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Fission 300W Light Emitting Diodes/50W
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Fission 300W Light Emitting Diodes/50W
Custom
Indoor
Room Type
Soil
Grow medium
12 L
Pot Size
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Week 1. Vegetation
6 years ago
18 hrs
20 °C
6.7
17 °C
35 cm
Planted seeds in small plastic containers with normal soil bought from the grocery store. Currently 2 50W LED lights are above the plants. LED's are from china. Note : Didn't make a picture in the first week so I used a picture from week 2.
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Week 2. Vegetation
6 years ago
18 hrs
20 °C
6.7
No Smell
17 °C
35 cm
I tried to automate the LED lights so the lightcycle was a bit inconsistent. (It was successful though.) All seeds germinated, having in total 5 plants. 1 Big Bud Auto, 3 BCN Critical XXL's and 1 Auto Mazar.
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Week 3. Vegetation
6 years ago
18 hrs
20 °C
6.7
No Smell
17 °C
12 L
0 L
40 cm
Moved the plants to buckets. I made holes in the bottom of the bucket and put some shards over them so water won't have a problem getting out. Still using earth from the grocery store. Thinking about starting with fertilizer (maybe next week?). Also made 2 new lights so there are now 4 50W LED's. 1 plant doens't have a direct light above it but it seems to be doing fine for now. PS : Added another plant but this one is of unknown origin, the seed was over a year old and honestly wasn't expecting for it to germinate,
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Week 4. Vegetation
6 years ago
18 hrs
20 °C
6.7
Normal
17 °C
12 L
0 L
40 cm
Plants are doing well. I also started adding some fertilizer to them. (Will update) The only plant that reacted badly to the fertilizer was the one of unknown origin (it is also the smallest), it started yellowing so I reduced the amount of fertilizer and that seems to do it. Also moved the lights a bit higher because they are growing quite fast.
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Week 5. Vegetation
6 years ago
50 cm
18 hrs
20 °C
6.7
Normal
17 °C
12 L
0 L
40 cm
Last saturday I built a DIY Grow tent, I know not the best but more than this I don't really need at the moment. Ending of week 5, 1 plant (a BCN Critical XXL) seems to get a lot of leaves and seems bushier than the other 2. Is this because of light competition? The red label is Auto Mazar. The blue label is BCN Critical XXL auto. The green label is Big Bud auto. Also added a 5th LED light, coming down to 250W in total.
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Week 6. Vegetation
6 years ago
50 cm
18 hrs
20 °C
6.7
Normal
17 °C
12 L
0 L
40 cm
And we're at week 6! 2 plants already seem to have started flowering. The others I'm not sure about but my guess is they will enter the flowering stage this week as well. Also the lights seemed a bit too close to the plants so I put them further away from the plants. (Guessing to be about 35-40cm) 7-10-2018 : Wow they've grown a lot. The DIY tent I built seems to be getting full! I do regret not putting them in bigger pots though, I have a feeling they would've grown larger.
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Week 7. Flowering
6 years ago
92 cm
18 hrs
20 °C
6.7
Normal
17 °C
12 L
0 L
40 cm
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Week 8. Flowering
6 years ago
115 cm
18 hrs
20 °C
6.7
Normal
17 °C
12 L
0 L
30 cm
And here we are at week 8, not as good as a start as week 7. I found out 1 of the plants was starting to make pollen sacks so I had to place it out of the tent. Unfortunately it was a hermaphrodite. I removed the sacks and will continue to monitor the plant in a separate environment.
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Grow Questions
Earthflow
Earthflowstarted grow question 6 years ago
I have a question regarding my feeding methods, the plants are currently in flower period and I'm using Canna Terra Flores to feed them. The plants recieve about 2-3 ml of this product a day. But is this enough? Should I give more? Will the buds increase in size if I do? Thanks!
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Techniques. Defoliation
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Athosanswered grow question 6 years ago
As long as you don't see signs of deficiency, then your feedings are ok. Increasing the amount of nutes will only increase the chance of burning them. Buds will not grow very much the first 3 weeks of flower, which if the stretch phase, when the plant grow rapidly to make room for the buds, which is the phase you are in.
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Week 9. Flowering
6 years ago
122 cm
18 hrs
20 °C
6.7
Normal
17 °C
12 L
1 L
20 cm
This week has been interesting as well, one plant got heavily underwatered and it shows. Leaves were turning dry and were dying off. The situation seems stable now.
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Week 10. Flowering
6 years ago
122 cm
18 hrs
20 °C
6.7
Normal
17 °C
12 L
1 L
20 cm
We are nearing the end of week 10, the buds finally seems to be getting thicker.
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Week 11. Flowering
6 years ago
125 cm
18 hrs
18 °C
Normal
17 °C
12 L
1 L
20 cm
2 plants seems to have serious deficiencies, the leaves get brown spots and then they slowly die off. To try and stop this from happening I used some feed for the vegetative growth. (The one in the picture is the random seed, it's a small plant but it is the most developed. (By far))
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Week 12. Flowering
6 years ago
125 cm
18 hrs
18 °C
Normal
17 °C
12 L
1 L
20 cm
As you can see in the pictures the plants seem to have deficiencies, I don't know what it causing it. The buds also don't fatten up as much as I'd hoped. Maybe it is the ground I used so next time I'll get something better. What I'm using as feed for the plants the last couple weeks is Canna Terra Flores, about 10mL in 2 Liters. (And then use the 2 Liters for 5 plants, on top of that we also water them if needed.)
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BeefWellingtons
BeefWellingtonscommentedweek 46 years ago
Hello, I was wondering if you could post pics of your girls without the leds on, and with flash? It's really hard to see them with all the purple light. Good luck on your grow!
Earthflow
Earthflowcommented6 years ago
@BeefWellingtons, will add those when I'm back home! (Weekend)
BeefWellingtons
BeefWellingtonscommentedweek 116 years ago
Don't be shy here, we are here to help. Use a grow question if you have it? You need to post pics of the issue, full plant and some zoom in shots of the issue. Ask away, no one will give you a hard time, we are here to support eachother and help out. You also don't have a lot of the info filled out like nutrients, ph, ppm/tds, and humidity which will be used to help determine what your plant needs. Please fill out these info so we can help ya, good luck!
Earthflow
Earthflowcommented6 years ago
Thanks for your message! I posted some pictures so maybe you have an idea?
Seedstockers
Seedstockerscommentedweek 56 years ago
Good luck for the rest of the grow ! .-)
Earthflow
Earthflowcommented6 years ago
Thanks!
420Cleveland
420Clevelandcommentedweek 36 years ago
Following. Bests of growing mate, I’m there with ya.
Earthflow
Earthflowcommented6 years ago
@420Cleveland, Thanks, you as well!
BeefWellingtons
BeefWellingtonscommentedweek 106 years ago
So what are you guessing, 3 more weeks or so?
Earthflow
Earthflowcommented6 years ago
I think they should be done in about 3 weeks. I hope they'll survive that long though..
DadasGrow
DadasGrowcommentedweek 106 years ago
Hope all goes well with your first grow my friend! I am also on my first grow!!
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