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Special Queen #1 Feminised RQS - First German grow 🇩🇪
Hey Guys :)
This is going to be my first grow and I’m super excited to share it with you.
I'm from Germany and the cultivation, possession and consumption of weed will be legal on April 1st.
After years of waiting, a dream is finally coming true and I am happy about everyone who accompanies me on this journey.
I started 3 seeds with the cotton pad method and 3 directly in soil, as I wanted to see which method works best for me.
All 6 seeds germinated after roughly the same amount of time. After 2 1/2 days I planted the 3 from the cotton pads into the cultivation box (forgot to take photos).
Light cycle is 18h on 6h off.
I used normal soil from the garden Center as I am still waiting for my grow tent and all the other equipment(it should arrive by Tuesday).
The cultivation box was like 10€.
/update Day 3
All 6 of them are happy and showing there first leaves. I also opened the ventilation holes of the cultivation box and watered all 6 a little bit.
/update Day 5
Five of them grew a lot so I had to increase the height of the lamp. The smallest of the six was sadly injured in the process, but as im only going to plant 4 inside the tent it’s still all good.
/update Day 9
The tent and all my other equipment finally arrived.
Today I transplanted all of them into 4L Pots with a mixture of 75% BioBizz Light Mix and 25% BioBizz Worm castings. I also used some HUBEY MT Mix and Nemabest.
Light is at 50% and at a distance of 30cm from the largest plant.
Still waiting for my humidifier, as my humidity is only at around 40%, current temp is 27C.
I look forward to every tip and helpful comment.
I’ll keep you updated :)
Day 17 from planting seed
Plants are looking healthy and started to smell about 2 days ago.
I water them with 10% of their pot volume (400ml) every 3-4 days when the first 2-3cm of soil are dry to the touch.
BioBizz nutrients are used as recommended on their schedule, I’ll stop giving them root juice with the next feeding.
My second fan cloudray s6 arrived and is located at the top of the tent, I’m still waiting for my cloudforge t3 humidifier to complete my setup.
/Update Day 22 from planting seed
Bottom left one got some light yellow marks and hanging leaves, I think it’s due to over feeding with fertiliser. I’ll feed them only water the next time and make sure I see a little bit of water dripping from the bottom of the pots.
Thanks for any advice :)
Nutrient burn can be seen on 2 of the 4 plants, cuz I accidentally gave them too much nutrients last week. I watered them only with water today and tested ph level of the access water (ph 5.8), so i can correct it back to 6.5.
Today I also did LST and Topped them for the first time.
Middle one is going Outdoor tomorrow, as the weather will get better over the next weeks.
Leave Temperature 22-23C
Leave VPD is around 0.7 - 0.8 kPa
Tent VPD is around 1.10 - 1.20 kPa
/update Day 31
Looking much better and recovering slowly from the nutrient burn. I put the middle on my balcony and will see how this works out.
Accidentally broke off one of the fan leaves on one of the plants.
Today (after 5 Days) I only watered with no nutrients again to make sure they are good to go for the next nutrient feeding, currently I water till 10% runoff.
Since I put to light to 100% today, It’s getting a little hot in my room, so I’ll most likely get an ac unit to control temperature.
Leave Temperature 24-25C
Leave VPD is around 0.9 - 1.0kPa
Day 35
All plants but one are doing pretty good and growing in different kind of ways.
Two pretty bushy plants with big leaves and one that’s not developing big fan leaves till now but is still growing nicely.
I sadly overwatered the smallest one last week, but she’s still giving her best to survive my mistakes.
I do light LST every morning and will report them into 19L next week. Not sure if should keep the small one in the 4L for now and repot her at later stage so she can recover.
I appreciate everyone helping me out or sharing advice
/update Day 36
Today I topped one of my ladies again, because I topped her wrong the first time she started developing the two tops a node lower. As the two fan leaves on top won’t give her anything else than shadow I decided to cut that part.
I appreciate every advice 🙏🏾
Day 42
Today was transplant day. I transplanted them into 19L pots, only the smallest will remain in her 4L pot till she’s ready.
I also added Clips for LST and defoliated all bigger fan leaves that where burned or interrupting wind flow, light penetration.
I transplanted them in a mix of 30% all mix, 40% light mix and 30% worm castings, added mycorrhiza to roots and watered till runoff.
I always water the top soil with a spray bottle (1L) before continuing with a watering can.
I’ll continue with no nutrients as it seems they still got enough and will get more from the new soil mix.
I appreciate every advice
Day 49
Plants had a little transplant shock from last week as they didn’t really grew much taller.
I’m not 100% satisfied with how the veg stage went so far, but I learned a lot and will do better next time.
I attached some gardening wire to some of the branches to create a more even canopy.
Haven’t watered since last Saturday (transplant) as the soil is still wet and starts to dry out slowly now.
Most likely I’ll flip them into flower in 2 weeks around Day 63.
I appreciate every advice 🙏🏾
Day 56
They recovered from their transplant shock and are growing fast, almost 10cm in 1 week,
I’ll flip them into flower next Saturday.
Even tho I’m wasn’t that happy with how the veg stage went at the beginning, I feel like they are really happy with their environment. Still haven’t solved the nutrient burn completely.. as I’m not really able to flush them with high ph water to balance the low ph soil.
I’m thankful for every advice 🙏🏾
Day 63
Today I switched my light cycle from 18/6 to 12/12. I did some minor lollipopping and defoliation on 3 of the 4 ladys.
After I noticed that one of them had very low hp, I flushed her till the run off was 6.5, now I’ll check her daily for needed nutrients after the flush.
I installed a trellis net and will even out the canopy over the next few days.
I appreciate every advice 🙏🏾
Day 70
Plants are looking healthy and strong, nutrient burn is slowly decreasing over time and they are still only fed with water ph 6.8 to decrease soil ph.
They started to form there first pistils, smell is increasing day by day and it’s a lovely thing to see my own weed grow every day.
I water every 2-3 days (2-3L), they got really thirsty in flower.
I appreciate everyone commenting or giving me advice ☺️
They didn’t grew a lot from last week, but I’ll keep feeding them only with water.
Maybe I’ll top dress them with fresh soil in the next few days, so I’m not giving them too much nutrients at once again.
I was on a trip for work for 2 days, I tried my best to take care of everything before I went. They still got damaged cuz of underwatering.. also I’m not quite sure if they are underfertalized because of all the flushing for the right ph I did.
They started to develop droopy yellow leaves that are pretty soft to the touch and don’t crunch up at the tips like they first did from nutrient burn.
I gave them a top dress today with a mixture of 25% worm castings and 75% all mix, hopefully this will stabilise them.
I would really appreciate some help in this case, as I’m not sure if it’s caused by nutrient deficiency or nutrient burn.
Also I wanted to do a big defoliation and lollipoping this week, but I feel like I first should solve the nutrient problem, so I don’t start damaging the top growth.
Hello Friends 👋🏾
I had a few problems with nutrient deficiency as you could see last week, I managed to solve the issue. I started feeding them nutrients again, as they really started growing fast.
I did a lot of defoliation and lollipoping today, as I want the plant to focus all its energy to the top.
They drink roughly 3-4L every 3-4 days, I increased my VPD to 1.3 and will go up to 1.4 in 2 weeks, shortly before flushing. I’ll lower the feeding to 2L and will check how long it lasts.
Thanks for all your advice and feedback so far ☺️ I appreciate every single one following my journey
Not much to say this week, they are thickening day to day, not as much as I wish they would but still more then happy with how my first grow is going so far.
I increased their nutrients as they started into week 6 of flower.
Thanks for your help with the potassium deficiency over the last week, appreciate everyone helping me out ☺️
We are getting close to the finish 🙃 I’m really happy with how the flower went at the end, as the lady’s are really growing bricks
Buds are really hard to the touch, one smells really earthy with a touch of diesel, one smells like bubblegum mixed with lemon and two smell like pure juicy lemon diesel. I really didn’t except this, but the smell is incredible and the bud structure too.
I’ll start flushing as soon as most of them are milky, I also thought about giving them 3 days of pure darkness at the end, but not sure yet.
Thanks for all your advice and feedback so far :)
Hey guys :)
My first run is nearly complete, I started flushing this week. Ill also give them 2 to 3 days of complete darkness at the end to slowly start the drying process in soil.
I’m more then happy how it turned out so far, one of them is also starting to turn a little purple.
Got one lady that has the big ass fox tails, one with fluffy buds and two with very dense rock hard buds.
Trichomes are starting to turn cloudy, but most of them were still clear last time I’ve checked.
I’ll turn the lights for them off as soon as they are cloudy with some of them being amber.
Still looking forward for every advice for the end stages :) thanks all of yall
I think this should be the last week of flower, as the trichomes are almost completely cloudy and some start to turn a light amber.
I’ll let them sleep in complete darkness for two days at the end of week to slowly start the drying process and push some colour.
I’m more then satisfied with how my first run turned out so far, I could have done a lot of thing better, but I’m still happy with the end result.
I learned a lot from my first grow, also with your help :) Thanks to everyone who was giving me advice or helping me out with my questions
I really wouldn’t have thought, that special queen 1 has such an amazing smell, it’s crazy how different all 4 smell and feel. Four completely different phenotypes, but really happy with every single one of them.
Update Day 119/
Harvest
Today I cut the plants and hang them in my grow tent for drying, trying to get around 60% humidity and 20C. Fans on level 3 one on the top one at the bottom.
I’ll update as soon as they are dry
Thanks everyone and thank you Germany for finally allowing us to grow our own beautiful weed. I’m looking forward for all the things that I’ll continue to learn over my journey as a new grower and I’m excited to see what I’ll be capable of growing in the future.
Dreamchvser
