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Week 0 (16-22/01)
Ready to start!
I will plant the seeds directly into the watered substrate cubes. The cubes will be covered together with a bowl of water in order to maintain an high humidity level.
16/01: planted
20/01: two germinated today, one of each strain
21/01: the second fat banana auto germinated today. The second blue cheese is still closed, I guess it is dead
Week 1 (23-29/01)
During this week I will feed the plants with tap water and only 2 ml of Bio-Grow. I will also dimmer the light down to 30% because, being it at 20cm from the plants, I want to avoid burning them. The fan will be on 4 hours/day. By means of the inkbird thermostat I will control the heating/cooling system. Inkbird parameters will be: 23.5°C with -3°C for heating and +2°C for cooling.
23/01 D1: preparing the pots. A layer of gravel surronded by light-mix by BioBizz. Planted the three sprouts.
24/01 D2: added a support to each plant to avoid the fall due to the weight. Provided a glass of fresh water (25cl) to each of them.
25/01 D3: -
26/01 D4: watering day. Added 2ml of Bio-grow to 1.2l of tap water (approximately 40cl of water each plant).
27/01D5: -
28/01D6: watering day. Approximately 50cl of tap water to each plant. Powered on the fan.
29/01D7: -
Week 2 (30/01 - 05/02)
During this week I will continue as the first week. Light at 20cm from top of the plants, dimmered down to 30%. I will only add 2ml/l of Bio-grow every two watering days. Parameters for heating/cooling system: 23.5°C as reference temperature, -3°C for heating, +1.5°C for cooling.
30/01D8: -
31/01D9: watering day. Added 2ml of Bio-grow to 1.2l of tap water (approximately 40cl of water each plant)
01/02 D10: -
02/02 D11: watering day. Tap water only (50cl of water each plant)
03/02 D12: -
04/02 D13: -
05/02 D14: watering day. Added 2ml of Bio-grow to 1.5l of tap water (approximately 50cl of water each plant)
Week 3 (06/02 - 12/02)
During this week I will try to apply the LST to the plants.
On the inkbird, I will switch the fan with the extractor. The heating/cooling system parameters will be: 23.5°C (+0.5°/-3°C).
The extractor will be on 5 hours in the morning, 5 hours in the afternoon.
I will continue to feed the plants with tap water and only 2ml/l of Bio-grow.
I will increase the light up to 75% with a distance of 30cm from the top of the plants.
06/02 D15: -
07/02 D16: first LST, bent down the pants directly to the soil. Watered the plants with tap water (0,5l each)
08/02 D17: I increased the inkbird cooling parameter to +1°C because the temperature inside the tent starts to increase faster. The plants seem to have responded well to first training
09/02 D18: watering day. I added 2ml of Bio-grow to 1.5l of tap water.
10/02 D19: -
11/02 D20: today I applied a second LST bending because the plants started to grow strait. After the training I sprayed the pants with tap water.
12/02 D21: watering day, I added 3ml of Bio-grow to 1.5l of tap water
Week 4 (13/02 - 19/02)
During this week I will continue to monitor the training adjusting the ropes in order to allow the development of secondary branches.
I will increase the extractor time to 7 hours in the morning and 8 hours during the afternoon because I noticed that, during the last days of previous week, the humidity increased faster when the extractor was off. The extractor will be at 30% of its capacity.
I will also try to increase the water quantity because the plants are growing well and faster.
No changes to the cooling/heating system parameters.
I will add the Bio-bloom to the pants every two watering days.
13/02 D21: only water sprayed on leafs in the morning.
14/02 D22: watering day. I added 2 ml of Bio-grow plus 1 ml of Bio-bloom to 2 liters of tap water
15/02 D23: today I removed the couple of single leafs to each plant. Sprayed leafs with tap water.
16/02 D24: -
17/02 D25: watering day. I added 2 ml of Bio-grow to 2 liters of tap water.
18/02 D26: leafs sprayed with water. Increased the distance lamp from the top to 30/40 cm. Increased the light power to 100%
19/02 D27: watering day. 2.5 liters of tap water only.
Week 5 (20/02 - 26/02)
I made no progress with the LST last week, hoping to do better the next grow. Some secondary branches developed more than usually but not as expected. I haven't been effective enough with the training.
The last day of the past week, the two fat banana moved into pre-flowering, while the blue cheese is still into vegetative stage.
During this week, I will start to add bio-bloom and top-max together with the bio-grow.
The light will be to 40 cm from top of the plants at 100% of its power. No changes to the heating/cooling parameters.
20/02 D28: -
21/02 D29: watering day. Added to 2.5 liters of tap water: 2ml Bio-Grow, 1ml Bio-Bloom, 1ml Top-Max. This evening, being secondary branches still flexible, I've tried to horizontally extend them with ropes in order to give them more light, let's see what happens in next two days.
22/02 D30: leafs sprayed with tap water
23/02 D31: watering day. 1 liter of tap water only each plant. Evening check: plants became thirsty; the soil seems to be almost dry even if I watered them this morning.
24/02 D32: watering day. Added to 2.5 liters of tap water: 2ml Bio-Grow, 2ml Bio-Bloom, 1ml Top-Max.
25/02 D33: leafs sprayed with water. 1 liter of tap water each because they are growing and drinking a lot.
26/02 D34: Added to 2 liters of tap water: 2ml Bio-Grow, 2ml Bio-Bloom, 1ml Top-Max. They seem to grow well and faster. The blue cheese seems to be in pre-flowering, almost a week later than the two fat banana.
Week 6 (27/02 - 05/03)
During this week I will continue to feed the plants with Bio-grow, Bio-bloom and Top-max every other day. The two fat banana are in flowering stage by an entire week, while the blue cheese is in early stage of pre-flowering.
The parameters remain unchanged with respect of the previous week:
- light: 100% power, 18/6 h per day;
- inkbird: 23.5°C, +1°C cooling, -3°C heating;
- extractor: 50% power, 18h per day.
27/02 D35: removed a couple of lower leafs to the plants, they were a bit dry
28/02 D36: 1.5 liter of tap water each plant. Today I noticed some brown/orange spots on leaves of fat banana #1. Thanks to golden advises given to me by @GrowingGrannie, I will try to adjust nutrients in the next days.
01/03 D37: first day of recovery, sprayed leaves with tap water.
02/03 D38: second day of recovery, added 1.5ml of Bio-bloom and 1 ml of Top-max to 2.5 liters of tap water (almost 0.8 l each).
03/03 D39: third day of recovery, sprayed leaves with tap water.
04/03 D40: watering day. Added 2ml of Bio-bloom and 1ml of Top-Max to 2.5 liters of tap water.
05/03 D41: end of the week. The blue cheese has grown a lot this week reaching the taller fat banana #2. All three plants seem to be healthy.
Today I noticed that one of my plants has an orange/yellow sign on a couple of leaves (see photo with the tag "28/02"). The spots are small and the leaves seem to be healthy (so far). What the problem could be?
You've got a couple of deficiencies here... all caused by two things: the fact that you're using far too much of the BioGrow (causing a nitrogen toxicity which locks out a lot of other nutrients such as calcium and magnesium) and your pH is far too high (you need to get this down to between 6.0 and 6.5). As for the nutes, you should switch the amounts of the BioGrow and BioBloom - i.e., 1ml of the Grow and 2ml of the Bloom - your plants are in flower now and they need far less nitrogen than they needed during veg... BioGrow is going to raise the EC a lot more than the BioBloom so if you're needing to raise the EC with that switch, just add more Bloom to get it where you want it... your plant could use extra P and K as well and this should do that well enough. The damaged leaves will not repair themselves so don't expect to see that... But after a couple of days with the new pH and the new amounts of nutes, you shouldn't see the damage getting worse.
Good luck...
Week 7 (06/03 - 12/03)
During this week I will continue to feed the plants mainly with Bio-bloom and Top-max every two watering day; I will consider to use Bio-grow too according to the status of the plants.
At the moment, the Fat Banana #1 is shorter than others about 15cm but more bushy, it's funny because during the first two weeks of their life she was the taller one. During the past week, the Blue cheese has grown a lot reaching the taller Fat Banana #2. At the beginning of this week they both are 65cm tall.
I bought a pH tester so, starting from this week, I will also adjust the pH level in order to maintain it between 6.0 and 6.5... better late than never.
06/03 D43: watering day. Added 2ml of Bio-bloom and 1ml of Top-max to 3l of tap water. I've adjusted the pH with 1ml of Terra Aquatica pH- to obtain a pH of 6.4
07/03 D44: -
08/03 D45: watering day. One liter of tap water each (pH 6.4). Note: I usually fill the watering can the day before and store it into the tent to avoid to use cold water. Yesterday I tested the water and I found a pH level of 7.4. This morning I re-tested the water into the watering can before watering and I found a pH level of 8.0!!! I guess that, every watering day during which I only used tap water, the pH level has always been far high. Could it be due to an accumulation of "salt" into the watering can?!?
09/03 D46: -
10/03 D47: watering day. Added 1ml Bio-grow, 2ml Bio-bloom, 1ml Top-max and 1.5ml Terra Aquatica pH- to 3 liters of tap water.
11/03 D48: One liter of tap water each @ pH 6.0. I'm trying to lower the pH because I noticed that the Fat Banana #2 has two/three fan leaves yellowing from the bottom.
12/03 D49: added 3ml of Bio-bloom and 2ml of Top-max to 3 liters of tap water.
Week 8 (13/03 - 19/03)
During this week I will continue to feed the plants mainly with Bio-bloom and Top-max, I will add a bit of Bio-grow every two watering days. The past week the Fat banana #2 starts to show some yellow leaves starting from bottom. Parameters remains the same of previous week.
13/03 D50: -
14/03 D51: added 3ml of Bio-bloom and 2ml of Top-max to 3 liters of tap water.
15/03 D52: -
16/03 D53: added 2ml of Bio-grow, 5ml of Bio-bloom, 4ml of Top-max and 1ml of CalMag to 3 liters of tap water @ pH 6.3
17/03 D54: -
18/03 D55: watered with 1liter of tap water each @pH 6.4
19/03 D56: added 1ml of Bio-grow, 4ml of Bio-bloom and 3ml of Top-max to 3 liters of tap water @ pH 6.2
Week 9 (20/03 - 26/03)
The past week everything went good and quiet. In the tent the smell started to be stronger, more mature and pleasant. Flowers seem to be healthy and succulent.
The fat banana #2 started to yellow, so I suppose that she is some days forward than the others, especially with respect of the Blue cheese.
Starting from this week I will start to check the trichomes.
20/03 D57: -
21/03 D58: added 1ml of Bio-grow, 4ml of Bio-bloom and 3ml of Top-max to 3 liters of tap water @ pH 6.2
22/03 D59: 1 liter of tap water each @pH 6.2. Trichomes seems to be clear for the most.
23/03 D60: added 1ml of Bio-grow, 4ml of Bio-bloom and 3ml of Top-max to 3 liters of tap water @ pH 6.2
24/03 D61: -
25/03 D62: added 1ml of Bio-grow, 3ml of Bio-bloom and 3ml of Top-max to 3 liters of tap water @ pH 6.3
26/03 D63: one liter of tap water each @ pH 6.2
Week 10 (27/03 - 02/04)
During the past week the blue cheese started to change the colors of pistils into brown. All plants seem to be healthy and next to the end. During the past week I bought an iHub power strip in order to change my self-made control system, but at this time the iHub app is far useless; it often loses the settings and it randomly turns off/on the outlets. I hope that Mars Hydro will fix these bugs soon, it is annoying considering that the power strip is sturdy and well built as the rest of their products but the app that should control everything it isn't.
During this week I'll change the nutrients to plants and I'll check the trichomes.
27/03 D64: -
28/03 D65: one liter of tap water each @ pH 6.3. Trichomes check: majority are cloudy, especially on two fat bananas, few amber
29/03 D66: one liter of tap water each @ pH 6.2
30/03 D67: one liter of tap water each @ pH 6.0
31/03 D68: one liter of tap water each @ pH 6.2. Trichomes check: Fat banana #2 has almost all trichomes cloudy and few amber; Fat banana #1 has majority cloudy, very few amber; Blue cheese has cloudy and few crystal
01/04 D69: one liter of tap water each @ pH 6.3
02/04 D70: -
Week 11 (03/04 - 09/04)
During this week I'll continue to flush the plants. I guess that this will be the last week for all of them. I'm waiting to chop in order to obtain a balance of 60/40 or 70/30 of milky/amber trichomes. Moreover, due to the fact that I have to use the same growbox to dry them, I must cut all the plants the same day. Doing this I think I'll have a more mature Fat Banana #2 and, I hope, a good variety of Blue cheese and Fat Banana #1.
03/04 D71: one liter of tap water each @ pH 6.3. Trichomes check: all three plants show milky trichomes for the most; few amber on the main branches of two fat bananas
04/04 D72: one liter of tap water each @ pH 6.3
05/04 D73: one liter of tap water each @ pH 6.5
06/04 D74: -
07/04 D75: end of the journey.
Chopped all today.
Light wet trimming to avoid rot and I've put them drying in the grow room. I will wait a couple of week
Easy growing with a great resistance. The bus are quite long and they are full of trichomes! I think that the Blue cheese auto of RQS is a good strain to indoor growing!
At the moment it's the first week of drying and the plant is almost ready for a light trim. I will update soon
After 12 days the Blue cheese auto is completely dried. The weight is 60 grams. I guess I could do better, but I really enjoyed the easy growing of this plant and I'm already happy with this result! The smell reminds me fruit!
What a stunning strain!!! A plant with fat buds plenty of trichomes, the smells reminds me fruit and citrus. It is really strong with a fast growing phase. Thanks to Royal Queen Seeds for this strain!
Piorkeed
