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24/Feb/2017: Using a very easy and original method, I started the germination of 4 seeds: 2 Sweet Skunk auto, 1 Sweet Cheese auto and 1 Nirvana Northern Lights photoperiodic.
The method is by using the bottom of a 500cc PET bottle, putting 3 wet cotton discs (like the ones the girls uses as make up remover), put the seed and another 3 wet cotton rolls. Easy peasy.
Now let's wait to the radicles shows up...
26/Feb/2017: The radicles showed up on every seed, so now it's time to move them to their final home: a 10L Roots House's flowers pot with automatic root pruning. For the Northern Lights, as it's photoperiodic I know it's not recommendable to put it in a large flower pot, but I'm lazy :)
01/Mar/2017: Now the cotyledons showed up on every little girl. But the Northern Lights have had an issue, with I assume one of my cats, and the stem is now broken. I close the wound with my saliva and hopefully it will heal itself. They were in the agglomerate closet for two days now, 18 hours of light and, with exception of the NL of course, they increased their size by 2 cm. and also they started to show their first leafs.
Note: the PPM value is an estimate as I use bottled water to water them.
10/Mar/2017:
For some days I'm not adding new pictures as I'm changing my cellphone. Just look the photo with the Sweet Cheese emerging from the soil. The girls are looking awesome, maybe shorter for 2 full weeks of vegetation but appearing a new leaf every day.
Some tech data I'm trying to record for each week:
Sweet Cheese recently germinated #2: pH 5.8 --- EC 1610 PPM - 3260 µS/cm
The others:
Sweet Cheese #1: pH 5.8 --- EC 1720 ppm - 3430 µS/cm
Sweet Skunk #1: pH 5.9 --- EC 1580 ppm - 3175 µS/cm
Sweet Skunk #2: pH 5.95 --- EC 1290 ppm - 2580 µS/cm
The EC is decreasing but also the pH. I think maybe I've to add some alcaline solution to the water to increase the pH, but right now I'm more worry about the EC as I don't want to they have any blockage on the nutrient intake.
20/Mar/2017: some MAJOR growth this week, the leafs are multiplying and for the first time I had to move the LED far from the girls. Later today, I'll check pH and EC, as the last time it was still pretty high but today only some leafs has burnt tips so I think it's getting better.
24/Mar/2017: first month! Looking good, maybe little slow but for be the first time I use autoflowerings I think it is okay. Last week I haven't time to measure pH and EC but the leafs looks very healthy so I don't think they have any blockage (:
01/Apr/2017: big grow this week, looking awesome! Yesterday after the lights went out I pulverized water with Neem oil as a preventive and tonight I will also pulverize with Top Bloom as the soil is still saturate with minerals. The days to come will water with water only to cleanse the soil and to also measure pH and EC.
09/Abr/2017: the Sweet Cheese #1 started flowering! A little pre-flowers but it started! The #2 is now as high as the 2 Skunks so it also is going well. Talking about the Skunks they kept in the same size, very very bushy, maybe is the genetics, I dunno. I think I fertilized too much last week as the EC is over the roof again... SC#2 pH 6 - 4900 ppm /// SC#1 6.9 - 2075 ppm /// SS#2 pH 6.75 - 3143 ppm /// SS#1 pH 6.6 - 2785 ppm.
09/Abr/2017: second values later SC#1 pH 5.9 - 620 ppm /// SS#1 pH 6.6 - 850 ppm /// SS#2 pH 6.7 - 1350 ppm /// SC#2 pH 6.7 - 1680 ppm. Way better, so to the Cheese #1 will apply Top Bloom + Neem pulverized.
14/Abr/2017: emergency! The Sweet Cheese #1 finally overpassed the LED so I had to be creative and I do an emergency supercropping and LST on the main branches. I know it's not recommended do that in flowering but I have no choice. Today also I couldn't measure pH and EC, hope maybe later, so I watered with only water. Perhaps will pulverize with Neem and Top Bloom when the lights go out. The others go very well, the Skunks still doesn't show pre-flowers as the young Cheese show them, this last one is going very well.
EDIT: finally could measure, it looks awesome (:
Sweet Cheese #2 pH 6.6 - 810 ppm
Sweet Cheese #1 pH 6.5 - 886 ppm
Sweet Skunk #2 pH 6.6 - 1180 ppm
Sweet Skunk #1 pH 6.9 - 504 ppm
01/May/2017: happy labours day for everyone! The pH is still raising, I had to water with demineralized or maybe will go hardcore and use a pH down solution. Although I raise the Top Bloom concentration to down the pH of the water and also give some nutrients as the EC is optimal. Nevertheless, the girls are flowering very good. I believe maybe two weeks from now will harvest, the Sweet Cheese #1 at least which is the most advanced girl.
05/May: still looking awesome! The buds on the Cheeses are getting fat and the Skunks are flowering very nice. I think maybe a week past will harvest maybe the mature buds of the Cheese #1 but for now they're showing transparent almost milky trichomes.
14/Apr/2017: looking good, a bit overfertilizied but nothing serious. The skunks now has many flowers and maybe the next week will harvest the Cheese #1
I loove Grow Diaries, make my follow ups very easy. Maybe the part of the tastes and effects have to ask to you at least a month later as I harvest today I obviously cannot taste it.
EDIT: I completed now, and will up one point on the overall of this strain, I love smoke it and its effects.
20/May/2017: the three remains looking good, one Skunk is giving new leafs, bit strange. Will harvest the second Cheese maybe next week. The skunks are another story, very slow growing. Definitely will invest in more lighting, I'm thinking at least two 50w full spectrum COB LED.
27/Apr/2017: a lot of pH problems but the harvest of the first Cheese was pretty good. The second Cheese also looks good and one of the Skunks is getting its buds fatter. Also I change products as for the next grow will use Advanced Nutrients ones- Very disappointed with the Top Crop products. Tomorrow will harvest the second Cheese and hope the next week will also harvest the Skunks.
Very weird strain, must say. The plants were skinny, leafy and with a lot of buds instead a central big one. I think I'd get an average crop but also must say it result more productive than the Cheese one. I will do a second try with both strains as they fulfill my production expectations.
Buen crecimiento, ahora preparate para que empiecen a explotar, te recomendaria que le hagas LST a alguna así aprovechas la luz bien, con 150w led te vas a quedar corto en flora y vas a tener un solo cogollo grande si la dejas crecer sola, haceselo al menos a una así podes comparar y aprender para la proxima. Un buen LST le viene muy bien a las autos, yo tengo una northern lights que le arranque el LST desde pequeña y las colas explotaron en crecimiento y la veo muy bien. Saludos
@plater, Es genial hacer LST a las autos, ni se estresan y el resultado es notorio, ademas mas que nada es para aprender con la experiencia, así los próximos cultivos salen cada vez mejor. Yo uso un especie de cable de goma que es hueco, y como no me gusta tener que andar haciendo nudos en los tallos, agarre un alambre finito maleable y se lo pase por el medio, de esa forma simplemente le doy forma de gancho a una punta, y la otra la engancho abajo de la maceta. De todas formas, lo relevante es no lastimar el tallo, no usar materiales muy finitos que puedan cortar el tallo, ni apretarlos mucho haciendo nudos, lo ideal es un alambresito enmallado de tela o goma. Mucha gente usa los limpiadores de pipa que son baratos y funcionan muy bien para esto.
Gracias por la sugerencia! Quería que salgan con un solo cogollo central grande pero me tentas aunque sea para probar el LST, quizá con la Cheese más grande que está estallada de hojas y veo a las de abajo chiquitas probablemente porque no le llega bien la luz. Qué materiales recomendas para un buen LST? Gracias!
Question about the neem oil: I know you can use it by diluting it in water to spray topically for killing pests like scale bugs, but did you use it in water to feed it? If so, how safe is it?
@EmeraldReverie, hi dude I believe it's safe to. If you use it in the water the girls will be fed by it and when the insects try to eat the plant will also eat the neem, killing them. I think pulverized is the typical use because many of us use it when the plagues already hit the plants, but I think in the water is good as preventive. I also read the neem used in the water keeps active around a month in the substrate, but if sprayed it last only by a week. Hope the info is useful but keep in mind I'm a rookie in gardening and my opinion is based on experiencie and info recollected over the Internet.
Looking good :) I considered super cropping my plant as it reached past the led but i ended up not doing it. Going to follow to see the result. Good luck!
Muy lindas, hiciste bien acercando el LED,igual no te pases con el deeper ni los abonos, si usas agua de la canilla generalmente es re dura como podes ver con tu medidor de EC, te da mucho menos margen para poner nutrientes, 1ml ya es mucho para tus autos, espera al menos 2 semanas y la proxima dale 0.5ml. Yo cometi el error de darles mucho Deeper al principio (0.5ml y 0.75ml) y ahora tengo bastantes sales acumuladas. Otra cosa, te recomendaría sacarles el palito, no ayuda en nada, en todo caso te perjudica ya que vas a tener tallos mas debiles al no tener que soportar todo su peso.
@insti, espectacular, voy por ese camino y se notó mucho la diferencia al acercar el LED. No crecieron en alto pero se multiplicaron en cantidad de hojas. Ahora el LED estará a una palma de mano de la planta más alta.
Hoy empieza la tercer semana y regué solo con agua. Uso agua mineral Glaciar para asegurarme la composición (especialmente lo baja en sodio) porque por lo que vi midiendo la de la canilla, tanto el pH como la EC coinciden para ambas: 7.5 y 200 ppm. Los escarbadientes también los saqué, totalmente al pedo.
Gracias por comentar!
04/Abr/2017: the Cheese #1 is growing and growing! Far I know the autos are like dwarf plants, I hope in the next days it starts flowering because I will have to move up the LED and maybe will be bad for the other girls. The sunday night I pulverized with Top Bloom again. Today only water. Maybe tomorrow will pulverize again, or maybe directly in the soil for the Cheese #1 as its values are excellent and I want to get to start flowering it. Today I finally could measure and IT. LOOKS. AWESOME.Only the Skunk #1 has the EC a little high so I do a roots cleansing and measure again. The EC drops now to a more convenient value. Sweet Cheese #1: pH 6.5 - 0650 ppm /// Sweet Cheese #2: pH 6.55 - 1160 ppm /// Sweet Skunk #1: 6.4 pH - 0824 ppm /// Sweet Skunk #2: pH 6.45 - 0986 ppm
25/Apr/2017: looking good, the SC2 is responding well to the rough LST. The SC1 has too many yellow weak leafs, maybe it's "hungry" but I dunno. Also the Skunks already started flowering!
19/Abr/2017: looking great, the LST and cropping on the Cheese #1 works well and the other one started flowering but it's good in height. The Skunks keeps showing some pre-pre-flowers (?) so it's a concern. Also, and I think the LED is the guilty one, all of the girls has some weaks yellow leafs at the bottom but in the Cheese #1 the yellowing is going up but at least not on the branchs who has flowers.
Stats:
Sweet Cheese #1: pH 6.3 - 691 ppm
Sweet Skunk #1: pH 6.7 - 792 ppm
Sweet Cheese #2: pH 6.5 - 594 ppm
Sweet Skunk #2: pH 6.5 - 974 ppm
21/Mar/2017: yesterday I watered the girls and also used neem oil as a preventive pest control (less than 5 ml/l). The girls are growing very well, I'm very satisfied of the development of the plantation (:
08/Mar/2017: today the radicle of the Cheese I was germinating showed up so I put it in the flower pot. I dunno if it's psychological but I appreciate a better grow of the other ones as I put the LED closer. Looking forward the next days!
07/Mar/2017: well, the Northern Lights is finally dead, so I put to germinate a Sweet Cheese. Also I modified the light regimee to 20/4 and put the LED closer to the girls 'cause I believe it was way too far.
Edit: now I have a pH/TDS meter! So as the girls were thirsty I irrigated them until the water pour from the bottom of the pots. The pH was excellent (6) but the substratum is filled with minerals (1875 ppm) so, although some people told me that use the Deeper one last time, I will irrigate them with only water to stabilize the EC.
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