Disney Princesses

First grow. coco/perlite 50/30 sunblaster 125w cfl for first 2 weeks (all 4 fit under it) then 2 x 125w cfl up to 4 x 125w for full veg seeds started June 17th, 2018

day 22 from seed The princesses are a little small for my liking, but they've been stressed for some reason. They were starting to turn yellow, so they went immediately into 3gal pots with 320ppm of nutes. It's been a few days and looks as though they have recovered from the transplant. fought long and hard with temps yesterday during this heat wave we're having. my ventilation setup is really wonky at the moment as I have a 4x4 and a 3x3 where the 3x3 requires way more air flow to cool the flowering girls and not so much in the 4x4 that's just vegging (cant swap tents either) .. ended up getting a new 6" vortex which is hooked up to the 3x3 now, and the 4" is in the 4x4. reason being .. I have 2x600w leds in the 3x3 (overkill) .. same lights that will be in the 4x4 when the princesses are ready to flower. my room: is tents within a semi sealed room. the room has 1 4" intake ducted to a 6" pre filter and just dumps are into the room. for exhaust, I have a 4" and a 6", everything else is pretty well sealed. all corners and edges have been caulked, the door seals tight with very minimal air passage on the bottom (stuff a towel at the base of the door when I close the door). I plugged the 4" exhaust and am venting the humid air from the 4x4 veg directly into the room so that the hot 3x3 RH goes from 30% up to a steady 43% since im pulling 320cfm from it - filter cfm loss. main house temps avg 80°f, inside the room avg 77°f, 3x3 avg 82°f, 4x4 avg 78°f .. (avg throughout the day .. ranges +- 5°f depending on time of day)

After being initially stressed, it appears they have recovered and have resumed normal growth. I figure the stressing added at least a week to a week and a half into veg. really wierd thing on 2 of them. 2 different plants, of 2 different strains both are missing 1 side of their second set of true leaves.

Elsa is the largest of the 4 and yesterday got topped and lollipopped. lots of deformities in these girls. a few deformed leaves, 1 missing a fan leaf, 1 with only 2 fingers and missing the middle, among a few others.

topped the others. i'll wait a few days before lst

I forgot to get a pic at the end of the week, so here's one a few days into the next week only 1 is ready to be transplanted, and flipped to 12/12, however the others need another week or 2. while doing lst, I snapped a tip off my quadline. not a big deal since I was going to top the 4 quadrants anyways just 1 node higher than what broke off. I turned the snapped branch into a clone. snapped after node 3 (I wanted 4 nodes oh well) these girls outside the tent have the most amazing green color. much better than my first grow which was a problematic disaster (unbuffered coco causing every lockout and deficiency one could ever experience .. though 2 of 4 plants yielded 6oz and the last 2 are still flowering for another week .. expecting 3oz more)

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still going. this was the last week i'm vegging, they have just been flipped to 12/12. originally I was just going to quadline these girls, and not use a scrog. however, because of the size differences among the 4 plants, I have put in a scrog .. 3 of the 4 will have to grow into it during the stretch. Elsa, the larger Nl, will be weaved to fill in the gaps from the others. other tent finally finished, and I was able to swap out the 250w cfls for the final 2 x 600w leds for flowering. the cfls went into the smaller 3x3 tent for vegging my "disjointed" round (see my other diary)

smooth sailing. they are on bloom nutes now, scrog put up. placed all pots on raised pots with screens to allow drainage and easier access to the undersides (just flipped over 2gal pots) they have already stretched tremendously in the first week of flower. They are shiny in the pics because they got their early flower spray down of Jake's all in one (organic pest control) ... then i'll introduce some ladybugs and see if they reproduce (the survivors from my last grow)

I've been mixing a 5gal bucket of nutes every 2 days to keep the coco from drying out. I've also not flushed once since potting up to 5gal, and I have yet to see any run off. all leaves appear to be a nice healthy green, all growing with vigor, no signs of nute burn (except some original growth that got some nutes on them and burned some spots). While defoliating and leveling the canopy, I split the main stalk on Merida. I used gorilla tape to tape her back up, and 2 days later you wouldn't even know it happened. I'll remove the tape in a week or 2 so it won't restrict the stalk too much.

girls are going through almost 5gal water a day. so for most of last week and some of this coming week, they are on water with camg only. split the stalk on merida, oops. taped her up and you would never know it happened. few days later took the top tape off and she looks all healed up.

on cruise control. half the week on water, then back to full nutes

cruise control. added a new LED to an adjacent tent, temps are higher in both. Sitting at 82° , and my AC trips the breakers every 5 minutes, so they've been sitting at this temp for a couple days. They don't seam to to be too bothered. the 2 Northern Lights are estimated 6 to 7 weeks flowering. That means only a couple more weeks for those 2.

cruise control. 2 weeks for the Nl roughly. 2 on left of tent (you'll figure out which side is which in the pics)

have not been able to post in awhile due to the app not allowing me to upload new weeks. anyways, these girls are all past due and dont seam to be slowing down at all. they are all on pure tap water Ph'd to 5.6 to 5.8 with ppm around 30 to 35

all are maturing fast. the northern lights are still going after 10 weeks (kinda past the 6 to 7 week estimates)

had to harvest due to bananas

will update when drying is done. wont smoke any until dry and cured for at least a week or two