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2 years ago
Nutrients 1
Startbooster  - Aptus
Startbooster 0.25 mll
Hey guys, I'm back and this time with a Inside grow🙌. Thankyou @Fast_Buds for giving me a discount on the seeds😍 As you can see there is room for 140 SOG plants, I gues some seeds will not open and some plants will not be be good enough to stay. I don't mind since I need some room for my humifier 😆. - I added some expanded clay underneath the Coco coir, it's not that necessary because cocos already has alot of air and the watering/feedings can rinse, but I always like to add them anyways. - Mycormix have been added into the substrate to improve the rootsystem. - In the upcomming days I will test out the climate before planting the seeds, It is a rooky mistake to just simply launch your grow without testing everything. Update: - Seeds have been placed on the cotton pads, probily would take like 2-4 days to pop. - The pots have been filled with water + Startbooster. * Still testing the climate inside my room. * Still have to add the humidifier. * Thought I would still had a device to control my Defaltion of air, gues not. Now my deflator sucks harder then a prostitute in Amsterdam LOL. so I have to buy that device again. I have like 2-4 days left to do this, time enought. Update 2: - Seeds popped 125 out of 130 and have been planted, good results! - Climate in the room is 22-23 degrees celsius, Its oke but I pref 26-27 for veg. This is because my deflator, deflates to hard. If I run it slower, the temperature will get warmer. * Still have to add the humidifier. Stay tuned!!
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Week 1. Vegetation
2 years ago
3 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
5.8
No Smell
350 PPM
90 %
20 °C
3 L
0 L
75 cm
Nutrients 2
CANNA RHIZOTONIC - Canna
CANNA RHIZOTONIC 3 mll
Startbooster  - Aptus
Startbooster 0.25 mll
Welcome back everyone, As you can see are almost all seedlings growing. Some where still in the soil. Might happend when giving water(seedlings can turn or get deeper), checked it out and they are alive and well. All pictures are from day 4. The humidifier had been added, so I had to adjust the room. I spotted a corner of the room that gets dryer faster. I adjust the fan for now and see what happens. Corners are always hard to get perfect. Sometimes the light, air, watering doesn't come there properly. Seedlings don't need much nutrients, neighter do autoflowers. with normal soil I would recommend to only give water for 1-2 weeks, since it holds nutrients in it as well. But since I'm using Cocos for this grow, I might have to add some basic nutrients in the upcomming week. For this week I gave/give only water turns and Startbooster/rhyzotonic turns. Update day 5: - Lowerd the lights to avoid stretching, they are now at 75cm distance from lamp to pots. I want them at 40-50 cm, but I don't want to rush it. - Added another layer of cocos to avoid the soil from drying up therefore the roots from dying. This will happen because of lowering the lamps down, the soil will get exposed more to heat. As you can see, the humidifier is doing his thing haha. Pictures and videos where taken without the lights + fans on. because of that, it will look like this. Still fun thought. Arround 7 seeds didn't reach the surface yet, lets hope they make there way up soon. Enjoy!
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Week 2. Vegetation
2 years ago
5 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
5.8
No Smell
700 PPM
85 %
20 °C
3 L
0 L
75 cm
Nutrients 6
CANNA RHIZOTONIC - Canna
CANNA RHIZOTONIC 2 mll
CANNA Coco A - Canna
CANNA Coco A 1 mll
CANNA Coco B - Canna
CANNA Coco B 1 mll
Day 10: The plants and the leafs grew a bit in size, they are still focusing on rooting. Added some veg nutrients today to the feeding schedule, because I saw some green spots, not to confuse with full green leafs, which is normal with new leafs and young plants or in later stage a (n)itrogen deficiency. No this indicates that they need just a little bit nutrients. Normaly this would not be the case with normal soil(it has nutrients in it for the first weeks), but again it can happen with cocos as a soil. The leafs on the pictures are like that because the lights are off + the humidifier makes the leafs wet which results in it getting heavy😝. Will update again this week, Enjoy for now 🙏
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Week 3. Vegetation
2 years ago
10 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
7
No Smell
850 PPM
85 %
20 °C
3 L
0 L
75 cm
Nutrients 6
CANNA RHIZOTONIC - Canna
CANNA RHIZOTONIC 2 mll
CANNA Coco A - Canna
CANNA Coco A 1 mll
CANNA Coco B - Canna
CANNA Coco B 1 mll
Day 21: From day 10 to 21 I couldn't take care of the plants because of private reasons, I asked my friend to take care of the plants and he didn't do a good job! He should had asked me or alerted me when he saw mayor problems, not just saying a little bit of light green or yellow. As you can see, we have alot of yellowing beneeth the plants, different sizes and even got some burnt leafs indicate that he didn't water on time. Did some run-off checks and saw many various values😓 Ph between 6.8-7.5 and EC between 1 to 2. The PH should had been 5.8-6 and EC at this stage 1.8+ since they need alot of nutrients because cocos soil doesn't have any. Because of this shit, they have been underfed, burnt, stress and more. Not ideal for autoflowers. Even the reservoir from humidifier was empty, indicating that it hasn't been filled for days!! Also it didn't got sorted out, there are always spots that get dryer faster or stay more wet. Get more light or less. Therefore it is wise to change spots of your plants all the time, I call it dancing. Your plants will grow more equally. If you look at the bigger plants, this should had been the size of all the plants sadly. They now look like they are in end of week 2 instead of week 3 and the bad plants end of week 1 😕 I did some defolation on some plants on the lower area. Roots start to show underneeth the pots, which is really good. I putted the bad plants in left under corner, Lets hope I can still nurse them. I still have 1-2 weeks to fix this before it goes into flowering, lets hope they will still grow double in size, otherwise this will be a lower rewarding grow.
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Week 4. Vegetation
2 years ago
12 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
6
No Smell
950 PPM
85 %
20 °C
3 L
0 L
75 cm
Nutrients 3
CANNA Coco A - Canna
CANNA Coco A 2 mll
CANNA Coco B - Canna
CANNA Coco B 2 mll
Regulator  - Aptus
Regulator 0.15 mll
Photos taken at Day 25: They start to recover and grow again. Sprayed them with Canna Cure to get more healthy leafs. Removed the humidifier. Lets hope they will grow for another week before they go into preflowering. Thats it for now, new pictures and updates will follow within this week. Stay tuned! Update: Day 28: Canna cure did his thing. The leafs start to get greener again. Also my feedings made them grow and recover again. Removed some lower branches and leafs. They are back in the race!
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Week 5. Flowering
2 years ago
20 cm
24 hrs
26 °C
6
No Smell
950 PPM
85 %
20 °C
3 L
0 L
75 cm
Nutrients 6
CANNA Coco A - Canna
CANNA Coco A 2 mll
CANNA Coco B - Canna
CANNA Coco B 2 mll
Regulator  - Aptus
Regulator 0.15 mll
Day 35: This week I was busy again with work (60hours this week) + Christmass days with family + friends(4days every evening). So you can gues, i asked my friend again to take care of them. Well he did kind off, but he forgot to adjust the lights and dance the plants arround(shuffle them, sorting by height). What happend? They stretched out because of the heat and he gave them to much water everyday, he tried to do his best this time but he did the imposible, he overwaterd cocos soil. As you can see the leafs dropped downward indicating overwatering or pests. In my case, luckly, the first one. Luckly easy to fix. Also spotted some stress in stems due stretching, something i cannot fix. Look at week 4, pictures of day 28, thats my work after I fixed it for days and now look at this week.... For f**k sake lol. Because of this stretching it looks really crowded now instead of a beautifull equal cantopy. if you look at picture one to the plants in the right corner, those are the heights I want them to be. There are still some plants that fell behind and barely recoverd since last time. For the new week I will have to make a choice to eighter keep them and hope they still grow some while flowering or I will need to get rid of them in exchange the others will have more space. I might thoose the last option. Thats it for this week, see y'all in the next.
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Week 6. Flowering
2 years ago
50 cm
24 hrs
26 °C
6
No Smell
950 PPM
85 %
20 °C
3 L
0 L
75 cm
Nutrients 6
CANNA Coco A - Canna
CANNA Coco A 2 mll
CANNA Coco B - Canna
CANNA Coco B 2 mll
Regulator  - Aptus
Regulator 0.15 mll
Day 40: They got recoverd from overwatering. Leafs got darker because I gave them more nutrients, but gained early signs of slightly overfeeding ( Burnt tips on leafs). I had to boost them to fix it because there isn't much time with autoflowers. Now i only have to adjust my nutrient feeding with just 10 to 15% and its all good. They did stretch again, some growers love it but i think it is ugly and you will gain weak stems. Also the fans will not reach the plants properly, which is not good. This time it is my fault, i didnt want to let my friend take care of them while i was busy. What happend is that i could had raise my lamps again. When your lamps are to close to the plants( its not a big deal with LED but it is with HPS) your plants will get alot of heat and they will stretch. So the secret of smaller plants is to keep your lamps high, but not to high otherwise they don't grow proper. But never do this alot when they are in late flowering, because your buds will foxtail, unless you love to have foxtailed buds. I have to do something about the heat soon, because i want my buds compact and not fluffy. This will happen due lots of heat. Also due alot of stretching and other problems, I gained a messy cantopy resulting in many problems. For noobies the room looks awesome but pro's will see that because of this, the stems and branches are weak and everything beneeth it has no use anymore because it gets no light. The spaces between internodes are to far away, so there will not be huge buds. I also have to start give them cal/mag, i saw first stages of deficiency. Not a problem when you are early with spotting it. I didn't forsee that i had to work like 60hours a week suddenly while having autoflowers on cocos in 3 liter pots and you only can water them once per 2 days and can take care of them once per 3-4 days. That is not really ideal 😅 Positive thing is that the buds are starting to develope 😍 Thats all for now Day 42: I have been defoliating alot to get the air between the plants. There are still some leafs and branches i want to get rid off, but i don't want them to stress out to much. Also i have killed of 23 smaller plants to make more space for the others. This is always painfull but stupid if you don't do this. If the plants didn't stretch that far due heat and low placed lights, this would not have been the case. I would still have alot of small nice plants. See you guys next week!
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Week 7. Flowering
2 years ago
100 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
6.3
Normal
1100 PPM
65 %
20 °C
3 L
0 L
75 cm
Nutrients 6
CANNA Coco A - Canna
CANNA Coco A 1.8 mll
CANNA Coco B - Canna
CANNA Coco B 1.8 mll
Regulator  - Aptus
Regulator 0.15 mll
Day 48: - Shuffle some plants again to give them better spots. - Did defoliate again to make sure the lights can reach lower buds. Photos and videos where taken before watering, thats why the leafs are not lifted. Nothing special this week. see you guys next week.
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Week 8. Flowering
2 years ago
120 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
6.3
Normal
950 PPM
55 %
20 °C
3 L
0 L
40 cm
Nutrients 7
CANNA Coco A - Canna
CANNA Coco A 1.5 mll
CANNA Coco B - Canna
CANNA Coco B 1.5 mll
Regulator  - Aptus
Regulator 0.15 mll
Day 56: Nothing special this week other then I found out another reason for the stretching of the plants. I don't know where i was of what i was doing but suddenly it came into my mind. Well normaly i use seperate veg and flower basic nutrients. This time, I used a new basic nutrient i never used before. This basic nutrient has veg and flower nutrients for the whole cycle. So the growth of the plants has been stimulating for to long. This is fun when you grow huge plants for a long time, not if you plan to only veg for 3-4 weeks, 1-2 weeks preflower with maybe 6 to 9 weeks of flowering.
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Week 9. Flowering
2 years ago
120 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
6.3
Strong
850 PPM
55 %
20 °C
3 L
0 L
40 cm
Nutrients 7
CANNA Coco A - Canna
CANNA Coco A 1.3 mll
CANNA Coco B - Canna
CANNA Coco B 1.3 mll
Regulator  - Aptus
Regulator 0.15 mll
Day 63: What can i say, its not going bad nor great. Maybe it is just me used to grow better plants lol. Last time i found another reason why it is the way how it is now. This week i also though about having 20hours of light. I have done it before but with other pots, soil and more, it is really rewarding to have 20-24hours of light with autoflowers, but after seeing them so much stretch i should had thought about having less lighthours like 12 to 14, it would had stimulated the flowering better and stopped stretching that much ahaha. That kind of dumb shit happens when you don't have enough time to take care of so many plants.
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Week 10. Flowering
2 years ago
140 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
6.3
Strong
850 PPM
45 %
20 °C
3 L
0 L
40 cm
Nutrients 9
CANNA Coco A - Canna
CANNA Coco A 1 mll
CANNA Coco B - Canna
CANNA Coco B 1 mll
Regulator  - Aptus
Regulator 0.15 mll
Day 69: As you can see, lucky the buds gone bigger but because of these intense feeding to fix the grow, they start to get nutrient burns. So for the new week i might only give water until the end with maybe some Regulator, enzymen, humic-blast... They also don't drink fast anymore. Another indicator that they having a hard time taking all the nutrients and that they are at their end of their stage. Some smaller plants, that finished growing and flowering faster, are already done and will get cut down in the comming days. These plants are some Gorilla's and some are cherry cola's. As you see, some have been foxtailing because i had to raise the lamps everytime. I personally don't like fox tail buds but i know some people that love them, pure flower to smoke. I really liked to make those photos in the dark, It shows many flowers and thc.
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Week 11. Flowering
2 years ago
140 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
6.3
Strong
850 PPM
45 %
20 °C
3 L
0 L
40 cm
Nutrients 3
Regulator  - Aptus
Regulator 0.15 mll
Humic-Blast - Aptus
Humic-Blast 0.3 mll
Enzym+ - Aptus
Enzym+ 0.5 mll
Day 78: This week I only gave them water with regulator, humic-blast and ezymen because they where ready to harvest. Those others from last week where kept inside a dark room for some days before cutting them down. By doing this, your plants will increase making thc. In the middle of this week i also putted some plants inside the dark/drying room to make them ready to harvest. These will also be in the dark for a few days before I harvest them. At the end of this week all other plants are in the dark as well for a couple of days, i will keep them in the grow room because there is no point to move them to the other room lol. Because i put them into the dark for days instead of cutting them down, I can cut them fresh and put them in drying nets instead of putting the full plant upside down on ropes. I will use a cutting machine for this.
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Week 11. Harvest
2 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Gorilla Cookies Auto - Fast Buds
Spent 61 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
9/10
Rated
21.42 g
Bud dry weight per plant
100
Plants
4
Grow Room size
Easy
Difficulty
Sleepy
Energy
Indica
Hybrid
Sativa

Height
Day air temperature
Air humidity
PPM
PH
Light schedule
Night air temperature
Pot size
Lamp distance
Day 83: After being in the dark for like 4-7 days, they where ready to harvest. All plants getting cut by the machine, big buds are cut by hand. I never weight wet buds because that doesnt make any sence. I will update soon on how much it is dry weight. My friend helped me with the harvest since it takes many hours of work. I have many buds that are as big or bigger as my hand. Quallity so far looks promising even thought there are shitty buds as well, but thats normal and oke. They have been cut freshly so I won't lose much weight when cutting. This will happen when cutting dry buds. The remaining small leafs on the wet buds will dry in with the buds and will be barely visible. More info soon.
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