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Today is day one. Seedlings are in Fox farm Ocean Forest soil. Very first grow. Feeding fox farm big bloom nutrients at 25% strength.
At day 7, plant 2 seems to be growing well. It is working on its first set of leaves. Not sure if it is a little behind or not. Plant 1 is mott growing very well. Both are in the same dirt, and getting same nutrients.
The start of week 2! Plant 2 is looking healthy. Not much growth over the past day. Plant one is slowly catching up. Starting to introduce CalMag. I'm using distilled water. The city water here is terrible for plants.
I lowered the light from 6" to 4.5". With the lighting being CFL T5HO I am hoping the plants with get a little more intensity.
Plant 2 is starting on its 3 node. The plant is staying short. Not much vertical growth. If I get close to it, it has a really nice smell. Plant 1 is catching up. On day 12, I think I have plant one too much water this morning. Her leaves are drooping a little.
Today is day 13. Plant one is catching up quickly. Not sure what is going on with plant 2. Any advise?
Made it to week three! Plant two became root bound and slightly under watered. I think that set me back a couple days. She was moved to a one gallon phat sack. She looks much better now. I'm surprised at how short they are. Both are working on their third node. Both were topped after third node.
Day 21. Plants really haven't grown much since they were topped 4 days ago. Leaves on plant 1 have some yellowing, not sure why. I've been feeding them distilled water ph'd to 6.5. Any idea what's going on?
Looking at plant 2 on day 18, it appears the leaves are starting to stand up, pray, sticking up, etc. What could be causing this? I'm using T5HO lights. Total of 210 watts. Is she getting too much light?
Hi there ! It could be the heat ! But it could be also the signs that she need water , as plants are "praying" to limit "sweating" ! Hope it will help you 😁👍
We made it to week 4! Everything is looking well. The girls seem like they are starting to recover from being topped. I'm trying two different training techniques on them. Let's see how it goes! I took some advise and gave her the recommended feeding from fox farm at 25% strength and they loved it!
Update day 26: plants showed slight nute burn. Watered today with straight water ph'd to 6.5. Last feeding was a little much. Didn't hurt them much but did show some signs of slight nute burn. I was hoping that they would be larger than they are by now. But it looks like it might be a long veg...
I decided to make this grow a micro grow. With the scale I have available and the light used I feel that it is going to stretch up quite a bit. I gave her a little clean up pruning and flipped the lights to the bloom lights. Set her to 12/12. Wish me luck!
Day 33, plant plants are looking amazing. Plant 2 is stretching like crazy. I have the raise the light an inch every other day. Hopefully it doesn't keep it up. The nodes are like 3 inches apart! Plant one is staying nice and bushy. She looks amazing. For some reason the very top of the main branches is getting some yellowing. Looking at pictures of first flower it appears to be normal. Any advise?
Day 35, today is the last day of the first week of flower. Still no preflowers yet. But I think I had a decent light leak where I had to run the cords out. Got that taped up nicely so hopefully no more leaks. Any advise?
We made it to week 2 of flower. I forgot to water yesterday, they were a little droopy this morning. Still no pre flower. Hopefully soon! I'll update as needed.
Day 37, plant 2 has pre flowers at the top but none on plant 1 yet.
Day 39, I gave the plants sledgehammer to rinse out some build up. Plants were showing signs of nutrient burn. I just got a new kit so come Sunday these girls will be going under hps for the rest of flower. Still no signs of any buds anywhere.
Day 40, still no bud sites anywhere. Plant one finally has preflowers. I think starting next week I'll move it into the hps tent.
So finally starting week 3 of flower. The plants are looking well. I decided to take them from under CFL to HPS. Right now it is set at 600 but can go up to 1000 watts.
Day 46, we have buds starting!
We have made it to the beginning of week 4 of flower. Both girls are looking great and are stretching like crazy. They weren't into flower at 8 inches tall and now are almost 30 inches tall! The smell is excellent. We have trichromes starting!
Day 57: We are making progress. I'm keeping the nutrient amount the same as week four. I feel like I am a week behind at least. Everything is looking good. No issues besides slow bud growth. Tricrome production is going well.
Day 61, leaves on plant two are curling. Not sure what is going on. I'm thinking maybe heat stress.
I'm surprised I've made it this far. Both plants look good. Buds are still super small. Maybe my expectations for bud size is wrong but I could cover most of them up with a quarter. Especially at this week. Any advise?
Made it another week. This week im going to feed week four nutrients. I'm starting to see new pistil growth. They look like they are getting fatter. There's still hope!
This has definitely been a learning experience. I've been feeding way too much nitrogen, way too small of a pot, temps too high. But I learned. Here we are on the next week. Hopefully they both start to fill up a little. Looks like they are. Cheers!
I flushed with fox farm sledgehammer to remove excess salt build up like they recommend. Now all of my fan leaves are yellow and dying. Some of the sugar leaves are doing the same.. Any ideas?
Hi @GrowFanatic! Well, since you used a product to get rid of salts/nutrients/chemicals, your plant is trying to find energy elsewhere, so basically it's eating the few nutrients left in the leaves. That's a normal thing, leaves are supposed to fade when harvest is coming / when the flush has started. This phenomenon is called "senescence" and is part of the pre-harvest process. No worries, this reaction is completely normal. However, I think you still have a few weeks to go through before harvest, so I'd recommend to give them at least 2-3 last meals, before flushing for 7-14 days depending on the trichome's evolution. Hope this will help, keep us up-to-date and happy growing 👊
We made it another. Wow did I screw up last week! But we made it thru that and we are still going! The girls are still showing a little sign of nute deficiency but much better than where we were. Not sure how much longer is left on these two. I'm assuming a couple weeks. I think after this week I will go to water only.
We are on the tenth week of flower! She is definitely finishing up. No nutrients, only water ph'd to 6.5. I think at the end of this week plant one will be getting the chop. Plant two I believe still has a couple weeks. Not very many red hairs on her and trichomes are clear.
Here we are again. Girl number 2 is making a great come back. Girl number one was harvested. There was nothing there but larf. It wasn't worth dragging out. Number 2 tips are actually filling out and the buds are really dense.
Another week! Waiting for this last girl to finish up. The smell has changed in the past week which I thought was interesting. Definitely a positive for me. The bottom half of the plant is mostly brown hairs, the top idea mostly white hairs. Just giving ph'd water.
Can't be much longer now. 3/4 of the plant is brown pistils with cloudy trichomes. The top is still mainly white pistils with cloudy trichomes. I think I started water only a couple weeks too early. I'm about 3-4 weeks of only water now but she still looks good.
I will update more once dried. She smells amazing. The first girl produced just over an ounce. I believe the second girl will double that. I have tried a sample. It was rather harsh due to not enough cure time. The taste was great. Energetic feeling.
@DudeGrowsWeed, that's what confused me. She's not getting any nutrients. I read up and it could be salt buildup. I gave her a good flush today so let's see
@GrowFanatic, I've never really dealt with this myself in any of my grows so far. But I did a little research and it sounds like it could be Nitrogen Toxicity. Check out the following link:
https://www.growweedeasy.com/nitrogen-toxicity-cannabis
Sounds like you should start backing down on your Nitrogen heavy nutrients from what I read. I hope that helps you out.
looking at your bud development and the time that these actually started to flower i would say you should switch back to your week 3 feed schedule. (flush with the week 3 solution if possible)
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@GrowFanatic, You definitely have a very sativa dominant pheno type my friend and great to hear you'll be running more of our strains in the future 👍
Not long left in this grow now. 10 day's in my opinion mate 👊
Keep up with the plane water flush and that will give you a super clean end product 👌
Until next time 👍
With love from Humboldt County ✌️
Kind regards
Mark..
@Humboldt_Seed_Organisation, thank you for all of your help. It's great to see a very well known breeder who also helps people with their grows. Well definitely be buying more of your genetics. They definitely look very sativa. The trichome production on the shorter of the two is unreal. They look like diamonds. And what a smell! I can't quite put my finger on the smell, like piney but berry. Very unique.
@GrowFanatic, one tip my dad taught me many year's ago was that instructions and more specific doses for feed need to be altered for each strain.
Some plants are heavy feeding and will take a lot of feed pushing the e.c upto 2.0-2.4 which is very high. If you do this with other strains it will not end well.
I like to go in at half the recommended dose and raise as needed. The plant will let you know what she need my friend 👊
Your plants are definitely showing their sativa side. Big long branches with that typical sativa look 👍
Going off the pictures I would say another 10-14 day's will see this grow completed 👊
I would do 1 more feed then swap to just water for the final 7-10 day's 👍
Not long now my friend. Then you can get the scissors out and your fingers sticky 😎
With love from Humboldt County ✌️
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Team-HSO..
@Humboldt_Seed_Organisation, I have always think about growing monsters plants and the particularity of the Humboldt County is his soil 😉 The kind of soil where you can grow BIG like redwood trees 😊
@JUNGLE_B4RNS, Excelent advice from a grower who knows what he is doing 👊
Your a great asset to the Grow Diaries platform 👍
With love from Humboldt County ✌️
Kind regards
Team-HSO...
Hi @GrowFanatic! Well, since you used a product to get rid of salts/nutrients/chemicals, your plant is trying to find energy elsewhere, so basically it's eating the few nutrients left in the leaves. That's a normal thing, leaves are supposed to fade when harvest is coming / when the flush has started. This phenomenon is called "senescence" and is part of the pre-harvest process. No worries, this reaction is completely normal. However, I think you still have a few weeks to go through before harvest, so I'd recommend to give them at least 2-3 last meals, before flushing for 7-14 days depending on the trichome's evolution. Hope this will help, keep us up-to-date and happy growing 👊
@ChefDan420, they are long and fluffy, but I'm almost certain that it is because of me. Pots are way too small and I was feeding nutrients at half strength every other watering and haven't really gotten a good flush. So today I gave them a really good flush and going to cut back to 1/2 strength every 3 or 4 watering.
@Weedo_The_Hempstar, that's what I wanted to verify. Right now I'm feeding week 5 nutrients which are very different from week 3. Should I go back to that weeks nutrients? Does anyone else think this as well?
dont worry too much about the brown pistils, when its just a few it could be from accidentally touching them a little rough or a leaf rubbing against them or even high airflow. It definitely looks like your buds are still elongating so the swell should be coming soon. 👌
Hey there Fanatic everything looks good and healthy. Did you start counting as flower from the flip to 12/12 or when pistils developed? I think you may not be as far into the flower as you think.... they look to be around 2-3 weeks into flower IMHO Good luck
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