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Thank you @fast_buds for sponsoring the Cherry Cola Auto seeds😊.
I'm almost ready to start my grow, still need to do a few things, ill hope to start in a few days!
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 humidifier and a path to walk through😆.
- 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 10 out of 10 and have been planted, good results!
- Climate in the room is 22-23 degrees celsius, Its oke but I pref 25-26 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!!
Hello Everyone 👏,
As you can see, are all Cherry Colas growing, they all have a tightrips in their pots for now, for recognition.
Will make nicer pictures of them in a few days.
They are now 4 days from germination🙏.
The humidifier had been added, so I had to adjust the room a lil bit.
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 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.
Enjoy 🙌
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 🙌
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 he didn't sorted the plants 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.
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!
Day 35:
This week i was busy again with work + Christmass days with family + friends.
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.
Because of this stretching it looks really crowded now instead of a beautifull equal cantopy.
Thats it for this week, see y'all in the next.
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.
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.
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.
Nice lovely buds so far
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.
This was more the case for the gorilla's but it had to be said here as well since the Cherry Cola's will profit from it as well.
See you guys next week!
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.
Day 56:
Nothing special this week other then I found out another reason for the stretching of the plants.
They did not stretch that much as the Gorilla's but they still did some.
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 where stimulated to longer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks @Fastbuds for sponsering the seeds. It was a really hard thought to make a diary about it while having more then 100 other strain plants.
So both diaries look almost the same now. Ill hope you guys liked my grow and that we can go bigger in the future, so that i can make a , single strain,better and full diary about it.
More info soon.
@love_2_grow, 2-4 weeks veg depending on strain and kind(sativa or indica) with 18/6 light. After that I forced them into flowering by having 12/12 light.
Made sure Ill still give them veg nutes for another 1-2 weeks as well, while going into preflower.
Flowerd them for another 7 to 10 weeks depending on strain, looks of it and such.
ill veg my sativa's most of the times like 2-2.5 weeks because they will grow double there size while flowering, so there is no need to veg them for 3-4 weeks or even longer LOL. You will end up with branches touching the lamps/roof.
or cutting all your upper branches which is really painfull to do.
For Indica's I like to veg them 3-4 weeks, make them bushy since they won't grow big and love to go to the side, so they have to veg longer.
Yes just 140 seeds, If you only knew how many seeds I have done in just a single grow or made/bought clones you would be thrilt 😋
Not to even mention the size of rooms or total weight at the end. Lets just say i love to grow as well.
@GanjaReaper, "just use 140 seeds" lmao
BTW I meant in your past photo SOG grows, did you 12/12 or veg those? Anyway, I also prefer to run my autos 20/4
@love_2_grow, Since they are autoflowers I can keep them even under 24/24 light if I want too, but I'm not that kind of grower.
The plan is to keep them under 20/4 lightcyle ( might do 18/6 if i'm not happy with it). Hope them to veg for like 3-4 weeks until they go into flowering by themself,
if not I have to push them into flowering by giving 12/12 light for a couple of days, it happend before.
Yes start with many and only use the best. This space can hold 140 plants like this, so I should had more seeds but it is already alot of work.
So I decided to just use 140 seeds, hope for the best and if 10-15 don't open ( good quality seeds), ill have more free space for my humifier and to walk into ( a path) LOL.
And ill just get rid of all those premade pots which couldn't be filled with opend seeds, it doesn't bother me, the substrate in thoose pots, i can add above the remaining pots, since cocos like to sink a bit.
@Ju_Bps, I know right, I never done 3L pots as my main pot, I did coco slabs thought with like 4-5 plants each in it, but usually I never go below 7L pots.
The question is, is it posible what I have in mind with my grow in combination with autoflowers or only with photo type.
We will find out 😱
Make sure to hit the water consumption rates needed to yield numbers. 3 gallons in 24hrs to produce 1 dry pound of cannabis at peak consumption. This can be 1 plant 10 plants or 100 plants, But that is how much water will need to be consumed every 24hrs to produce 1 dry pound. This equation is around 99% accurate and scales all the way up. 6 gallons for 2 dry pounds, Etc. It is important our plants are actually able to hit these consumption rates & not just over-water them. This is why we want to focus on big strong root zones to be able to ensure they are thirsty girls later down the road in flower. More root, MORE FRUIT my friend.
@GanjaReaper, im using 11 and 15 liter pots indoor for autos, and 5 liter pots for start for photoperiod ones, and later move them to 15 liter, outdoor i like use 20l and 40 liter pots :)
but now, just for experiment im usung some 5 liter pots for autos too, but now im going again for breeding and seeds, not the flower size is the target with this session for me.
i just asked you because they looks crazy for this small pots :)
@cannabiscult_cc, 3 liters. I didn't plan it to have the plants as big as they where haha.
This was because of a couple of reasons. Stretching due heat, a base nutrient line that had veg nutrients in it as well, i could not HST them like topping, because they are autoflowers and will panic and more reasons.
They should had been like 50-60cm maximum haha, most of them went at least 1,5m and some even higher. The plant will take a hard time to send all the nutrients to the top of your plant
even thought having not much roots because of the small pots. Gladly it worked out for me a bit, but not as i'm used too.
If you fully want to copy what i made, you should get at least 7L pots, meaning you will have less plants but your quality buds will be better and more compact.
At the end of this diary i will explain what i liked and what i disliked about this experiment grow.
Thanks so much for sharing this diary!
Hoping it was a nice experience for you, the Cherry Cola Auto is a favourite 😍
Enjoy the harvest and let us know what you think
Have a good one 😊
@Grower202085, It is not. If you 100% want to follow the schedule of Canna, it even says 1.5-3.5 ML per Liters of water in even the seed/rooting phase lol. In week 2 it is recommanded to even use 3-5 ML per liter.
Seedling do not need much nutrients early on, but because of the cocos substrate i needed to find a middle way.
Calmag can be used in the first weeks indeed, I do it often and will do it as well in my new diary, since those are clones and have many leafs already.
Giving calmag too seedlings, a new plant sort to say that has alot of strenght in it and doesnt need much nutrients early on( no clones of clones of clones), doesnt make any sence to me.
If you have seen my diary properly, you will notice i did grow on cocos.... Cocos doesnt have any basic nutrients like normal soil has.... Therefore you need to feed even more, which i did not...
Cocus doesn't store feedings, your plant needs to uptake that which you give it at that time. Therefore it is even recommanded to use a dripping system instead of randomly hand water them.
It was more a short of then it was a lockout haha.
If you would have seen week 3, that beneeth the plants, the leafs started to get yellow, indicating it should had more nutrients because they where absorbing from the buttom leafs, it was more of a shortage.
Also I always test my run-off. It was perfectly fine but in week 3 it had a high PH and low EC because my friend took care of them the wrong way.
GanjaReaper
