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4 years ago
Nutrients 5
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.01 mll
Calmag - BioBizz
Calmag 1 mll
Nitrozyme - Growth Technology
Nitrozyme 5 mll
Evening all...back on it AGAIN!!!! Worst is, in the middle of a heat wave (Hottest day every recorded in this part of the world a couple of days in a row!!!)...still need to finish trimming my last crop!!! 😰 Will get that done over the next couple of days as these girls need rehoused!!! So, got a cloner at the start of the year...was planning on clone a spare wedding cake I had but that sort of went to pot and life got in the way and that didn't happen. As I also got a hold of an Ultrasonic Mist Generator, I thought I'd give this "Fogponics" Germination thing a go!!! Seeing as @Sweet_Seeds donated a few Magical Beans to my cause, I thought I'd give their genetics a whirl. The Red Hot cookies looked too cool to pass up on!!! So, got the beans popped on the 12th of July and by the Thursday, they were showing their wee heads. These are strong wee plants!!! Vigorous as you like!!! Got them into the 'fogponics' machine and let them rip (Under 2x11W T5 Sunblaster 6400K's and a Amazon Special LED light for extra Spectrum) and they seem to be coming on grand. Noticed some yellow spots on the leaves and in 2 minds if it was: A. calcium (As starter plugs are Coir and I didn't put calmag in the plug hydration mix - Jiffy Original plugs are supposed to be buffered for this!!!); B. if I should have broken and washed them out of the Coir and put them into straight Hydroton (The fog could have been saturating the Coir and choking the internal roots a bit) or C. if its just the abusive heat we've been having here (In a country where A/C is basically unheard off as heat doesn't exist outside!!! 😋). Roots are ripping out of the net pots now so they're about as ready for transplant as can be...just wanna give a day or 2 more to see if the heat here settles as I can't adequately cool the area they're going too - but then again, under LED so heat may be good as it doesn't heat the leaf surface up as much! Plus I have a couple of plants to trim...still hanging in their humidor tent when is needed again for growing! Think this will also be the retirement party for the Wilma. Going to build an Undercurrent Fallponics system when this run is done (Wont have time to get it setup before these girls need forever homes!!!). Have the crates bought and a bit of research done on how to DIY a build so hopefully this turns out to be a decent run. Also have a few people with building experience on hand to give advice. Since last grow: Lights have been upgraded to a Geekbeast 630W Pro LED (3500K Spectrum - UV 385nm and Far Red 730nm built in [won't use the 730's as they can't be run independent of the Main Lights...be wary of this if you buy one off Alibaba for the 730's built in!!!] - Will run the 385UV's though throughout the grow for more blue...will run then 3 hours after lights on to until 3hours before lights off). Also procured an InvisibleSun LED 730nm Flower Initiator (Will use this for EOD Far Red treatment to try a 13/11 flower cycle) and a Migro UVB310 fixture - For the Trikes!!! 😝. Have a Haliea 300A winging its way to me as we speak. Have some Non-Stick Micro-tips flying in from the Grand old US of A a will to get a better, more consistent yield. Think that's about all I have for now...Happy Growing all!!! 💪
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Week 1. Vegetation
4 years ago
15.24 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
5.6
600 PPM
60 %
19 °C
11 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 11
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 1 mll
Fulvic - Terra Aquatica
Fulvic 1 mll
Trace Mix - Canna
Trace Mix 0.5 mll
Day 1, 29/07/21 - Got the girls in their Big Girl house now. New additions for this grow: Geeklight Geekbeast Pro 630W 3500K (Currently running at 40DLI - 18"@65% Brightness Hailea AC308 Air Pump - As you can see from the bubbles with the Aquaburst, she blows!!! :P InvisibleSun FR8 Far Red Supplementation (For EOD Flower Initiating) Migro UVB 310 (For the Trikes) Have a (New to Me) Hailea 300A - waiting to see tank temps before I go there but currently at 19C so should be good there Need a couple of new Oscillating fans but will sort that for a wee bit later. New 3Gal Smart pots and again using Vitalink Clay Pebbles. Running this grow on a conventional 18/6 again. the previous 6/2 was great in veg (I think - had big leaves but with the stretch in grow and a lower than expected yield; I either had a light issue or they were stressed...big leaves in veg can be a sign of Shade Avoidance Syndrome - roots were poor too compared to 1st grow under 18/6 so will see...) but as you can see, I had problems. I don't know if it was from the seedling stress where the grow plugs dried and they took a bit to rebound or the schedule so going conventional again. Need to remember, 1mL/L of Aquaburst is not the way to go unless I want a foam party...better go back to the 0.5mL/L i was using last time...thin the water but not too foamy!!! 😂 All I need to do is work out my app for my light and set my timers. Will get the Time Lapse video up and running this grow again as that was fun last time!!! 😀 Feed is a bit stronger than I would like too (EC1.2 including water base of 0.2), but going with the Kind Expert feed chart ratio's this time rather than the calculated values I made from their now gone Feed Calc! Apart from that, just need to ensure they bed in now and get to growing. Hope you enjoy. Happy growing all! 💪
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Week 2. Vegetation
4 years ago
15.24 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
5.8
600 PPM
60 %
19 °C
11 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 11
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 1 mll
Fulvic - Terra Aquatica
Fulvic 1 mll
Trace Mix - Canna
Trace Mix 0.5 mll
Day 8 - Girls starting to come on now. Looks like their roots have settled and starting to see some pokies coming out of the bottom of the root pouches so hopefully start to see some good growth beginning soon. Get them ready for training and the likes. Not changed the water this week (really should have as temp has been up a bit...into the 25's in the tank but plenty of Great White in there and no roots in water yet but...) - topping up with plain water to keep the EC level and just pH adjusting. Last weeks solution was a bit hot for my liking but no burn signs so should be good for a couple more days yet. Got some iceline procured so been cleaning/flushing/sterilising the Hailea for getting it installed (That's when the water change will happen...likely to last weeks strength & recipe). Cant wait to get that in to get tank temps down (as roots will be in the water in about 5 days by the looks of things...tops!!! Also have the Torus Hydro pH Perfect Inline run through for a couple of days so it will be ready to go in to keep the pH good for me (A grow off and my pH skills are out the window!!! 😜). Just waiting on a Sicce Syncra 3.0 to pump the chiller and the pH Perfect (Bit overkill @ 2700LpH but looking something for the URDWC I am building for next year...thought the extra pressure would help with the inline pH adjuster too). Apart from that, will download the stills for the time lapse video and upload tomorrow. Happy Growing all!!! 💪
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Week 3. Vegetation
4 years ago
22.86 cm
18 hrs
25 °C
5.6
650 PPM
60 %
19 °C
11 L
45.72 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 13
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 1 mll
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.1 mll
Fulvic - Terra Aquatica
Fulvic 1 mll
Day 15 - Fresh tank and not much new to report. pH was remaining incredibly stable through last week so skipped a fresh feed week. 300A doing its job keeping the water at a nice 19C. As noted, girls got topped a couple of days ago. They're rebounding nicely. Will start some LST on the branches now through the week. Will be the usual balance pH at the start of the week and hopefully stabilise quickly. Using the Botanicare kind ratios (Expert Recipe) if not the same volumes so base to grow is 2 to 3 ratio this week. Thats about it for now (Will add some pics and last week time lapse in a bit when lights are on). Happy growing all!!! 💪
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Week 4. Vegetation
4 years ago
22.86 cm
18 hrs
25 °C
5.7
700 PPM
60 %
19 °C
11 L
45.72 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 12
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 2 mll
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.1 mll
Fulvic - Terra Aquatica
Fulvic 2 mll
Day 22 - All ticking along nicely...apart from a smart timer issue the last 2 days!!! :/ At least it was light stuck on rather than off so no early flower initiation!!! Got everything reset and all looks good so far. Will be using programmable timers for flower, JIC!!! Funny thing I noted while making the time lapse, the plants still "Went to sleep" at the time they should...even with the lights on and woke up when they should! Was quite interesting to see! Apart from that, just LST and plucking some bud covering leaves. Dropping the SCROG screen tonight and this will most likely be the last week of veg. As EC was dropping slightly by end of last week, have upped the EC by 0.1 Happy Growing all!!! 💪
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Week 5. Flowering
4 years ago
30.48 cm
12 hrs
25 °C
5.8
800 PPM
60 %
19 °C
11 L
45.72 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 14
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 2 mll
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.026 mll
Fulvic - Terra Aquatica
Fulvic 2 mll
Day 29 - So today's the day the girlie girls go to 12/12. Effed up my time lapse this week...turned the camera off by mistake so missing the joys of watching the scrog fill!!! Got the timers reset for the new schedule; the timer installed for the Flower initiator and the light set to around 800PPFD (Averaging between 35-40 DLI across the nodes) - working out at 90% brightness at 18 inches. Running a bit more of a height for the flower initiator to ensure coverage (Covers a 4x4, but manufacturer doesn't say at which height so trying science to work it out!!!). LS351H 730nm LED's have a beam throw of 120° which *should* allow me to go as close as 14" (Cheers Pythagoras!!! 🙌) but want to ensure every thing in the plants see the lights and not rely wholly on the LED tech specs which doesn't give margin of error on beam angle (plus allows for slight off-centering, bad alignment on my part, etc.). Have changed to bloom nutes (But heavy on the base). Going against another growers advice (whom as a person, and their opinion, I highly respect and admire on here) and not running a "transition feed" (ramp down grow, ramp up bloom) - hopefully not to my detriment!!! I did this transition feed thing last run with these nutes and got 'not great' results from the flower stage (again, could have be my conditions and all) but I think it allowed the plants to store up too much N impacting final bud volume (and gave them a crapton of N to allow for stretch) even though quality was still up there. Even after running the plants in plain water for 10 days with a flush, the leaves were still Vibrant green at harvest time!!! Doing the "2 part, A+B style, grow/bloom flip". Basically, Base and grow is 1 part, base and bloom as the other - granted in unequal measures. Apart from that, just need to monitor my light...make sure the smart/remote timer doesn't do something stupid and set to a different timezone, etc. and basically train and monitor the girls for the next few weeks...hopefully to a successful completion!!! Happy Growing all! 💪
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Week 6. Flowering
4 years ago
76.2 cm
12 hrs
25 °C
6
800 PPM
60 %
19 °C
11 L
45.72 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 14
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 2 mll
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.026 mll
Fulvic - Terra Aquatica
Fulvic 2 mll
Day 36/Flower Day 8 - Starting to get them girle bits showing now. Stretch is still unreal but the smaller nodes that have crept up to the top are thickening their branches so that’s a good sign they'll hold something and if not, have a spare elasticated SCROG net for support, which will DEFINATELY be needed by the looks of things!!! The main branches are sitting near as thick as 1 of the stems of my last grow so these girls are definitely sturdy and strong growers! If only they didn't push for the roof!!! Apart from the one SCP (#2) that is staying squat in the back corner...sub nodes getting up there but the "tops" staying low and bushy!!! When I start to see a few more flower sets/bud buttons proper actually forming, I'll start inching up the lights to 13/11 over the week...still tempted to start it now but thinking best to wait til the bloom nutes get upped drastically (which is next week - will be upping them by about 50-60% volume). Feared a bit right now that the extra light may fuel some stretch rather than fuel the flowers...but then again, having the plants acclimatise to 13/11 by the time the buttons are forming may not be bad...but then again, that 13/11 may slow down their formation!!! Choices and Choices!!! Was expecting the flower initiator would have knocked some time of the pre-flowers showing (can't think now if nodes were asymmetrical before flip...honestly couldnt have vegged any more though...or could I???) but nope, hopefully the buttons start to set quickly now though. Apart from that, all going well so far. Been a bit of a drop in the temps outside and clearer nights so hopefully that helps bring day temps and night temps down a bit - bringing down humidity some too. Need to restart my CO2 Jug now for the flowers and keep on watching them grow! Happy growing all! 💪
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Week 7. Flowering
3 years ago
101.6 cm
13 hrs
25 °C
6
900 PPM
60 %
19 °C
11 L
30.48 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 13
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 2 mll
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.026 mll
Fulvic - Terra Aquatica
Fulvic 2 mll
Day 43/Flower Day 15 - Stretch, stretch and more stretch. Literally have all my headspace taken up and thats using flat LED Bars! Its not for want of light, these things HAVE to be getting a DLI over 45 now if not near 50 (I need to do a test)!!! Defs going to invest in 2 Royal Blue LED Bars for next grow. As soon as I bend over/tie down one set of big pushers, another pair start up that were not being shaded/shadowed by the previous set. Worried too with the stretch being as severe, the yield will suffer! As noted in comments, will be venting the building the grow tent is in better very soon but when I can get that done is another thing!!! Looks like I am going to have to pull my extraction out of the tent and run a blow through the carbon filter and get some more ratchet hangers to give me an extra 9-12"!!! Has to be Heat/Humidity and then the feed from the lights giving them what they need. Luckily, I am due to be receiving a 6" AC Infinity Setup tomorrow so may be the way to set it up just for the last 8 weeks of the grow. Also had 2 brand new RAM 7" Oscillating fans pack up within a few hours of each other...not 4 weeks old and they're done! The Sweet Cherry Pie defs not setting buds as quick as the Red Hot Cookies...they look a few days to a week behind. This also probably means the last of growing different strains in the same tent! I don't have the space/means to set up a drying tent and need to use the grow space for that so need them to finish the same time. Both these are supposed to be a same week finisher but with the slower budset, I don't know (@Kagonisss, did you notice a difference in the bud setting between the Red Hot Cookies and the Sweet Cherry Pie???) - I could over-ripen the RHC or take the SCP when a bit under. Basically, that's it though. Nothing more to report other than things I have to engineer to get around! From the looks of it, I'll have no room to get my UVB tube in when the time comes but, dunno...we'll see. Have upped the Bloom Nutes now to be higher than the base to fuel the initial flower set. Have a bit of lower leaf fall off from lack of light/plants using the reserves and probs going to have to do a bit of a defoliate by the end of the week to settle humidity and have them top buds concentrated on. Apart from that, Happy Growing all!!! 💪
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Week 8. Flowering
3 years ago
121.92 cm
13 hrs
25 °C
6
900 PPM
60 %
19 °C
22 °C
11 L
30.48 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 13
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 2 mll
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.026 mll
Fulvic - Terra Aquatica
Fulvic 2 mll
D50/FD22 - Right, water change day (Evening). Right and proper f**ked off with the light doing me over (See D49/FD21 Comment for that epic story!!!). Where stretch had stopped (I thought), plants are back in the lights AGAIN!!! Blaming the light giving a near 24hour session and some other broken sessions of light over the last 48 hours!!! So had to pull out the extraction as getting LED burn on leaves that are touching! Blowing through the Carbon Filter and can't really smell anything so that's not bad. Everything a wee bit noisier with the fan not being muffled in the tent but need the space and got around a foot. Not prefiltering the fan as I have the new Cloudline to go in for next grow. Hopefully they grow no more and its all thickening buds from here so as I have space for the UVB in there in a week or 2! Slight change in feed. Dropped the roots booster as Wilma can't take any more...its full!!! Dunno how I am still getting 50L of water in there!!! Added PK9/18 (At half strength). Should probs drop the calmag (Or Kind Base down a bit) to drop nitrogen but am still seeing some copper spots here and there that looks like wee calcium deficiencies (Not much, but its there) - I do have some BioBizz CalMag (Which is Nitrogen Free) but it leaves the tank stinking with precipitate and dirties the roots. Think this is the 1st grow I have had where all the stems staying green so plants generally healthy. Cherry Pie still not budding up as quickly or as thickly as the Red hot Cookies but looks like its maybe running only a couple of days behind in growth so no biggie. Few weeks left for it to catch up and surprise me at the end! 😁 Now just to make sure I see no signs of re-veg...as per the D49/FD21 comment, I'll be scowling at GeekLight this week. Digital Timer in there now to ensure no bleed through - power gets hard cut like old times. Unfortunately though, when the light comes on via power-on (and not app timer mode), UV & IR comes on too so have a timer set to stop it after 1 min (Its about all the app being used for now!!! Apart from turning on my IV at midnight for 4 hours - which is, I have just seen, still working). Think that's all the s**te I have to talk for now! Happy Growing all!!! 💪
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Week 9. Flowering
3 years ago
121.92 cm
13 hrs
25 °C
6
750 PPM
60 %
19 °C
22 °C
11 L
30.48 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 13
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 1.4 mll
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.026 mll
Fulvic - Terra Aquatica
Fulvic 1 mll
D57/FD29 - So, at the last few days of week 4, the SCP had a good push to itself...put on about 6-9" so had to do some bending/leaning of some pretty stiff stems. Unfortunately the only way for them to go was towards the tent walls so drops the light but they're getting WAYYYY over the DLI they should be getting without supplementation of CO2 but its not doing them too much harm. They're drinking a ton but not taking on as much feed (as I've come to expect now in flower) so dropped the base and bloom by 10% (same recommended ratio of 1:1) and kept the PK9/18 booster in there at (what would be recommended) strength for this week...its the same as last week but week 1 (week 4 of flower) of PK9/18 should have been double...didn't want to overdo it as when I used recommended strength 1st time I got it, it created some serious root zone acidification (Which could have been all the K getting used up but was a mare getting the pH up from 4.something every day!!!). Did my usual root flush/wash before adding feed as the EC had crept up to 2.2 (and I know from experience, that starts messing with your numbers if you don't wash that out right) and took about 50L-60L to get the tank to 0.3EC (base is 0.2) was was a lot of salt sitting on/in the roots. Had a ton of underscreen dead leaf to pick up and just cut some wee straggly offshoots (I know, bad idea in flower but they were basically dead/no nutritional value left so basically a bug magnet). Still waiting on Bluelab to send me the RMA approved pH pen...been 2 weeks now since the RMA was approved and still no postage - using an "essentials" pH meter and just dipping in Calibration Fluids between each feed add to ensure some accuracy (As you can see from my recipe page, I like to know what the feed does to the pH - also gives an idea on what they're feeding on when you see pH swings in a different direction that expected). Geekbeast also got back to me. In all fairness, I've been dealing with them direct (Got the light fixture from Alibaba, direct from China - big gamble, right???) and they have been more than helpful. I have been telling them about the light randomly coming on at 5% (lowest brightness) and provided evidence; turns out someone else now noticed the same issue with the Remote App controlled variant and they believed it was a loose control board/wire. They said they did some stuff and that fixed it but I also thought mine was fixed by forcing the dimmer to 0% and it still randomly happened (even though it didn't do it for weeks) so the other person may still get a surprise!! 😋 So, I took out the driver today, pulled out the control board and all wires seemed good and no looseness in the control board (although it does look slightly bent as the Spade for the IR/UV switch isn't fully bedded in). But, like I say, in all fairness to Geeklight, they're posing me a new control board tomorrow from China AND giving me the longer driver cables so as I can put the driver outside of the tent! Give me a bit more room for my Flower Initiator and great to see them honouring the Warranty. Apart from that, wish the SCP would start to set flowers better, they're still looking a bit weak up top but stems appear to be stacking. Hopefully now that last push happened (and hopefully all pushed out!!!!), they will concentrate on buds only...this may be a 10+ week-er - which again, cant really afford as growing tent is drying tent!!! Its supposed to be a 75% indica so would expect bigger/quicker flowering but not showing too many symptoms of being mostly indica...maybe not quite a fully stable genetic line yet?? I dunno but its running slower like a sativa - even with the flower initiator and the late push would maybe imply that too??? Funnily, its tent mate, Red Hot Cookies is 60% sativa and has set flowers quite well so far - showing colour to the tips of the pistils...just wish it would start turning pink!!! Anyway, think that's enough s**te chatted by me!!! Happy growing all!!! 💪
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Week 10. Flowering
3 years ago
121.92 cm
13 hrs
25 °C
6.1
650 PPM
60 %
19 °C
22 °C
11 L
30.48 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 12
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 1 mll
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.026 mll
Calmag - BioBizz
Calmag 1 mll
D64/FD36 - Not much to really talk about this week. Things still ticking along. Sweet Cherry Pie not changing my mind yet that its a 10 week strain (Even though everything points to it "supposed" to be an 8 week one!!!). It put on a few more inches again last week (As can be seen in the time lapse!). Defs going forward, only 1 strain per res and I think "Cookies" based breeds will be it for me as they're so easy worked with. RAM Oscillating Fans...again, barely 10 days running and it has died!!! WTF! Hydro place will be willing to change again but its a joke, the batch is useless!!! Not the Hydro Shops fault though! They're bending over backwards as I do a good bit of business with them! :) Apart from that, dropped my EC by 0.2 this week (Pulled back on the base and bloom by 10-15%) just because they're drinking but not taking on food at any big rate - rather not poison the roots with a rising EC when they have a wee swallie to themselves!!! Changed the CalMag to Biobizz calmag as no nitrogen in it (it is a lot dirtier in a tank though which is the down side!!!). Apart from that, no real big changes. Happy Growing all!!! 💪
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Week 11. Flowering
3 years ago
121.92 cm
13 hrs
25 °C
6
600 PPM
60 %
19 °C
20 °C
11 L
30.48 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 11
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 1 mll
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.026 mll
Calmag - BioBizz
Calmag 1 mll
D71/FD43 - Nothing major to report on the SCP...all the story with the Red Hot Cookies this week!!! Seen my 1st browning pistil - hopefully this thing starts to ripen up...under pressure now (Again, see Red Hot Cookies story)!!! Dropping Silicon this week and changing to TNC bactor as out of Great White. Apart from that, nothing major with these 2 to report. Happy Growing all!!! 💪
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Week 12. Flowering
3 years ago
121.92 cm
11 hrs
25 °C
6
550 PPM
60 %
19 °C
20 °C
11 L
30.48 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 11
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 1 mll
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.026 mll
Calmag - BioBizz
Calmag 1 mll
D78/FD50 - Apologies, a week late on my report. Nothing really going on with the SCP. Pistils starting to turn a peach colour so starting to ripen on the new 11/13 cycle (Still using flower initiator so they're getting equivilent of 15hrs darkness!!!). Couple of big girl colas in there but starting to worry as have had Bud Rot starting to run rife through the Cookies!!! 😠 **Update** D84/FD56 - Cookies have become a real problem...looks like a partial harvest to hopefully save the SCP. Researching some Organic/Bio-Fungicides (Bacillus amyloliquefaciens/Trichoderma Harzianum - Both in TNC TricorrP5 - Speaking to some people to see about getting a hold of some as you cant get Southern AG here or some of the Dedicated T. Harzianum fungicides like TAC3!!!) that can be applied even through to harvest (But best at start of flower as an inoculum) to outcompete the Botrytis. I am starting to think turning WIlma into a DWC is why my plants have got so big the last 2 grows (Could be the Feed, but dunno...I am thinking 24hr access to water & food has made them greedy and the good light has given them fuel!!!). Hard to contain the humidity so looks like next grow (After a decontamination session after this batch finished up) I will be vicious with Defoliation (May even got into mainlining) and find a way to get this new fan direct to the outside to strip out humid air thats getting pumped back into the room. Anyway, happy growing all!!! 💪
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Week 13. Flowering
3 years ago
121.92 cm
11 hrs
25 °C
5.9
750 PPM
50 %
19 °C
20 °C
11 L
30.48 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 11
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 1 mll
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.026 mll
Calmag - BioBizz
Calmag 1 mll
D85/FD57 - As per last weeks update, no real change in the SCP. Pistils peaching up so ripening beginning. The Cull of the Cookies has brought down the humidity by 10-15% in the tent so hopefully that will lend itself to saving these girls from "The Cheese"!!! Couple of really decent colas in there so I would be heartbroken binning bud like I did with the cookies!!! With the work last night culling the Cookies, I was lazy tonight, just did an add back (Didnt clean the ilma out like I do every week). Put in at normal ratio's but as the base water was EC0.7 (Rather than 0.2), the same recipe took me up to 1.5 (I should have adjusted but seeing as I dont know whats out, i'd rather give enough of whats needed and just dilute through the week (even if daily!!!). Expecting water consumption to drop now with the cookies halved in size and now just waiting on the ripening! Anyway, happy growing all!!! 💪
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Week 14. Flowering
3 years ago
121.92 cm
11 hrs
25 °C
6
650 PPM
55 %
19 °C
20 °C
11 L
30.48 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 11
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 1 mll
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.026 mll
Calmag - BioBizz
Calmag 1 mll
D92/FD64 - Nothing new to report here...pistils darkening some and retracting so getting there. Not really that frosty I must say but then again, no UVB on them to give them that boost! Still feared for the 2 big girl colas, they were nearest the Botrytis outbreak on the Red Hot Cookies - bought a Hotbox Sulfume (and about 50 other potential organic pesticide options from Potassium Bicarb to Trichoderma/Bacillus mixes!!! :P ) for the next run but thinking of an emergeny couple of 2 hour blasts to ensure any spores in there killed as if I dont, I may have nothing at all at the end of this! It's either live with a *possible* taste (A lot of people seem to say short blasts, a couple of days apart, leaves no [discernable] taste, even v. late in flower - plus most finishers/flushers are high in Sulfur as the plant uses it for terps/oils and the likes) or no taste as everything is for the firepit!!! Apart from that, just monitoring for any weird changes to sugar leaves that may imply signs of trouble. Happy growing all!!! 💪
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Week 15. Flowering
3 years ago
121.92 cm
11 hrs
25 °C
6.2
600 PPM
55 %
19 °C
23 °C
11 L
30.48 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 7
Sensizym - Advanced Nutrients
Sensizym 1.5 mll
SuperVit - Hesi
SuperVit 0.026 mll
AquaBurst - Growth Technology
AquaBurst 0.5 mll
D99/FD73 - Lost a couple of tops to the rampant rot that hit the tent. Got them out quick though. Had one day, after the sulfur burn where even though the fan was switched on, it didn't actually go on so humidity got up to the 70's-90's and a few corner pieces got the cheese. They had breathed 5L of water into the tent so it got a bit wet in there!!! like lying water in the tent!!! Have moved to the Dragon Force now to try and get these chopped by next week! Too many big buds in there to risk any more issues or failures!!! Been a big learning lesson this run!!! Nothing else on this week to report. Happy growing all!!! 💪
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xbrico
xbricocommentedweek 103 years ago
D65/FD37 - Having a look and a think...I think these girls may have been sensitive to the couple of light problems I had...or I did notice in the video I had a pinhole of light come into the tent at the top of the zip and I am thinking I may have had an accidental reveg on the SCP (front one anyway, not checked the back). Noticing a few long, smooth "sugar leaves" which makes me think they either don't like the 13/11 or the light issues. Will continue to monitor and hopefully they come too...should do as they were in flower a good bit when the light issues happened...again though, pinhole of light was just the other day but should not have been enough to start a reveg, but we'll see. Lesson learned if it is!!! :/
Absurd
Absurdcommentedweek 04 years ago
Does the fogger heat up that reservoir any appreciable amount? Good luck on the grow!
xbrico
xbricocommented4 years ago
@Absurd, TBH, can't really tell with this heat we're going through at the moment...had no real chance to Baseline it! :/
xbrico
xbricocommentedweek 63 years ago
Day 39/Flower Day 11 - Srsly girls, chill!!! I can't hold fit to this stretch...they're getting up there!!! At this rate, I'm going to have to pull out the extraction gear, invert it and start blowing through my carbon filter, all outside of the tent!!! Humidity in grow area doesn't help either...getting some passive vents put in the Cabin to allow some better air exchange and suck better/drier air into the grow tent. These things are chucking water!!! Starting to get the 1st under screen leaf fall happening...leaves are getting a bit paler and dropping off at the very bottom so hopefully too, less leaves=less humidity - Going to have to go on a bit of a stripping session in a few days I'd say for the end of transition. Also, looking to treat myself to a 6" AC Infinity setup...anyone use it? Any reports on it being good, bad, ugly? Currently using a 5", 35 local currency RAM inline 2 speed which could become an intake fan..spent the extra on the Rhino Pro Carbon Filter though back in the day and its doing grand still for its 3rd grow...could do with a change out though as occasionally get the faintest whiff of something green when passing the cabin window!!! 😝 Apart from that, ended up not changing my schedule for tonight due to the extra time the lights were on...hoping the girls and I just forget about it as a nasty, 1 off happening and then I'll be adding 15mins on tomorrow to get it to 12.5/11.5 on the slide to 13/11 or maybe even 13.5/10.5 (Which apparently equates to 13.5/12.5 as the flower initiator changes PFr to Pr pretty instantly so they don't have the standard 2 hours conversion time allowing for extra lights on time and them still getting the equivalent hours of Darkness, or Levels of Pr in the leaves for enough of the day or some bro science!!!!). Happy Growing all!!! 💪
Absurd
Absurdcommented3 years ago
@xbrico, aah I didn't see that combo, good find, should be great. t4 gets a bit too loud for me running more than speed 8, even at max(205cfm according to specs) I don't think it would keep up with the 4x4 in my setup if I filled it, so good call on the 6" too. 23C, pretty chilly, you find that with 18C in lights-off helps limit the flower mode stretch? I've heard cool temps in mid to late flower helps promote colors, at least anthocyanin purples, and running warmer temps during lights off helps limit stretch(not something I could pull off). I would love any tips for controlling stretch though, I love sativa style plants but have such a hard time wrangling them without a trellis net. I found a page of an importer/wholesaler, but no single Rhinos = super jealous of the lifetime you get with those.
xbrico
xbricocommented3 years ago
@Absurd, Aye, went with the 6" S Combo that has the Controller 67 in with it. Get the fan, ducting, carbon filter, controller 67 and some garden shears! :) Seems to be a lot of places now just calling it the Combo and not T series or S series as most people want the fancy display and Smartphone app control that goes along with it too. Starting to get cooler here so hopefully a cranked window may keep the heat down enough so as I dont have to pull and reinstall extraction while in early flower...just start pulling a lot of leaves this week to get the humidity down and let nature do the cold thing to get them into a nicer range - a tent that has been sitting at 23C during the day now into the 18's so hopefully that will halt the stretch (which is due anyway) and maybe start bringing out the colours...esp. the pink in the Red Hot Cookies!!! Pity about the Rhino Pro stuff not being available in the US...Its the go-to in Europe...cheap and does the job. The Hobby range they do is dirt cheap (I have one as a spare raising my humidifier up - that's how cheap they are!!!) and the Pro are pretty bulletproof...like I say, 3 grows and its fresh air at the end of the hose. If I had a bigger one on a higher throughput fan, I'd say it'd clean the whole room its in and you wouldn't get that "tent leak". MY current fan only like 200CFM in a 4x4 so not really enough to do a full room filter...its really just on the edge of whats needed for the tent size alone. Going up 1" with this Cloudline will give me double the CFM so hopefully not even get the tent leak any more! I know I wont be paying for an AC Infinity Filter anyway at the end of its life...be going the Rhino Pro.
Absurd
Absurdcommented3 years ago
@xbrico, hm, the S series I'm seeing are packaged with just a manual speed controller, no temp/RH probe, and the 'controller 63' is an optional manual speed control wireless remote. Looks like the T series still has the same controller I have, the basic one with temp/rh probe but no fancy features beyond triggering on when temp/rh setpoints are reached. I could be wrong though, haven't looked too hard. Yes that's it, the 'controller 67' is the more advanced one I was thinking, they released it shortly after I picked up my t4, and it looks like you still have to buy it separate? https://www.acinfinity.com/hvac-home-ventilation/whole-house-fan-systems/controller-67-temperature-and-humidity-fan-controller/ at a quick glance they seem to hint it works for both the S and the T series though, so you save some cash getting the S series if you wanted that more advanced controller. I think you're going to be happy with the fan though. I looked into the Rhino filters you mentioned originally, doesn't seem like they're easy to get in the states 😥
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homerjgangia
homerjgangiacommentedweek 04 years ago
Good luck with your grow mate!💪💪
spyder
spydercommentedweek 04 years ago
good luck with the grow...enjoy.
Godesskat
Godesskatcommentedweek 143 years ago
Everything is better with a bag of weed👻 Good luck happy growing😍
BioBuds
BioBudscommentedweek 133 years ago
Going great!! Final stretch now!! Good luck and have fun 👍💪!!
Ferenc
Ferenccommentedweek 44 years ago
Happy Growing @xbrico
Ferenc
Ferenccommentedweek 24 years ago
Happy Growing @xbrico
xbrico
xbricocommentedweek 83 years ago
D54/FD26 - So looks like the Cherry pie is having a final push to itself...its sprouted up a bit and is light praying so hopefully this is the last kick it has before full flower production. Plants still drinking heavy and feeding light but no issues to speak of...1 Cherry Pie at the very back corner has the slightest bit of purpling on a petiole or 2 near the top but the rest of the top of that branch is green so will observe to ensure no serious progression. Likely a symptom of the stretch though as its now getting some full pelt light on it. Should be plenty of PK in there so unlikely a deficiency there...it is next to a fan too and the side of the passive vent so could be its getting a touch of chill from the morning temp drops before the heater kicks in (Still keeping everything above 20C...may let it slide down now for colour to 18 to be the bottom night temp. Apart from that, still motoring along nicely. Happy Growing all! 💪
xbrico
xbricocommentedweek 83 years ago
D53/FD25 - Nothing much to report...Cookies coming along great...still a bit of push in them all but defs slowing down! Sweet Cherry Pie running a bit behind but buds starting to look better now - it probably got the 13/11 too quick and have added a week onto her (Hopefully not though and she races on through at the end!!!). Plants drinking 5+ liters a day. Taking on Slightly more water than feed so added 15L back last night of just plain tap water...brought the EC down to 1.5 (Had crept up to 2.0) and that brought the pH back to 6.0/6.1 - seeing a slow drop in pH but to be expected as they eat the potassium up. Rather than keep these at 6 on the nose, I'm trying to let them flit more around the 5.8 mark as not seeing any calcium issues (of any note...just a spot or 2 on 0.1% of leaves) and the stretch *looks* to be over now so they should have a bit less of a requirement. Also, depending on what chart you look at, Hydro pH for Calcium is best below 5.9 (down to 5.5 where some say has to be 6 and over) and really, magnesium is the only one that really needs 6 and over (But starts in the 5.8 area for uptake). Apart from the ever reducing headspace, all going according to plan so far! Happy growing all!!! 💪
xbrico
xbricocommentedweek 83 years ago
D50/FD22 - Wee question...Has Botanicare pulled the Kind Line? Can't find it on their webpage anymore! Feed Charts and all gone!!! Anyone that can let me know, please do. Have probably 1-2 more grows with what I have left - need to see if I need to research a new feed line for next year!!!
xbrico
xbricocommentedweek 04 years ago
*** Update *** 29/7 - All previous trimming finally complete...OMFG trimming sux balls!!! Well, the girls were outgrowing the fogger box but as I didn't get finished until late, didn't get time to wash the clay pebbles and do a bit of hoovering to get the girls in their final pots! Will get that done tomorrow. Veg diary begins then! As I have no light support for the girls without the lid, I moved them into the tent so get a bit of good light on them and a bit of a breeze about them to strengthen up them stems. Got them under the big girl light at a DLI of about 40 to see how they respond and acclimatise. As much as the light is a 3500K LED, stuck the UVA LED's on too to help keep them down short and as they would get it outside anyway, hopefully again acclimatise them to it for when the UVB310 goes on them during flower (I know...thinking wayyyyy far ahead already!!!). When they're potted up and on the normal feed, I'll get them on the 18/6 cycle. From the pics, the left 2 are the Sweet Cherry Pie, the Mid runt (The one that popped out of the coco during germ) is a Red Hot Cookies and the 2 on the right are Red Hot Cookies too (The bottom one slightly smaller due to being popped 4-5 days after the rest). OMFG, Fogponics gets some SERIOUS roots on them!!! The Big Cherry Pie has a total mass of roots about 12" long while the runt even has a 8-9" taproot down now. All got good ladder/lateral roots being in the water (can't wait to do a UCDWC next run/next year). So far, these appear to be incredibly hardy girls. Big props to @Sweet_Seeds for the donation!!! Happy Growing all!!!
GMSgrows
GMSgrowscommentedweek 153 years ago
Reaping the rewards soon may friend. She's looking tasty...
xbrico
xbricocommented3 years ago
@GMSgrows, Indeed, is nice to know both sides of the equation though! :) Cheers again for all the support too!
GMSgrows
GMSgrowscommented3 years ago
@xbrico, nice growing my friend. Wet weight matters not. It's the dry weight that counts....
xbrico
xbricocommented3 years ago
@GMSgrows, Cheers sir...did make 1 mistak ethough...forgot to weigh!!! :'( 1 cola alone, I know by feel was over 1/2lb in weight!!! I have had to cut it up to dry it and it is in nugs the size of rubix cubes!!! :P
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Kagonisss
Kagonissscommentedweek 64 years ago
i bro good grow 👊i do the same test strain of sweet seed i noticed this strain have too strecth in flower but the cola its beautifull and smell its amazing 💪
Kagonisss
Kagonissscommented3 years ago
@xbrico,Sorry but like mike tyson before or after he discover cocaine ??? 😈😎 im joking
xbrico
xbricocommented4 years ago
@Kagonisss, Cheers for the view/like and info! So far, I am seeing the biggest stretch in the youngest of my 2 Red Hot Cookies. Its head and shoulders above the ones planted 5 days before them. My smolest one is a Sweet Cherry Pie that was built like Mike Tyson...the whole thing could have fit in a shoe box it was that tight with nodes!!!!
Kagonisss
Kagonissscommentedweek 14 years ago
fantastic setup bro i test the same strain of sweetseed if u want to look my diary im very HAPPY . good luck for the rest of the grow 👊💪
DreamIT
DreamITcommentedweek 04 years ago
Enjoy growth mate 🍀🦄🤘
Sweet_Seeds
Sweet_Seedscommentedweek 04 years ago
Thank you very much for sharing a new diary with one of our strains. 😊 We hope you enjoy it. 😋 Sweet smokes, - Apolo
PeppaWutz
PeppaWutzcommentedweek 04 years ago
Happy growing 🤴🙌
xbrico
xbricocommentedweek 73 years ago
D49/FD21 - So, talk about a bad day!!! Pulled the pics for my time lapse for later (As I start my week 4 tonight and will be starting my new week) and have noticed that my light, yet again has fucked up!!! It's an LED, GeekLight Geekbeast Pro 630W with the Remote App/Timer control. So, the story is; During veg, I noticed (By accident 1 day when I went out to work in the cabin where my tent is) that randomly, the light flickered on and off...totally random to its lowest power setting. App shows the light is powered off. Worked with Geekbeast and redid timers, set all manual controls and dimmer to off, etc. in case of some power bleed. Never happened again...until the last couple of day where when timers have not been touched, the lights went into 5% mode again!!! Now, of all the f**king times it could do this!!! 3 weeks into flower!!! On the 10th, 1 frame caught the lights on about 20 mins after lights off (and had been 730nm flower initiated to sleep). Hoping up-to 1 min of a "Light Leak" on that day will hopefully do nothing as the flower initiator should have all the Phytochrome changed so its still getting "more" than 12 hours sleep (Also running on the edge here as I am running a 13/11...flower initiator basically makes it a "13/13" day). Then I get to the 14th...lights go off, flower initiator on for 10mins, flower initiator off then 5 mins later the lights go on for 33 mins, then off for about the same then on again for 33min then off again for a couple of mins then remain on (at 5%) from 10:54am til the lights went to full power again at 7:30pm (which is my on time)!!! THEN the next morning (15th) lights off at 8:30am, 10mins of flower initiator 19 mins off then 10 mins on, 11mins off, 14mins on then dark til 7:30pm!!! Now, hoping against all hope that this will not trigger a regveg!!! I did have a f**k-up of my own accord week 1 of transition where I didn't set the timer to go off and they had 14hours of light in 1 day (I did get the main light off and then flower initiator them as soon as I caught on) but thankfully no issues seen then but now I am sweating (Sweet Cherry Pie is a bit slower in the budding though so may have been an impact!!!)!!! Will be monitoring very closely and hopefully the plants forgive me and don't go mental. I have thrown a timer in there now to cut the juice to the main light at 8:30am so hopefully no accidents and set to come on 1 min before normal lights on so as the light can "Download it settings" and trigger its timer mode (For the UVA I run and the brightness)...come to think of it, I may just disable the main light timer and use the digital one and as UVA only comes on between 00:00 and 4am, all settings should be downloaded by then - no big deal though if UVA doesn't come on as Iintend on running a proper Migro UV Tube last 2-3 weeks of flower. So, PSA to all @Geeklight growers out there and if you're using their app/remote control setup (Monster Board/Geekbeast)...If you're seeing problems with your grow, check for Power Bleed. This is so intermittent its unbelievable. The fact the app can override the manual controls means dimmer being at 0 does nothing. This can happen and when it is happening, the app will show your light is OFF!!! I am on with Geeklight HQ about it as its unacceptable that the controller can't realise this is happening and may cause you issues. If you're considering a geeklight...as much as the light is good/cheap (esp. if got direct from Alibaba)/powerful/even PAR map; really consider if its the right light (Geekbeast anyway). 730nm Channel is not independent from the main lights (Its on the same driver) so you can't run EoD treatment (And don't know if its the right ratio of 660:730nm for an all day Emerson Effect Treatment). The app doesn't allow for a "Sunrise/Sunset" mode if you're wanting that unless you want to set a pile of ascending and descending timers and is the UV powerful??? dunno but wasn't enough to help add that "Lower Blue" spectrum to help control stretch as my girls are pushing for the sky!!! and DEFINITELY don't rely on the app timer!!! Manual mode with hard current cutoff with a timer, or if it picks up the settings correct after being hard powered off (I can advise later), only use timer for UVA/IR treatment - still need to see if this auto-turns on the IR after powering on (which I have noticed it does in the past)!!! Lets hope no Herms/Reveg and I'll keep ya all updated!!! Happy Growing all!!! 💪
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