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leaf tucking
weeks 10
Topping
weeks 4
Defoliation
weeks 4-6, 10
LST
weeks 4-5, 8
Targeted defoliation
weeks 7
Shamrock potting compost
Grow medium
Westland Cacti
Grow medium
9 L
Pot Size
0.5 L
Watering
0
Germination
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gottagrowsometime
So, this is a seed I've singled out from the 4 plants I have grown. Reason why this was created, that if it turns out well I want to be able to add it into contests, don't we all want a great plant and if I can give a good enough diary, well then I will. I will single this plant out aswel as the cbd by fastbuds and will leave detailed info on their individual growth and techniques used. Conditions: 22c water, ph 6.3 ppm 78 kept in a dark press above fridge to hopefully maintain a steady temperature. Will check back in 12 hours to see if the seed has dropped to bottom of glass, if not I'll continue on as if they had dropped and leave them for 36-48 hours, by that time if a seed is still not sprouted, or dropped to get of glass I'll give few drops of hydro and and extra 24 hours if still no change I'll proceed with what was a success or I'll start the process all over and try different conditions or maybe a different germination method, seeds will be discarded. Seed will be singled out once they both have sprouted or if just one does that will be the focus of this diary. Hopefully both will sprout giving me 2 ways to attack the grow of both plants and try different techniques. UPDATE 12/20/21 12hrs since dropped. Seeds have hit bottom of glass, no sprouts, a little early. PH 6.3 PPM dropped just a little from 79 to 75. Slight temp increase of .5 22.5c Let's not disturb them now for another 12-24 hours will update. UPDATE 18HRS. So, looks like my whole grow plan is out the window. My whole setup was depending on a $400 delivery of hydro nutes, coco+perlite, lst gear and hydro pots. I do not have a way to go this route this time, as I do not have the funds nor can I get a company to ship all the items I'll need by tomorrow night, my 48hr glass water germination method. So, instead, I'm going to try a new product that has never been used as far as I know. It's a supersoil powder that transforms normal potting soil into top soil, it's also geared towards organic plant growth. It's very very very expensive. But it's just one product. You can make up to 100l per 100 grams and it costs $70 per 100grams. So, looks like it's going to be an organic grow, defo expecting a lesser yield, but, hey, who knows this could be the next wonder juice. Will update tomorrow on progress of germination. UPDATE 2.5 DAYS 12/22/2021 So, I just took the seeds down and as you can see after 22hrs after switching to paper towel the CBD AUTO 20:1 that had a little tail is just about ready to plant aswel as it's sister CBD. The zkittlez showed only slight shell change after 36hrs of glass water, but as you can see the 22hrs in paper towel has them nearly there too. I checked them last night after 12 hours just to resoak with a spray bottle of 6.3ph, 78ppm and 23c temp of distilled water from a regular Brita jug. GLASS OF WATER METHOD: Hmm, to be desired. This method seems to work okay with fastbuds, but even after 36 hours only a tiny tail was sprouting. Zkittlez only barely could notice shell change. Not a great method, but Maybe if I'll try this way again I will use a nute or a few drops of hydro. NOT A BEST METHOD FOR FAST RELIABLE RESULTS. PAPER TOWEL METHOD: So, I threw in the towel with the GOW method. And decided to go straight into paper towel. I have no special heat pad, or controlled environment, I just got a big plate, folded up a kitchen cloth put it on plate, and put some cling film over the plate, then got some kitchen towel paper, ripped it in half and made 2 slips, lay it down, soak the paper till soaked right through, ( don't worry about getting to wet, just hold stuff down and turn plate on its side to rid of excess pooling water. Use tweezers or gloves, to take seeds from glass, (if using different strains be sure to label or make sure you rember what side you have left seeds). Lay seeds half way down on paper towel and cover with remaining half of paper towel (be sure you move the paper towel around so the seeds are sitting on the cloth, instead of a cold plate, trust me, it makes so much difference), until they overlap trapping the seeds between wet paper towels, lay cling film over paper towels and to remain heat, again fold up light dish cloth and lay over top of cling film, this is just to retain heat, and I only added the top cloth last night and when I checked it dismorning to my surprise the seeds had dried up the paper towels a lot after laying the extra dish cloth over the top of cling film. With that extra added bit of heat in the dark press I kept the glasses of water they sprouted sooo much. So just going to give them 12 more hours then gonna plant. I WOULD 100% CHOOSE THIS METHOD OVER GOW, BUT, MAYBE SOAK THE THE SEEDS FOR 12 HOURS BEFORE PT GERMINATION. UPDATE 1.5 days So, surprise, surprise, gets what's delivered today, all my hydro gear. And yesterday I spent $100 changing over my setup to grow organic. So, now, I'm doing this diary as a hydro grow. 1 zkittlez og auto/ 1 CBD AUTO 20:1 hydro and another 1 of each I'm doing organic. So, tail sprouted on 1 CBD and you can see 2 other shells starting to open, but way to slowly. So instead of leaving them in their conditions I made the choice to give the last 24 hours in the paper towel method. See in pics above. You will be able to compare this hydro grow to the 2 organic diares I'll be starting with supersoil formula. For hydro I've went down the Advanced Nutrition line. I just need to order a few more products for the flowering stage. But everything for organic is ready to go, from start to finish. UPDATE 2.5 DAYS So, I just took the seeds down and as you can see after 22hrs after switching to paper towel the CBD AUTO 20:1 that had a little tail is just about ready to plant aswel as it's sister CBD. The zkittlez showed only slight shell change after 36hrs of glass water, but as you can see the 22hrs in paper towel has them nearly there too. I checked them last night after 12 hours just to resoak with a spray bottle of 6.3ph, 78ppm and 23c temp of distilled water from a regular Brita jug. GLASS OF WATER METHOD: Hmm, to be desired. This method seems to work okay with fastbuds, but even after 36 hours only a tiny tail was sprouting. Zkittlez only barely could notice shell change. Not a great method, but Maybe if I'll try this way again I will use a nute or a few drops of hydro. NOT A BEST METHOD FOR FAST RELIABLE RESULTS. PAPER TOWEL METHOD: So, I threw in the towel with the GOW method. And decided to go straight into paper towel. I have no special heat pad, or controlled environment, I just got a big plate, folded up a kitchen cloth put it on plate, and put some cling film over the plate, then got some kitchen towel paper, ripped it in half and made 2 slips, lay it down, soak the paper till soaked right through, ( don't worry about getting to wet, just hold stuff down and turn plate on its side to rid of excess pooling water. Use tweezers or gloves, to take seeds from glass, (if using different strains be sure to label or make sure you rember what side you have left seeds). Lay seeds half way down on paper towel and cover with remaining half of paper towel (be sure you move the paper towel around so the seeds are sitting on the cloth, instead of a cold plate, trust me, it makes so much difference), UPDATE Day 3 Zkittlez a little slower out the gate then CBD but massive improvement cause they didn't even really change during 36 GOW method there about 3/4 of an inch or close. So, really happy with the progress. Ready to plant more or less would have liked them to be as long as the CBD so I'll give them another 3 hours. I hope my first ever, beginners germination shares on success and failures a like. How else do we learn unless we make mistakes, but read this, I've made them for you and hopefully translated them results in every step. Thanks for reading. Following my grow. Will update tomorrow after they get there first 18hrs of light and feedings.
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Paper Towel
Germination Method
advice
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Week 1. Vegetation
4.5 cm
18 hrs
24 °C
7
No Smell
880 PPM
60 %
21 °C
23 °C
21 °C
9 L
0 L
27 cm
800 PPM
Nutrients 1
Supersoil Powder 0.5 mll
Comments 3
gottagrowsometime
BREEDER: BARNEY'S FARM TYPE: ZKITTLEZ OG AUTOFOLWER BACKGROUND: INDICIA DOM HEIGHT: TALL THC: UNKNOWN CBD: 20%-24% YIELD INDOOR/OUTDOOR 400G/600G WILL GIVE MY RESULTS ON WET/DRIED WEIGHT WHEN HARVESTED. Okay, you are probably wondering why, I'm using 2 large terracotta pots compared to the 2 tiny air flow hydro pots. Okay, so here MY reasoning. So, the whole purpose, of this powder, is to turn normal organic soil into topsoil/humus. So, why start making top soil then only to disturb it to change into a bigger pot of fresh soil. Well, it takes up to 2-4 weeks for this formula to turn soil to topsoil, so, for the first 2-4 weeks for veg I mixed a 4l of high grade Cacti planting mix to give it that organic boost until the soil transforms into Humus/topsoil. So, when I mixed .5 of the powder with 6.3 ph water after 20mins the ph was up and around 9.3-9.5 and PPM were in the 700+ and increasing, especially when I added a little hot water the PPM jumped up, cause this stuff works better if the distilled water is warm supposedly there's billions of micro enzymes doing there work and that's what transforms the soil (adjusted the PH with some lemon juice until my PH down arrives). Both organic plants got around 250ml feed of supersoil formula each at the start and another 150ml of 6.3ph distilled water after 12hrs of light. Then another 6hrs then the girls go to bed. Got there first 18 hours, am going to water again this time with just PH 6.3 PPM 78 21c temp, 125ml each when reaches 24 hours planted. Then 12 hours later another 125ml, or around that. Fan comes on to suck filtered air in 20mins on and 20mins off, 24/7 I turn the speed up to full when the light is on and half speed when off. As plant goes into flower will run filtered air until Harvest. Dunno what to make of this stuff. I'll just wait, no more water or formula until I see growth, maybe I should put a plastic see through cup over the area. I'll give it 5 days and if there's no growth I'll consider it, (supersoil powder), a failure= update 8/2/22 this stuff is perfect, not once have I had to add any non organic nutes and it has been getting the minimum. 48hrs we got sign of growth. Will continue with supersoil formula. 52 hrs gave her 50ml of supersoil formula following another 150ml of distilled PH 6.3 water over the 3rd day lighting period. I'll give it another 150ml per organic plant over the space of day 7 lighting period. And then will give updates on changes. Updates on pics will still come for this plant for the remaining of this week. HUMIDITY CONTROL 12/25/21 So, I noticed when the light is on after a while the humidity can get as low as 52% but goes up to around 55 when the intake fan comes on. So, I got a bowl, put it in between the terracotta pots with some hot water and epison salt and when the fan is off it can go up to 67% and 60% after a few mins of the intake fan being on. So, really happy with an easy fix, it stays around 60-65% when lights are off and intake fan on/off 1/2 1 being turned on for 20mins and turned off for 40mins. Small portable fan on all the time, only when it's being charged it's not turned on. Will go into my air circulation set up next week. (Meaning no air is blown across the side of the plants, this is the best method if using regular seeds as there is very small chance of pollination) 12/26/12 Just a small update. So, I gave both plants 200ml of .5 per 500ml with a PH of 9.3 PPM 880. I was going to use a PH down, but this stuff is not meant to have anything else that will effect it's potency, and I'm sure some sort of mix of lemon juice won't help, cause that's all PH down is fancy lemon/lime juice REPORT AND RESULTS FROM WHAT WAS DONE THIS WEEK; Planted the seed after 12hrs of glass of water germination following 36hrs of PT germination. Seeds showed signs of life after 48hrs, need a little help. Recovered to the stress of been trapped nicely, supersoil seems to already had an impact as I was worried putting the seed straight into a high grade cacti organic mix and high rich organic compost that there would be nute burn or some sort of trouble, great results this week. Thanks for reading, Happy Growing gottagrowsometime
Grow Questions
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gottagrowsometimestarted grow question 3 years ago
So, I seen all my seeds were popping, so I checked out zkittlez organic and I could see the brown seed shell and was on its side, so I poked and proded and pult out a bent over stem, with a part of the shell husk not apart of the process, how will this effect it?
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Plant. Stem - Weak
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GrowCN
GrowCNanswered grow question 3 years ago
Never touch a sprout. You risk damaging the very tender sprout when you "help". If the seed/sprout is healthy it will do everything it needs to. It doesn't need help shedding the seed husk and needs no help emerging from the ground.
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Week 2. Vegetation
8.5 cm
18 hrs
24 °C
8.7
Weak
880 PPM
58 %
21 °C
23 °C
21 °C
9 L
0 L
32.5 cm
800 PPM
Nutrients 5
Supersoil Powder 1.302 mll
Voodoo Juice - Advanced Nutrients
Voodoo Juice 2 mll
Tarantula - Advanced Nutrients
Tarantula 2 mll
Comments 1
gottagrowsometime
Week 2 D8. So, last night I added another 150ml of supersoil formula, got the PH down to 8.7 without adding any ph down. PPM 800 I'd say the proper reading is much higher, supersoil formula seems to be an all in one. Am adding root stim and micro enzymes this week. Decided to start her on a course of root nutes and enzymes to help nutrient uptake and root expansion. 1/1/22 D9 So, it's looking like the organics are out doing hydros, defo when you compare the zkittlez organic to zkittlez hydro, you would call the hydro a runt. D10 I want clear results from what this supersoil formula can do, but as of now, the supersoil organic route is looking like it's the better option. As I want clear results (hydro VS organics) I'm only going to be adding organic nutes. We will see though, it's not over till the harvest, so early days but organics are clearly kicking ass. 3/1/22 well, I think the pics speak for themselves. I gave her the last supersoil formula feed for this week. Gave her 200ml PH 8.7 PPM 500. 4/1/22 continuing on with the same feeding chart, plant seems to be responding without fault. REPORT AND RESULTS FROM WHAT WAS DONE THIS WEEK. Well, not much to add as for results from what I've done, as I've had to do very little thanks to this supersoil formula. Added voodoo, Tarantula & piranha and that to help root growth and nutrient uptake and it seems to be helping, she really is taking off and with the mix of the formula it has made for a nice healthy trouble free (So far) plant. Thanks for reading, happy growing gottagrowsometime
advice
3
Week 3. Vegetation
10 cm
18 hrs
24 °C
6
Weak
1580 PPM
58 %
21 °C
23 °C
21 °C
9 L
0 L
30 cm
800 PPM
Nutrients 6
supersoil formula 3 mll
Voodoo Juice - Advanced Nutrients
Voodoo Juice 2 mll
Tarantula - Advanced Nutrients
Tarantula 2 mll
Comments 8
gottagrowsometime
Week 3. So, as you can see in the picture. She isn't looking right, she's looking more like a plant. Considering cutting this supersoil and changing completely to biocanna and the rest. But, the CBD is coming on great. Maybe I'll let her run her course, it's too late to fix now if there is a problem. I can't control the way the leafs come out. But, she is the biggest by far. So....hmmmm decisions decisions. Going to stick with week 1 feeding table. Will give supersoil formula tomorrow. And continue with the Voodoo juice and that and the biocanna.10/1/22 Whatever I'm giving her she's doing great, she has gotten even bigger, pics coming tonight for D19. Thinking I'm going to have to get some organic bloom and give her the last supersoil formula feed tonight, so far, this stuff has given an equal balance. Haven't had any problems with bad color, nute burn, or nute lockout. I'd say she'd really pop if I started her on bud factor x and all the other good stuff, but going to keep it organic. BTW. Feel free to add comments and advice on my grow 11/1/22 gave her the last feed of supersoil formula for this veg stage, will think if I should add it to the flower or not. Got my biobizz ph down so felt more comfortable giving them a higher dose with me being able to bring down the PH finally. Biobizz ph down is so strong btw, you literally need 1ml per 5gallon to bring it down at least 1.-2.. doesn't effect the PPM unless just added to water. Stays steady with nutrients. REPORT AND RESULTS FOR THE WEEK: I overwatered her by mistake, thankfully I had drainage holes and was able to get the build up out, no serious damage at all. Gonna leave her for the rest of the week (+ was got a PPM/PH reading from run-off, results above. She is my biggest grower. And very healthy looking, no major changes. Damaged a leaf when moving pot around and noticed a root coming from the end of the drainage hole, great sign of root development. Thanks for reading, Happy Growing gottagrowsometime
Grow Questions
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gottagrowsometimestarted grow question 3 years ago
Is it too early for LST? I'd like the 2 main colas to be sticking up more, will I leave that to the growth or should I start training it now? I have the right stuff for lst, ties and that green sponge wire. Or will I wait till it finishes it's 3rd week at least. New to dis, so...
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Plant. Other
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Y0inkanswered grow question 3 years ago
Generally i start training at the 3rd node. The technique you want to use,is called Mainling. https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/blog-how-to-perform-the-main-lining-technique-n581 Hope it helped you 👊🏽 good luck 🍀
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Week 4. Vegetation
26 cm
18 hrs
24 °C
8.7
Weak
880 PPM
58 %
21 °C
23 °C
21 °C
9 L
0 L
30 cm
800 PPM
Nutrients 1
Voodoo Juice - Advanced Nutrients
Voodoo Juice 2 mll
Comments 3
gottagrowsometime
Loving this method really simple compared to the need the hydro need (supersoil growing). Which is a pain in the arse btw (coco), when compared to how simple and easy this approach has been. 17/1/22 topped both organics today. She has SO MANY POSSIBLE BUD sites this early I personally think for autos especially topping is a thing that has to be done early and I've let the plant grow all these nodes and every fan leaf looks great. (HOW TO DEFOLIATED/LST) 18/1/22 topped last night and done some defoliation, for those who are beginners and find this concerning, why take healthy leafs off my plant, well, if your like me, and space is an issue aswell and humidity and temp doing defoliation will solve this by some means, and you are allowing light to reach bud sites, if you are doing LST, you kinda be silly not to do defoliation before you do lst, being the whole point of LST is to move them into the light but by removing unwanted leafs you are more or less making room to control LST better, so in my novice advice I strongly recommend you defoliate. For those who do not know where or what fan leafs are, start by doing the very easily noticeable fan leafs which grow right under the Y shaped cola above it, NEVER CUT THAT. As you can see in my pics of CBD I stupidly used a stanley blade and cut from the bottom up in and in doing so I cut a cola off. But it's okay, also there was one cola that never matured so I left the 6th intact but really it's only 5 cause there is a cola missing from node 2 and 4 I think. Zkittlez is doing really well. I'm going to go back in after a few days of rest and take some more fan leafs off the top. Not too much. Don't want her bald neither, (but mainly you need to keep leafs as energy as much as they use it up they also promote it, so a healthy balance is required. I'd love to do no defoliation but with my tent been 2,3x2,3x5 I have to keep the humidity down aswell as keep as much space as possible. 20/1/22 So, I've done all I can for her now, topped, defoliation then LST. simple set up, drilled holes on all 4 sides. And lightly tied back some so the light could hit colas better, removed about 50% of fan leafs and topped above 5th node. That's all in the order of Topping/defoliation/LST. Will do more defoliation when required and LST and possibly even more topping. Depends on growth. REPORT AND RESULTS ON WEEKS PROGRESS. So, finally got into her and done some necessary defoliation and LST. She has reacted as I expected to this low stress week. Hoping by doing this we will see some new growth and have good results to report on for next week, what I've done this week I will see the benefit straight away right up to harvest.
Used techniques
LST
Technique
Topping
Technique
Defoliation
Technique
advice
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Week 5. Flowering
31 cm
18 hrs
24 °C
8.7
Weak
880 PPM
58 %
21 °C
23 °C
21 °C
9 L
0 L
25 cm
800 PPM
Nutrients 6
Voodoo Juice - Advanced Nutrients
Voodoo Juice 2 mll
Tarantula - Advanced Nutrients
Tarantula 2 mll
Piranha - Advanced Nutrients
Piranha 2 mll
Comments 1
gottagrowsometime
Week 5 24/1/22 WARNINGS not to do mainlining to an auto, which is what I thought in the first place, I was even worried about doing LST too early cause it might effect the growth. Well, I've learned 1 crucial thing and that was that I had my light turned up too much. I have all the tell tell signs, small to non-existent internodes/ browning of the stems/ stunted growth and droopy leafs. Lesson learned less is really more in the case of growing. Decided to add some biocanna bioRHIZOTONIC it helps for growth and when you stress plants. The PH sores up to 11.8 from just 3ml/l but .1 of ph- brings it down to 5.9 28/1/22 Can see after a lot of defoliation, there are a decent number of bud sites, not a lot. But not too bad, still early days, and a lot that can still go wrong, fingers crossed she'll hold out. Responded well with everything that has been throw at her. She is a very hardy strain. REPORT AND PRORESS SO FAR FROM THIS WEEK AND FROM WORK DONE WEEKS PRIOR: well as you can see I done some really heavy defoliation, at this stage with her still being in veg, I know she will bounce back even stronger, so far from what defoliation and topping I done in previous weeks has resulted in lots more growth in areas which were lacking those crucial bud sites. I went even a step further this week and removed more in the hopes it'll even make more bud sites and recover, we will see in next weeks findings.
Used techniques
LST
Technique
Defoliation
Technique
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Week 6. Flowering
35 cm
18 hrs
24 °C
6.6
Weak
1520 PPM
58 %
21 °C
23 °C
21 °C
9 L
0 L
25 cm
800 PPM
Nutrients 6
Voodoo Juice - Advanced Nutrients
Voodoo Juice 2 mll
Tarantula - Advanced Nutrients
Tarantula 2 mll
Piranha - Advanced Nutrients
Piranha 2 mll
Comments 1
gottagrowsometime
Week 6 D36; 2 more weeks of 18/6 and then I'll be switching to 12/12. Over the next few days I'm going to look into an organic bloom booster. They defo need something. If you have used a good 1 please leave a comment with your suggestion and I'll drop by your diary and look at the results, please only suggest stuff that you've used and can show me results. 30/1/22 So I've updated the PH/PPM results based on the over watering of the CBD they more or less got the same feeds only difference is the CBD got overfed with 6.3 PH 78PPM distilled water. 2/1/22 D38 Done some heavy defoliation today just mainly took little leafs and the few fan leafs overlapping on bud sites, just cleaned her up a little, I know she looks a little naked but I assure you everything I've done can't hurt the growth at this stage, (but be sure to leave the little leafs and other leafs on the new stems/colas as they promote energy, it's all about the flowering now baby and getting them bud sites to pop. If anyone thinks different please leave a comment. I'm going by what I've read and I know one thing you read online contradicts the other, so it really all is trail by error. Really excited to get into DWC I've been seen the results and they are sooo much better than soil/coco+manual feesings. GROW RESULTS FOR THIS WEEK Done some heavy defoliation, resulting in lots of new growth and the plant has really filled out, she has started to flower slightly so, now is going to be the last week of veg as I'm going by what the plant is telling me. Your girls will always tell you when they are happy or not, some signs will be easier than others. Here are some things that are very basic but are the core of any healthy grow and what to look out for and test. 1. Test you soil PH/PPM. You can do this by taking 2 soil samples. One from the top and one a few inches down. By this you'll be able to tell your saturation levels and are your nutes/ if you are using any, in this case I'm using a supersoil formula. This step is crucial to any method of growing. Get yourself a decent PH pen. It really is a must. If you have everything else but not a way to test your EC/PPM/PH you really are asking for trouble and you'll find it impossible to fix mistakes. DrMeter is a cheap reliable PPM/PH pen 2. Nute burn, this will show up on the edges mainly on new growth or on the very tips of leafs, that's early stage, 3. Tip burn could also mean your light is to high in power or to close to the canopy of your plants, 30cm is the ideal height for all stages of growth. 4 Nitrogen build up will lead to your plant getting brown spots but the main source will be leaf degradation. 5. Making sure you get the most from your space, this means doing some early LST, TOPPING or whatever you need to do, to stop from getting long stretchy plants keeping your light at the right height as lights too far away your plants will start to reach. 6. Overwatering. It's good to have holes in the end of your cup or pot to at least have some drainage. 7. If you are planting straight into substrate be sure to know which end you are putting down, but it is best to know if you seeds are viable or not, and doing this is very easy all steps I used are in my germination week. 8. Use some sort of micro enzyme to help break down your nutrients/fertilisers and help nutrient uptake, aswell as using some sort of grow nute. If you don't have them or the money at the very least you will have to have some sort of calcium. And even then you won't have a great grow. So, if it's a thing about money just get some high grade top soil/humus and that should get you through your grow, well it will for an auto at the very least. 9. Make sure to give your plants at least 1/2 week flush with just water unless you have some finisher. PROGRESS AND REPORT ON LAST&PRIOR WEEKS WORK. So, I got what I was hoping from topping her 2 weeks ago and by doing defoliation (Lots of new growth on the stems promoting tons of bud sites). So, I know ppl say your leafs are energy, and yes, I agree. So, I'm going to try and push her right to the edge and take all them pretty leafs and growth in this week's last pic and hope she bounces back. My goal in all this is not for new bud sites, like it has been in all my other defoliations, this is purely to concentrate growth on those hard earned underdeveloped bud sites, I know they are only new but so many are sooo far behind so in a way I'm hoping to slow down the tops growth to let the lower bud sites catch up, (if that makes sense), hopefully I'll have a good report for next week's summary, and won't look like an idiot that ruined his plant. We shall Happy growing Thanks for reading. gottagrowsometime
Used techniques
Defoliation
Technique
advice
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Week 7. Flowering
40 cm
15 hrs
24 °C
6.2
Weak
1520 PPM
58 %
21 °C
23 °C
21 °C
9 L
1 L
35 cm
600 PPM
Nutrients 5
Voodoo Juice - Advanced Nutrients
Voodoo Juice 2 mll
Tarantula - Advanced Nutrients
Tarantula 2 mll
Piranha - Advanced Nutrients
Piranha 2 mll
Comments 1
gottagrowsometime
First week of flowering. D43. I am still going off the PPM reading from the overwatering of the CBD organic.Turned light up to 100%. Air intake also turned up to 100% 24/7. Switching to a 15/9. Lots and lots of bud sites have started to show, as I have stride for these past few weeks, doing defoliation in the right areas has worked out for me so far. D44 decided to do her last defoliation, now remember never take too much, (in saying that, this is the most I've taken), and there's a good reason why ive taken what I have and more importantly, from where. So, now the whole idea these past few weeks was to create more bud sites and start the top site maturing what they had, the plant had very few were there should have been growth and the ones that had, were too unmatured, by doing the defoliation on the lowest parts it premotes growth on the node above. But now, the new sites I helped premote are way too far behind the top canopy now. So I'm going to do something drastic, and it's only the start of flowering, so there still will be enough growth left to catch up, but the whole point is to let the lower bud sites to even catch up slightly while slowing down the top bud sites, idk if this will work but we shall know by the end of the week. (DEFOLIATION) Never strip too much of 1 stem. Your leafs are energy (tucking these leafs if you do not want to defoliate is a good way to get light to critical bud sites. By learning how to defoliate you can train certain parts to grow quicker than others. Clearly it works, well everything I have done so far has gotten me the results desired. By taking fan leafs off and so on from say the last node will promote growth on the next node level and continue up, so by taking the fan leaf right underneath the cola attached to the main stem will help growth on its node right above said fan leaf. 8/2/22 Yes, I know she looks a little naked. She'll stress for a couple days and then bounce right back I took a lot of the growth from above, hoping by taking so much and because it's not too late in the flowering stage she should catch right back up and within a week or 2 I should know if all this defoliation will give the results I aimed for, fingers crossed. 9/2/22 She's looking a little poorly, this is very much to be expected. Thinking back I dunno if 8 should have defoliated over a 24hr period. I've given her an organic nute biocanna, the one I have listed. I only use it after doing defoliation and so on, it's purely for sickly plants, well that's the purpose I use it for, if advise you get a nute that you have if you plants turn sickly, there are many good ones on the market. The one I'm using is fairly expensive 25$+ for 250ml. And it requires a lot when giving it to plants. And also you 100 need ph down as my PH went to 11.5 for a 8ml/l. Hoping this will help her recover quicker. I will repeat after a few days. As she just got 500ml of water before the lights went out and another 500ml of solution. She hasn't flooded. Will update on progress on what I do through the week and report on results will follow at the end of every grow week. If you have any questions about my results or the methods I used to get there or just wanna talk turkey pm me. 10/2/22 I've checked the growth and can see a whole host of tiny shoots at to popping up and the tiny ones I wanted matured, well they have grown by around 15-20% and not much change to the top. Desired results. Thing is, now I have lots of new shoots, so I'm thinking of just stripping them away and let the plant focus on the 1s I matured by defoliating the top. Either way, this last defoliation will be the last, as I stated many times, your leafs are energy, and when doing defoliation make sure you do it for a reason, if your happy with all areas of your plants growth then I highly recommend you do some leaf tucking, (folding leafs back underneath stems, buds or behind other growth allowing light to reach desired area). Hopefully by not doing anymore defoliation and potentially stripping the new shoots, (caused by targeting defoliation), will help her stretch, as the hydro (my other zkittlez grow, not this plant) is going through a stretch but she is about 1.5 weeks ahead of the supersoil (this grow). WARNING constant defoliation will have the opposite effect, as the purpose of it is to focus on your plant on moving energy to bud sites, but constant defoliation will result in your plant constantly trying to recover leafs. So it's a balance. Targeting defoliation works well. This is what I have been doing. At the start it was just a need of letting light In and so on. But done right you can control the levels of node growth before you plant goes into heavy flowering. Make sure your colas and potential bud sites are more or less around the same level or if you know they will have time to catch up. 12/2/22 Not much to add. Plant has been left to recover, I've been adding biocanna bioRHIZOTONIC it helps for sickly plants and helps recover. Also I added bug traps in and around plants and redosed outside of pots and all areas that lead into tent with peppermint oil and Neem oil and organic pest foiler spray ready on hand. As for the work I done this week, I am starting to see the benefits already and will go into the results at the end of weeks report. And I'll add pics from said results. Still waiting for her to take a stretch. Nutrients given are listed above. Every 2nd-3rd day they get what's stated above. I will lower the dose of biocanna bioRHIZOTONIC by half, so 4ml/l, and continue on with regular feeds of these nutes right up until the last 2 weeks, then I'll start a flush, and maybe on the last 2 days I'll take her out and give her a root bath for 24-36hrs to make sure she gets a proper flush, with her being in supersoil I can't see lowering the EC enough for it not to be laced with chemicals when smoking. A flush is a must, I have flawless finish but I want organic results so, I'm gonna try what I've said above. If anyone has any advice please leave your suggestion in comments or message me. Pic added showing results of targeted defoliation. Lower bud sites got 10-20% bigger while top ones slowed down letting them all get a uniformed size. REPORT ON RESULTS FROM WHAT WAS DONE OVER THE WEEK. Well, as you can see in my pics, there was a method to my stripping madness, as you can see in week 7's last few pics you'll see all growth has caught up with each other more or less, a few new bud sites I didn't want but I'm not going to disturb them but I can't see them giving much over as they are too far behind to make and significant difference to the yield. But, all the lower sites that were in the stage of the new growth before I done targeted defoliation have all grown and the top slowed down just enough for 80-90% of the unmatured sites to catch up, results achieved. All in all, good week. Thanks for reading, happy growing gottagrowsometime
Used techniques
Targeted defoliation
Technique
8
Week 8. Flowering
43 cm
15 hrs
24 °C
6.2
Weak
1520 PPM
58 %
21 °C
23 °C
21 °C
9 L
1 L
32 cm
600 PPM
Nutrients 7
Voodoo Juice - Advanced Nutrients
Voodoo Juice 2 mll
Tarantula - Advanced Nutrients
Tarantula 2 mll
Piranha - Advanced Nutrients
Piranha 2 mll
Comments 11
gottagrowsometime
Floweing Week 8 D50. I am still going off the PPM from the overwatering from the CBD organic. Well, there isn't much to be added to this week, all of week 7 was used to get the plant where I needed it to be, and I'll be seeing results from the stuff i done week 7 for the next week and then I'll start training the top outwards. Am bringing her back to a normal dose of biocanna bioRHIZOTONIC, as she is out the gate, as far as being stressed. Think I'll give her 1 last supersoil formula feed. A very high dose from 1.5g per L. That's 3 times what I would have given her in the past, but her last supersoil feed was 2.5 weeks ago and now she's in flowering stage, I think she'll handle it. EC doesn't get too high will be maybe 2-2.5 EC. 13/2/22 Decided to add Nirvana as it's an organic nute, (all my nutes up to date are organic), big bud organic oim will start on Tuesday. Big Bud organic arrived today with a few other goodies. 15/2/22 Noticed how good the TDA plant was doing cause it was right in the middle getting the best par, as we all know the more your plants get away from the Middle the par is lowered. So, I decided to let the Zkittlez organic take full advantage of this espically with her getting big bud and Nirvana now, and the fact that her sister zkittlez hydro is nearly 15cm bigger. Done to LST to even out the canopy, was careful not to break and thick nodes, higher ends were easily tied down to nodes secured to the pot holes I drilled on the side 17/2/22 LST seems to be holding up. Have all nodes in an even uniformed canopy. Thanks for reading, happy growing gottagrowsometime
Used techniques
LST
Technique
advice
9
Week 9. Flowering
45 cm
15 hrs
24 °C
6.2
Weak
1520 PPM
58 %
21 °C
23 °C
21 °C
9 L
1 L
32 cm
600 PPM
Nutrients 4
Voodoo Juice - Advanced Nutrients
Voodoo Juice 2 mll
Tarantula - Advanced Nutrients
Tarantula 2 mll
Piranha - Advanced Nutrients
Piranha 2 mll
Comments 12
gottagrowsometime
Week 9 D67 21/2/22. She has only grown 2-3cm this week. Would of been nice if she grew a little higher. Next time I'll focus more on the importance of N-P-K, and when to apply it. But bud sites are nice and uniformed and got to remember all this bud is pure organic so will be top smoke. Hopefully the new big bud organic OIM will help fatten 'em up. We will see. 23/2/22 overall very happy with how she's taken her new nute, (big bud organic), she's loving it. Only wish I'd given her earlier the lack of cal seriously stalled her stretch. Bud she has a lovely shape, and even for a zittlez which is low in temps right up until she isn't is smelling lovely. That plant smell is going and getting a scent profile. Got a look at my trichomes About 5% milky rest are clear and some amber hairs of course. At this stage I'm really against any more defoliation, well I'll try get away with as much leaf tucking as possible cause she's very late to be doing any major stripping, need each leaf bringing as much energy as I can, especially the sugar leafs there very important, never take those!!! 25/2/22. Now that we are coming into week 10 it's time to start cutting down on N- and keep up PK for as long as I can, I'm gonna try give cal(big bud) right up until I feel it'll affect my smoke and biocanna Rhiz is going to come into heavy usage this wk. (I'm getting raw N-P-K soon, only wish I knew all this earlier) REPORT AND RESULTS FROM THIS WEEK: Haven't done much this week other than reading and learning what I can do for my auto. So, I increased cal as much as I can but this is the last week for big bud organic, will focus on P-K all though it should have been given earlier and more nitrogen in the growth phase. Thanks for reading. gottagrowsometime
10
Week 10. Flowering
45 cm
15 hrs
24 °C
6.2
Weak
1320 PPM
58 %
21 °C
23 °C
21 °C
9 L
1 L
32 cm
600 PPM
Nutrients 5
RAW P-K 5 mll
Voodoo Juice - Advanced Nutrients
Voodoo Juice 2 mll
Tarantula - Advanced Nutrients
Tarantula 2 mll
Comments 13
gottagrowsometime
Week 10 D71 25/2/22 Growing nicely. Have lowered the ppm by 200, as I want quality bud over quanity. So I cut big bud organic by half, instead of taking her completely off it. She is so frosted and the buds are forming nicely, hoping they'll get 30-40% bigger with this new increase of P-K. So many healthy leafs, I really didn't wanna defol but I could only leaf tuck so much. Overall happy. (Defoliation tips for mid-late flowering: It's important that you have leafs and this stage of your grow, even more so than others. Each bud site will have up to 4 fan leafs and a hole host of smaller what I call sugar leafs. Too much can cause light block out hence why we defol, but it's important to keep at least half the fan leafs coming from each bud site as them leafs are that buds, limbs if you wanna call them that, and them limbs draw in energy, aswel as the sugar leafs. So, leave half the leafs on the bud sites and take the ones you think will make the most impact and think ahead cause in a week the leafs you think are not blocking will be possibly blocking sites in a few days and leafs blocking sites might grow out and not have any impact on blocking light DO NOT TAKE THEM) if you need tips on defoliation please DM me, anytime. Also I've started to notice early signs of N tox, as you can see in the 1st pic for this week, the sides have started canoeing up, 'the claw", I'm gonna cut N down 75% for this week and increase MG/SUGARS/MICROS and when my N-P-K arrives I'll increase her P-K, that, and another week of the big bud even at half the dose down from 4ml/L to 2ml/L, should help the ruderails with the smaller nutes that autos need more so compared to photos, such as mg, copper, chlorine, sulfur and other trace elements, any decent grow nute will have these trace elements, so don't worry about them too much. They are normally always in the grow/bloom nutes which are to be given from sprout to right up until your flush but the cores are still a must N-P-K+CAL+MICROS 3/1/22 GREAT UPDATE, A LITTLE LATE BUT WILL STILL HELP. So, got my hands on some raw N-P-K don't really need the Nitogen at this stage but the raw P-K will be great for flowering (phosphorus/potassium) mix. I know it was meant to be given in week 5-6 Or more precise when stigma started, (pistons,lots of white hairs) this will hopefully transform the grow at this stage, these are well long and needed key nutes that are a must in forming nice dense buds, being I don't have many organic sugars, this should be the kick these organics need. Decided to add just a small amount of raw N. Just a small amount to balance the P-K as you might be able to see in the 1st picture this week signs of "the claw", N tox has come up. I done a hard flush, had to. And she's at to coming out the other side of the N tox. 4/3/22 D76 week 10 going to keep her on her new p-k diet for another week and bud coco I'll drop to .5 just for the cal+mg and trace elements. So 3 weeks, 1 week before flush. I'll keep her on reg but a lower dose maybe till mid wk could be all the week depending when I check the trichomes, harvest when the plant is ready not when I'm ready, been a lesson I've been struggling to stick with. But it'll pay off in the end. She is putting on mass, in the next 2 wks she should get 20-40% bigger in mass and then go into frost/resin producing more. Dropped ppm to 1000 for this feed, everything on the list except flawless finish, not yet. Hmmmm.....So P-K was given just a little too late. Showing signs of def nearest the top bud sites, it's not major though it could also be a mobile nute shortage also something like MG, which can be drawn from parts of your plant to new growth, (fans, bud expansion). Like N, when your plant shows light signs of N, as it's a mobile nute it gets sucked from the nearest source point, and that usually the closet N nearest the roots. With MG/p-k def it can show up like that. I think it's more of a P-K thing. Thanks for reading. gottagrowaometime
Used techniques
Defoliation
Technique
leaf tucking
Technique
advice
11
Week 11. Flowering
45 cm
15 hrs
24 °C
6.2
Strong
1120 PPM
65 %
21 °C
23 °C
21 °C
9 L
1 L
32 cm
600 PPM
Nutrients 5
RAW P-K 5 mll
Voodoo Juice - Advanced Nutrients
Voodoo Juice 2 mll
Tarantula - Advanced Nutrients
Tarantula 2 mll
Comments 2
gottagrowsometime
Zkittlez D78. She has kind of slowed down on the micro nutes deficiencies, (immobile nutes). She has been increased on Marconutes/micro nutes. Mainly p-k&mg on the marco side, (mobile nutes/marconutes), N,P,K, MG, ZINC. All other nutes will show signs of deficiencies on new growth and around new growth especially in mid-heavy flower, look at my last pic for week 10, that's a micro nute def, marco nute, mobile nutes gets sucked from old growth into new growth while micro nutes show signs around bud sites, growth/leafs coming for her will show signs by going yellow, if you have any of these signs feel free to DM me, put up a pic on your last week and Mark it as, "please look here", and i will look into it and different micro nutes show different signs of deficiencies, yes some are similar but most likely there'll be a few sites and this will allow you to narrow which micro nute it'll be, also even if you are giving the right amount of micro nutes given but have weak roots or low p-k this can also cause micro defs cause P-K espically K it helps move fluids loaded with your nutes around your plant and help overall uptake of micro nutes, youll know marco defs when old growth/fan leafs get drained of said needed nute. This is not a too bad a sign, just a little push to show you that your substrate has been drained of N,P,K MG, OR ZINC and needs a little top up. Now, when looking to see if you have fixed, don't be fooled by the old growth, as this will not change back to normal. The def will slow down. But look to new growth for your fixes this goes for marco/micro nutes. The difference is with marco vs micro. Is as simple as mobile/immobile nutes. Then we have the very importance of micro enzymes/fungi. 11/3/22 Really starting to get very very smelly and to the touch she is so f...king sticky it's crazy the amount of THC this bitch is packing, man you might not get quantity but sure as f..k you get quality when going 100% organic. Man give me 1g of dank bud over 5g of fast hydro crap. Don't get me wrong, it's still some nice bud, but look at the color of her, she looks great if I do say so myself. Was a bit worried about her not putting on mass but I counted how many days since she started flowering, (signs of stigma, white pistil hairs) and it's only been in the 30-40 window and she needs 55-65 days of flowering depending on her set-up and we all now organics take longer, so overall I'm very happy and am gonna be having some top quality bud. Have been able to bring the RH down from 75 highest 80% when Im in the room for more than 10mins down to a solid 65% in the tent and 55% air in the room. I also ordered and intelligent intake fan that reads RH/TEMP being blown into the tent after it passes through the filter. I'm going to look and see can I get some attachment as in the way of a dehumidifier filter as I don't need to cover up the smell so all the carbon filter is doing is bringing in clear air Thanks for reading gottagrowsometime
12
Week 12. Flowering
48 cm
15 hrs
24 °C
6.2
Strong
1120 PPM
65 %
21 °C
23 °C
21 °C
9 L
1 L
32 cm
600 PPM
Nutrients 5
RAW P-K 5 mll
Voodoo Juice - Advanced Nutrients
Voodoo Juice 2 mll
Tarantula - Advanced Nutrients
Tarantula 2 mll
Comments 6
gottagrowsometime
Week 12 D85 Day 40 since flowering, (stigma started), she is coming on nicely put on about 20-30% bud mass overall. Lower ends of the plant are starting to catch up. Aiming for 65 days of flowering, so roughly 15 left, but it'll come down to the trichomes which are 50%cloudy 20%amber 10-15milky and the rest are clear. As you go down the middle canopy it's more the opposite 50%clear 50% mixed bag clear and amber. 2 or 3 sites are still showing pistons, (stigma), and leafs around calaxies are not frosty yet. All round I'm happy with how she is coming on. Thankfully whatever disease my hydro caught it only passed it over to my TDA, I cut all leafs showing signs of D out. My hands are actually burning from whatever the fuck it is. I've tried examing it, and it doesn't rub off but it looks likes it's appearing on the surface. It's very weird. Might be experiencing a rare issue of some sorts. As it's not a daf as the hydro was touching the TDA 3 fan leafs showed the exact same rust spots. On exam again it seems to be surface related as the leafs are overall very healthy. I've increased ventilation by installing a 2nd intake intake fan 15/2/22 Plant is coming on nicely. Still slowly putting on bud mass, had me a bit worried though, hopefully she'll keep going on the 10-15Days left. 17/3/22 She's coming close to her end. She's been flowering for 50 days, I'll decide if this will be her last feed will be at the end of wk 12 D90. I'll check her trichomes and if she needs another week on nutes she'll get it, if not and I'm happy I'll throw her into a flush. Hoping to put on another 20-30% bud mass as I'm really not happy with bud formation. My new intelligent intake fan is awesome, its reader is prob the most accurate you can get and so quick to adjust itself to the right RH/TEMP. With the 2nd intake fan the sensor is giving a reading of 58%RH 27c 21 when light is off. RH drops to 55% with light off. Rooms RH is 47% temp is 22.5 throughout the whole grow our house is set at that temp constantly. 18/3/22 last update for week 12. Today I'll be giving her the last feed. And after the next week is up I'll decide if I'll continue on with another 7 days of PH water, it'll all depend on the trichomes. Report and results for this week Was able to drop the RH by 30% the new intelligent intake fan is awesome, it's reader is so accurate it's crazy. So was able to bring the RH down to 55% roughly inside the tent and 47% in the room. Temp holds at 21.7 in tent in the dark with light on goes up to 27c 55-60% RH. Thanks for reading drop a like if you did! gottagrowsometime
advice
13
Week 13. Flowering
48 cm
15 hrs
24 °C
5.7
Strong
97 PPM
57 %
21 °C
23 °C
21 °C
9 L
1 L
32 cm
600 PPM
Nutrients 1
6.3 PH 78ppm 500ml 2-3days 500 mll
Comments 3
gottagrowsometime
New week D91 foxtailing starting to happen on the top sugar leafs, not much but it's a sign she is done, maybe a few days ago even. She has about 10% clear left rest are amber cloudy with a few milky turning cloudy. Have her the last feed last night and that should pull her through the week. Will add maybe some cal to continue to break down the nutes, but this will depend on her PPM reading during the week, I'll give about 800ml which should give me 50-100ml back in water I can test. RH is steady in my room at 48% 55-60% in the tent gets higher when the lights are on. Temp is 21.7 in the dark goes as low as 21c as it comes close to being in the dark for 9 hrs. Reaches 27c and stays there after about an hour of the light been on can jump from 27-28c no higher. 19/3/22 As you can see I have the RH as best as I can get in my grow room, I've installed the smart fan and inserted the sensor giving me 57%RH, 75F in the tent with the light off, it's rather hot today, much hotter than normal, it's normally 21c in my room it's 24.5 today. RH is at 50% in room, hopefully by installing my old intake fan in the lowest part of my tent and suck out 80% While 100% gets blown in on top will bring the tents RH to the same as the room, that's the hope anyways. But 57%RH is still okay, not optimal but not too bad neither 21/3/22 So, I tried out my new method. Of having my smart intake fan suck in 50RH and a bottom intake fan at the end sucking out older air at a lesser speed had it running for 8hrs, no change in humidity whatsoever just dropped the temp by 1.5c. I think the fact I have a 70x70 with so many plants has set the RH and thankfully it's not what it was which was touching on 80rh at some days. A bigger tent and I'll really be able to dial in my grows now I have all the tools to control RH/TEMP from S/H. For now 57%RH when it's low and 62% when the lights are on for a few hours. Stays around 57-60% atm for around 85% of the time. Temp is constant and doesn't change without my control within a range of 4-6c change difference, this number I have no problem in changing and I'll be making my tent a lot cooler after this wk ends. I'll be keeping her at 18c with lights off and 28 with lights on. As for this plant, because of what it was grown in, humus/topsoil and all the micro nutes from the big bud I want to make sure I'm flushing out all those harsh metals that'll ruin my smoke, we don't want that. So, every 3 dat for the next 2 weeks I'll be doing a hard flush of 6l, I have excellent drainage on this plant, so only do this extreme flushing iif you are sure you can get back at least 5l of water out of your pot. Or whatever she normally holds she can leave that behind from the flush and count it as it's watering, but say your plant drink 2l and you hard flush with 10l you are wanting to drain 8l of water back to avoid overwatering and other issues and then not go near it again till it's due it's regular watering feeds. I felt I had to go to this extreme as doing normal flushing that should be done would have been able to break down the nutes in the soil quick enough and it would have been prolonged. For example I did a flush and gave a little over what she needed her PPM was 2300. Tonight was her 2nd hard flush she done her first on day 30 her next will be day 96. Got some run-off from the last 500ml and it was 900ppm really good, the the reading from the first 2l was 1090, but 900ppm reading from the last 500ml could be back up in the 1500 or whatever, it could sky rocket up on the next hard flush first run-off back up to 1500 who knows this is the thing about growing in supersoil, the flush is so hard to do. Have also dropped the PH to 5.8-6 ad to try continue nute uptake and drain the goodness from the soil. And I want to keep it organic so I'm holding off using flawless finish. 22/3/22 Soil is still very damp today after last nights 2nd hard flush. Think I'll have to leave it for at least another 48hrs before doing another hard flush, as I need to know the real ppm of the soil and I'll only know that when the soil dries out and when the first 1l goes in I need to be able to catch what ever comes out and that will give me it's true PPM reading. Which hopefully will be 8-900, need to get it down as low as possible, which is very hard to do in soil. If I had of started this process 1-2wks ago, (flushing), I think it would have been better. It's only been in the flush 5 days now. I'll see how the soil is in 24hrs and if there's no comment update then you know I decided to let her drain her soil dry. Fingers crossed she'll drink up over the next 24hrs, am dying to know her PPM. 22.5/3/22 Checked the soil when I got up, still very damp, a little too damp, just shows her drinking has slowed down by at least 30-50%, hence the foxtailing. Nothing much I can do about it. Gonna have to leave her for 36hrs I reckon, will check tonight but I can't see her drinking this much. 24/3/22 Ran a bud test to she is she ready to bring to harvest and what kinda smoke will she be like with the supersoil that's never been used to grow weed as far as I can tell. Did a 2l PH6.3-PPM78 of distilled water hard flush, caught about 1.1l back and PPM/PH were acceptable. Few more days should cut in half again. I took best part of a node weighed back in at 10.7 grams of wet 3g smokeable trim maybe .3-.5 back of trim and 1.7-2grams of bud. Looking to get 10-15% of mostiure so around that of 10g is roughly 1-1.5g and then you take in the weight of weed which is usually half the of the 10-15 mostiured bud. So roughly you look to see back around 20% when all said and done, clearly this number would vary wildly depending on how much you like your weed dry, but it cant be anymore than 20% mostiure or you won't be able to smoke it let alone grind it. There's 14 nodes like that that was the smallest 1, and I only took 2/3s of it as there was to side bud stems coming off cut node for smoke test. Will keep her in flush till that PPM number drops to around 150-250 and then harvest. 25/3/22 Glad I did a test chop. Little bit to harsh for my liking, would have been ruined in the cure, thing is, if you have chemicals in your bud and cure, the smell won't just get more intense the harsh/chemical cough will also intensify. Did another hard flush. Surprisingly was still high 550. Waited and hour did another, the repeated twice more and 2 hours later i poured just 500 ml got around 400ml back as soil still couldn't hold water, ppm was 253 PH was a little lower 5.78. Final report for this grow. Didn't go to bad for a first grow. And first time ever this supersoil formula was used. Great at regulating nutes and keeping plant in decent range, more of a ORGANIC PK booster early on would have been nice. overall I'm happy and will report on harvest soon. 1.5 week 4 hard flushes later and 253ppm hopefully that'll drop to 150ppm but either way she's coming down soon. Final update on this as for flowering/flushing. Did her final test 38hrs ago she hit water PPM or just about 97ppm 19 above what the water Is. PH was low though, 5.71 compared to her 5.85-5.9 throughout the whole grow. She has been in the dark 38hrs when it hit 48hrs she will be fully chopped so far she has given 10.7 bud and a 4gramer I think, (earlier test) got like 3g back dry. Was nice smoke first gram was harsh of course but this one I took last week was just a tad stronger so I left her for a week's extra flush. I'm sure after the cure them chemicals would have really came out. Thanks for reading and following my first grow, drop a like and I'll look at your page. Took her height again topped out at 48cm 15 solid nodes with nodes coming off them, rough guess each node weighs from 15-25g wet. Will give wet results after rough trim, in a weeks time dry weight..1 month later cure effects. Will update on smoke quality weekly. At the moment it's light, earthy, wood and small taste of critris/fruits, very mild though. Resin/trichomes could of been better, this was down to me learning as my other grows who are wks behind are totally different even the zkittkez hydro is 3 times as sticky/smelly/And trichomes are all over the sugar leafs. You can see the buds in the flash look white as opposed to the colors we can see on this grow. She is still nice, give a nice head high, as she stands without the cure she is a nice day time smoke. Hopefully she'll get stronger as the cure goes on, I know I'll get her real taste in a few weeks. As for effects that'll be partly down to luck and steady curing envoirment. Again, thanks for taking the time to read/drop by my diary, drop a like and I'll drop by yours. Thanks for reading, keep her lit. gottagrowsometime TO THE PEOPLE OF URAKINE YOU ARE IN OUR PRAYERS. GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY YOUR LOVED ONES BE SAFE!
13
Week 13. Harvest
Happy Harvest Day!
Zkittlez OG Auto - Barney's Farm
Spent 86 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
8/10
Rated
182 g
Bud wet weight per plant
41.5 g
Bud dry weight per plant
1
Plants
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182 grams wet 41.5 grams dry. There was a lot of trim but wasn't worth holding as there was not enough trichomes on it to make it worth smoking. Was a little disappointed but after a joint or 3 I feel great, great head high, makes you very motivated, gets the creative juices flowing. Love it. After a few days of having this smoke it's very nice indeed. I have around 20g in jars curing and I've smoked 17g or so. Have a few grams left but I'm going to try hold off and let the rest cure. It's nice and all as it is, but let's see can we get her any nicer if not strength then taste. And I truly believe there's much more this plants taste. Very nice taste, nice organic bud. Very nice head high that allows you to get stuff done and also after awhile you get that nice drowsy feeling that lulls you to sleep
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