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Hello everyone,
After I moved to a new apartment, I had to get rid of my old grow tent and start over in a very small and discreet grow box(50x40x65cm). It has several challenges like little space, rising temperatures and stuff, but I believe that over a few grows I will learn to extract the best within the possibilities. Gotta admit I was never a good grower even with a standard grow tent, but the results I got were always enough to keep me going. Besides, regardless of the results, growing a plant helps me deal with my anxiety.
The seed I chose t's a Green Tiger Faster Flowering from BSF seeds(gotta say never growed this one before), and the soil is a mix of spaghnum peat, perlite and topsoil. The seed stayed 24 hours in a glass of water and was placed in the soil that had been watered 1 day before.
The final pot will be between 4-5 liters (or 1~1.3 gallons).
Hello everyone,
As this is the beginning of the grow I'm trying to interact as little as possible.
As I had already watered the solo cup before planting, and I felt that there was still water weight in the cup, I only gave 50ml of water during the week. The plant cotyledons were facing downwards. Possibly a sign of overwatering.
Let's leave it alone for the next few days.
Hey guys,
Day 14 since it sprouted .I realize that one photo a week is kind of tedious for readers, but well, it's a small growbox and it's just one plant. I hope it's enough.
Watering: I'm watering almost once a week and I'm relying on a kitchen scale to know if the soil is dry or not. This week I watered 150ml, with a minimum dose of fertilizer from a local brand, containing nutrients for the veg phase and micronutrients.
Perhaps the plant is growing a little slow but that's okay. I also notice that the cotyledons are still pointing downwards and their tips are now turning yellow. I believe that due to the size of the plant, maybe I should have watered less but more often.
Hey guys,
This week I took the plant out of the growbox for a more realistic photo in terms of colors.
I repeated the same water(150ml) and fertilizer dosage as last week. Growth has been a lot slower than I expected (maybe more fertilizer? maybe less water?) but the plant looks healthy and I'm not going to complain.
For the next week I intend to carry out the TOP pruning and also a transplant into a larger pot.
Hey guys,
This week has been a little confusing. I did things completely out of order and I believe I caused the plant far more stress than necessary. I did the top pruning and literally 1 day later I transplanted it, I don't know why I didn't do it all together.
Anyway, the roots looked healthy from the color but I believe it would soon enter a rootbound stage, so I transplanted in the nick of time. Unfortunately the pot I bought didn't arrive and I transplanted it into an ice cream pot, a little bigger than the original cup but enough to give me a few days.
I raised the fertilization level well(and started giving a lil bit of flowering nutes), perhaps much more than necessary, as well as the amount of water, where I started to give 1 liter. Lets see how the plant will react.
By the way, the growbox is a mess, I'm still figuring out where I'm going to store all the stuff.
Friends,
I think I messed up on several things. Plant growth is pretty slow for the number of weeks already. In addition, some leaves started to show a dark "burned" appearance (almost purple), and also a slightly wrinkled texture. I'm sorry for not taking any pictures of that. I believe that 1 liter of water and that much fertilizer for a plant of that size was a tremendous exaggeration.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to keep up as much in the last week and I have few pictures of what was done. In any case, a transplant was made into a 4 liter pot that will be the final container.
I also did a light defoliation on the lower branches as the light was no longer reaching them.
Hey guys,
I will try to keep a more frequent rhythm of photos, notes and comments during the week. I believe it is better to identify problems
The plant started to show some problems in its leaves. The low leaves began to yellow, get mottled, and twist. On uppermost leaves (new growth) scorched tips and edge burns. There is also some yellowing in top leaves. Unfortunately I can't say what caused the issue, if it was too much water or too much nutrients or too little nutrients. The water PH is always between 6-7 so I believe that is not the problem.
I took the opportunity to carry out another topping pruning and also an LST. Since my growbox is small I will try to branch as much as possible to improve my harvest. But first I need to identify and solve the cause of the problems in the leaves.
Oh, I can also say that it already has a slight smell coming from the plant!
Good afternoon everybody,
Photos from almost every day of the week.
The growth is super slow and as you can see in the course of the photos, a problem started to appear in the leaves of the plant.
Only the top leaves are affected, so I think it's an immobile nutrient, but I can't say which one. I gave it calmag to see if it improves. There is also the yellowing leave but i do not believe in Nitrogen deficiency since it's only happening on the top leaves.
Does anyone know what kind of nutrient problem is this?
The only thing I can say is: It is an immobile nutrient since it's appearing only on top leaves, and my fertilizers do not contain: Iron, Sulfur and Calcium.
The PH of the watering is always between 6 and 7.
Thanks
To me this looks like an excess of phosphorus locking out other nutrients such as calcium/magnesium. What is the total NPK value of the nutrient line in the ratios that you are using? If P is significantly higher than a typical 3-1-4 ratio then I would consider flushing 3-4x the medium with PH'd water and feed a modified schedule closer to the 3-1-4.
The new leaves have started to come out better and the previous issue with the leaves seems to have been fixed. To be honest I gave 2 liters of water to the plant and that made her develop better, even if it looks like she is too small for all that amount of water.
As it's been a long time since the start of this grow, I changed the light time to 12/12 and I'm waiting for the plant to make the transition to flowering.
I lightly defoliated the middle leaves so the light can reach the bud sites and i'm thinking of doing one last LST during the stretch period to see if I can make the canopy a little flatter, taking up more grow space and allowing the lower buds to develop better.
At the end of this week I will post the remaining photos of the week. And for the next one I will only upload it at the weekend.
Thanks guys.
Skazoide
