & Herb Fertilizer 4-6-3 5.208 mll
Of the two GG autos the bigger one was actually germinated a few hours behind the slightly smaller one. One of the two strawberry pies popped yesterday and im still waiting on the second.
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Week 2. Vegetation
4 years ago
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10.16 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6.5
60 %
22 °C
21 °C
11 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 2
Home Grown Tomato, Vegetable & Herb Fertilizer 4-6-3 5.208 mll
A lot of growth this week. Unfortunately I think this grow will only be 3 plants and not 4. I think the light intensity is too much to germinate the seedling directly in the medium. Its too far into the grow that I dont want to start a plant and have it 3 weeks behind come harvest, so 3 plants it is. GG1 #1 is working on its 5th node and will get LST soon. GG #2 is workinng on its fourth. Have been reading more about coco and how i should not let it dry out, however i think since i mixed in worm casting, dry amendments and not enough perlite, I need to let them dry out a bit. I believe thats why the slight droop on leaves is present along with the purple petioles, which are probably from poor aeration blocking phosphorus.
Any insight on the purple petioles would be nice.
Also anyone who has grown in coco/worm castings with dry amendments, do you keep your medium saturated or do you have it dry a bit?
Other than the droopy leaves they look strong to me for 2 weeks. What do yall think?
Thanks!
Hi mate, you should let your substrate dry out between watering. It encourages root growth and keeps them healthy. The droopy leaves are probably cause by over watering. I hope this helps, good luck and happy growing
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Week 3. Vegetation
4 years ago
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12.7 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6.5
60 %
22 °C
21 °C
11 L
53.34 cm
Nutrients 2
Home Grown Tomato, Vegetable & Herb Fertilizer 4-6-3 5.208 mll
The purple petioles seem to be fixing themselves, still new to organic growing, maybe the phosphorus hadn't broken down yet and wasn't available but the plants seem to be getting better in that respect. A LOT of new growth all around, and a freebie seed I thought was a goner actually ended up popping and its about 2.5 weeks behind the GG4s idk what to do with it as my 3x3 might get taken over by these 3 plants alone. I guess I could keep it around and experiment with some training methods as its supposed to be a tall strain anyway. it was a freebie from Seedsman during their 4/20 special and its labeled "Ltd. NYC Diesel" no breeder name so im assuming its a seedsman strain. Anyways great growth this week, a slight sign of light stress with some yellowing tips on newer growth closer to the light, which is at 80% 18 inches away so I moved it to 21 inches and the leaves immediately showed me they loved that distance so ill try to keep it there from now on. More training next week and hopefully see some signs of flowering towards the end of next week.
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Defoliation
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Week 4. Vegetation
4 years ago
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15.24 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6.5
58 %
22 °C
22 °C
11 L
53.34 cm
Nutrients 2
Home Grown Tomato, Vegetable & Herb Fertilizer 4-6-3 5.208 mll
plants really started to stretch, unfortunately while training GG#2 I broke off the top 2 nodes. the plant still is starting to produce pistils and is stretching so im not too worried about it.
the GG1 is showing purple petioles again but this time along with stems starting to purple and leaf tips yellowing/twisting. I just recently top fed the plants as the bottom leaves were yellowing. I think P- as it just started flowering (needing more P) and the P is slow release.
I don't know the line up your using but at the moment your using over double the veg nutrient to the flower nutrient. I would start decreasing the veg and increasing the flower.
I top fed them again yesterday, this will most likely be the last feeding for the Strawberry Pie, so she will just be getting water until harvest, the Two GG's being bigger plants and starting later will probably get one more top feeding in a couple weeks for its final top feeding. Great Growth, no new signs of stress or nute problems. Hoping to continue like this until harvest time
Good growth, SP still getting frostier, GG1 showing signs of cal/mag deficiency which I expected as I didn't buffer my coco. I have been giving it cal/mag with every feeding for the past week, and probably shouldnt have stopped feeding cal/mag, but it wasnt truly "organic" but at this point the cal/mag wouldnt even make it to the plant, but it would still be good to get the cation exchange sites buffered.
GG #2 is really starting to make me think it wont produce anything worth keeping. The plant has had dark green droopy leaves and stunted development the past few weeks. I shouldnt have used calmag, it has extra N in it and I'm thinking it could have ruined the microbial activity in the soil.
DHendy
