Kush Mint Test

Hi, welcome to my Kush Mint X Gelato#41 Sponsored diary from Green House Seeds. With this diary, I'll be going over some things, that I find will give you best results with fems. If you want a good steady female, I highly suggest you top your lady, as she will give you much more, as you control the flip, therefore, you control the growth of your colas. So, you can grow 8-10 big colas, instead of 1, and with some smaller ones on the sides, like autos. SUMMARY: Germ in GOW, temp at 23c, ppm 110 soft tap, tap roots appeared after 15hrs. Will leave until 24hrs. Then into PT for 24-48hrs (depending how it goes). Then into 1.7L pot for 7-10days with 2.5g of biogrow for each L of substrate. 1g/1l of bioenhancer. Wk 1 was strong good decent growth, a few light mutations on the tips of leafs, look like nutrient burn, but it's not, will keep a closer eye on all those that have mutations as they might hermie.... for those who want a short read. Preplanning: This is something I wasn't nor am I big on, not only with growing but in life, I'm more, when it happens it happens and I'll deal with it. But there is certain things you just need for growing good weed. Regardless of your setup you'll find you'll need these things at some stage. Items needed. Nutrients will be your biggest and most important way to go unless you are going full soil grow (even then, you will need cal/mag unless you have water above 200ppm, and eventually you will need to top up your soil, so worm castings are a good way to go. Even so, it's still a good item to have(cal/mag, Epsom salt is good for mag sulphate=mag/sulfur). So it's important that you pick the right stuff, so I highly suggest you look around. (Don't get drawn into buying nutrients that reads great and has cool pics, I made this mistake and spent 100s getting 14dif nutrients, when in reality all you need is base nutrients, grow, bloom, micro, 1 enzyme, 1 bloom booster and 1 resin enhancer. A GROW, BLOOM, MICRO + ROOT STIM will do in any set up, and just get a cal/mag incase. (Feel free to DM me for information on nutrients that'll suit your style. PH/EC PEN/METER If you are using synthetic nutrients you'll need a PH/EC pen. I find milwaukee PH 55 & EC 60. Either way you go, I suggest you get these as they are tools any grower with any style you'll always get a use out of them. Even with full soil setups, if you find have a certain tox/def it might be down to your PH being off a few points. With the nutrients I'm using, they are powder additives, and you need to apply different grams/L of substrate at different stages, so I have 3 different veg pot sizes. (This I will go into in depth as it happens, don't want to overload you, just giving an idea of what you need). Now if you are using synthetic nutrients, you can start out in a smaller pot and then uppot to her final pot in 2 moves. SOIL PREP WITH DRY POWDER ADDITVIES If you are using any type of all mix that comes in a bag, it most likely needs to be activated, to get good bacteria and all that going, depending if you are using living soils, this will be something suggested by manufacturers. Mixed 2L of light mix soil with 6 grams of biogrow. 1stly I put out half on a bag dressed the top and lightly mixed in, and repeated, lightly filled pot half way, sprayed with bioenhancer, filled the rest in, sprayed the soil, (dampen your soil before you place your seed in, do not pour water on your seed, the roots will reach down into the wet substrate, this is crucial stuff, as the risk of damping off will be lowered by doing this. ) placed a few CM soil out of the bag on top, placed the seed in the middle of the dryish soil and the roots will quickly reach down to your wet substrate, just by doing this alone will decrease die off, drowning and so on. (Especially if you are planting directly into substrate I suggest you do this just as I said, feel free to DM regarding any of this) Next will be put into an 9L pot with 3.5g/1L of substrate. And I'll be adding 40% light mix in with it. Will fill pot 2/3rds or so the base of soil in the top of the pot will sit a few CM underneath the top of the 9L pot. When I flip she'll be put into an 18L and I'll be applying 1 big dose of biobloom powder mixed into the new sub that gets released over 8 weeks, if it needs more, I'll apply some top dress (again, stuff like this will be gone into in depth as we get to these things) this diary is only to help ppl who feel they need a little advice in no way am I an expert, its only my 3rd round, 2nd with fems, I'm going organic as I want a flawless with no nute burn and with few complications. Germination: Really, you can go any way you like, some ppl like to put in straight into the substrate. Not me. I don't like waiting days and wondering if I have a viable seed in there, so by spliting it by way of germ improves the chances a lot of you getting to the seedling stage, so here's my method. #GOW (tap will do) for 12-24hrs 20c min 25c max, (depending how old your seeds are or how they were stored, some might take longer than others to split, but if it hasn't split after 24hrs move onto the next step as you can drown your seed), so just drop the seed in and let it float on the top. Don't push it down under the water, but if it sinks to the bottom no worries, it'll be fine, but it'll need to be moved onto the next step, papertowel. Read below for that step). Store in a dark cupboard or press in a warm place. My Lemon Tree has split just after 9hrs, very fast fresh well stored seeds as soon as it splits move to the next step, in reality you can wait till it grows some, but you risk it sinking to bottom and drowning. These seeds took 15hrs to split. Will move to PT after they grow a small bit, as they just split, I'm keeping a close eye on them. #PaperTowel after your seed has soaked and split in the GOW, (if it hasn't split after 24hrs don't worry about it, keep going and move to next step, Paper Towel) So, you want to keep the temps in the range I said for GOW, the higher range is best for the PT part (23-25c but 20-25 is fine). So, you want to get a plate, place a cloth on top, (as the plate will keep the seed too cold) lay some cling film/clear wrap and spray it, lay 2-4sheets folded on top of each other onto the film and then spray, place your seeds in the middle and then fold the Paper Towel over the seeds and repeat spray and you can put another cloth over the Paper Towel to keep a steady temp on all sides of your seed(s), (making sure NOT to wrap the clear film over the Paper Towel as this will restrict o2 from reaching your seed, and in turn lower your chances of successful germination, or at best it'll slow down your germination process and could make for a weaker pheno, (not proven nor could it be, but it kinda makes sense, as old seeds can come up against issue during growth). Check every 6hrs or so, (don't pull back the PT just feel if it's still damp and if not spray again, after 24 hrs check your progress and if its hit 1/3-1/2 of an inch of tap root then she's ready to go. I'll be putting her in rockwool for the 1st 4-7 days to min the chances of damping off/browning of the stem which can be common in organic soil grows. As I move into planting I'll go into methods and how I did it and much more, this diary will be a complete 101 tutorial so there will be a lot of reading. I'll add a quick summary at the top for other viewers, not only mainline, but nutrients control, water feeds, LST, lower topping, Lollippoing, understanding DLI (this will be something I'll be going into along the way) late stage Co2 for the flowering stage, controlling temps in times of when there's risk of unwanted stretching and just general tips and tid bits on stuff I've picked up from studying and from mentors who helped me out here. ROCKWOOL PREPRATION NEEDED Rock Wools PH is around 9. So you need to adjust a pot of water down to 5 and let sit for 20 mins, rinse with the water you'll want to set it at. 5.5 perf for rock wool to start off. SEEDLING DAY 1 They all popped up pretty quickly. Doing really well so far. I've had to move them into the small tent as they were starting to stretch searching for light, as I had them on the floor and the light wasn't close enough and I don't have a par meter and can't lower the light intensity as its working hard on finishing my other girls. So, for the 1st week, I just want to make sure I get them out of the seedling stage, 0-15 Days. So they went into the small tent under viparspecta set at 45% at 45cm.. Seedling Day 3 Growing slowly. Its my RH, as I have to keep it low as I'm finishing off my other plants, they can struggle for a few days. I don't like putting the dome over it. I have a negative seal environment and personally I think it's given me better faster results than this, but it's early yet, and all seedlings grow similar unless you way out of the environment needed. Seedling Day 4-7 Growth has picked up some. She has picked up a few mutations on her leafs, nothing that will cause any trouble in growth, just have to watch her close. COUPON FOR MARSHYDRO Use code GGS for a small discount, varies depending on the size of your order. Big thanks to my sponsors for this diary. Barneysfarm seeds and marshydro led light. 2 great people who are a pleasure to 2 deal with.