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Found this little seed in a dispensary bag, seed banks are hardly available in my country yet.
4 Days in paper towel with distilled water and we got a sprout!
Hopefully she's a female lol
- First Week
Made sure to start her up with a 30W Light for 3 days (I've had some issues with my light burning out seedlings before)
Around the fourth day I turned on the 100W TS600
No watering from top since the expanded pellet was already moist, regardless I filled up the DWC in order for her to start searching for water
No nutrients, just plain PH water at 5.5
18 hours light
- Second Week
Started with a light dosage of Base A - Base B - Vege - Silica - around 0.5 ML per Liter
Kitty decided to be curious and do a taste test while I was changing the reservoir
Had a planned trip so I loaded up the water and left her to chill, hopefully my cat didn't do much damage.
- Third week
Came back from my trip and she really shot up
PH was down (around 5.5) so she absorbed a good amount of nutrients while I was away
Changed reservoir with a dosage of Base A- Base B- Vege- Silica- using 1.0 ML per Liter
Roots are nice but I'm starting to think she might have some sort of rot going on, going to introduce Peroxide in the water to help her out
No sexing yet, I'm assuming she's a female (hopefully)
Did some small LST in order for the bottom line to grow a little bit
I feel like the plant is too small should I raise up the light? I don't see her reaching for the light. I also would like to know what you guys think about topping / lollypopping ? I'm still debating on how to go about the growth.
I am reposting my answer here :)
You can for sure lower your light (at least 10cm). Try using a ppfd meter app to monitor your ppfd and make sure its adjusted for her age/ stage. If your light is really 100W, I think it should be much lower even on week 3.
With regards to Training I'm personally trying out Mainlining. It's a technique were you top the plant and remove all foliage except the top leaves. This creates 2 main branches. You can do this multiple time but every time you have to let her recover and grow a bit.
If Mainlining is too much for you topping will do the job similarly. Lollipopping on the other hand should be kept to a later stage of growth as it's something you do for higher quality buds so keep it in mind so you can do it before switching the lights to flowering.
The most important thing for all these techniques is to keep your equipment clean. Sanitize your scissors and go for 1 clean cut.
Good luck with the rest of your grow and enjoy the process
I feel like the plant is too small should I raise up the light? I don't see her reaching for the light. I also would like to know what you guys think about topping / lollypopping ? I'm still debating on how to go about the growth.
Hi Elsolo,
First of all - great grow so far :)
Raising your light will give the plant even more stretch, which is approached in your case. But try to stick to your light manual (u can check online as well) whats the best difference between canopy and light during veg/flower phase. And slightly adjust it as needed or as your plants will tell you.
I would recommend you topping your plant and do some LST to get all main branches on the same level :) Always top about 3rd or 4th node and then have fun ;)
+ Lollipopping is great to get bigger main colas instead of little popcorn buds below... I would do it 1 week befor transition into flower - cut 1/3 below everything and then leave them for 4-5 days to recover and send them into flower. Next Defoliation should be 21+ Day of Flower and that's it more or less. Afterwards u can always take some big fan leaves or leaves who cover buds below.
If you have further Questions feel free to send me DM :)
Good luck and have fun.
Ps. u can check my current grow - I did topping + LST + Lollipopping and get amazing main colas
- Fourth week
Decided to mainline in order to have her time to recover
Topped and trimmed according to suggestions
PH around 5.5, I usually have to check up and PH UP every day or two
Changed reservoir with a dosage of Base A- Base B- Vege- using 1.0 ML per Liter
Introduced K9 as feeding schedule from nutrient provider
Peroxide in order to help oxygen in water
No sexing yet
- Fifth week
Did a few trimming of some fan leaves at bottom
PH around 5.5, still have to maintain with PH up daily
Changed reservoir with a dosage of Base A- Base B- Vege- using 1.0 ML per Liter
Went back to Silica as specified in feeding schedule by Kawsay
Peroxide in order to help oxygen in water, the water is kinda dark tinted, roots have tinted as well, yet they don't seem slimy.
Leaves and plants have shown small deficiency in nutrients, but overall they seem to look fine.
I dont believe it's root rot but will have to raise Peroxide intake, hopefully I can diagnose the root within this week.
Sexing seems to be female, its hard to tell if they're pistils or bud sites, but have not seen pollen sacs develop yet.
Update:
Final topping done (3 tops in total) prospecting 12 bud sites.
Recover mode 3 days and onto last vegetative week.
Will consider switching to flower depending on how she recovers.
When do you guys usually switch to flower? I've been reading that the rule of thumb is that the plant will stretch twice or three times its actual size, taking this into account I believe I have a week or two in Veg.
Lost my phone, had a few issues with documenting the whole process and lost a lot of the images of the progress :(
Either way, the grow was successful, I believe I waited a week longer in vegetative and when I went into flower it shot up drastically in height, at the same time I ran out of nutrients towards the last 2 weeks of flowering seeing as the trichomes we're still young.
Ended up rinsing up the whole plant and using clean water for the last 2 weeks of flower that way I could flush the plant of all solutions.
Very strong plant, she was able to withstand some early shock as my cat decided to take a little bite off her.
Did some mainlining LST in order to get more light in the producing stems, she recovered easily through any stress.
Overall she was very easy to maintain and grow, ended up producing ~93-94g of buds, using a marshydro TS-600 that took 100W consumption, pretty close to the 1g/1w rule.
I wasn't really impressed with the nutrients (Kawsay) produced in Argentina, as I seemed to run out early of the Base A/Base B solution
Hi!, how come your Ph goes down when they feed?, I've looked over your diary and they look great!!, I'll be hoenst, the training and the defoliating got me surprised because i didn't know you could stress the plant that much and still have it look healthy. nice diary, I'll keep an eye for updates :)
@elsolo1,Hello, yes i'm doing lst, haven't uploaded photos yet but will FIM, LST and scrog them to have the biggest yields possible, that is if they consume their nutrients... mine is not working as yours, Ph goes up so thats why i was wondering. Will reffer back to my sources to see what the issue might be. and will be on the lookout for your girls 👻 happy grow!!
@Lucyfer,
Hey bud! Ive read that PH goes down because the plant is consuming the nutrients.
The mainlining and defoliating is interesting, I'll do one last defoliation and topping before sending her into flower in a week or so!
Saw your diary do you plan to do any training?
elsolo1
