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Starting off the journal. This is my fourth run in this grow room setup. It's a pretty well automated (auto watering, auto draining, climate contolled with elitech controllers to a/c, heat, humidifier and dehumidifier), timers on everything, cameras, etc. I built out some PVC tubing to floraflex parts connected to the resevoir. I do airpots with coco, following CocoForCannabis' setup with high frequency fertigation (five, six times per day on a timer). Use GH Flora series and some supplements i'll get into later. i've run photos and autos, though these are both photos. Go back and forth between just topping and some LST and quadline, I think I'm going to run quadlines this time, i average 5oz per plant on my last quadline.
anyway that all said, germinated these seeds in paper towels and moved to peat pellets. i was going back and forth between amnesia lemon and dos si dos, and barneys farm sent me free dos si dos with the lemon so i popped some of those. i pop about 20 (16 amensia and 5 dos si dos) and i'll narrow it down to 8, whichever are the strongest.
couple basic pictures of the pellets and the setup. happy to answer any questions. i'll try and keep this pretty updated along the way!
We are working on third node. Roots started to poke out bottom and sides of previous seedling bags, so potted up to this size yesterday. Moved from seedling blend nutrients (600 EC to 1000 EC) to full strength veg, running 1100 EC now. This next week is so fun because they really take off., Keeping an eye on Cal deficiencies, but otherwise they seem to be moving right along. Culled down to 15 plants, over the course of the week will remove any that are lagging - only going to run 8 plants in the end.
Waiting for FloraFlex matrix' to come in the mail, I am going to hook these up to the auto watering system. Right now I can only do two fertigation events per day because of work but I'd really like to be running 3 or 4. It's crazy with coco like this and high frequency fertigation, you get hydro growth without the whole hydro set up.
I also set up my time lapse camera this week so I hope to add time lapse videos going forward :)
beginning of week 2. they are all doing well, up potted once and they immediately took over the new fabric pots. i think I may go up to 1 gallons before I put them in their final airpot 3 gallons, depending on my work schedule.
did upload a timelapse but the file got a bit corrupted. good enough anyway
everything seems to be going well except I really can't decide how I'm going to grow these plants (structure-wise) and it's getting to the time where I need to decide. I've had awesome results with LST, quad line, just topping and some light training, SCROG. Really can't decide what to do here but I'm sure it will come to me.
Temp and humidity have been super consistent which is awesome. I have a bunch of new stuff coming in the mail from AC Infinity, a new controller that will allow me to program day/night, right now I manually adjust it on my phone before I go to bed with the Elitech controllers. Also a new exhaust fan because the bearings in mine are shot and it's super loud, two 6" oscillating circulation fans, and a new commercial humidifier.
busy week, went from nursery bags to the final pots (3 gal airpots). autowatering system set up, fertigating 4x per day for 20secs each time - @ light ons, +5 hrs, +5 hrs, +5 hrs.
went up to ~310 PAR, about 20 DLI. 1200 EC, 6.0 PH. temp and humidity pretty consistent, around 80 during the day, 76 at night. VPD is 0.8 - 1.0.
topped, trimmed everything under node 3 and started LST on nodes 3 and 4 preparing for quadline. going to take a couple of days to bounce back after the topping but then I expect to see some nice growth. planning on running the quadlines out until they get close to the other plants and then I'll flip to flower and stretch upwards.
have a new humidifier coming this week and switching everything over to the AC infinity controllers, as right now I have a mish-mash of controllers and a humidifier that doesn't work with them, so I should really be able to dial everything in even better.
upgraded my timelapse camera to a 2k one, still trying to dial it in, fix software issues and stop moving it to get better video. getting there
week 4 from seed. we're up to 600 PAR, 1250 EC, same 5.7-6.2 range for PH.
going in once/twice a day and continuing to LST the quadline branches and do some light defoliation.
everything looks pretty healthy. one plant did have a small split in the main stem from pulling the branches down too hard, we'll see if she recovers.
got into some IPM with crop defender 3 - just a blend of botanical oils (and i use yucca for emulsifier)
really on the fence about flipping to flower this week, but my girlfriend who knows nothing about growing said I should wait one more week so that's what I'm going to do.
so i let the plants veg out for another week (per my girlfriends recommendations). here's a plug to CocoForCannabis.com, I learned a lot there and I give a lot of credit to high frequency fertigation in coco. I defoliated twice just this week, and within a day or two all of the leaves have come back. i did one large defoliation today as I plan to flip to flower on Tuesday. I'll let all these grow vertical and then I'll do one final cleaning at the end of week two.
I'm loving these barneys farm genetics - the plants are strong, and I'm getting the craziest lemon scent - like lemon candy. not a lot of skunk coming through yet, but I'm sure that will come in flower. i also cracked on of these plants right down the main stem when doing the quadline LST, and it just powered straight through and didn't even show and stress signs. full credit to the genetics on that one.
included some before, during and after pics of defolation. unfortunately my timelapse got messed up AGAIN (stupid wyze cameras) so I only was able to pull like two days, but you can see some of the daily quadline training and how fast they flip back up and grow out
flipped to flower a couple days ago. you'll see a defoliation in the timelapse, they bounce back just so quick it's insane. just barely started stretching yesterday/today. super excited for that and to see how my canopy / quadline works out in the end.
i've gone down a whole living soil / organics rabbit hole recently with BuildASoil and One Straw Revolution etc etc. I really think I'm going to switch to large living soil beds for my next grow. That said, I've started adding in some foliar and root drenches with organic products - BuildABloom, fish hydrolysate, freeze dried coconut and aloe. Plants seem to really be enjoying it, after applying they just seem so happy. really happy with the smell I'm getting and don't even have pistils, much less flower yet.
So that's pretty much where I'm at. Wyze camera dropped the ball on the timelapse for the...sixth week in a row. I set it up, it seems to be running fine all week and then at the end it's missing days and corrupted. I got my hands on a linux script to make timelapses out of the raw footage, so this week I'm just recording continuously and going to try and run that.
starting to see some crowning. nice stretching going on. very happy with how it's all going (except for the wyze camera timelapse, which still stops working halfway through the week)
I do have some weird stuff going on with one plant, I'll post some pictures, if anyone has any advice. the only thing I can really find online that looks like this is tobacco mosaic disease, but I don't think it's that. maybe this one plant had a little extra stress or something. I have some of that mosaic looking pattern. it's showing up mostly on one plant, and like two leaves on one other plant. maybe calmag defiency? i guess it can kind of look like that, and my RO system was down for a week or two so I had to use tap water, and to keep EC consistent that meant less nutes for a week or two (that was taken up by the tap water EC of like 150).
anyway, super excited. wish i had more to do, but it's pretty much just riding it out at this point. was crazy busy with work this week, i wanted to have got in a good defoliation already but I will get to that this weekend. going to remove everything below a certain point, all the lower leaves and the lower nodes that aren't going to make it to the top. probably going to put a trellis net up as i don't think they are going to be able to support their own weight once they start to really stack. i may do one or two final foliar sprays, all organic stuff, but one last IPM and maybe one amino acid / coconut water / aloe / bloom boost after the defoliation, just to help them bounce back quickly as i'm going to be removing a lot of biomass. all that is organic and there are barely flowers on so i'm not worried about it.
getting such a strong lemon scent off these already, skunk is starting to come in. can't wait to get some real flowers on them and for the terps to develop.
i'm not going to judge yet, but i think if i was to run these again i wouldn't do quadline. quadline was super interesting to me when I first started growing, but after having a bunch of grows under my belt, really i think my preference is to mostly let them grow natural, maybe supercropping the main cola, but my favorite grows have been the ones i did the least amount of hard training on. not sure why i decided to quadline this run, but i'm happy with the even canopy so it's all good
I've had plants with pigment mutations and this kinda looks like it. But this also looks like a slight mag deficiency. I recommend some Epsom foliar sprays once a week just to see if it truly is a mutation.
Fully into flower. Filling in well, smell coming along nicely (some are like lemon candy, some are a little more skunky).
I had a Mars Hydro TSW2000 sitting around so I added that in between the two lights/beds which really helped to even out the PAR. Dead nuts in the middle of the beds is about 1000, the edges are about 700. Super cropped a few that were just reaching too much.
Put up some trellis, I think I'm going to need the supports, and helped to spread out some of the stacks that were going to be a little too close. Did a little more defoliation. It's really just maintenance at this point (and standing there admiring and smelling over and over)
Been mixing up a little organic nutrient cocktail to supplement with, using BuildASoil BuildABloom (soy protein hydrolysate, rock phosphate, gypsum, magnesium sulfate, potassium sulfate), Fermented Plant Extracts: Liquid Pumpkin Extract (Probiotically Grown Pumpkins, Clean Mountain Water, EM-1, Home Made LABS (Lactobacillus Serum), Super Cera Powder, and Molasses), BuildASoil Aloe and the Quillaja extract. I'll do a foliar spray first thing in the morning and replace the first fertigation of the day with this same mix (at the normal EC and PH level). They seem to love it and respond really well.
I really want to switch over completely to organic living soil, I'm probably going to after this run, so it's fun to experiment with some of the ingredients.
I think I skipped a week here or so, but not much going on, just fattening up really nice, smell is coming along, very happy so far.
i'm at about 45 days from flip, about 33 days from first pistils so i'm thinking another 3 weeks minimum.
started to drop day temps down, i'm running 75-77 now and i'll drop it another degree each week. pretty constant 50& rh. i'm probably going to go down to 11 hours of light towards the end also. might throw some GH ripen at it
MTUZZIO
