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NOTE - Apologies for all horrible spelling, my keyboard is broken and I have priorities -
- 4x Seeds from Greenhouse seeds placed into water in glass and placed on window Sill.
- Decided to go this method due to high success rate.
-Plan to monitor for 48Hours, When Seed starts to root I will transfer to the main pot.
- window sil location is in semi shaded area, probably not the best spot, maybe should have put under the lamp straight away to germinate?
Temperature is a bit high for my liking. Planted at 13:30pm for personal reasons.
Day 0:
- 60cm distance Lamp distance
- 75% of 200W. Did not like the temperature's inside the tent, so provided less light to prevent overheating. ? not sure if that is a problem here.
- Pots are sitting on wood beams to prevent soil getting cold from ground, think this is can prevent Clawing?
- Humidity varies from 41 % - 62 %
- Due to planting in the middle afternoon, I kept the small clip fan on aimed above the lamp to help reduce temps. also provided more fresh air outside the tent to help cool down but this was challenging given circumstances.
Day 1:
- Overnight temp: 22c min, and 69% humidity average.
- No visible breakthrough soil yet.
- 24hours light finished at 13:30pm, lamp off until 9pm then starting 14 / 10 light shift.
- Humidity remains 50-60%
- temp remains 22-31c
- Airflow outside tent is not great, fan is currently sitting above lamp next to carbon filter and ventilator. Having freak hot few days, Will wait out heat as i think i will need the ventilator inside the tent for warmth in coming weeks, not enough space to mess around with positions right now.
- light sprays of water over seedling location when lamp was on.
Day 2
- Humidity: 66%
- Temp: 22-30c
- light spray of water.
- Blue mage $ Dragoon have sprouted 1-2cm tall from soil.
- Plastic cup added for extra humidity. Cup off before lamps turned off, roughly 3hours on.
- Machinest $ Paladin no signs yet.
Day 3
- Humidity 66%
- Temp 24-30c
- All four seeds have sprouted.
- small gnat flies seen on blue mage, have sticky pad to keep under control. no issues.
- Blue Mage has very slight wiltering? maybe over watered as still seedling.
Day 4 - 7
- humidity : 40-70%
- Temp: 22-30c
- Blue mage gnat flies controlled.
Week 2 Start.
Plants all looking healthy, decided to provide small amounts of nutrients to boost root growth, plants are loving the 100ml water daily, Blue Mage water absorption was slower than the rest, it does have different medium.
Day 8
- Blue Mage and Paladin slower drinking the water, the 200ml a day seems to last full 24hrs.
- Lamp is still 50cm away. Believe I keep it here until flowering stage?
- nutrient day
Day 9
- All looking good, 200ml water only
- humidity 65%
- temp 27c
Day 10
- Water hadn't quite dried out from last watering. only gave 50ml as soil wasn't dried out yet but was leaving alone.
- humidity 60%
- temp 20c
Day 11
- nutrient day - 1ml/l of nutes (Grow and micro), realised i may have started feeding too early, this is late seedling stage, will monitor now and feed with only water for next few days to see affect. My medium is a 60/40 potting/perlite mix so im hoping the oxygen flow is excellent and will not be a problem.
- 200-250ml for x3 . Blue Mage is still retaining moisture too much, decided to provide 50ml close (ish) to stem incase of roots not expanding? (maybe over worrying) but the leaves on Blue Mage also look slightly crinkled?
- humidty: 55-70%
- temp: 16 - 27c
- gnat flies on blue mage still, not affecting others because soil is different. Decded to lower clip fan so more air flow on soil, i think this might help with flies.
Day 12 (01/09 am)
- Humidity 70%
- Temp 21-28c
- NO WATER today, the plant still had not soaked up last feed.
- will water tomorrow.
- Blue mage still with one or two gnat flies, and leaves still crinkled.
Day 13
- thunderstorm on day before my de-humidifier turns up.... huimdity 60 - 84 % . Im counting on a bad reading..
- Day ended and was battling high humidity even into the dark cycle. Kept a good airflow but over several hours it rose and fell to 84% once. now below 70%. Dryer turns up today before day 14 hopefully.
- temp 19-24c
- good airflow - fan on max speed (2)
- carbon filter fan on low setting still.
- 200ml water to all but Blue mage, who had 50ml. still seeing about 1 gnat fly a time on BM. Drying out best i think i can. Because of high humidity im tempted to dry out for another 24hours before watering.. .
Day 14 - 02 September
- De-humidifier has been fitted!!
- Dealing with poorly insulated surrounding so after storms loads of moisture and high humidity for few days afterwards, that has been the issue.
- humidity now set at 60%. If H gets to 69% de-humid turns on. I think it turns off at 60 again.. or when 68.9% and lower? No humidifier has been attached on work 1 slot, we have blessed high humidity here so won't be a problem.
- temp: 19-27c
- Blue mage has been sprayed with Neem oil around soil and base of stem, need to check how much i can apply since I don't want the light to burn on the plants oiled leaves... need to google.
- Water: 200ml each, blue mage keeps retaining water and has flies on still but growing so nicely, feel like the gnat flies are still hatching and being killed. Neem oil really needs to get them gone. Been thinking, if the flies last another few days at this rate i may change soil ( might kill the plant ) or softly add perlite and make top soil of the medium more dry?
Day 15 - 04 Sep
- 200ml water only each.
- All showing positive signs of growth about to come.
- humidity ranging from 50-70%
- Temp 20-21c
- Plan to add perlite to BM top soil tomorrow and give a big 'first true leaves' water and feed tomorrow.
- Will start researching LST techniques. If anyone has tips and advice feel free to share!!
Day 16
- 200ml and 1.5ml/l grow, 1.0ml/l micro, 0.5ml/l bloom.
- gnat fles stll urghh gong to lay down perlite top soil tomorrow, dont have DE.
- humidity: 55-67%
Day 17 (07/09 am)
- perlite added to BM to reduce Gnat flies. So far looks better but might be hiding underneath.
- 100ml water each.
- humidity: 55-65%
- Temp: 24-32c
- Good air flow.
- When tent is open, light smell of weed.
- All plants looking healthy and growing nicely. I believe around week 4 start i should be LST. Will do it softly due to first time.
- Night Temps for plant are kind of high during heat wave.
Day 18 09/09/2023
- Huimidity:
- Temp: 23-32c
- Water:
- Smell starting to pick up, Did not think it would start smelling until the flowering stage ?
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week 4 and week 3 I had little time to take photos and adjust plants. I am open to advice so feel free to comment!!
Week 4:
11/09 Day:
- 0.5l per 24hrs, looking thirty. increased nutes too.
- lamp dropped to 40cm
- 70% humid
- decided to top!!!
- Did a lot of research and decided a tiny little topping might help and little defoliation. Failed to get photos but i only did a few leaves on each plant. The useless/in the way ones.
12/09 Day:
- Crazy heat continue.. 34c
-70% humid
13/09 Day :
- defoliated a tiny amount that were touching soil
- another 500ml
- Decided to lay down the netting to start a little LST.
- Plants are now flexing over to increase light penetration around the 3rd node point.
14/09 (Donderdag night) - Day:
- Think Blue mage has started to flower?!
- humidity: 60%
- Machinist looks a little short..
- NUTES day , decied that past few days they wanted only water. I've been way too busy to feed and i was trying to find a good balance of water for them.
- Mixing 4l water with 2ml/l grow, 1.5ml/l micro and 1ml/l bloom (guessing before i do it will update later when i chcek my notes)
15/09 - i think this is day 24.
- no water, still soaking from last feed.
- humidity: 60%
- temp 22c
- Got af negative feedback about plants. I think most are wrong, I'm believe they are fine though, i did a very Ugly defoliate last week and im guessing that's why the negative comments about their progress.
- I believe Blue Mage is entering Pre-flower stage in next few days... Machnisit looking like a stump growth.
- Keep growing I say.
16/09/2023 day 25
- Temp: 21c
- Humidity: 60%
- plan on 500ml water each today. will try take photos too.
...
Think I did too much.. now looking back I missed opportunities to LST from earlier stage and then i defoliated to soon/ not evenly.
- Lessons learned
Anyway plants are still a lovely green colour, plant is adjusting nicely to the light and shifts. Soaking up the water lovely and still humidity of 60-70%.
I don't think my yield will be that high for any of the plants, maybe blue Mage since I did less activity on them.
Hoping that my LST and defoliation will delay the pre-flower stage and continue a vegetation stage, would love a little more resistance but I've heard negative about autoflowers and resistance.... Wish me luck! Will get photos soon. Been bit slow with posting.
Day 33 - Saturday 23 Sept
- I think this is now correct date, had a week of not being able to pay attention.
- plants looking healthy and growing nicely to the light.
- decided most the week to just water, Today i provided 1.5ml/l grow and micro, and 1ml/l bloom.
- Sunday will do more nutes again
- then week 5.
week 5!! - All comments and feedback are appreciated! I am a new Learner grower.
I will grow my equipment over the next harvests. Feel free to give input if I look to be going wrong or you would like to give some advice!
Pre-flowering/ Flowering has started, not really sure, first time.. will try get more photos and videos uploaded.
Day 36
- Forgot to take photo of Dragoon
- 300ml of water twice a day. Plants are loving it, when i dropped to 300ml a day to dry out more, instantly leaves were drooping. I don't have root rot but did notice the cloth bags leak at handles, so watering needs to be more careful stream and direct.
- nutrients I provide every other day
- Got some small burn marks on some leaves, could be Nute Burn or water droplet from lamp.
- Getting Colder outside, more spiders making way inside house so now i've blocked the air vents at bottom.
- Machinist was looking about a week behined, so I decided not to LST them. Only provided small defoliation and slight LST to let the light pass.
Day 37
- 300ml water
- 20c
- 55% humidity
Day 38
-Nutrient day, but with 4l water. Feeding 600ml water
- slight defoliation and movement on machinist to get light more reach.
- cut off some drooping yellowish leaves that were almost touching the soil. Nothing to be alarmed just used leaves.
- 17c
- 55%
Day 39 39/09
- 600ml water each
- humidity: 55%
Day 40
- Dropping humidity to 50%.
- keep lamp at 45cm height.
- Nutrients day
- 600ml each
WEEK 6
Monday-Friday
Boring week
Water only and 200ml per day.
Been drying out because I was getting high humidity and odour. Decided to drop humidity to 50% as Blue Mage has Flowered way ahead of Machinist. This was my fault for not LST on Blue Mage. Lessons learned. Last 2 days of week 6, provided full nutrients 200ml twice per day. Keeping it little and light.
Week 7 - Monday 9th -> Sunday 5th
Strange week. blue mage looks good and healthy but low yield, because I did not LST due to gnats and it was looking weak.
Machinist is still behined.
Nutrients and 200ml twice daily for three days, Then water from Thursday - Sunday.
Friday - Paladin is dead???? like 60% yellow leaves
Saturday - Week 7 day 6
- 400 ml water each. Lollipop method on Paladin after it had huge yellow leaf phase.
- temp 14c
- humidity lowered to 45%
- Pictures all from today
Week 8 been boring.
Water only for all plants as I heard two weeks before harvest you want to flush and make the plants use all the nutrients left and to clean out toxins before harvest..
Photos taken on day 4 of week 8.
Dragoon is really struggling with deficiency.
Soil is getting a bit too cold, Outside weather is getting too chilled at night.
Blue mage looks ready to cut.
Machinist needs another week or two..
Paladin is good, in the middle.
Dragoon is struggling to pull through.
Humidity is around 40-45% but honestly the weather, conditions around the tent and inside are not great this week.
Week 9 water only, had to cut off a dew mist bud this week, also getting really strange visuals on most plants.
Drying them out since it smells damp in the tent but humidity is steady 40% ..
Last week!
So I'm not risking it any longer, I'm going to harvest later this week. Conditions are getting colder, plants taking less water ( sign of ready in some plants ), I have flushed with 10L water over 2 days to force nutrients out. I also haven't use nutrients for around 10 days now.
All plants look different and I've googled the weird bud and inspected it, the bud looks healthy ish just the leaves are dead making it very yellow.. unless someone knows else?
Dragoon the black spotty plant is also checked and I believe still to smoke. The colouring is actually getting better and more healthy. I think I had mildew on it last week when we had a storm outside but I cut and cleaned straight away.
Overall good first grow. Had zome issuues:
Humidity fluctuations
Over watered soil at start. Caused gnat flies.
Not enough airflow
Weather dropped below 10 too soon and affected them for last 2weeks of growth.
Can't give good enough rating, I messed up but next grow be better.
Wow buddy!! super nice buds
What an amazing grow so far - good job and well done 🤝
Happy Growing & cant wait for your upcoming weeks 🌱
Cheers, Bud Boutique 👩🌾