Dear diary,
Week 4 almost done, but posting a day in advance as I will need help from the community!
Something terrible has happened, and I am not sure what, so let’s jump into it.
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⏰ Day 25:
Away from home so the flatmate is feeding them from the premixed bucket.
⏰ Day 26:
Back home!
As they have doubled in size I am transplanting up from 3liter to 20liter airpots.
The 75/25 coco to perlite mix was first run with 1.23ms 5.8ph calmag water followed by 1.33ms 5.8ph nutes before transplanting over.
Light was about 305 so also upped it to 320-330ppfd.
G.C #2 still is showing the weird marks and deformation, but she is growing quickly so having real issues figuring out if its something else than some genetic oddity.
⏰ Day 27:
Feed the girls at 1.36ms and 6.0ph.
Today was also the day where the mainlining begins!
This was done by topping above the 3rd node, removing any growth below the 3rd and tying them down to start the manfold.
Aiming for 8 or 16 tops for each plant depending on how the grow.
⏰ Day 28:
Feeding at 1.36ms 5.8ph and adjusted ties.
⏰ Day 29:
Checked in on them in the morning before lights off, and something is very wrong.
All the older leaves show all kinds of issues like curling, brown and yellow spots, drooping etc. Might just be from the chock of mainlining and the lights being to strong so lowered them to 230ppfd.
Later when lights turned on again, their state has not deteriorated during light off, so I’m fairly sure it is light related.
But to be sure I also gave the girls 2 liter each of feed to make sure there are no dryspots, 1.36ms 6.0ph.
⏰ Day 30:
I was away all day so they were watered by flatmate with 1.35ms 6ph.
When I came home later in the night the spots and yellowing is still happening on the older leaves but much slower than before.
I also checked runoff and it’s fine at 1.46ms and 6.0ph.
⏰ Day 30:
Gave a feeding of 1.46ms 6.3ph in were I increased A and B nutes to 2.5ml/l from 2.0 and calmag to 1.5ml/l from 1.3.
Someone suggested that it might be magnesium deficiency so that is why I changed the ratios and increased the EC a bit.
Lastly I also gave a foliar spray of calmag water at like 12ml/l at 6.3ph to see if that helps so we can head into a smoother week 5!
@DBQush, I guessed so, I'm using the same.
It's a good base for planning your own schedule.
Doing a bit of experiment and was wondering maybe adding my other ir/fr to the veg tent to see if I can get some stretching action going on..
Will be monitoring your diary closely, keep up the good work!
@Yebis42, I am basing it on the DLI per week that DeBacco University recommends in his video about DLI in relation to yields.
But it seems to match up with the same numbers that for example “Photone” recommends, as I also use their iOS app for the readings.
But ofc I just use these as a guideline and try and look at how the girls respond to each gradual increase as those numbers are if everything else is perfect.
I actually just backed down the lights again to 290ppfd as I was seeing some other issues and by lowering the light it should give them a easier time recovering.
Hey man, congrats for the harvest! I'm growing this strain too, week 4 flowering done. In my opinion is slower than I though, and I saw also your flowering stage was 9+ weeks (breeder says: 7 weeks flowering)
@DeepWaterGrower, thanks man! Yeah when they say 7 weeks, I don’t think they take the first “transition” week into account, and then call it done as soon as the harvest window opens.
But at least for me it make sense to push them for another week or two too get as much good shit as possible!
Either way I’m super happy the end result as this badboy really kicks your ass when smoking haha
@gaby_kicks, haha a 7/10 on my 2nd grow I will consider a compliment, so thanks man!
I do personally think the Wedding cheesecakes in the same grow turned out a bit bitter, but even with the Gorilla Cookies, super frosty and consistently dense buds in both the top and bottom off the canopy, leaves me quite happy.
Also helps that she netted just shy of 160g dry and smokes like a beauty!
Maybe one day you will start a diary here and show “how it’s done”, but until then, keep on keeping on haha