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Soaked both seeds overnight 7/10/23 for about 10 hours then direct sowed them in the morning in the 5-gallon ac infinity pots with a handful of nutrient-less medium placed in the center of the pots to plant. Both sprouted on 7/14. Started with some pretty damp soil to begin with as I had to hydrate a whole coco-coir block just to mix 10 percent into 2,5-gallon pots and got it a little water than I wanted but It dried out fine.
Did not water much the first week as my soil was pretty moist from making it. I did apply a small amount of diluted kelp on the leaves and at the base of the roots about 1 week in.
Gave them 2 slow waterings with my sprayer about every 2 1/2 days once in the morning and once at night. Have my compost tea brewer set up to oxygenate my water. Both plants got a little over half a gallon twice the second week and they were noticeably larger and healthier after each watering. Soil temps are now staying around 72 degrees
Is it okay for my nighttime humidity levels to be above 60 percent during flower? My tent is trying to keep it within the threshold I have it set right now which is 52%-57%. My ac 6 inch cloudline and fan are running on 10 trying to get the humidity down, and is failing
No es para preocuparse su nivel de humedad. Preocúpese si la temperatura aumenta. La combinación temperatura y humedad alta pueden traer problemas. Si no puede bajar la humedad mantenga baja la temperatura y puede aplicar defoliacion para mayor circulación de aire.
Stems are looking thick and the light seems to be penetrating the canopy well and leaves growing from the nodes are growing vigorously. Gave them their first trim on day 19 and they are bushing out very nicely. Notice a very slight tip burn on the youngest growth that I'm not too worried about at this point.
Haven't really done much to my plants this week other than let them recover. They got two watering one of which was more of a root drench with the compost tea to get the microbes going more in the soil. Also diluted some of the tea and foliar fed all the leaves. Also worth mentioning that I upgraded the light to a 400w Bestva i got on amazon for $200 and moved the ac s33 to my 2x2. I have the light set so the leaves are getting around 500-700 par. I think I will transplant them into my 20-gallon containers this weekend and try to get some cuttings before flipping them to flower in the next week or two.
Transplanted From Ac infinity 5-gallon pots to 20-gallon Rain science pots. Made my soil mixture a week prior and let it sit in a very large trashcan. It slightly differs from the original mix I used for the 5-gallon pots. With the addition of pumice kelp meal and crab/lobster meal.
Got 6 nice cutting off of each plant for clones. good amount of defoliation and training going on this week. Also built a stackable worm bin and feeding the trimmings into it.
They got a top dressing toward the end of the week of happy frog all-purpose, bone meal, neem seem meal mixed into some seed start mix as a top dressing to get them ready for pre-flower. Noticed some leaf burn I thought was from nutrients but have concluded was actually light stress so decided to actually up the nutrients.I also raised the light and adjusted the dimmer and the plants started to stretch this week. Only been watering twice a week about 3L per 20-gallon pot. The clones were rooted in 8 days using clonex and rapid rooter 100 percent success rate. My first time taking clones. Also sprouted 2 of the Dutch Passion Feminized Photo Durban Poison for my next round. They are doing amazing and only took 3 days to come up.
Re- adjusted my scrog net and added a second one. as they had big gaps in the centers. Ac Infinity and Vivosun sell a product that gives you something to tie down to but both cost $40. They really should start integrating a horizontal support pole in the grow tents from the factory instead of making it a $40 add-on. They only velcro on too so they didn't seem to be worth the money. so I just used what I had lying around some nylon twine and some velcro straps to hold the net better. i really wish i would have had it set up like this from the start I think I would have been able to get more ideal training for my branches
The first night of Flower got 18 hours of darkness as i flipped their schedule from on 4am-10pm to on 4:30pm-off 4:30am to give me time to work on the both in the morning before work and when I get home.
Bit of a rough start to the week and a rough week in general! Somehow in adjusting my environment from veg to flower, I set too high of a buffer for my humidifier, and the first night of flipping to flower the humidity spike to over 90 percent for over 4 hours. I gave all the plants a full-strength brew of Boogie Brew compost tea the night before, and the two 20 gallons didn't end up getting water for a whole week to let the moisture levels even out. Either between the spike in humidity, turning the humidifier off, and letting it sit in my tent unused all week. or from me potting up my clones and not sterilizing the seed starting mix I was using like I did when starting the Durban seeds I developed some fungus gnats.
I quickly deployed my sticky traps and ordered some Diotematious earth. Both started working very well catching a few dozen adults on each trap. As I needed to water I began thinking about mulch as it is one of the things i overlooked with the grow so i decided to water the plants applied more DE, and a small amount of neem seed meal and cinnamon to the top of soil followed by a thick layer of dry pine pet bedding laced with more DE/NSM/C on top the following day there were little signs of any fungus gnats and only a few adults stuck on the traps.
Ended the week with a top dressing of Gaia green bloom/rock dust/humic acid before I put the pine bedding on top. No plain water this week for 20 gallons as the last "watering" was compost tea and this watering had a top dressing of the Gaia green. I think they may only receive water from here on out.
The light is adjusted so the top canopy is around 700-850 ppfd about 35 inches left to the light where the ppfd is around 2500 with light turned all the way up. May need to adjust the dimmer down if they stretch too much but this is a pretty bushy strain and I think I will be okay. If I grew this again and didn't take clones I think week 4 would have been the best time to flip to flower. They were already getting quite stinky at that point.
My clones are showing pistols under 18/6 I guess from the drop in DLI. I am hoping that by dropping my cheap $20 seedling LED's down i can get them to stay in veg. I mainly only got them to keep a mother and to give the other clones away.
The fungus gnats are gone for the most part. The plants doubled in size this week and got very bushy. My night time humidity levels have been pretty high (up to 70 at times)so I order a dehumidifier and defoliated again a little heavier this time. Watered the day before.I top dressed with a little more Gaia Green Bloom after defoliating and watered in with water with some liquid kelp,Molasses, GGG ruck dust and azomite after. Also added a little DE to the water for silica. Been checking the light constantly and been using the dimmer to keep the top colas at or under 1,000 ppfd. They seem want more light even though they are still burning on the tips still slightly and they are stretching pretty close to the light. I may need to start thinking about moving the exhaust fan outside the tent to raise the light just to give the plants room.
What do you think is causing this burn on my leaves? It seems to be quite common. and maybe nothing to worry about if it's this minute. but I would prefer to not burn my plants at all if possible. Could it be a sign of underwatering? Light distance? i have a dimmer keepin at 1000
Las puntas amarilla puedo decir que es por ph. Si es posible mida el ph del drenaje si los valores dan entre 6.2 y 6.8 esta en lo correcto. De lo contrario riego con agua con un ph de 6. Si piensa que es falta de agua solo riegue lentamente hasta que obtenga un poco de drenaje. Creo que no es por exceso de riego sino como le mencione es por ph alcalino.
También puede subir unos cm su panel por que su planta crecerá un poco más de altura.
Another rough week. Thought I got aphids but now as I'm posting this after some more research it looks like I may actually have Neoseilulus fallacis. I only sprayed them down with water and got lady bugs. Been sick the last week as well so I cant really smell whats going on. Been having a hard time keeping the humidity below 60% at night but i finally found a budget dehumidifier that works okay
Can anyone tell me what these are and if I should be worried about them? I thought they were aphids at first but now I'm starting to have second thoughts they seem a bit too small to be aphids and the lady buds. I'm thinking they might be Neoseiulus fallacies
I see you never selected a answer although weeks ago, please select me so I can have a chance to win the grower of month contest i would really appreciate it growmie please and thank you
I counted 8 legs, I'd say its a mite of some sort, what one is the question, I do not think this is a spidermite, off coloration and its not on the plant but in the soil and that plastic nub. Might just be a basic soil mite and none problematic. The ones that infest plants and kill them tend to be on the leaves and make webs when population gets to high.
If your concerned then I agree with Steves response in using something with pyrethrine
I also agree with Ezzjaybruhs conclusion they are not aphids. Aphids they not to be that small and not that mobile, again they like the leaves and stems.
There is something called root aphids but this is not that either.
You have a few other questionable pics in the diary of egg like things on leaves. I think you should douse the medium with something to help control the population even though it won't wipe it out fully. Also pluck off some of the leaves with said eggs and place it in a jar with a lid to see what hatches out of them. you can give your plant a shower and use water to blast off off of the fuckers, but give it a good shake down and dry off to avoid moulds from growing in the buds as High Humidity is the devil in flower.
Good Luck!
Decided to suck out the mulch with the shop vac and replaced with perlite to help knock down the soil mite population as well to get rid of the fungus gnats that came back. I watered to BTI mosquito dunk water as well. Going to try and move most the ladybugs from the flower tend to my veg tent over the next few weeks as I don't have a pest problem like I thought. Buds are more than double the size they were last week and starting to get extremely frosty! Fed with boogie brew day 38 and took off just a few if the bugger fan leafs blocking some if the lower colas. Humidity has still been a bit high only getting it down to about 55% at is lowest. Going to see how the dehumidifier works in the tent room and not in the tent itself. Also going to build a vent outlet for my basement window and vent my tents to the outside and use the carbon filters on the air inlets. I have a 6 inch 3 way, ac infinity booster fan and backdraft dampener I will install.
Not a bunch going on this week other than setting up ducting to go outside the window. 1 plant is looking like it might finish a week or so earlier than the other depending on what happens may let one get more amber as i wait for mostly milky on the other and harvest at same time. Looks like I may have overwatered and a recent storm rose my water ph to about 8. Also think my last batch of compost tea was a bit off as a added a little on the gia green power bloom and the mosquito dunks. Maybe a bit high on the sodium. I did some more soil tests on my clones because they needed the most attention and the soil was slightly alkaline
I used some fresh lemons to lower the ph of my water and gave the plans a nice watering after letting them dry out for a bit from the last watering. I think the mosquito dunks may have also raise the ph of my last watering. My flowering plants don't seem too affected but the clones were looking quite sad and showing multiple deficiencies from incorrect ph. The day after the lemon water they started to green right back up. I though I may have made my new soil mix too "hot" but another one of the clones i had bo room for that sat outside after transplanting but also did get rain is perfectly healthy. I also used my blue lab EC meter and the clones were between 600-700 which should be right around what they need and indicates i did not over do the nutrients. Brought out the "big" compost tea brewer and upgraded my air pump and going to keep a water reservoir that is ph'ed for now on. Also getting tired of filling up 5 gallon bucket's every other day to dechlorinate.
Pretty much just watching the buds grow this week. Decided to top dress as the buds are stacking quick and still have two weeks to go.Also gave another brew of boogie brew this time regular strength and nothing else added. The clones are looking a lot better and took well to some more ph'ed down water and gave them a small amount if tea as well
A lot going on this week. Buds are stacking on the Galaxy.The Galaxy #2 which Is the one that had the self-top mutation from seed is not stacking as well as the #1 plant. Not sure if its genetics or environmental as it has had a bit more airflow and was a little farther from the light most of the grow as I had the carbon filter and fan inside the tent untill a few weeks ago. I was also able to raise the light about 3-4 inches as they were only about 12 inches max from the light on the top colas. Some of the leaves show signs of overwatering light stress/wind burn on the top but the buds themselves look okay the sugar leaves have brownish purple tips. Unfortunately i think a lot of my lady bugs have met their demise after i switch my ventilation around as the carbon filter is no longer there to stop the from going into the inline fan. Thats going to need a good cleaning once I switch the tens over again.
Galaxy clones are still looking slightly unhealthy, but I plan on getting rid of all the #2 phenos and maybe just saving 1 of the #1 as the mom.
Moved my soil mixture inside to stay warm inside a 50 Gal Brute and mixed a little more up to "bake" for the last week or two of flower of the Galaxy before i switch the tents over to the Durban I started from seed around week 5 Of Veg of this Galaxy run. Decided that 2 plants in 20 gal in the 3x3 were a little awkward to train so this next run now that I have 2 3x3 tents going to do 1 plant per tent. Ordered 30 gallon 247 fabric pots in white, the rain sciences seem to do well and are high quality but something tells me that they made more surface area for the fungus gnats(that are now gone thanks to the mosquito dunks and sticky traps). The durbans as you can see are already way overfilled my cool grows tent 2x2 section.
I specifically didn't cut too much off of them and left the lowers so that I could get nice clones as the Durban is something I will be wanting to run quite a bit. I picked the Galaxy for my first grow because I figured is would be an easy grow being almost a pure
indica and having nice yields. Im deffs more into sativias and looking to grow something with that classic lemony pine vibe on my next run after the durban. Odly enough like the Galxys seeds I started one of the Durban seeds self-topped from seed. The Galaxy threw out one leaf I the center then a side shoot but the durban mainlined itself into two separate shoots. I wonder if it has anything to do with my germination method. Both times i soaked the seeds together in the same dish of water overnight then directly sowed them.
Got my drying tent setup and testing in my studio as it's almost perfect in there already. I have an air conditioner and ceramic heater as well as my ac infinity humidifier and going to bring out my govee dehumidifier once i harvest and going to get my studio dialed perfect to 60/60 for a slow dry.
Made it to harvest this week. Decided to cut them down right at day 55 of flower which is what this strain called for. The number 2 plant looks like it wanted to go another week or two but it was showing more amber than the other plant so decided just to cut them both down. My dry tent is staying between 57-62% humidity and 60-64 degrees. Was able to get them out there pretty smoothly, filled 6 hangers with 4-5 plant size branches on each and able to clean both of my 3x3's and get the 2 Durbans in 30 gal in each one to start vegging for a few more weeks to get used to things and fill out. Will make a separate Diary for them just wanted to have them in this diary so I can come back later and see my timeframes on things.
Overall this was good strain to grow and I would try it again on maybe an outdoor grow to see how big it gets. The bud structure could have been a little better and it wanted to bush out alot so maybe not the best for scrog. Seems like its a bit of a heavy feeder too and I may have went a little light on nutrients. It wasn't as dense as i thought is was going to be but that was most likely from my environment.
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