First grow, Fastberry in a wardrobe

6/13 - This is it boys! Week one is over and here we are on the first veg week! Made a lot of changes all at once today. I relocated the LED driver on my light to outside the wardrobe. I also received and installed my Inline fan. Because of these changes I raised my light and increased its power. For the second day in a row this is the most growth I've seen since germination. I'm super stoked! I'll keep updating daily! 6/14 - so after a full night with the fan set up and only turning on at 86f I've realized my Humidor can no longer keep up. I guess its time to invest in a real humidifier 😖 - Update: I found a really good deal on a humidifier, problem is, its a little big. but it was cheap! and it also works really well. rearranged the grow and got everything to fit. 😎 6/15 - heat and humidity are pretty stable now. I gave her a heavy water this morning and when I came back to check on her she was a little droopy, think I just over watered. I'm not to worried about it. At this point I thought maybe the plant is big enough to take some more light. For the past week I've kept my PPFD at about 750 (according to my probably inaccurate phone) but today I decided to see how she like 950 PPFD. Again I'm using an iPhone to measure this so its probably lower than that is my guess. but ill update with pictures when I get home from work. -Update: I think she really liked the additional light. I'm gonna leave it on that setting for the rest of the week and see how she likes it. 6/16 - I messed up last night guys. Not just once, but twice.... first my temp probe fell to the floor of my grow and was reading 5 degrees lower than it should, then my dumbass accidentally activated the timer on my humidifier. Those things ended me with a tent that was 90F and 35%RH for about 6 hours before I noticed..... OOOFTA.... Luckily the plants didn't seem to care and I got everything set back up properly. God I'm an idiot sometimes lol -Update: I noticed the first set of leaves are curling at the edges, possibly do to the heat this morning. either way she's looking good to me and I'm not to worried about it yet. 6/17 - She looked a little droopy when I looked in this morning. I watered her thinking she might be a little dry. A few hours later she is drooping even more but its a different kind of droop. This morning it was curling, now its drooping like its got a lot of water. Not worried about it. I'm sure it will look normal again tonight. -Update: as expected she look's fine tonight, although I think I'm gonna hold off on watering for a day or two. I plan on transplanting very soon, I think only two or three more days. I'm waiting till the newest set of leaves is about halfway over the edge of the cup. Also! I don't know what they are called in the cannabis world, but in tomato world we call them suckers! There's new suckers at all the leaf nodes!! 6/18- This morning I tried to see if she would slide out of the cup, I think it was too wet cause it wouldn't slide out on its own and I ended up knocking a bunch of top soil off, to the point I could see the tops of the roots. I just need to be a little more patient. Since I could see the tops of the roots I sprinkled some great white in there (Mycorrhiza) and gently put the soil back in the cup. I gave it a very light watering to help the soil reincorporate and I'll try do do this again in a couple days when the soil is much dryer. Also I discovered somehow the pegs on my timer for the light got pushed in at some point and the light was running 24hrs. I suspect that's the reason she was drooping yesterday morning, She just wanted some sleep lol. I fixed the timer and she got a full 4 hours of sleep last night 😴 -Update: she doesn’t seem to care that I messed with her this morning, still amazes me how quickly she’s growing. I noticed my exhale CO2 bags mycelium had taken over the substrate all except for the outer layer. I decided to wrap it in a towel to prevent light from hitting it since it’s sitting under the light. Not gonna lie watching that grow has also been fun. I am starting to wonder what my co2 levels even are, so I’d be grateful for recommendations for devices or ways I can measure the levels. 6/19- Humidifier was off this morning when I checked. I hit the timer button on accident again..... she looks a lil depressed today but I'm sure she's just fine, although I am a little concerned about those other leaves turning yellow. but I'm pretty sure that's normal. speaking of, while I was trying to get the light at the right angle to take a picture of those leaves I noticed something really cute.... an angel 😽 Update: I got white girl wasted and decided I needed to xplant right this second......

6/20 - Week 3 is starting out heavily over watered, I need to stay away from this thing when I get too drunk. Went to the hydro store today for a pot riser now that I'm transplanted, He hooked it up with a free sample of fish shit. Even though I knew I just did a heavy water I couldn't help myself and watered again with the fish shit. I broke down and purchased the pro version of phototone. Seems people agree that its accurate on the iPhone side, android is more hit and miss because of all the hardware variations. Re-adjusted my light and lowered my humidity to 60% too. Next week ill bring RH down to 55%. Tomorrow is my birthday and I'm going out of town so you might not have an update. I think that's okay though because I need to give her some space to acclimate to her new pot. I understand now why so many people have overwatering issues 😅 6/21 - Not much to do to the grow today. Soil is still very wet but she doesn't seem to be drooping anymore. I'm off to the casino. Ill see y'all and her tomorrow! 6/22 - Temps have been a problem since I turned my light up. I'm gonna need to invest in a solution before flowering starts. Decided to start LST today, Trying to get more light to those suckers. Gave her a light watering. 😎 6/23 - She's heat stressed still, I have got to figure out this heat situation before flower. Never the less she's looking really good. I added another tie to the bottom of the stem to help keep it upright and I bent and tucked a bunch of leaves to expose as many tops as I can to the light. I count six on this side and I think there's three others on the opposite side that are still covered. The tips of the leaves that are touching the soil look burnt, so I added some extra panda film I had laying around to prevent them from touching the soil. All in all she's not looking bad but also not looking great. i shouldn't have added so much soil but hey I got to learn somehow. 6/24 - Looking a lot better as far as temps today. Added an additional intake vent to pull cool air in, and re-ran cables to make them a little neater. I added a larger piece of panda film to protect the leaves from toughing the soil. Although she's not heat stressed today, some of the leaves are still curling, I think it might just be that my soil mix was too heavy on the ocean forest but I'm not totally sure. Either way I don't think its anything to worry about yet. Cant wait to check on her tomorrow! 6/25 - Not much to do today except watch her grow. I am getting a little worried about the clawing though. -Update: I got bored and did some more lst 6/26 - I flushed the soil with two gallons of water this morning, I also redid all my LST ties and removed some soil. I'll flush again tomorrow with another two gallons. If by Tuesday she's not coming back around I'm gonna go buy distilled water and flush with that. The clawing is really stressing me out and I refuse to let my first grow be a failure. If she's not improving by the end of next week I will take extreme measures and knock the roots lose to repot her in straight happy frog. This is worst case scenario though, so I plan on avoiding that if I can.

6/27 - Sorry I missed my update yesterday guys, but here it is.... I flushed another 2 gallons of ph'd tap water through the soil. I think the clawing is improving. 6/28 - The clawing is noticeably better today, its still clawing hard at the top but the lower branches have flattened out. And by golly this thing has grown a massive amount just overnight. I noticed I can see roots popping out the side of my smart pot, that honestly makes me very happy. I tied down some more of the tops to help them grow into the light. I cut off one of the tops at the very bottom that was growing slowly and not getting any light, For fun I put it in a cup of water to see if it will take root. 6/29 - Incredibly explosive growth. Clawing has improved further. She grew tored the light so fast the top leaves were beginning to prey. Pulled the top down some more. Now I'm playing her some Rebelution so she'll relax into her new restraints 😎 6/30 - Shes looking awesome. Soil is till very wet. nothing to do today except observe. also pretty sure she's been in preflower for at least 4 days, and I'm pretty sure she's in flower now. 7/1 -Watered her today, also decided to tie her top down again. Since I'm pretty sure she's in flower now, and I wanna make sure she has what she needs but I don't think she needs nitrogen yet I decided to give her some Humboldt Secret Flower stacker 0-7-5. I mixed it at 1/4th of what is calls for at the beginning of flower and fed it separate of my routine water. first I flooded the soil with plain PH'd tap water then I applied the flower stacker with a spray bottle around the main stem. 7/2 - On the way to the lake this morning, just wanted to update, I moved my light up away from the plant, kept the power the same. Lowered the PPFD from 1200 down to a max of 900, gonna see how she responds. Might lower the PPFD more tonight. 7/3 - Phone got wet in the lake, sorry for the wide angle shots, the other lens was fogged up with moisture. but I missed adding photos yesterday so I got it done for you. Today I raised my light up some more, now the tops are only getting 800ppfd. Just gonna see how she responds to that. I cut off two lower leaves that were damaged from the soil and no longer getting light. no water today, soil is still moist.

7/4 - First flower week but she's been in flower for a solid 5 days already. I think I stressed her too much with potential N tox and light stress and she went into flower early. Since I lowered my PPFD to 800 she's pretty much stopped canoeing and clawing. There are still a few leaves that aren't happy but I think those might be from my fan blowing on them. No visible frost yet but some of the smaller leaves are starting to get sticky and she's beginning to take on a wonderful aroma. 7/5- She's really perked up from yesterdays watering! I wanted to tie her top down one more time, but the buds are getting so thick I'm not sure I can. I'm considering a defoliation method called SCHWAZZE that ill probably attempt on or around 7/17. At the same time I think I'm gonna add dowels to support some of the bud sites. Other than that not much else today. 7/6- I was very happy this morning when I checked on her and found that she's completely recovered from the clawing! I am now positive my light played a major role in the clawing and canoeing. I will be giving her her first real A+B+ Flower booster feed either tomorrow or the day after depending on when she dry's out. I also decided to use an old towel I had to create a wicking system under the pot to utilize the runoff as a water source. Got the idea from one of AC Infinity's new products (Automatic fabric pot feeder). Just overnight it was able to suck up about a quart of water from the runoff tray so I'm positive its working. I'm not planning on using it to bottom feed, rather the idea is to soak up the water so there isn't standing water for days and I don't have to fumble with the plant and the riser and shit. 7/7- She's looking the best she ever has! Starting to smell really nice too. Today is the first day I've fed her a full dose of nutes. Until now I've only given her soil conditioners and a few days ago I gave her a small amount of flower stacker. Today I gave the smallest recommended dose of both A+B and flower stacker. My next water in 3 or 4 days will just be water. Then around the 17th I'm gonna do a heavy defoliation and give her a second heavier feed. 7/8- She's looking incredible. I don't see any potential issues from yesterdays feed so far. I noticed some scarring on the main stem from one of my LST ties, the trunk is pretty well established so I decided to remove a lot of the LST to help prevent any further injury's. Also managed to get her top tied down again. I thought I was done tying the top down but I couldn't resist the opportunity. The wicking system is keeping the base of the pot saturated, there is still water in the runoff tray as of 10am. 7/9- Still looking fabulous. Reservoir was completely dry this morning. Might only give it a light watering in a few days, I wanna be able to feed when I do my defoliation. Canopy is almost even at this point. 7/10- I cut some bottom leaves today that were a bit damaged from touching the soil. There wasn't any leaves left touching the soil so I removed the piece of panda film I had sitting on the soil. I was pleased to find roots had grown to the top of the soil under the panda film. I used the last of the Great White Mycos I had and put it on top of the roots then top dressed some Ocean Forrest on top of that and gave it just enough water to wet down the top soil. Then I moved a bunch of LST Ties and tied down a couple of the lower tops and pulled a couple bud sites out into a different direction. Last day of the week! She might not have stretched and grew like she did the previous week but she sure has developed quite a personality! That beautiful purple was an unexpected gift!

7/11- Second official week of flower is here. I gave her about a quart of water today. Not much else to report. she's doing well! 7/12- I've done nothing to her today. She's still looking great! 7/13- I gave her about a half gallon of water today after I found burned tips on my leaves. Anyone reading this willing to confirm if this is nutrient burn? I'm sure it is, and I'm wondering if I should even feed before I defoliate on the 17th. This might change but as of right now I might only feed bloom nutes when I defoliate. Took her out of the wardrobe a few hours after watering which is why the leaves look depressed. Seems she always slumps with a heavy water. But I was able to get a better look at her flowers, and OH MY GOD. I cant believe how beautiful these neon purple buds are! 7/14- Today I found yellowing leaves on the bottom and they just kind of popped off with a gentle touch. This kind of spooked me. I landed on the conclusion that they probably weren't getting enough light and the plant started taking the nutrients out of those leaves. So I decided to defoliate today. I don't want the lower leaves to fall off cause they aren't getting light. I want those lower bud sites to develop too, so I cut the leaves that were blocking the most light into the plant, allowing the plant to get some energy down lower. I didn't get too crazy but I did remove a good amount. I will likely continue to prune leaves over the next few days but its mostly gonna remain natural growth from this point on. 7/15- Watered a quart this morning. Seems like she's really drinking a lot. The buds are starting to get fat. The buds are really pink! 7/16- God drunk last night and turned the light down to take pictures of the bud.... My dumbass never turned it back up. So today about midway though its day cycle I noticed and turned it back up. 7/17- Some leaves are yellowing. I think its a K deficiency. I cant feed today, soil is still too wet. Will probably feed tomorrow.

7/18- Week 3 of flower. Today is day 21 of flower. She is still yellowing but the soil was dry enough for me to water. I fed her a lower dose of the A+B solution but kept the flower booster at the same dose this week. Reason being I'm afraid of nitrogen burn, and I think I'm experiencing K deficiency. I also removed the last of the LST, gonna let her grow how she wants from here on out. That gave me some space in the pot to top dress some more Ocean Forest. 7/19- Watered some more of this nute solution I made. she's looking good. Moved the humidifier to the "Lung" room near the intake of the tent to give me more room and to help stabilize the VPD so its not bouncing as much. Unfortunetly its been getting super hot and ive had to crank up the humidifier because my AC cant keep up. VPD has been near 2 consistently. not ideal. in the morning before it hits 110F outside, the VPD is a nice 1.3. 7/20- Found what appears to be rust Fungus, I'm not sure how because humidity has been low. I've been trying to bring humidity up so VPD comes down but I haven't been able to get much over 50%rh. Id rather not use Sulfur right now and I think its happening because the plant is deficient elsewhere so I'm probably gonna pick up some calmag. 7/22- Sorry I missed a day, I was tired and depressed and a little ashamed of my results. I have peaked another major learning curve and I'm a little disappointed with my past choices on nutrients, Next cycle after the OG Kush will be totally different. Infact I might Just use dry amendments on the OG kush. My interpretation now is that bottled salt nutes like A+B solutions are a flawed product that's easy to manufacture but has major issues and they sell you CalMag to fix those issues. Fast berry will probably be the last plant I ever give bottled nutes. The OG Kush will also be a rocky grow, but I'm using it to learn. When I pop Ultimate and Charlette's Angel in an Earth Box is when yall should start taking notes lol 7/24- Its the end of this week. Sorry I haven't kept up as much as usual. Been working a few doubles at work so I've been extra tired. I didn't even open the wardrobe yesterday because I was so tired and I just didn't wanna deal with seeing my girl all messed up. That being said its hard for me to tell if the CalMag worked but I'm pretty sure it did. The leaves that really yellowed haven't really recovered but at least to me it seems that the ones that were just starting to yellow have recovered and even the rest of the leaves seem like they have returned to a nice dark green. IDK I'm not totally sure that's the case but it feel like it is.

7/25- She's looking great today. Gave her about a quart of water with fish shit. After this gallon is gone ill feed again with calmag, A+b, and bloom booster after this gallon is gone. 7/26- Shes drinking water pretty quick these days, gave her another quart today. 7/27- nothing done today other than looking at her

7/30- Gave her a heavy feed today. I mixed a gallon and will continue to water with feed for the next few days until it is gone. 7/31- Thought I got the humidifier set up when I left this morning but unfortunately the float got stuck down so it wasn't working all day causing VPD to be very high.

Sorry I missed updating all this week. Lifes been crazy. but I still took pictures!

8/8 was the beginning of week 10, As of 8/9 the trichomes still look mostly clear. I really wanna chop her but I'm doing my best to wait for amber trichomes. the larf i cut a few days ago was dry enough to smoke. It smells so good, really fuelly with hints of citrus.

8/15 was day one of week 11, the 8th week of flower. And to think, I thought I was gonna go from seed to harvest in 8 weeks lol 8/22 last day of week 11. Sap is leaking onto buds in a few places, I'm concerned it might make the smoke harsher.

sorry I'm late uploading life got busy. harvested little bits to let the rest mature some more. definitely let her fade too early.

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