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The 4 GMO Cookies are dispensary bag seed and the GG auto is 4+ years old and from fastbuds. I got a fat bastard clone from my buddy a week or 2 in. another buddy brought over something he says is granddaddy purple. I didn't want it in there, but ....
The 4+ year old GG auto took 2 extra days to germ.
pieced together the platform this week(out of nothing) and tried getting it to drain outside the tent.
Tied the kinky ladies down as needed.
A different buddy dropped this poor girl off and he says she's a Grand Daddy Purp or Northern Lights. I took her head off once I got it and threw her in there. I don't claim it, she's 40 days older than my ladies.
Just got my CO2 gear back and put it on this week. I've been running it and staying at 90 with the exhaust fan off. It did creep to 91 thought at one point.
I'm flipping this week. I'll continue tucking for the first week or two of 12/12 if I can.
I definitely should have defoliated a lot more before the 12/12 stretch.
I decided to throw a 400 HPS in there with the co2 and all. I also have another light on the way.
Temps haven't gotten over 90°. The AC unit that's hooked up to the tent kicks on and off and it's managed to stay 90° or under. It fluctuates between 83°-90° in the tent when the co2's kickin and it's sealed.. This probably only runs 6-8 hours a day.
I apologize for neglecting the Gorrilla Auto, Fast Buds, but the thing started out at a super slow pace, even took 2 days longer to germinate and has been slacking the entire grow. I did get the thing over 4 years ago, if that plays a role in the quality of that darn slow moving seed. It is my only auto flower. I have grown fastbuds before, even GG auto, and everything was A-OK.
All of the dispensary BAG SEED(hermaphrodite "GMO cookies" seeds I assume) turned out to be ladies. 👍
Day 47 - DEFOLIATED
I gave the girls a trim. I hated doing so, but the airflow was pretty poor. I go into Edward Scissorhands mode and probably take too much off.
Day 48, Day 10 of flower - FLUSH
So, the one someone left at my doorstep is showing a calcium deficiency, I'm guessing because its like 90 days old and was outside getting rained on, so there probably isn't jack for for nutes left in that soil. I have no cal/mag, so I did the eggshells in a coffee grinder and vinegar thing for calcium and mix it up along will other nutes then feed her, but wait, I didn't PH it....FUCK. So now I probably just watered her at 4.5 PH or some shit, so I'm thinking FLUSH TIME. I pour a gallon of water PH'd to 6.8 through her and test the run off. 5.1!!! It takes 8 gallons of 7.0 water run through her before the run off reaches 6.0. I have no clue what this means, but if I pour in a PH of 7 and it comes out 6, does this mean the soils PH is in middle of that, 6.5??? or is my logic foggy and the soils PH is really the same as the run off? Anyway, I then mix nutes at 6.8 and water. This freaking took like 3 hours, lol. I also ran 2 gallons of 6.8 water through the others then poured 1.5 gallons of 6.8 nutes through. I also received my light today😁. Was a busy day
If I pour in a PH of 7 and the run off comes out 6, does this mean the soils PH is in middle of that, 6.5??? or is my logic foggy and the soils PH is really the same as the run off?
I typically do not get runoff when grown in soil but that's because I use amendments and my soil is dense so if I'm getting runoff I have overwatered and with runoff and amendments it's wasted nutrients leaching the medium and starving the plants. But if your going in at 7 and your runoff is 6, its closer to 6 IMO or lower as the 7 is getting lowered to a 6.
Now if you really are using soilless potting mix and not soil or soil with a bunch of perlite, its fine to get runoff. I also see your using liquid nutrients so its always available to the plants and that's not an issues like amendments, I would monitor the EC/PPM of the runoff as well, they may have an effect on your PH swings. High EC = lower PH. Putting enough perlite or extras to help it aerate/drain in soil will also prevent overwatering it.
When doing stand alone soil ph tests in the slurry method I've always been instructed to use distilled water. as you want the PH of the medium, and distilled water is neutral, dead middle on 7. so where it goes from there is indicative of where its at. 6 end result is not bad. I'd like to see it aorund 6.2-6.4 but 6 is within the lower ends of normal. The first bit on runoff will always be a bit higher in EC and lower in ph, let it drain a tiny bit before collecting your sample for testing PH/EC.
Good Luck!
What I thought to be a cal deficiency at first glance appears to be rust fungus or leaf septoria, but nothing rubs off of the spots, which confuses me. I freaked out and tore the hell out of the plant my buddy left on my doorstep, stripped all the freakin spotted leaves. I'm hesitant to toss it, dont know why, I did notice spots on 2 other plants, barely, bastard being one of them. Ill be keeping a great hawk eye on them, ready to pluck anything I notice with a rust spot or toss that one plant out of there if I see too much appear. I need to grab some neem oil as well. Maybe I shouldn't run the tent sealed anymore, as I think it could be a big reason for the fungus. I never let humidity get over 60 and I had pretty decent air movement, but they are squeezed in there. I'm freaking scared.
Nothing rubs off these spots. My run off PH has been low which makes me think calcium still. Guess I'll do some big-time flushing.
Flushed all with 6.8 water until run off reached 6.5, roughly 10-12 gallons each. I'll l feed them tomorrow. Usually, I flush around day 45. I was trying to see if i could get away without doing so, with that scrog n all.
Whew, I was trippin out there there, after reading n shit I got thinking the worst, should've stuck with my original diagnosis. I'm sure they'll be ok.👍
Zipper broke off the tent the other night, so it's now "sealed" with a red blanket🤣
day 58 - (22 days of 12/12) - defoliated quite a bit, hopefully not too much. Will still pluck away a few leaves throughout. Broke a top off while doing so :'(
They seem to be done stretchin
I sure didn't think this one through, how the hell am i going to get these out of that screen. That scrog net is made out of 2 pieces of wire and I can't really cut it, because I may need that screen to help hold up these massive nugs that are developing.... hah.
day 60 - plucked quite a few leaves again.
I havent really had to kick the AC on at all. When i do, its to control the humidity. Lately, the daytime temperature has hung out at 77-84 at screen level, 82-89 at bud tops. Will lower CO2 level a bit, and hopefully temps as well, here in a few days.
day 61 - I flushed the orphan plant, again. I also stuck a hanger down in the soil repeated to loosen up the soil that barely drained, it was like a freakin rock. Having been outside for 2 months before she got to me did that soil something fierce. I've ran 24 gallons of 6.8 water through that girl in like the past 5 days. Run off was looking good, we'll see.
Ate some ice cream today that came with dried ice, so I threw it in the tent and saved thd gas inthe tank. That dry ice had the tent at 1400 ppm while the tent was fully open
Its been hanging out at 84 degrees at tops, 80 degrees at screen level. CO2 level only been in the 900s, i"d like to drop temps a few degrees. Maybe just adjusting the direction of the exhaust or raising the lights a tad will do the trick.
I will do more tying down during flower if i scrog again, because one plant keeps freakin climbing! I switched the Veg switch off on the light over the climber to help temp. I stoked the girls up with nutes this week and i see a touch of nute burn, if it gets worse, ill flush em, but i like seeing that slight burn, iI know they getting enough food, lol. Im not too literate when it comes to reading this ec meter and testing the run off, ill figure it out eventually sometime.
Day 69 - today I open the tent the tent to a fan crushing one of the girls. This is the second time this has happened. I screwed the damn fan in place now.
Day 76 - a few of the girls stems have slowly been turning purple and when the leaves started showing purple-like interveinal chlorosis, I decided to flush. Ran 25 gallons through the ladies and then hit em with some nutes.
78 - I got a new light this week and dropped it in there, a Szhlux 8000, the CO2 tank finally depleted as well.
With the new light, temps stay 85 at the tallest top(which has been struggling) and 79-81 pretty much everywhere else. Been debating on refilling the CO2 tank, since the PPM stays around 800-950 anyway. All that leakage from the cover sealed tent😂 must be hanging out in the surrounding area, coo.
83 - The Gorilla Auto is about done, around 2% amber trichomes, I'll probably chop her in a week, although I'm dreading getting her out of that damn screen. It was an older seed and was slacking the entire grow. She's only been getting 12 hours of light daily. It's just taking a bit longer than I expected.
The girls have purple/brown leaves and I'm assuming it's light burn of some sort. I'm wondering if the UV diodes in my grow light are causing the coloration, because they stay on whenever the lights on. They may be purple, but I am not digging it.
86 - I'll have to remove the Gorilla Auto any day tnow, so I cut the screen. It was an old seed, took off slow and looks a bit on the small side to me. I did neglect the poor girl. Kept her farthest away from light and she had a tad too much nitrogen. I failed to switch nutes when the autoflower started flowering 10 days before the rest
87 - the old, slow, slacking behind Gorilla Auto turned out like it was slow and slacking behind, lol. Again, I had gotten the seed back in 2018, so it's old.
92 - Flushed - Ran 40 gallons of 6.5 water through the group of gals throughout the day
Great, I noticed spider mites on the bottom middle of 2 plants a week before harvest😔. I plucked MANY leaves and small buds, even a few branches. Then I sprayed the 2 with "Captain Jack's insecticidal super soap". Then I read you can suffocate mites by supplying CO2 to the grow room at 1200 ppm for an hour. But my CO2 monitor only goes up to 3000, hmmm.....
93- Today I plucked a few infested leaves, taped up the tent(its currently "sealed" by a blanket 😂)and turned off the exhaust. I then took the CO2 sensor outside of the tent and placed it on the ceiling. I let the flow meter run at 15 SCFH, for an hour straight. I warmed the regulator with a torch about 10 times because I was afraid it would freeze. The sensor outside the tent on the ceilng read 2500 ppm from the leakage after an hour. When I snuck the sensor in for a second, it instantly told me "HI" and started beeping, so I hope it was up around 12,000 ppm or way over. I cleared the tent out safely and then vacuumed the leaves with a shop vac, even sucked up a couple full stalks for a few seconds. I will check for mite movement here in a bit.
95 - I saw a few still mites and then finally one moving. It's really not that bad at all, and I'm going to be steady plucking any infested leaf I notice. Maybe I'll rinse em a tad at harvest as well.
They're falling all over. I'm tying em all up😁👍
98 - Day 59 of flower - I pulled the unknown gal from the tent and I'll toss her in darkness for 2 days before I chop. The trichomes were so mixed up, 20% amber, 20%clear, 20% cloudy, 20% milky white. She has me so confused I just pulled that damn bitch. Females ..........
99 - Wish these trichs would turn amber already, I feel like I flushed too early, girls could've maybe used a bit more food. "Fat Bastards" trichomes look the same as the pic.
Opinions on trichomes picture are welcome. Now or a week or 10 days?? I'm thinking 3 days to a week and hopefully I get a few amber trichs. I may let one GMO go for awhile.
102 - Day 63 of flower - Fat Bastards trichomes look about ready. Some spots have some amber, some spots are all white, and some spots clear and white. I think I'll pull her tomorrow or the next.
I grew cookies and they look delicious😁 It's crazy how they all look so different. Anyone grow any milk?😆
The smell seems to have faded away this week. I'm assuming its from the lower temps.
Day 108 - Day 68 of flower - The GMO Cookies are all going in dark for a couple days. I'll be posting their harvest here soon.
Fat Bastard sure looks pretty fat👍 I'll try drying for at least a week with both temp and humidity between 55-60. I may go check the wet weight, but😕 I'm curious to see how fat bastard turns out. Smells skunky/sweet-fruity, can't wait.
Hung a wet towel in the closet to help keep the humidity up there and it seems to be working.
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