Diesel Auto

I soaked the seed in distilled water for 6 hours and then moved them to a rapid rooter in a seedling tray in a closet under a 80 watt LED light. The tap root started on 5/7/18 and once it started brushing the top of the tray I moved it into Coco Loco potting mix. I just moved it into a dresser converted into a grow space. I used panda film on the walls with a VIPARSPECTRA Dimmable Reflector Series DS300 300W LED Grow Light 12-Band Full Spectrum light on light rope hangers. I'm starting the light at 150 watts until the plants grow a a bit bigger.

I noticed I had some brown spots appear on some leaves. I moved the light to 30 inches away and I have not noticed the spots getting worse. Depending on the day Diesel or Critical is the bigger plant. It is very interesting to see the growth that happens seemingly overnight. I kept the seedlings watered as needed making sure that I wasn't over watering them. I have them on a 18/6 light schedule with the light turning off between noon and 6 pm. I moved them to a 5 gallon cloth pot all on 5/20. For the soil I am using Fox Farms Ocean Forest potting soil on the bottom half, the next quarter I used Whitney Farms organic potting soil and the top quarter is Coco-Loco potting mix. I also lightly blended the soils where they met.

It appears that all three plants bounced back from the transplant fairly well. The diesel plant has small brown spots on a few leaves. Everything I looked at says its a calcium deficiency or the PH is too low. I'm going to start watering with a 6.5 ph water for a few cycles to see if that clears up the issue. The other two plants have no spots on them but I am keeping a close watch. Also I'm water in low amounts basically until the soil around the base dries. I started LST training, which I hope I am doing correctly, and they have already started to respond and there is a noticeable bend back towards the light on all three. I've also added a small fan to create a subtle breeze for the stalks to grow stronger as well. I'm still tinkering with the room setup due to the humidity already being high. I welcome any tips and suggestions

So far Diesel is looking healthy and continually growing. The brown spots that were showing up on the Diesels early leaves are not appearing on the upper most leaves so I'm thinking I may have moved it into a nutrient soil too quickly.

Tried setting up some Blumat sensors and I left some of the caps wide open and it emptied into the pots in about 1.5 hours between when I checked on it. I'm hoping that it didn't flush too many nutrients so it'll be something I have to keep a close eye on. I'm letting the plants dry a bit before attempting to set it up again and when i can check on it in closer increments. Also I think they are in the flowering stage as they are all autos but I could be wrong. Also if there is anything anyone notices that i could be doing better or if there are better angles you want to see let me know.

A bit of a humidity issue but I added a ventilation system which seems to have handled the issue. Took a little bit to dial in the Blumat but once I got it set it has been working like a charm. I've added shut off valves and am rotating the 5 gallon buckets once a week.

Did some defoliation on the diesel and critical early in the week and will be doing some more this week as well. Neither plant took long to recover. Added a water regulator valve to my drip line. This makes it easy to swap out the buckets. I'm swapping out the buckets ever 4-5 days just to keep the water fresh. Still no added nutrients other than what was in the soil.

Did some slight defoliation right before lights were due to turn off. Not sure if there is a better time or not to do it and I haven't read anything about it other than just mainly how to do it.

Diesel is lagging behind the other girls in height and white hair production but it looks hearty and healthy. Did some slight LST to expose the bottom to as much light as I can as the room is getting more crowded than I expected.

This is the week where I freaked out because the main LED light wasn't getting to this plant as much. I went to my local hardware store to get a clamp-able light. Luckily the addition of the 80 watt grow led bulb has helped the Diesel plant start to produce white pistils.

Adding the additional light helped or it was great timing . She started to stretch catching up to and passing Critical. Still just using just ph'd water no additional nutrients.

Added Flower Fuel 1-34-32 N-P-K to the water supply this week I went with 1tsp for the 5 gallons instead of the recommended 1.25tsp per 5 gallons just to make sure i didn't over do it. . The trichromes are about 65-70% cloudy and I haven't noticed any amber ones yet but I'm am improving my skills with my jewelers loop so it could be more user error at the moment with not being able to find them. I'm checking on them a few times a day removing dead leaves.

Moving the light higher up really gave the main cola the bends this week, I just don't have the room to move it closer at the moment but that should be resolved by then end of this week. She is still behind the other two plants in terms of nearing harvest but I'm happy to give her all the time she needs. No issues this week just regular maintenance on removing dead leaves.

I lowered the flower bloom in anticipation of harvesting in the next few days. I would like to flush it completely but with one other plant on the blumat system I couldn't do it this time, but it gives me another thing to consider for my next grow. She is starting to smell lightly citrus-like and she is super frosty which is awesome and it is spreading to the fan leaves. It looks like the flower bloom helped prevent the phosphorus deficeniceny the other two plants showed signs of so I'll start the added nutrients right when flowering starts.

Really easy grow. I can only image how much fatter the buds would be if the lighting was better. Definitely going to grow again and Im glad I started with this one as it was very hands off and what I did do, good and bad, it was able to adapt and grow solidily.