Thank you Karl! | Skunk #1 & Northern Lights | First grow

01/05/24 (Day 7): Starting to look like a actual weed plant! 02/05/24 (Day 8): Growth feels kinda slow...starting to think my humidity is too high at 80 - 90 % day & 60 -70 % night. Idk maybe I'm just too impatient. 03/05/24 (Day 9): It really feels like growth is stagnating at this point. So I turned on the exhaust fan to bring down humidity to 50 - 60 %. 04/05/24 (Day 10): Turnt up the ts1000 to 50% (75W) at 30cm in order to speed em up. I hope the plants are getting into their stride now! 05/05/24 (Day 11): Plants seem to be happy about the extra light and picking up some speed! 06/05/24 (Day 12): Northern Lights is a bit of a sleeper, other than that they seem fine! 07/05/24 (Day 13): Business as usual! Humidity varies between 50 and 80, right now it's hard to keep is constant. :/

08/05/24 (Day 14): Nothing special happening, I still feel like growth is kinda slow but it is what it is right! 09/05/24 (Day 15): First time watering with SF nematodes. 10/05/24 (Day 16): - 11/05/24 (Day 17) : no water for today and then transplant in 2 days 12/05/24 (Day 18) : looking good, the first fan leaves are coming along! 13/05/25 (Day 19): transplant into 3.5L soil, final size will be 7L, I hope I wont need to add fertilizer at any point! 14/05/24 (Day 20): Last pic for this week. Girls are looking strong and ready to be topped the next few days!

15/05/24 (Day 21): Girls received their first hair cut today! Topped above the 4th / 5th node depending on their growth, Northern Lights is a bit behind, but will get topped soon as well. 16/05/24 (Day 22): business as usual - water today 17/05/24 (Day 23): Maybe I topped too close to the new node, new shoots don't seem to look to healthy :/ 20/05/24 (Day 26): Was gone over the weekend, so no pics for last 2 days. The fastest growing Skunk did indeed only form one new shoot because I topped to close to the node, so I took one more node down, now all of them are topped over the 4th! 21/05/24 (Day 27): They are becoming rather thirsty now at the end of week 3, soon it's time to transplant again.

22/05/24 (Day 28): Last week of veg. and I tried my hand at a bit of LST. Basically just tied down the shoots to hopefully fill out the tent a bit better! Also increased light intensity (60 - 65%) while reducing exposure time to 17h to have a smooth transition into bloom! 27/05/24 (Day 33): Transplant into 7L pots + mycorrhiza (great white) 28/05/24 (Day 34): Last Day of week 4, Tomorrow I thought about switching to bloom, the Northern Lights has some deficiency though (pic 10 &11), not sure how to proceed...

29/05/24 (FD 1): Switched light cycle to 12/12 despite the discoloration and put the TS1000 to 75%. Also switched to bottom watering for convenience (bottom layer of expanded clay in the pots to prevent root rot). 02/06/24 (FD 5): Installed a scrog net to keep an even canopy. Leaves are looking better again even though calmag still didn't arrive...I guess transplant showed it's effects with a bit of delay! 04/06/24 (FD 7): Added Callmag (2/3 of manufacturer dosage) into ca. 1L of water for bottom feeding.

06/06/24 (FD 09): After calmag usage 2 days ago, the northern lights shifted colour into dark green, I hope I didn't overdo it (used 2/3 of manufacturer dosage). Happy about them having more or less the same size and development though! 11/06/24 (FD 14): They grew ~10cm in the last 5 days only, reaching up to 40cm now! I'm a bit worried that they will develop a nitrogen deficit, since the first small leaves at the bottom are turning yellow, I will soon buy some Blooming nutrients just in case! For now I will switch back to top watering in the hope to activate the nutes in the (dry) top layer (~ 5 - 10 cm) of the soil!

13/06/24 (FD 16): Plants keep stretching and reached the 40cm mark for sure! More than 10cm in 7 days, I would really appreciate another week like that! Also the first buds are really coming along now, even though it seems like the 3 ladies are not fully synchronized but slightly delayed. 14/06/24 (FD 17): Gave them a bit of a feeding + photoshoot!

20/06/24 (FD 22): Stretch is about done, the smaller skunk plant decided to overtake it's sister and measures now nearly 60cm! I felt like the ladies really needed a haircut, so I gave them a nice one. Took off ~1/3 of the lower leaves + shoots and a bunch of upper fan leaves to bring down humidity & allow for a better air circulation! Weather is still quite shit and it's hard to get dry air during the night time, I just hope I have a good enough ventilation system to prevent mold... Also cranked up the mars hydro TS1000 to 100% and I hope buds will swell nicely from now on!

28/06/24 (FD 30): Bud sites seem to get bigger, but im hoping there is more to come! Also girls started drinking a lot more and I really need to feed them to deal with deficiencies! Additional to the above mentioned nutes I'm feeding a noname hardware store N fertilizer 2ml/l which seems to be working fine atm!

04/07/24 (FD 38): It feels like nothing in terms of bud growth happened in the last week's, also the northern lights shows strong N deficiencies even though I'm feeding 2ml/l noname N fertilizer + 2ml/l biobloom...maybe a pH issue? Anyway, I will be having an extra eye on her take action if it gets worse!

11/07/24 (FD 45): We are getting there! The Flowers are looking really good and they give a nice citrus smell each time I open the tent! Interesting things to note: The Skunk #2 has by far bigger and nicer buds than Skunk #1 even though during vegetative stage Skunk #1 looked stronger! The Northern Lights has formed a double bud on one cola...not sure how I feel about this. Also it's far to hot (30 - 35 °C) during the day, so I turned down the ts1000 to ~80%. Also humidity is way to high with up to 75 % during the night...there is just no source for dry air rn and I hope the ventilation inside the tent will ensure that there is no bud rot! I guess maybe 2 weeks until harvest! 15/07/24 (FD 49): Theoretically tomorrow they could be ready according to 50 - 55 day, but they need another week for sure! Looked at some trichomes under the microscope yesterday and they were clear to milky on the top bud!

19/07/24 (FD 53): Unfortunately I didn't have a lot of time the past few days and couldn't really care for the plants and today I noticed budrot in one of the top colas of the Northern lights. Completely sucks, but this is the stuff you learn from during the first grow! I cut it off and hope that it's not spreading to any other bud! I also stopped feeding anything and hope to harvest in a few days!

25/07/24 (Day 59): It's Day 93 since I put the seeds into soil and finally harvest time! Trichomes are turning amber on the upper buds so the timing is just right. I removed all big fan leaves and gave the buds a light trim in order to prevent mold since I am still worried about that. (Very rainy and humid summer this year) Final yield: 127 g for 3 plants! Skunk #2: 43,83g Skunk #1: 49,5g Northern lights: 33,8 plants (since I had to discard 2 top colas) (50g trim & popcorn buds for some dry sift hashish) Ca. 0,85g/Watt Im really happy with how everything turned out,, the Northern lights smells a bit like hey tbh, but I hope after 2 weeks of curing taste and smell will improve!

25/07/24 (Day 59): It's Day 93 since I put the seeds into soil and finally harvest time! Trichomes are turning amber on the upper buds so the timing is just right. I removed all big fan leaves and gave the buds a light trim in order to prevent mold since I am still worried about that. (Very rainy and humid summer this year) Unfortunately I forgot to weigh the wet plant materials, so I can only weigh dry now. IMO this is the only relevant value anyway... Final yield: 127 g for 3 plants! Skunk #2: 43,83g Skunk #1: 49,5g Northern lights: 33,8 plants (since I had to discard 2 top colas) (50g trim & popcorn buds for some dry sift hashish) Ca. 0,85g/Watt Im really happy with how everything turned out,, the Northern lights smells a bit like hey tbh, but I hope after 2 weeks of curing taste and smell will improve!