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Was a nervous start, I’ve had issues with germination in the past
This time is just soaked the seed in a glass until *when tapped* it sunk which was about 4hours
After this I planted it directly in the medium and anxiously waited
After around 60hours we had lift off. I noticed the seed was upside down so I carefully dusted the medium away staying well away from roots to allow for it to correct its self
Starting strong, need to and alternative way of watering as I was using a jug and some of the soil sunk which made the stem bend down a little. This was quickly corrected
A few changes on 27th
I removed the oil heater that was really to big for the size of the tent.
By doing this alone I could bring the light closer which is the reason for the slow growth.
I also bought a humidifier as I was manually spraying the tent and now I can keep the levels up all the time
I could now either use a smaller fan heater in or outside blowing through intake vents (without drying the plant up now I have the humidifier) or……
I could put the oil heater on outside the heat and insulate it
Not much to report growth has been good managed to calibrate heat and humidity to where it needs to be during on and off cycles
Found a few white marks on the leaves so will have to investigate, instinct tells me too much moisture
Officially in veg week one lights turned up to 40% from 20%
Ordered a scrog net and waiting for 20 cm of growth before I start training
I’ve come to realise that I was probably running the light too low of a percentage which is meant it had a slow start but nevertheless it’s a healthy plant
First water in Veg week 1 I gave it 2L of water with feed 2hours before lights out as substrate is really dry and notice new fan leaves are starting to hunch over a little
9th - 2L of water at 5.8PH as I thought I had over fed with nutrients, can see a little burn on some fan leaves
Found out it’s PH imbalance checked my PH pen which is fine after further investigation I found that 6.2 PH was too high as the medium that I am using increases the pH after it comes out the bottom to around 6.8 PH so that is my problem
I will now start to water between 5.5 and 5.8 PH
12th
Full Veg Nutrition used
Dragon Force was sprayed onto foliage.
I had a PH imbalance on last feed so I lowered my feed to 5.5/5.6 and now the run off is perfect at the 6.3PH range which I’d like to get down to 6.0PH dead but 6.3 is perfect for now
Week 2 of Veg has shown some rapid growth. Worked out that I need to be feeding with 5.5 PH in order to have a 6.0 range run off
I’ve just started the scrog low stress training off as I’m at 20cm and will be flipping to veg at 30cm due to tent height
Phone is going to rapid paste gets actually a feed every 24 hour cycle scroging has definitely increased lower level plant growth
Last week I had one side branch snap on me I never realise until some leaves started going dry. I’ve taped it up I will hope for the best but really and truly I’m not fussed as it’s not the main stork
Nutrients are at maximum as we are in the last two weeks of vegetation growth
23rd I topped the plant. Well overdue wish I had done it sooner but it’s all a learning curve I guess.
Looking forward to the Scrog net being filled now it won’t be getting any taller
The top of the plant is now 30 cm which I have calculated roughly is when I should jump into flower what I will need to do is continue the scrog method for two weeks and then flip
3rd October - Veg defoliation done will be going into flower in two days ish. Depends on how the plant reacts to the defoliation
Not an ounce of bother plant have no downtime and she will be ready to flip into flower on the 5th
As you can see she’s bounce backs very well from the defoliation I expected to see one or two days stunted growth but she soldiered through it
12/12 cycle has now be set on the timer
Week 3 Day 21 of Flower - 19th October
Waiting for bud sites to form before I do my defoliation
Defoliation completed on the 20th Let’s see how she bounces back
21st she’s bounced back
Pretty little hairs
After adding first dose of PK Warrior all both sides have doubled in size and plant has stretched a little bit more
We have to manually adjust the light so that I don’t get any burn
Adjusted light from 10 cm to 25 cm
Everything looking good to start week 5 of flower
Been 5 days since a 5L feed and she’s not missed a beat
Will be going away fro a week so testing out feed schedule
Added bud XL this week. Look at the difference before and after
Everything right on course 13th November
Night feed found some soil mites but left them as they play a part of the biodiversity of coco and have been doing so for a while. A few weeks ago I thought I could see something moving in the soil but it was only until I did a night feed that I found out
10 L of feed due to being away for a week next upload will be 7days
7 days later and she has thickened in size boiii
Will start reducing nutrients early so I can get a cleaner finish
Week 8 Tomorrow these buds are super dense in smell
So the week I went away I over watered by putting 10L with the relevant nutrients in which has caused nutrition burn
Some of the top buds have dropped some of their potency smell but still have it when touched
I would say I have 10 to 20% cloudy trichomes so I’m 7-14days away from harvest
I’ve watered 5L today to flush out as much nutrients as I could with a run off of 5.5 which I will bring up to around 6.0ph and just water it for the remainder.
I feel like the weather in enough time for recovery as I feel like it has already started
THE MAIN NUTE BURN CAME FROM BUD XL
i’m not sure why are used it to be honest but it will be going down the sink
So at the end of this week I looked into ppm readings for the flush so I could make the buds as natural and pure as possible also I learnt that temperature
of feed helps this and help how the plant develops from birth. So going ahead I’ll always have the right temps with feed
GrowSmith
