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One seed was really eager to pop. The other two required some soaking in a cup for a few hours then moved to towel. Otherwise it was pretty much just paper towels on a plate in front of the firebox.
Pretty basic. Misting twice per day, only lightly on the plant, but heavily on the soil. Just let the plant do its thing and the light do its thing evaporating water.
Only ran the fans 2 to 3 hours a day to agitate the seedlings, didn't want to tank humidity as tent is in a room with a woodburner.
Messed up and introduced algae with an old watering pot. Also overprioritized humidity.
Plants are starting to take off.
Made ventilation and humidity mistakes. Faults observed in first node leaves, definite Nitrogen overdosing but that's expected straight in FF Ocean Forest. Upper leaves looking fine and I don't expect it become a problem as the plants grow.
Removed bottom node leaves and shoots. Fed some big-bloom, first feed of anything.
Attempted to super crop them, then changed my mind. They've coped with the abuse well.
Having problems with the soil not drying, haven't watered for 5 days and still quite wet. Suspect low temperature and so early in life stage. Drilling additional drainage holes tomorrow which should help air access soil to dry it out.
Plants smell lemony, like a dirty citrus. Carbon filter is now attached so it's not smelling until I open the tent. Filter on outside with fan.
6th and 7th nodes are coming out. Considering skipping LST over tent size, might have to give a plant to somebody to make room or get a bigger tent, considering a 3x2x6.
Unfortunately couldn't find a home for Chi, so she had to get tossed. I might actually continue to do this in future, disposing of her gave me a chance to examine the root status of the plants thus far, which had a pretty solid root system that wasn't anywhere near binding. Albeit that costs a seed, soil, and space but in this case it assured me the pots weren't WAYYY too small. There's room for the root system to double and even triple.
Reasons for culling were overcrowding in the tent and smell. Dear Buddha, the stench was awful and I discovered there was a leak in my carbon filter at the cap that let air sneak out, courtesy of the intense cat urine smell. While my grow doesn't have to be super secret, it can't be be stinking up the house and I would go as far as just culling all plants and going "well, that's was an interesting experience" and moving on. Leaf to leaf moisture caking was a growing concern. I've also acquired a gnat problem. Time to bring out the mini bug-zapper, luckily it doesn't look too bad if I deal with it now.
Plants are now 5 days into preflower and getting taller.
Using RQS LSR clips for training and that's been working out. Now that the tent is less crowded there's room.
First round of flower nutrients will be given tomorrow evening. Expecting water requirements to uptick considerably over this next week.
Pistils are now starting to increase. Now feeding 1/4 tspn Big Bloom and 1/4 tspn Tiger Bloom for a 32oz watering schedule every other day and foliar spraying with Magnesium (epsom salt disolved in water, 1/8th teaspoon for 8 fl oz). Ceasing magnesium supp. going forward after today.
Culled a second plant, after defoliation it might have fit but I expect budding would just put me right back here at culling. I genuinely expected to kill 1 or 2 plants with mistakes, not have all 3 survive into preflower so I'm not salty about it. Still think I'll run 2 plants for the next grow and be more aggressive with the LST / offset-planting and trimming.
Odor has come down considerably, even before culling the 2nd plant the sour odors had fallen down to well below my acceptable threshold.
Defoliated lower large leaves. Upper 6 large root node leaves remain, 2 lower ones are tucked. Leaving these to be mobile nutrient sources as long as possible, most shoots are starting to pass them though so I'm probably done with trimming.
Polar vortex ripping through has made things interesting. Super cold in the house and the woodburner can only get it so hot so it's been 60 degree nights. Got the plant off the floor by 2 inches which made me decide to aggressively tie it down while I still can before flower starts in earnest as there's only about 6" of additional headspace for it grow without bending it over. LST'ed down it's 14" tall at the root cola. The cold has definitely slowed things down and at night when temps hit -5 F outside you could see her droop from the cold oozing up the floor.
Minor orange spots that might be light burn from foliar droplets or calcium low relative to supplemented magnesium. It's 2 small orange dots, I'm not freaking out. Damaged two shoots, unfortunately they're kind of high up, which is a suck. One just a minor injury but the other hanging by its' skin before taping.
Should be in full-on proper flower by next week, assuming there isn't Polar Vortex 2.0 around the corner.
Right now my biggest concern is that I'm going to have to just toss this plant for getting too big, which is frustrating. 18" tall with still 4 weeks to go at minimum. In the future I'm topping every auto, I don't care what the standard advice is about topping autoflowers, I'm not trusting reported height ranges ever again and I'm going to top just for the sake of stunting them deliberately from now on.
Have some of what appear to be calcium issues with only two leaves (same node). It's directly above the two shoots I damaged last week so I think it just got raided for calcium to make repairs below. Still ordered some Cal-Mag just in case, but I'm on 400+ ppm ground water so I doubt it's going to be needed. *Update:* yeap, looks like it probably is a deficiency or lock-out.
Plant is nicely flowering, and growing huge in the process. It'd be 28" tall if she wasn't bent over.
Flushing tonight to clear before increased feeding schedule hits. Previous gnat problem soundly defeated with bug-zapper.
Not a lot changing. There's some white hairs growing on everything now (premature trichomes I assume). Buds are getting ready to swell, for some reason the buds at the bases of shoots are seeming more noticeable.
Definite deficiency in worsening single leaf, other leafs doing what appears to be calmag spotting. Added calmag to feed schedule the end of last week and it's stopped getting worse. Also added Grow Big to feed, that FFOF soil is probably tanked by now. Started taking water PH more seriously, had been sitting a PH meter and too lazy to calibrate it or spend money on ph up/down. Finally did it and, oof, 5.3ph on what I had been watering the plant with, roughly. Tough bugger. Bringing that up to ~6.3 to 6.4 with 1/4 teaspoon of ph up.
Goofed and turned the light up to 100% (100w) and toasted the plant. Recovery took about a day. Shriveled some pistils but fortunately only one bud-top got that cooked.
Suddenly lost a cat. Neglected the plant a few days.
Pistils turning on one bud stalk. It's still getting taller. So much for a 2 foot tall midget. Tied down it's 28 inches, it'd be just shy of 3 ft tall if I hadn't tied it down during the stretch.
Tied down some more stalks. Growth has stopped. More pistils turning. Seeing some deficiency, mostly looks to be nitrogen, nothing too major. Trimmed off a couple of leaves to get some more airflow.
Changed light schedule to 12 hours to maybe try to push her to finish up a bit quicker, upped light to 100% for now shorter period. Though pistils have been turning, been pretty slow. With maybe two dozen turned over the prior week. (Promptly canceled that change to a 12 hour switch since I couldn't even locate where I'd read about that being a thing and couldn't find any other corroborating material, 18 hours 100% 100w LED)
Smells kind of piney.
Buds are getting heavy enough to weight down stems. Pistils continuing to gradual turn orange. Mobile nutrient robbing and gradual death in lower leaves here and there.
Trichomes are now getting cloudy. I always thought that "when the trichomes are cloudy" expression was a really freaking terrible way to describe something, but, nah. It's obvious even with the naked eye when white shiny things turn dull gray. It's less "cloudy" and more straight up turbid pond water.
Plant has definitely stopped growing, 34" with a fabric tapemeasure along the center. So it hit the listed outdoor grow size, so I'm guessing my yields going to be good? I hope.
Guessing I've probably got another week or two before chop.
Plant is finishing up, basically just down to deciding how long I want to risk heat pistils throwing things off vs ripening them (15 degree heat gradient in the tent, 65 at the root and 78 at the top). Harvest is anytime between today and the next 7 days.
Virtually all trichs are milky.
I started with 3 plants, and culled 2 of them. I do not regret it and those 2 plants taught me what a runt a looks like, what an overperformer looks like and what breaking two branches of your survivor after culling your overperformer for one broken branch results in. 2 of the most bud packed stems on this plant are stems that were broken mid stretch trying to use those stupid LST plastic clips on them.
I'm happy with the final plant. It's been so hands off that I only do something other than looking at it every 3 or 4 days. 1.7 gallon pot, Foxfarm the whole way. FFOF soil w/ added perlite, FF Trio, FF CalMag. API PH up.
Chopped day 83, hanged for 7 days. Probably on the early side, most likely should've left the plant for another week but I'm satisfied with the result enough to not care.
56.3 grams of a pretty fluffy stuff from the lowers that is probably destined to hash. 27.7 grams of bud from the major colas. So 3 ounces, satisfied.
Have only sissy-hit tried to dry herb vape a couple of lowers. Gets me buzzed, a serious bong or steamroller hit would probably end my evening.