The Patients

Started the week with 3 sprouted the 2 others basically never started. Added two circulating fans. Just added 500ml water every 3 days or so. Added 750 mil now.. all 3 patients are doing greAt. Tent is dialed in really good. the leaves curling a little bit on Plant 1. Going to do some research on why. So Doing some reading it said the curling could be caused by overwatering. Which could be true. Patient #1 is looking healthy even with the light curve on the leaves. I read about toping. My thoughts are i have a large enough tent so i am just going to LST in the coming weeks. My tent is a 4x8 and i did not fill the tent. I am regretting now getting the most out of tent this grow. Any thoughts?

Starting off week 2 strong. The Patients are responding well. Started the week off 750ml water per Patient. Day 19- Patient. 1 and 2 look strong and 3 is a week behind. It has rust spots on 2 leaves looks like from standing water. The plants look healthy adjusted the temp to 79 and raised the humidity to 66% The leaves felt a lil dry. Gave each plant 1 litre of water now. With steady increases. Still following Mr Canucks Water schedule. I am assuming I have to amend the soil 30 days from veg start. Day 20 is actually day 14. Ok so I will make my adjustments based on Veg and Flower that makes things way easier then the total time. So I noticed leaf septoria on Patient 3 so I found a remedy of copper fungicide. So I made a mixture of neem oil and Copper. 1 tbsp per gallon. So we will see how it turns out. The increase in humidity has helped. Having a 4*8 tent and not filling it up with plants I have noticed is a waste. After this grow I will be filling it up. Veg +9: The patients are going strong have them 1000ml of water and athe 5 gallon bucket went empty so I am filling it now to put it back in the aerator. The patient number 3 will be sprayed at lights out for the spotting again. Other than that a good end to week 2. Veg +11: We will be tracking the Patients 1 and 2. Since they are next to each other in same day of growth. I adjusted the Humidity to 55. I ordered an inline box filter. The tent is in the garage and do not want any outside debris in the tent which I thought could be happening. I also vacuumed the tent as well. Veg +12. Added 1000ml of water today. Thinking of starting to LST to open up the plant a lil. There are quiet a few branches under there. So while writing this I have decided to LST the main branch.

Ok, so a few things I did wrong in week 3. 1. I was on week 3 when I thought was on week 2. Vegation for autos starts once sprouting happens. 2. Don’t spray the plants. 3. The exhaust filter was not on very much and the humidity climbed high one day. 4. I went looking for help and found it. 5. My PAR was way to high. So it was a week of lessons learned. Week 4 Starts now. So day 21 in the books.

Day 23 of Veg: after watching the video I fully soaked my fabric pot for the first time too little to no run off. Since I am running organic I want to make sure not to lose those precious nutes. I had to place a space heater because the cold kinda snuck up on myself. With adjustment to the lights output the tent was at a cooler temp. So I had to substitute with a oscillation heater. So right now 59% humidity and 78 degree temp is set in the tent with 300ppfd. 2 oscillating fans and a 6 in exhaust fan. The LST on the 2 plants recovered great so far and adjusting the temp and light has shown a more deeper green the base of the main trunk is pretty solid. Thicker than my first grow for sure. I feel I was able to get the LST on the main trunk almost to a 90 to get that even canopy. Day-24 New A/C infinity controller and fan installed, removed some components in the tent to clean it up. Wiped down the floor. The sock had so much dust in the filter from not having an air filter on the inlet. It’s crazy how much dust can be in a tent. The controller is set and seems so seem less. Tested ppfd again sitting right 310. Day 25 New A/C infinity setup is working like a champ. So impressed. No watering today the medium is still moist to the touch. The LST has really stretched the bud sites out. My only other grow being Girl Scout cookies and Northern Lights the plants were a lot taller or maybe I just LST them later in their grow cycle. Also could’ve been the strain. Feeling good about this grow. Hopefully the timed amendments get me to the end. I am 90% positive I am suppose to feed and top dress 30 days into flower. Day 26LST again today. I feel like this strain is short and bush and I am LSTing them too much. The plants are green and I hooked them up with 6.4ph water.

Day 1. I went to top thinking I had more time and come to find out some pistls were saying hi. So I tucked what I could I lowered the light and I am starting 600ppfd. Day 4. I was gone a few days. The AC infinity controller kept everything optimal. The plants look strong going into flower we should see stretching here soon. Day 5: 2 litre of water. Defoliation: and plant looks to be on auto pilot. Day 6 another day of defoliation and adjusted light to 525 ppfd, looking to do another watering these patients are drinking it up. Day 7: Flower. 2000 ml. For each plant. These plants are drinking a lot right now. Ph water 6.49, 500ppfd, I didn’t think defoliation was required all the bud sites are still exposed.

Day 8 flower. A lil high humidity need to prolly look at a dehumidifier. Other than that the plants are lushes. Day 9 flower. Ordered a bigger dehumidifier for the tent. Defoliated some bud sites and the lower canopy. Added another 2000ml per plant. Still at 500ppfd, 6.51 ph water added. Day 11 flower. I was stuck at work yesterday so having the ac infinity maintain the environment is key. The dehumidifier should be here tomorrow. I have the exhaust set and still around 59. Still at 500ppfd. Plan on watering 2 litre tomorrow the plants are drinking so much still. Still no purple coming through on these. Day 12 Flower: They were pretty thirsty today. 2000ml today. 6.51ph. Defoliated today keeping the bud sites clear. One of the patients had drooping leaves. 2 more days I am going to increase to 600ppfd. Day 15 flower: another 200ml of water and an increase to 650 ppfd. They were drooping there leaves needing water and I will see how they are responding.

Day 21 flower: they were thirsty. Work had me away a few days. So defoliation and 1750ml of H2O. Ppfd set to 725. Day 22 Flower. These flowers took almost 1 gallon of H2O. That’s with no run off. Ppfd is set to 750. 6.49ph water. The soil was dry after 2 days. So I am going to have to watch the water. 1 more week and then we apply the bloom. Day 23flower also added my heater and they are bouncing back. I amended the soil. My ph meter died so I over night ordered a new one.. Day 25 flower. Ok def moisture and temp. Side note I was not home for due to some medical stuff. So today ph set 6.5, more water.3500ml with no run off. And the plants looks way better. Also temps were drifting close to under 60. So temps at 77 and humidity 55. I also think when I started I never really saturated the pots the most water I ever gave was 1/2 gallon twice. So I think from the start I was battling a 1/2 dry pot.

Day 29 Flower. The plant colors look real good. The heater has caused the plants to respond well. And the hydration of water is also a big factor. With the Gaia Green added a few days ago and the light now pushing 820ppfd from center we are in full bloom on the 1st plant and the other 2 are right behind by a week only. Day 33 on Plant 1 and the others appear 5-7 days behind each other. With plant 3 about 11-14 days behind Plant 1. So I am watering more this 2nd grow being aware when the plant is pulling the most water. Today it was about 1600ml. The patient 1 flower is bringing in a organge color. It’s a bummer I haven’t seen much of any purpling. Day 34 Flower, ph 6.5, 1000ml, the sugar leaves might be turning purple outside in. The other plant has a few yellowing leaves towards the lower section of the plant. Plant 3 is following right behind.

Day 36 flower. The tent is on auto, just need another watering in the morning. Patient 2 is developing yellowing leaves in the lower canopy. Patient 3 is right behind them. Day 37. Good smell the tent the buds have a clear to cloudy Trichome. Day 41 flower. And still not ready. So I added 2000ml of bloom and some Gaia to help get through the last few weeks. I trimmed the plants up. Overall just looking at organic the Gaia is great to get to flower but I feel maybe I fed the others a lil to early bloom when they weren’t ready. Another lesson of following the plants not a chart.

Day 43 flower took some pictures with the microscope I need a table and stand to get better pictures lol.. they each took about 1.5 gallons of water had to water them a lil by little buy they are def good now. I know I am getting closer to finish.. After Watching the Video on dunking with water and weight i really think i have underwatered both my 1st and 2nd Grow. Lets hope the 3rd grow results much better. Day 46 Flower and some beautiful colors have came through to lend the purple I am going to push them to see how purple they get. But making sure I keep the trichomes at a good level. Added about a gallon to each def had to water slower to absorb more. I am thinking #1 can be chopped soon.

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