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Germination
3 years ago
Nutrients 2
Recharge - Real Growers
Recharge 0.33 mll
Fish Shit - Fish Head Farms
Fish Shit 0.91 mll
2/19/22 - Started 1 x Member Berry RBx1 using the paper towel method. Used 1/16 tsp of recharge in water, 0.325520833 mL / L, applied to the paper towel. Placed in a ziplock bag and set on top of the refrigerator to keep it warm. 2/20/22 - Roots have started to show on the seed. It needs another day until I put it into some medium and a humidity dome. Got a seedling heat mat and moved from the top of the fridge to that. 2/21/22 - 12 pm - Seed and roots are ready for prime time. Put them in a small cup with coco coir and a humidity dome. Sprayed with water with 0.325 mL/L of recharge and .905 mL/L of fish sh!t. Placed in the tent with lights on a 12/12 schedule. Check on it in 2 hours to ensure the coco hasn’t dried yet. 2/21/22 - 2 pm - Medium wasn’t giving off enough humidity so I watered it until runoff. Placed the humidity dome back on top and placed it in the tent. Added some cellophane to the top of the dome to generate more humidity. 2/21/22 - 5 pm - Checked on the plant and all is well. Humidity in the dome looks good and the temp in the tent is just about perfect. Will check on it at around 10pm. 1 hour after the lights turn off. 2/21/22 - 10pm - Tent is down to 70 F. Humidity in the dome looks good still. 2/22/22 - 10am - Checked on her this morning and she hasn't broken the surface quite yet. Humidity in dome is perfect and the medium is still near field capacity. Just a matter of waiting right now. 2/22/22 - 1pm - Checked on her and still no change. Switched lights to the proper 18/6 schedule they should have been on. 2/22/22 - 10pm - No change in status 2/23/22 - 12pm - Still hasn't popped from the coco yet. Got my humidifier in and setup. Currently set to 90% humidity. Will check on it in a few hours. 2/23/22 - 3pm - Forgot to set the fan controller's high humidity setting off. Tent was sitting at 67 F. Fixed that and the heat should come up quickly. Will check in another hour. 2/23/22 - 5pm - Humidity looks good in the tent and temp is perfect. Now I guess I just wait. Starting to get a little worried not gonna lie. 2/23/22 - 8pm - Under the advice of a friend who also grows I turned off the seedling mat. Lets see if his theory pans out. 2/24/22 - 10pm - Still no change. I did some excavation and the seed has a long tap root that I left undisturbed. I'm thinking it just needs heat and that is the reason I haven't seen anything pop up from the medium. The seed shell is still intact as far as I can tell. I lightly put a little coco on top to bury the seed again. Lowered my lights and set them to 24 hours on. Also set my tent to start venting at 80F instead of 76F which is what it was set at. Humidifier is dialed in now as well. 2/25/22 - 12pm - No change 2/26/22 - 5pm - Decided to cut my losses and investigate further. This seed is toast. The taproot, which I thought was fairly long at this point, was actually pretty short. The seed never fully opened and I think it used all it's energy up. Going to try this again and have ordered some peat pellets for germination. Will likely start a new seed today using the paper towel method with the same nutes. 2/27/22 - 6pm - Started a second seed in a peat pod. Placed in the tent on my seed starting heater and kept my original light schedule. Since it's under a humidity dome I turned the humidifier off. 3/2/22 - 11am - Checked on the pod and we have a popped seed! Going to give it till the end of the day and check on it again. May be able to remove that dome tomorrow or Friday. 3/3/22 - 12pm - Checked on her and she is doing very well. Seems like the peat pod is drying a little so I removed the netting and transferred to a small pot with some coco. Will likely keep her in that for a little while.
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Week 1. Vegetation
3 years ago
16 hrs
27 °C
5.9
No Smell
430 PPM
60 %
21 °C
18 °C
0 L
81.28 cm
Nutrients 4
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.32 mll
Terp Tea Grow - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Terp Tea Grow 1 mll
Recharge - Real Growers
Recharge 1.3 mll
3/4/22 - Took the dome off and turned on the humidifier. She's holding between 55-70% RH and the temps are stable within a degree in the tent. 3/5/22 - Fed her 2 oz this morning at around 11am 3/6/22 - Fed her another oz this morning which is all the coco wanted. She is looking health to my amateur eye. 3/6/22 - 4pm - Mixed some new nutrient solution and fed the plant another 3 oz. Tested runoff EC and it's a touch high. I am going to increase watering (and ensure sufficient runoff) so I can prevent salt buildup. EC of runoff tested at 768 PPM. I'm thinking tomorrow I am going to also mix some recharge in about 4 oz and feed the plant. Need to make sure that I start writing when I do so as per the directions it should only be used every 7-10 days. 3/6/22 - 6pm - Was going through some forums and reddit and learned about this light measuring app named photone. I measured 413 umol/m^2/s PPFD and 26.8 mol/m^2/d DLI with it. 3/7/22 - 11am - Fed 4oz. Runoff down to 745 PPM. 3/7/22 - 6:30pm - Purchased a 4 inch fan that actually doesn't suck from a local grow shop. Set that up about halfway up the tent. 3/7/22 - 8pm - Fed another 4 oz (117 mL) this time with recharge added. Got about 80mL of runoff back and it had a PPM in the 800 range. Going to not feed tomorrow and just test the waters a little. I feel like I'm probably giving her too much water, especially with that much runoff. 3/8/22 - 12pm - Fed about 2.5/3 oz since the top of the coco was cool but getting a little dry. Runoff was at 606 PPM. 3/8/22 - 8:30pm - Fed another 2.5/3 oz. Runoff was at 535 PPM. 3/9/22 - 11am - Fed ~3.5 oz. Runoff was at 535 PPM. 3/9/22 - 9:30pm - Fed ~3 oz. Runoff was at 574 PPM. 3/10/22 - 10:30am - Fed 4 oz. Runoff was at 640 PPM. 3/10/22 - 10pm - Fed 4 oz. Runoff was at 678 PPM. 3/11/22 - 10:30am - Fed 4oz. Runoff was at 585 PPM. 3/11/22 - 9:30pm - Fed 4oz. Runoff was at 603 PPM.
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Week 2. Vegetation
3 years ago
8.89 cm
16 hrs
27 °C
5.8
No Smell
503 PPM
60 %
21 °C
18 °C
19 L
1 L
81.28 cm
Nutrients 5
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.3 mll
Silica Blast - Botanicare
Silica Blast 0.63 mll
Terp Tea Grow - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Terp Tea Grow 1.3 mll
3/12/22 - 10:30am - First day of week 2! Fed 4 oz. Runoff was at 580 PPM. 3/12/22 - 9pm - Runoff was 510 PPM. 3/12/22 - 9:30pm - Made some new nutrient solution. Starting in with some silica at half strength. Hoping to bulk up the stem a bit. I've been at a full 1 tsp/gallon on the terp tea for the past week with no ill effects so I'm going to keep it up. I plan on feeding some recharge on Tuesday. 3/13/22 - 3pm - Moved her to a 5 gallon fabric pot and fed her a whole gallon which seemed to properly saturate the coco. The runoff was at around 800 with the new coco. It should start coming back down after a few more feedings. Still planning on doing recharge on Tuesday. 3/14/22 - 3pm - Fed 32 oz of nutes/water and had no real runoff. 3/16/22 - 5:45pm - Haven't fed her since the 14th. The coco is plenty wet enough. She is showing signs of overwatering I believe. I am going to take some forum advice and let the coco get quite a bit more dry before I water next. Hopefully this will encourage the plant to start sending roots deeper into the new coco in search of water and fill out the pot. That will help with preventing overwatering in the future. Will do recharge with the next feeding. 3/18/22 - 5pm - Fed about .65 gallons with recharge. Water going in was ~500 PPM and the output was ~950 PPM. She is looking really healthy imho. Looking forward to week 3 of veg coming up. Raised the lights back up to about 37 inches from the soil and 32.5 inches from the top of the plant. Failed to do this at transplant.
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Week 3. Vegetation
3 years ago
8.89 cm
16 hrs
27 °C
5.9
No Smell
480 PPM
55 %
21 °C
18 °C
19 L
1 L
40.64 cm
Nutrients 5
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.32 mll
Silica Blast - Botanicare
Silica Blast 0.66 mll
Terp Tea Grow - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Terp Tea Grow 1.95 mll
3/19/22 - 9pm - This week I am increasing the nutrients to a tsp and a half per gallon of the terp tea grow. Mixed a new batch of nutrients earlier today. Planning on topping later this week. Recharge should be this Friday or likely will be the same day as I top. Lowered the lights to 16 inches. Can't seem to make up my mind but between the people I have asked this is a good middle ground. 3/20/22 - 5pm - fed about a half gallon with no runoff. Going to wait a bit, let things dry and water again on the 22nd 3/21/22 - 4:30pm - topped her today. She doesn't really need more water as she was fed yesterday. 3/22/22 - 5pm - Fed another half gallon. Got about the right amount of runoff. Tested at 720 PPM and 6.2 PH. Made another batch of nutrients. Raised the lights back up to 16 inches, it was at 12 inches. She is growing well. 3/23/22 - 3:45pm - Defoliated the bottom of the plant slightly since it was getting very little light. I want the energy to be used elsewhere. 3/24/22 - 3:30pm - Started doing a little LST. Fed a whole gallon with recharge. Runoff was 1100 PPM and 6.14 PH. Recharge runoff is always a little high. 3/25/22 - 3pm - I've been tightening down the LST slowly over the day. She is taking it nicely. Today is the final day of Week 3. It's been such a journey so far. I'm really excited for the coming weeks.
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Week 4. Vegetation
3 years ago
30.48 cm
16 hrs
27 °C
5.9
Weak
520 PPM
55 %
21 °C
18 °C
19 L
2 L
40.64 cm
Nutrients 5
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.32 mll
Silica Blast - Botanicare
Silica Blast 0.66 mll
Terp Tea Grow - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Terp Tea Grow 2.6 mll
3/26/22 - 1pm - This has been a really fun journey so far. I am looking forward to week 4 here. Going to be feeding today around 5pm. Got some bug control stuff in and since it's compatable with my nutes I'm going to be mixing it in with those today. Also got a wetting agent to help dissolve some of the salts that I'm sure are building up at this point. Probably going to be increasing watering this week to a half gallon a day if not a whole gallon, we will see though. Also going to be increasing my grow nutes to 2 tsp/gal. As usual I will be keeping the diary up to date every day and will be sure to get tons of pictures. I've set a goal of at least 2 per day. If you are just tuning in please do check out my previous weeks. If you have any suggestions I'm all ears :-) 3/26/22 - 4:15pm - Fed a whole gallon. Only started getting runoff at about .85 gallons so I decided to just feed the whole thing. Runoff was still a little high, 1280 PPM. PH was bang on at 6.3. I guess I should expect some high PPM runoff for a little while with this wetting agent. Probably hasn't helped that I've been feeding only every other day either. 3/27/22 - 3pm - Fed 1/2 gallon of nutrients. Runoff was much better at 768 PPM. 3/28/22 - 5pm - Fed another 1/2 gallon. Runoff was at 740 PPM. Got about 26% runoff. I think this is just about the sweet spot right now, runoff percentage should start falling as she grows more. Will likely do a little defoliation and more LST tomorrow. 3/29/22 - 11:30pm - Fed another 1/2 gallon. No recharge or Terp Tea grow as I believe I have a little nitrogen toxicity. Will pick back up on feeding tomorrow. Runoff was around 1200PPM likely because I fed late today. 3/30/22 - 7pm - Fed another 1/2 gallon. No recharge or Terp Tea grow again. Runoff was much better today. At 740 PPM. 3/31/22 - 6:30pm - Did some more training and some defoliation. Planning on doing a little more tomorrow. Fed another half gallon w/o Terp Tea or recharge. Runoff was at 640PPM. Definitely going to feed with nutrients and recharge tomorrow. I expect some high PPM runoff. 4/1/22 - 5:30pm - She took to the training and defoliation really well. Trained one or two more branches today. Ended up killing one by accident yesterday, c'est la vie. Fed another half gallon today, this time with all the nutrients listed. Runoff was at 947PPM. Today is the last day of veg week 4. Pretty excited for the next 2 weeks.
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Week 5. Vegetation
3 years ago
30.48 cm
16 hrs
27 °C
5.9
Weak
520 PPM
55 %
21 °C
18 °C
19 L
2 L
40.64 cm
Nutrients 5
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 0.79 mll
Silica Blast - Botanicare
Silica Blast 0.66 mll
Terp Tea Grow - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Terp Tea Grow 3.91 mll
4/2/22 - 7:30pm - Fed w/o Terp Tea and w/o recharge. Did some more LST and tightened things down. I want this whole plant to take the whole tent by the time I hit flower. Runoff was at 743PPM and 6.1PH 4/3/22 - 7pm - Fed w/o Terp Tea and w/o recharge. Did even more LST and some defoliation. It seems like I have to keep up with it daily now lol. Going to start feeding the full tablespoon of nutes tomorrow. Runoff was at 610PPM. I really should have fed nutrients today but she should be able to survive off what she has until tomorrow. 4/4/22 - 7pm - Fed w/o recharge. Runoff was at 620PPM. I think I'm going to start feeding multiple days in a row again. I seem to have fixed whatever nitrogen toxicity she had and now she is begging for more. 4/5/22 - 6:45pm - Fed w/o recharge. Runoff was at 1200PPM. Thinking that maybe I didn't do enough water to dilute the runoff enough. Did some more defoliation and LST. We are getting close to needing a net. I think that may be in the cards for next week or possibly later this week. 4/6/22 - 7pm - Fed w/o Terp Tea and w/o recharge. Runoff was kind of low at 348PPM. Only about 100 over initial feeding PPM. Going to do another 2 days of feeding with the terp tea. 4/7/22 - 7:30pm - Fed .75 gallons w/o recharge. Runoff was right around 700 PPM. Tomorrow is our recharge day. I've got a trellis net ready to go but the hooks don't work with my tent. So waiting on some more zip ties to arrive before putting that up. She is looking pretty healthy at least to me. I did a little bit more LST but I really need to get that net up. 4/8/22 - 8:30pm - Fed a little late today. Did another .75 gallons with everything listed above. Runoff was at 640PPM. My zip ties should be in tomorrow so I should be able to put the net up. I did a small amount of defoliation and training as well.
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Week 6. Vegetation
3 years ago
43.18 cm
16 hrs
27 °C
5.9
Weak
520 PPM
55 %
21 °C
18 °C
19 L
3 L
40.64 cm
Nutrients 5
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.32 mll
Silica Blast - Botanicare
Silica Blast 0.66 mll
Terp Tea Grow - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Terp Tea Grow 3.91 mll
4/9/22 - 5:30pm - Finally got those zip ties in and got my net up. Will be feeding tonight without the Terp Tea and without recharge since that is only weekly. Going to be letting her grow in the net a bit and then I will remove the LST ties as the net should be enough to hold her. May use the wire a bit more for some unruly branches here or there. 4/9/22 - 7:30pm - Fed .75 gallons w/o terp tea and w/o recharge. Runoff was at 500PPM. Should be higher at this point but it's a good 250PPM higher than before feeding so nothing is too wrong here. 4/10/22 - 7pm - Fed .75 gallons w/o recharge. Runoff was 490PPM. No more days this week w/o terp tea. She needs all she can get. 4/11/22 - 7:30pm - Fed another .75 gallons w/o recharge. Runoff is coming up and was at 535PPM today. 4/12/22 - 8:30pm - Fed late today. Did about .8 gallons and the runoff was at 435 which doesn't really make all that much sense. I think I'm going to start feeding a gallon starting tomorrow. I may also start putting the terp tea on top instead of mixing with the water. 4/13/22 - 7:30pm - Fed a gallon today. No recharge. Runoff was at 730PPM. I think she's doing well with a whole gallon. 4/14/22 - 7:00pm - Fed another gallon. Recharge is tomorrow. Runoff was at 608PPM. 4/15/22 - 8:00pm - Fed a gallon of nutes with recharge today. Runoff was at 987PPM. Tomorrow we are switching light schedules and going into flower!
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Week 7. Flowering
3 years ago
43.18 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
5.9
Weak
520 PPM
58 %
21 °C
18 °C
19 L
4 L
30.48 cm
Nutrients 7
Microbe-Lift BMC Liquid Mosquito Control 0.01 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.32 mll
Terp Tea Grow - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Terp Tea Grow 2.6 mll
4/16/22 - 6:30pm - First day of flower. I'm super excited for the next 60 days. Going to continue with grow nutes for next two weeks or so. Adding in bloom nutrients as well, increasing to full strength by week 4. Fed today with everything except the recharge. Runoff was 640 PPM. 4/17/22 - 9pm - Late feeding today since I was over at my parents. Did a massive amount of defoliation. Fed with a gallon sans recharge. Runoff was at 850 PPM. 4/18/22 - 6:30pm - Fed a gallon without recharge. I also reduced the amount of silica to 1.5 ml/gal. Looking to taper that off in a few days to nothing. Runoff was at 930 PPM. 4/19/22 - 6pm - Fed a gallon without recharge. Kept the silica at 1.5 mL/gal. Tomorrow that will go down to 1mL/gal. Runoff was at 785 PPM. 4/20/22 - 6:30pm - Fed a gallon without recharge. Took the silica down to 1mL/gal. Runoff was at 1195 PPM. 4/21/22 - 7:00pm - Fed a gallon without recharge and without Terp Tea. Took the silica down to 0.5mL/gal. Runoff was at 650 PPM. 4/22/22 - 6:30pm - Fed a gallon with recharge. Took silica out of the nutrients all together. Runoff was at 580 PPM.
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Week 8. Flowering
3 years ago
71.12 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
5.9
Weak
520 PPM
58 %
21 °C
18 °C
19 L
4 L
30.48 cm
Nutrients 8
Microbe-Lift BMC Liquid Mosquito Control 0.01 mll
CarboLoad - Advanced Nutrients
CarboLoad 1 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.32 mll
4/23/22 - 4:30pm - Fed a whole gallon as usual. No recharge. This week I am bringing the amount of grow nutes down and the bloom nutes are coming up. Runoff was at 1147 PPM but was collected late, around 10pm. Had a high heat day today so we had to turn the AC on to control the humidity. 4/24/22 - I was out today getting a tattoo so I had my roommate feed my plant. Didn't get runoff PPM at all because of that. Had her feed with a full gallon that I made up for her beforehand. 4/25/22 - Adding in Carboload for the microbes at 1 mL/L today. Probably should have started this last week but you live and you learn. Not using the recommended Piranha and Tarantula but my entire feed is basically microbes anyways so it can't hurt. Also setup a small dehumidifier at the air intake of my tent to help control the humidity. Fed a whole gallon today. Runoff was 1425 PPM. 4/26/22 - 6:30pm - Fed a gallon as usual. Runoff was 670 PPM. 4/27/22 - 6:30pm - Fed a gallon as usual. Runoff was at 1384 PPM. Not exactly sure why yesterday's was so low. 4/28/22 - 6:30pm - Fed a gallon as usual. Runoff was at 840 PPM. 4/27/22 - 7pm - End of flower week two. Can't wait to defoliate next week. Fed a gallon with recharge. Runoff was at 1480 PPM.
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Week 9. Flowering
3 years ago
76.2 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
5.9
Weak
520 PPM
58 %
21 °C
18 °C
19 L
4 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 7
Microbe-Lift BMC Liquid Mosquito Control 0.01 mll
CarboLoad - Advanced Nutrients
CarboLoad 1 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.32 mll
4/30/22 - 5pm - Defoliated heavily today. Took about an hour to do the whole plant. Fed with a gallon right around 6:30pm without recharge. Runoff was low at 480 PPM. Got like 25% runoff so I might ease up a bit and feed a little bit less tomorrow. She likely doesn't need as much water without all those leaves. 5/1/22 - 6:30pm - Fed with another gallon. Runoff today was at 1622 PPM. It was more like 35% runoff today but with a high PPM. Guess I will see what the runoff is tomorrow and go off that. 5/2/22 - 6:30pm - Fed with another gallon. Runoff today was at 760 PPM. Definitely will be reducing the amount I will be feeding from now on. Runoff was around 35-40% again today along with the low runoff PPM for this late in flower. 5/3/22 - 9pm - Fed with another whole gallon. Didn't get a lot of runoff at 80% of the gallon so fed the whole thing. Total runoff was back at just above 20% from my estimate. Runoff was at 1320 PPM. Going to keep going with a whole gallon instead of scaling down at all. 5/4/22 - 8pm - Fed with another whole gallon. Got 25% runoff or right around there. Runoff was 1830 PPM 5/5/22 - 8pm - Fed with another whole gallon. Runoff was at 1850 PPM. Recharge day is tomorrow along with end of week 3 of flower. 5/6/22 - 8pm - Fed another gallon with recharge. Surprisingly runoff was a little low today at around 780 PPM. Usually recharge day is higher than that. She is looking wonderful at the end of week 3 here. Another 5 weeks or so and she should be ready to harvest.
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Week 10. Flowering
3 years ago
76.2 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
5.9
Normal
520 PPM
50 %
21 °C
18 °C
72 L
14 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 7
Microbe-Lift BMC Liquid Mosquito Control 0.01 mll
CarboLoad - Advanced Nutrients
CarboLoad 1 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.32 mll
5/7/22 - 6:30pm - Looking forward to the next 5 weeks. Everything seems to be going really well so far. Fed with a gallon of nutrient solution as usual. Runoff was around 2500 PPM. I suppose that explains why the runoff with recharge yesterday was so low. Hopefully it should go back to around 1800 PPM tomorrow. If it continues to climb then I will start feeding more or I may consider doing a flush. 5/8/22 - 6:30pm - Fed with another gallon and the runoff seems to have stabilized back to somewhat normal. Runoff was at about 1400 PPM. I'll just keep on keeping on. I don't think there is a need for a flush at this point and the runoff percentage is still right around 15-20%. 5/9/22 - 6:00pm - Fed another gallon. Runoff is still at 20% but my PPM today was somewhere north of 2500 PPM. I'm going to do a flush tomorrow to lower the runoff. 5/10/22 - 8pm - Fed with a gallon of just ph'd water and drip clean. Runoff was at 1100 PPM. Which is much better than the readings I got yesterday. Will go back to feeding tomorrow and we will see if she needs another round of just water and drip clean. 5/11/22 - 5pm - Fed with a gallon of nutrient solution without recharge. Runoff was at 1700 PPM. That is much more in line with the runoff I should be getting at this stage of growth. 5/12/22 - 5pm - Fed with a gallon of nutrient solution without recharge. Runoff was at 1250 PPM. 5/13/22 - 6:15pm - It's recharge day and the end of Week 4 of flower! She is looking amazing so far and the smells are ramping up by the day. Fed with a gallon of nutrient solution with recharge. Runoff was at 1000 PPM which is a little low but I'm sure it will be higher tomorrow.
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nubzzz
nubzzzstarted grow question 3 years ago
My plant is doing very well however the fan leaves having gotten a bit much. I'm about to go into week 5 of flower and I'm wondering if I can remove a few fan leaves to help lower humidity and increase light penetration to the other bud sites?
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GrowingGrannieanswered grow question 3 years ago
I'm on the side of both Hashy and HerbalEdu here... defoliation is definitely beneficial for such a bushy plant as yours but do it selectively and slowly! Flowers need light to grow big - the more light, the better! They may be getting more light when the tent is closed up - but they'll get even more if large fan leaves aren't between them and the light! And no, I have yet to see any cannabis plant that grows more leaves if you remove some leaves... Be selective - choose leaves that are blocking bud sites - and go slowly so you don't overly stress the plant... do a little today, wait about 3 days and do some more... I've defoliated all the way up to 2 weeks before harvest! Good luck!
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Week 11. Flowering
3 years ago
76.2 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
5.9
Normal
520 PPM
50 %
21 °C
18 °C
19 L
4 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 7
Microbe-Lift BMC Liquid Mosquito Control 0.01 mll
CarboLoad - Advanced Nutrients
CarboLoad 1 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.32 mll
5/14/22 - 5:45 pm - She is looking great here going into Week 5 of flower. Fed with a gallon of nutrient solution today and got a runoff of 1700 PPM. I expected it to be a bit higher after recharge yesterday but whatever. She is smelling great and looks to be growing some monster colas on top. I'm excited for the next 28 days to see those buds fatten up and then harvest! 5/15/22 - 6:30 pm - Fed with a gallon of nutrient solution. Got a really high runoff of around 2800 PPM. Tomorrow if it's not lower, like around the 2000 PPM range then I am going to feed without the terp tea. 5/16/22 - 7:30 pm - Fed a little late today. Runoff was low quantity wise, only about 500mL. It was astonishingly high at 4300 PPM. I am definitely doing a flush tomorrow. I fed it another .25 gallons of pH'd water with no other nutrients to try to pull some more salts out. Didn't get any runoff from that though. 5/17/22 - 5pm - Started off my flush by feeding a full gallon without recharge or terp tea. The runoff was still crazy high. Right around 3900 PPM. Flushed with another .6 gallons roughly and was able to get the runoff to right around the 1800 PPM range. The .6 gallons did not have fish shit in it as I thought it would be a little unnecessary as most would end up as runoff. I will feed like normal tomorrow and hopefully I should see runoff in the 1700-2300 PPM range. 5/18/22 - 6:30pm - Fed with everything except recharge. Runoff was back to normal at 2222 PPM. 5/19/22 - 5:45pm - Fed with a gallon of nutes. Runoff was at 1800 PPM. 5/20/22 - 7:45pm - Fed with everything as it's recharge day. Runoff was at 1850 PPM. She is looking amazing and the buds are filling out really nicely. I should have some STACKED colas to harvest at the end of this.
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Week 12. Flowering
3 years ago
76.2 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
5.9
Normal
520 PPM
50 %
21 °C
18 °C
19 L
4 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 7
Microbe-Lift BMC Liquid Mosquito Control 0.01 mll
CarboLoad - Advanced Nutrients
CarboLoad 1 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.32 mll
3/21/22 - Was out on a trip today so I wasn't able to water my plant. Had my roommate do it so I wasn't able to get runoff. 3/22/22 - 7:30pm - Fed with a gallon of nutrients today. Runoff was just about perfect at 1850 PPM. I'm starting to see some of the hairs on the buds going orange. 3/23/22 - 7pm - Fed with a gallon of nutrients again. Runoff was low at ~800 PPM. Not sure why the runoff is so low. Hopefully tomorrow it returns to normal. 3/24/22 - 6:30pm - Fed with the normal gallon of nutrients. Runoff was a little better today at 1300 PPM. Hopefully it comes up a bit more tomorrow. 3/25/22 - 6:30pm - Fed with the normal gallon of nutrients. Runoff was normal again at 1800 PPM. 3/26/22 - 8:00pm - Fed a little late today. Runoff was a little low at 1000 PPM. Runoff quantity was low today as well. She is just getting more and more powerful everytime I open the tent. I can't wait for the last two weeks.
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Week 13. Flowering
3 years ago
76.2 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
5.9
Strong
520 PPM
50 %
21 °C
18 °C
19 L
4 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 7
Microbe-Lift BMC Liquid Mosquito Control 0.01 mll
CarboLoad - Advanced Nutrients
CarboLoad 1 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.32 mll
5/28/22 - Fed with a gallon as usual. Runoff was very low at ~500 PPM. Usually it is at least slightly high the watering after recharge. 5/29/22 - Fed with about .75 gallons this morning (that's all she really wanted) about 30 minutes after the lights turned on. I wasn't able to get runoff until the Monday morning as I was out getting more tattoos. Runoff was at 1800 PPM after sitting for a long while. 5/30/22 - 6pm - Fed with a gallon today and my runoff was kind of low again. Measured my runoff at about ~1000 PPM. Maybe she just doesn't need as much water right now for some reason. I am going to try feeding a little less on the water department tomorrow but keep the terp tea the same to see if I can get the runoff to come up a bit. I need to start flushing at the end of the week anyways so maybe it doesn't matter. 5/31/22 - 6pm - Fed with .75 gallons and runoff was around 2200. Fed the other .25 gallons and runoff was at 1000 PPM. I think she should be getting about .8 gallons right now but it's a little late to start adjusting things. I might as well just go through the rest of the week feeding 1 gallon and then start the flush. I still need to get some microscope pictures. 6/1/22 - 6:30pm - Fed with another whole gallon. Decided to leave out the Drip Clean for this watering just to see if the runoff PPM would change at all. I doubt it actually made any difference as runoff was at 1100 PPM. Slightly higher than the past few days. 6/2/22 - 8:30pm - Fed late today with my standard gallon. Didn't do Drip clean again today and runoff was at 2000 PPM. Not sure if it was the new batteries in the meter or the Drip clean that is making that different but I'm going to stop using it until the flush. 6/3/22 - 8:30pm - Fed late again today. No drip clean and this feeding has recharge. The runoff was at 2000 PPM again. I'm thinking that she needs another week or so before the flush based on the trichomes.
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Week 14. Flowering
3 years ago
76.2 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
5.9
Strong
520 PPM
50 %
21 °C
18 °C
19 L
4 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 7
Microbe-Lift BMC Liquid Mosquito Control 0.01 mll
CarboLoad - Advanced Nutrients
CarboLoad 1 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.32 mll
6/4/22 - 7:30pm - Fed with a gallon of nutrients without Fish Shit as I was out and without the Drip Clean. Runoff was at 1800 PPM. 6/5/22 - 8:30pm - Fed with a gallon of nutrients. Got some more fish shit in earlier today. Runoff was at 1000 PPM. 6/6/22 - 8:30pm - Fed with another gallon. Didn't include Drip Clean today. Runoff was at 1700 PPM. Took some close ups of the trichomes today as well. I think I may start flushing at the end of the week. Still a lot of clear but some are turning cloudy and I saw at least a little amber in there as well. 6/7/22 - 8:30pm - Fed with my standard gallon with Drip Clean. Runoff was at 1000 PPM. 6/8/22 - Fed with standard gallon. Runoff was 1800 PPM 6/9/22 - Wasn't able to feed her today :-( 6/10/22 - Fed with my standard gallon. Very little runoff and high PPM. That's alright though since the next week is just flushing with ph'd water and Flawless Finish.
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Week 15. Flowering
3 years ago
76.2 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
5.9
Strong
520 PPM
50 %
21 °C
18 °C
19 L
4 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 3
Microbe-Lift BMC Liquid Mosquito Control 0.01 mll
Flawless Finish - Advanced Nutrients
Flawless Finish 2 mll
Drip Clean - House & Garden
Drip Clean 0.11 mll
It's flush week! Not much to say here except that it's been so much fun growing this plant even if I have been a little bit of a space case the past week or two. Getting sick will do that though. 6/11/22 - 7:30pm - Fed a gallon with the above additions. Runoff was at 1700 PPM. 6/12/22 - 8:30pm - Fed with another gallon. Runoff was at 1200 PPM. 6/13/22 - 9:00pm - Fed with yet another gallon. Runoff was at 1000 PPM. 6/14/22 - 8:00pm - Fed another gallon. Runoff was at 900 PPM. I might feed with a gallon and a half tomorrow to get the PPM down. 6/15/22 - 8:00pm - Fed another gallon. Runoff was at 900 PPM again. Definitely doing a gallon and a half tomorrow 6/16/22 - 10:00pm - Fed late today. Did a gallon and a half. Runoff was at 800 PPM. Going to continue with a gallon and a half for the next two days and then I will do two days of darkness. I'm realizing I made a mistake with the scrog net. It's so entangled with the plant that I don't think I will be able to save it once I cut the plant down to dry. 6/17/22 - 10:00pm - Gave the plant a gallon. Runoff was around 600 PPM. 6/18/22 - 8:00pm - Gave the plant another gallon. Runoff was at 700 PPM. 6/19/22 - 8:00pm - Gave the plant yet another gallon. Runoff was at 700 PPM. 6/20/22 - Didn't water today. 6/21/22 - 2:00pm - Fed with a gallon. Runoff was at 500 ppm. Today she is going in the dark after the lights turn off for the two days of darkness. Wanted to wait until the PPM levels dropped on the runoff.
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Week 15. Harvest
3 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Member Berry - ETHOS Genetics
Spent 107 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
8/10
Rated
892 g
Bud wet weight per plant
223 g
Bud dry weight per plant
1
Plants
0.37
Grow Room size
Easy
Difficulty
Sleepy
Energy
Indica
Hybrid
Sativa

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It's fruity and tart and has a great head high. Great for helping with my ADHD during the day and keeping me nice and lifted through the night.
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