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All 4 are Amnesia Haze autos from Barney's Farm. Shoutout to my friends at the North Atlantic Seed Co. The absolute most efficient group of ladies (and gents) to run a distribution network like this. I ordered my seeds on Wednesday morning. Paid my invoice within the hour, probably by 10:00 AM ET. I had my seeds in the soil on Saturday, 2 of them have sprouted. 6 days from my order I have 2 that are now green. So, when someone asks, where is a reputable seed distributor in the United States, I only offer one recommendation: NASC. That's my seed plug.
Back to business...
I'm running 4 - 7 Gallon Air Pots in Fox Farm Ocean Forest. I have 2 Mars Hydro TS1000 lights (with the PAR dimmed down to 300 PPFD for germination) in my 3X3 VivoSun. Clear solo cup humidity domes.
Ventilation:
If you notice the tent picture, I have a 6" inline fan in the top to exhaust and another just like it on the bottom as my input, allowing me to change the air continuously to the outside. On my first grow, I bought a carbon filter that must have weighed 20 pounds and will take a larger inline fan that what I'm running, so that investment will have to wait.
I have a small orange fan that I'll move as the plant grows. I'll add a second fan later. Definitely needed two fans on the last run.
I have a Blink camera that allows me to monitor the action from anywhere, but no subscription plan, so I can just view and take screen shots. No archive.
That's about it, this is my second run. Second run with experience, hopefully a little better harvest and product.
Planted 6 seeds directly in soil and 5 germinated within the germination week. One pot has 2, so I'll figure that out later. I left the domes on all for today. I'll start removing them tonight. Keeping them lightly watered with spray mist twice daily. I bumped the ppfd up to 500, I'll monitor for any light burn. I turned up the lights because one seedling was very leggy early, and I didn't want to deprive, so I bumped early. Will monitor for a few days.
8/17 - Water and pix. All looking good. Will decide who to cut this weekend. Direct sowed 6 seeds,
8/22 - Added nutrients for the first time. Didn't go full strength as schedule showed, but close. Added second round of pictures for the week, showing two days growth. Checked light ppfd at 450. The AirPots are going to take some getting used to or breaking in the soil, adding roots. At this time, I'm thinking about adding some top dressing to the pots to form more of a ring to maintain the water longer. If I pour too quick, the runoff is too much, and it should be soaking more. The runoff is an issue for cleanup, but I'll slowly the soil more uniformly moistened this week, allowing easier watering and retention. The water runoff I mentioned is not coming from the top two rows, because those are solid holes. Which is a bummer, because I planned on LST'ing right from those holes. Now, I'll have to figure out a Plan B for my tie down.
8/24 - Water and pix
8/26 - Water and pix
8/29 - Nutes, pix, and topped the 2 larger plants at 5/6. Added cool air to the tent, so I now have cool air and continuous return/fresh air. Very pleased with the rapid growth. Not sure if it's the strain, nutes, or what. But, these big fat ass leaves (for a sativa??) are so low to the ground, it makes watering messy. Also, these damn air pots are a pain in the butt, because it's a continuous run-off when you water or feed. I have to take a syringe and suck the run-off up and carry it outside. I'm really hoping the increased root structure will slow the penetration down.
8/31 - Started LST today on the 2 bigger plants.
9/1 - Noticed magnesium deficiency in some of the leaves. Added cal-mag to the PH'd water. I didn't PH the water last time I fed nutes. Upgraded to a MarsHydro 5X5 Tent and added 2 more MarsHydro TS1000 lights, for a total of 4. Lots of room for these girls to grow in those 7 gallon AirPots.
9/2 - LST Started and topped remaining 2 plants. Nutes with PH'd water. Adjusted all lights to 24" and PAR to 485. Still have leaf damage on a couple plants, smaller one, same one.
9/6 nutes and pix.
9/8 PH'd Water with unsulphured molasses (first time trying this). LST to other 2 plants and tightened up first 2 plants. All 4 have been topped, trimmed of dead leaves, LST applied, and PAR adjusted to 485, approximately 24" from the sun. I also added a video of the hole punch I used for my LST in my pots. I saw a DIY draining dish for my AirPots on CocoForCannabis.com, and wanted to give them credit. Great idea, I'll be adding that next week for the runoff.
9/12 - Defoliation and some LST this morning. Trimmed the bottom leaves and larfy limbs. They'll never see enough light down there. Flattening out looking good, but because of the difference in growth rates, I won't have a complete full canopy. Need to hang light cords from the ceiling tomorrow, before I run out of room. I have 2 in preflower at a smaller plant size and 2 in flower in a larger plant size. Genetics? We'll see. Starting to generate some stink, which is what we're going for. Nutes tomorrow.
9/13 - Ph'd Water and molasses
9/14 - Adjusted+ PAR from 550 - 700. All are in flower as of today. Bigger plant is already stacking. Optimistically added landscape support stakes to each pot (4ea).
9/15 - Defoliated and trimmed some branches. Biggest plant in flower, but I had to trim some larfy limbs, hoping I didn't stress her too bad. Did the same with 2 of the others. The smallest plant in the back right just acts like an Indica in her growth. The stretch is coming along nicely on the bigger girls. Added nutes today, included Tiger Bloom for the first time. Still following the FF Soil feeding schedule, but only feeding about 75% of strength and only once per week. Runoff is still an issue with the AirPots, but with the increased temps and low humidity, the waters drying up quickly, but building growth. I was able to move the largest plant out today to get in to the back, so tomorrow I'll attempt to drain the trays and wipe them out. Still need to figure out the self-draining project, but need to get to the hardware store.
9/16 - Day 39 - The STRETCH is ON! More pix and a video. I know, too many pix. I reversed the LST on the largest plant, because she was spreading out with the colas starting to fatten up. I have to pull her in a bit so her stretch will be more up than out. I don't have the room for a 3' wide plant in my tent. The smell (aka StinkyBudz) is noticeable in my office, so I have ordered a more powerful inline fan to power that big heavy carbon filter that I never installed on the last grow.
9/18 - Extreme defoliation
9/19 - Nutes 2211. Noticing the thickness of the base of the smallest plant. It's the thickest bottom. hmm... 3 in pre-flower trying to pull through into full flower over the next couple days. Adjust the light schedule out one hour, still on 20/4, but moved to 2PM to 6PM as the dark time, to coincide with the hottest part of the day. The largest plant with flowers continues to show some obvious pheno differences. 3 are looking like indicas and one sativa. They may all work out in the end. Tallest plant is about 25.5" or 65 cm.
9/21 - Water. Raised a couple lights because of the stretch. Amazing difference in the one plant over the other 3. All 4 plants germinated within 4 days of each other, but one looks about 2 weeks older than the others.
9/24 - Raised the lights again. The stretch is very aggressive with these girls. I thought maybe I over fed with yesterday’s nutes, but apparently these girls were hungry. The visible change overnight is amazing. I swear they stretched 3-5 inches overnight. Now, the biggest plant is going to end up being the smallest at this rate. Not to mention the flowering sites on two plants are significantly more, or appear to be more. I’ll count them once I defoliate again, maybe Monday.
9/26 - Watered. Defoliation and removal of larfy limbs that would not get much light. Plants are stretching and flowers are taking their places. This is the most aggressive I have done, but it worked on the first plant, which is doing great. Added 2 pictures and a video of the after effects of my trimming, almost lollipopping.
9/28 - Nutes today. One plant looks a little under the weather. Her leaves are a little droopy on the top half, new leaves. Only ran 2 days between watering, so that's not it. Ph'd water at 6.5 No sign on the other plants. My guess is she is recovering from the heavy defoliation 2 days ago. I'll continue to monitor after her P.M. nap. Other than that, they all look great. Stretch continues on some. Colas are filling in on older plant. I looked through some recent pictures, and I was able to determine the mature plant is about 11 days advance from the other 3. Not sure if this matters, but I notice the mature plant has a base that grows straight up. At least 2 of the other plants have the base coming out of the soil at an angle. The base growing at an angle is likely my fault from watering so much that the seedling shifted and had to be resettled. This may have happened on more than one occasion and on more than one plant.
9/30 - Watered with 5ml/gal of cal-mag, because of slight deficiencies still showing up. The stretch continues on two of the plants. One hit 32", making it taller than the BIG plant. BIG plant continues to stack and fill in. Started using garden sprayer for watering, and I think it's a game changer for edge watering, just have to be patient. Also, almost zero draining in the trays when using the sprayer, because it forces you to slow down when you water.
10/2 - Nutes - 3-1.5-1-2/gal
10/3 - Ending week 8 on a high note. Took measurements of the girls, and I adjusted all the lights back to 12" and PPFD at 900. I attempted to push some of the larger colas out to get them away from the light. Plant B continues to mature and her colas are starting to fatten up. I have approximately 8 inches of ceiling available, but I believe the stretch is over, FINALLY.
Plant A - 26.5"
Plant B - 29"
Plant C - 34.5"
Plant J - 32"
10/12 - Water (Ph'd to 6.8) and 7.5ml/gal of cal-mag. Looking pretty good after adding worm castings as a top dressing two days ago. The color is coming back to Plant B, and the others are looking great.
10/13 - Took some pictures and adjusted lights to about 850 PPFD at 12". Plant B still showing signs of nute deficiency this late into flower. Sugar leaves looking great, optimistic about bud development. Pistils continue shoot out, so not sure how much longer. That may be a (dis)advantage of the 7 gallon AirPots? Bigger pot, bigger bud, longer time to harvest. Nutes tomorrow. She'll be aight. The other 3 plants still lag about 12 days behind. More details in previous weeks notes regarding the difference in 1 and 3 plants. #2MoreWeeks #MoreCalMag 😐
10/16 - Added Alaska Fish Fertilizer to some Ph'd water and fed Plant B. She continues to need more nutes, what a hungry gal. At this point, I'm going to add water only as a flush and let her run her course. Chop in under two weeks on her.
10/17 - 70 Days from sprout today. No chop in site. Plant B's colas are starting to fatten up, finally. More food and increased intensity on the TS1000, give her what she needs or kill her trying. Ph'd water.
Got me some pale green leaves on my Plant B, the most mature of the 4 Amnesia Haze Autos by Barney’s Farm. She’s been showing signs of improvement, then back to pale. I believe she’s needing more nutes than I’m providing. I add cal-mag to the water, but I wonder if it’s fade?
Yep hungry........give them a dose ot two of half strength grow nutrients instead of your bloom nutrients, then go back to the bloom nutrients.
Cal/mag is not a fertilizer, just a supplement and won't fix the yellowing.
10/19 - Day 72 from sprout. Plant B continues to fatten up, despite the leaves losing color. Added fish emulsion last week, seemed to help. I'm so close to chop, I just used water on her again. Nutes for the other 3. As for the others, they look like they're aging, but haven't fattened as much as Plant B. I believe the colas will increase by 50% over the next 2 weeks. I will start flushing them some time next week.
10/20 - Day 73 Trichome watch begins. Grabbed a couple photos from the cheap loupe I got from Amazon. It's one of those for about $8 that clips onto my iPhone. Great little camera. Anyway, I'm thinking about another week, if she can handle it, then chop. The other 3 are starting to show some aging pistils and continue to fatten up. They need more nutes, but I will check soil Ph before I feed.
10/21 Day 74 - Chop Day for Plant B. I chopped because of the amber coming in. There was so much more growing to do. The nutes were a challenge for this girl, and her sisters. I'll update harvest log and weight in about a week when she's dry.
10/24 - Day 77, ending week 11 from sprout. 3 girls remain. They appear to be about 2 weeks or more out, based on size and trichome color. Watered with calmag today, the heavy nute feed from Saturday was a hit, the girls are showing leaf color improvement.
11/9 - deleted harvest update, because it locked me out of updating at different times. I will create a harvest note once everything is chopped and dried.
10/31 - These 3 are still showing growth in the colas. The trichomes are still steady, nothing to get excited about. I'm really hoping they continue another couple weeks, because the buds are getting so dense and fat. I'm optimistic, but I think one of these fat girls is on track for about 7-8 ozs. Had to add some nitrogen today, I should have last week, but I thought they were fading, but they're giving that one last push. So, probably done with the nutes on these girls. I'll try to ride out some water with a flush later in the week.
11/2 - Day 86 - Colas filling out. Watching for foxtailing... at the moment it's fattening, but suspiciously close, but all 3 of them are doing this. Water only. I really need to clean up the leaves, but one is getting pretty fragile to move. The branches are starting to lean from the weight.
11/4 - Day 88 - Nutes today. Likely harvest 2 by the end of Monday. Watching for more cloudy and amber.
11/6 - Day 90 - Chopped 2 today. Hanging. One remains in the tent. Looking good.
11/9 - deleted harvest update, because it locked me out of updating at different times. I will create a harvest note once everything is chopped and dried.
11/9 - Day 93 - Nutes. Nugs are solid, dense as a wadded up wash cloth. Looks like she still has more work to do, but monitoring the trichomes. She's got a LOT of dense weight, maybe more than the others. Noticed some new green in the leaves, probably from the nitrogen I fed last week. No more nutes for this girl. Water and watching. Hoping to hang her in the next week or so.
11/11 - Day 95 - Water and pix. Starting to lean under the weight. Showing some amber.
11/12 - Day 96 Chop Plant A. She was significantly heavier than any of the others. The dry weight on this one will lap the others.
I will update the harvest log once everything has dried and jarred. Keep you posted with weigh ins here.
As always, I wish I would have wet trimmed all of it, but I only did a few branches of one plant. Let me just say, it was easier trimming when harvesting at 3 different times. Here are the trim and dry weights, noting the last plant had the best flower and potency.
Plant B 73 days. 5.8 oz
Plant J 90 days. 5.9 oz
Plant C 90 days. 5.5 oz
Plant A 96 days. 7.7 oz
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