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Pineapple Express. First grow (second try). Coco

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LED/70W
Light
LED/100W
Light
Indoor
Room Type
Topping
weeks 3
LST
weeks 3-4
HST
weeks 3, 7-8
Defoliation
weeks 9, 13
Coco Coir
Grow medium
Perlite
Grow medium
Strain
Pineapple Express
Barney's Farm
Growing it
Normal
Resistance
Neutral
I really liked the strain. A beautiful fragrance that smells exactly like pineapple in the early stages of flowering, then turns into something fruity. Resinous buds and their size. She continued to grow even after my mistakes. I am also satisfied with the result, 74 grams of dry buds for 100 watts of light on 0.25 m2. And this despite the fact that this is my first grow. The downside is that she turned out to be a hermaphrodite and my buds were partially pollinated. I also had problems with the height of the plant because it stretched 3 times after switching to 12/12, but that's a problem for me because of my small box.
The Outcome
Week 15
Harvest
What's on the scales?
74
gram
ounce
Bud dry weight
What's on the scales?
545
gram
ounce
Bud wet weight
Harvested
1
Number of plants harvested
Grow Room
0.25
ft²
Grow Room size
0.74
g / watt
296
g / m²
74
g / plant
4
plant / m²
400
watt / m²
Tastes like
Sweet
Tropical
Citrus
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Jaked Jaked
a day ago
The time has come for the harvest. The plant was cut on May 7 and finally dried on May 18 (12 days). During this time, I had to go through many difficulties, trials and errors. Since this is my first experience, I cannot accurately evaluate everything, but now I will write down everything that I encountered during grow. It all started well enough, the seed germinated and was planted in coco. Unfortunately, I added mycorrhiza, which contained fertilizers, and it began to affect the PH, which caused the leaves to twist. But after transferring to a 15-liter pot, everything became ok. Next, I thought about the training method and bro @bioaccessory and bro @PersonalSmok3s gave me very useful advice on topping and mainlining, for which I am very grateful. Next I broke a branch, later another. Bro @bioaccessory advised me not to bend the branches after watering, but to wait at least 24 hours after, then everything fell into place. It was time to switch to 12/12 and this is where the problems started. It grew and stretched with incredible speed. I tried to press her with the light, holding the lamp at a distance of 10 cm, but she did not obey. One morning I woke up to find that the branches were leaning right into the lamp, which stressed the plant and me along with it. The leaves were damaged by the current, but everything healed. She continued to grow and the result was that she grew taller than the lamp. It was very difficult to manage, because we had to do supercropping several times and constantly stretch the branches with rubber bands, but we managed. Then my DIY lamp started to burn out and I had to look for an alternative. I chose household LED lamps because of their price and efficiency relative to it. It is the best on the market. I forgot to say about incandescent lamps, as a source of far red. I am very happy with the result, although I had to turn them off when the wild growth started. Well, then stop the stretching and weight gain of the buds. I decided to dry a whole bush, dividing it only into 4 parts for convenience. I did a dry trim. Then I put everything in glass jars and put them in a dark place with a hygrometer inside. It initially read 57%, which indicated I dried them out a bit, but when I opened the cans, I put more humid air in there and now the humidity is 63%, which is almost perfect. Already after 1 month, the smell became unsurpassed, I recommend everyone to try this strain. Thank you all for your attention, bro's for help and all guests of the report. Peace🙌
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Grow Questions
Jaked
Jakedstarted grow question 6 months ago
Hello growdiaries community! Look, isn't the plant developing too slowly? I have had problems with fertilizer overdose (my guess) due to an unknown mycorrhiza, but now I have it under control.
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Sit_Ubu_Sit_Good_Dog
Sit_Ubu_Sit_Good_Doganswered grow question 6 months ago
shifting ph or other factors that can cause a fluctuating growth rate can cause waviness in leaves or contortion. Early leaves often do funky things on their own, too. Since your newer 3-fingered leaves look fine in this regard, i woud not worry. The 3-fingers aren't always blemish-free, either. Assumes all other factors 'good enough.' growth rates are relative... soil grows tend to be on the slower side of spectrum. The first couple weeks are boring but will double in size as a faster rate over time. Think of how much plants grow after going into flower phase.. 2-3x larger.. that's nothing more than continuing previous vege growth for 3+ weeks before abating. it's not "caused" by the flip. Cessation of vege growth (stems elongation + leaf growth) is caused by the flip to flower for photoperiods. in soilless i'd expect that in 7-8 days from sprout... just a guess. You got a little more stretch than i go for, but looks like you adjusted by the time it mattered - the internode at top.. a little stretch between cotyledons and single-finger leaf is no big deal. use those resulting internode lengths as a guide for light intensity.
Jaked
Jakedstarted grow question 3 days ago
Hi guys! Decided to finish my diary (Pineapple Express), which I should have finished a little earlier. The question is as follows. I decided to flush with distilled water and citric acid. Is this ok or not a very good idea? Thanks!
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m0useanswered grow question 3 days ago
Flushing is mostly a myth and distilled water is aggressive as fuck and could burn the roots. Almost any acid can be used as a PH down. citric is not outside of the realms of common acids used. I think GH PH down has a mix of citric and phosphoric. Flushing is just not needed, it does not do most of what people claim it does, like removing chemical taste from buds, it's just not how plants work.. It is however a useful tool to combat toxicity of the medium should you have accidentally overfed it to much. In short feed less and then just water as needed end of life vs dumping copious amount of water though the pot. Agree with others, distilled/RO is just wasted money and not needed. Good Luck!
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PersonalSmok3s
PersonalSmok3sweek 15
Looks to have turned out alright in the end 😸 Try not to smoke it all too fast 🌱💚
PersonalSmok3s
PersonalSmok3sweek 3
Still early days yet, if you’re thinking of mainlining I’d start now by topping her. Otherwise just leave her to grow a bit bigger then bend her over and tie down all her branches 🤷‍♂️😸 Have a look through some of my diaries, you might get some inspiration 🤷‍♂️😸🌱💚
Jaked
Jaked
@PersonalSmok3s, I'm actually afraid that the lowest nodes will not develop properly and then only one level will remain. I could be wrong because this is my first experience, always exciting.
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Jaked
Jaked
@PersonalSmok3s, Interesting! I'll take a look. Thanks🙏
PersonalSmok3s
PersonalSmok3sweek 5
Height started to become an issue for me with my Slurricane#7 🤦‍♂️ I ended up supercropping her and just bending over all the tallest branches! You’ll see the result when I update in a few days, but it worked an absolute treat 😸
Jaked
Jaked
@PersonalSmok3s, Very interesting to see, I like your courage to experiment! I've already made a decision, so this grow will be like this, we'll see what happens.
Golden
Goldenweek 4
She's looking good!
Jaked
Jaked
@Golden, Thank you! This is my first experience, so I'm worried about every little thing😬
Dunnruss63
Dunnruss63week 2
I have some Pineapple Express going now, it’s freaking awesome, crazy good aromas! Awesome grow!
Jaked
Jaked
@Dunnruss63, Just looked! Have a HUGE harvest😌
Jaindoh
Jaindohweek 0
Followed for your first grow! Good luck, and happy growing! I'm no guru, but I specialize in helping people with their first grow (its the best way to go from beginner to solid intermediate grower, which most people never make), so dont hesitate to ask any questions.
Jaked
Jaked
@Jaindoh, Thanks, bro! Peace🙌
PersonalSmok3s
PersonalSmok3sweek 4
She looks well from what I can see 😸 Nothing too harsh, good job man 🌱💚
Jaked
Jaked
@PersonalSmok3s, But not everything is so smooth... I just broke a branch. Accidentally touched when draining the runoff😓 It was one of the largest branches, but I cut it and grafted it to a branch😬 I hope it helps🙏
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Jaked
Jaked
@PersonalSmok3s, I tried to do my best😄 Thank you for the tip about the technique!
Aleks555
Aleks555week 4
Happy Growing
Jaked
Jaked
@Aleks555, Thanks!
PapaNugs
PapaNugsweek 4
Great job topping the training. Nice!
Jaked
Jaked
@PapaNugs, Thanks man! Love your diaries!
Jaindoh
Jaindohweek 5
how did your flowering go?
nexuscrypto
nexuscryptoweek 14
cool nuggets you´re about to harvest, look healthy and almost I can smell them😋 I am running the Pineapple Express in a small tent for almost a year and I love it. My advise is to use clones and/or HARDLY LST, HST, topping, SOG, SCROG or any other training technic to avoid stretching if you are running this strain on reduced space cause it grows very tall specially first 3 weeks of flowering as you may have experience too😅🙌 So I ended up doing some water stress during veg, reducing Nitrogen, using no more than 7L pots, defoliate-lollipop every week as soon as they have multiple branches or about 20cms tall, have zero fear on supercropping and specially use clones and get them to flowering stage as soon as they root so they start with 5-10 cms tall and end with about 30-40 when chopped. They look like thai sticks or so called in spanish "banderillas" they smell like piña colada and gives you a very special sativa effect. I´m really loving it😍 good luck mate! looking tasty👌👏👏👍🙏
Jaked
Jaked
@nexuscrypto, Thank you man! Yeah the smell is awesome, sweet and fruity. In the early stages of flowering, it smelled exactly like pineapple. And yes I had a lot of problems with stretching😅 But another problem she is became a hermaphrodite and I can't understand why. Is it because of my mistakes or a tendency to strain?
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JBoBz
JBoBzweek 10
beautiful plant mate, she'smso big💪