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Hey everyone! I Started my first grow attempt March 30! went to many different dispensaries around the bay area and picked up a total of nine clones over a 2 week span. Here I am now. Some plants are further along then others . I have just been watching YouTube videos and pretty much copying what I see. I had a slight overwatering issue my very first time and ended up getting a bunch of gnats but I have since then used lost coast plant therapy and eliminated that issue. I’m not sure if I’m over doing it with the lights. I initially only had the king LED bulb red that it’s not a true 1000 W LED but more like 300 W. I ended up buying two lights off of craigslist they are older models of the mars Hydro. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you
Hey everyone I just realize this morning that I may have made a big mistake, I used for 420 recipe potting soil. After doing a little bit more research I have read that that is for outdoor use because of how heavy it is and other reasons. I am going in a 4 x 8 tent. Am I doomed?
Your grow looks like it's doing very well so I wouldn't worry, to be honest! If you ARE worried, you could transplant into a larger pot mixing in more perlite so loosen the soil up and provide good drainage.
It DOES look like you've got quite a problem with fungus gnats. These pests live in very damp soil so you may be overwatering! They're easy to get rid of (and you should!)... get yourself some Mosquito Bits and follow the directions... essentially, you soak a certain amount of the granules in the water you're going to be using straining them out of the water after 30 minutes. This solved my problem with only one dose but a heavy infestation might require one or two more treatments (you only use this once a week as the package will tell you). You can pick some up on Amazon or in pretty much any garden center.
As for nutes... your plants look very healthy - there's no sign of either toxicity or deficiency - so this is not something I would worry about with your soil... i.e., it's not too "hot" ...
Best of luck - things are looking really good!
If you can add more perlite or other things like it, it should be fine.
One way to reduce impacting of the soil is to water slowly with a sprayer. over the course of 5-10 min.
Good Luck!
it doesn't look too "hot" in diary
you may just have to wait a bit longer to fertilize.. maybe, wait for hint of deficiency before ramping up fertilization?
gnats -- Bti.. Bacillus thurgen-something or oether (israelis subscpeicies). .. mosquito bits or dunk has this bacteria. It will kill most larva in soil. Great preventative measure... never worry about those little sacs of shit chewing on your roots... not just gnats. Sometimes this stuff simply comes in the packaging.. lying dormant until we use it. waiting for top 1-2" to dry is a good habit to form, especially if your soil is a little "heavy." Even in soil you want some runoff to ensure you saturated entirety. excess runoff is not important like in soilless context, though. (if you run into problems and change a formula.. 10-15% runoff is a good idea to force a new equilibrium in substrate faster)
in future just add some perlite to balance soil 50/50 with drainage parts (some may come in packaging already, but more is often needed)... soil is always a balancing game.. how long before you add nutes? then, ramp it up to a normal dose once the soil is sapped and you are providing nearly all it needs by the end. (living soil being someting a bit different)
don't worry if a product is "for" marijuana... this stuff has existed long before this esoteric submarket reared its ugly head. plants generally want teh same things in same proportions but in slightly different concentrations. some exceptions, of course, but not as many as most would lead you to believe in their marketing. 99/100 you will find the same exact product without a marijuana focus branding and it'll be 1/10th the cost, lol... especialyl nutrients.. holy shit.. these monkey-businesses are selling ubiquitous chemicals for extravagent prices.. it's f'n hilarious.
Hey everyone! I Started my first grow attempt March 30! went to many different dispensaries around the bay area and picked up a total of nine clones over a 2 week span. Here I am now. Some plants are further along then others . I have just been watching YouTube videos and pretty much copying what I see. I had a slight overwatering issue my very first time and ended up getting a bunch of gnats but I have since then used lost coast plant therapy and eliminated that issue. I’m not sure if I’m over doing it with the lights. I initially only had the king LED bulb red that it’s not a true 1000 W LED but more like 300 W. I ended up buying two lights off of craigslist they are older models of the mars Hydro. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you
This week I noticed some twisting leaves in 3 of my plants, not too sure why this has occurred. . I got a new light the medic grow fold 8 . I have it running at only 40% it’s very bright . I’m thinking about switching to flower in the next 2 weeks this is my first grow any advice is greatly appreciated
This week I set up a new grow tent where I am doing my vegging only, I am running it off of my same house of Hydro humidifier, Just split the mist between the two tents. I just watered with only water and silica no other nutes. Going to switch the light to 12 and 12 tonight
this week was emotionally exhausting lol i found a Herme and removed the infected London jelly immediately! It had seeds and a few of the branches I’m hoping that it did not pollinate any of the females in the tent. This is my first grow and to have all my plants get pollinated would be a huge disappointment, I’m praying that there are no seeds in my nugs! i’m 3 weeks into flower and the photos tell it all. fell free to give me advice or let me know your opinion on how i’m doing so far. any advice is good. thanks everyone.
yesterday I did a major defoliation of the mid and upper canopy, getting noticeably more light penetration. I also visited my local hydroponic store this week and purchased me a liter of power si bloom. overdrive and moab. not going to start the MOAB or overdrive till week seven. I’m very curious to what my overall harvest we will be seeing that this is my first grow and all. hopefully everything is going good so far I can’t notice any deficiencies myself if anybody else sees anything feel free to let me know, thank you
everything is looking good in my opinion so far, I had a little mishap this week where I set up a extra fan to help with the heat it ended up shifting and falling on my fresh air plant and broke two branches that had fat Nugss growing on them. RIP 😞. Now I’m just keeping an eye my plant to make sure it doesn’t hermme from stress. everyone else is looking good tho. It is my first grow so I have nothing to compare it to. I have noticed that other peoples nugs are a little fatter than mine are around this time of flower.. hopefully my plants catch up, if not maybe it’s because I’m still learning. but here’s to another week in the books 🍻
i’m definitely starting to notice my buds fattening up, the smell is increasingly getting stronger every day! I am watering every three days at this point. On my next watering I’m going to incorporate overdrive as well as mother of all blooms for this final stretch. This is my first grow and I’m getting a little nervous about the drying and curing process I’ve been watching a bunch of videos trying to prepare myself the hardest thing for me is going to be the heat and trying to stop my plants from drying too quickly.
What a great week it has been! Starting to see my nugs ripen up 😎 every time I shine a light on the buds all I see is a bunch of crystals! It’s looking beautiful. There are some plants that are growing fatter nugs than others. the
blue dream and the fresh air as well as the white runtz seem to be doing particularly well, I started feeding mother of all bombs as well as overdrive this week I may have overdone it on my first feed since I did notice some burn on the leaves I will go lighter on my next feeding for sure. i’m hoping to harvest the 22nd of this month and that will put me at 9 weeks of flowering. i’ll wait 10 week if need be though.
yooooo! i made it to week 9!! i’m on my final week and today I tried a little experiment i been hearing and seeing about . putting ice on my soil in a attempt to shock it for some extra trichome production. I had two white runts as well as two pipe dream plants so I decided to ice one and only water the only with ph balanced water in a attempt to see a difference myself. i will update in future post 👨🔬🔬😎
checking under my jewelers loop daily like it’s nobody’s business! All cloudy still not much is changed but I’m being patient. I did clip a couple branches off of the white runts because it seemed very dry so I took them off and trimmed them I may give them a toke later this evening. Today is the last day I’m going to water I think I’m gonna have my lights on for two more days and then do 48 of darkness I’m already one day until week 10 of flowering and I should be done any day now! rh able for following my grow!
The heat really messed me up on this grow.. it was my first grow ever and I’m really happy with the overall outcome I just know that the quality would have been a lot better if it was a little cooler. I got about an ounce and a half to 2 ounces average from each plant and about 8 ounces of shake after I was done trimming. my girlfriend says it doesn’t really smell like weed it smells like herbs lol I see what she is saying to be honest it doesn’t smell like dank. The only one that smells like dank is the gelato 33 the rest smell like some Ookay stuff😕.. I got a Rozen press the other day and I’m looking forward to turning some of this into dab material😎
Sorry but it looks crowded and if there was seeds in one then pollination happened a while ago so they will all have seeds plus any cuttings from the hermie plant will be hermie
Hey there friend. Congratulations on getting into growing cannabis! I think you are gonna really like it here at growdiaries. looking at your diary, Would you be alright with me offering some pointers? So cannabis plants LOVE heat and humidity. It is the buds that hate it. In veg we want to take advantage of this fact to help our plants grow along much quicker and more vigorously. In veg we can look for temps of 79-84 MAX with lights on & no more than 9 degrees less with lights off. If we allow for too much temperature swing between lights on and lights off while the plant is still growing vertically up to day 20 of flower, We will cause the plant to stretch ALOT which we do not want. So in veg & early flower, Keeping our temperature gaps nice and close between lights on and off is key. Utilizing humidity in our rooms during veg will also help out a lot with more rapid growth but we must introduce it properly. In our rooms we have our temperature and humidity set-points, But when we combine those 2 it forms a third set-point which is the most important & that is called VPD, Vapor pressure deficit.
I strongly recommend every new grower or old grower who has not learned it yet, To study and understand it & implement it into your room, Logging your numbers daily.
https://cerescann.com/importance-of-measuring-vpd/
For soil, We generally want to go for a PH of 6.1.
This website does a GREAT job of illustrating it with a nice graph & very good detailed explanation for soil.
https://autoflowerseedshop.com/cannabis-ph-chart-guide/
As we briefly touched on before, During veg & early flower we want our temperature gap's nice and tight to avoid stretch. Why exactly our plants stretch in response to this is a genetic trigger being activated by the environmental stress essentially telling the plant the end of the season is closer than it really is. In veg & early flower the plant is still in its first stage of development which is to grow up wide and tall so when it produces seed, It can cast them out nicely. Remember, Whether we are growing our plants for seed or bud their genetic responses do not change as they gh sidedo not know any different. Once the plant has finished that first stage of growth by weeks 4-6 of flower with most strains, It is by day 20 of flower. Autoflowers you have to watch for it, But once the plant has finished this goal its new mission is to focus 100% on producing nice big flower clusters & to get very sticky so it can attract pollen to it successfully.
So once that vertical growth is finished, We actually now want to begin to expose our plants to larger temperature swings between lights on and lights off. This will help activate that genetic response and allow us to draw out the most potential from the strain utilizing the plants genetic triggers to environmental stresses at the right times. We can also take this a step further with doing light deprivation in the last 2 weeks using less light to simulate cloud cover. Very cold feed temps on the last flush is very good too. If you do not have them already, Get yourself a good PAR meter & thermal laser temp gun to monitor your plant top temperatures & optimize how much light your plants are getting. We are currently in the middle of producing a very comprehensive tutorial series for everybody to learn from & understand how to grow the highest level craft cannabis all on their own. If this interests you please check out our youtube and subscribe. The first 2 episodes are out the next one is coming in a few days. If you should ever have any questions or need any help, Please feel free to follow my profile and shoot me a DM. I will gladly help you with the pull down & make sure you get the best quality harvest possible as it is the most important step of the entire process.
Good luck my friend!
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