First grow with three automatics, Outdoor

Beginning of week 1. Light distance from 19.04.2024 - 21.04.2024 was about 25cm. At the evening 21.04.2024 I lowered the light to about 3cm away from the plants, because they started to grow taller and to the middle. At 23.04.2024 I put Do-Si-Dos under 150w LED growlight in a space bucket at 18/6 light schedule. Distance to light is about 30cm. The lining inside the buckets is only white wall color. The other plants remained 3cm under cheap LED growlight running 24/7. At 24.04.2024 the white wall in the bucket got replaced by aluminium foil. PPFD before at 30cm distance was about 225 and now it’s at about 290. At 25.04.2024 watered every plant with 250ml water. Cookies Gelato is looking „weird“. Pictures coming at 28.04.2024

Beginning of week 2. Do-Si-Dos - Distance to light in Spacebucket lowered to about 30cm at 27.04.2024. All plants will get watered at 29.04.2024.

Beginning of week 3. They all got watered on 29.04.2024 with about 1.3 liters of water. At the 05.04.2024 they got put outside in the greenhouse, but I’m going to put them inside at night.

Beginning of week 4. The plants are mostly standing outside, and at night I’m bringing them inside and using a small fan to blow air around them. Quick One started flowering at 14.05.2024. Watered every plant with about 1L each. Every plant got 1ml/L Bio Grow, 0,5ml/L Bio Bloom and 0,5ml/L Top-Max). I put every plant on the highest shelf in the greenhouse.

Beginning of week 5. The plants are getting hungry 😋 The timespan between waterings is becoming shorter and shorter. I watered Do-Si-Dos with 1ml/L Bio-Bloom because it’s in its second week of flower but every other strain got the same as last week (1ml/L Bio-Grow, 0,5ml/L Bio-Bloom, 0,5ml/L Top-Max)

Beginning of week 6. Quick One and Do-Si-Dos got a topup on soil because there was enough space again after the last few waterings. I didn’t use nutrients in the last watering because in week five I gave them nutrients for two weeks by accident. At a 29th quick one developed its first trichomes on the sugar leaves near the buds. Do-Si-Dos probably will be the next and Cookies Gelato is slowly developing more flower. Today at the 30th I discovered many aphids, so I collected four ladybugs and placed them on the plants to hopefully deal with the rest of them. (I of course removed most of them beforehand) I also gave Cookies Gelato and Quick One some nutrients. But since Do-Si-Dos developed its own water-cycle, it will get nutrients a few days later. Update 01.06. I put Cookies Gelato in my drying tent with a 150W LED. Fresh air is supplied via a small PC fan running at full power. Update 02.06. I ordered a 100mm axial fan, charcoal filter and a aluminum flex tube for the grow/drying tent. Cookies Gelato went outside because the sun is shining again.

Because of the rain and low light this week, the plants developed very slow. Cookies gelato started to develop more budsites. I gave all three plants each the same amount of nutrients as I put into the nutrient information. At the weekend I LST'd more side branches. I watered all of them at least twice with about 1.2 Liters each. I continuously removed new aphids. The 4 ladybugs didn’t seem to really like the environment, because I can’t find them again. I put my inlet fan to the other fan on the other side to help push air in and get some air moving. I put the plants outside on the weekend when the sun was shining. I also checked for mold on any budsites everyday and despite the high humidity at night, I couldn’t find any. Will probably start to run a oscillating fan with a long power cord at night, because the buds get denser and denser. Quick one developed a new smell from fresh sweet minty to fresh skunky citrusy. Also very sticky when touching. Do-Si-Dos also developed its real smell - Kind of like earthy coffee like. Cookies gelato smells just like cookies ice.

Beginning of week 8. I watered them twice this week with about 1 liters each. Added nutrients in the first watering for each plant. I installed a 20W clip fan in the middle of the tent to one of the supports. (Running on setting 1 of 2, so probably draws 10W) Cookies gelato is the biggest of them all, followed by Do-Si-Dos and Quick One. Checked them daily for mold. Cookies gelato is finally caching up with flower production and started growing its first visible trichomes. Quick one and Do-Si-Dos are really sticky when touching them, therefore I now only use gloves to inspect them for mold/budrot. I also tied the outgrowing branches of every plant down as much as possible.

Beginning of week 9. Will give them nutrients on Wednesday. And on the other days only water. Really nasty rest of the week I noticed budrot on the 19.06 on quick one. Following that I removed the bud and two nearby buds, disinfected the whole greenhouse tent and placed the plant outside the tent for the rest of the week. The two buds that I took of got trimmed and didn’t show any signs of mold as of now. The days after that I also removed a few buds from Do-Si-Dos and more from Quick One. I decided to chop the top collar of Quick One and Do-Si-Dos a few days later. Those are trimmed and drying in a drying box connected to the inlet of my growtent (with cookies gelato) and a dehumidifier. Trichomes were milky and all the buds with mostly milky trichomes were also harvested. Cookies gelato got put in my indoor tent with a total of 450W (69W real usage) LED power (3*6500K and one plant light) I also vigorously removed any unnecessary leaves hiding in the buds and covering buds to ensure proper airflow. I also installed the outdoor fan in my grow tent in the basement.

Beginning of week 10 I disinfected Do-Si-Dos and Quick One with a 1:4 ratio of Purolyt (HOCL) and Cookies Gelato with a 1:50 ratio. The two plants got sprayed with a 3 bar pressure sprayer and cookies gelato with a normal handsprayer. Also gave them 1.5L of water with nutrients on Wednesday. Cookies gelato gets watered with a watering bag with 3L and 20ml each hour. Humidity in the tent is about 64% and temperature 25°. The humidity in the drying tent is about 60% and temperature 24.5°.

Beginning of week 11. I disinfected Do-Si-Dos and Quick One with a 1:4 ratio of Purolyt (HOCL) and Cookies Gelato with a 1:50 ratio. The two plants got sprayed with a 3 bar pressure sprayer and cookies gelato with a normal handsprayer. Also gave them 1.5L of water with nutrients on Wednesday. Cookies gelato gets watered with a watering bag with 3L and 20ml each hour. Humidity in the tent is about 64% and temperature 25°. The humidity in the drying tent is about 60% and temperature 24.5°.

Beginning of week 12 Only watered with water because I noticed nutrient burn on the leave tips. I regularly checked for mold and I only found a leave with mildew on quick one, which since I removed it hasn’t spread. Cookies gelato has almost only milky trichomes. Cookies gelato is developing beautiful purple colors.

Beginning of week 14 In week 13 nothing really happened. I started looking at trichomes every other day to determine the best harvesting time. I’m giving Do-Si-Dos and Quick One two more days because I need to wash them and I haven’t received my hydrogen peroxide yet. Cookies gelato peobably needs a few more days.

This week is harvest time, I’ll post pictures and details later.