Dr_Drexxx 👋 Hello everyone and welcome to this germination week.
Here are my little Moby Dick 🐳 from Green House Seed Co. This is my first time growing this strain. I hope they live up to their name and the breeder!
👨🌾 I put 3 seeds to germinate in toilet paper rolls filled with Light-mix Biobizz, with just a pinch of RootMax mycorrhizae from Grow Mate.
💧 The substrate was moistened the day before with tap water, while the seeds spent the night in a glass of water. I didn’t need to water again during the week.
🏡 ☀️ 🌡️ Until the cotyledons appeared, the seedlings were in a germination box on the windowsill. Nothing more than sunlight and room temperature.
🌱 Day 6, first signs of life!
Day 7, all 3 seeds have germinated, that's a 100% success rate! Now let's see how they will shed their shells…
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Directly In Substrate
Germination Method
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Week 1. Vegetation
4y ago
1/11
6 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
23 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
17 °C
Night Air Temp
1 l
Pot Size
0.1 l
Watering Volume
Nutrients 1
Grow mate Rootmax
0.01 mll
Dr_Drexxx Hello everyone and welcome to this 1st week of vegetation (seedling stage) 👋
🏡 The ladies have moved into their new home, a 60x60x160 Super-Box Mylar tent.
👨🌾 Transplanted on day 1 into 1-liter fabric pots. As with germination, I'm using Biobizz Light-mix and a few pinches of Rootmax mycorrhizae from Grow Mate.
💡 I tried to follow the recommendations from Photone, setting my SF-1000 to achieve a DLI of 12 for this week. It seems very powerful to me, I'm not sure what to think, we'll see…
💧 Day 1 and Day 5, watering with 10 cl of tap water mixed with a bit of Biobizz PH Down. The water rested for 48 hours at room temperature before being used.
🌡️ The daytime temperature fluctuates between 22 and 24 degrees. Humidity is around 55. At night it drops to 17 at the coldest, so I cover my seedlings with cloches made from plastic bottles, for higher humidity and temperature when the light is off.
🌱 On day 1 I easily removed the shell from 🐳 #1 which was completely blocking the cotyledons. The shells of #2 and #3 are still attached, one to the stem, the other to a cotyledon but they don't hinder development, so I'll let them fall off naturally.
By the end of day 1, the first leaves appeared.
On day 6, the second leaves appeared.
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Week 2. Vegetation
4y ago
1/9
10 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
21 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
17 °C
Night Air Temp
1 l
Pot Size
1 l
Watering Volume
60 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 3
Bio-Heaven
2 mll
Calmag
0.3 mll
Bio-Down
0.2 mll
Dr_Drexxx 👋 Hello everyone and welcome to this 2nd week of vegetation (seedling stage)
At the beginning of the week, everything seems to be going quite well, the leaves are gradually taking on a darker color, a sign that photosynthesis is happening well, but… a very slight burn has appeared at the tip of the first leaves of our 🐳
Since I haven't given any nutrients yet, my soil is a light mix, and the climate conditions are stable, I think this could be due to too much light exposure… Do you see any other explanation? Feel free to let me know by message ✉️
🏡 I have gradually removed the plastic domes at night so that the seedlings can acclimate to their new climatic environment.
💡 Day 8, to eliminate any risk of light burn, I followed Spider-Farmer's recommendations, placed my SF-1000 60 cm away from my seedlings, and adjusted the dimmer to 40.
🌱 Day 10, the 3rd leaves are starting to appear
💧 Day 11, HUGE mistake!!! I was half asleep, I put 10 times too much PH Down in my water 😱. My pH meter is broken, so I didn't check before watering and I didn't know what to do to correct it… The pH must have been close to that of a glass of vinegar 😩 I ended up rinsing with 1 liter per pot, using water with the right parameters with CalMag and BioHeaven, and I'm crossing my fingers that the seedlings survive such overwatering…
👨🌾 Following the rinsing, I had to add stakes because the stems were too weak to support the seedlings in completely soaked substrate.
🌡️ On the climate side, it's 20 degrees colder outside in the afternoon than last week. It's snowing today ❄️ The house is struggling to warm up, the tent as well. I'm seriously considering setting up a heating mat to keep at least the roots warm and help dry my waterlogged soil from the rinsing.
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I need your help, dear fellow growers !
Totally asleep 😴 this morning, I put way too much PH Down : 1ml instead of 0,1ml !!! My PH tester is out of order, I can’t buy a new one until tuesday.
What should I do now ?
Did you water the plant with that? If not, that's not a problem at all. The light mix from Biobizz doesn't contain any mineral fertilizers and has a certain buffering effect. The pH value of tap or even rainwater doesn't pose a problem for the substrate. And I suspect that you aren't using any additional fertilizers at the current stage of your plant anyway, which wouldn't further affect the pH value.
Dr_Drexxx 👋 Hey everyone and welcome to this 3rd week of vegetation. The growth has finally kicked off!
💡 On the lighting side, the DLI is at 20.
🌡️ I added a heating mat, and it clearly did wonders for my 🐳 who were suffering from the cold and humidity, not to mention the forced flush from last week! The tent's climate conditions have become much more stable.
💧 It's high time to start feeding these young ladies! Day 16 and day 20 watering with BioGrow, BioHeaven, ActiVera, CalMag, and just the right amount of Bio Down.
👨🌾 After last week's mishaps, I decided to give the 🐳 a bit of a break, so I postponed the repotting.
In the end, by day 20, #3 seemed a bit cramped, so I went ahead with repotting into 1-gallon pots, still in Light-mix with RootMax mycorrhizae from GrowMate.
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Week 4. Vegetation
4y ago
1/11
13 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.4
pH
No Smell
Smell
55 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Substrate Temp
19 °C
Night Air Temp
4 l
Pot Size
1 l
Watering Volume
Nutrients 6
Bio-Grow
2 mll
Bio-Heaven
2 mll
Acti-Vera
2 mll
Dr_Drexxx 👋 Hello everyone and welcome to this 4th week of growth.
The little 🐳 are doing well and seem to have recovered nicely from the mistake in week 2. The lower leaves are still a bit marked by the event, but the new shoots are looking great, although a bit too yellow for my taste. I imagine that the flushing has taken away the nitrogen in my soil and that I will need to add a bit more. The growth gap is widening between #3, the tallest, and #1, the one that suffered the most from the flushing.
Come on #1! We believe in you!
💡 On the light side, the DLI is at 25, I’ll try to raise it to 30 if the plants respond well.
🌡️ The climatic conditions in the tent are relatively stable. Around 24 during the day, 19 at night. Humidity is hovering around 55. That’s too low for my taste, but I don’t have a humidifier and the air is very dry here.
💧 Day 25, watering and feeding. I’m starting to add Sugar Royal from Plagron, 1ml/L. It’s the first time I’m using it, a gift from my excellent grow shop.
👨🌾 Day 22, I topped these young 🐳 above the 4th node. I also removed the axillary buds from the 1st node. We’ll see in the coming days how these young ladies recover. I still don’t know if I’m going to do LST or SCROG…
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Week 5. Vegetation
4y ago
1/4
13 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
23 °C
Day Air Temp
6.4
pH
No Smell
Smell
55 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Substrate Temp
19 °C
Night Air Temp
4 l
Pot Size
1 l
Watering Volume
Dr_Drexxx 👋 Hey everyone and welcome to this 5th week of growth
🐳 #3 is showing some strange coloring on the veins, on the new shoots. Given the nitrogen deficiency that the plants showed earlier, I fertilized with every watering last week. Nitrogen excess? Zinc deficiency? Something else?
👨🌾 Day 29 I started LST on #3 using 3D printed clips. I’ll continue throughout the week as the different plants evolve.
💧 Day 29, watering without nutrients, just a bit of BioDown for a pH of 6.4, in the watering water and out. I added a bit of neem oil and soap because the last repotting brought some fungus gnats. I prefer not to wait for a total invasion!
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👋 All the younger sprouts are yellow at the veins. Since my plants were nitrogen deficient, I fed them twice a week (BioGrow, BioHeaven, Acti Vera, and Calmag, standard dose). Excess? PH 6.4, temperature 23, humidity 55%. Thanks in advance!
I'm thinking you've got a problem with zinc deficiency here... Zinc is an immobile nutrient that the plant cannot send where it's needed...
you need to make sure you've got good microbes going on in your soil as they play a large role in zinc uptake— so definitely add some beneficial fungi to your growing medium
Meanwhile, make sure your pH is in the ideal range of 6.0-6.5, stop overwatering ... if you want a really quick fix, you can always use a fish or seaweed foliar spray ..
Good luck and enjoy your grow! Happy 420!
Dr_Drexxx 👋 Hello everyone and welcome to this 6th week of growth.
This week has mainly been dedicated to correcting the excesses and deficiencies of our 🐳. Things are slowly balancing out.
Whatever happens, this will be the last week of growth, to make sure I'm home at harvest time.
👨🌾 repotted into 3-gallon fabric pots, with BioBizz all-mix and Bat-mix Plagron and mycorrhizae.
Did some LST on each, and I topped the secondary branches of #3, which is growing much more vigorously than its sisters.
I also lightly defoliated to prepare for the transition to flowering.
A few fungus gnats have appeared. I assume they came from the Bat-mix, which I've had invasions with before. I added neem oil to the waterings.
💧 I reduced the BioGrow and increased the CalMag. This has been beneficial for #1 and #3.
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Glad u fixed it... If u have led lights they burn away calcium an magnesium along with iron.. Usually we have to add it around week 5 thru flushing .. Wasn't sure if u knew
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