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20.03:
Germinated 3 seeds after 3 days in pellets on top of seedling mat. It's quite cold so I'm going to give it a couple more days before transplanting.
22.03:
Transplanted all 3 seedlings, placing (unwrapped) pellets into 10L smart pots filled with soil.
23.03:
Watered each seedling with 150ml plus nutes.
01.04:
Returned from vacation. 3 days since watering and 2 of the seedlings fell over. 1 was salvageable. 😐 2 remaining plants have two sets of leaves.
2 new seeds germinated and were growing despite not having heated seedling mat over vacation. Will toss them in soil and see how they react. 🙌
25.03:
Temp has been quite low: 16-17C average. Seedlings look fine but still only have two leaves. Will monitor.
Placed two new seeds into jiffy pellets on seedling mat. Going on vacation in three days, will turn off seedling mat and roll the bones.
01.04:
2 new seeds germinated and were growing despite not having heated seedling mat over vacation. Will toss them in soil and see how they react. 🙌
05.04:
OG seedlings moved onto week 1.
New seedlings survived and look much healthier. They were a little stretched when I left.
01.04:
Returned from vacation. 3 days since watering and 2 of the seedlings fell over. 1 was not salvageable. 😐 2 remaining plants have two sets of leaves. I suspect they will be stunted.
03.04:
2 OG seeds: Leaves have a couple of white spots on them and some have curled. Edges of a few leaves feel "crispy." According to nutrients chart, it looks most like a calcium deficiency. Looked at look H20. pH level is 7 but water is quite soft. Adding calmag to regimen to see if that helps.
2 new seedlings: placed 2 leaf seedlings in 1L plastic pots with holes drilled for airation. My hope is that the smaller plastic pots are a good segway between the pellets and the 10L smart pots.
05.04:
2x first round plants: still not looking great. Read that nutes take awhile to get fully harnessed. Increased watering to 750ml per plant, thinking the water level was a bit low as well.
2x second round plants: looking good.
06.04:
2x first round plants: finally perking up a bit. More water seems to be well tolerated w/o run-off. Spots lessened, leaves uncurled quite a bit. Visual improvement.
2x second round plants: seedlings still good!
08.04:
2x older plants: attempted first LST. Plants don't look great after. Hoping for a nice bounce back tomorrow. 600ml of water each with nutes.
2x younger plants: developed second set of real leaves. Will continue. 400ml water each with nutes.
10.04:
2x older plants: noticed soil was dry and plant leaves began to curl / droop a bit. Increased water to 1L each with only minimal run-off. Seems about right.
2x younger plants: 500ml each. Probably can increase the water feeding again, but don't want to overdo it at this point. Will continue to keep an eye on.
12.04: switching to euro dates. :)
Older plants seemed a little moist still, will water tomorrow.
Younger plants were dry. Gave each 750ml of water with calmag, bio grow, bio heaven - no runoff tho. They looked a smidge droopy. Need more water?
13.04:
Watered 2x older plants. One doesn't look great while the other looks healthy. Noticed spotting on leaves: almost white. Calmag deficiency? Not sure... it also seems to be happening on the 2x younger plants. Considering upping my calmag since we have extremely soft water here.
I have been letting the soil dry out 2 or 3 days to prevent overwatering but it doesn't seem to help the drooping.
16.04:
After speaking to @gottagrowsometime (thanks bruh), it seems that my issues are probably related to the 24/0 causing mild light burn. This in turns affects nutrient uptakes and dark leaves (N), clawed tips and bleaching spots and tips. Switched to a 18/6 schedule and raised light a few inches. Big plants before switch were getting around 750PPFD, which is too much -- now are between 500-600.
I'm also going to create a separate journal for the 2x younger plants, since they are a week behind, starting Week 4.
In the meantime, both older plants felt quite light and dry. The younger plants didn't feel as dry. Watered accordingly:
2x old - 1.25L with nutes
2x young - 900ml with nutes.
Lastly, checked pH with proper meter:
tap water = 8.0
tap water with calmag/bio-heaven/root-juice = 7.4
soil = 6.4
17.04:
Sticking with 18/06 lighting. No water today. Soil is moist but both pots seem quite a bit lighter. Will consider watering tomorrow again.
Happy plant: not going to touch.
Unhappy plant: shes not looking great. It's tied down with LST, so that explains the lean a bit, but it hasn't perked up. Trimmed 3 saggy and very dark leaves which seemed to open up the new leaves beneath those to light. Hoping it brings better airflow as well. Looks slightly better than yesterday, if nothing else. 🤷
Will report back tomorrow. Press the thumbs.
18.04: Day 37
Both plants were light and top soil was dry. Watered 2L each with about 200ml runoff per plant.
Healthy plant: Let's try some LST. Used U shape galvanized steel ties to lightly pull 4 branches down. See pictures.
21.04: Day 40
P1 looks even more happy in D40. Removed a few of the bottom fan leaves that were blocking the new growth. Very beginning of flowering today.
P2: looks better! Also removed two fan leaves. About a day behind in terms of flowering. Still noticeably smaller than P1f but should produce some buds.
P1 started to show burn on tips of highest leaves. I believe this might still indicate a bit of light burn or the last light burn still showing. Hard to say but it's been over a week, so I'm going to decrease the light even further. I'm maintaining 14" from the light on the highest point. Also decreasing power of 150W light from 100% on 18/06 to 75%. This is recommended from the manufacturer for flowers at the start of flowering (75%-100% power)
25.04.24 // Day 45:
Started with 3 plants initially. I think they were overwatered before vacation and 2 of the 3 didn't fully recover. P3 was so stunted it didn't make it. P2 I still have my doubts about but it IS flowering so... there's hope. I noticed it goes through far less water than P1. Est 30% less H20.
With that said, P1 is looking quite nice! My first grow so I'm just happy they all haven't died already. I even tried my hand at LST and defoliation - more out of lack of grow space than anything. But they seemed to have work so far. P1 does show some signs of light burn on it's upper tips, so I moved it a bit farther away from the light. I think with the 18/6 scheme, that should be enough.
30.04.24: Day 50
Plants have been LST and defoliation to expose more buds to light. Some tips of plants are turning yellow. pH tested fine (6.9 runoff) and the light is adjusted to prevent burn.
Been using the reduced amount of fertilizers since the plant is an auto and more susceptible to nute burn (following the BioBizz All-mix schedule when using BioBizz Light Mix as my substrate). I'm currently thinking that I will try switching to the LM schedule which provides more nutrients.
Looking pretty good. Seem to be responding well to the new nutrient schedule. The burned tips of the plants seem to be not getting any worse.
I would like to defoliate them more as the growing area is getting crowded. I also don't want to over do it on these autos. Hmmmm.
14.05.24 // Day 63 & Day 57
Plants are all doing well. Plants seemed to all recover well from various ailments. It's clear that P1 and P2 were stunted after seeing the growth of P3 and P4. My main issue now is that the tent is overcrowded with 6 plants. Considering moving the 2x Royal Creamatic Autos outside now that it's spring.
I can't wait to cut that main bud on P1. //Damn son.
Ah yes, another week. I'm getting very eager to harvest. I think they are getting close. Also, the stank is powerful. I mean I like it... can't say as much for the rest of the household ;-)
I'm at full nutes this week. I may try to dial them back severely or flush altogether next week in prep for the harvest. I've read differing results online since they are growing organic. Stay tuned.
30.05.24 // Week 10/11, day 1
Still trucking. Plants look good, very sticky and they look frosty. The plan is to give it 1 more week then I will reevaluate the chop. The top nuggs are all red haired but the lower buds on the same plant aren't. Hmmmmm...
Week 12 + 2 days, day 79 overall
Plants are all doing well. It seems like they are retaining more water or using less water than they used to. Sampled a bit, definitely felt it in my head more than a full body high. I don't see many amber trichomes.
In addition, soil on P2 is smelling a bit off. Maybe it's the lack of water draining recently. I'm going to let it dry out another day or two and then revaluate. I might chop after that. 🤔
Day 81:
Let soil dry for 4 full days. I noticed that a few leaves became brittle, soil was dry. Watered with normal notes, plus DBM tea (powder) and molasses. Trimmed P1 and P2 to allow more airflow.
The smell coming off these plants is intense. An hour of trimming with the windows open made the a good radius of 5 meters around the perimeter of the flat smell. Wife was unhappy.
Final verdict: Got about 20% weight after drying and trimming. Considering the learning curve, stunted growth, issues with pH, lighting and nutrient deficiencies, and I had to harvest early due to space constraints, I'm pleased that I got that much. The buds themselves are a bit fluffy, so that's an area of improvement. Although the effect is a heady one, the high and smell are quite strong.
- Improvements for next grow: fewer plants in the tent: perhaps 2 instead of 6 to lower the humidity and general stank. Also introduce aloe, mycobacteria, kelp to phase out pricey supplements (bio heaven, algmic, etc). Finally, I'd like to have a bit better pH control. Water is was high at 7.5 and I think getting that a smidge lower would be beneficial.
- Long term goals: grow a copule of big photos in larger 8 gallon fabric pots with homemade bio nutrients and compost based substrate.
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11.06.24 // Day 84: First harvest of P1 and P2 produced a total of 475g wet with stalks, stems, sugar leaves and a few fan leaves. First harvest took longer than I thought at 3 total hours for two plants and had a very potent smell that travelled quite a bit. I left most of the sugar leaves on but trimmed about 25% of them and all the fan leaves. Drying in a cardboard box placed at the side of the vent in, in grow tent. Drying seems to be holding at 17 - 21C and 50% - 60% RH most of first week.
Plan is to dry for 7-10 days then trim and cure for as long as it takes. 😬
17.06.24 // Day 91: Dried for a week. Stems don't quite snap yet. Sampling has revealed good effects, heady high from just a couple tokes. Will continue to dry.
19.06.24 // Day 93: Buds are definitely dry. Might be able to jar them a day earlier. After an hour, RH inside the jar with headspace was 58%. I suspect it will climb a bit. Put one 8g packet of 62% boveda knockoff in with each jar.
21.06.24 // Jars sit at 62% RH at 21C.
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