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Started off germinating the Grapefruit and taproots showing at 05/06, planted directly into an Eazyplug cube w/10 L fabric pot + Freedom Farms seed starter. Red clovers were germinated the same time and thrown directly into the soil mix, those germinated and sprouted within ~7days for Nitrogen fixation into the soil.
Had a G13 Labs Berry Auto which unfortunately has gone up to day 11 now with incredibly slow growth, might have been error on my part with a bit too much water + humidity. Sadly had to pull the small girl out since there was evidence of stress + damping off as the root j-rooted and then died after trying to correct this minor issue. Don't think I'll buy G13 seeds soon considering the Grapefruit had 0 issues despite germination being slightly slower than the Berry.
The giant mycelium bag is a Co2 generator with some Shiitake mushroom culture pre-inoculated and colonized. Broke the substrate up a bit by squeezing the bag today so the mycelium fruit has more space to colonize in. :)
Going alright despite the loss of Berry, keeping soil about 60-70% dry with small sprays of water + humidifier on for ~1-2 hours a day and watered with ~10-30ml of water every 1/2 days as a fine mist.
It's going well, starting into the second week of veg now. Grapefruit is doing excellent while I'm waiting on the GG XL Auto to germinate, will move that into the old berry pot + eazyplug once the taproot is long enough and looking healthy.
Day 13: New sets of true leaves coming in, gave her some water since the soil was too dry and the plug was lifting again >:|
Is there anyway I can avoid this besides keeping it wet and pressed down until stronger roots form? I'm worried about the root structure and stress if I have to keep pressing it into the soil...
Starting into week 3, Grapefruit stem sagged a little bit when I gave some misting on the leaves this morning with tap water @ ~500ml for clovers + seedling.
Gorilla Girl XL is going extremely fast on germination and growth, germinated Wed 14/06, Taproot appeared 15-16/06 and planted the morning of 16/06 ~3cm deep and the cotyledon/seed shell is pushing above the soil w/ the little humidity dome helping. :)
Day 15-16 Grapefruit is on a tiny little LST/Soft support because she was sagging. GG XL is REALLY strong coming up with a super deep crimson, almost dark red/purple stem at the base and the grapefruit has super red stems already, dare I say (pun intended) as red a grapefruit ;P
Considering buying a 1L bottle of Environoc Bio-Dyne 401 for the soil, sprayed some in my container outside and think there might be small traces left when I cleaned it, if that is contributing in a small way to such fast and healthy growth I'm going to get some and starting feeding in small doses.
The stem support helped, Day 17 she's back to supporting herself. Seed shell is cracking and falling off the Gorilla Girl XL. Moved the light up a bit further and the fan, seems the plants were under a small bit of light, water and wind stress.
Day 21: Grapefruit is beautiful and taking easily into the VERY light LST to get her stem more centered, GG XL is on Day 10, the leaves and cotyledons were stuck to the shell and growing into the seed shell which I very carefully pulled off. Sadly this damaged 1/2 + 1/4 of the one cotyledon and only 1/2 of the other. She has one set of small true leaves and another bright green pair in the middle coming up. Grapefruit is going to be going into the 4th week start tomorrow leaving about a month or so for new growth and flowering to start up.
White spots/lesions growing on stem base but not on leaves or anywhere else?
This started within the last 1-3 days.
The stem "splitting" on the skin was present since it was sagging and bounced back fine.
Worried this is mold/infection from soil. Packed more soil onto the top (!)
Looked at the leaves and did some research, either this is just a normal process where the plant tries to grow extra roots or it's mildew. Either way I think I'll dial down from 2 cups of water in the morning to just 1 once the soil has dried out today/tomorrow. Over/underwatering has possibly led to stem sagging + slow growth so next time I'm investing in Autopots or watering less often + small amounts...
Day 22: Grapefruit is showing Pistils and small pre-flower nodes in the middle internode leaves. Leaves are shooting up like crazy, going quite fast.
Day 11: Gorilla Girl is surviving well without her cotyledons, stem is a bit thin and long but I'm sure as she grows it'll get stronger.
No Bio-Dyne feeding yet, only using dechlorinated tap water stored in sealed containers. The cover crop fixes a lot of nitrogen and moisture into the soil so saving a lot on watering for the interim.
27/06: Fed both plants with ~7ml Biodyne/250-300ml of dechlorinated water. I'm noticing Potassium (K) deficiency in the true leaves of Grapefruit, hopefully the Biodyne dosage will help out. Trimmed down the Red Clovers to decompose and feed the soil since they're getting really tall + big, hoping that helps with the NPK balance too. Also raised the light back up to ~64 cm from side of pot, noticing some roots coming out the bottom of the fabric pot so I'll need to get some trays for that.
28/06: I may need to get trays ASAP, there's roots sticking out the bottom of the pots. Presumably from the clovers or the plants themselves. I'm worried about N(itrogen) Toxicity in the soil, if I really have to I'll buy expensive RO water for plant feeding. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
01/07: Got trays, need to get more plain soil and perlite for drainage. Just keeping an eye on how things are going from here, will definitely do things very different next run. No N-Tox or any other issues so I'm guessing the deep green leaves are the pheno expression to get more light in since the bigger fan leaves are blocking the light on the smaller fan leaves that were suspected of N-Tox, but again if it were truly N-Tox there would be yellowing, burn and clawing. As for the burnt tips, this is also normal, possibly just the plant pulling extra nutes out of the unused fan leaves.
Gorilla Girl is now ending Week 2 going into Week 3
Grapefruit is now ending Week 3 going into Week 4 with pre-flower nodes + pistils.
03/07: Packed down Freedom Farms Premium into the pots and recycled the clovers into the soil and outside garden.
GG XL Watered with 250ml Rain Water - ~0.75ml BioDyne + 0.75ml BioGrow
Grapefruit watered with 500ml rain water - ~0.75ml BioDyne + 0.75ml BioGrow with a foliar spray to treat early/medium stage Mg deficiency, she was showing this (interveinal chlorosis in 4th/5th fan leaves) in the start of week 4 which means the soil nutrients were depleted.
05/07:
Watered with ~250ml / 0.5ml BioGrow - GGXL
Watered with ~500ml / 0.5ml BioGrow - Grapefruit
Want to move to watering every morning so the soil can dry out on schedule, and keep a good routine to get up early. Carpe diem :)
06/07:
D32 for Grapefruit ending week 4 and starting week 5
D21 for GG XL ending week 2 and starting week 3
Watered GG XL with ~1ml/500ml BioGrow + Rain water. Left Grapefruit since the meter still indicated root-level was moist and the top layer is still wet.
07/07:
Watered Grapefruit with 1L/~1ml Bio-Grow for start of week 5
Watered GG XL with 500ml/~0.25ml Bio-Grow for start of week 3 - both soil layers were low-moist to almost dry and meter confirmed the same for the bottom layer. Rain water used as usual from a collection tank, working better than tap water and de-Cl'ed tap water.
ULST: Ultra Low Stress Training: If you look at the bud site leaves being overtaken by the older, deficient fan leaves they're blocking the bud sites. We can use the apical dominance and natural leaf strucuture to tuck the fans down and let the new cola leaves get more light without harming the plant or pruning/HST/defoliation.
08/07:
Grabbed some pots and tray for microgreens and cooking herbs, left to right: Sparkle Radish, Mystic Lemon Thyme (1st from left), Tricolour Sage (2nd from left), bottom row is Smokey Bronze Fennel, and next to it is Gold Origanum. 20lt pots + standard potting soil w/Rainwater ~1.0l 2ml BioDyne
09/07: Moved the herbs outside, Radishes stay inside. The fennel had aphids on it and it has been super overcast so I didn't see them until today, unfortunate but rather better they stay outdoors until I can harvest some or plant them somewhere permanent in the future...
Evening 09/07: There were some leaves showing very early signs of leaf septoria, sprayed down the door of the tent with a mix of 40 volume ~5ml H2O2/300ml De-Cl'ed H20, wiped and sprayed the floor down and the floor cover inside the tent.
I've cut off the infected leaves so hopefully this doesn't put too much stress on the Grapefruit but the FastBuds blogs/documentation says it's fine, experienced with botany since I was young so the 20% rule was intuition and it turned out to be the perfect amount to get more airation over the leaves and bud sites. I've moved the little fan and discovered it actually swivels (RTFM) to point towards the canopy without beating the stems and leaves down at all, RAM stuff is excellent 5/5 will definitely recommend (not paid).
13/07: Infected C.Septoria leaves are gone, new leaves are looking good. There's still a slight Mg deficiency showing in the old fan leaves but looking at new leaves they're a healthy shade of green. If there's any deficiency in Mg I'll get Epsom Salts ASAP.
18/07: Pistil and Stigma sites forming on GG XL, coming to the end of week 5 with her soon. :)
20/07: GG XL looking beautiful
13/07:
End of week 5 and start week 6 for Grapefruit, going excellent. Bracts and calyxes, stigmas and lots of bud sites.
Stem is fat and strong, tomorrow will be watered with ~1.25ml Bio-Grow/1.5l water and GG XL stays at 500ml/24h until Week 5+
End of week 3 for GG XL 14/07 and start week 4.
Going forward might take photos and update end of each week as my doc has advised to reduce strain on my wrists and typing a lot. Will keep updated each day with photos and notes, but end of each Thur/Fri will update diary, will continue Grapefruit onward from Week6, but GG XL updates will be kept in week 5 until she's harvested.
22/07 GG XL Starting week 6 now.
Borked the time tracking on the previous diary weeks, both are still going strong. Grapefruit is developing a lot of new internode fan leaves, but she's too late into bloom now to defoliate etc. and don't want to stress the GG XL either.
Latest GG XL photos are in Week 5. Microgreens are also coming up fast.
17/07: Forgot to take Day 42 photos for both girls, my apologies as my wrists have been giving me hell but will get some more up soon. I've been keeping with the same watering schedule, some bud sites are being shaded by fan leaves so I'm trying to VERY carefully bend them down to prop up the little bud sites better. I've rubbed my fingers on some of the fan leaves to get rid of whatever weird white dust is ending up on my leaves, probably just debris from the air and the fan might need a cleaning soon but holy shit my fingers smell strong like Pomegranate and fruits. It's getting quite addictive to smell the bud sites and rub that resin of her fan leaves, I wish I could describe it better but damn it smells good. If the resin is any indication of the final smoke I know that the Grapefruit is gonna be dank. Can't wait till drying + harvest time :))
18/07: Plucked off some lower burnt leaves that were really old, snipped off two more big fan leaves shading new bud sites and removed the stumps from old leaves rather making those closely cut down stubs instead so no bug invaders can get a free home. :P
Humidity has been ridiculously high today >~65% and dropping now in the evening after the rain has stopped to <~60%, I added some Sodium Bicarbonate in plastic jars around the tent to help pull out water from the air. (18/07: Seems to be helping, I'm seeing about a ~2-5% drop overnight and this morning, usually the humidity in the morning before+after rain is ~60-65%)
20/07: The paper ref regarding RH and Bicarb. of Soda: W.-Y. Kuu et al. / International Journal of Pharmaceutics 166 (1998) 167–175 / PII: S0378-5173(98)00049-0 - I don't know how or why but keeping temps at ~21-23C drops the RH down to a stable mid-low 50's range. Thank fuck now I don't have to drop tonnes of money on a huge dehumidifier... Occam's razor baby :)
21/07: Had to move the light, fan, carbon filter and literally everything. Some minor shit for the cover broke on top of the CaCl -RH% and the bicarb got knocked over. Wiped, sprayed down and cleaned out the fan filter as well. What a fucking start to the day...
31/07: GG XL is in Week 7 now, so getting well into flower, growing at an exponential rate and starting to give off a very subtle smell, Grapefruit smells quite noticeable now too.
03/08: GG XL ending week 7, getting massive. ~77-78CM now. Had to defoliate the Grapefruit since leaf miners were still assaulting her, hopefully this helps get more light and airflow into the bud sites, been having humidity issues but can't do much.
22/07: Grapefruit Week 8 starts now, bracts and flowers are packing on. Investing in some Bio-Bloom ASAP to help some small nutrient deficiences. Seeing an Mn (Manganese) deficiency.
Watered with Rainwater @ ~5.5-6pH approx 2/3x p/w possibly a bit more now into early+later flowering. Both will get ~1.25ml Bio-Grow and Bio-Bloom with BioDyne microbes around the end of this month just for them to settle with the nutrients for late veg/early/mid-flower.
29/07: Watered this past Wed + Today, this watering added both Acti-Vera (Bio-Activator), Bio-Bloom (Bloom Fertilizer) and Biodyne Environoc 401 (25-strain microbes and Bio-Stimulant). Looking forward to seeing how the end of the next week looks for both with the extra nutes added to the regimen :)
09/08: Watering both today with extra nutes, not sure when GG XL will finish but she is T A L L and happy. :)
31/07: Watering + feeding schedule is Mon/Wed/Sat I've found this lets the soil dry out on a predictable schedule, and also lets the plants tell me when they both need water. The Bio-Bloom looks to be stopping the Mn/Molybdenum deficiency, Acti-Vera seems to be stopping leaf miners as well, their paths are shorter and sites are reduced to none.
03/08: Defoliated due to the leaf miners, also good to lollipop/defoliate a bit for the buds to get more light since there were too many fan leaves shading flower sites.
04/08: Watered today, soil was very dry.
(Note: Flowers aren't really fattening up, nute issues show an issue with bloom micro/macronutrient deficiencies, next watering I'm upping the dosages to: 5.25ml/1500ml Acti-Vera, 4.25ml/1500ml Bio-Bloom and already upped Biodyne to 3ml/1500ml. Bio-Grow stays at 1.25ml/1500ml.
05/08: Watered again with the nutrients dialed up a lot more, hopefully this allows the buds to fatten up and finish since the GG XL is causing competition with the Grapefruit now...
09/08: Will water both again today, the pistils are starting to ripen on the Grapefruit, it's EXTREMELY resiny but the buds are feeling nice and weighty. Certain the next grow will be better and deffo gonna invest in a dehumidifer next time, SCROG net and LST since I only have Sativa-dominant genetics left. I'm not sure what to do about these very late bottom node flowers, I might have to cut the top and then let the bottom finish? idk if you have advice pls let me know, I'm not stressed since it's my first proper grow but would like to learn for future.
13/08: 1st cut is done on the Grapefruit, I'll supply a review and smoke report once the second cut is finished. The trichs were 90% milky/cloudy and about 10% amber, really don't care bout the "amber trich" myth since that's for more longer flowering Hazes and Sativa strains and NOT common on Hybrids. The pistils on the buds harvested were about 50-70% orange, was somewhat forced to do a first cut cuz the GGXL is finishing up and I can't be without space anymore. Hopefully drying is quick, no batteries so est 30g wet (maybe 40-50?) so dunno about dry. Very FIRST strain and grow taken to semi-harvest, happy with the strain and genetics but definitely not something I'll grow again in the future, maybe very far into the future since electric is expensive... I'd say it's a 7/10, not great, not bad. Had some fuckups in the beginning, lack of nutes and soil etc that didn't help but overall an excellent strain for noobs, very forgiving with nutes, early stages, over/underwatering and so forth. Excited to see when the GG XL is finished, she's TALL and massive so hopefully she'll yield a lot more once done.
19/08: GG XL coming into start of week 10, end of 9. Buds are getting nice, very tall and busy, massive leaves. Moved the light up a bit further since she's looking a bit unhappy.
Took about the expected time to grow, the pistils didn't ripen much when I harvested her which might just have been her pheno. Some did but most were white, not too bothered. Good strain, good experience. Happy with the 1st grow, smoke and harvest. Fuckin tasty, tastes like flowers, fruits and lemon/soft lime and grapefruit of course. It has a super sweet aftertaste and a very nice mellow peak on the high, kind of impressed even with the dry/cure it has now that it works so well. :D
Grew about expected, definitely a 9/10 strain. Will see better harvests and grows going forward since I've got one more freebie which I might attempt at doing in DWC/Hydro for fun.
Will post some photos of the buds when they're a bit drier and had a little time to cure and update the final dry weight.
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