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Seed + water + time = shell cracking open. Planted into substrate and 2 days later they broke the soil surface. I've got a few strains growing simultaneously for my first Grow to see how they are different from one another, and this strain was the fastest to make it out of the ground.
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Week 1. Vegetation
3 years ago
18 hrs
24 °C
6.5
No Smell
50 %
21 °C
60.96 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 1
Premium Gold All Purpose Fertilizer 4-4-4 1.302 mll
5/14: Looking good, showed strong resilience in the first couple days fighting off a white mold that was growing on the soil surface before I got proper air circulation.
5/16: A little stretchy, but that's probably due to the light distance. Happy with it so far, the fastest to break soil, and growing equal with each other.
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Week 2. Vegetation
3 years ago
18 hrs
24 °C
6.5
No Smell
45 %
21 °C
60.96 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 4
Gringo Rasta Cal-Mag 0.33 mll
Great White 0.13 mll
Premium Gold All Purpose Fertilizer 4-4-4 1.302 mll
5/19: Grow environment is getting more stable as all my equipment arrives, got a small oscillating fan to gently glow on the plants and top layer of soil. Have a dehumidifier running as well, and haven't seen any sign of the mystery white mold growing since, thankfully. Misted the plants today because it's a little dry for seedlings, hoping it will help if they can drink some water through their stomata.
5/21: Conditions are more optimal now steady 50% Rh, 70-75 degrees F, and a small oscillating fan going. Also watered them with some great white mycorrhizae and tribus microbes mixed into the watering.
5/23: looks like I got some good growth from the plants last couple days, got a little leaf curling going on. I'm thinking this is do to the plants roots getting tight on space, I will be transplanting tomorrow!
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Week 3. Vegetation
3 years ago
18 hrs
24 °C
6.5
No Smell
45 %
21 °C
60.96 cm
750 PPM
Nutrients 3
Super Phos Bat Guano 1.321 mll
Premium Gold All Purpose Fertilizer 4-4-4 3.963 mll
5/24: Time for transplant, 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: Raising the lights up and trying to figure out appropriate DLI for the plants so they aren't curling away from the light.
5/30: Holding off a watering until the plants stop curling their leaves because that's my other suspicion for the curling.
5/31: Finally getting the light to the appropriate distance and intensity, DLI between 20-25. Plants are starting to get longer internode spacing and overall just looking great. The growth on these two plants are very uniform between each other.
6/2: Plants growing strong, removed 1st node on both plants.
6/3: Topped them today, planning on creating a double mainline. Going to grow each branch out horizontally using LST to hold the branches out to the side and level with one another vertically.
6/6: Plants are growing good, next watering tomorrow morning!
6/7: Watered with Tribus Original and Great white mycorrhizae at 6.0-6.1 pH. These girls are growing great, looking the best out of the few strains I'm growing.
6/10: Did some low stress training to open up the plant, and get light onto the lower nodes.
6/11: Plants are growing great, cranked light intensity up, CO2 staying high just from what my family produces breathing. Lights are bringing the heat up as well gradually. Ordered a humidifier to raise humidity, going to try and keep it up between 65-70% with the heat between 79-84. Might build a CO2 generator from yeast and sugar, I wanna max out the growth rate on these plants for a week or two in veg to fill the tent faster.
6/13: Completed the plants training, Nodes 2 and 3 from the main stalk are spread flat and each branch was Topped after the 3rd node, along with the removal of the 2nd node on each branch leaving nodes 1 and 3. This will hopefully turn into 4 large colas on each branch during flower for a total of 16 colas per plant. Some leaves that covered the inside of the plant were removed to allow each node site to get equal light.
6/14: These plants are drinking more than my others, so I gave them a small watering 500ml each, pH 6.2 with some tribus mixed into it.
6/19: Set up a trellis to open the plants up some more.
6/20: Gave 2 liters of water to both, once the soil got pretty dry. Realized I should wait for the flowering stretch to use the trellis so I lifted it off the plants for now, did some LST on the outer branches instead.
6/21: Plants responded well to the watering, this tent is pretty much ready for the flip to flower, but I want to flip both my tents at the same time, so I'm waiting until the 4x4 is ready aswell.
6/23: Put these girls into the 4x4 because they are older and have a larger surface area than the plants that were previously in the 4x4.
Defoliated the lower sections of both plants, and tied down some more branches on CC#2, CC#1 has naturally longer internode spacing and is keeping a decent amount of light penetration through the center of the plant.
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.
Been closing the windows around the grow room to let CO2 levels rise. Selective defoliation on a couple plants, still need to do it on CC#2 though. Smells have gotten much stronger, very good smells.
CC#1 is fading beautifully, getting red, yellow, and orange hues on the leaves. Looks like she will be ready to harvest end of week 8 (Day 56).
CC#2 on the other hand has not really started fading or changing colors, some of the leaves becoming a lighter lime green.
Regardless, I'm harvesting based on trichome opacity/color and percentage of dark pistil hairs. Not many amber trichomes on either pheno yet, and roughly 90% Cloudy.
Grew vigorously through veg, produced incredible smells during flower, and is oozing with trichomes. I wish I could do the smell justice but it's hard to describe. Buds were the largest or second largest of the grow alongside a large Blue Gelato 41 from Barney's Farms a worthy adversary by the looks of it. However, that big Gelato does not come close to the smell factor these plants are packing. My smaller Blue Gelato, maybe, but the big one was lacking (just the pheno I'm guessing?).
CC#1, the smell had a fruity sweetness, with a cream like smell alongside notes of some kind of sandalwood or perfume-like incense, and during harvest notes of pine also became evident with agitation of the buds and stems. The plant had longer internodal spacing than her sister, but took up a massive surface area, largest in the tent I believe. Wet weight after a rough wet trimming session came out at a hulking 821g! No wonder the branches were bending all over the place and unable to support the weight. I greatly enjoyed coming into the tent each day to see this plant, it faded beautifully even though I wasn't able to reduce the temperatures that much during the last couple weeks of flower.
CC#2 had a very pungent smell with defined notes of grapefruit (took a long time to recognize that smell), it also had the notes of sandalwood/incense/perfume that CC#1 had but those were more like background notes on this girl didnt smell much of the creamyness that I got from the CC#1. This pheno didn't fade the colors as much and also had tighter internode spacing. She also appeared to grow more leafy, not by much, but noticeable. Wet weight for this plant was 623g, less than CC#1, but understandable because it did not extend the same surface area and the leafier structure shaded lower sections more than CC#1, which allowed the best light penetration of any of my plants to lower bud sights.
I'm extremely excited to get these girls dried and cured for a smell and smoke report. Currently these 2 plants are beginning a slow dry which I'm guessing will take 2 to 3 weeks in an environment with 55-60% rH at 65-70 degrees Fahrenheit. I hung each branch as a whole, and they will be cured for at least 2 weeks in glass jars before they are tasted. Patience is a virtue ,and I will cut no corners!
Hey there friend. Would you be alright with me offering some pointers? I would still like to share this information with you as I try to give this to all new growers on here, So dont mind me! 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 really believe you will find the answers to your leaf curling within this.
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!
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