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Seeds are placed in the middle of paper towels folded over 4 times and soaked with RO water. The paper towels are in a sprouting tray with a heating pad underneath inside the grow tent with the temps about 80 F.
Start week 1
6/28: seeds germinated in 36 hours in paper towels. Started breaking surface of the soil roughly 48 hours after planting. PPF 250 +/- 10
7/1:
PPF 290 +/- 10
7/12: Week3 Day1 - Watered through with 1/2 tsp/gal of coconut and disposed of runoff. Cleaned pots before putting back in tent and turning on autopots. ROd water at 9 PPM and 6.3 PH
7/13: rh bumped to 75 +-2.5 because of heat.
Lots of growth 24 hours after turning pots on. Plants rebounded from the water through within 24 hours.
Tent Temp: 83F
Tent RH: 75
Leaf Temp: 80.6 F
VPD: 0.96 kPa
LVPD: 0.61 kPa
7/15:
Topped CQ and M&Q (day 18)
Turned off air domes because leaves were drooping. Leaves rebounded within the hour. Will turn back on during flower, but cycle on for last 8 hours of light.
7/16:
Turned off water to autopots. Realized you’re supposed to weight 24 hours after watering through, before you turn on the pots. Plants (mainly CQ and M&Q) have mildly drooping leaves with some minor discoloration. Going to leave the water off for 24 hours to let the medium dry out a bit.
7/17: topped cosmic apprentice and removed a couple small lower growths.
7/18: topped SK. CQ is still drooping. Autopots still off but soil still to wet. Going to leave another 24 hours.
Week 5:
Monday 7/26 PPF = 510 +/- 20
Plants looking good. Lost a branch on M&Q due to over aggressive LST.
CQ & CA starting pre-flower.
Tent temp: 81
Leaf temp: 79
RH: 67%
VPD: 1.19 kPa
LVPD: .96 kPa
7/28
Still no flowering from MQ or SK yet, MQ looks closer, but SK is setting up nicer
5:30 pm shut off auto pots and started brewing tea. Plan to feed 1/2 gallon each tomorrow evening and leave auto pots off for 24-48 hours additional
7/29
3:00 pm fed 3/8 gallon of tea. Plan to leave pots off for 24/48 hours until soil is less saturated.
7/30
M&Q started flowering
SK in early preflower
7/31
Turn auto pots back on
8/2:
Start of first week of flower. CA & CQ started flowering early last week followed by MQ and SK started flowering today.
PPFD upped to 625 +- 20
8/3:
Moved humidifier out of tent - aquarium humidifier added.
Tent: 80f
Leaf: 78.5f
RH: 65 +-2
VPD: 1.22 kPa
LVPD: 1.05 kPa
8/4 - RH adjusted
Tent: 80f
Leaf: 78.5
RH: 63 +- 2
VPD: 1.30 kPa
LVPD: 1.18 kPa
8/5
Lite topdress and water to MQ and CQ. New growth is looking a little pale
8/9:
Tent: 80f
RH: 65+-2
Leaf temp: 78.5
Each plant top dressed - some dead/browning lower leaves after being gone for 4 days.
8/10:
Looks like N def. Purchased organic N and waiting for delivery. Watered in the top dressing a bit.
8/11:
Reconfigured the tent to add 2ft additional vertical space. Lightly defoliated SK and CA.
Raised lamp to 26” above canopy. UV supplemental light is going to get turned on this weekend.
PPFD: 675 +/- 30
8/12:
Smell is definitely becoming noticeable from CQ & CA. It’s a mild pine-y skunky smell, very pleasant
8/13:
Turned on UVA supplemental light. It’s set to turn on from 6:00 pm - 10:30pm. Will add an hour each week of flower.
8/14:
Emptied, cleaned and refilled autopots basin. Replaced humidifier again.
8/16: day 50 since breaking soil
- uv light is on 4 1/2 hours
- CQ & CA furthest along.
- N should be delivered tomorrow, yellowing on bottom leaves.
- SK starting to take shape
8/17:
Took CQ out, defoliated SK lowers, fed 1/3 gallon tea each
Added 1/3 tsp/gallon of growers secret nitrogen 14-0-0 to the water supply.
Smell is strong in the CQ. It’s got a heavy dose of soap now. Can’t can’t to harvest. Looking like 1-2 weeks max. serious fade mixed with deficiencies early are causing a lot of dying off lower fan leaves. Need to increase feeding next time in week1 of flower.
The others are 2-4 weeks from being done.
Day 58:
Tent temp: 81
Leaf temp: 81
RH: 66 +- 2
VPD:
LVPD:
PPFD 825 +- 50
8/26 - emptied water and cleaned auto pots. Refilled with 1/4 tsp/gal 14-0-0. CQ is stinking up the place.
Mostly cloudy trichs with a few clear and a few amber. Looking like harvest within a week.
Other 3 are still 2-3 weeks. CA getting thick.
Really happy with the first living soil grow so far. Not perfect but much improvement over first 3 grows.