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Placed seeds in water until seeds started to crack open, then planted directly into substrate. Left for 4 days and returned to some unfortunate conditions. Didn't have air circulating and night Temps were getting low, so there was some white mold that started fuzzing up the soil and killed some of the seeds. Germinated a couple more and got a more optimal environment, so hopefully they break surface in the next couple days.
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Week 1. Vegetation
3 years ago
More photos +8
18 hrs
24 °C
6.5
No Smell
45 %
21 °C
60.96 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 1
Premium Gold All Purpose Fertilizer 4-4-4 1.302 mll
5/13: Stabilizing the conditions in the tent still. Measured the PAR using a phone app, and it showed 400ppfd. Still waiting on my later germinations to break soil.
Not sure how I'm going to setup this diary since each plant will be a couple days apart from each other but I'm thinking I will count the first week as 7 days after the last blue dream breaks out of the soil. The specific days (age) will be marked on the individual photos of each plant.
5/16: This is the day the other two dreamers made it out of the soil, so this is what I'm treating as day 1, although BD#2 is 6 days old.
5/19: Some of my last amazon orders have finally arrived so I can properly manage the grow environment. Got a couple oscillating fans to circulate air, and a carbon filter to vent out the room. Not sure I'll need that until later, but it will help pull hot air out of the room when it's too hot. Got a CO2 meter as well, I'm thinking about building a CO2 generator from yeast and sugar based off a YouTube video I saw. However, that won't be necessary until the plants are much bigger from what I understand. Conditions are staying around 40-55% Rh and 68-75 degrees. Humidity could probably be a little higher while the plants are young but I had some white mold growing on the soil and I really rather not deal with that so I'm sticking a little on the dryer side. Now that things are more under control, I hope the rest of the grow is smooth sailing. :D
5/23: This concludes the longest week in history, BD#2 is ready for transplant tomorrow. And the others have reached the end of there first week. Light was increased to roughly 500ppfd at canopy level.
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Week 2. Vegetation
3 years ago
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18 hrs
24 °C
6.2
No Smell
55 %
22 °C
45.72 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 1
Premium Gold All Purpose Fertilizer 4-4-4 1.302 mll
5/24: Transplant day for BD#2 (Day 14). Built the soil right before transplant using a 60% coco (Plantonix: Coco Bliss), 30% perlite (Miracle grow), 10% earthworm Castings (Wiggle Worm) mix. Amended with Dr. Earth Flower girl 3-9-4 (1.89 cups/10 gallons of soil), Dr.Earth All-Purpose 4-4-4 (.6 cups/10 gallons soil), and Super phos rock bat guano from aurora innovations (5tsp/10 gallons soil).
5/27: BD#1 and 3 about ready for transplant soon.
5/30: Raised the light distance, transplanted BD#1 and 3, going to back off the watering for some time until I get normal growth on BD#2.
5/31: Raised the light distance, and measured DLI rather than PAR. I am exposing the plants to 20-25 DLI (roughly 300-350 ppfd for 18 hours/day) now. The CO2 is naturally sitting around 800-1200 ppm in the growroom conveniently, so the plants should tolerate a slightly above normal light intensity for their size.
6/2: Still letting the soil dry out in the case of BD#1 and 2, might water #3 tomorrow. I have been lifting the pots to feel if they are light or heavy, and I'm getting an idea of when they need to be watered. Also removed the 1st node on BD#2 because it doesnt get much light.
6/3: Exciting stuff BD#2 grew a lot recently and was working on its 6th node so I figured it was ready for the stress of topping. I snipped the plant just above the 3rd node, so now only nodes 2 and 3 are left. My idea is to do a double mainline, and have the plant grow out in a plus-sign shape. This way I can get better symmetry and light exposure across the plant.
6/6: Did some LST on BD#2, trying to keep the branches at the same height.
6/14: Gave between 500-1000mL of water mixed with recharge, tribus, and great white myco, pH at 6.1. Also completed the training on BD# 2 and 3. BD#1 is a little behind still but that's fine the tent will get filled in due time.
I'm very happy with how the plants are growing and looking, not very much I need to do for them now since the environment is staying stable.
6/17: Temp is a little high for the humidity level, unfortunately the humidifier I bought is the smallest thing in the world and doesn't make much of an impact raising the Rh. I just mist the tent with a sprayer bottle and that raises it considerably.
6/21: Huge amount of growth this week after giving them a watering with just great white myco (.25tsp/gallon) approximately 2 liters for each plant. pH 6.2
6/25: It is staying very hot in the tents, the girls are still growing good but I need to figure something out to get the heat lower for flower. Optimally I'd like to get it to stay between 75-80 degrees. I also switched the tent the plants were in because my 5 gallon 3x3 tent plants ended up bigger than the 7 gallon plants.
Top dressed using 1/2 cup 3-9-4 Dr. Earth: Flower Girl bloom nutrients + 1/4 Cup earth worm castings + 2 Tbsp 0-9-0 Roots Organics Super Phos Rock + 1/2 tsp Great White mycorrhizae. Also covered the top dress with about half an inch of coco coir, then watered about 2 liters per plant.
Realized that one of my plants has started herming and pollen had been spread inside the 3x3. Reason somewhat unknown, leaning towards genetics or some light got into the tent during lights out. Only BD#1 hermed so I'm not really sure, I figure a light leak would've set off some of the other plants too.
I'm following my nose on this grow, and I lost all hope on Blue Dream #1 (Hermie). The plant was producing virtually no smell besides a light skunky fan leaf smell. I let it grow outdoors for another week (taking in and out at 12 hour increments) before chopping it. The only use I see for what I did manage to harvest is edibles, a real shame. On the bright side even though quite a few pistols have been pollinated on the other 2 blue dreams, they have been developing a strong berry and pine smell and good resin production, so I'm not too sad about the seeds they will just get picked out during trim.
Hey there friend. 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.
Happy growing friend!
TruMoo
