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Welcome at my new outside Diary.
This time with sponsored Titan F1 from Royal Queen seeds!
I have bought seeds from them in the past and they where always solid. I really wanted to work with these people so I reached out.
Thanks @James from Royal Queen Seeds for the sponsorship, lets make it a good run!
- For germation I used cotton pads, this is a good method for me and it works well.
- As soil, I use cocos with supermix from plagron.
Since I also use geotexile pots(22L), I didn't felt the need of using perlite in my cocos.
- I will plant them in the main pots, so this time no smaller pots in the begin.
- I used some nutrient bottles from @Plagron before like sugar royal, but never the full line. Lets see how it goes.
- Planning to do some LTS on the plants.
Sadly the geotexile pots I orderd are not of good quallity. They don't have handles and it doesn't feel ''airy'' to me.
Also I think they are huge in lenght rather then in width, but the taproot from each plant will love it tought.
Does someone has a good tip for me where to get better ones? This is the first time for me using it.
If I like to grow with it for my outside grows, I will get other ones.
I will do another update this week, I expect to see roots from the seeds in 2-3 days.
Thats it for now.
Update:
At day 3 of this phase, all the seeds opend and have been planted in the pots.
I did water the pots with the nutriets since cocos soil doesn't hold any, i felt the need of doing it.
Will only give them water, if needed in the days to come for this week.
Update2:
Day 6: They sprouted!
Day 1:
Nothing much to say at the moment besides the weather being 15-21 celcius day time and night time 13-16.
When it gets under 15 celcius, ill take them inside for now untill it says above that at night.
Might update again for this week, if not, see you guys next week.
Day 9:
Same thing as last week, due colder climate, they are putted inside when the temperature drops.
Might need to do it for another week.
Ladies did grow and root. Ill expect new and bigger leafs in the upcomming 2-3 days, try to give them as much light as I can.
Day 20:
They did grow a bit but not that much.
It is still cold during day and night.
I put them inside behind the windows once the temperature drops to 16-17 degrees celcius.
Thats all for this week.
Day 23:
Topped them this week. Removed the first nodes and keeping 3 of them above, see picture Day 23 1/2.
The plan is to grow them like picture Day 23 2/2.
I did wish that the leafs would have been more greener by now. Yet I rather underfeed than overfeed younglings.
Since they are something between photoperiod and autoflower genetics, I have to find the right amount of nutrients, since autoflowers like less and photperiod alot.
Day 29:
Started to do some LST on them with copper wires, might keep doing it with the coperwires or I might change it into rubber dreads once the branches get stronger and longer.
The climate starts to get better for them as well, 20 to 28 celcius daily and 15-17 at night, so finnally I can keep them outside at night.
Pictures where made a few hours before dark.
Day 34:
Started to see some preflowering. It shocked me because I didn't do anything to force them into it.
Did some research and found out that there are two types of F1 genetics. The Photoperiod and the Autoflower kind.
It seems that these are the autoflowers, while I tought it where photoperiod ones...
So now I have to stop removing nodes and hope for the best. Ill hope the branches will stretch some but I doubt it LOL.
Pictures are made in the end of this week.
Nothing much to say other then:
Well.... They do flower fast indeed haha lol.. If it goes on like this they will be ready in like 5 to 7 weeks.
They also do like the feedings i gave them. Sometimes 750ml-1 liter a day is not enough. It do is warm outside but still..
I do give them less base nutrients because i have lots of additives. Without those it is better to give like 2.5-3ml in this phase.
I do keep as many leafs as I can, some like to defoliate the shit out of them but they forgot that those leafs are solar panels.
Only when a leaf shadows my buds, i will remove them.
See you guys next week.
Day 48:
Almost at the end of this week. They are flowering well and started to smell.
Did remove some leafs from beneeth the plants but not that many.
If it goes on like this, they will be ready in 3-4 weeks guesing at this point.
Might have to start giving green sensation in the upcomming week. Normaly I would have started at week 4 of flowering, but this might not be a 6-8 weeks of flowering cycle.
I eighter have to remove my Zym or pk 13-14 or both for Green Sensation. Since Green sensation holds all kinds of nutrients.
Until next week.
Almost at the end of this week. I did remove the enzymen and roots feedings. I did add Green Sensation.
EC went up but with cocos and this feeding schedule it is allowed too, I can even raise it to 2.5-2.6 if I feel like too.
As for the ladies, They are flowering fast haha, might have to harvest them in like 2 weeks +-
They gained alot of THC as well.
Climate outside was not that good, arround 20-21 degrees celcius, So they didn't swell that much but they got compact because of it.
Lets hope they do swell a bit more in the comming 2 weeks.
Update:
Day 56:
2 of the 5 plants got damaged by the storm. I had to cut of some buds otherwise they would have rotten.
Sad thing that it happend, Lucky for me they are close to the end of the grow so they will have taste and thc on it.
Also, look how compact they are for just outside plants, this looks promising.
Ps, yes a spongebob stone and more in my pots., My girlfriend thinks she is hilarious..
Until next week!
After giving them water for a week, it was time for them to getting harvested.
At first I had my doubts because 4.5 weeks of flowering is so short, but after seeing the thc turning milky, the thricromes ALL brown ( normaly i prefer a few white ones as well), it was time for them to cut down.
As you can see I gave them a first trim to make sure when I put them upside down to dry, the buds won't rot or get mold.
After some days, I will cut all the buds from the stems, give them a better trim and will put them in a drying net for the last days.
Probily will cure them for 1-2 weeks but will make some pictures in the process.
So keep in mind, they where flowering for 4.5 weeks, not 4.
I have seen similar grows of this strain finishing in around 4-5 weeks. This is a fast strain and the plants remain small, because if this, yet where done fast.
Yet again it was fun to grow them.
They have been hanging upside down as a full trimmed plant for 3 days. They where getting dry really fast so I had to cut the buds off the plants and put them into a net at another spot.
Will start curing them in like 3-4 days for 2-3 weeks. Currently they still need to lose some moisture so I didn't put all the buds on the scale yet.
My gues is that I will end up with like 30-35 grams of dry buds from all the 5 plants together. So they are not high yielders, yet it was fun to grow them.
WIll update later on.
Update:
After 7 days they have been dried enough to get into the cure pots. The total amount of yield is 28 grams dried buds.
They are really strong, I did shared some buds with multiple smokers and they all liked it. Good taste, strong high.
Would defently recommand this strain if you like to grow fast stealth small plants. From seed to harvest in 9 weeks.
Thanks @Royal Queen Seeds for sponsoring these seeds!
@gottagrowsometime, Thanks for telling, I adjusted it.
It was Vita Start indeed. Somehow I clicked on the other one.
This is just another try for me. The Geotexile pots with plagron nutrients.
I often like to do this at small so if I like the new nutrient, seeds or method of growing, I apply it to my bigger ones.
Its a mistake to top this plants, they won t recover in time and will most definetly give you shit yield. Their life cycle is just to short trust me I know. Good luck though, honestly hope I m wrong I just usually ain t.
@Gajba333,Hi sorry for interfering but i think you are wrong with not training Auto flowering plants. They can take it, it's just a matter of timing and a little bit of luck 🍀🤞. You can check my 🍌💜👊 diary as a reference i used all HST methods minus a full manifold and they responded better than some photoperiod plants i had. I'll be checking your grows as well , take care.
@Gajba333, Seems that there are two kinds of F1's. The Photoperiod and Autoflower kind.
I was hoping to get the Photoperiod, thats why I did all that work on them.
Instead I got the autoflower kind.
@Gajba333, 70 days from seed to harvest doesn't work for outside grows, might inside but outside it always takes longer. In a few days they are 4 weeks old, they are not even mature yet.
I gues they will grow for another 2 weeks at least before going into pre-flowering. After that there are just 2-3 weeks left for flowering?
My bet is that they will take at least 8 to 9 weeks af this point.
Again if I did read it right, these are not autoflowers. Just a genetic that have a shorter flowering time, with that information I did top them.
About the yield, well I don't care much about it. My outside grows are always for fun and experiments. I rather have them short and bushy. Thats why I like to top them so
the energy goes to the branches instead of the main brance/cola.
GanjaReaper
