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A new journey begins, I forgot how difficult it is to cultivate, now it's time to relax!
4th day:
I also added a humidifier, Mars hydro ts 1000, a small fan and the extractor for the incoming fresh air flow, purple lemonade & banana purple punch was germinated.
5th day:
All babies germinated, happiness video uploaded
6th day
@gottagrowsometime many thanks for your help, I've changed my setup with Mars Hydro FC 3000 , 25% dimming and 55 cm from the plants ☘️ This week couldn't get any better
7th day
I added a fan and put the FC 3000 power supply out of the tent, lamp lowered to 45cm from the plants.
So, I seen you are using an FC 3000 + ur TS 1000 for veg. This is far to much ppfd for a seedling. Your TS1000 at 50% alone is more than enuf for 4 or so wks of veg.
So, lose a light. If you choose to use the FC 3000 set at 45cm away and 25%, I have the fc 3000 and it's a very powerful light.. but again your 150w will do.
As for your plant..if the little leafs ( not the ones that's burnt, "coty", they fall off in the end) if that had burnt you'd be in trouble. They just pop 1st from shell to bring out the 2 green leafs what will turn into your 1st true fan leafs. All looks well there.
But, you defo don't need an FC3000 + TS1000 for veg pal
Hello growers, forgive me for using the translator .... 😖
second week started cold, ninth day, I have to introduce hot air to obtain 21 degrees inside the growbox, see pic :) , to cover the elongated stem I added some mycorrhizae and some medium soil to all the girls. Yesterday 8th day I started administering 0.5ml of fishmix per 1 liter of water together with 1ml of root juice, 0.5ml of bio heaven and the inevitable bio ph down.
Today I will water and tomorrow I will repeat the feeding with the same micro dosages, everything seems fine for now😇 any suggestion?
PS: I bought tds meter of hanna instruments same brand of my ph meter, waiting shipment meanwhile I'm studying
D12 strawberry pie seems to growing straight
Strawberry pie,,,
Even if I'm rooting for her, I wouldn't want this seedling to have a deprecated crop right from the start
Do you think it's time to replace it with a gorilla cookies? it would be the first time that i kill a ganja plant intentionally...sadness please help!
I see a bit water burn or staining but I don't you need throw the baby out with the bath water...Let it ride man, they're a hardy plant and can take a bit of abuse she should be fine..
D15
Today I come back home after 24 hours and found the living room foggy, I had to open the windows wide, the temperature in the growbox was 32 degrees and the humidity at 79%... -> ( temperature and umidity was set to all time range, so values is not of this season).
-> I will follow your advice and only apply LST to keep them low THANKS GROWERS!
D 17
I've feed all plants with 1 ml of Algamic/Activera and 0.5 ml of bio heaven.
I do love stress training 😂 for orange sherbet which is the tallest one
D 18
Orange Sherbet loves training, today LST also for Purple Lemonade and Strawberry Gorilla
D 20
Future space problems are expected, I think I have to switch to the 1x1x2 MT growbox, spring is upon us I could always put a couple outside, we'll see what I feel like doing
You never ever want to top an autoflower! Some people do try and some of them are lucky - but honestly, that's all it is is luck because it requires you to know exactly WHEN the plant is going to go into pre-flower because if you do it too close to that event, the plant will not have time to recover and will not set buds. Best stick to LST only...
Good luck....
D22
Hi, yesterday 21st day I moved the plants into 1x1x2mt growboxes and increased the dimmer to 30% I did the second round of LST on the first three.
Strawberry Pie is growing well now but I don't think I'll LST on her. Overall they are all fine.
D 23
Today I lowered the apicals again to give priority to the lower branches to thrive. last night I added a quarter of the recommended dose for fish mix 0.5, 0.3 calmag, 0.5 bio heaven and undoubtedly bio pH down as much as needed, EC 0.7, this time to get the nutrients absorbed at best I used thermal water diluted with tap water and they liked it a lot
@Lewd101 is correct. Below is a re-post my gnat prevention and infestation strategy from the first week my current diary (growdiaries.com/diaries/165223-grow-journal-by-negotiatebubble/week/926585). I alway add BTi to my nutes each feeding:
🚜 Kill Any Tag Along Pests on the Clones
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Clones arrived in mineral wool “rockwool” cubes. Before these clones entered my sacred space, I swirled each one in the Neem Oil solution to kill any tag along pests:
NEEM OIL SOLUTION:
Before adding most of the water, mix together a tiny bit of that warm water, ¼ tsp dish soap and 10 ml Cold Pressed Neem Oil.
Then, pH 56oz / 1.5L of warm water add it to the neem/soap mix.
Cold Pressed Neem Oil is different than cheaper heat processed neem oil because it still contains the natural Azadirachtin (same active ingredient that is in AzaMax pesticide). Also, neem has a weird property in that is kills a lot of the bad pest in the soil without harming good things in the soil food web like nematodes, protozoa, anthropods, etc.This is why it makes a great soil drench for gnats as well. During a gnat outbreak treatment, I will spray the neem oil solution on top of the soil to stop the adult from laying eggs
Organic Neem Bliss 100% Pure Cold Pressed Neem Oil
https://www.plantonix.com/neem-oil.php
🚜 Gnat Prevention
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I hate fungus gnats.
I will only be watering the mineral wool “rockwool” cube itself plus watering about 8cm or so of the soil around the cube to avoid having the dry soil wick all of the water away. It even more crucial that I avoid watering any soil that is not yet occupied by the root system. That unoccupied soil will just stay wet, which grows fungus, which attracts fungus gnats. This is why a good rule in later weeks (Weeks 2+) to let the plants go a bit thirsty rather than risk overwatering. It does not rain on schedule in the real world.
A fungus gnat spends most of its lifecycle as a larvae, not the adults that you seen flying around. This is why yellow sticky traps should only be used to monitor for infestation since only catching the gnats in the very last part of their life cycle will not help. Non-adult gnat larvae will eat the root tips of your seedlings and starve it to death.
After I transplanted the clones into Happy Frog soil in 5 gallon fabric pots, I added a solution of BTI (Bacillus Thuringiensis subspecies Israelensis, aka Mosquito Dunks brand) to the watering container each feeding to kill any larvae based pests such as gnats. Mixing Mosquito Bits into the soil before planting is also a great idea.
https://summitchemical.com/products/mosquito-dunks
https://summitchemical.com/products/mosquito-bits
I noticed you started with a pH of 7 in your grow medium and just now got it to 6.3
I think this was your main problem. Like I stated it's not what nutrients your giving them, it's that she can't absorb them. You can tell by leaching of color in the leaves. (Can also happen from excess water.)
If your ph starts to rise again I suggest you add some dolomite limestone to your soil. It will help keep your oh I'm check and in turn prevent nutrient lock out.
I hope this helps.
D28
All plants are showing pre-flowers, now the TS 1000 and FC3000 are pumping together at 45% dimmer and it will go up to 50% in a week, this morning before the lights went on I sprayed the fish mix on the leaves, now I understand why they advise to use it outdoors,,, I must say, however, sprayed on the leaves it has an explosive growth effect, this will be the only time I will spray them, during the week I will gradually switch to bio grow and bio bloom
D30
Lamp doesn't swiched off last night because network outage, fu...ing wifi timer, they will got 48 hous of light, plus extractor broken... damn, I replaced the 10 cm fault with a 12.5 cm, perhaps it was also time, the network problem was solved by provider and plants rested for 6 hours tonight, however today they are not bad, I hope they have not triggered some strange anomalies that will develop in the future
D32
Fan leafs defoliation covering new buds
D34
Strawberry pie will continue its journey on the balcony the plants in the growbox are straching and I would like to give them a comfortable space to grow, administered 0.5ml bio bloom for all except strawberry pie because it is late
Question of the day, could you please tell me why this leaf is striped like a zebra? At the moment only one has this color, could it mean a lack of nitrogen?
Bad luck is around the corner, last night the extractor for the air exchange broke, plus the internet provider doesn't work and the two lamps stayed on tonight, damn , meantime I will use a digital timer, do you think skipping the 6 hours of night rest could stress the plants?
I feel it would. You can put them to sleep at weird times, but I never turn on the lights unexpectedly. Sometimes it is cloudy during the day in nature, but the sun NEVER comes up during the night.
Yes, I believe you are right, it's minor nutrient burn. No big deal, just use plain water next time and water to 20% run-off and go again with lower nutrient next time you feed. I actually alternate between watering and nutrient feeds (and water to 20% run-off) every week when using liquid fertilisers in soil grows, as it prevents build ups of salts in the pots - which is probably what the plant is showing.
Btw, Growladyeastmidlands seems to say that to absolutely every question she sees 😂
Sakura season has begun, I hope everything goes fine.
Strawberry Pie is going to have a tough time this week, let's hope it survives, meanwhile there are signs of heat shock and sunlight, it's developing 3 point leaves and strange ramifications but maybe I'm wrong.
D38
Defoliation, I hope I haven't overdone the pruning
D41
First week of flowering, I think it couldn't have gone better, it's growing visibly, let's hope it's like this until the end, maybe shortening the timing, we'll see. on the contrary strawberry pie has stopped growing, I have to thank that she survived, who knows what will come out of her, I wish her a sweeter climate...
D42
Defoliation is limited for what I did last night, I literally deforested, I did it because the humidity was sky high and the vegetation was too thick covering so many peaks,,, the fascinating thing is that they recovered within the night, if I may say that 6 hours of darkness relax the plants just as if they were on vacation.
D47
Flowering Week n° 2 started, I will pump up nutrition.
I was saying this is the last time I removed big leaves and those that hinder buds, that was five times ago, I honestly didn't think I would get this size.
D48
Strawberry pie survive to -4 c° last night, to day air temperature will be 12 degrees...
In the Freedom Pic you are seeing a marijuana leaf and behind it a magnificent mountain panorama but you do not see what is in between which is the most important as often happens in life what is important you do not see ... what is it ? it's the clean fresh mountain air.
Dear fellow adventurers, week 7, dimmer at 75% Mars Hydro Ts1000 + FC 3000, 100x100x200cm tent, distance from the lamp 45/50 cm, the uppermost leaves are as you can see in the photo, I have to raise a few cm at the expense of the sisters more dwarfs?Do ppfm seem excessive to you?
Happy Easter all over the word, I will share my Italian best aperitif ever.
D51
Eighth week, if they are so beautiful it is also thanks to you! I love this community, I hope to stay there, as long as I don't get arrested...
Anyway...
I wanted to point out that all my doses of nutrients are for a liter and a half of water so as to be even more scrupulous to avoid overfertilizing. I turned off the dimmer, at noon simulating a half day of fire lol i'm crazy. added a reflective film to the base of the room, raised the plants to the same level by placing boxes under the pots, many Thanks @Roberts for encouraging me to look for the boxes, I'm a lazy boy!😇
...a clarification for the most refined minds .... I know very well that the glass is for white wine but it is the only one I have, I take this opportunity to thank my neighbor for giving it to me ;)
D55
Buds fattering
D57
Ninth week humidity problems, I added a fan in total 3, added an additional extractor that introduces fresh air, I constantly keep the growbox open, so the risk of mold seems to have been avoided. stop PK 13 14 and big bud, now only biobizz for my fat.
D65
Just a few days until the harvest, I'm checking the evolution of the trichomes and buds, we'll see what happens, I spent a lot of energy and hours I hope it will be worth it, meanwhile in my house there is the scent of ripe oranges and strawberries I hope to find the same aroma in the smoke.
D68
Tomorrow early morning I will harvest Purple Lemonade, no words for describe this magnificent plant!
D69
Tomorrow early morning I will harvest Banana Purple Punch and Cream cookies
It was a quick and painless soft journey, I will repeat the dosages but brake a bit before harvesting next time, I did not expect such a fast maturation, for this reason I was unable to calculate the time to flush, however I feel quite satisfied with the yield, let's hope the overfeeding hasn't compromised the final tasting
The harvest is coming soon also for Strawberry Gorilla and Orange Sherbet, news this week the strawberry pie has grown, who knows if it will make buds full of resin or seeds, maybe both? We will see! the story continues...
Elpicor
