The Doc! by Magnetous

Hi all!! Back with a strain that I wanna grow since years now!! Had the chance to try it only a few times in Amsterdam and what a blast!! Taste incomparable and amazing high!! Let's go!! I'll be growing her in my 60x60cm (2x2) where I normally grow my autos, I bet she will be better alone! Also back with the Bio Tabs solution, even if I had a very bad first try with this nutes (check my Hulkberry and green gelato diaries) I'll make thing go right this time! So I followed the Bio Tabs recommendations except for the Silicum Flash and Tabs. Added only 20g of the first and will wait week 2 or 3 to put the tabs in and as the life time of this strain is infinite I will be putting one Tab first and the second a bit later, maybe end of veg. I list here under my hardware: Box Secret jardin 60x60cm Extraction Fan Prima Klima 220/360m3 (always on 220) Oscillating fan Secret jardin monkey fan 20W Air pot Houyi Cree Cob leds 2x100W Biocanna Bio Terra plus Soil RO water around 50ppm Homemade self supported lst gear Cya soon mates!!!

Hi all! Nothing very interesting this week! I water with Ro and some Vegamatrix boost for the cal and mag. Still didn't put the tab in. Every new pair of fan leaves will have two more tips. See ya next week

Hi all! So this lady is now doubling in size every week!! I'm kind of afraid because next week will be a very busy week for me, working 7 days straight on an event from 7am to 11pm so I really won't have time to do anything to her. Hope that delaying the training won't make a mess! No signs of over feeding for the moment, I may be adding one tab next week. We'll see! Cya in two week!

Hi all! Tree alert!!! 😱 This plant is insane! The growth rate is amazing!! The main stem is already as wide as a clipper lighter!!! I have to start severe lst on this lady or she is gonna fill the tent badly!!! Being away for more than a week she felt a bit too comfy there! Initially I planned to keep four pairs of branches as usual but due to her size and the inter-nodal length I'll be keeping only 3 and I bet it's gonna be way enough! My struggle will be to keep the top branches as flat as possible waiting for the lower ones to catch up the height. And I realize my self supported lst system will be pushed to the limits as the branches are already almost too long! Let's try it! Side note: I still didn't put the tabs in and she seems just fine so I'll see later if there is any lightening but for now she is ok. Side note 2: I noticed something quite unusual on this strain. sometimes the secondary branche loose symmetry and are not one in front of the other, just like other strains would do after bloom as begun. But here it appends randomly even during the veg phase! You can check @TOTEM 's diary, his plant behaves the same way! Weird! I should have more time for some macros next week hopefully! Stay tuned! 😉

Hi all! Back on the Grinspoon diary! Sry only phone pics for this week! So this is the first week of 12/12 and obviously no pistils yet. As I used a bag of soil that sat for a few month in my garage I had to fight against some nasty fungus gnats! 😡 But the great news is I got rid of them! And quite quickly this time! I think my method is on point now. Here is how: Get you some Mosquito Bits like you see in the last pic. This is a totally natural product, no chemicals at all! The way it works is as follow: the little yellow chunks you see are inoculated with a bacteria called BTi (Bacillus Thuringiensis israelensis) and this bacteria produces a toxin that is deadly to the larvae of mosquitoes of course but also to gnats! So this bacteria won't hurt any of the beneficial organisms in your soil but only kill the wanted larvae! The procedure: I tried many different ways of applying the bits and the only one that as been really effective is this one. Fill with water a bottle/container/can big enough to be able to soak well the soil in your pot(s). Allow chlorine to evaporate if there is. Take one teaspoon of Mosquito Bits per litter of water, 4 teaspoon per gallon and put them in the water. Mix a bit and let this sit for 24 hours. So the next day, filter the water to get rid of the bits (there is no problem to let them in the water but it can be tricky depending on the way you water your plants) and soak your soil with it! Repeat after one week and voila! you should be gnats free!! You can repeat as many times as you need. You can even add your nutes to it (at least the organic ones) Note that the BTi only kills larvae so it is important to continue to catch the adults with sticky sheets while you apply it. It is a wise idea to treat your house plants too because they are often the source of the gnats. Also careful with the aromatic plants that you buy at your store they are very often infected. Hope this can help some of you ! Apart from that the Doc is fine! You can see at the bottom of the main stem that she probably would like to shoot some new roots! This plant is really vigorous! I poured 2ltrs of PK Boost Tea to prepare the bloom phase but didn't had any tabs at all as she seems just fine. I'll eventually add some Bactrex and Orgatrex when the first pistils show themselves. That's it for this week! Cya!

Hi all! Have been really busy this week so only a few pics to show you the upcoming monster and ... the first pistil! I'll be taking some nicer pics next week promise! Cya!

Hi all! So we have a well declared flowering now! She is filling up the tent in hardcore mode!! Hope she won't stretch for too long... yeah nevermind, she is going to! Give me chainsaw! More seriously she seems to enjoy life! I never ever gave so little nutes to a plant! And I don't think she needs more than that. I'll maybe throw in a light compost tea if she brightens too much but I think she is just fine right now. There is not much to do for now except enjoying the show! I'll be doing a slight defo in a week or two to get rid of a few big fan leaves and of some lower shoots. Cya!

Hi all! Everything is fine in the jungle! She is still stretching almost 1cm/0.4inch per day! I was a bit upset by the general light color she has but I read on many different posts on the net that it is very normal for this strain. I'll keep an eye on that anyway. The more the flowering goes on the more it is obvious that I don't have THE pheno everyone can see on the official pictures. I red there are three distinct phenos for this strain so I have one of the two others. Also finally installed the new Cree CXB3590 in the box with massive drivers! The power of the sun is unleashed in there now!!! Can't wait to see her pump those buds! I initially planned a defo but I also red that she doesn't really like that and the leaves being typically sativa thin leaves I think I'll just leave her like this. May still take off some very low shoots that won't reach the canopy. So the show goes on! Stay tuned! and sorry for the phone pics I wish I had time to make some proper photo shooting.

Hi all! Back with more phone pics!! 😅 Made some changes beginning of the week. The corners where getting a bit too high so I lowered her by removing the grid underneath. This gave her an extra 15cm / 6inch of space. I fed her with some micro elements using Acti-Vera and she really liked it! She was missing some of those I think, now the leaves are pointing to the sun and she even regained some green color. I have to admit that this lady gets me quite exited!! 😃 Red here and there that a lot of growers have quitted before the end so I hope I'll be able to bring her to the finish line! See you next week!

Hi all! Glad to be back at growing and reporting! So I'll catch up with the missing weeks but some informations may have been lost, I'll try my best to retrieve as many as possible. Don't expect better than phone pics for the next weeks as I didn't use my real camera till February. Hope you'll still enjoy the trip. Cya

Hi all! From now on the Grinspoon will continue to yellow a bit more every day. I managed to check th PH even without my ph meter (used drops tester but not very accurate for unclear water) and it turned out that the soil is wayyy to alcaline so I lowered the PH of the water a bit. Also as for the other plants there might still be a lack of micros so I will continue with the acti-vera for a while. Cya

Hi all! Still growing, still yellowing... I think I may have damaged the roots a bit by feeding with very acidic water once as I miss-calculated the amounts of PH-... 😩 Will see

Hi all! This plant is driving me crazy actually!! Will continue yellowing and as soon as I feed her a bit more she will show signs of over feeding... I guess I have been too shy with the Startrex to begin with so some N may be missing but not the other elements... who knows at that point? Also if I damaged the roots there is little I can do... I'll do my best to keep her alive till the end. Cya

Hi all! 😕 Focusing on the yellow leaves... I really hope she makes it to the end... Cya

Hi all! And the self-trimming goes on... Not that it disturbs me to have less work at the end but I would like to be sure she makes it there... Anyway she starts putting out a serious amount of trichomes and the fruity peachy apricoty smell is just fantastic!! Cya

Hi all! She continues to do her thing... that only her knows about! Finger crossed! Cya!

Hi all! Ok back to more serious pics here! We are approaching the end of the cycle so I had to take the Canon out! She is still seriously fading! Almost all the fan leaves are gone and basically all the small greener leaves you see now are in fact sugar leaves and are more or less covered with trichomes! I will let her one more week and then cut. This means we will be harvesting at the same time with my man @totem ! Cya!

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