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Critical Daddy- Blimburn-monstercropped

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Week 1. Vegetation
4 years ago
10 cm
18 hrs
27 °C
5.7
No Smell
450 PPM
70 %
60 cm
Hello guys. This round I'm planting monstercropped clones of Critical Daddy from last round. https://growdiaries.com/diaries/100652-grow-journal-by-laian I was not satisfied with final quantity, but quality was quite satisfying, actually I got pretty nice feedback from friends. I've decided to give Blimburn another chance, especially due to the fact they've treated me in very pro-consumer way over the email communication. This time there are few differences from last grow. First od all, clones are monster cropped, which should create very dens bush very fast (speed is positive, uncotrolled offspring spawning is negative) This time I'm not going to flood my NFT permanently, but only once in 2-3 hours for just 5 minutes And I'm going to build classic SCROG (last time it was mainlining without trellis) And finally I'm going to move PH levels little bit higher between 5,8 and 6,5 (the reason behind that is that I've encountered some problems with magnesium uptake last rounds-at least I think it was magnesium, thatš why I'm increasing PH to the level where it is easily absorbed by plant.)
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Week 2. Vegetation
4 years ago
10 cm
18 hrs
27 °C
5.7
No Smell
450 PPM
70 %
60 cm
Wattage increase to 130Watts You can see how manster cropped clones are spawning their offsprings. Look at the weird shapes of leaves :) I'm bending those branches in order to control the canopy somehow.
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Week 3. Vegetation
4 years ago
20 cm
18 hrs
27 °C
6
No Smell
500 PPM
70 %
60 cm
And we are getting bushy :) Bending and breaking branches to spread it equally.
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Week 4. Vegetation
4 years ago
20 cm
18 hrs
27 °C
6
No Smell
500 PPM
70 %
60 cm
It's just getting bushy
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Week 5. Vegetation
4 years ago
20 cm
18 hrs
27 °C
6
No Smell
500 PPM
70 %
26 °C
60 cm
Last week before switch. Bush filled up the space. Let's defoliate and switch to 12/12.
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Week 6. Flowering
4 years ago
20 cm
12 hrs
27 °C
6
No Smell
500 PPM
70 %
26 °C
60 cm
Switch to 12/12 Lights increased to 230 Watt Massive defoliaton
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Week 7. Flowering
4 years ago
20 cm
12 hrs
28 °C
6
No Smell
650 PPM
70 %
26 °C
60 cm
SCROG trellis was installed Defoliated plants quickly got refoliated, I continue with occasional defoliation
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Week 8. Flowering
4 years ago
30 cm
12 hrs
28 °C
6
No Smell
650 PPM
70 %
26 °C
60 cm
Light on 260 Watt Trying to keep that stretch under control
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Week 9. Flowering
4 years ago
30 cm
12 hrs
28 °C
6.2
Weak
700 PPM
70 %
26 °C
60 cm
Finally some buds are appearing Space is filled up
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Week 10. Flowering
4 years ago
50 cm
12 hrs
30 °C
6.3
Weak
700 PPM
55 %
26 °C
60 cm
We have very high temperatures here and in my tent the temperatre gose above 30 °C. That's bad. I'm adding silica, humic acids and hydroguard is working as well. Next two weeks I'm taking off for vacation, it will be really challenge for plants to survive on autopilot. The biggest task is to maintain correct PH. Silica and PK booster is making it very unstabel. Keep fingerscrossed.
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Week 11. Flowering
4 years ago
50 cm
12 hrs
30 °C
6.3
Weak
800 PPM
55 %
26 °C
60 cm
I'm on vacation, system runs on autopilot
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Week 12. Flowering
4 years ago
60 cm
12 hrs
30 °C
5.8
Normal
1300 PPM
55 %
28 °C
60 cm
After 14 days of vacation I was quite surprised. System ran on autopilot and everything seems to be OK. PH decreased from 6,3 to 5,8, that's not bad, although EC increased from 1,6 to 2,6 and that's quite overnuting. There are few burnt tips, but at the end of the day plants seem to be OK. My NFT system proved to be quite independent. After this week I'm strating with flushing phase.
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Week 13. Flowering
3 years ago
60 cm
24 hrs
30 °C
6.5
Normal
350 PPM
55 %
28 °C
60 cm
Last stage of ripening. Final flush. I've spotted mold on one bud, so it went out. Hopefully I'll resist one more week. Then I want cut the top mature buds and let the rest some ripening another week. Of course depends on borytis.
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Week 14. Harvest
3 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Critical Daddy Purple - Blimburn Seeds
Spent 92 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
4/10
Rated
237.5 g
Bud wet weight per plant
47.25 g
Bud dry weight per plant
4
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1
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So here it is. Unfortunatelly bud rot went bad so I had to cut it down on 63rd day of flower. (Last round I cut it on day 65) This time I feel the ripening process didn't finish fully and buds stayed small. Probably they wouldn't grow much anymore. regular buds: 109g popcorn: 80g light wattage at peak: 260W electric consumption (lights only): 258 kWh gram/Watt: 0,72 gram/kWh: 0,73 As you can see, the yield is low. I'm dissapointed again. I gave this genetics one more chance but it didn't deliver again. Buds are small and there is lot of popcorn, but to be fair flavours are fantastic and potency quite satisfying. Generally regarding this grow I have to say that monstercropping was not a big deal, stems were quite weak and whole structure was hard to control. On the other hand SCROG seems to be nice development in terms of spreading the canopy over the area. In last weeks I struggled with bud rot, I should gave them more radical defoliation to avoid this. This time not even Hydroguard did help.
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