Northern Light auto (First Grow)

We found a new friend :D we call him Panda. Nothing much to be doing here. I did spray a bit of water around the stem. and accidently sprayed a little Drop of water on 1 plant and it immediately collapsed😭 I'm so sorry girl. A quick fix with a chop stick and a little wire did the trick to support her hope she'll be back on her feet in no time.😇 update 12/7/2021 the grow till now is easy going. as a precaution I gave the lady's some support. The stem is pretty tall 7cm's before the first leaves. and the leaves are getting bigger and bigger I just wanted to make sure they wouldn't collapse on their own weight. maybe I'm too cautious but hey better safe than sorry right?

Update 15/7/2021 So we entered week 3 (from start) week 2 in veg. Lady's looking strong I removed their support since they seem to be holding well on their own. I keep being amazed about their growth each day. it's really Rainy over here and the RH hoovers around 70-74% I decided to order a dehumidifier but that will come probably next monday. For now they seem to like it but I don't want to be late when flowers come. I wan't to apply LST to them but probably have to wait a little more maybe end week 3 beginning week 4 they are good for it. Man I never thought this hobby would be so much fun! and it's only the beginning....😇😍 update 21/7/2021 What an eventfull week. last weekend i tried to apply some LST and it went terrible wrong. I snapped one of my plants main stem damn they are so fragile (it looks so much easier on youtube 😅) But i taped her together and in that process i lost one small sidebranch but it looks like she took it like a boss and is still going :D. but on another plant where the LST seemed to be going alright. when i returned to check on her she snapped as well tried to tape that one up as well but i think it was hurt too long before I discovered it so I had to take a big loss.. not a total loss but it does hurt me. let's put it away as unintentional topping😰 pretty scared to try LST again. the stems are really sturdy and seem to break so freaking fast. I might just go for defoliation. and lollipopping

update 22/7/2021 Start of Veg week 3 nothing much to add. everything seems to go well considering my F$%^*ups last week. the lady with the healed stem barely seems to have suffered from that injury 🙌 I am really impressed by the size of those leaves they are trully massive!!💪 Update 26/7/2021 lady's going good! started to get bushy. Despite my last efforts I've applied some LST / main lining and this time everything went very well :D also did some Lolli popping. now let them recover a bit

Update 1/8/2021 after some LST i've switched to Scrog. I've noticed some yellowing at the top of some leaves. thinking this is heat stress so i moved the light a bit up let's see what happens it looks like they are about to switch in to flowering. they have had a decent veg time considering these are auto's

update 5/8/2021 Wooohoo Flowering week has started :D having a hard time trying to get the canopy even.. still have some yellow tips forming on 1 plant don't really know how to handle that one moved the light a bit more up. Update 8/8/2021 Ladies are starting to use a lot of water. It's really crazy to see that the plant I really snapped down too the last two leaves. is growing faster than all the others at this point. there is not much I can do now to keep things lvl'd plants are alraidy pretty entangled in the scrog net. from here on it's just watching them grow I guess. Update 10/8/2021 Hello Friends!🙌 things are looking good. I've spotted a little bit of calcium deficiency on a couple of leaves on 1 plant ordered some Cal-Mag (didn't have this yet) hope this comes tomorrow. I am using Tap water that I keep in a jerrycan with the cap off so the chlorine can evaporate measuring a steady PH of 7. and some might say this is too high but I don't see any problems yet and using Soil as substrate gives me a little more margin to play with. beautiful to see the buds are forming :D I've decided to bend some of the higher tops of 1 plants to keep things at the same lvl. this went pretty well and the yellowing on the tips of the leaves seems to have stopped.😀

Update 12/8/2021 Keep on Rocking!😎 having a hard time getting the climate at a constant lvl. doing the best I can with the equipment I have🙌 Update 15/8/2021 from day 43 on i've started to add Calmag to each watering. but after a couple of day's it seems new leaves are still getting brown spots. not really sure what to do.. The nutrient schedule I'm using 1/4 of what is recommended by the Bio-bizz schedule. all plants are given the same amount.. 3 of them are showing some deficiency's and 1 plant is looking really healthy. Update 18/8/2021 Hello Folks.. pffff deep breath My plants are really suffering.. only 1 is doing a really good job. the others really look sick. leaves starting to yellow cetting curly and crunchy.. I did pluck away most of the dead leaves but at this rate there is going to be nothing left 1 one week. I have no real clue what's going on as it's looks it could be several things. it really feels i'm constantly running behind the facts. I know this is my first grow and all and every decision I make will teach me a great deal for the future. Today I ordered a digital PH/EC/PPM meter so I can actually see what exactly is going on and make decisions from there. I am afraid the PH of 7 really blocked out the Nudes that have been given but I am not really sure so let's wait like 2 more days so i can start measuring stuff. the past 2 days it only flushed the plants with water at an estimated guess of 6PH. but the crappy analogue PH meter that i put in the soil still tells me the the soil has a PH of nearly 7. What I really don't understand is how 1 plant really doesn't show any symptoms while i gave every plant the exact same water/nutrients etc. Well fingers crossed. what a hobby🙌💪

Update 20/8/21 Hello folks new week new adventures. Today my Digital PH/EC/PPM meter arrived and i've put it straight to use. Turns out my Tap water has a PH value of 8!! instead of 7 what I thought (using a analogue meter) for any starter never buy these analogue PH meters they are absolutely useless!! I have taken extreme measures and Flushed every plant till the Run off had an acceptable value of around 6.3 PH. I've PH'd my water to 6. PPM readings on the runoff were around 400 PPM. after the flush I gave the plants new nutrients 600 PPM What have I learned? at first i didn't really want to spend like 100 euro's for a good digital sensor. Boy that was a stupid choice and after all I still bought it! and happy too now I can actually see what I'm doing. Hope to see the plants turn around a little after some day's let's Pray🙌😇 Update 22/8/2021 After all the stress from last week I do think my actions of last friday are paying off. I can't find any new damaged leaves. the pots are still very heavy from the flushing that I've done. might take a couple more day's before they dry up. They are probably still in recovery mode, this much water (flushing) surely is a shock for them as well. what a journey :D Update 24/8/2021 Nothing much to say now. the pots are slowly drying up but they still feel heavy it's been 4 days now since I flushed them. out of 3 that were sick 2 of them are slowly starting to look better. or at least I see growth progress. but bear in mind that this is only week 3 of flowering so a lot can happen.🙏 update 25/8/2021 today the pots finally ran dry. filled them up again with PH 6.5 water till runoff (after I Measured runoff I was better off going for PH 6 water i guess) measured run off now is around 6.8 PH and 800 PPM. i reckon it will take some time to get on the right PH lvl. at least we are in a better range now than 1 week ago. so the flush did work but didn't completely get to the desired PH range.

Update 29/8/2021 Nothing much going on last couple of day's today the pots ran dry again so i've watered them and gave new nutrients. some leaves still start to turn yellow but i'm just leaving them as they go now. 1 plants is still not really showing any progress in growth.. the 2 others slowly seem to grow. Update 1/9/2021 Hey Folks, again not much action this week. picking some dead leaves left and right. but thats it. Really starting to think that 1 plant is lost. it doesn't show any more growth. we are slowly getting closer to the finish line. and man do i want to finish this.. and start a new cycle with all the knowledge I have now.😎 stay safe🙏

Update 7/9/2021 Hello Folks I 've been very quiet the past week. entering the final stages their is simply not that much happening to talk about. other than giving nudes (last time) checking PH and water the plants I simply just have to wait😎 I can see the plants have suffered a great deal but i'm happy to see 3 of them are still showing bud growth. one plant kind of stopped and it looks like that one is foxtailing as well. but not going to cut it down. it might still produce something that I can use to make oil. Hope you guys are still with my till the end of this journey. Thanks for all the support so far!🙏 Update 8/9/2021 Other than enjoying the beautiful buds that are forming there is nothing much going on. every day I'm checking the trichomes. from now on only watering the plants. it's time for the final weeks.

update 9/9/2021 Trichomes seem to be getting cloudy but I can't find any of them turning Amber yet. Question for all the experienced growers out here what do you think? 1 more week? Update 12/9/2021 Just Chilling and giving them water every 2-3 days 2L each plant Update 14/9/2021 I'm starting to be believe it's about time I'm thinking this Friday. 2 of them are also looking to slow down. those have suffered a great deal for like at least 2 weeks. so I guess that definitely shows in the yield. 1 just seems perfect and it has been looking perfect all the way.

update 17/9/2021 I've decided to give them 1 more week :D almost chopped them down but my brain told me to wait 1 more week :P not very much to add to the story at this point. Update 20/9/2021 I've Cut them Down😎 I know I know I told to give them 1 more week. But if I look at the past 2 weeks nothing really happened to them. the smell was getting strong. They've had more flowering days than what Sensi Seeds tells so I'm pretty sure they were good to go. Plus I will be away from my house so that makes it hard to plan everything together. any 1 knows if i can Edit the harvest page after i've filled in all the details? if not I'll wait till everything is done. stay tuned for the last update in this diary :D thanks for the support all🙏 *****Next up White Haze from White Label****

The time has come to harvest the plants. Since I Cut them down and dry them as a whole i am unable to get a wet Bud weight.. ( I don't really care about wet bud weight anyways) Plant 1 55 Gram dry weight Plant 2 70 Grams Dry weight. So far over 35 grams of Trim that i can use to make Oil. Tomorrow going to finish the other 2 plants.