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Five out of 6 seeds popped and are on their way. Placed zip lock baggie on each solo cup initially to create a humidity dome but have now removed those bags and am lightly misting the 5 seedlings morning and evening. I'm using my Spider Farmer SE 3000 as a light source but it's dimmed way down and about 3 feet from the embryo leaves. So far, so good :-)
Seedlings still in solo cups but new leaves are expanding. Height pretty much unchanged from last week. Light watering morning and evening with spray mister.
Lost one seedling so I'm now down to 3. Very little upward growth on the remaining 3, but leaf growth is slowly increasing. Another week or 2 and I'll start considering transplanting into a larger container, probably a 7 gallon fabric bag. The journey continues for this grow
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My 3 girls continue to hang in there. This being my first indoor Florida grow I’m hoping for a good outcome. I’m finding humidity is obviously higher here unlike my previous grows in New England. I’m looking forward to setting them in their final pots soon
Transplanted 2 Fuel Dogs and 1 Bubba Cheesecake today. All 3 look healthy at this young stage. My water pH is higher than I like (usually 6.5 is my target) but this filtered FL water is around 8.5. I'll need to grab some pH UP and DOWN along with a calibration solution this upcoming week. Crossing fingers as the girls adjust to their new grow bags. Bubba Cheesecake is in a 7 gal and the 2 Fuel Dogs are a 5 and 7 gallon fabric bags.
How many here find pH as an important piece of the grow? When I started a few years ago the common thought was to pH within a certain range which I've continued to do. I've also read where some say pH'ing is a waste of time and have phenominal grows. Thoughts?
pH impacts growth for sure.. you'll need slightly different ratios of nutes are varying pH, because it can affect availability, meaning a new balance is required. You can find real research that shows optimal pH (per species) can definitely impact growth rate. Even if such things are measurable, relative to common sense ranges, it's a small thing. e.g. there's no way the uman eye can see a difference between 5.8 and 6.0 - not with all the variance you get seed to seed as well as a number of other volatile factors muddying the waters.
with that said, i rarely pH test my water. I have a 100-pack of ph strips that are 2-3 years old at this point and there are at least 80 in there. Been over a year since i ph-tested anything i bet. My nutes are ph-buffered, though, so it's ~6.0 everytime. Takes the guessing game out of it. So, there are ways to avoid the problem with confidence. I have terrible habits with my reservoir, too, and still no problems. If i were smart, i'd test it before germinating seeds.. but i'm lazy.
Consistency is probably most important, relative to any common sense range of pH.
Genetics is your potential. You either let the plant get there or hinder it. There's no polishing turds, here.
I would never say PHing is a waste of time. You could say the same thing about water treatment sights if they did not PH the water most of us would most likley die eventully. though there are ways around having to ph water you can use nutrients like gen1:11 these nutrients are ph stable with a tap water with ec of around 0.3 to 0.5 this will ensure your ph is always right and you dont even need a meterr to test it ive used gen1 for 3 years and had nothing but sweet tasting bud and massive yields :) best of luck buddy
I’m not happy with the current growth of these 3 plants and I’m at a loss as to how to stimulate their growth. I did a light application of worm castings and some BaS craft blend yesterday. My previous grows were very successful using Mephisto autos while in New England. Central Florida is proving to be challenging with these photos.
Photos almost look the same from week to week. The leaves are healthy but the main center stalk doesn’t seem to be changing in width. I’m increasing the amount of water slightly and watering more frequently. I’m also increasing my light from 20% to 40%.
For this bring the 9th week it nowhere resembles my previous Mephisto autos which were awesome. After this attempt with Seedman I will probably return to the Mephisto autos. Just not happy with these genetics.
Plants are finally starting to look like they should. Since this is my first photo period grow (in the past it's always been autos) I'm just taking it one day at a time.
I found a major mistake made on my end by not having enough hours in the day for my lights. Instead of 18 on 6 off, I had the reverse: 18 off and 6 on. I'm guessing that was the cause of the poor growth but that's been corrected last week and I can see the positive difference now.
I was gone for 4 days and returned to find a major growth spurt on all 3 plants. Much fuller and taller. I'll defoliate somewhat and will go ahead and flip to 12/12 today.
On from 7 pm to 7 a.m. and off from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Plants continue to grow. Used one tsp of unsulfured molasses to a gallon of water ph’d to 6.4. Some of the calyxes are showing signs of swelling which hopefully equates to early bud development.
Still waiting to see definitive bud development. One Seedsman staffer recommended leaving the lights off in the tent for 24 hours to see if that may trigger bud development. I did try 24 hrs but couldnt tell much of a change so now I'm going to try 48 hrs of darkness for better results. All 3 plants look extremely healthy.
Still at odds with lack of bud development but all 3 plants are healthy. I added a quarter cup of BaS Craft Blend to each container with 6.4 pH tap water. One podcast recommended decreasing the light intensity to accelerate bud development, so my Spider Farmer SE 3000 has been dialed back to 50% from 90%. Continuing to monitor.
Not much change fro last week. Plants seem to remain healthy but no evidence of any significant bud development. I’ll continue to nurse those along until I return to New England in early to mid summer.
I'm still cautiously optimistic that I may be able to get some flower from one or all of these 3 plants. Watered in 1/2 cup of Fox Farms Big Bloom earlier in the week and have been alternating between the Fox Farm Big Bloom and BaS Craft Blend every other week. Leaves looks good and flower sites are stable, just not stacking. Trying to remain patient.
Patience continues to be key with these 3 plants. Buds are looking plumper but on one plant I'm seeing signs of a deficiency I think and have included a pic for this week.
Bud sites are still slowly expanding and pistils are turning orange on one of the Fuel D.O.G. plants. Watering every other day unless leaves show signs of needing water.
Hoping to at least get some popcorn buds from this grow. I'm really hoping to be able to chop and start drying in another month or so. I may try 2 more photos and 2 new autos for the next grow.
All 3 plants to continue to grow at a snail’s pace. Pistils are turning orange and leaves are signs of senescence on 2 plants. Minimal tric dev. Still finding it difficult to think about harvesting until I can at least see more trichomes. continuing to monitor
Fading and senescence showing. Buds are a little fuller and slight stacking. Pistils are a mix of orange and white but unable to zoom in trics since loupe is at my outofstate residence. Bottom watering—tap water and not ph-ing. This helps with fungus gnats. Tap water around 6.5 to 7.0. Decided to start flushing this upcoming week. Anxious to harvest and start drying.
Because of the debacle of this grow I’ve started flushing (first time I’ve tried this) and have begun 48 hours of darkness based on techniques I’ve seen and read about. Today is Saturday so Monday morning I plan to harvest, do a lite wet trim then hang in the 3x3 tent to dry. I hope to have the drying and trimming done before going out of town for 5 days. Curing in turkey bags will start just prior to leaving. Then I’ll see what’s consumable after curing for 1-2 weeks minimum.
Whole plants are drying in tent in darkness for 7 days thus far. Would like to trim and start curing in next 2 days prior to Vermont trip. Leaves are drying slowly and starting to feel somewhat brittle. Temp and RH are steady at 73-76 and 59%.
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