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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.