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Ganja Farmers Blue Dream Auto was started germination in a glass filled with a solution of purified H20 and a measure of H2O2. After 24 hrs the shell has split and the tap was showing. It was then placed in a small black plastic container and sandwiched between two pieces of cellulose towel soaked in the H2O2 solution then the container was covered with foil and placed in a warm area (79F). After 24hrs the tap root was long enough for insertion into the media. It emerged on Day 5 and as of today's posting (day 7) it is healthy.
My set-up is a 4x4x8 tent, with a 150w Led light. Multiple fans in the tent. The tent is exhausted directly outside via a 6" fan with a temperature controlled fan speed. I monitor the tent temps via a wifi cam that I can see the temperature gauge. I can control the HVAC via an app for the household thermostat. All the fixtures in the tent run thru smart outlets that allow me to schedule the lights and fans and receive notification of power outages.
A 3 gallon cloth pot filled with a Coco coir/ expanded clay pebbles mix (80/20). The mix was buffered for almost a month with daily rinsing of pH buffered de-chlorinated tap water. I de-chlorinate the water with a 4' carbon tank. It didnt need a month to become buffered but life got in the way and I couldn't start the plant when I wanted.
For nutrients I will be using the entire General Hydroponic Flora Series and mix them via their older mix chart that they no longer provide. I will be mixing the nutrients with nearly pure, medical grade RO water. This water is made at a medical facility and its EC is usually less than 10 micro siemens. I will be using the bloom city cal mag with a 2-0-0 npk and will mix at 2x the strength. This is because there is nothing at all in the water.
My method is called Frequent Fertigation. I will be giving nutrient solution 2x a day to achieve 20%+ run-off. I measure inflow pH and EC and adjust according to the plants needs (sadly Im often a little behind and still learning). I measure the run-off as well for both pH and EC. I will perform high volume irritations followed by fertigations to keep the media buffered. I will document all my measurments and actions in a written log and ad pictures of that log for no one to look at. My journals are also TLDNR for many so I do this for me. It helps me focus on my plant. The method is slightly forgiving and the plants cant skip fertigation events without any setback other than they missed a meal.
Day 14. Starting to take off. Noticeable growth every visit. Its on its 3rd set of leaves. I'm glad to see it didn't stretch for the lights and will be a nice short bush.
The fast vegetative growth continues. Exposed the branches by tucking the larger leaves. Missed one full day of fertigation. I normally do two event a day from the beginning. I decided to just do one a day till it go bigger. So far it doesn't seem to make a difference. I believe its time to start two fertigation events a day. Looks like the first pistols are about to show.
Pistols on day 30 were noted. The flower grow spurt is in full swing. The plant has been consuming more fluid each day and the run-off is actually lower than the input which means the plant is soaking up alot. I will start fertigating 2x a day in the coming week. I will also do some light pruning of small branches and leaves that are against the grow pot. The aroma has also arrived and the magic is really starting to do it thing.
Normally I give two fertigation events a day. But this round I decided after I started to just do one until plant really started soaking up the solution. Well its doing that. Consuming a lot of solution, plus the run-off indicates its utilizing a lot of nutrients from the solution as well. I keep intending to start the 2x a day events, but the plant is doing so well. Im curious if its needed. Ive increased the inflow in the morning fertigations and have begun adding a small volume of low EC solution before adding a full strength dose. I still may start a 2nd fertigation, but Im curious now to see how the plant will do. Perhaps allowing more solution to be utilized, and evaporate from the media, the plant also gets more oxygen at the roots zone. While my grow method is based on the frequent fertigation techniques of Dr. M.J. Coco of Coco for cannabis site. I have made some variations to my media. I have also participated in diaries on that site and everyone there seems to grow the same half ass scrubby shit as most people do here because they adhere to bro-gro techniques as well.
Been doing light pruning os third tier branches and leaves. Growing like a weed!
With high temperatures all week, (outdoors 100-102 each day for 5 days straight), the temperature in the tent gets as high as 80F. The HVAC is running non-stop and unable to keep up. I have added a water mister to the AC condensing unit outside. This creates a lower ambient temperature around the condensing unit and thus a lower output allowing the unit to keep up and not run non-stop. Water is cheaper than electricity and with a misting nozzle only a small amount of water is being used.
After a couple of high temperature days the plant was consuming more moisture. I performed a second fertigation event in one day late in the week. The plant was very receptive to this. I will be giving intermittent 2nd fertigations as required going forward. The plant is very healthy and looks like it has stopped stretching and is beginning to build the flowers. I have pruned the two lowest branches and most lower leaves and most future larf branches. (The other plant in the pix is not part of the diary, it is a High THC, high CBD called Euphoria)
The buds are looking beautiful! Its a modest sized plant but will have plenty of good big buds. Have seen zero nutrient issues. I didn't know what to expect from this company and am very surprised at how excellent the plant looks. Have had no wild swings of pH or EC in the run-off and am doing occasional high volume low EC fertigations followed by normal EC fertigation. Currently on Mid Bloom nutrient mix recipe using an older mix chart from General Hydroponics for the Full line of the Flora series.
👉The flowers are steadily bulking up! The aroma is also getting stronger. I vent directly outside and even with modest breezes I can smell that intoxicatingly beautiful aroma of cannabis flowers outside in my yard. The plant had show its first hints of nutrition issues on some of the upper leaves. Perhaps Potassium, or phosphorous, I forget which. Small yellow spots that turn necrotic. Its not wide spread but will show itself in the coming week. I am giving lots of both so I figure I need to start by doing a couple of high volume low EC fertigations. My run-off hasnt bee high and the pH had been in range of inflow, Its also nearing the mature bud phase and the food factories have been working overtime so they are soon to start fading. Continuing with mid bloom nutrient mixture for the coming week.
👉The pistols on the flowers are starting to turn brown. The aroma is very strong, sweet piney and stanky. Unmistakable aroma outdoors (vent directly outside). The spread of damage from phosphorous or potassium levels being a bit low or locked out is minimal. Hopefully it has been abated, but as the plant enters the final leg of the flowering stage, the leaves will begin fading and any symptoms of nutrient issues will appear more exaggerated. I addressed the issue by doubling the Terminator and continuing the Diamond nectar even though the recipe for the week 9 late bloom mix calls for none.
👉For the coming week I will begin trichome hunting. Using a USB micro scope I will be able to get a feel for the stage of the flowers more accuratly. I may switch to the late bloom mixture by mid week. I will also be increasing the frequency of low EC fertigation events (always followed by a full strength event). The run-off EC is spiking rapidly, and the run-off EC is slightly elevated (but still in range). I may also start taking some of the leaves from the interior at the top of the dome.
👉Sadly I jinxed myself a little while ago, thinking to myself how great I am that I dont get pests...so karma hands me some fun and I had a sudden onslaught of fungus gnats. I used to grow marigolds and they are great at keeping pests at bay (except they do attract spider mites, which also works because they go to the marigolds first). I had one other grow (Hindu Kush Auto) that got fungus gnats and they had appeared when I had to take mt marigold bush out when it was getting to bushy and dense, which posed a wpm threat. I started a new marigold and as soon as it bloomed all the gnats disappeared. That time I also applied H2O2 plus Dawn dish soap to help mitigate them which was also highly effective. The reason I am having fungus gnats is that My mitigation outside the tent has been lax. I usually apply a misting of neem oil all over the exterior of the tent before each grow session. I didnt this time. I also spray spider cide on the exterior of the tent and around the room. I also us 'now pest strip' outside the tent, but the local stores didnt carry it when it was due to be replaced so my defenses are down. The exterior of the cloth pot also get algae on it and normally I keep it down by spraying with an H2O2 solution and wiping off the algae with a towel. I have been lax at this tax and have a significant algae coating on the base of the pots.
👉To mitigate these nuisances I have been spraying the exterior of the pot with the dawn soap H2O2 mixture (32oz H2O2) with water (96oz) and one squirt of Dawn soap. THis makes a nice concentrated H2O2/Dawn solution. I also apply the spray directly to the surface of the media and then poor a small amount of water over it so get some of the soapy solution down in the media to kill the larvae. After about 10 minutes I fertigate normally. After fertigating I re-apply the solution to the surface and the sides of the pot. I also leave a puddle on the drip tray. I am getting rid of most of the flyers, but I dont think Ive gotten ahead of the larvae. Dozens of adult flyers are dead in the drip tray every day, and while the numbers of flyers seem to be subsiding, I still am getting smaller younger flyers in the trays soapy water (they die almost as soon as they land in it). This has been going on for 4 days now. I will continue to try and kill the larvae, I should be seeing better results soon. The plant seem unaffected.
👉I am now applying the Late Bloom mitured from a discontinued General Hydoponics Flora series mix chart. Run-off has been spiking quickly, so I am also doing more low EC irrigations (which also helps with the fungus gnats mitigation by rinsing the soapy solution deeper into the media). The plant looks great, still has new pistols popping out, and many of the pistols are beginning to turn red. I have done some trichome hunting with the eye loop, and today I used the usb micro scope. I saw mostly clear with many turning cloudy. There were a couple of ambers but they are very scattered and very few in number.
👉Its getting very close, some amber trichomes have begun to appear and most look cloudy. Im looking for mostly cloudy, some amber and some clear. I will start prepping the room for the harvest. The aroma is very strong, it can be smelled outside even with a nice breeze. I only have one close neighbor and without a doubt he can smell it at his house when the wind is right, but its legal so I have nothing to fear.
👉I'm fertigating with the final mixture, Ripen on the General Hydroponics drain to waste chart for the flora series (a discontinued chart). Im also still battling the fungus gnats. I have made great progress, I dont see any flyers when Im in the tent. I leave a puddle of runoff and add the soapy H2O2 mix. This kiss any flyers as soon as they land in it. The numbers of dead flyers diminishes to just a few each day,
👉The aroma is crazy strong. With mild breezes blowing it fills the yard with the unmistakable funky stank of cannabis. The plant is fading nicely, wont get any fancy colors, but thats not what makes good big buds good. Its frosty as it can get. Its ready for harvest in the coming week. Due to lots of life stuff happening I will be doing a top down cola or two a day harvest, could take two weeks, but Im shooting to have it done in 1.
👉I did win the battle of the fungus gnat attack. Took a while but by monday last week I stopped seeing any gnats. Im doing lower EC fertigations this week but still giving nutrients every day and will do so until harvest is complete.
👉Many thanks to Ganja Farmer for sponsoring this contest. Everyone that got seeds is a winner. Its very generous for a company in Poland to send seeds around the world for us lucky stoners here on Grow Diaries. I am personally very grateful for getting the opportunity to grow a plant that turned out awesome. I still have some seeds from them to grow and look forward to growing those in the future.
👉The plant grew with almost no nutrient issues showing up. The plant was a short squatty bush with large pine cone buds. The Queen wasn’t much taller than the rest of the plant and the plant made its own nice canopy. There were 23 good big buds. Very leafy, but not many sugar leaves on the buds. There was only a handful of secondary buds. There was no popcorn sized buds but a fair amount of larfy buds under the main colas on each branch. The main colas on each brand were dense, frost covered pine cones. The buds below each branches main cola were not as developed and I put them in the larf category. None of the larf weight is included in the weights entered. The larf will be used for making bubble hash and tincture.
👉When I harvested I started with the queen cola and worked my way down over the course of a week. There weren’t many sugar leaves and that made harvesting fairly easy. Not doing the whole plant at one time also made trim purgatory go rather easy. The plant had the typical stanky fuck aroma before harvesting. When trimming the buds the aroma elevated to super sweet stanky funk. I hung each large cola with a clothes pin then hung on a clothes drying rack. I would put the each bud in its own small paper sack after 24hrs. I used indirect air circulation via a 36” tower fan. I put a letter on the clothes pin that was on each cola. I recorded the wet weight of each cola. I monitored the weight of each cola and when it was approximately 25% of original weight or less I would put in the jars. The room was about 75F or less with 45% humidity, the 6” exhaust fan was set to low (exhausts outside). It took 16 days for all jars to reach 62% humidity or less. The average time to dry to the target dry weight was7 days per cola. It would take an additional 6-7 days to have 62% humidity. I am not putting humidity packs in the jars. The humidity is stable in the sealed jars. I also label each jar so I know where on the plant it comes from. I have been doing this for a while and like to see if differences exist from different areas of the plant. The jar aroma at the 62% level is sweet and mildly fruity at the moment. I expect that by the 6 week mark the aroma will become more berry-esc.
Weird_Jimmy
