Critical Orange Punch

5/31 Looking pretty good. Feels like it's growing faster than my first grow. Once the leaves reach outside of the rim of the cup, I'll transplant into a 3 gallon bucket filled 50/50ish with Fox Farm Ocean Forest and Happy Frog. 6/1 Transplanted into the bucket and watered with ph 6.5 water. 6/3 Rotating the bucket a quarter turn every time I visit.

6/5 Looking good so far. Growing at night even!

Jun 10: Getting droopy. Watered less than half gallon of Ph 6.7 water. Jun 12: That watering really gave a growth spurt! Gonna bump the humidity up to a max of 81% til we get further into veg. Jun 13: Plant is tall enough to tie some good looking limbs down and also the main stem to the side. Jun 15: Buckets are getting lighter, but the soil is moist, meaning my humidity was too high. That lead to some mold and algae that I will treat with spray Neem oil. Smells terrible, but should do the trick. Lowering humidity to 65% for a bit, then will probably get closer to 75% over the next few days.

June 21 Fed less than a half gallon of water yesterday evening. Getting really big now! Gonna step up the LST to help keep the size managed.

June 26 Getting real big! June 27 Woohoo! Preflower is appearing! Plant was a bit droopy, so a half gallon of PH'd water did the trick. June 30 Some lower leaves are getting yellow and dying. I'm taking that as a sign that the soil is almost out of nutrients. Mixed up a 1/8th strength of General Organics GO Box nutrients (week 1 to avoid nute burn), but upped the CalMag to 1/4 strength. Fed one gallon at a PH of 6.7 to slight runoff.

July 3 That round of nutrients seemed to do well. I can't raise the light any higher now. A few fatter, lower fan leaves had tips that were dying, so I removed them from the stalk. Got myself a gnat issue from the onions that I started in the tent. I've removed that pot and sprinkled diatomaceous earth on the top layer of soil to choke out the gnats. I might try to apply a hydrogen peroxide and water mixture to the bottom of the bucket and drain pan to treat the gnats from the root end as well. We are definitely in preflower stretch now too. This will likely be the last week of growth. EDIT: Mixed 7.5ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide to a half gallon of water. PH'd to mid 6s and then poured half of it in the drain tray to help with gnats near the roots. July 4 After the remedies, my gnat infestation seems to be gone.

July 9 Mixed 1 tsp of RAW Grow with 1.25 gallons of water and PH'd to low 6s. Fed about 1 gallon. July 10 New nutrients seemed to take well. Leaves perked back up like usual. July 14 Got some RAW Bloom out for delivery. I think that will help with the yellowing lower leaf tips. Will feed 1 tsp per gallon tonight and will mix in 3 teaspoons of epsom salt too.

July 21 Feeling light, time for 1.5 tsps of RAW Bloom mixed into a tablespoon of epsom salt. PH came out at 6.3. Topmost branch needed some training, as it has outgrown the light. We'll see how well that goes. July 23 I've increased the light intensity to 75% in hopes of stopping the stretch. I'm also changing the light schedule to 12/12 to start flowering the neighboring photoperiod. The tops of the plants are able to pass the lights, so I've folded them over using a hokey method of LST to tie them down to other shorter branches.

July 26 Fed a gallon of water with a teaspoon and a half of RAW BLOOM mixed into a tablespoon of epsom salt. PH'd to 6.3. July 27 Decided to try raising the lights higher than before. Got maybe an inch or so. I accidently snapped the branch of one of the taller stems, but it's still intact at its 90 degree angle. Maybe that can harden up the joint, it'll survive, and I'll get the affect I was going for when trying to bend it under the light to lay horizontally.

Had a pretty serious gnat infestation this week. I noticed some movement in the runoff water after feeding. After taking video I made a 2:1 water to peroxide mixture to spray down the bucket and into the overflow trays of both plants in the tent. I also added a gnat traps and a low tent to help dry the soil and prevent gnats from hanging out there.

Aug 16: The peroxide and water solution seems to have had an effect on the things moving around the water, and after drying out, I'm not seeing a huge influx in gnats. Friend and I trimmed up the lower leaves not getting any light but stealing nutrients from the higher buds. Plant seemed to take it well. I may do a 4:1 solution here now that things are dry to flush out the crevices of the overflow tray. Buds are looking great though. Needing to use garden wire to even out the canopy after once again raising the light to as far as I can go without reconfiguring the tent.

Aug 22: Getting really close to harvest now. No amber trichomes yet though. Once I see the first amber trichomes appear, I'll give them a week or two.

Aug 28 So close to harvest time. Smell is getting super strong. Not many amber trichomes on the colas closest to the lights yet, telling me that it needs a little more time to cook. Otherwise the trichomes look to be cloudying up.

Sep 5: Decided to harvest the top 7 inches or so of the top of each branch, as these leaves were starting to brown and shrink. Will let the rest of the buds get full light before chopping them. Time for drying. Sep 11: Harvested the rest. First stuff is drying well. Sep 19: Trimmed the first round of the harvest. This stuff is looking great and smells like 'gas'. I can't describe it any other way. Its not great, but not bad, just not your usual greenery smell. Sep 24 Trimmed the second round of the dried harvest. Both are to be stored in grove bags to cure indefinitely. Jan 31, 2024 Still loving this stuff. Really turned out as one of the better quality grows I've had.