Hello growmies!
Welcome to week seven of An Epsilon Adventure! Massive thanks to both Shogun and Royal Queen Seeds for sponsoring this grow!
I have just completed the final defoliation for the three least advanced (and largest) girls. I have also rearranged the tent again to try to maximize the space available and light usage.
I have not fertigated for 5 days after the last fertigation was a flush without coco base. I am struggling with humidity at the moment so I have been trying to let the plants go more dry than usual.
Daily Updates
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Week 7 Day 2 02:30 7/8
Heavily defoliated plants 1, 5 & 6 and removed some of the lower branches. Rearranged tent then photographed & measured:
Plant 1 is now almost unbelievably 2nd tallest at "only" 141cm in height! Her stretch has just about ended.
Plant 2 has stopped stretching at 111cm and is 2nd most advanced into flower.
Plant 3 has stopped stretching at 95cm and is most advanced into flower.
Plant 4 has stopped stretching at 100cm and is 3rd most advanced into flower.
Plant 5 has gained 6cm this week and may add few more but she is pretty close to done stretching at 119cm.
Plant 6 has gained 22cm this week and isn't quite finished. She is now the tallest plant in the series at 142cm.
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Week 7 Day 2 07:00 7/8
Fertigated 1.6l each
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Week 7 Day 4 02:00 9/8
Fertigated 1.6l each reduced coco a/b to 2m/l each.
Spent a bit more time photographing and videoing to try and capture the changes and the developmental differences. These 140cm+ plants are going to STACK. I am bracing myself for a lot of trimming and a monster harvest. 🙏
The current order of maturity and likely order of harvest is 3 2 4 1 5 6. I think the first and last plants will be at least a week apart in harvest, perhaps 2 or 3.
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Week 7 Day 6 23:00 11/8
Fertigated 1.6l each
The smell in the tent is there now, really not that strong but there are 6 plants motoring through flower here now so it's not insignificant either.
Plant 3 is absolutely stacking now, she's more or less run out of space around her cola and is now growing some foxtail like structures, exciting!
Plant 6 the least mature is 2-3 weeks behind plant 3, but her stretch has finally stopped at 144cm.
Took wide angle in tent photos today.
All of the girls are drinking a lot now, but especially plant 1 who is really thirsty.
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Thanks for reading growmies! 👊
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Tent: 120cm x 120cm x 180cm
Light: 600w HID Elite Dual Spectrum HPS + Angel Wing Reflector
Air: 5" duct fan system with carbon filter ~300 m3/hour + RAM 9" floor fan + 4" intake fan
Pots: Air Pruner Fabric Pots 30l - UGro XL Coco + horticultural grade perlite (~20%)
Seeds supplied by Royal Queen Seeds https://www.royalqueenseeds.com
Nutrients supplied by Shogun Fertilisers https://www.shogunfertilisers.com/en
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@NeoCat, regarding the buds filling out! Me too!!! They did last time and how! They are probably the most dense auto-flowering buds I have grown yet, so I am expecting big things here!
@NeoCat, 😆 all of the plants further into flower have darker leaves. I think I need to back off with the nutes now. Actually I think they nees a flush.
@Red_Rockst4r, Yes sir! Thanks you! I am really putting some serious effort into this diary. I am going to enter into August Diary of the Month! I want it to be my best grow and best diary so far!
I have 5 short videos for this week but the GD website is getting worse and worse, and I have just given up trying to upload them. If you wanna see vids go to my twitter or insta. Same username.
@UnorthadoxDude, "colas" es una forma coloquial de decir en español "grandes cogollos"
Yo escribo en español, y a veces el traductor de Growdiaries hace cosas raras 🤣
@MedicineMaker, I will, I think plant 2 is coming down this weekend. I haven't checked trichs for a couple of days, but the smell has changed so I am expecting progress.
@UnorthadoxDude, Sounding really promising, I'm excited for you! Glad to hear you have the temps and humidity under control. I had about the same as you on my last grow towards the end, I'm being patient and waiting 4 weeks of cure before I test. Best of luck and keep me updated! 👊
@MedicineMaker, the fade started on what's left of plant 2 a couple of days ago. I am checking trichomes daily with the loupe, but as yet 0% amber. Almost entirely milky/cloudy at the mo. The remaining buds are starting to look really good, but still bulking. I have given up on stealth and am basically running it with the tent door always open and fans blowing in.
I leave the dehumidifer on 24/7 and in the tent (closed door when lights out). 18/6 they are on now.
Average RH right now is about 45. Temp 28c If I forget to open the tent and blow air in, well the temps hit 35c+.
All Epsilon plants are now getting the "flush" product Dragon Force.
Hi, thanks for the kind comments you left a while ago on my Epsilon grow. It looks like there's definitely something in the genetics which makes them stretch under certain circumstances, fertigation maybe?
My Epsilon looked very like your plant 3, it's a pity she had to be cut down due to the bud rot.
The only thing I would change about my Epsilon grow would have been to not start flushing so soon and to have allowed another couple of weeks at least before cutting. With the curing now done, the smoke is smooth and tasty however not as strong as I would have liked.
@UnorthadoxDude, I agree, leave them another couple of weeks and reassess then.
Others have mentioned that the high is more cerebral than body which I found too.
Can't comment on how much CBN they can produce the longer they mature but I'd be very interested to hear how it goes for you after harvest.
@Jungian79, Hey growmie! Thanks for stopping by, yeah your 95cm plant is the one I referenced in an earlier week. I think I have grown the largest so far in these girls! I am going to leave them as long as I dare. I cut the first grow at day 60, these I am thinking 10-20 more days for the most mature, longer for the others. What do you think? I have heard that if left to get plenty of amber this strain can have body effects, so let us find out! Hopefully I will not be forced to cut anymore early.
@Dolfom, It is not supposed to! It is a 50-70cm strain... all the other grows I have seen, including my previous grow the plants stayed under 1m. As far as I am aware, and as far as RQS are aware, these are now all the largest Epsilon F1 plants grown so far. You can only expect such crazy growth with hydro and synthetic nutrition. In soil these plants will not grow so big, or even in organic coco grow. I am only using 600w HPS. I shudder to think what these plants might do with this nutrition, in even larger pots, with a modern LED growlight.
@Dolfom, yes! If it was to be any plant I am glad it was the smallest. I am now keeping a very very close eye on the inside of the bigger colas as these plants are developing. I have taken steps to increase airflow and reduce humidity.
Sorry to hear about your budrot 😭 it's horrible but hopefully you salvaged enough. Good luck with the hard deadline too, must be stressful.
The buds are looking insane! So sparkly 😋
My girls are dry, halfway through trimming. Hopefully give a weight this week 😎
Very nice updates this week! 👍 This growth is beyond my expertise in how to handle them, the only thing about not feeding them is they might start showing signs of deficiencies. They are hungry 😀 Maybe just start bending the branches horizontally if there are not too stiff.