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Sorry to have started this so late. Wish I'd done every week. Can't wait for the next grow.
This is almost my first grow and I made a whole load of mistakes. The main thing that happened was that after 12 weeks of veg they outgrew their tent so I had to leave them in a dark room for 4 days until the bigger one arrived. Every leaf went yellow and look at them now! Needless to say I love them like my own children! Total survivors. The blueberry smells so much like blueberry hard candy it's crazy! And the Northern Lights is so white and frosty.
I know it's a bit late in the day, but if anyone's got advice on 1) making sure they don't get mould in their final 10 days. 2) Should I upgrade my P1000? 3) What strains should I go for next? I'm a philosophy lecturer and I like a nice creative high early evening, and a non-paranoid comatose high when I go to bed. 4) About EC. Er...confusing eh? So, if I feed with 1200 and it comes out 2000, I need to lower the feed until it comes out 1600? And if I feed at 1200 and it comes out at 1400 I can increase? Right? EC seems to be one of Google's achilles heels.
I have to say, this is the best hobby ever! I love it so much. I did one auto grow with Jack Herer and OG Kush both of which picked up a bit of mould, probably because they had to share a tent with the other ones and the humidity was 80% most of their lives. Have to say, OG Kush too strong, Jack Herer, absolutely amazing. I've never had a smoke that pulls me immediately into a good mood. Usually it just elevates whichever mood I'm in. Can't wait to do another grow of this that I don't pull two weeks early!
All the best and I think you're all brilliant.
Now that I've fallen in love with Jack Herer and realised it's probably the first sativa I've ever smoked (I was raised on moroccan hash and stuck to it ever since), which one shall I grow next? Jack Herer seems to inject me with a dose of happiness.
Super Silver Haze
Super Lemon Haze
Amnesia Haze
Bruce Banner
Train Wreck
Sour Diesel
They are my absolutely favourtestest Sativas - if you like Jacky you should get on with any of those!
One more question, which will really make you all roll your eyes...Where I am this isn't actually allowed. Is it a good idea for me to be actually doing this growdiaries stuff? Am I basically grassing myself up?
About EC. Er...confusing eh? So, if I feed with 1200 and it comes out 2000, I need to lower the feed until it comes out 1600? And if I feed at 1200 and it comes out at 1400 I can increase? Right? Is the whole point of this to give the plant as much feed as she can take?
Yes it is to feed your plants from the top and know what's at the roots as well. For coco a ppm of 800, 1.6 ec is a good range for photo period plants. 600ppm 1.2 ec is good level for autos. If you check your runoff waters ph and ec level and their going way past that level, you know lockout is just around the corner so you run some plain water through to lower it back to acceptable levels. If EC is getting low you know to increase a little same with ph. Always stay in range for trouble free grows. Cheers
So much great info. I hope I can return the favour one day. QUESTION: I'm flushing for my last week. Great circulation. Temp 24-30. Humidity 50%. Is there much I can do now to optimise the yield? It's like waiting for a child to be born. A holy child. Who I'm gonna smoke, yo!
Did you use organic or synthetic nutrients?
If you used organic there is really no need to 'flush' as you would effectively have to flush away all organic matter and microbial life which is practically impossible - just stop adding nutrients and water normally (always pH) until the end.
If synthetic nutrients were used then you will need to basically try to cleanse your substrate and flush - water to say 10-20% runoff, wait 5 mins to allow the nutrients to get picked up by the water, water to runoff again - do this over the next few days until the ppm of your runoff is like...50ppm and then you are pretty much there.
The flush is finally here! I can barely sleep. The trichomes are showing some amber. Now I'm gonna give them 7 days of ph'd water taken from my dehumidifier, then 48 hrs of darkness, then I'll hang them for a week in 55% rh darkness and see if there's a snap.
2 weeks.
14 days.
346 hours.
20160 minutes.
Did I tell you I have a problem with patience? Everytime I think about them a little bit of wee comes out.
Two more days of flushing and then 48hrs of darkness before chop, aka Christmas Eve of the grower. No mould, visible growth and fattening of buds. Saw a few clear trichomes on the Blueberry but they're so tangled up they're coming down together no matter what, and the amber on the Northern Lights are reaching about 25%. My hopes are high and I'm even beginning to wonder if I might break the 1g/watt barrier.
To make dry sift should I dry my buds more than normal before I freeze them? Last time the yield was so low and I wanna find out how to improve it. Cheers!!!!
Hi Bro, I'm a dry-sift addict. The quantity of resin may vary from strain to strain, also the stickiness is an important factor (the more grainy, the higher the yield). Another factor is the choice of right mesh and how much this is in tension. IMO there's no need to overdry the stuff, more important is to vacuuming the bag before you freeze it (this will protect trim from humidity).
I'll update after I've dried it and tried it, but it smells unmistakably like blueberry hard candy. It's uncanny. Update: an incredibly hardy strain and one that if grown properly I think could yield enormous amounts. It is a classic 70/30 indica high, though the Northern Lights wins for her unique effects.
Both of these plants were remarkable. They never complained, and when I had to leave them in a dark room for 4 days and all of their leaves went yellow and died, they came back even stronger. I was about to cut them down but then saw little green shoots coming through and a week later they were like a jungle. I really hope all my future grows are as easy as these lovelies.
When I was lollypopping I put a cutting in a glass of water by my window and after a couple weeks i saw that it had developed a root, so I planted it outside in my little greenhouse thing. Have a look at it, it's weird little thing, with single point leaves and a weird bottom heavy structure. Am I right in thinking that a load of these would constitute a Sea of Green?
For my next grow I'm gonna do something very similar. I used Canna A+B, with about 8 feeds of PK and a little Cannazym. Does anyone know what else I could use to supplement the feeding, preferably from Canna? My main issue is the tightness of buds, but probs insufficient lighting
Hi I currently use canna a b and I include the canna boost canna pk 13/14 then I also combine advanced nutrients carb loader with bud candy. Then the final week I use advanced nutrients ripen. And for flush I use advanced nutrients flawless finish. Hope this helps
I have to say, this is a really beautiful high, and this is why we're here eh? It's somehow both crystal clear and heavy indica at the same time. So nicely balanced. I also made some dry ice hash which is just as lovely.
Update: don't get over confident with this stuff and put too much in. It's quite intense, though not paranoid. Like when you're crawling up to bed but you feel alright with that - not a good look when the ASDA delivery guy comes.
Update: With this strain I feel it hit my muscles almost immediately with a kind of cosy sweetness. When I close my eyes in bed I see little lights. No joke. Absolutely lovely sleep. This is the kind of stuff you wanna give out as a birthday present.
This plant struggled a little more than the blueberry with the awful torture I put it through re 4 days of darkness in a cold room, but it recovered well enough and if I lose 75% of the wet weight it'll still be almost 3 oz, so highly recommended.
For my next grow I'm gonna do something very similar. I used Canna A+B, with about 8 feeds of PK and a little Cannazym. Does anyone know what else I could use to supplement the feeding, preferably from Canna? My main issue is the looseness of buds.
Loose buds really need more light to increase density, there are various boosters and what have you available but at the end of the day its watts that equals weight if your feeding is on point.
Happy growing! I hope you get some good results! Take care and stay lit! I will drop by sometimes to check on your process! Say hello if you ever visit my page!
Peace & Love - L.S.T 🙏🏼🌟
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