Vote Now 🏆 for the Grow Awards 2025!
Chat
Recommended

Royal Dwarf - first grow

10
13
18
560
6 years ago
Follow
Fission 300W Fluorescent/250W
Custom
Indoor
Room Type
LST
weeks Technique
Soil
Grow medium
20 L
Pot Size
1
Week 1. Vegetation
6 years ago
7 cm
18 hrs
22 °C
22 °C
22 °C
4 L
10 cm
Grew seedling on the windowsill for the first week until my lights arrived. Im going for a rather budget grow. Going to purchase essential things and slowly build the equipment up as I learn more (and can afford it). The soil I'm using is Terra Professional Plus. Ill be buying a bag of perlite and will mix that in to about 1:3 when I repot to the 20L pot. Please feel free to give me feedback at any point during the grow 🙏
1 like
comments
Share
2
Week 2. Vegetation
6 years ago
10 cm
18 hrs
22 °C
No Smell
22 °C
22 °C
14 L
10 cm
Lights arrived this week. Im running two 85W 5500k CLFs which I have suspended in my hot water cupboard. Much better than the window sill in the lounge. Have been to a few shops with nutrients. Currently looking at a few options but not made the purchase yet. Will buy some in the next week! Grow is going well considering the not so ideal start. Just a little smaller than normal is all. Fitting for a dwarf! 🙏
likes
comments
Share
3
Week 3. Vegetation
6 years ago
13 cm
18 hrs
22 °C
No Smell
22 °C
22 °C
20 L
10 cm
Growing as usual! I have some very small discolouration on the leaves. Its almost like tiny silvery streaks at random places on the leaf. It looks very minor at this stage and growth looks fine apart from that. Im buying the Biobizz Tri-pack tomorrow to begin watering with nutrients. Will add more pics as the week goes on. 24.Sep.18 - Have made a light tobacco spray to deal with the thrips. Im going to spray daily and monitor. Apart from that small issue, growth is going well and I have noticed the first pistils appearing. I wish I had my light set up earlier so I could have capitalised on the first week. Does anyone have any idea how large she will be come harvest time? Considering flowering has begin now. 🙏
6 likes
8 comments
Share
Grow Questions
DavoGrow
DavoGrowstarted grow question 6 years ago
Does anyone know what the really small silver streaks could be? Im growing in a cupboard which is a consistent temp of 22 Celsius. Have checked undersides of leaves for pests and cant seem to see anything. Is it a nutrition deficiency. I have not used any fertiliser yet.
Solved
Techniques. Defoliation
likes
mad_scientist
mad_scientistanswered grow question 6 years ago
Hello @DavoGrow ! The silver streaks are indeed a sign of thrips and the other thing at your leaves that looks like dried saliva is called honeydew and can be produced by many bugs like thrips, mealybugs, scale bugs and others. Just keep an eye on it and if you want you can make a preventive spray. I like to use natural pyrethrine. If the thrips are in larva stage its a little difficult to see them but you can see them. They are like very tiny white maggots crawling at the under side of the leaf and they camouflage them selves by moving at the nerves of the leaf . If they are adults you will see them very easy and they look very scary but they are harmless for you. Happy growing ! 👊
4
Week 4. Vegetation
6 years ago
20 cm
18 hrs
22 °C
Weak
22 °C
22 °C
20 L
10 cm
Nutrients 1
Bio-Grow - BioBizz
Bio-Grow 1 mll
Growing nicely. I have a fan now keeping a breeze on her. Gave a very weak amount of nutrients as I introduce them into the watering. So far I havent needed very frequent waterings as it took quite a while for the soil to dry out.
1 like
5 comments
Share
5
Week 5. Flowering
6 years ago
23 cm
18 hrs
22 °C
Weak
22 °C
22 °C
20 L
10 cm
Nutrients 2
Bio-Bloom - BioBizz
Bio-Bloom 1 mll
Top-Max - BioBizz
Top-Max 1 mll
I missed the first few days of of flowering. Apologies! hairs have sprung up all over the place and its quite exciting. I changed the watering nutrients to 1ml/l of both top max and bio-bloom. Im fairly sure I have the thrips population under control now too.
likes
comments
Share
6
Week 6. Flowering
6 years ago
30 cm
18 hrs
22 °C
Weak
22 °C
22 °C
20 L
10 cm
Nutrients 2
Bio-Bloom - BioBizz
Bio-Bloom 1 mll
Top-Max - BioBizz
Top-Max 1 mll
The flowers are starting to fill out a little more. Ive got the feeling that its going to be a nice little stumpy dwarf just like advertised. Smell is still weak and not an issue at all. I have noticed that the soil is drying up a bit faster than earlier which means shes drinking up the nutes.
5 likes
5 comments
Share

Login

18 comments
Sort by
popularity
popularity
newest
oldest
Mrs_Larimar
Mrs_Larimarcommentedweek 36 years ago
Ah just forgot, give her abigger pot with nice gluffy soil, before she stays a dwarf^^. Its an automatic plant and the best you can do is giving her after germination in her final pot.
Mrs_Larimar
Mrs_Larimarcommented6 years ago
@DavoGrow, if you have nothing at home a nicotine tincture will do the best first aid...until neem or something is avialable cigarette, water and let soak for a few hours, filtering, giving it into a sparyer, spraying under and above the leaves
DavoGrow
DavoGrowcommented6 years ago
@Mrs_Larimar, I still have two seeds, so will definitely do that for those! Thank you :) Also thank you for the tips regarding thrips. I am going to look into treatment immediately.🙏
DadasGrow
DadasGrowcommentedweek 46 years ago
Hope all goes well with your grow my friend! I’m also on my first grow!
DavoGrow
DavoGrowcommented6 years ago
@Dadasgrow, Thank you! same to you! :)
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMancommentedweek 66 years ago
Hey man, Great grow! I got a journal for Fastbuds iPhone contest , if you could stop by my 2xGSC-COCO-COBs journal and leave a LIKE or comment I’d really appreciate it! Happy Growing
DavoGrow
DavoGrowcommented6 years ago
@@TheWeedMan, Sure thing. Good luck in the grow and the comp.
MissFlowerPower420
MissFlowerPower420commentedweek 36 years ago
Good luck with the grow bud
DavoGrow
DavoGrowcommented6 years ago
sebino
sebinocommentedweek 36 years ago
She looks nice to me! Happy growing...😎
DavoGrow
DavoGrowcommented6 years ago
@sebino, I agree :D cheers
bobo420
bobo420commentedweek 36 years ago
Good luck with the grow ;)
DavoGrow
DavoGrowcommented6 years ago
@bobo420, Thanks!
Tonino
Toninocommentedweek 36 years ago
very hard to tell at this point lets see how it evolves the girl still looks good
Mrs_Larimar
Mrs_Larimarcommentedweek 36 years ago
The light green in the middle of your leaves should be better after giving nutrients... no problem at all
Alpaca
Alpacacommentedweek 66 years ago
Man I'm looking at your diary and your plants are exactly what I thought mine were going to be. A short bushy fast flowering strain. And then all of a sudden my plants go crazy and have quadrupled in size the last 2 weeks
Tonino
Toninocommentedweek 66 years ago
she's really looking great this week flowers are coming along
KnuksLad
KnuksLadcommentedweek 66 years ago
looking very nice mate.
Enjoying this diary? Follow for more updates!
DavoGrowDavoGrow
Follow Author
OR
Prefer the old Diary view?
Go back to the old Diary view