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Starting my first grow, and hopefully the seed germinated! Kinda scared to how it is going to grow from now, but can’t wait to see and learn this new *hobby* :)
Would love hearing advices and hacks from you guys =)
Lil princess showed herself after 2 days in substrate! Gave her about 250ml of water with low dose of nutrients around the plant. Will increase it after first true leaves develop.
Keeping light at 25% which should give around 200 PPFD at 50cm distance.
Will update with more photos when she shows true leaves)
So! Based on answers for my question about the leaves, decided to pop another seed, tho i don’t have extra Strawberry Gorilla Autos, I’ve got Gorilla Cookies Auto🍪, which requires alike conditions and should be good to grow together. (still wanna see what the first one will grow into)) Will germinate the seed and update later
CO2 is only good if you run a sealed environment, if not your venting out the CO2 it produces. Living environments already have a above average CO2 levels vs outdoor air samples because of people living in them. To much CO2 in your living environment can cause issues for yourself if it gets to high.
I'd ditch the idea of it and focus on everything else, once you lock that in then you should go back and reexamine the idea of supplemental CO2.
Look into VPD and DLI as a start.
Good Luck!
My plant showed true leaves finally but looks odd Could anyone confirm if it is not OK? If not, is this something that could be fixed or it is just bad luck with the seed?
it seems to be a small malformation, for me nothing alarming, I would let it take some apex to see if it persists, if it grows well, with good growth, I would continue despite this, a plant can always to surprise even if in appearance it is not like the others. Consider her unique, love her like the others and she will return it to you.❤️🌱
She is growing. Gave a little dry period after overwatering and all new leaves look well.
Plant looks real funky because of mutation(?) in the beginning, but new leaves are good.
UPD.: Leaves are getting bigger and new branches grow. Gotta leave them for a week and the only thing I came up with are those bags which will give ~100ml per day each. This way plants shouldn’t dry out while I am away.
First pair of leaves look funky due to unknown problems in germination, I wonder if it would be a good idea to remove them? Or will it be better to just let them be?(my guess is that if I remove them, grow potential of plant won’t be invested in them, but into new growing).
I would not pluck anything off a plant this young, It will only hamper its growth and set it back. Its just to young at this point.
Not everything is going to look 100% on any plant, When they are larger and have the reserve to bounce back from getting stripped is a different scenario. You can pluck off the weird looking ones once no more light touches them and they grow up a bit. More Leaves = More Energy = More Growth.
Best of Luck!
Been away for more than a week so unfortunately missed week 3 of the diary.
During my absence baby girl grew well and became pretty big already, especially considering her state before.
Decided to try LST and brought down the top branch.
She starts to show couple of white hairs so next week should be the start of flowering.
Branch went up well on the next day after tie down. Removed larger leaves blocking the light, baby looks great.
She is growing great ! Started flowering this week, I did a flush after the pre flower and increased the nutrient intake for flowering now. Got a lil light burn so put the light a bit further away, dim is on 80% now.
Tie down and partial defoliation did well in evening the canopy and not letting it grow too high, but more in the sides.
Going well, bought CalMag as advised on the last week, seems like it helped because the color of leaves became more consistent. Added BigBud Coco this week.
Hey guys, please help me identify the cause of these rust spots on leaves. Seems to progress in last couple of days(spread).
Might this be a light/heat burn? Or some nute def?
I added CalMag on previous feeding.
Distance to light is 32cm currently.
Hello,
I‘ve seen that you just started using cal-mag and big bud coco wich is good because they contain important trace element‘s that are not in DualPart Bloom or Grow.
Magnesium is an essential ellement for photosynthesis wich will help alot.
I also calculatet your npk and In Total you have 185mg/L Nitrogen, 230mg/L phosphorus and 245mg/L potassium.
The levels of phosphorus are high but do not often lead to toxicity unless you are not ph balanced. The second problem with high phosphorous is that It hinders secondary Motabolism aka cannabinoids. It can help with plant groth but only up to 90mg/L wich is way below. I would recommend you to read this study because it would be very beneficial!
https://www.growweedeasy.com/phosphorus-toxicity-cannabis
Your biggest potasium intake is the DualPart Bloom wich I assume weighs about 1Kg per 1L. The P concentration is 5% so you have 50g of Phosphorous in your fertelizer. 0,004 (4ml of 1000ml) times 50g = 0,15g
or 150mg/L of phosphorous.
I would cut that in half and cut the Big Bud Coco wich has 80mg/L of each phosphorus and potasium. You also don‘t need that much potasium in flower, wich is proven by diferrent studies.
After that your NPK would be:
175mg/L N, 115mg/L P and 160mg/ K.
Contraty to popular believe Cannabis does need Nitrogen for the stretching phase because it nearly grows double in sice. To highten the N and the K a little bit more you can use 0,5 ml more of the DualPart Grow.
In the end you‘ll have a great balence of nutriens with an exact NPK of:
200mg/L N, 115mg/L P and 185 K.
Imo a litle bit less P would be good so for that you‘ll need to cut the Dual Part Bloom to maybe 1 ml.
This would mean just a third of it wich would give you:
195mg/L N, 90mg/L P and 170mg/L K.
To back my claim up that this is optimal, here is a reaserch showing it:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.764103/full
The final recipy is:
DualPartBloom
1ml/L
DualPartGrow
2ml/L
Big Bud Coco
1 ml/L
Sensi Cal-Mag extra 2ml/L
I can guarantee you your EC will be spot on. 💪🏻🌱
Had some problems with deficiencies and rust spots because of that, but other than that she is doing great. Frosting up and looking beautiful.
Adjusted the nutrient intake with help of the community 🙏
Should I defoliate next week? Advise what would be better, leave the leaves until harvest, or defoliate leaves heavily now to expose buds only? Check my diary for photos! growdiaries.com/diaries/186142-grow-journal-by-liliarose
The npk feeding is correct and the Cal-mag feeding too. Anyone that can calculate can tell you that. The issue is a Manganese deficiency like i already told you. This is at least what i suspect since I already know the npk is correct. So don‘t just take 100 apreaches on healing the symptoms when the desease is clearly another.
Noteverything is Cal-Mag, overfeeding or ph ect. Sometimes it‘s an element that wasn‘t fed but is needed. I‘m not saying i‘m 100% correct but if any advise given is not properly anylized by yourself, why bother even give any? Flush the plant now and you will see…
Should I defoliate next week? Advise what would be better, leave the leaves until harvest, or defoliate leaves heavily now to expose buds only? Check my diary for photos! growdiaries.com/diaries/186142-grow-journal-by-liliarose
Defoliation is massively misunderstood..........it does not "make energy go to the buds"!
All of the plants energy is made by the leaves.
Less leaves = less energy being made = less potential bud growth.
This is simple plant science.
Defoliate after harvest, not before would be my advice.
Personally, I believe defoliation is really bad for plants.
In 40 years of growing I have tried many, many "techniques", including defoliation and for the last 25 years, never, ever defoliate as I have observed the many negative impacts this causes to plants.
Cannabis grows best with as little stress as possible and with as many leaves as possible to provide the maximum amount of energy for best health and fastest growth.
If the plants would not need those leaves, it would not grow them in the first place!
The plants "know" what is best for them, it is only people who think they know better than a plant that is at is peak of efficiency after Millenia of evolution.
Doing great, did not have any problems, also added Canna Trace mix to the feed.
She is picking up weight and ❄️
Will stop feeding next week probably and switch to TA Final Part if the trichome state satisfies.
She is looking good and picking up weight. Buds are sticky and smell like sweet berries.
Switched to Final part(ripen) only for abt. 10 days and will flush for 3 days after.
liliarose
