Ms Green Crack says Hi!

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Too much light and nutes too soon. Signs of stress in leaves and stems.

Girls were cropped back to 4th node. The Supremes are not feminized. I was out for a week. 2 Supremes suffered.

Cutting back on ppm's and light intensity while I set up plants for mainlining. Pruned back to 2 fan leaves plus 2 mainlines. Plants appear to be same size as last week but only because leaf count was cut in half. Lowered light intensity and nutrients while adding Cal Mag. Its working really well. Girls are praying. Damaged Supremes are looking much better. Durban #2 is a runt. Not sure if she is going to make the cut. Only 4 -6 plants are going through flower.

I have flipped into using Canna nutes for a period of time and now dosing with rhizotonic and cannazym. I need to repair my root system. The leaves are too dark and a few of them went reverse taco on me. Green Crack is more sensitive to having wet feet than the other strains. Hopefully I can manage Green Cracks requirements without adversely effecting the more resilient plants.. I have cut the watering in half so that each plant now gets 1 x 100ml per feeding. 3 feeds per day. I can see a lighter color returning to the leaves. I am hoping that the fine haired root structures that ensures optimal plant vigor are developing with the new growth. It seems that might be the case. The 2 damaged Supremes are not up to speed yet. They need specialized treatment as they are not as mature as the other plants. Given the constraints of my closet set up my light is too low. Only 18" above canopy. I am running it at 1/3 power on a spectrum setting of 20, 30,30. So far so good. Looking forward to setting up next stage and automating this process.

My 3'x3' Bontanicare flood table arrived this week. Time for transplanting and moving the team out of the closet. Transplanted from 1 gal plastic round and square root makers to 3 gal rootmaker2's. Apparently perched water is minimized with these smart pots. The plant in the 1 gal version, a Supreme, was growing well so taking the root maker 2 to the whole garden. I was planning to stay in 1 gal and feeding 3 x per day but curious about what a difference pot size will make. Waiting for plant growth to hit the 4th node post first topping. I am more or less there and will top today or tomorrow for a 8 bud per plant flower. I think my grow has been side tracked time-wise by at least 2 weeks by going this route, or the time it takes to grow 4 additional notes + a week post 2nd topping before going to flower, but looking for quality consistency across the grow more than anything else so I hope the results will speak for themselves. My last grow matured ahead of schedule so I might be able to make up the difference. Hooking up the auto watering system tomorrow,... actually no. I didn't. Day 55/49. upping the light intensity to 50.50.50 and seeing a quick response from leaves. My 3 gal pots are heavy with wet coco. Too wet. Waiting for it to dry out a bit before watering again. A bit worried about starving the ladies though. Did I inoculate the coco with enough nutes at transplant? Should I have added some Great White into coco mix? Questions, questions.

Had my ass handed to me this week. Consulted a master grower who told me to trash my grow and start again. He was not a fan of mainlining and told me my plants are dead!! I get it but at this stage, I am not going to trash anything. So long as I am in veg, I am going for the recovery.. I would rather wait the extra time for the plants to return to vigorous growth and concentrate on getting my roots in order. The upshot, I am going to have to veg for at least another 2-3 weeks. I have added Great White to the mix. Nixed the cannazym. Looking to improve roots as much as possible before I flip. Things I learned this week: LED lights are deceptively powerful. The correct amount of light for my grow is much less than I thought. I have been over powering my grow X3 and even when I was at 1/2 power! At full bloom I should be at 500watts only according to the master. At the moment my light channels are on 15,20,20. Light strength is a calibrated according to the size of the canopy which at this point is neither large nor deep. My fixture is now raised to the max. 6" below ceiling. At 8 '6" this is giving me 5' clear space between canopy top and fixture. I am excited to use mycorrhizae. Lets see what happens. I am weighting my pots. Paranoid about over watering and wanting to gauge their thirst. Girls are drinking about 6-8 oz each a day. I am feeding them no more than that. Plants should grow rapidly next week if I don't screw anything up. Fingers crossed.

I have been traveling over the last week and have now returned. Plants are not dead which is a good thing, but growth could have been enhanced. I have upped the lighting 27/27/27. I fed them once before I left and let them go for 5 days. I will be feeding them once a day again. Canopy is building but not quickly.. I want to go into flower in a week. In hind sight, mainlining is pretty brutal on plants. Not sure if I would do it again to such a level as this. It will take a month for these plants to recover from the 3rd topping. Next grow I will do the opposite of this one. No training what so ever. Probably will give autos another shot. Tangie and Gorrilla glue strains intrigue me at the moment. DAY 76. I have to figure out which plants to cull. I love them all. Tough decision. Green Crack is growing fast and will likely get too big so culling one GC to start with. The Supremes are not sexed so not sure which one will stay until after flowering starts. I am holding on to the Durbans regardless. Lighting adjusted up to 30/30/30 DAY 81. I pulled out the 2 big plants, Green Crack 1 and Supreme 2. They are overwhelming the other plants. I have relocated 3 plants to the window. Will let them grow for now. At 30" tall, they can't work in with the others. Use them to make clones perhaps? At least one will be male I am guessing. In the main garden, I switched nutes back to Cogos parts A and B. Added silica to the mix as well. The light has been upped to 34.34.34. Each plant is getting roughly 50watts of light in the current mode. My canopy needs to expand some more and then I am into flower.

In an effort to lower costs, I have switched back to Cogo's nutes for the remainder of the grow. I am trying out Silicon for the first time. Will add Cannaboost to next watering. Light levels have been upped. Now operating at 1/3 of lights capability. This translates to 250W which is roughly 25 W sq'. I added back in one plant to fill in canopy. I have 6 plants heading into flower. I was showing 5 in earlier photos. The gender of the Supremes has yet to be determined. I could end up with 4. or 5 in my grow. The outliers, GC# 1, Supreme #1, outgrew the others in the space and now placed in window. After sexing I will use GC#1 for cloning. And which ever Supreme turns out to be male, for pollen. Excited to move into flower stage. DAY 89 Set up watering system. Overkill perhaps but it will be easy to feed the plants in the far corners and the halo's water evenly around the base of the plant which is better than I can do by hand. 2 1/2 - 3gals every 5 days.

I have switched to flower, finally. Cal mag deficiency apparent despite increase in dosage. Cannaboost has been added. Cogos seems to be working well. LED at 46/46/46. After 1 week, all plants showing pistils which is a bit surprising given 3 of the seeds weren't feminized. DAY 99 Lighting is up 10% since flower stage started. My nutes will be upped by the same amount next feeding and perhaps more because they look a bit hungry. Garden is developing though slowly. The Supremes have a 10 -12 week flowering time. Supreme is G 13 plus Haze. The others are 10 weekers. I am in it for the long haul.

All plants are healthy. Buds are forming. Stretch seems manageable so far and should be done in a week. Will dose with PK 13/14 at that time. Room temperature is stable with little or no fluctuation. Pink stem not showing up in new growth after Cal-mag application.

Added pk 13/14 this last week. Have been on vacation so easy to see changes. Buds are developing and are in the early stages of bulking up. Frost is now starting to show. Its aroma therapy time in the garden. . I still have a cal mag deficiency, much to my chagrin. And my Green Crack's, an afghani skunk hybrid, have very skinny leaves. Am I missing something? 6/5 Looking at the leafy growth I am seeing in the garden. My guess is the nute formulation is supplying too much Nitrogen which has in turn led to a lot of long spindly stem growth. ?? Going to replace Cal Mag with a Mag Sulphur product, Budfactor X. Its on order and should be here in a day or so. Let see how that goes.

I am guilty of overfeeding, What watering schedule? I only had a feeding schedule. Opps. Cycling into a F, W,W, W feed, water set up. I am Day 4 from the last feed and change over. Watering with Bud factorX and Cannaboost only. Looking to see the difference Budfactor will make. Boost has shown how it accelerates growth and bud development already.. Hoping I haven't screwed up so badly my buds don't reach the required but elusive maximum dankness. I'll settle for dankness. Mid flower has all too often been the stage where I loose the smell and bud stickiness, ending up with sub par weed.

Still hanging in there as we head down the home straight. The plants are maintaining their stickiness and smell for the most part. Love the terpenes expressed by the Supremes. They are addictive. Can't keep my fingers off them. Limonene, citrusy smell is clearly indicated. but softer tuber rose like smell is also beguiling Very happy with the Durbans. They are super sticky like fly paper. The photos don't do them justice showing off their frostiness and form. I need a better camera than the iPhone and LED's in daylight mode still suck at rendering as they do rendering anything, generally. Next grow I'll advance my photography set up. The lower leaves have lightened up on most plants after FWWW schedule. The buds haven't dried up and died from over nuting. I am relieved to say. The Green Cracks seem to be unremarkable so far. They are quite leafy and not that frosty or sticky. This set up isn't ideal for them, perhaps? The haze pheno of the Supremes is a bunch of frosty nuggety goodness. I want clones of her. I may reveg.

Let the flush begin. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. the Durbans are that good. ;-) I vaped a small nugget and I have to say, I found myself traveling to another time zone where the sky is a warm blue and clouds just float by. Growing under LED has its challenges. Never thought it would require so much attention to details of watering, light levels and nutes, but yes it does. Tip of my hat to the Grow Boss. I wouldn't have made this far without him Check him out if you haven't already. Heading into the final few weeks and I am psyched.

The grow guru tells me its time to pull the run. And thats what I am going to do. The Supreme is finishing at 9-10weeks. She has cloudy trichomes, strong pungent smell of burnt rubber. Where did that smell come from.? I am missing my candy? Anyone?Durban's I'll check on tomorrow, They are smelling like a pleasant musky fruit.The Green Cracks are leafy, not frosty, One pheno has buds that are becoming firm, the other is still throwing pistils. Not a lot of cloudy trichomes to be seen but still very potent when vaped. The lower buds are quite smelly. The citrus smells have evolved into something mentholated and complex. Vaguely like bergamot.As mentioned earlier, my set up may not have been ideal for Green C. These plants like high phosphorous early onin flower, apparently. Something I did not supply. Next time.7/2Its harvesting time and its turning out to be a very smelly process. A breaking bud creates an aroma that is both pungent and likely to feature complex mixes of sandalwoods, pine and citrus smells. Wow. Haven't got to this level aromatherapy and potency with previous grows. The best yet. Thanks all. Loving it.

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Introducing Green Crack round 2. She was previously off to the side sitting in my window soaking up the sun since being culled back in week 10. She didn't fit in the initial grow. She was too vigorous and towered above the others. I didn't have the heart to cull her so I vegged her into a bush. And now, post harvest, I thought I would grow her out and practice good watering and feeding technique. Lets see what happens. I promise myself my next grow will be more conventional but for now I am happy enough playing around working out the pros and cons of things.

I thought I was in the zone with lighting but no. Pink stem has not gone away with Cal Mag supplementation. Some of my lower leaves are being canabalized. When I performed a light trim, my girl went into a slight shock., maybe. I witnessed a few droopy leaves. All this points to a mag deficiency because of too much light. For my 3x3 at this stage of the grow, I dimmed my light to 150 W. Thank god for dimmable fixtures. So far, this change seems to be working. After a slow start for a garden adapting to scrog format we seem to be making progress. Trying to fill out the left side of the trellis is a test of my patience. After clearing out some of the weaker shoots, its hands off time. Also, I potted up to 10 gals. which is also a test of patience. I only need to water or feed every 6 days and feel under employed. I hope to see more vigorous vegetative growth over the next few weeks. Cheers,

I am going bush. Dropping my lighting levels some more and boosting my cal mag application. Hoping the combination will resolve pink stem issue. Plants grew a lot this week except where I trimmed it, which is instructive. I will trim again at switch over time for the boost, but its pretty obvious I should leave the plants alone to do their own thing as much as possible. I figure the left side of the grow is a bunch of days behind the rest. Given switch over is a week or so away, I can see the need to further control this spindly mess with a second trellis. We'll see. Feeling positive.

My girl is transitioning to flower so I trimmed away all the lower leaves and rubbish shoots and watered. I added a 1/4 tsp dose of Big Up to my schedule. At 33/23 Big Up is quite concentrated. I am also adding an old favorite, Canna Boost. ;-) This shit works. I have visitors arriving in 10 weeks so I have to be on time with the finish before they get here and couldn't prolong the veg stage. I am still bothered by the uneven development of the canopy however. Should I add a second trellis and scrog those tall tops in to submission? Right now, I am going with no. I am happy to hear your thoughts. Cheers

This is the end of 2nd week of flower. Don't have much of a canopy but didn't have time to let it veg for another few weeks. I hope I can still maintain quality. So far my girl seems to be on schedule. Can't be sure if adding Big up to my nute schedule made a difference or not. It certainly didn't hold her back. Right now, Feeding her with max Boost and Cogos, Changed the A to B ratio to 7:11 Lighting-wise, perimeter branches exhibiting less mag. deficiency. I must be close to finding the correct light balance for this plant. Trying to grow into it. I may purchase a PAR meter at some point. Cheers.

Heading into week 3-4. Added 13/14 to the nute mix for the next week and max amount of Boost. Various grow reports say this plant likes lots of P. So will switch out cal mag for Bud X next feed. Certainly my last Green Crack grow the plant was way too green, over nuted. She looks better this time around. Pistil growth is taking off. Keeping the Nitrogen levels low. This helps reduce stretch which should almost be over. Any more stretch and I will drop the flood table and place pot directly into the bath and lower canopy by 18". All in all, development appears to be on schedule. Expecting first frost over the next week. I have trimmed a little more of the lower growth to direct plants energy where it counts!. Having Fun! Exited for smelly garden and the aroma therapy stage. ;-)

Back from a week away running around the back lots of Oregon, chased by forest fires. I love growing in a 10gal smart pot. No need to water while traveling. I could leave my girl for another week if I had to. The grow is proceeding to plan. Lots of pistil growth this last week. I sneaked in a dose of 13/14 at the beginning and end of week 3-4. Will water with bud x and cannazym, rhizo. next cycle. I don't think I need to do both Boost and Bud X. This is a waste. Dropping Boost. The girls need the Mag that Bud factor x provides so will keep using this instead. Almost halfway through flower. So far so good.

Week 6 of flower. Not so much to report. Buds are filling out. A few pistils are starting to wither. Some of my leaves are showing early signs of color change. Looks like I will be finishing in 3 weeks, maybe 4. light are at 34/34/34/. Buds are sticky. Not a lot of frost but that is typical of this strain. Certainly much more than last Green Crack round. 9/16. I consulted with the Boss. Damn! I thought the leaf yellowing was a sign of senescence but in fact, it was tips and stripes. I am still not in the zone. Too much light and too many nutes! I have flushed and re nuted her, checked run off, currently 480ppm. Lighting levels cut to 180 w. 24/24/24 . Lets see how that goes. Honestly, I don't know how your find the correct range with light fixtures in small grows if you don't have dimming function. I think it was telling, even with extra Mag and Cal Mag, I couldn't eliminate the purpling stems on the central colas. Supplements don't work when you are too far away from the correct set up. What I can say, based on where canopy leaves don't have purple stems, this canopy is a full 12" lower than the top of the canopy.

Wk 7, Day 49 of flower. I over did the P/K. Top tips are burnt. Not good. Plant growth has slowed. Pistils are dying off quite rapidly. Expecting bud swell in the next week. Buds are sticky but not like the Durban and Supremes from the last grow. Smell is minimal at this stage. Some of the lower leaves which are dying off show a phosphorous deficiency, which doesn't make sense to me. Expecting frost and smell to improve over the next 2 weeks as lighting and nutes are in now in range. I don't have time to go longer than allotted schedule 9-10 weeks on this grow. I am looking for a better result than previous green crack run. It should be better, It looks different. Inter-nodal spacing is greater. Thats all I can say until I start sampling. In the meantime, the Durban harvested earlier on in this diary is vaping very nicely. Its strong and pungent and was a super fun grow. I highly recommend it. Wk 7, Day 53 As a point of clarification on nutes, I am feeding with a 1/4 the amount of Cogos. shown. This 20ml schedule is based on the commercial grows standard 'candle' relationships. ie. 4x4 canopy, x 1000w. at 4' above canopy. My grow has a smaller light fixture, closer light to canopy ratio and smaller footprint. All of these things need to be taken in to consideration. I end up using 20mls per 4 gals of water.

DAY 59 Wk 8-9 of 10. TIL, This plant is phosphorous hungry. I have been observing this for a number of weeks. . Lower plant leaves showing signs of P deficiency and dying off in that manner. Cogos B 1-6-6 is not going to cut it. I need a higher ratio of P, is my guess. I have added back in Humboldts Big Up 0-33-23 for the final two weeks. There are signs of frost. Its like dust. Not particularly frosty nor very sticky. Similar to last grow. However, I fine tuned my growing and nute schedule to this plants requirements. I should be doing better IMO. I am not getting the resin production and smell I hoped for. This is a pheno thing I believe but I did take her through a cycle of flower to veg and back to flower again. In hind sight, this may not be the best way to go and probably plant vigor has been effected. I will withhold final judgement until after harvest and cure. She surprised me last time with intense stone from an otherwise unremarkable looking plant. Perhaps again. Seriously, this Green Crack is an afghani skunk hybrid. Where is the f .. ng beef? Feel free to weigh in if you have experience to share.

This baby is a good plant for a stealth grow. No smell at a distance. Fragrant up close. Buds aren't sticky. Admittedly I love my terpenes so feeling a bit robbed here, and then I vaped a well placed bud or two ...or ten. Damn strong medicine this and it lasts for hours. I have been looking for strain of this potency for a while. Perhaps I found it before but my grow skills couldn't get me there to max ripeness. Anyway, happy to be here tasting the most unremarkable looking girl, who is low on terpenes and stickiness but who still blows your head off. Maybe that is how Afghani's are. I am not experienced enough to know but this seems consistent with what we know about this area of the world! My baby is looking a little rough though, burnt tips, dark green leaves, a lot of leaves falling due to phosphorous deficiency. I must have screwed up on my nutes to the point I was heading for sub par quality, I thought. However, she is finishing on the dime. I week to go and she is sporting half cloudy and some amber trichomes at the 9 -10 week time frame the breeder specifies. So more went right than wrong. The vape effect is not lightweight at all. God knows what happens to you if you toke this shit.. Clear headed though and not buzzy. Very physical. some of it in the head also. I understand why GC has the reputation it does, says the recently converted. Next week she comes down. All those who wish to attend, are welcome. Pews on your right.

Post Harvest: I can't post harvest results in my diary as there as there is no GD harvest button to select, therefore notes about this harvest follow: I experimented here re-vegging a spare green crack plant I had sitting in the window sill. This is not something I would recommend in the future. Over all it contributed negatively to plant performance I believe. Plant vigor was not what I would have expected. The other result impacting mistake I made l learned too late to fix. I still was over lighting the canopy and when I discovered this, I dimmed the fixture. Plants have a hard time going into reverse, so I have been told and witnessed with my own plant growth weirdness during reveg. stage. And this makes sense. All matters to do with nutrients and lighting levels, the slope must always be on the incline evenly through out the grow. As they say, growers who experiment with their plants are heading for failure, growers that stick to conventional plant cultivating techniques are guaranteed good results. I am going full conventional next grow. GROW GUIDANCE, by other growers suggested extra P was needed to make this plant shine. I tried easing off on the N as a way to do this and adding Big Up at various stages.I don't think this was successful way to go because the plant wasn't very frosty or smelly. If I were to grow this strain again, I would try another route. Perhaps this is a good plant to try Mammoth P as a supplement. All in all, weight and quality of bud was way below expectations however despite my shitty grow, good genetics still shows through.This is a very powerful plant and the effects are intense and trippy. A very good day time stain because the visual effects are more pronounced and obvious. I am so not disappointed with the quality of the smoke. Its off the charts good even when it shouldn't be and I am very thankful for that. Now, on to the next grow. I hope to be underway in a month., Wanted to try Crocketts Tangie next time but stocks are out in most places I look. I grew up smoking Thai and would like to try a hybrid. I am also liking the skunk family a lot. Research is needed. Happy growing all. APR 2018. Further thoughts. I have the answer to my growing issues listed above. Too much vegetative growth comes from too much N, obviously. The confusing thing was identifying the source of N as I was feeding with low ppms of N. As it happens, some bugs fix nitrogen into the soil or make it more accessible to the plant. ie It throws off your N balance. So watch out adding accelerators and microbes. The net result of too many is too much green on the buds. This is a good argument for using only one range of products unless you are a plant biologist and know what you are doing.