Operation Headbud - Laughing Buddha & Purple Thai

31.03 I removed the germination cap since the soil started to show some spots of algea or moss, beside that the plants start to show some grey spots like in my other grow. I'm not sure what it is exactly, so I started to check the PPFD at first step. It is fine - now. Let's see how they develop the next days without germination cap. I expected some issues since it is my first experience with osmosis water and the new setup - so here we are! 03.04 I stabbed some holes into the soil since it's still not drying like I would expect it. They also need some nutrients but I cant water yet. So I did some actions to aerate the soil a bit. 04.04 The soil was ready to be watered today due to the changes from yesterday. They still miss some green to look really healthy but let's see how they develop now since they got some food. (watered with ~200ml) 06.04 Watered the last pot with the same amount of water like the other ones

07.04 moved the girls into their final pots (8,5L) but didn't watered them yet, will do this tomorrow after the light cycle. This is my first grow with autopot, airbase and airdome. One of the girls hasn't an airdome attached to test if it makes really a difference. The system isn't turned on yet, I will wait for around two more weeks until I really turn the autopot system on. 08.04 watered every plant with 1L 11.04 Topped all plants and removed two fan leaves per plant. 12.04 removed some more fan leaves and started LST

14.04 watered every plant with 1000ml and continued LST 15.04 Removed some leaves and shoots and continued LST 17.04 Am not so really happy with the bending clips, I already broke some branches and removed them. Anyway - grow is fine and the ladys are developing great.

20/21.04 I checked the PH level of my osmosis water after I added Canna CalMag Agent and measured 5.8 - I think this is a bit to low for a soil grow. I start now to add 100ml tap water to every Liter osmosis water and have a PH level of 6.5 and EC of 0.5 before I add the Hesi nutrients. Watered every plant with 1.5L 23.04 Cleaned the environment, defoliated the plants and prepared anything to take the autopot system into production. I will start the blooming stage soon. 25.04 Changed the light schedule to 12/12. Watered 6/9 plants with 1500ml - rest will follow tomorrow. Turned on the airbase system - it will run during light cycle and when the temperature around the pump is below 25°C.

29.04 Since I changed the light schedule for this grow five days ago the girls are showing first signs of bloom. Watered every plant with 1500ml today and really need to take the airpot system into production. Beside that am really happy how they develope. One week more vegetative would be great for more biomass but I needed to start it now otherwise I have some time problems about the holiday season. 02.05 Defoliated and watered the plants

04.05 They are doing well after the defoliating 05.05 I decided to remove some smaller branches to give the main stems more potential to grow, we have per plant around 4 - 6 main stems, there would be a possibility to do more but since I need to be ready in time I am fine what I have here in form of stems. Beside that I really saw the first time a difference between the pots with airdome and the one without. The one without needs later water, I watered every pot with airdome again with 1500ml and will do the other pot later this day. 08.05 After a talk with a friend and some information I found through the www, I decided to lollipop way earlier and way more restrictive then I would usually do. 09.05 Watered with 1500ml 11.05 I finally installed the autopot system and measured the water in the tank. Hesi is reducing the PH level and am not sure if it is really healthy for plants potted in soil to have such a low PH.

12.05 As I already wrote last week the autopot system is now in production and I only take care of the solution in the tank. The PH lvl raised by the last day, so I am now at around 6.3 which is a good value in my opinion. I raised the base EC a bit with Canna Calmag since I gave around 30% more into my water. Base EC was around 0.6 and is now at 1.3 after adding the Hesi scheme. In my other grow there are slightly magnesium deficit, that's why I decided to give a bit more of canna calmag into my osmosis water. 17.05 Defoliatet for the last time.

20.05 Noticed one girl with some drinking issues ... maybe some problem with the capilar effect of the autopot system. Top watered this plant and will inspect that one a bit closer the next days. Except that am really happy about the grow at the moment, the autopot system safe so much time, it's impressive. 22.05 Installed a ScrOG net

26.05 Cleaned the Tank and changed the water. Beside that nothing special to say about that grow - everything is just beautiful and developing suiper well.

26.05 Cleaned the Tank and changed the water. Beside that nothing special to say about that grow - everything is just beautiful and developing super well. 27.05 Removed some more Fanleaves to provide the lower buds with more light. It's the middle of the blooming stage, since they should be ready within 70-80 days and are actually in day 32 after the light schedule was changed.

02.06 If I look at the other diaries of that starins I think half of the bloom is already done. I think around 4-5 more weeks and I can finally harvest. They are just stunning. My best grow so far and am really happy how the girls perform. It's great to watch them and I can't get enough taking a look into the tent. Beside that we dealed with a lot of rainy days in germany lately so I needed to start the dehumidifier earlier as am used to. Middle of the week I needed to refill the tank, because they were super thirsty. I will reduce 25% of my scheme for the next tank refill coming next days because I see lighty signs of nutrient burn. It's needed to reduce the scheme a bit since I removed a lot of biomass lately. So, to the last weeks!

09.06 After some research I think the lightly burn on the leaf tips came from to much light and not from nutrient burn. Anyway, I like how they developed the last week so I guess it wasn't super bad to reduce my scheme. I am now 4 weeks before harvest, I plan to flush the last week, so there is 3 weeks left of nutrients. For this week I will give them some boost with canna pk 13/14 and will remove hesi phospor for the scheme for this week. Tank was cleaned as always and new water with nutrients is prepared for the next week of bloom.

18.06 A way more late update of this grow as I usually provide for two reasons - first I didn't had any time to control or keep care of this grow during the last weekend, second: due to the first point I run into a problem I needed to identify before I update my journal. As you can see in the video there is one plant with some kind of brown leave tips and yellow sugar leaves. I am not 100% sure why this happened but I think it could be some kind of wind burn. I didn't noticed that one slot of my power strips wasn't working anymore, this slot was turning on and off some fans. So the fans just blow straight at least for two days in a row against the plants. Beside that I raised the speed of my main fan a bit a week ago and the plant that is the nearest to this fan show the signs on the leaves I notice here. So I fixed the fans and observed the plants a bit more in detail the last days. The problem didn't developed further so I think this is fine now. There can also be some other reasons, as I wrote last week I changed a bit my nutrient scheme but since I wasn't above EC 2 at all I am not really comfortable with this theorie. Anyway, I closed the tank from sunday to monday so the plants just had what was left in the autopot system and used that until the next light schedule. Afterwards I changed my nutrient scheme back to the classic Hesi scheme. The plants are really well, the trichomes are still clear so I think we have at least until 3 weeks to harvest. The plants will become next week full scheme, afterwards I will check the trichomes again and decide if I start to reduce the scheme or not as we come closer to the harvest.

23.06 Day 59 of bloom, from now on I check the trichomes more often. 26.06 Cleaned the tank and prepared a new solution, to flush the plants, since I see enough amber trichomes developing. I still add some major nutrients. EC level is at 0.6. I will continue to flush until 04.07 - day 70 of bloom, afterwards I will waterstress them, if they are not ready already.

01.07 I harvested one branch for several reasons, tested my new microscope and took a more detailed look into the flower. 03.07 Didn't mentioned in this journal, there was all the time one plant that was below the ScrOG net and she started to hang down because the branches weren't strong enough to carry the blossom anymore. I harvested this plant already in week 13 of this grow and dried it until then. Also took a more detailed look into this one and really like the outcome. 03./04.07 After one week with reduced scheme the garden really has a nice colour, also I see already really nice developing regarding to the trichomes. From now on I closed the tank and will do some waterstress to them the next days until I harvest.

09.07 After 75 days of bloom and 5 days without water I harvested all of the plants, It's the end of the harvest window declared by the breeder and the trichomes look really nice. The one trichome picture with the lots of amber trichomes is of a headbud that got damaged a bit and started already to dry. The other Headbuds didn't had so much amber trichomes. Anyway, I am super happy with the outccome, I just cutted everything and hang it to dry without any trimming.

09.07 After 75 days of bloom and 5 days without water I harvested all of the plants, It's the beginning of the harvest window declared by the breeder. They werent ready to 100% but I needed to harvest them with the other plants