GHSC Chemical Bride

Terp_Djiny At the beginning of the first week, I first prepared the substrate mix: 60% soil 20% coco fiber 20% perlite I mixed it all with 3.5g of Bio Grow from Green House Feeding per liter of substrate. I watered for the first time with rainwater. Next time, I will use the Enchancer. 1g of Enchancer per liter of water, as indicated on the packaging. For the main part of the growth phase, the two are in my greenhouse. Later, during the flowering phase, they will go into the tent in the house. The first week is over. The weather isn't cooperating too much yet, but it should get better. The first roots are already reaching the bottom of the pot.

Terp_Djiny Little progress report: In the second week, there have been a few more hours of sunshine. The plants like it. So do I. :D After the seed leaves, the first real leaves are also forming. By the end of the second week, I put the two into their final pots. Given the current weather conditions, I'm thinking about bringing them inside. Unfortunately, it's not as sunny as expected..

Terp_Djiny So here's a little update, the sunlight hours are limited but the UV value is quite good. It's supposed to get sunnier now. I topped both of them and cut off the lowest shoots. It seems like they handled the topping pretty well. By the end of the week, the days are really nice and sunny, and both of them have made a jump of almost 10cm.

Terp_Djiny This week, unfortunately, I'm not with the plants. I'm still hanging out a bit in the greenhouse in Amsterdam. ;P A buddy checked in on them, watered a bit, and sent me these photos.

Terp_Djiny This week is going well. The sun sails are about 25cm long. Huge leaves. The sun is doing the plants a lot of good. I'm only watering with rainwater. I tied down the shoots a bit so that more light can come in. By the end of the week, one shoot unfortunately didn't survive the tying down. They developed so much strength that it completely straightened up again, and with the other one, it seems it was tied down too tightly.

Terp_Djiny At the beginning of the week, I snapped off the two main stems of one plant. It seems to have gone well. They apparently didn't want to be tied down. There were enhancers again too. By the end of this week, the two will also go into the tent. The weather is too gloomy for me. Once in the tent, the main stem of one plant had to go under the net after all. You can see the result in the pictures. I think they handled it well. Both the HST and the move into the tent.

Terp_Djiny Check out these huge leaves. I like it. In the tent, they had a few days to adjust to the changed environmental conditions. I started defoliating. Cut a few shoots from the bottom and some sun leaves from the top. Quite a bit of organic waste has accumulated. Now they can grow for another week or two. Then it will be time for the flowering phase.

Terp_Djiny Hello everyone, Today I spread the bio bloom fertilizer from Green House Feeding on the soil. About 20 liters of soil mix means for me 70g of fertilizer. After fertilizing, I only watered with pH-regulated water, and as soon as the soil dries out again, I will add enhancer again. This way we stay in a two-week cycle. This week, I will shorten the light cycle by one hour daily to slowly but surely bring the plant into flowering.

Terp_Djiny So this week starts with a continuous 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness. The first signs of pre-flowering are present on both plants. Hopefully, they won't stretch too much. Due to the spindly growth at the beginning, my height in the tent is somewhat limited. I've tied down the main stems again in the hope that it saves me a bit of height.

Terp_Djiny Progress report: The plants are making a pretty good impression on me. They seem to be taking up the nutrients and getting back on their feet. After they made a rather bad impression on me over the last two weeks. Those weird white spots aren’t spreading either. Let’s see how it goes from here. Well, a look with the microscope showed me these nice little aphids. I immediately cut out some infested leaves since I wanted to thin them out anyway. After that, I mixed Neem oil (4ml) with water (0.8l). I filled it into a spray bottle and sprayed both plants from top to bottom. Once from the underside of the leaves and once from the top side. So that the aphids don’t even think about sticking around. I hope the Neem oil doesn’t cause any damage at this stage of flowering... Tomorrow I’ll check a bit more often throughout the day and maybe repeat the whole thing again.

Terp_Djiny Week eleven Flowering week 3 As I see it, the aphids have lost against the neem oil. The plants are thriving beautifully. The flower sites are getting bigger, and visible trichomes are already forming. At the beginning of the week, there were enhancers again, and today the two were thirsty once more. I find the watering cycle of 2.5 liters every two days for 20 liters of soil mix quite remarkable. They seem to be doing well. Here are a few photos.

Terp_Djiny Everything has gone pretty well throughout the week. I'm afraid the right plant has gotten too much fertilizer instead of too little like I assumed. Since the re-fertilizing, even more leaves are turning yellow. Hopefully, it makes it through to the harvest. I haven't flushed the plant yet. I'm just watering it with pH-regulated rainwater. Okay, the other one too, because it's organic fertilizer. 😂🙈 The left one, on the other hand, looks very good to me. The buds are growing and getting frostier by the day.

Terp_Djiny Hello everyone, Midweek. The one on the right of the two plants has formed a few pollen sacs. I've read that some phenos seem to tend to herm out under LED. Long story short, I checked. Very closely. So far, there are 5 sacs, all still unripe and unopened. I removed them as a precaution. That's why there's a slight haircut. I really wanted to take a close look. I hope that's it with the sacs. Let's see how it goes from here.

Terp_Djiny This week was awesome. Every day I checked the two plants for pollen sacs. Luckily, I didn't find any. I'm a bit relieved that I haven't found any new ones yet. Every two days, the two of them also need about 5 liters of water. Distributed evenly, of course.

Terp_Djiny This week, the mites have struck again. I cut out a few more leaves today and found another pollen sack. They don't have much time left. They've grown so beautifully that I don't want to risk ruining the harvest. With the microscope, I already saw today that most of the trichomes are milky. There are still a few clear ones, but they're rather rare...

Terp_Djiny I shouldn't have let the growth phase in the greenhouse last so long. If I had moved them to the tent a bit earlier, they wouldn't have shot up as much. Well, the result from all the stress the two went through looks pretty good. A few mites just wouldn't leave me alone, and the right plant formed male pollen sacs. I saw two or three seeds during the harvest. Aside from that, the two have developed an amazing scent and look really compact.