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First time trying any seeds from reputable breeder. Had bad experiences in the past.
I've heard lots of positive things from this breeder. I am really looking forward to trying them out.
Very low maintenance starting the girls off. One of the girls didn't make it , she popped and sprouted but just stopped growing. Maybe she got dry. I just planted another
Don't mind the blurple light, I use this to veg for a little prior to moving into my 3x3 with proper lighting. My 3x3 is currently in week 5 of flower so another 3 to 4 weeks before switching.
Sorry if I do not have lots of pics, they are very young and nothing too exciting happens in my opinion at this stage.
Apologies if I have not been as active, I tend to leave them alone more when they are younger so they can just grown in peace before I start might LST regiment. Trust me, I love the ahirt bushy plants with thick stalks.
I've been leaving the girls alone and they have been doing fine. One was planted a week or so after because one of her siblings had passed during germination.
I transplanted into a 1liter random pot I had. In a few weeks I will transplant into a 3gal and I will finish her off in a 5 gal fabric pot.
No nutrients yet, just PH balanced water at 6.5.
Thinking of giving them cal-mag soon... I find almost with every grow around 1 month mark the growth slows because they will end up with a cal-mag deffeciency.
Hey there,
When would be the best time to top my plant to promote that new branch growth?
I've seen and heard many different opinions on this so some clarity would help.
Thank you in advance
You want to have at bare minimum 4 nodes before you contemplate topping a photoperiod (and don't EVER contemplate topping an autoflower!). General rule of thumb is when the plant has 4-6 nodes.
Good luck!
Still leaving the girls pretty much alone.
I did top, and many new branches shot out.
I have been using LST clips, they are amazing. I never snap branches, never have to tighten any rope or strings, and I do not have to adjust often. When the plant does get bigger, it's good to move the clip as I've had them snap.
I use SCROG when in flower, so because of that I spend lots of time training my girls to be very short and bushy.
My last grow, I had a male in the tent and because it was four plants I took a big hit removing it. He was the largest plant so my tent lost about 35-40% of its potential harvest because it was a male. Because of that I purchased feminized seeds from a reputable breeder. I am tired of growing random strains and multiple strains at the same time because they all have such different needs.
Please note, that formula for nutrients is what I am using for the Mandarin Cookies and outdoor balcony grow. I am not giving them 1 gallon of water, I am simply pouring a little in.
I did notice a deficiency in my lower fan leaves, I have yet not given the girls any nutrients or micronutrients. Only PH balanced 6.5 water which sits for 48 hours first.
Also, full disclosure, I have been leaving my girls near the window behind glass, on the 18th floor to get 4-6 hours of direct southern Ontario sunlight. I've heard of the risks, you can bring bugs in etc. I am leaving behind the window and I am on the 18th floor, I feel as if I have a chance of being safe.
Why do I do this you ask? I watched a video of a craft grower who gives the plants both direct sunlight and artificial light. Artificial does not have the same spectrum as the sun, nothing does. Ok maybe there is but I have not heard of it.
I wanted to try it while the sun is still strong here, we get like 4 months of decent weather a year and might as well.
Honestly, I saw the plants literally grow an inch or half inch daily when they had the few hours of direct sun.
What is the general consensus about allowing your plants have both artificial light with some direct sunlight as well?
I put my plants on the window ledge to get 4-6 hiurs of direct sunlight, they literally explode with growth and thickness everytime I do this. I live 18th floor
Yes, it is done all the time. Supplemental lighting is used in greenhouses to increase crop production during time periods with low levels of solar radiation.
These time periods usually occur during the winter months, but cloudy summer days can be as dark as some of the darker winter days.
Kept it very basic, watered once with just PH balanced water and gave her light nutrients.
Just moved her to her 3x3 tent where she will remain until harvest with her Se3000 300watt white led. Maybe the true output is around 280, from what I've seen on YouTube.
Still aiming to train the girls to stay low as possible, I want to fill in the canopy entirely with as many tops as possible for the SCROG I will add in a few weeks.
My tent is 6ft tall
1.5 ft for carbon air filter and light
Transplanted my girl into her final pot- 5gallon fabric.
Did some more LST, she is branching out like a star, short and wide.
Going to let her grow for 2-3 weeks with leaving her alone, just going to give cal-mag ph water and feed 1x a week with 50% strength of recommended nutrients.
After 2 3 weeks of growing will top again, I really want to fill out my scrog when I add it in a few weeks
Just going to leave them alone after all the training.
They have just recovered and beginning to grow again. I am going to transplant the 2nd plant soon into her 5 gallon.
Still training to keep the girls low. 1 plant keels getting cal-mag deffeciency. I can't seem to get rid of it, I keep including in my waterings and feedings but no luck. She still growing strong.
Going to put in the scrog netting in a few weeks. I am still figuring out how to fill the tent and where I will train the branches to go
I keep getting a cal-mag deficiency. I have been using 1ml per liter of water - 4ml roughly per gallon. It is only 1 plant, the same which has had the same cal-mag issue since early veg.
I include cal-mag every watering and nutrient feed day.
You can see images for reference
Just giving calmag doesn't make a calcium deficiency go away... you've got to correct what caused it in the first place .... for this little one, I believe it's caused by a nitrogen toxicity as your pH (which can be another cause) seems to be spot on. Once you get a lockout, you can give the plant the whole bottle of calmag and the plant won't be able to get it - because it's "locked out" ... So you've got to flush this plant.
For you, growing in 5 gallon pots, that means running 15 gallons of pH'd water through her to get rid of the built up nutes and salts... into the final gallon, put half strength nutes... BUT I think you're overdoing the Flora Micro which has an NPK of 5-0-1 - NOT the NPK you want or need when in flower as it's VERY heavy on nitrogen.... so stop giving this nute at all to her (and I would suggest you at least cut down on it with your other plants in the grow). Plants in flower need a little bit of nitrogen but not much - and your other nutes are giving some to her... but the Micro is overloading her.
After you flush, let her then dry out before resuming your water/feed/water/feed routine (minus the Micro!) .. things should get better. And btw, only give calmag once a week... not every time you feed! That can lead to still other problems! :-D
The leaves that are damaged now will not be repaired so don't expect that... and you may see some residual signs of the deficiency show up in other leaves but it shouldn't be as bad as it is in these leaves.. and new growth should see no damage ...
Good luck!
I am having trouble identifying if this is a lockout or lack of nutrients. I was told to stop flora micro. I have been giving 50% strength of what the bottle suggests.
My other plant same tent just had a lockout and I flushed.
Rough week, had to flush the bigger plant to fix lockout. Did 15 gallon flush with ph balanced water, the last bucket of 5 gallon had 50% strength nutrient, minus the flora Micro which I will stop using for the rest of the grow.
I installed my scrog net, only about 30% of the net is filled. The second smaller plant doesn't even reach.
I sent the height to 18 Inches from the base of the plant.
I lose 10 inch from pot
I also lose 18 Inch from light and carbon air filter
6ft tent max I lose 2.5 ft.
Only 3.5 ft to grow.
Going to increase nutrients to 75% strength and only give cal-mag 1x a week as the support team told me to do so.
Heavy trimming and defoilation. I will spread the plant and any branches wanting to pass my screen will get topped until the tent is filled.
I took 5 clones from each plant, some of the thin long branches that were not getting any light.
I am starring my first dwc grow at the same time in my 2x3 tent with my gf. Unsure if I will have a small soil run the same time.
The plant is starting to smell strong, honestly like stinky armpit mixed with cat piss. I am not turning on carbon air filter yet, I like keeping it humid during the veg cycle and I keep RH around 40-60% when I turn on carbon filter.
Let the girls recover, did some heavy defoilatation and put my scrog netting in.
I did cut 4 clones from each plant, I did notice some differences in their growth but only during flower or at harvest will I really be able to see if the two seeds have similar traits.
Fed nutrients at 70% strength and I stopped giving flora micro.
Tent is filling in nicely , going to wait another week or two before flipping to flower, I still see empty space in in the two corners so I want to fill it our first.
I just bought some liquid koolbloom and floracious specifically to add during flower phase.
Thinking of switching to hydro from soil, my and my girl are running our first dwc and it's taking off so fast vs soil.
My question was around what power % I should have my lights at? My light is 300watts so I am assuming 50% = 150watts?
Is this enough to continue vegging my plant? I have noticed the growth isn't as vigorous.
As long as the plants aren't stretching and becoming floppy, they are getting enough light.
To answer your question, i would start increasing the intensity of the light a week or two before you flip the plant into flower. Then, gradually pump the intensity up to 100% during flower. It will harden your plant to increased light intensity and could help prevent light stress and light bleaching.
I hope this helps.
Still letting her fill out
I noticed her leaves were yellowing up, I stopped giving flora micro from the lockout a few weeks back, so I gave it a little with some water and they perked back up.
Scrog isn't 100% filled in. Starting to lose patience but will still wait it out. I am still training brushes to go under netting as I want to keep stretching and fill the net out.
Plant in the back is 2 weeks younger but looks way smaller than just 2 weeks of growth. I am not able to reach as well so unable to train as well and add extra stress. The first plant did have some deficiencies throughout the veg cycle, but dang it still grew way more fast and robust than the other seed.
Starter to add floralicous plus, I didn't know it was just humates lol, I already had a bag of Dutch science humates which is really good during veg.
Noticed the leaves were turning yellow, thought it to be a lack of nutrients - it was a lockout.
I never watered until there was runoff - I finally did and tested out the run off ph - 3800. Yes 3800!!!!
Glad to had caught it.
Still training , had a few days delay to fix the lockout and because it stopped growing.
Noticeable growth again. Lots of the underbrush was made available and popped up because of the defoiliation of the main canopy
Getting tempted to flip to flower, but the bottom right corner is still empty and I won't be able to justify it in flower when that space had no buds- unacceptable says future me.
Scrog netting is becoming a challenge, I am trying to fill bottom right corner but the plant continues to grow in all directions.
The areas that are filled keep growing, I have stopped topping and keep tucking.
I have put 4 clones in the corner because I do not want to wait anymore as my 2x4 will get too big during the flower cycle of this tent.
Turned off light and will keep off for 48 hours, officially starting the flip into flower cycle. Plants look good, no issues so this is the perfect time for me.
Wish me luck, I hear this strain loves to really stretch.
Fed nutes at 50%, they just got off a lockout so taking it easy, they'll tell me when to up the feed.
Hi,
I have just turned off my lights for 48 hours of darkness to initiate the flower cycle. When should I begin giving the plants the flower nutrients? Thanks in advance
First two weeks, keep going with grow nutrients......cannabis still needs adequate nitrogen in early flower.
Second two weeks, half grow and half bloom.
After this, just bloom nutrients until harvest maturity.
I have been doing this for 30+ years and swear by its effectiveness.
I just changed the light cycle to 12/12 - My leaves are fading to yellow, at first just new growth but I see it on the older fan leaves as well. I did give them a flush and only ph balanced water for a week and a half. Also, just gave nutrients(50% strength ) 5 days ago
After looking through your diary.
You are a bit low on feed. (Ppm wise)
Up it to 600 and push to 7 if needed.
But the way you doing now is fine. I don't really see her wanting much. So no full strength feeds. Once given, can't be taken back. But if needs a little you can give.
Always best for it to be wanting a little than giving it a lot. Much easier to fix the issue. U going about it great though. Just up the grow + B a little to bring up your ppm to around 700 (including ambient tap)
Good luck
Flipped last week, starting to tretch a little. Worried about the stretch
Been watering until runoff each time and seeing better results. The girls sometimes end up really hungry because I an really being careful with the nutrients, but a day or two after feed they darken right right.
Slowly turning up the lights up 1-2% a day to harden them off.
Giving transition formula for the nutes - supposed to be 2ml per gallon for all three base nutes - I add a little less bloom until about 2nd week when I start to really enhance the P and K.
-Flowers are starting to stretch
-Lots of leaf growth, noticed white mold from poor circulation
- did some defoilation to fight the random spot of white mold
-just introduced liquid koolbloom - PK booster. First time using very excited to see if I notice any difference
-able to finally get a handle on the nutrients
- watering to run off - everytime and it has substantially changed the quality of my grow. Zero nutrient issued and run off is coming off at decent PPM
- thinking of adding second scrog
How frequent should I give me plants nutrients?
I usually give 50% strength 1x each week on Wednesday. I also water with just plan ph balanced water every 2-3 days.
I do this to avoid burn or lockout.
Also bei grüße von Pflanzen kannst du mir dem ppm weiter rauf gehen. Denke 750-800 ppm sollten sie ohne bedenken schaffen. Und solange sie nicht sich ein kringeln und zu dunkel werden würde ich mir keine sorgen machen.
Meine Pflanzen sind jetzt seit 13 Tagen in der Blüte und ich gieße im Moment mit 1200 ppm und werde bis 1600+ gehen (vorausgesetzt die Pflanzen halten es aus)
Einfach die Pflanzen immer im Auge haben und ständig Beobachten um auf Veränderungen reagieren zu können
- still noticing a few white spots with mildew
- did another defoilitation to counter
- continuing to stretch
-kept lights at 80% power for a few days to harden the girls
-will continue to raise 1-2% daily again (dimmer switch)
- when defoilating, some stems would break. I thought it was me snipping, but no they were broken from my arm touching
-placed fan from under the scrog on top, trying to strengthen growth on top of scrog
-node spacing is quite far, also the tops are not too beefy. I know it is early flower ,but usually around 3rd week I see more growth.
Noticed past few days some white powder on my plants.
I have two fans and carbon filter going 24-7.
The carbon filter is at 60%
How can I fix? Worried it's week 3 of flower.
You've got powdery mildew - a direct result of the humidity being FAR too high... There are any number of remedies that you can find if you do a search for them but the DIY with milk or the like aren't terribly effective. This has the potential to kill your grow within a matter of days so get on it... and get that humidity into the 40s, tops....
Good luck....
On cruise control, just giving 2gallons of ph balanced water every 2-3 days.
For the first time I am experiencing white mold/powder. Also first time using scrog and filling out the tent like this. To battle - put an additional fan on the top of the canopy and increased carbon filter to 100% vs 60%.
During day leaving bottom flap open for good air exchange - close it when lights are going off.
Plants are starting to produce lots of trichomes, I am happy usually I see trichome development a little later.
Girls are still stretching - I am noticing the buds are starting to fatten up as well.
The smell is amazing , super strong hints of citrus. As I am addicted to Oranges and obsessed with pine sol, this is ok with me :). I love the citrus smells- it is one of the main reasons I got these seeds.
I am really noticing a difference in the quality of plant I am getting when growing good seeds vs random clones or seeds. Very resilient and able to recover from anything I've done to her.
Wednesday - nutrients - water to run off
Saturday - ph balanced water to run off
Monday - ph balanced water to run off
Wednesday - nutrients
One plant is lighter, showing signs of mites, smaller buds, and has brown tips! Please help! The other plant is so healthy vs this one.
Thinking of cutting her down to save the other.. I do not want to but will if I have to
Hey Growmie,
If you have mites you'll start seeing bronze- or yellow-colored spots on the plant leaves. You may find that the underside of your plant leaves is discolored or that the leaves have small holes. Another early sign of spider mites is finding webbing on the leaves and stems of your plants. If the plant does have spider mites you're going to want to get it away from any other plant so they don't get them, if you caught it early the plant should be able to be saved. But I'm not going to lie it looks more like a deficiency than a spider mite infestation.
Hectic week, started to find little mites . Ordered some predator mites to kill them I don't want to use spray during flower
Realized I was overwatering, was traumatized from last nute burn
First plant is looking like it's starting to turn light green- not happy about it. The buds are also very tiny on the first plant which is strange , vegged it way longer. Also waiting for the buds to hopefully connect and fatten up.
Upped the nutrients to 840 ppm - hoping this will help fatten the buds up
It says week 5 flower , but I do not consider the 1st week as flower as it is still in transition. I'
Ordered 2nd vent fan- Temps and RH are very steady with minimal deviation
Last soil grow for me, I have a clone in a hydro bucket dwc 2x4 tent and it grows substantially faster vs soil with no issues.
Wtf is happening to my plant? I have done the exact same things to both and one is completely fine.
You can see image 1, one plant is fine the other yellow
She is hungry, My guess is you have a nuturent(salt) buildup causing a lockout. Could also be your PH is out of range but soil is very forgiving as long as your putting the correct PH into the soil.
Just looking at your pictures Im guessing the cause of the buildup is from 2 things.
1. Not watering/feeding with runoff( 1/3 should runoff). So if you water 3L of water you should have 1L drip out the bottom.
2. Letting the plant sit in runoff. You should elevate your potters a bit so they don't sit in the runoff because this will cause a salt buildup.
To test for to much food or lockout.
Your next watering or feed. collect the LAST bit of runoff and compare it's PPM to what your feeding. If its dramatically different then you need to adjust your feed accordingly.
If the PPM's are high( PPM + half the amount your feeding.example 800ppm comes out at 1200( 800+400) then you want to do a flush( no more feeding just water until runoff gets back into range)
If the PPM's are even higher then that you might want to consider a HARD flush. Add PH water to saturate it and wait 30 min to let the salts break down a bit. Then continue to add water until your PPM's get back into range.
****Warning Hard flush is risky in soil. You can wash away all the good microbes in your soil and cause more harm then good. Soft flushes take longer but are a lot safer. Your using synthetic nutrients so its not as risky as an organic grow.
Lastly if the PPM's are lower then you have a hungry girl and should increase your feed with that one.
Also check your runoff PH and adjust your water accordingly. But never adjust out of range (6.0-7.0). Always keep the water going in within range and
I messednup the grow and stopped taking pics. Ended up weighing 8 ounces dry of top buds. Had some leftover trim. All of it went for hash.
I ended up making hash with it, I think close to two ounces.
Even though I messed up, this was the best weed I've ever grown. So gassy and fruity. Very potent with no burn. Great for daytime and night. I searched for a strain that was light on getting tired or burned out. I like to smoke during the day and if I hit indica I am doing nothing.
I am growing this strain again in coco with some Plant of the Grapes by Ethos.
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