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Started in water for 24 hours then directly to seed starting soil. I had 100% germination on 10 seeds but 1 seed was albino and I culled the weakest as I only wanted 8.
Plants got moved from starter cells into 7 gallon grow bags with a roughly 75/25 mix of happy frog/ocean Forrest. Plants did not slow or seem to notice that they were transplanted and continued growing well.
Began light LST training. Have lightly fed with fox farms grow big 1 tsp per gallon and 6 top per gallon of big bloom. This Strain has a moderate skunky odor already, pleasant smell.
Last day of week 3. Amazing how much odor this plant has at such a young age, love it! Growth has really taken off past couple of days. Will be continuing LST, going well so far.
The auto diesel plant is still finishing that I harvest the top of already. Surprisingly has gained quite a bit of size in these lower buds. Looks like this should be harvested in 3-5 days.
Have a few upgrades showing up soon. Ac infinity pro plus controller is shipping on the 20th. New humidifier that I can run behind the grow room wall and direct output hose into grow room. Diamond mylar to not only clean up the look of the room but to better reflect the light back to the plant and help eliminate any shadowing. Included a video of the rooms current state. Will also be making a change to the flooring after this grow.
Room has been really solid and staying consistent and easy to control. Everything is basically running itself with intervenes.
Touched up LST a bit on November 3rd and watered, going out of town for a few days.
Got back on the 6th and growth was amazing! Plants still skunky as can be. Ready for a good LST that I will do in the morning. Also fully harvested the late finisher plant from last grow.
Finished LST on all plants, we know have the main at a 90 degree and did a little leaf tuck to expose nodes better. Some of the plants are staying shorter and bushier some while still bushy, not quite as dense and more length to them. Not a huge difference and I'm sure they'll be similar enough after the flowering growth spurt. Tomorrow is already the last day of week 4. Getting closer and closer to flower!
Circle back to further LST on all plants and tuck some leaves. Extremely light defoliation of a few fan leaves that just couldn't be tucked out of the way of nodes. Getting very close to entering flower, most plants will not be LST much if it all any more. Some of the shorter bushier plants may still need some more in the next week or so.
Nov 9th
Just entered week 5 and the early stages of flowering. Plants have really started to take off, as the do in early flower. This strain is reacting very well to LST and very minor defoliation. Only removing fan leaves blocking nodes that can't be tucked and fan leaves that are sitting in the soil at bottom of the plant. All plants entering flower at same time but growth has been quite different between plants. Only thing I can think is I wasn't rotating enough and the plants closest to intake have grown a bit better, or with the way I have been feeding it could be possible some got a slightly larger amount of nutes but very very minimal. I think they will even out alot more through early flower.
LST will continue through this week and possibly next week. As soon as it seems we have slowed in plant growth LST will stop besides very very slight adjustments to keeping all colas at very similar heights.
Lowered lights 2 inches tonight.
Still waiting for new diamond mylar for walls but won't install till after this grow most likely.
Setting up another 80 or so square ft of grow space as well but this won't be ready for a while yet but it has started.
November 10th. Skipping all work on the plants today, will continue LST tomorrow, looking to get a little more length before adjusting on a few plants. Couple of updated shots added.
Nov 12th. Got in a good watering with nutes, seems like we got really well dried out between watering but still got em before they showed any sign of stress.
Did what will be the last major LST will mostly just be keeping bud sites even from here out. Slight defoliation to remove low leaves in soil and a few that were just in the way. I love how hideous plants look after some major LST and to see them look beautiful in under 24 hours, it's amazing! Will get new pics tomorrow when they relearn which way is up!
Couldn't resist, added a photo from 2 hours after LST to show how quick we started bouncing back. These plants really react well to training.
Nov13th the bounce back and growth since last night's LST is crazy with these. Added a photo from 6pm but had some rough led glare. Will grab some more later.
Alright, got new shots up. Canopy looks nice and level and ready to take off with some height!
To be continued...
Nov 16th
Day 1 of the 6th week! Watered today and added cal-mag. Plants are starting to flower nicely and a growing like crazy. I haven't done any LST since the last big training day last week. I will need to do some light training to a few tall colas.
Tomorrow I will get LST done and some defoliation. Need to get defoliation done asap to uncover the latest nodes to get them as much time as possible to catch up. Really impressed with this plant, I'm thinking we are in for a really good yield if we keep doing this well!
Side note - new diamond mylar came in to redo the walls in the grow room. Will do this and remove carpet after this grow. We also have 2x NEW TENTS ON THE WAY!! Nothing big, but I have equipment laying around to get these going so I can get multiple strains going at once and start working with photos and autos at same time. Really excited about this! It doesn't end there. Big upgrades to follow sooner than later!.
Nov 17th -
Got defoliation all finished up, wish I would have worked a bit harder on it earlier to get it done over longer period. But the plants are looking nice and perky after they had there lights out period. Lowered down a couple of the bud sites that had a good bit of extra height to them. Start of a fun grow week!
Nov20-
Not much to say. Plants are continuing along nicely and reacted well to the defoliation. Added a few pics. Haven't touched anything since the 17th. Going to need to water tomorrow otherwise, onwards we go!
Nov21
Plants were nearly bone dry today. Watered them late tonight with a light dose of big bloom, tiger bloom and boomerang from fox farms. Posted 1 pic of the canopy....I think it speaks for itself. This strain is so resilient and an absolute beauty through the entire growth process!
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To be continued...
P.S. I feel like I should be compiling notes for the entire week as well as photos to post the entire week at once? Adding photos and notes after creating the week doesn't update status of the diary so that seems to be the best option I would think? Sure would be nice if you could do a draft of the week then post it when the week is finished so I don't have to keep notes in 2 places. If anyone has a good way they are doing it, I would love to hear!
Not much of note since updates posted in week 6. Getting some rather different stages of flower between some plants causing a bit of issues with height so back to a soft LST tomorrow. Also need to lightly defoliate the plants that were slower to reach flower as they really bushed out since last cut.
Nearly to much plant in the room but I'm impressed with myself on my lst and with the strain for cooperation.
Will post updated notes and pictures after their haircut and training tomorrow!
Nov28
Gave the plants a much needed manicure and rearranged their positioning in the room. Have one plant that seems to just have a wild hair to grow much taller than the rest. It might get it self moved to a different tent but I'm making due for now.
Week 8 has been interesting. The different phenos have started to really show through on this strain. I found out these seeds are actually from blimburn (seeds were a gift). Horribly inconsistent plants but some of them are beautiful. This has created some struggles with feeding nutrients as they all seem to need drastically different amounts. Some of the plants are growing in a much more autoflower sativa type pattern while some are more comparable to an auto indica strain. Some plants have big fat pistils that are still fully white while some others have already began turning red and brown.
If I am remembering correctly. 3 of the plants suddenly and drastically began to show signs of manganese deficiency. I have never had a plant show this deficiency with any feeding regimen I have used. When I fed this week I fed slightly heavier in my nutes that contained manganese as I didn't have a manganese only nute to give (only did this for the plants showing deficiency). And I have already began to see the improvement.
We got in our AC Infinity 69 pro + controller, the newest "plus" version, cable of controlling 8 devices. As someone who has always just set and forget the vent and circ fans with maybe a change from veg to flower this is a game changer. Keeping the vpd at optimal level should give us some better results! Excited to see how well some strains I have grown previously do with this new ability.
We also added 2 more tents to our setup.
One tent we have setup with the latest ventilation setup from vivosun and the vivosun controller. Pretty impressed with both for the price I got on them. (Amazing black friday deals from vivio sun). So long as they last and continue to perform this well and safely I think vivosun could be shaking things up a bit in the pricing vs quality of this industry.
I'm still waiting on delivery of the vivosun controlled oscillating fan. Let's call this tent a vivosun test tent. For lighting we have a viparspectra p2000 and a xs1000 giving us 300 watts in a 2x4 tent. The p2000 is rated for a 2x4 but since we had extra, we have added an xs1000 for a more even light value across the entire canopy.
The second tent is currently not in use but is running a spider farms vent kit with a manual dial controller. Unfortunately I wad sent the wrong vent kit by spider farms. I am currently working with their support to resolve this. So far, their support has been very good. They are very understanding and very responsive. I will update more on this once fully resolved. In this tent I will be running 2x Matristar smart series S2 165W led fixtures in their 3k spectrum with a viparspectra v1000 in the middle of them giving us 430 watts of lightning in this tent with really good coverage!
On to the plants. All plants have been trained out well enough to be quite even in height even with the very inconsistent growth phenos and whatever else is causing such different plants. (All grown in exact same soil, same containers, same water amount, same nutrients, and rotated regularly to switch up positions in the room). 1 plant in particular couldn't easily be brought back to a matching height with the other plants. It began flower earlier than the others and not only that, it stretched in early flower about 12 inches more than the rest. This plant along with the most similar looking and height plant were moved to our vivosun product tent so they could have the lighting at proper height without causing us to raise the light extremely far grom our other plants. This si working out very well as wr have much better space now in the closet and all plants are getting what they need without any getting less than optimal due to differences in plants.
As you can see in the photos, buds on the plants look very different between the plants.
One of the exciting things is a few of the plants have the purple buds and purpling sugar leaves phenotype. They're beautiful!! From the looks of things. I think we will be harvesting some of the plants in 1.5, or maybe 2 weeks. Some I think are more 3 weeks or more out but we will just monitor trichomes of each plant and harvest each plant at optimal time.
This has been a fun grow despite some setbacks. Almost feels like growing 8 different strains at once which I've never done but with how this is going. I would be more willing to try doing more strains of similar growth styles at a time.
Excited to keep you all updated next week with even fatter buds!!
Week 9 buds have been gaining some extreme girth and length. A couple of the plants are much closer to harvest than others. I have separated 2 more plants to another tent so I have 4 in the grow closet. And 2 in each 2x4 tents.
1 of my tents exhaust or controller had issues one day and I got some extreme temps causing some major die off of leaves on 1 plant and not as bad on another. I made some changes to lower the "lung" room temps and to the exhaust/controller setup to hopefully not run into this again. Hoping it doesn't affect bud development to badly though I'm sure it will affect the final yield, just hoping to save the quality if possible.
Couple of the plants have some really amazing 12-16 inch colas with about 3 inch diameter. Should be a pretty hefty harvest from these 8.
Harvested 2 of 8 plants today. 90% or more trichomes were white with a few amber here or there. All pistils brown on the 2. 2 more plants should be ready within 2 days. The others are still a week out.
All plants have been chopped down now. Will switch over to harvest on here once these last plants finish drying. Then I can get a full harvest weight of everything.
2 weeks of curing for the first harvest. It is a very fruity smoke. Very sativa high but also a heavy body high. No sleepies or dry mouth. Really enjoying the strain. If I had to guess, I'd say we should be over 2 pounds.