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Willits Family Farm- OG Diesel Kush Autoflower
Custom Breeder & Strain
Indoor
Room Type
Topping
weeks 3-5, 7-12
ScrOG
weeks 3-5, 11-13
HST
weeks 3
LST
weeks 2-12
Defoliation
weeks 3-12
Expanded Clay
Grow medium
Grow Conditions
Week 9
Flowering
60.96
cm
inch
Height
24 hrs
Light Schedule
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Aquemini Aquemini
3 years ago
Ok so I messed up somewhere somehow. Week 5 of flowering didn't start till 8/10 but I'll just keep going as is sorry! 8/7 Checked ppm and pH. It climbed to 6.3 and 1250 ppm. I decided she is looking a little to lime green, but I did starve all the DWC for the first few weeks. I was scared to raise the ppm. I honestly wish I did it sooner but all good. She still looks decent even lime green lol. I finally did my first Reservoir change. Took grow out completely, added more bloom, cal-mag, and hydroguard. I went this route to see if it was a salt build up or excess nutrients. Hopefully she gets some color back and if not it's all good! I'm still already happy about this grow. 8/8 Ppm and pH check 8/9 Ppm and pH check 8/10 Ppm and pH check 8/11 Ppm and pH check 8/12 Ppm and pH check 8/13 Ppm and pH check Wow. I almost lost faith and thought it wasn't going to fatten up much. But after going through the last week, I can see a BIG difference! Can't wait to see how she turns out. For my first DWC hydro grow and only doing 1 res change the entire time, I'm pretty surprised! Thanks for checking out my OG Diesel Kush autoflower diary!
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Aquemini
Aqueministarted grow question 3 years ago
Hey fam, my partner Legion Of Roots made a quick video of my tent and plants. I think he did a great job for a quick update video. If you got an extra minute please check out the video and let us know what you think? We would appreciate it! https://youtu.be/iRVHAkj54c0 Learning
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GMSgrowsanswered grow question 3 years ago
Wow. You still use the censored youtube. Will never use that site again...
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Aquemini
Aqueminiweek 3
I couldn't figure out how to Edit the grow diary comment. I forgot to add that all the training in the description on week 3 started 6/20/21 and ended on 7/2/21. I know that's more then a week, but week 2 ended on 6/17/21. So week 4 should of started 7/1/21. I just wanted to describe shortly everything done in those days. I apologize as I work 12 hour days everyday and lose track sometimes. I'll do a much better job about recording time and training from now on.
Ferenc
Ferencweek 1
Good Luck @Aquemini
Aquemini
Aquemini
@Ferenc, Thank you very much!
MangoDudu
MangoDuduweek 7
Hi man! Nice work and training! By experience i will not exceed 1.5 ec max with auto, iโ€™ve got best results with some quite heavy feeder with 1.2/1.3 range in flowering with rock solid flowers
Aquemini
Aquemini
@MangoDudu, Actually I initially started out with 18/6, then went to 20/4, now I'm at 24. I noticed the first 4 weeks the roots grow faster with a dark period. But after the first 4 weeks a plant under 24 light will out grow that plant both above and below ground. After about 4 weeks the 24 hour plant roots blow past a plant under 18/6. That's just from my personal growing experience. I notice my plants only rest for about 2-3 hours and go right back to being perky the rest of the day. Also I should tell you I sleep 3 feet away from my tent and leave it wide open so we live in the same exact environment and lighting. I love growing and I'm obsessed about it and my plants. They live EXACTLY like I do, but they don't have to go to work lol.
MangoDudu
MangoDudu
@Aquemini, perfect mate! I know they convert the CO2 during the day but i know that the roots are more likely to grow overnight, they donโ€™t need it but for a better future result is useful, but if you do only auto in perpetual you are fine
Aquemini
Aquemini
@MangoDudu, Actually I know a lot of people use 18 hours of light but if you do some research you'll learn Cannabis plants are C3 plants. They dont need a dark period unless your trying to flower a photoperiod. What your seeing is my veg tent and it runs 24 hours because I run seedlings, autoflower, and Feminized. I do a perpetual grow system. Thank you for the advice, I do appreciate it. I did find a way to convert my TDS to EC so thanks again for that! I also store my meters like you said and I literally adjust and calibrate them before every single use. I like to be 100% on point. From my experience plants grow a lot faster and stronger under 24 hours of light too. Google C3 plants it's very very interesting information conducted by professional growers and Universities.
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Ner0z
Ner0zweek 4
Hey there, everything looks great! The best advice I can offer is with hydro less is more. I'm in week 5 of flower running 600ppm and thats dialed in. Check ppm daily to see if it's increasing or decreasing so you can dial in plants desired ppm.. If numbers rise nutes are too strong, if numbers fall bump up the nutes and if they stay the same you've hit the perfect number. A couple eye hooks in the tops of the net pots help with early trainning too! Be careful with the floralicious plus too, I find it gunks up my buckets and pumps and it stains the roots in a way that looks like root rot, I prefer diamond nectar for the humic and fulvic acids. Off to a good start mate, happy growing.
Aquemini
Aquemini
@Ner0z, Ok that's good to know. I have not done a res change yet honestly. I was going to only do 1 during transition to flowering unless I get lockouts or like you said a negative pH going. I add a little extra water everyday and try to keep my buckets at the same water level. I keep pre mixed 1 gallon bottles of nutrients for each bucket and top it off with those when ppm drops. I got a nice balance right now that seems to be working very well. Unfortunately with this method it's hard to keep up with how much there drinking, but eating nutes is consistently the same. I was really concerned about them over drinking because I'm in Southern California and it's been getting 100F lately. But I added that Armor Si before the heat wave and even at 85F they seem to be ok.
Ner0z
Ner0z
@Aquemini, excellent. It seems like you're pretty close to the sweet spot. I'd guess 650-700ppm would be stable. How it works is the plants will only take the nutrients they need out of the water, so if they are over fed they drink the water and leave the extra nutrients behind which then raises your resevoir ppm. If they are hungrier they'll eat more nutrients than water causing your ppm to drop. When it stays the same it means they're eating nutrients and drinking water at the exact same rate which is exactly what you want! I also use GHE nutes and ph rising is completely expected, if however you see it dropping its time for a res change, it could also mean root problems but it looks like you're straight cruising!
Aquemini
Aquemini
@Ner0z, Thank you, I really appreciate that! I am in week 4 at 600ppm, The plants drink water and lower the ppm anywhere from 10-25 ppm a day and the pH slowly climbs over 3-6 days. I've been giving them an under feeding on Floralicious Plus, but I did just bump it up a little too. I actually didn't know the PPM was best if it stayed about the same. I'll have to find that sweet spot! Luckily all my roots are very very white so far. I'll keep posting pics of them to see how long they stay that way. Honestly my res is on the darker brown side but hasn't turn the roots brown yet.
Odin9
Odin9week 4
Nice jobb๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘I have already removed 2 leaf from both ๐Ÿ˜‚I will start earlyer in veg for the next grow๐Ÿ‘
Aquemini
Aquemini
@Odin9, Thank you I appreciate it. I believe in heavy training and defoliation on Autoflowers. But I start way earlier then most people. You'll have to experiment and see what works for you. But never cut an autoflower that is small or growing slowly. Once it actually has some bud building on it you can cut any leaves away blocking nodes.
Cannabeast40
Cannabeast40week 3
Wish you best of luck and happy growing ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ™Œ
Aquemini
Aquemini
@Cannabeast40, Thank you very much!
Lazuli
Lazuliweek 7
Good job lol time for heavy defoliation ? Hydro does recover super fast. One time i snapped a whole branch mid flower and still produced huge bud
Lazuli
Lazuli
@Aquemini, pure Gold ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
Aquemini
Aquemini
@Lazuli, Actually I ended up just using duct tape and tapping it back on. It healed back onto the plant in 24 hours. So now I always tape broken branches and 99% of the time it heals. Other then that I'm normally pretty private and haven't had much problems. My landlord came over to do repairs once and stood right next to my tent and looked at it. He never even said anything, or even asked about it or anything. All I did was close it up so no light leaked and I turned my fans on low so they were silent. I even carried multiple plants/ clones and seedlings right passed them and they told me I had beautiful plants. So I think they don't even know what a Cannabis plant looks like lol.
Lazuli
Lazuli
@Aquemini, haha i love that branch story its amazing ๐Ÿ˜‚ so did u root it and just let it go ? Haha i thought i was greedy Thats fucking epic i love it. Do u have more grow stories ? About nosey neighbours or something crazy
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BUDLUST
BUDLUSTweek 12
Looking good!!
Aquemini
Aquemini
@BUDLUST, Lol, the bigger the better!
BUDLUST
BUDLUST
@Aquemini, nugs bigger than solo cups!! lol
Aquemini
Aquemini
@BUDLUST, Why thank you my good man!
SegaYGriega
SegaYGriegaweek 9
Mars hydro - best light
SegaYGriega
SegaYGriega
@Aquemini,Yes, this is a pretty interesting method. I will watch your experiments, I think that the result will be good! ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿค๐Ÿ‘
Aquemini
Aquemini
@SegaYGriega, Yeah running these 2 TS1000 are pretty amazing for veg. You can get really tight nodes, I decided to change methods now. I run 2 TS1000 with a Growers choice Master Pursuit 500w cmh with a 3K-R bulb. Definitely stretched the bottoms, but the stems and leaves are very strong and thick. Once it gets closer to the LEDS it starts making tight node spacing. So this will be great to clear my tent out and start filling my 4x4 with 1 or 2 plants and get scrog net and pull maximum yield.
Guit4Rpl4Y3R
Guit4Rpl4Y3Rweek 6
That's a nice bush
Aquemini
Aquemini
@Guit4Rpl4Y3R, Thank you, I appreciate hearing it. I really do. I'm proud of this Autoflower.
Robbaus
Robbausweek 11
Bellissime ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ€ @Aquemini
Aquemini
Aquemini
@Robbaus, Thank you!
JamMAKEcan
JamMAKEcanweek 7
Hydro wuu your daring i love it.. Good luck i haven't tried hydro ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”yet
JamMAKEcan
JamMAKEcan
@Aquemini,..very nice yes indeed great job buddy
Aquemini
Aquemini
@JamMAKEcan, I have done soil, but not coco. My theory was soil for flavor, DWC hydroponics for speed and yield. I'm trying to master the perpetual grow with only 1 tent that runs 24hrs, and a dark room for flowering.
Koto_420_UK
Koto_420_UKweek 11
great diary, shows me that the possibilities are endless. I am a total noob, had no idea you could even run a 24 hours schedule. Off to do more studying. Kudos Aquemini. Happy harvest to you when it comes, the frost looks beautiful. Great tune on the youtube vid too
Aquemini
Aquemini
@@Koto_420_UK, Thanks for the kind words, I truly appreciate it. I get really busy with 12 hour work days 6 days a week but I love growing and honestly I really enjoy trying new things and experimenting. I don't really do anything the same unless it turns out absolutely fantastic. I really appreciate you checking out my grow group Legion Of Roots on YouTube. It will be a channel of all my growing friends and myself. Were just learning about video editing lol.
SegaYGriega
SegaYGriegaweek 9
Looks great ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜‰
Aquemini
Aquemini
@SegaYGriega, Thank you very much! I appreciate it!
Lacrima
Lacrimaweek 3
Happy Growing ! ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ’ช
Ferenc
Ferencweek 13
Great job! @Aquemini
Ferenc
Ferenc
@Aquemini, Thanks ๐Ÿ˜Š
Aquemini
Aquemini
@Ferenc, Thank you very much! I appreciate you and the kind words! Hopefully I can become a Legend on here like you someday!
Kitties_and_Colas
Kitties_and_Colasweek 13
What a masterpiece!!...you've earned some upvote spam lmao!! ๐Ÿฑโค๏ธ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ’ก
Kitties_and_Colas
Kitties_and_Colas
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Aquemini
Aquemini
@Kitties_and_Colas, Hey I appreciate you very much! Thank you! Your to kind!
SegaYGriega
SegaYGriegaweek 10
Very beautiful garden, buddy๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿ‘
SegaYGriega
SegaYGriega
@Aquemini,๐Ÿ˜‡
Aquemini
Aquemini
@SegaYGriega, Thank you! I appreciate it very much! Your a beautiful soul!
CrazyHorse
CrazyHorseweek 13
Nice buds mate :D Happy Flowering :D
Aquemini
Aquemini
@CrazyHorse, Why thank you, thank you very much! I appreciate it!
JamMAKEcan
JamMAKEcanweek 13
Very nice๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ†keep up the HARD WORK growMie..best wishes on the harvest when it's time๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿšฌ
Aquemini
Aquemini
@JamMAKEcan, I appreciate you very, very much!!! You have been giving me such nice compliments through most of this grow, You kept me encouraged. Thank YOU!!!