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Week 1. Vegetation
2 years ago
2.54 cm
24 hrs
23 °C
No Smell
68 %
21 °C
21 L
81.28 cm
After germ I put the seed directly into 5.6g airport, full of Fox farms happy frog potting soil. After 3 days, the first pic is what started, second pic was few days later. Used about 4oz of water every day.
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Week 2. Vegetation
2 years ago
7.62 cm
19 hrs
23 °C
60 %
20 °C
21 L
66.04 cm
Had some issues with the leaves dropping this week. I underestimated how much water it wanted this early on, a grower friend of mine gave me a couple pointers of what to check for over/under watering. He also suggested I move the pot off the floor, concrete underneath can be cooling the soil too much.
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Week 3. Vegetation
2 years ago
15.24 cm
19 hrs
24 °C
65 %
19 °C
21 L
45.72 cm
After talking with some local friends that grow and reading through diaries (and a thank you to alchemy), I've been informed I have been very much under watering this baby. As well as some other pointers, I moved the light down another 6" roughly, and have been soaking the pot with 32-40oz of water almost nightly, as it does run through and dry out quicker than I expected. Unfortunately with my house I can only keep the tent 73-76° max most of the time, hopefully lowering the light will keep the plant warm enough
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GracelessGardens
GracelessGardensstarted grow question 2 years ago
Plant has one leaf that is yellow on one side, and shiny/dark and curling up on the other side? From what I've read those are 2 opposing issues (light burn or nitrogen deficiency/or toxicity) the others are pretty much uniform, Could this be from getting water droplets on leaves?
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Leaves. Color - Yellow
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Youthmananswered grow question 2 years ago
It's a nitrogen toxicity, you can noticed the red stems (meaning that N avoid P absorption) :)
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Week 4. Vegetation
2 years ago
25.4 cm
19 hrs
24 °C
Weak
20 °C
21 L
60.96 cm
Plant really took off over the last week. I had flushed the soil and been doing water schedule by weight instead of by visual/topsoil moisture. Leaves are almost double the size from this time last week. Moved the light back down a few inches. Update: started some lite lst, mostly just moving big leaves out of the way for smaller branches
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Week 5. Flowering
2 years ago
30.48 cm
19 hrs
25 °C
Weak
55 %
20 °C
21 L
1 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 1
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.963 mll
Still too early in the week to call it fully in bloom yet, little branches really started poking out after I tied down the 2 biggest fan leaves. I have been watering in small amounts but more often, using the soil weight and topsoil to judge. The smell has started coming in the last 2 days of week 4, skunky right off the bat. Noticed some nice little pistols poking about in bud sites! Update:D4/wk5 Bud sites are really starting to see expand, trying to keep the big fan leaves out of the way when possible. Going to start adding fox farms big bloom into the watering schedule starting D6/wk5.
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Week 6. Flowering
2 years ago
38.1 cm
19 hrs
24 °C
Normal
50 %
19 °C
21 L
2 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 1
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 11.888 mll
Starting watering with big bloom (45ml/g), every other watering. Plant isn't getting much taller, but all the small bud sites are really flourishing, I have been doing leaf tucking (with lite lst) and changing which leaves are tied down every other day, just to see what happens! So far so good! Allowing the inner/lower buds to get light without over stressing the plant Update: Day 41 - a couple leaves were starting to look brown/dying. Did some defoliation removing 6 fan leaves, also did a heavy watering of big bloom, hoping the discoloration was potassium deficiency
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GracelessGardens
GracelessGardensstarted grow question 2 years ago
What's up with these fan leaves? I'm starting to notice some light brown hues in a couple, mostly closer to the bottom of the plant. Anything to worry about?
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Leaves. Color - Dark-brown
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Robertsanswered grow question 2 years ago
She wants less nitrogen, and more potassium. She is consuming the potassium from the leaves like when fading. I would definitely check your substrate pH as well.
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Week 7. Flowering
2 years ago
40.64 cm
19 hrs
23 °C
Strong
45 %
18 °C
21 L
2 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 1
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.963 mll
Started having some leaf issues at the end of week 6, defoliated, gave medium/heavy feeding of big bloom. Going to start flushing with distilled water for a few days and see if any improvement, only fan leaves affected at this time. Day 45: checked ph of soil, showing 7.0, just ordered some fox farms ph down should be here in 48hrs Day 49: bought a reliable pH testing pen and found my distilled water to be 9.5! Mixed up some spring water/nutes/pH down at 5.8/5.9 . Hopefully this does the trick!
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GracelessGardens
GracelessGardensstarted grow question 2 years ago
So I started getting light purple/yellowing last week, after my last grow question, I landed on potassium deficiency. I gave a healthy dose (2 tbsp in a half gallon of spring water) of Fox farms big bloom (0-.05-.07), within the last 48 hrs and the purple looks worse? Any ideas?
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Leaves. Curl down
Leaves. Color - Yellow
Leaves. Color - Dark-purple
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Robertsanswered grow question 2 years ago
It's your substrate ph. Which is causing the deficiency to show the roots can't absorb it. It's wanting the potassium. I will do you.
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Week 8. Flowering
2 years ago
40.64 cm
19 hrs
23 °C
6.4
Strong
45 %
18 °C
21 L
2 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 2
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 7.925 mll
Cultivation Nation pH DOWN - Fox Farm
Cultivation Nation pH DOWN 0.528 mll
After a week of trying different remedies, I was finally pointed in the right direction. My pH for water was above 9.0! Got a new pH tester and mixed up some 5.8 water/bloom nutes, going to be focused on the pH levels and defoliating dying leaves this week. Day 51: made 2 batches of pH'd water. 1.75L of 6.0 spring water, and 3.0L of 6.2 spring water with big bloom (lite concentration). Slowly fed 1.5L every 15mins. Also did some defoliation, removed the twisted/yellow dying looking leaves. Day 55: did one final watering with nutes (1 gallon spring water, pH 6.0 with 30ml big bloom), going to let it dry out and start flushing with pH 6.0-6.5 distilled water for the remainder of time. Just started to see peach/lite tan pistols (maybe 2%-5% at most), no cloudy trichromes yet
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Week 9. Flowering
2 years ago
40.64 cm
19 hrs
22 °C
6.4
Strong
40 %
18 °C
21 L
2 L
40.64 cm
Nutrients 1
Cultivation Nation pH DOWN - Fox Farm
Cultivation Nation pH DOWN 0.396 mll
It's so awesome to watch how fast this baby is growing lol. I think I finally have the pH under control, going to give 1 or 2 more lite feedings then starting to flush end of this week. A very small amount of pistils (2-5% are turning peachy/tan.) The smells is amazing, strong OG/skunk smell, the oils from the buds have a lite orange/vanilla smell. Might do some more defoliation later in the week. Any comments or advice anyone notices in pics or info/feedback is greatly appreciated! Day 59: watered with 6.0 pH spring water no nutes (4.5L). Cleaned the runoff tray and defoliated some weak leaves out of clustered areas. Changed humidity from 45% to 40% . Day 62: a good amount of trichs in the cola are cloudy, a very small amount starting to amber, and still more clear ones popping up daily. I'm commiting to a 2 week flush at this point and planning to harvest at 50-60% amber
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Week 10. Flowering
2 years ago
45.72 cm
18 hrs
22 °C
6.4
Strong
45 %
18 °C
21 L
1 L
40.64 cm
Nutrients 1
Cultivation Nation pH DOWN - Fox Farm
Cultivation Nation pH DOWN 0.396 mll
Getting so close to harvest!! She's just stacking the bud and trichromes daily! I'm watching the colors, waiting for ~60% amber. Smells amazing, like a funky orange cheese, some lite notes of vanilla/cream. Hopefully she's ready to dry this week Update Day 65: part of my original 600w light died, only 2/4 panels are working full power. I borrowed a "1000w" Amazon light from a buddy and set the 2 up for 900-1000ppfd in the cola/upper area, and 600-750 in all the lower areas. Going to run it like this for a few days and if she doesn't respond well I'll have to pull her a little early Day 67: dual lights seem to be really helping to bulk up the buds! Hopefully only a couple days left. Trichromes are ~75% CLOUDY, still very little amber yet (less than 5%). Terps are crazy, very OG/funk smell, once you touch the plant though it's like orange pixie sticks!!
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Week 11. Flowering
2 years ago
45.72 cm
18 hrs
22 °C
6.6
Strong
45 %
18 °C
21 L
1 L
40.64 cm
Nutrients 1
Cultivation Nation pH DOWN - Fox Farm
Cultivation Nation pH DOWN 0.396 mll
Wow, this thing is just crazy. Every time I think it's slowing down it plumps up more and more!! Been watching the trichromes daily, lots of cloudy, very little clear, still very little amber as well. The buds are getting so heavy is weighing the branches down away from the lights! Might have to prop them up till it's done. Day 74! Trichromes are showing 90% cloudy, 10% amber. Very few clear ones showing through. Gonna shut off the light, wait a couple hours and CHOP TIME!
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Week 11. Harvest
2 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
3 Bears OG - Mephisto Genetics
Spent 78 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
9/10
Rated
226.8 g
Bud wet weight per plant
57.55 g
Bud dry weight per plant
1
Plants
4.88
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For my first solo indoor plant (and first auto in general, I was very pleased. Had a couple hiccups along the way which were remedied with fair ease. Thank you to the growers on here who helped me and gave advice! I'll report back when the smoke is dried/cured!
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