2de keer Strawberry

meneerGreen Week 1 (6-5 to 12-5) Watering : Temperature: 26.8 to 22 (lights on, lights off) RH 53 to 48% (highest, lowest). EC : 0.8 pH : 5.6 Just one more week and then the 4 biggest Strawberries will go into the tent, and that one lady that’s left will stay in the smaller growing container for another 1 to 3 weeks until the Space-bucket becomes available.

meneerGreen Week 2 (13-5 to 19-5) Watering: 0.5 liters Temperature: 28 to 22 (lights on, lights off) RH 00 to 00% (highest, lowest). EC: 1.2 pH: 5.6 17-5, The last of the 5 Strawberries is going into the bucket, I moved her today from the big growing container to the small one to stay for another 1 to 2 weeks, during that time I need to figure out a little hydro system for the bucket and that’s going to be a bit of a task. She’s now in a slightly higher EC than at the beginning (0.8) now 1.2, I’ve already had to top up some water and I also cleaned the air stone since it suddenly stopped bubbling while the pump was still working, but luckily everything is working again.

meneerGreen Week 3 (20-5 to 26-5) Watering: 1 liter Temperature: 25.7 at 20 (lights on, lights off) RH 63 to 52% (highest, lowest). EC: 1.2 pH: 5.8 to 6.0 I haven't measured the pH again, but it should be around the indicated values. I did replace the air stone since it wasn't working anymore, and I ordered a new one, which is smaller, but that doesn't matter much; the important thing is to get some air into the water. Not much to report about this lady, she was the smallest of the 5, and if you see her sisters now, you'll be shocked by the difference. I'll post a little photo so you can see. I'm not too worried about her being smaller since this one doesn't have to replace Mohammed. By the way, this will also be a little experiment because I've decided not to put her in a hydro bucket but want to transfer her to soil. It's a bit of a risk, but then I'll know if that works, which gives me options if I ever have a lady left over when I'm doing hydro pre-growing. Also topped already.

meneerGreen Week 4 (27-5 to 2-6) Watering: 3.5 liters. Temperature: 24 to 20 (lights on, lights off) RH 74 to 58% (highest, lowest). EC: 0.4 pH: 6.1 1-6, today moved to the bucket and just using the light mix from Plagron, it's a bit of an experiment since I had pre-grown her for DWC but ran out of time to make a suitable bucket and filling up water and letting the bucket drain was also a bit of a hassle, so I decided to just keep growing in soil in the bucket. I first cleaned and disinfected the bucket in the morning, I have the lamp hanging at about 32 cm and running at full power (48 watts), the lux meter shows a value of 28000, which seems fine to me at the start, I'll measure the rest of the values tomorrow. 2-6, temp. 24.1, RH 56%, I added 1 liter of water, EC 0.4, pH 6.1, the lady was hanging a bit limp, upon checking the soil was quite dry so I added 2 extra liters, I'll check again tonight and give more water if needed. In the evening, luckily she perked up a bit and extra water wasn't necessary.

meneerGreen Week 5 (3-6 to 9-6) Watering: 0.5 liters. Temperature: 24.5 during lights on, 20 during lights off, RH 63 to 53% (highest, lowest). EC: 0.4 pH: 6.0 5-6, this was the only day she got water, also trimmed some leaves this day (the big leaves from when she was just planted) that were looking ugly and since they were under the rack anyway, they would have been trimmed off, so might as well do it now. More leaves will be removed under the rack, but that will come later in the grow.

meneerGreen Week 6 (10-6 to 16-6) Watering: 2.5 liters. Temperature: 25.3 during lights on, 21 (lights off) RH 63 to 54% (highest, lowest). EC: 0.4 pH: 6.0 Not much to report about this lady yet, she has bounced back well after the somewhat unusual start due to the pre-growth in hydro, but it seems to be going great, so I'd say the experiment is a success. By the way, it's quite a sight to see a net pot with hydro pellets in the soil. I've also already secured the first little shoots to the rack and removed some leaves under the rack, now I need to keep a close eye on how fast she's growing so I don't switch to the 12/12 light schedule too late.

meneerGreen Week 7 (17-6 to 23-6) 1st week 12/12. Watering: 4.7 liters. Temperature: 26.5 to 22 (lights on, lights off) RH 66 to 53% (highest, lowest). EC: 0.4 pH: 6.0 This week I regularly removed leaves and secured some shoots, she's growing nicely so that's going well. I decided to switch the timer on Saturday (18-6) because she was growing quite fast and we don't want to run into any issues. I also spotted the first flowering hairs already, which is pretty quick to mention, but you won't hear me complain.

meneerGreen Week 8 (June 24 - June 30) 2nd week 12/12. Watering: 5 liters. Temperature: 27.2 during lights on, 22 (lights off) RH 70 to 61% (highest, lowest). EC: 0.4 pH: 6.0 Not much to report again, so I'll keep it short. I removed some leaves and secured a few shoots. The SCROG isn't quite to my liking, so I'm going to see if I can do something about that. Other than that, everything is going well. She's still not getting any nutrients, so I'll be starting the bloom nutrients soon.

meneerGreen Week 9 (1-7 to 7-7) 1st week of flowering. Watering: 6 liters. Temperature: 26.7 to 22 (lights on, lights off) RH 66 to 56% (highest, lowest). EC: 0.4 and 1.0 (feeding every other day) pH: 5.9 to 6.3 Since I can't fill in grams for the nutrients and because I give nutrients with the watering, I fill in the highest value for the EC. I will include a guideline of the schedule in the photos of what I roughly stick to. This week I started with some nutrients, not much, but I can get them used to it. She gets it every other day, so it's almost nothing, and instead of just nutrients, I give nutrients one time and only PK booster the next. I also tried to improve the scrog a bit, but that didn't quite work out. I wanted to pull some shoots towards the middle because there was a gap, but it keeps pulling a bit to the outside, so now it goes from high on the outside to low in the middle. Next week I'll take another look, but I'm afraid I'll have to work with this. I don't think there's much more I can bend and tie without causing damage, I fear.

meneerGreen Week 10 (July 8 - July 14) 2nd week of flowering. Watering: 6 liters. Temperature: 25.7 to 22 (lights on, lights off) RH 76 to 60% (highest, lowest). EC: 0.5 to 0.6 pH: 6.2 to 6.3 Not much to report again, she's doing well, I feed every other day (0.25 grams) and then one time PF and the other time PK booster. Starting next week, I will give both 0.25 grams every other day. She's also getting 5 drops of Calmag per liter and 3 drops of Silica power per liter, plus pH- to keep the pH at 6.1 to 6.3. From week 4 of flowering, I will increase that to 6.4 to 6.5. I also held the lux meter under the lamp and just above the tops, and it showed 67000 lux. I think that's not bad, but I will raise the lamp a bit next week, mainly for the tallest tops.

meneerGreen Week 11 (July 15 - July 21) 3rd week of flowering. Watering: 7 liters. Temperature: 26.7 to 23 (lights on, lights off) RH 69 to 61% (highest, lowest). EC: 1.1 to 1.2 pH: 6.0 to 6.2 This week I slightly increased the nutrients to, as you could read above, EC 1.1 to 1.2, which means for the addition of nutrients per liter of water 0.30 grams of PF and 0.20 grams of PK. Additionally, I add 5 drops of Calmag per liter of water and 3 drops of SP per liter of water, and to keep the pH around 6.1 to 6.2, I add 4 to 5 drops of pH-. Since I feed every other day, on the days I don’t feed, I add 1 more drop of pH-. I plan to reduce this a bit next week to 2 and 3 drops, but I need to check if that’s enough to bring the pH around 6.3. Furthermore, I raised the light a bit; it’s now hanging about 15 cm from the tops with a lux value of 50,000 (100% power, but it’s been that way from the start, only the distance to the plant varies). Also, I removed some leaves this week; I’ll do that again next week (or weeks).

meneerGreen Week 12 (July 22 to July 28) 4th week of flowering. Watering: 7 liters. Temperature: 27.7 during lights on, 22 during lights off; RH 66 to 53% (highest, lowest). EC: 0.4 and 1.1 pH: 6.2 to 6.3 This lady is doing great, although she already has quite a few brown pistils, but I'm not worried about that; I've had it before and it hasn't caused any complications so far. So not much to report about this lady, I'm keeping the nutrients as they are for now; if she shows deficiencies or starts to lighten in color, I can always adjust.

meneerGreen Week 13 (29-7 to 4-8) 5th week of flowering. Watering: 7.5 liters. Temperature: 27.2 at 22 (lights on, lights off) RH 65 to 58% (highest, lowest). EC: 0.4 and 1.1 (only the last day 1.6) pH: 6.3 Everything is going well with this lady, the buds are hard and thickening up in my opinion, still about three weeks to go so next week I'll take a seed out of the fridge and start pre-growing for the next round, I still don't know what it's going to be, I need to think about that. I'm going to raise the EC a little bit next week, not 1.6 like the last day of this week but around 1.3, there are still a few weeks left (3 max.) so this will definitely be the last week she gets PK, the leaves are nice and green so I don't want to overfeed her. I'll set the pH to 6.4 to 6.5 for the last few weeks, starting from next week (week 6).

meneerGreen Week 14 (5-8 to 11-8) 6th week of flowering. Watering: 7 liters. Temperature: 27.4 to 23 (lights on, lights off) RH 59 to 51% (highest, lowest). EC: 1.3 pH: 6.4 Not much to report, just waiting for the end of the grow, I estimate about another week or 2. I'm currently only giving Powder Feeding as nutrients along with a few drops of Calmag and Silica power, and if needed, a drop of pH-.

meneerGreen Week 15 (12-8 to 18-8) 7th week of flowering. Watering: 7 liters. Temperature: 29.4 to 24 (lights on, lights off) RH 67 to 55% (highest, lowest). EC: 1.3 to 1.4 pH: 6.5 Not much to report again, just waiting for the end now. I did notice that the RH rose quite a bit in my tent and bucket because the drying tent is now running too and needs to lose some moisture. In the bucket, I had a nice average of about 57 to 58% which I was really happy with, but when I started drying, the RH went up to 67%. Luckily, it’s dropping again and is now at 65% in the bucket, so that’s going in the right direction, the same goes for my tent. Even though I’m giving a pretty low EC, I still see some burnt tips here and there, but I’m not going to lower the EC too much since it’s in the last 1 to 2 weeks, so I’ll taper it off. Next week EC 1.1 and the last week (if there is one) EC 0.9.

meneerGreen Week 16 (August 19 - August 25) 8th week of flowering. Watering: 7 liters. Temperature: 28.8 to 24 (lights on, lights off) RH 64 to 55% (highest, lowest). EC: 0.4 one day and 1.1 the next day. pH: 6.5 This lady is doing great, she's already quite milky so I'm waiting until I see some amber and then I'll chop her down and dry her. The RH is dropping nicely compared to last week and is back to the level it was before the drying tent started running. Not much else to report, just waiting to chop this lady down.

meneerGreen Week 17 (26-8 to 1-9) 9th week of flowering. Watering: 4 liters. Temperature: 28.3 during lights on, 23 during lights off; RH 62 to 51% (highest, lowest). EC: 0.4 pH: 6.5 This week I only gave pH-adjusted water and waited until I could harvest her, and on 30-8 it was time, and the result of the wet weight didn't disappoint me, and it promises a lot for the final dry weight. Wet tops: 442 grams. Trim waste: 29 grams. As you can see, I had very little trim waste, and that's what I want for all my plants.