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Shaman & Critical Kush

Approved by Barney's Farm, Dutch Passion
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2 years ago
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Defoliation
weeks 8-12, 15-20
LST
weeks 5-12, 15-17, 19
Super Cropping
weeks 19
lollipopping
weeks 17-20
Topping
weeks 4
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weeks 4-8
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Grow medium
25 L
Pot Size
1 L
Watering
0
Germination
3 years ago
Nutrients 1
Startbooster  - Aptus
Startbooster 0.15 mll
Welcome to my Diary, I have been growing for some time but this is the first time to make a diary about it. I did many kinds of strains before with many different techniques and nutrients. This time I choose Critical kush from Barney's farm and Shaman from Dutch passion. The reason i took the Shaman strain is because if my research is done right, this is a good strain to grow outside in my country and has many kinds of resistences. People shouldn't only look at beautifull pictures or high yield promisses. I took the Critical Kushes because I really like to grow kush and have grown seeds from barnies before. After putting the seeds in Conton Pads and dropped some ph 5.8-6 water on it (your gf or wife probly has them) they came out in like 2-3 days. I really like this method, it is safe and easy. I putted them into my soil which is filled with local gardenshop ground. Normaly i pref special weedgrow soil from the growshop but i was to lazy to drive to it. To give the medium(soil) some air, i mixed it with cocus soil because there was no perlite in it. This will take some time to grow instead of growing them under HPS or LED lights in the first weeks. Since my soil has some high EC (2-2,5) i just hold of with nutrients besides the Startbooster for now, also seedlings don't need much. I pref to start with low EC like 1.2-1.5 and 5.8- 6 PH and raise them to like 2.3-3.0 EC with 6.3-6.5 PH( depends on how big they get) in later stages. Because i started this diary in a later stage, i don't have pictures for now, Enjoy.
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Week 1. Vegetation
3 years ago
2 cm
18 hrs
21 °C
5.8
No Smell
600 PPM
45 %
1 L
0 L
From all the seeds i orderd( six in total) one didn't came out. It was one of the CriticalKush. It was all fine to me because i only want to keep like 3-4 plants. I always buy more seeds or clones so i can keep the best. After a few days i started to see some green and days after that a long stem because its behind the window, it is searching for light. I don't like long tin stems because they are weak. To make sure my ladies stay firm, i simply added some soil in the pot haha. So a few cm of sterm is in the ground, it's oke it won't do any damage. I have done that before and sometimes it grows even roots from the ''inground' stem! Normaly i would use fans to make the stems more firm but since it's on my windowsill and just a outside fun grow i won't use those. The plan is to bully the ladies a little bit by keeping them in a tiny pot and not overwatering them. In that way they wil make alot of roots before putting them in a bigger pot, which should be rewarding in the later stages. Again i don't have a picture of this stage so i will add a fictional one, sorry for that. I like to give my enzymen apart because it messes arround with (old)nutrients. So when i give water i add some enzymen. >>> Photo of them will be there next week <<<<<
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Week 2. Vegetation
3 years ago
5 cm
18 hrs
21 °C
5.8
No Smell
200 PPM
45 %
1 L
0 L
Nutrients 1
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
Since there is no HPS to give them some heat or a lightsource closer to the plants instead of the sun, high EC in my opinion, my soil doesn't dry up as fast as I want to, I only gave them some water ph 5.8-6 with some enzymen since there is already lots of nutrients in the soil. Might even have to water it for another week or so, we will see. Why do I want it do dry faster? Because they will root better. If your soil is always wet, you get lazy weak roots therefore weak plants which results into shitty quality buds. The soil and roots get some heat because i got the radiator below which is nice, but not enough to dry the soil. I don't like to always feed them. Most of the times i feed -> give water -> feed -> give water to keep the EC on a nice level. After 2 weeks i came to the conclusion that i should had driven to the growshop for the best soil which has the right amount of EC/PH in it haha, because my plants should have grown bigger by now. But at the same time i don't mind because i wanted to grow some bigger decent plants instead of easy fast tiny autoflowers like most growers do. Good things will take time. I will take daylight pictures tomorrow, i took the first one at night while making this diary. I like to do new/other things each grow to find out what i like the best and learn more even thought i have been doing this for a long time. As you can see i got one bigger pot, the smaller pots will be placed into same kind ones once they get bigger and more rooty. I want to see the diffrence between the small and bigger pot stages and see what happens if i skip one stage, that is why i putted one lady into a bigger pot. In the last stage they will be placed in huge pots, i have to figure out yet how many liters those will be. Probably like 25-50 liter ones. Small update: I moved them outside on the balcony for like 5-6 hours to enjoy the sunlight, fresh air and wind so the stems will get more firm. I felt like doing that but at the same time i don't like moving plants or giving them other climates(temperatures) which can make them stress. Be carefull with putting them in a hot midday sun when you start growing them behind the window like me. Start with a couple of hours in the shade or morning sun for a couple of days. When i look at the weather reports for the comming 7 days, it will be like 15 to 22 degrees only in the midday which is not that ideal to keep them outside for 18hours a day. In the Morning and night it can be like 7 to 11 degrees, you should never put plants under 15 degrees in whatever you place them. They will stop grow/flower and they will get plagues like molt,rot and such. Extra update: I placed all the pots on a scale, YES a SCALE haha. Why? So i can see if they absorb water/nutrients and not having a shutdown. Lucky they are! I have done this trick a couple of times before, but this time i forgot to weight them when the pots where dry so i don't know how heavy it is when its dry. With this method you can almost pefectly feed them. It is only usefull if you just have a few plants and small pots.
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Week 3. Vegetation
3 years ago
10 cm
18 hrs
21 °C
5.9
Weak
350 PPM
45 %
1 L
0 L
Nutrients 1
Startbooster  - Aptus
Startbooster 0.25 mll
In this week i decided to only give them another startbooster which contains some rootstimulator. Some days after feeding with startbooster, i gave them some water. There are still so many kinds of nutrients in the soil. The plants look a little light green, i have been checking my run-off water and it should be fine( still higher EC then i used to have but i have already explained why it is that way). I'm not overwatering so it's not a (N)itrogen problem which can most of the time results into light green leaves. ( when there is no nitrogen in the soil the roots will not or barely take any water(nutrients) I had the same thing with other sativas in the past, behind the window before and in later stages it got solved. I still have to remind myself that it is a fun-outside-grow so i should'nt complain about low humidity(40-45) which should be 85%, temperature 20-21 degrees which should be 26-27, being behind a glas window instead of better exposure to the sunlight or lamps, not having fans on it to get better firm stems or closer lightsource so they don't stretch that much. For now i start getting them used to the sunlight by carefully putting them in shade places or with a few hours sunlight. It went well but except for the bigger pot plant, you can see on the highest leaf that it got a little bit curly but still not a big issue. I might buy some Canna Cure this week. Canna cure is good against insects, molts and such. It also holds some nutrients. Very usefull for outside growing. Since i don't want to overwater or overfeed my plants because i want them to root alot, this might be a solution to give them some extra nutrients, it also makes the leaves more green. When the plants are getting bigger and more thick i want to start doing LTS, i order to do so i just have a little bit time left to bully them a bit with keeping them dry for rooting. I don't want to do that while doing LTS. Don't mind the temperature meter, its not 32 degrees outside. It was still inside behind the window between the curtains. It hotter there. ( might also be the reason for some stretch in the plants)
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Week 4. Vegetation
3 years ago
15 cm
18 hrs
21 °C
6
Weak
700 PPM
45 %
1 L
0 L
Nutrients 6
CANNA Terra Vega - Canna
CANNA Terra Vega 2 mll
CANNACURE - Canna
CANNACURE 300 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
This week: Topped them. Normaly i top them when they are bigger or just bend the plant for LST, But this time i want to do a different kind of LTS and start it lower. The stems got more firm because i placed them outside when it could and it got many wind! Gave them some nutrients and water. Repotted them into bigger pots and yes i bought some good decent soil haha. I just hated the normal gardenstore soil with so much nutrients in it, i should'nt been that lazy and bought it when i started seeding. This soil holds only 1.1-1.2 EC and perlite to keep it airy which is the best since i want to use many kinds of nutrients and add them myself instead of already being in the soil and overfeeding my younglings what kind of happend with the other soil :P I promised myself that i would only do a basic outside grow with just random soils,nutrients, just oldschool you know, but i already changed my mind and want to do it better haha. Started using CannaCure in the last days of the week, will do this every 5-7 days. >> I would recommend looking into CANNA CURE << the plants on the pictures are wet because i sprayed them with it :) There was many colds and rains this week so they barely went outside. Because of this the plants are not that ''big'' yet. They need a lot of sunlight to grow and get only had like 3-4hours a day when it was not raining or to cold. Because of that i repotted them in a little bit bigger pots and not in a big sized one since it would not fit on my windowsill haha. For the next week i want to give them only water with enzymen, trying to lower the EC and make sure my nutrients that are already in the soil are used well. I hope to repot them again and keep them outside permanent in bigger pots like 18-25L ones and start LST soon! but if i look at the weather reports for the comming 1-1,5 week, it will be colder, less sunny hours and some rain :( Enjoy :)
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Week 5. Vegetation
3 years ago
19 cm
18 hrs
21 °C
6
Weak
750 PPM
45 %
1 L
0 L
Nutrients 6
CANNA Terra Vega - Canna
CANNA Terra Vega 3 mll
CANNACURE - Canna
CANNACURE 300 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
Hey guys, I did some LST with some copper dreads. I like Rubber tie tubes more but my brances are to small for that. A day later i gave them some water with enzymen ph 5.8-6 and yesterday i gave them nutrients and sprayed them with CANNA CURE. I decided to build a roof for my plants haha, i can't help myself giving them the best conditions i can give them for a outside grow. Bought some 20L pots and some garden dreads. Sadly it is still to cold in the night so i can't repot them and keep them outside 24/7. I'm not really sure if i like the way i LST them because it takes a lot of time to recover and grow but like i said i like to do different things everytime. Normaly you should LST them when you got more brances or just bend the main cola. The way i did it cost many leafs while not having much, so you take away lots of energy. By accident a brance from the plant in the middle(look at pictures) got cut off but i really didn't mind because i was planning to keep four plants instead of five :) ps, made the pictures at 10pm so the leaves are down a bit, i might make some new ones when they are happy in the sun therefore they are lifted more. They still get a few hours of sun every day when i put them outside and therefore they still grow slowly, it will take some time. I hope you enjoyed. Update: Made a new picture at daylight under the roof. Putted the plant I don't want to keep in the bigger pot and will keep her outside to see if she can manage through the night temperatures. If i don't see anything i don't like, keep growing in the comming week, i might put all my plants outside permanent.
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Week 6. Vegetation
3 years ago
20 cm
18 hrs
21 °C
5.8
Weak
750 PPM
45 %
21 °C
1 L
0 L
Nutrients 6
CANNA Terra Vega - Canna
CANNA Terra Vega 3 mll
CANNACURE - Canna
CANNACURE 300 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
Welcome back This week i did some more LST as you can see, Gave them water with enzymen and gave them water with nutrients. They grew a little but not that much. I really want to repot them but the outside temperature is still 12-15 degrees at night so i don't want to do that. The plant i didn't want to keep has been outside for a week now, gladly it still grows but not that fast as the other ones so i was right to not put them outside yet. I will keep an eye on the outside plant if it still wants to grow for another 1-2weeks, if she does, i might put all the plants outside and risk it. Why? Because the plants already start to stretch futher away then the size of the pots, i dont like that. Also if they have more space to root, the plants will grow faster and bigger. The color of the leafs look a little light but that because they are in full sun light. They are perfectly green in my opinion and so far no burned tips so my feeding goes well. They start to drink more as well. I will spray them again today when the sun goes down with Canna Cure! I can't say it enough how much i like the product, it keeps insects and molts away and even keeps my leafs nicely green. ps, when i bended the brances after topping a few weeks ago, i didn't kept the upper brance for a few centimeters intact, most of the times i do that( to give it more support) but this time i decided not to, just to see what happens. Well indeed you get some cuts into your brances, but when you are carefull you will be fine and you get really strong brances from it, therefore i like it this way. Enjoy :)
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Week 7. Vegetation
3 years ago
22 cm
18 hrs
21 °C
6
Weak
800 PPM
45 %
21 °C
1 L
0 L
Nutrients 6
CANNA Terra Vega - Canna
CANNA Terra Vega 4 mll
CANNACURE - Canna
CANNACURE 300 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
This week I repotted the plants into the bigger pots and gave the plant i don't want to keep a new pot. They grew a bit but not that much. They also look a little light green again but that is because of the sun shining on them. I put them inside at night because it still is like 13-15 degrees outside. Did some LST again. Will give them some Canna Cure in a few hours or tomorrow morning.
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GanjaReaperstarted grow question 3 years ago
Did you guys ever seen 3 nodes??? I never did or notice it in all these years :O @Hashy @M0use @PremiumbudsEU @Dissnoof @Chow_13 @GMSlave @NobodysBuds @Organoman @SeedlockHolmes Would be awesome to see how this will go,
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Organomananswered grow question 3 years ago
Yep, have seen it from time to time, one branch will start growing three nodes on an otherwise normal two node plant. Don't know why it happens or what for, just a freaky/funky plant thing going on, one of many oddities cannabis is capable of. It doesn't affect potency or growth, but is interesting none-the-less. If the entire plant is three noded (tetraploid), these usually turn out hermie or male in my experience.
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Week 8. Vegetation
3 years ago
22 cm
18 hrs
23 °C
5.8
Weak
800 PPM
55 %
21 °C
25 L
0 L
Nutrients 8
CANNA Terra Vega - Canna
CANNA Terra Vega 4 mll
CANNACURE - Canna
CANNACURE 300 mll
CANNA RHIZOTONIC - Canna
CANNA RHIZOTONIC 2 mll
Hello everyone, This week I added some calmag because i spotted deficiency on my indicas( Critical kush), Not a big deal but since i only make one bucket for all the plants instead of 2 seperate ones, my indica's had a little bit to less. Indicas like to have more nutrients then sativa's. Did some LST again, removed some leafs that shadow my new branches(nodes) and yes the plant that i don't want to keep is still here lol. Trying to ask people if they want a plant for free because its just sad to throw it away. If it doesn't get a new home in the comming weeks, i have to throw it away. The way i did LST is slightly different most of the times growers like to get rid of alot of leafs, only to have the node leafs intact, i have done this a lot of times as well but this time since it is just a fun outside grow, i kept most of the leafs, just to see which LTS way is better. Yes keeping the leafs cost some energry, these leafs will grow unnecessary but in the other hand they will catch up alot of sunlight which is also needed. I also kept 4 main branches. Most people grow 2 branches and create side branches on them which is more common to do or just let the plant grow normaly, LST her and when she gets like 6-9 main branches, to top her. I already have the feeling that the two other options are better to do but hey we are not done yet. Sometimes i really wanted to cut off all the lower main branches and had to say to myself that if i would do that, it would be just another normal grow. or just get rid off al the nodes and just only grow those 4 main branches, but 4 branches would had been a little to less yield later on. But in return all thoose side branches will take alot of energy/nutrients too which can result into smaller and less compacter buds. In the other hand 4 main branches would not be a bad idea for outside grow in my country, we have bad weather here and not that much of sunlight the plant will have less energy needed to fully complete the colas and will get bigger instead of having many branches hmmmm.... I Anyway, I would never do these experiments with inside grows with alot of plants, it would be painfull and cost alot if it doesn't get good results. So i would advice to anyone only experiment if you don't care about the results. We will see :) I hope you enjoyed watching this week.
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Week 9. Vegetation
3 years ago
22 cm
18 hrs
23 °C
5.8
Weak
800 PPM
55 %
21 °C
25 L
0 L
Nutrients 7
CANNA Terra Vega - Canna
CANNA Terra Vega 4 mll
CANNA RHIZOTONIC - Canna
CANNA RHIZOTONIC 2 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
This week I used Canna RHIZOTONIC as a leaf spray instead of only putting it in my feeding for the roots. I have never done that before but i have seen good results when doing it. So now i will switch between Canna Cure and Canna RHIZOTONIC when spraying the plants. Did some LST again and a little Defoliation, i really try to keep the plants as small as i can keep them. Because i don't want them to get higher then my balcony fench. The plants are like 20 cm +- in height and the distance between the top of the plants and the top of the french is 60cm. Since I grow some sativas as well I expect them to grow a lot while in flowering stage, so i have to keep bending them because they can only grow for another 60cm maximum. I also have to clean stuff around the plants to give them some more space lol and might have to make a larger roof or a door, because some rain still rains inside from the side. I hope yall enjoyed :)
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Week 10. Vegetation
3 years ago
25 cm
18 hrs
23 °C
6.2
Weak
800 PPM
45 %
21 °C
25 L
0 L
Nutrients 7
CANNA Terra Vega - Canna
CANNA Terra Vega 4 mll
CANNA RHIZOTONIC - Canna
CANNA RHIZOTONIC 2 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
This week I finally removed my plant(shaman) that I didn't want to keep. Gave her away to a friend, hopefully in ''good'' care LOL. Sprayed them with CANNA RHIZOTONIC again. Did a little LST and some defoliation. Had to raise my PH a little bit because I did a small flush and found out that my run-off was like 5.6-5.7PH which is a little to low. So to keep a good PH in my soil i have them some water with ph 6.2-6.3. Not to much because then your soil will be ph 6.2-6.3. I just want to have it arround 5.9-6 for now.
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Week 11. Vegetation
3 years ago
27 cm
18 hrs
23 °C
6
Normal
800 PPM
45 %
21 °C
25 L
0 L
Nutrients 7
CANNA Terra Vega - Canna
CANNA Terra Vega 3 mll
CANNACURE - Canna
CANNACURE 330 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
This week is almost the same as last week. Did some LST and Defoliation. Got rid of some stuff close to the plants so now they have more space. They started to smell so I have to buy some other plants as well like the Jasminum polyanthum, because I don't want any complaining neighbours.
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Week 12. Vegetation
3 years ago
27 cm
18 hrs
25 °C
6
Normal
800 PPM
45 %
21 °C
25 L
1 L
Nutrients 7
CANNA Terra Vega - Canna
CANNA Terra Vega 3 mll
CANNA RHIZOTONIC - Canna
CANNA RHIZOTONIC 1 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
This week I bought some other plants to make sure my neighbourhood doesn't smell like weed when people walk by LOL. I would really recommend to buy plants like these. When I open the door to my balcony it now smells different, i don't know for how long since they are not in flowering stage yet, we shall see. Did some LST and defoliation like I do every week. Changed plant spots. This time I had to add more water to my feeding since it is getting hotter outside and my plants take up more because of having more roots and needs.
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Week 15. Flowering
3 years ago
65 cm
18 hrs
29 °C
6.3
Normal
800 PPM
45 %
21 °C
25 L
1 L
Nutrients 7
CANNA Terra Flores - Canna
CANNA Terra Flores 3 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
Fulvic Blast - Aptus
Fulvic Blast 0.5 mll
Hello guys, I went on vacation for 2 weeks so i asked a friend of mine to take care of my plants. Well....They are alive😅 but he didn't do any work on them LOL. He didn't even try to spot deficiencies... Neighter did some LST so they are kind of fuckt up for now, The PH rates where oke, like 6-6.2 but the EC rate was like 1 to 1,5 so he might have giving them more water turns then he gave nutes, I'm glad that he didnt overfeed, this little underfeeding didn't harm them alot and at this early flower stage it doesn't mind that much. I didn't want them to stretch that long like this, the stems went thicker so bending will be harder but I will try to. Pictures named Update 1 is how it kind of looked when I came back ( I did some defoliation before making the photos, so it looked way worse before that). If you compare week 12 with week 15, you can see a nice equal cantopy in week 12 and you see it turned to shit in week 15 lol. The Shamans went into flowering stage for like 1,5 week if i gues it right and the Critical Kushes are about to. I will post new pictures when i get all the work done and when they recover a little bit from that, i gues it will be putted online in the weekends. So this is all for now. Update: The way it got handled it demotivated me for this week so i barly did something about it nor did i make new pictures, Sorry guys, I will make them better next week for sure :) Enjoy.
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Week 16. Flowering
3 years ago
75 cm
18 hrs
29 °C
6.3
Normal
1000 PPM
65 %
21 °C
25 L
2 L
Nutrients 7
CANNA Terra Flores - Canna
CANNA Terra Flores 6 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
Fulvic Blast - Aptus
Fulvic Blast 0.5 mll
I'm back with another update. I could'nt hard bend them alot because the stems got thicker, if i would had done that, branches would had snapped. On the other hand the shamans had their stretch(already 2 weeks into flowering) and will not go any bigger, maybe a bit but not that much. (As a reminder, i bend them alot because i don't want them to get higher then my balcony fench) So I only have to bend the critical kushes a little bit for a few weeks until they had their 2 weeks into flowering stretch. Hopefully i will get a nice cantopy again. I gave them a little bit more nutrients(ec 2) because when i checked my run-off, it was still on a lower level, saw some difiencies and yellow leafs. Indicating that they can have more nutrients. Update: Compare this week with last week and see the difference. By just giving them the propher love they need, they will get better! Next update will be the end of this week like always and i can tell you they are starting to look better. Also i have to keep remind myself that this is just a outside fun grow haha and not anything to serious because when i gave them only water today I checked the run-off and all plants had different levels of ph and ec, which for me is normal because i'm used to alot of plant at the same time and never cared about it(cost alot of energy and time), but with just having 4 plants, it is tempting to do something about it like making seperate feed buckets for every plant haha.
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Week 17. Flowering
3 years ago
75 cm
18 hrs
22 °C
6.3
Normal
350 PPM
65 %
21 °C
25 L
1 L
Nutrients 1
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
This week i only gave them 2 feedings, one only water and one with Enzym+ because last week I gave them lots of nutrients. I did that because they asked for it and could take it but in the other hand it was really hot so alot of feeding got evaporated which can result in a salty/old nutes medium. So with that in mind i let the enzymen do their work(cleaning and re-using nutrients) while making sure that i lower the EC in my pots down again because right now the weather this week is like 20-23 degrees with alot of rain, because of that, the plants don't drink up/evaporate that fast as they do when its hotter. Meaning i can't give as much water as they used to, so the EC in the pots will stay higher. A high EC is not a smart thing to have, plants will get a higher change of shutdowns, can even get diffiencies because of that. And the last thing a grower wants to have is heavy pots for lots of days LOL. ps, I should consider making 2 different buckets of feeding because my criticalkushes are still not showing signs of preflowering. To be honnest i'm not completely happy about the critical kush strain because the breeder promised a 100% Indica strain, which in my opinion is not. It is just another hybrid and a really slow one. pss, I will lower my EC in the comming weeks because I want my buds to get bigger and in later stages I will raise my EC again to make them compact,smelly,tasty,frosty, With high EC, you get compact,smelly,frosty,tasty but small buds, with low ec you get big but fluffy ones and not that frosty. This doesn't count for Autoflowers since they need way less ec... I did this many times with inside grows, we will see how it goes outside with these two strains.
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Week 18. Flowering
2 years ago
75 cm
14 hrs
23 °C
6.3
Normal
750 PPM
65 %
21 °C
25 L
1 L
Nutrients 6
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
CaMg-Boost - Aptus
CaMg-Boost 0.5 mll
Fulvic Blast - Aptus
Fulvic Blast 0.5 mll
Hello again, The Shamans are doing great but the Criticalkushes are still not showing any signs of preflowering, therefore they might not finish properly in mid October. After that, it is to cold to have them outside. I can try to shorten the flowering proces for the criticalkushes but that will result into small buds. On the other side I rather have small full developed buds then big fluffy undeveloped buds with less thc on it. We will see how it goes. I started to notice some trips on my criticalkushes as well, not a major problem, just a few. So I have to get some Canna Cure again, The last bottle has been empty for a few weeks, which is just my fault, little bit lazy. Will get another bottle of Canna cure asap. It had been protecting my plants for weeks and it really worked alot. Besides that it kills of insects, it also give nutrients to the leafs which they really can use since I also spotted some minor things on the leafs. Until next week!
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Week 19. Flowering
2 years ago
80 cm
13 hrs
23 °C
6.3
Normal
750 PPM
65 %
21 °C
25 L
2 L
Nutrients 7
CANNA Terra Flores - Canna
CANNA Terra Flores 3 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
CaMg-Boost - Aptus
CaMg-Boost 0.5 mll
In the beginning of this week ( Monday in the late afternoon) I started seeing some burnt tips. Not really a big deal if you give less nutrients in the future, but i don't like it. Thats why i decided to flush my plants and check the run-off. PH levels where decent but the EC was to high. Not a suprise because I forced them a bit last week by giving some more nutrients. So right now my PH and EC for the kushes are arround PH 5.8-6 with 1.3-1.5 EC and for my shamans PH 6.3-6.4 with ec 1.5-1.6 After my flush, I gave all the plants some Canna RHIZOTONIC ( root stimulator). I advice everyone to give root stimulator after stressing the plant out with like flushing. In this grow i always weight my pots, therefor i always know when to perfectly feed them. They dronk 9 to 10 liters of water/feeding in like 96hours(4 full days) which is insane because it wasn't that sunny/hot (evaporation) and they are not trees being in the open ground. and maybe the most importent thing is that normaly your roots will stress a bit because of overwatering(flushing) and will go into a shutdown or having a hard time for a period as a result that your pots will stay heavy(full of water) for some days. In my case, this didn't happen at all. Wednesday I sprayed all the leafs with Canna Cure for some nice leaf nutrients,getting rid of minor trips and to prevent other unwanted renters. Friday I started feeding them again with nutrients, like 2-3 liters each plant and today I gave them water 2-3 liters each plant with only Enzymen in it. It was a crazy thirsty week for them with an average of 1.6-1.7 liters a day😅 Sadly one lower branch got damaged and had to get rid of it but I didn't mind that much since these buds where far behind other buds in developement. I placed one bud under the microscope for fun and saw insane amounts of thc on it haha, and that for just week 5 of flowering for a outside grow. Made a picture of it, just take a look at it. - Critical kushes started getting into preflower, finnally!! but still, only 6 weeks left before it gets to cold outside. - Did some LST again because the criticalkushes are still stretching. They might still stretch for another 1 to 2 weeks, its getting out of hand haha. - Shamans and the critical kushes get different feeding schedules, Should had done that waaaaay earliyer but I didn't care about it until now. - Forgot to supercrop my plants LOL, for the shamans it is to late, don't want to stress them out in their stage, but i did in on the kushes, since they are only 1 week in flowering, still growing a bit, it would't harm them that much. No need for steering them around, already done that. Just doing it to stress them out a bit so they will send more nutrients to the branches for bigger yield. Have to keep remind myself that this is just an outside fun grow but I just can't help myself buying stuff and wanting to do more/better. Hope you guys enjoyed watching and reading.
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Week 20. Flowering
2 years ago
80 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
6.3
Strong
800 PPM
45 %
16 °C
25 L
2 L
Nutrients 7
CANNA Terra Flores - Canna
CANNA Terra Flores 3 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
CaMg-Boost - Aptus
CaMg-Boost 0.5 mll
Hey guys, The things I did in this week. Shamans: - 6th week of flowering - PH 6.3-6.4 - EC 1.7 As you can see I did a mayor defoliation on the Shamans, this was necessary because this week and in the comming weeks there was/will be many rainy days. Therefore the risk of bud rot increases when having alot of leaves and not a propher airflow. I switched spots between the two shamans and turned them 180 degrees so I won't get undeveloped buds on the other sides of the plants. Done this many times before but forgot to mention. Lollipopped them and got rid of some weaker branches. Critical Kushes: - 2th week of flowering - PH 6.3-6.4 - EC 1.3-1.5 - Lollipopping - Minor defoliation All the plants had been sprayed with Canna Cure.
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Week 21. Flowering
2 years ago
80 cm
11 hrs
16 °C
6.3
Strong
800 PPM
45 %
11 °C
25 L
2 L
Nutrients 7
CANNA Terra Flores - Canna
CANNA Terra Flores 3 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
Fulvic Blast - Aptus
Fulvic Blast 0.5 mll
This week was a very cold week. 13 to 18 degrees during the day and at night like 10 to 13 degrees. Therefore the buds didn't swell properly. Luckly one Critical Kush is still swelling but the other one seems to have slowed down. It's oke, i knew this would happen and the kushes might not finish in time. Might harvest my Shamans at the end of the month. The kushes I will keep until half/end oktober. Since this is only a outside fungrow, I'm not making any effort to heat up the climate by putting heaters arround the plants. Critical Kushes are in their 3th week of flowering. Somehow GD minimalize the videos after putting 10pictures on the diary, Just click on the next picture and click on the right arrow to go to the videos. Have fun looking arround :)
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Week 22. Flowering
2 years ago
80 cm
11 hrs
16 °C
6.3
Strong
800 PPM
45 %
11 °C
25 L
2 L
Nutrients 2
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
Humic-Blast - Aptus
Humic-Blast 0.6 mll
Hey guys, Like I said last week, this week was another cold rainy week. Discoverd some budrot on my Shamans, but not mayor problems. Therefore I decided to Harvest my Shamans at the end of this week. Knowing that in the upcomming weeks it will get even more colder, more rain and more bud rot. Luckly I only gave them water and one time with Humic-Blast and enzym+. Thats not a proper flush but better then full nutrients in the soil/plant. If it wasn't for the colder climate, i would had let them flower for another 1 to 2 weeks because they really started to thicken and the flowers were swelling. But at the end i rather have smokable buds then budrot buds,,, Weather for the upcomming week is 70% to 92% rain with 11-14 degrees Celcius and at night even 7-9 celcius. So there is no point by risking all of my buds to rot, in hope for some swelling which may never come with this colds The Critical Kushes where in their 4th week of flowering, going into the 5th. I have no other choice to keep them at least for another 2-4 weeks, lets see how it goes. I don't mind spending nutrients on maybe a lost cost. Somehow GD minimalize the videos after putting 10pictures on the diary, Just click on the next picture and click on the right arrow to go to the videos. See yall next week :)
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Week 22. Harvest
2 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Shaman - Dutch Passion
Spent 171 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
9/10
Rated
55 g
Bud dry weight per plant
2
Plants
Easy
Difficulty
Sleepy
Energy
Indica
Hybrid
Sativa

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Day air temperature
Air humidity
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End of week 22: Overal it was a good run with the Shamans from @DutchPassion_Official . Didn't had mayor problems besides having to harvest them earlyer. I really wanted to flower them another 2 weeks but the weather/climate didn't allow me to. Still the buds came out decent as you can see for an early harvest. I will cure those buds for some time in my pots before they get smoked and will update how much weight I got out of the two plants. As you can see I made the bigger buds smaller. There is no use for me to keep big buds for showing off. Big buds just have big long stems in it, harder to dry and to fill your cure pots with.
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Week 23. Flowering
2 years ago
80 cm
11 hrs
13 °C
6.3
Strong
800 PPM
45 %
7 °C
25 L
1 L
Nutrients 7
CANNA Terra Flores - Canna
CANNA Terra Flores 3 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
CaMg-Boost - Aptus
CaMg-Boost 0.5 mll
The end of the 5th week of flowering. Just like the other 2 weeks before this was a cold and rainy week. The buds are really struggling to grow/fatten. they grow thought, but slowly because of the colder climate. Because of the struggle and colder climate, they don't drink as fast as they used too, so I give them less to affoid overwatering. I might have to lower my EC as well to make sure they will keep drinking properly.
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Week 24. Flowering
2 years ago
80 cm
11 hrs
13 °C
6.3
Strong
250 PPM
45 %
7 °C
25 L
1 L
Nutrients 1
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
Took some nice pictures with my microscope at the begin of this week from a underdeveloped budrot bud. So the other buds might have more and better thc on it. This is the end of the 6th week of flowering. Gave the plants only enzymen, because I don't know how long I can keep them going on flowering with this climate. Therefore I rather not feed them( there are still alot of nutrients in the soil), so they are not full of nutrients when I have to suddenly harvest them. As you can see, they take the nutrients out of the leafs as well, because they don't get nutrients from my watering. Might give them some Humic-Blast as well, in the new week. Will harvest them in 1 or 2 weeks depending on climate + growth of buds. The front plant buds didn't swell that much but the plant behind keeps flowering, not much but bit by bit. It's understandable because the day temperature is between 10-20 degrees fahrenheit and night temp is between 5-12 LOL
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Week 25. Flowering
2 years ago
80 cm
11 hrs
13 °C
6.3
Strong
350 PPM
45 %
7 °C
25 L
1 L
Nutrients 3
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
Humic-Blast - Aptus
Humic-Blast 0.3 mll
Regulator  - Aptus
Regulator 0.15 mll
The plant in front is still looking ugly as always haha, the buds are small, they develope really slowly, the leafs look like they never had any (N)itrogen lol, had this from the start. Whatever I did about it, it never changed into a better plant. Some people talk about bad genetics, but lets keep that in between. I'm already glad these are indica's and kushes, so they can stand the cold better then a sativa kind. Sativas would already been full of budrot, molts and stopped flowering. However, the plant behind it goes really well with the colds, as expected it even got nice collors, Most of the times color will show at colder climates. I used to trick my inside plants into bud discoloration but the outside weather did it for me. I gave them less nutrients, because i want them to get it from the soil( old nutrients) and from the leafs. Because of this, the leafs have now many signs of deficiency/discoloration. They really look like other plants/trees in the autumn. It was a wise choice of me to keep adding enzymen because when it gets colder, many enzymatic proceses are slowed down or even stopped. Therefore my plants kept drinking, flowering. This was the end of week 7 of flowering. Might havest them at the end of week 8, but lets see how it goes. 9 weeks of flowering would be my maximum but I'm 80% sure i will harvest them at the end of week 8. So again, they gained beautifull colors( the pictures are ugly, will make better ones next week, they look better in real), bigger size buds and now even got decent flowers instead of pistels with leafs like most outside grows LOL.
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Week 26. Flowering
2 years ago
80 cm
11 hrs
13 °C
6.3
Strong
350 PPM
45 %
7 °C
25 L
1 L
Nutrients 3
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
Humic-Blast - Aptus
Humic-Blast 0.3 mll
Regulator  - Aptus
Regulator 0.15 mll
Spotted some budrot again. This time I had enough of it and didn't want to risk further rot, so I decided to harvest them and not let them flower for another week. Forgot to take pictures before the trim, they look silly now without the support from the copperdreads and rubberwires haha. They had 8 weeks of flowering, I'm glad that 1 out of 2 came out nicely. The other one is just another regular looking outside plant lol. I always give them a first trim, so the buds can dry better, faster, safer. After some days or maybe at the end of drying, i will trim them again. You can expect the final update with pictures between 7 to 14 days from now. ps, Somehow the beautifull colors from the better plant doesn't show properly when filming or taking pictures, neighter am I a professional photographer. But ill promise to take better ones, once the buds got the final trim and got dried.
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Week 26. Harvest
2 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Critical Kush - Barney's Farm
Spent 171 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
8/10
Rated
76 g
Bud dry weight per plant
2
Plants
Normal
Difficulty
Sleepy
Energy
Indica
Hybrid
Sativa

Height
Day air temperature
Air humidity
PPM
PH
Light schedule
Night air temperature
Pot size
We are now at the end of my outside growing journey for this year. I really enjoyed making my first diary and talking with many of you guys. Got 110 grams of Shaman and 152 grams of Critical Kush, thats a total of 262 grams from just 4 small plants. As for the Critical Kushes, They are now in the cure pots, will cure them for some time. Still need to trim some buds as you can see, this will cost some weight but I preff cleaner buds instead of lots of leafs on it. So I might lose another 10 to 15 grams on trims. In the last weeks of flowering, the plants gained many nice purple/darkblue-ish colors. The buds are really smelly, sticky, compact and full of THC. I'm really glad that I kept them flowering for some weeks instead of early harvest them as well. This time the risk got rewarded.
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