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Used paper towel method to germinate. Started on 8/29 and had good tap root on 8/31.
Planted directly into 5 gallon Ac Infiniity fabric pot with Happy Frog soil mixed with 4 TBL of Dolomite Lime as my Soil seems to have too low of pH (5.6) right out of bag even though website says their soil is 6-6.5 pH. I think that was one of the problems with my last grow. I was out of Ocean Forest and had enough Happy frog so this time we will be doing a Happy Frog grow.
Growth Seems a little slower with Happy Frog versus Ocean Forest but it is very minimal
Swithced out my heater this grow to an oil radiator inside the tent as I was having trouble keeping the tent warm with my ceramic bulb heater. New problem arising. Even with my Ac Infinity humidifier set at full blast level 10 and only having my exhaust at 2, I am having trouble keeping humidity as high as I would like it. It seems to fluctuate from 57-61. I keep spraying inside of tent walls with mister bottle to combat some of this.
Day 9 Raised light intensity from 40% to 50% keeping height of 18 inches from canopy. Lightly watering just around stem still
Day 12 Light watering with 1 ml/2 liters of Cal mag because I am using R/O water.
Day 13 Raised light intensity from 50% to 60% as ladies each are on second set of true leaves. Keeping 18 inches from canopy.
Day 14 I noticed a little bit of light burn on Ztrawberries so I raised lights to 20 inches and lowered back to 50%. Will readjust in a day or 2
Day 15 Watered with r/o and 3 ml cal/mag and 1/16 tsp great white per gallon water. No runoff Ph of water 6.41 and 254 ppm
Day 17 Raised lights to 22 inches and intensity to 60%, Par is in low 400's for both plants. If no light burn develops I wil try to get to 500's for par by end of the week. Watered today to runoff with 3 ml cal/mag per gallon and a half. Water in 6.49 pH and 182ppm. Runoff of Ztrawberries was 5.97 pH and 2921 ppm and runoff of Mimosa Cake was 5.91 pH and 2639 ppm. Ztrawberries measures 5 inches and Mimosa Cake measures 4.25 inches. However Mimosa cake's leaves are growing slightly faster and larger than Ztrawberries which accounts for the runoff ppm difference. Still have plenty of nutes in soil so no need for anything than very light cal/mag due to reverse osmosis water being pure.
Day 18 Par 445 Mimosa Cake and 517 for Ztrawberries
Day 19 Distance to light for Mimosa Cake has been raised to 24 inches to try to force her to stretch more. Her nodes are too tightly spaced for my liking and I had to do this last grow with my blueberry. Mimosa cake is 5 inches tall. Ztrawberries is 6.5 inches tall and light is 22 inches from her top.
Day 20 Water with 10 ml cal/mag pH in for both 6.66 pH and 354 ppm. Mimosa Cake is 5 inches tall runoff for her was 5.54 pH and 2030 ppm. Ztrawberries runoff is 5.54 pH and 2132 ppm. She is 7 inches tall. Lights are at 70%
Day 22 Mimosa Cake Height 5.5 inches Light is at 70% and 23 inches away.
Ztrawberries is 9.5 inches tall and light is 19 inches away
Day 23 Watered with no cal/mag but 20% tap water 6.5 pH and 76 ppm. First watering runoff Mimosa Cake 5.82 pH and 1672 ppm. Second watering of Mimosa Cake is 5.75 pH and 1576 ppm. Mimosa Cake 6 inches tall PAR 460 .First watering of Ztrawberries 5.77 pH and 1984 ppm. Second watering 5.82 pH and 1309 ppm. Ztrawberries is 10 inches tall and PAR 600.
Day 27 Watered with .5ml per liter of cal/mag 20% tap water. Water in 6.43 pH and 253 ppm. Mimosa Cake is 6.5 inches tall PAR 520 and runoff is 6.01 pH and 1810 ppm. Did minor LST on Mimosa Cake to pull those small inside stems forward. Clipped a few nute burned fan leaves. Ztrawberries is 13 inches tall PAR is 630 and runoff is 6.07 pH and 1410 ppm.
10/2 Day 31- Water 20% tap .5ml cal/mag per liter water In 186ppm and 6.6 pH. Mimosa Cake is 8 inches tall 70% light PAR 505 Runoff 2260 ppm (weird number checked twice) 5.96 pH. Ztrawberries PAR 619 Runoff 1340ppm and 6.15 pH. Mimosa Cake not yet flowering but looks very close.
10/5 Day 34 Water 20% tap no nutes. Mimosa Cake Heavy water due to weird number last time and still seem like nute burn though maybe it is a deficiency still learning the difference. IN 70 ppm and 6.62 pH. Mimosa Cake runoff is 1230 ppm and 6.04 pH (numbers make more sense so adding another watering to get a tiny bit of cal/mag 1ml/ltr. In 220ppm and 6.6 pH Runoff 1090 ppm and 6.09 pH. Ztrawberries seems to have same nute burn or deficiency so heavy water so I can start bloom nutes as she has been in flower for several days already. 1st water no nutes 20% tap 70 ppm and 6.62 pH. Runoff 988 ppm and 6.26 pH. Added Sensi Bloom A and B 1ml/ltr and Big Bud 1ml/ltr In 498 ppm and 6.46 pH. Ztrawberries runoff now 814 ppm and 6.25 pH.
10/6 Day 35 Raised light intensity to 80% Ztrawberries PAR 720 MAX and Mimosa Cake is 600 MAX
I have used Happy Frog before with no issues. I am running my first 420 Fast Buds seeds and they seem to have nute burn for the last few weeks no matter what I do. Is this maybe a deficiency and not burn?
Do you See how Close are the internodes of your plant? IT avmix light was very Strong Here and did some damage. And die the strong lightning
The plantsexchabe of nutes and water we're very high.
So water evaporated nutrients stayed ( burnt leaftips)
My advise.
Dimm Back you light to 60 percent and Look how she Changes. She should grow in inchwide internodes.
10-9 Day 38 Watering Day Mimosa Cake 1.5 ml/ltr calmag. In 314ppm and 6.5pH. Runoff 1260 ppm 6.09 pH she is 9 inches tall. did more LST and some defoliation. Ztrawberries 1 ml/ltr of cal/mag and Big Bud, 2 ml/ltr Blomm A&B. In 784 ppm 6.47 pH. Runoff 1230 ppm and 5.96 pH. She is now 20 inches tall. she is so much taller than Mimosa Cake that I have a ton of risers under Mimosa Cake to keep it near the light. In addition, the light is getting closer to my exhaust and carbon filter so I decided to gently tie down her top just a bit. she took to this well and within a few hours she went from pointing at the wall to pointing right back to the lights.
10-10 Still seeing alot of issues and at the advice of some very experienced growers decided to lower my light intensity back down to 60%. Hopefully this will fix the problems.
10-12 Day 41 Water Day. Mimosa Cake In 1ml/ltr Cal/Mg 6.57 pH and 200 ppm. runoff 6.2 pH and 514 ppm. Ztrawberries first used rest of Mimosa Cake water then added 2 more liters to get runoff with 2ml/ltr Sensi Bloom A&B .5ml/ltr Big Bud. In 6.49 pH and 372 ppm. Runoff 6.07 pH and 1070 ppm
10-16 Day 45 Mimosa Cake Water with 1ml/ltr Cal/mag 2 ml/ltr Sensi Blooom A&B (first bloom nutes) In 6.4 pH and 731 ppm. Runoff 5.94 pH and 698 ppm.
Ztrawberries Water with 1ml/ltr Cal/Mag and Big Bud, 2 ml/ltr Sensi Bloom A&B In 6.42 pH and 777 ppm. runoff 1110 ppm.
10-20 Day 49 Watered both plants with 1 ml/ltr cal/mag. In 6.67 pH and 202 ppm. Mimosa Cake runoff 6.02 pH and 598 ppm. Ztrawberrries still slowly lowering pH (5.94 pH and 1120 ppm) so I flushed her with 5 gallons of r/o then fed her with 1ml/ltr cal/mag and Big bud and 2ml/ltr Sensi Bloom A&B In 6.42 pH and 800 ppm. runoff for Ztrawberries after flush and feed 6.28 pH and 290 ppm. Will keep an eye on them both for light requirements. I am in a weird spot 60% light on 18/6 at 18 inches is just a little lower DLI than I want 30- 33 at topmost budsite and low to mid 20's at middle sites. I need to play with height as I know if I go up to 70% it will more than likely burn the ladies as they have suffered from too much light most of the grow. (My bad, manufacturer's instructions said 80-100% at 18 inches in flower and I took that as gospel not thinking about autoflowers having a much longer light period than photoperiods thereby needing less powerful light to make DLI)
The weather in Missouri this week sucked. Went from mid 70's to 30's to mid 70's practically every other day. Rained alot as a result and the humidity was so terrible. Whole house was sticky. Tent suffered a bit. There were points where temperature was 80 degrees in the tent and also points where humidity was at or a little above 60%. House humidity was over 60%, Knocked VPD out of whack for about 3 days no matter what I did. Plants seem to have held up well.
10/23 Day 52 Water 1.5 ml/ltr Sensi Bloom A&B and .5 ml/ltr CalMag and Big Bud. In 6.55 pH and 593 ppm. Mimosa Cake runoff 5.86 pH and 764 ppm. Ztrawberriez runoff 5.96 pH and 1002 ppm. Next watering I will flush and feed as the pH keeps drifting down on each of the plants.
10/24 Day 53 Mimosa Cake has started to stretch more and her top is way to lanky and far from main canopy so bending her over like I did Ztrawberries awhile back.
10/25 Day 54 Played with the light height and intensity using my Photone app and raised intensity to 70% plants still 18- 20 inches from light.
10/27 Day 56 Flush and feed day. Flushed both plants with 15 gallons of ph'd water. Got pH closer to 6.5 and ppm to about 150. Fed both ladies 1ml/ltr CalMag and Big Bud and 2 ml/ltr Sensi Bloom A&B, Water in 6.62 pH and 853 ppm. Mimosa Cake runoff 6.42 pH and 182ppm. Ztrawberriez runoff 6.49 pH and 178ppm.
Weather here has decided to stay cold (at least this week) so no more super crazy humidity fluctuations.
10/29 Day 58 Received my Photone diffuser in mail today so no more using the darn piece of paper as a diffuser! Numbers were a little different so I decided to try raising light intensity to 80% as I have not seen alot of growth on the Ztrawberries. I have been putting off defoliating Mimosa Cake as she has so many nodes I truly don't lnow where to begin. The branches are full of small flower sites so no way to remove everything blocking a bud site. I will do a decent defoliation and see where we go from there.
10/31 Day 60 Defoliated Mimosa Cake but not sure it was enough she is REALLY a beast as far as bud sites down the branches. Unofrtunately Ztrawberriez is not done and I just don't have room to spread her out anymore and keep my tent warm as my heater has to go in tent because the room cannot be closed off and is way too cold otherwise. Watered today as well still half strength nutes 2ml/ltr of Sensi bloom A&B and 1 ml/ltr Big Bud. Water in 6.58 pH and 688 ppm. Runoff numbers for Mimosa Cake were 5.94 pH and 691 ppm. Runoff for Ztrawberriez is 5.94 pH and 845 ppm.
11/2 Day 62 Took alot more close ups with the hand microscope of Ztrawberriez and she is getting there. I would figure a week possibly 2? So glad to have something since I stressed her so bad in the beginning with light burn and too dry. Please excuse my shaky hand on some still getting used to holding the scope and of course my Husky has a few hairs in there, lol
11-4 Day 64 Mimosa Cake water 2ml/ltr of Sensibloom A and B and 1 ml/ltr BigBud and Calmag. Water in 6.45 pH and 837 ppm, Runoff 5.78 pH and 997 ppm. She looks and smells amazing. I know I probably deen to defoliate more but I cannot for the life of me figure what else I want to pull. Ztrawberries still hanging in there just gave her 1 ml/ltr Calmag In 6.5 pH and 203 ppm with runoff of 5.96 pH and 827 ppm. Going to need to flush again as this soil is jacked. Right out of the bag pH was way low, I added dolomite lime to "fix" it but guessing it is about gone.
11-6 Day 66 Woke up to Ztrawberries showing just how badly she needs the flush lockout causing her to look like she has K deficiency. After flushing 6,58 pH and 128ppm. Fed 1 ml/ltr CalMag 2 ml/ltr SensiBloom A&B runoff 6.6 pH and 191 ppm.
11-7 Day 67 Flush n feed for Mimosa Cake, there a a sight few spots seeing a bit of burn on the tips due to lockout/low pH. Flush runoff ended at 6.6 pH and 100 ppm. Fed 1 ml/ltr Calmag and Big Bud and 2 ml/ltr Sensibloom A&B In 6.58 pH and 913 ppm. Runoff was 6.51 pH and 281 ppm.
11-10 Day 70 Ending the week with some Recharge 1/2 tsp per gallon. Gave Ztrawberries recharge with 1 ml/ltr CalMag so I could pH the water. In 6.79 pH 253 ppm with Runoff 6.36 pH and 605 ppm. I think she is just about as done as she is going to get. So sad she had those issues in the beginning. Gave Mimosa Cake recharge and 1 ml/ltr Sensibloom A&B and 1/2 ml/ltr Big Bud. Halved the usual dose to make sure she is eating and first time using recharge which supposedly helps them feed on what is in the soil better. In 6.7 pH and 469 ppm Runoff 6.36 pH and 662 ppm.
11/13 Day 73 Mimosa Cake -Water with 2 ml/ltr Sensi Bloom A & B and 1 ml/ltr Big Bud. Saw a tiny bit of discoloration on Mimosa Cake was thinking maybe going to heavy on the nutes. Water in 6.51 pH and 685 ppm. She was just flushed so I am positive there is not a salt buildup. Runoff for Mimosa Cake 6.18 pH and 858 ppm. Ztrawberries looks to be finished so she will be chopped today.
11/14 Day 74 Mimosa Cake had a bit more "burn" maybe not burn?? These 2 plants were in the last of a bag of Happy Frog that when I slurry tested straight from the bag was Very low 5's for pH. I had added dolomite lime to the soil before I potted the plants. I am thinking that the lime has all been washed away by the waterings and the soil pH is bottoming out again because of it. Going to research a bit before I do anything.
11/16 Day 76 Water 1 ml/ltr CalMag In 6.85 pH and 220 ppm. Runoff 6.04 pH and 990 ppm. Looking worse and al of the pics I am looking at point to both Potassium and Phosphorus so I think I need to ask the experts on here. Added 1.5 TBL Dolomite Lime as a top dress and new runoff pH 6.32 and 914 ppm.
She was looking beautiful up until about 7 days ago. Noticed very minute brown edges on a few upper leaves. Everyday saw a bit more until I got this! Is this too much or not enough nutrients? pH issue??
Thats Potassium, or lack there of. Either pH is off or your aren't giving it enough, or it's locked out from too much calcium or overall salt build up in the root zone.
Overall I think this strain had alot of potential. Unfortunately I, as a newer grower, had some issues and crazy Missouri humidity played a part in them as well. I would definitely grow this strain again as I would love to see its full potential when not stressed by user error. Even with my problems (you can read them all on my diary) still got a small harvest and smells pretty good with sticky buds. Cannot wait for the dry and cure to give it a try.
11/19 Day 79- Mimosa Cake is still looking rough. I am hoping it was the bad bag of soil running out of dolomite and reaking havoc on my pH but unfortunately cannot tell just yet. Watered today as a small flush just to be safe and also to get that dolomite wet and starting to work its way into my soil. Used .5 ml Cal/Mag into RO water so that I could pH it. 6.56 pH in with 125 ppm. Runoff was 6.62 and 400 ppm. Did another small bucket of water with tap and r/o 6.66 pH and 74 ppm with runoff finishing at 6.81 pH and 253 ppm. Addded my feed of 2 ml.ltr Sensi Bloom A&B 1 ml/ltr Big Bud in 6.49 pH and 649 ppm. Added recharge after pH'ing the water as it always raises the pH temporarily per the website ( 6.75 pH and 855 ppm) Runoff 6.8 pH and 267 ppm.
11/22 Day 82- Plant does not seem to be getting better. If this is a potassium deficiency which is what it seems what am I doing wrong still? I know there is not a salt buildup, Been working on the soil pH. Humidity, Temperature, DLI and VPD are all within range. Starting to worry my roots are in trouble though not sure how to check that. Water with 1 ml/ltr CalMag in 6.52 pH and 220 ppm with runoff of 6.51 pH and 551 ppm. Hopefully this is a good sign that she will start to recover? Finally got pH runoff numbers to be almost the same as water in pH. I raised the light intensity to 90% which gives me a DLI of 41.6 in the dead center of the light ant 18 inches.
11/25 Day 85 Water with 1ml/ltr CalMag 2 ml/ltr Sensi Bloom A&B. Water In 6.49 pH 794 ppm Runoff 6.36 pH 876 ppm. Added a bit more dolomite lime as a top dress.
11/28 Day 88 Still looking like the pH of the soil is struggling. Did normal water and Ph was drifting low at 6.13 so I Watered with pH'd water until runoff was 6.41 pH and 487 ppm. I hope this helped the prilled dolomite lime to dissolve and disperse more. Final watering 1 ml/ltr CalMag, 1 ml/ltr Big Bud, and 2 ml/ltr Sensi Bloom A&B water in 6.59 pH and 851 ppm and runoff 6.47 pH and 538 ppm. Trichomes still do not look ready so will keep at it. This plant is taking a long time!
12/1 Day 91 plant maybe is recovering from the pH stress. (I will NEVER use a bagged soil again without pH'ing it straight out of the bag. I heard how great Happy Frog and Ocean Forest were so I never dreamed there could be pH issues but both bags were way low when testing what I had left of them) Water in 1 ml/ltr CalMag (makes adjusting pH of R/O water possible) Water in 6.5 pH and 203 ppm. Runoff was 6.33 pH and 686 ppm
12/3 Day 93 Watered with 2 ml/ltr Sensi Grow A&B and 1 ml/ltr CalMag and Big Bud. Water in 6,42 pH and 814 ppm. Runoff 6.38 pH and 957 ppm.
Seem to have fixed the soil pH with the dolomite lime. Trichomes showing still not ready to chop.
12/6 Day 96 Watered wutg .5 ml/ltr CalMag so that I can pH my RO water. In 6.65 pH and 108 ppm. Runoff 6.34 pH and 692 ppm.
12/7 Day 97 Still not loving the look of my plants as I thought that re-amending the soil was going to fix it all. I learned something new today. My favorite part of growing beside the product is all of the things I keep learning. Any who, apparently Calcium can lock out the Potassium which is maybe why I am still showing signs of deficiency. Going to do somewhat of an experiment today. My RO should THEORETICALLY be close to 7.0 pH neutral since there are litte to no hydrogen ions it is not easy to get a pH measurement which is why I always add a touch of CAlMag on my non feed days. I decided to try just using pH down from General Hydroponics since that is the brand I use after adding nutes to raise or lower my pH back where I need it. I took my reverse osmosis water and added 1 ml of pH down from General Hydroponics to it and was able to measure the pH to 6.5pH. So it works! I used about 10 liters of this to semi flush my Mimosa Cake to hopefully get her calcium lowered and get her to the finish line. After I did this I was at 6.54 pH and 279 ppm. Figured this should help tremendously so I then waited about 30 minutes after it was finished flushing and draining to add a regular feed of 2 ml/ltr Sensi Bloom A&B 1ml/ltr Big Bud. Final Water was 6.36 pH and 643 ppm with runoff numbers of 6.67 pH and 371 ppm. I am happy with that so lets see what happens next week.
12/10 Day 100 Watered 1ml/ltr Sensi Bloom A&B and Big Bud. Water in 6.42 pH and 334 ppm with Runoff 6.59 pH 497 ppm. I have not seen any more advancement on the deficiency.
12/13 Day 103 Watered 1.25 ml/ltr A&B and Big Bud. Water in 6.36 pH and 484 ppm with runoff of 6.5 pH and 611 ppm.
I really loved growing this strain. She smelled amazing and grew very impressive even with my soil issues. Waiting a little longer to cure before I give smoke report.
CannaMom2
