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Fission 300W High-Intensity Discharge/600W
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Fission 300W High-Intensity Discharge/600W
Custom
Indoor
Room Type
LST
weeks Technique
Soil
Grow medium
20 L
Pot Size
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Week 1. Vegetation
6 years ago
4 cm
20 hrs
29 °C
6.1
100 PPM
49 %
20 °C
23 °C
7 L
20 cm
Week 1 has been easy with this girl. She germinated with ease and seems to be loving life so far. Organic soil reused from previous grow. The soil was sun baked and sifted. Let's see how she does :)
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Week 2. Vegetation
6 years ago
14 cm
20 hrs
29 °C
6.1
58 %
20 °C
19 °C
20 L
45 cm
Nutrients 3
Nutriplex Micro 3 mll
Nutriplex Grow 0.3 mll
Nutriplex Bloom 0.3 mll
Sorry for the late update. All healthy and strong with this girl. She has been moved into a tent with a 600watt Metal Halide today. Hoping she can really enjoy life now.
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Week 3. Vegetation
6 years ago
15 cm
20 hrs
30 °C
6.1
45 %
20 °C
20 °C
20 L
45 cm
Nutrients 3
Nutriplex Micro 3 mll
Nutriplex Grow 0.3 mll
Nutriplex Bloom 0.3 mll
This is a hot summer. Time to invest in an AC. She is loving life though! Great responses to LST. Really impressed with her so far. Feeding time tonight
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Week 4. Vegetation
6 years ago
29 cm
20 hrs
29 °C
6.1
45 %
19 °C
20 °C
19 L
40 cm
Nutrients 3
Nutriplex Micro 0.3 mll
Nutriplex Grow 0.3 mll
Nutriplex Bloom 0.3 mll
Huge growth this week. Some light defoliation and adjustments. Really impressed with this girl so far! Have a great feeling about this one!
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Week 5. Vegetation
6 years ago
28 cm
20 hrs
29 °C
6.1
45 %
19 °C
20 °C
19 L
45 cm
Nutrients 3
Nutriplex Micro 0.6 mll
Nutriplex Grow 0.6 mll
Nutriplex Bloom 0.6 mll
Haven't uploaded for a while we close to week 6. She has been through some amazing transfomations and slowly entering flowering. Happy with this beauty and her responses.
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Grow Questions
LegalGrowZA
LegalGrowZAstarted grow question 6 years ago
You guys think the heavy defoliation was worth it??? Thanks for your responses in advance 🙏
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Techniques. Defoliation
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CRiSPrGrowanswered grow question 6 years ago
hey man , people like to defoliate, but the heavy heavy defoliation like you did I'm not sure about. there's a few proven techniques in defoliation that for sure increase the yield. One is called lollipopping, which is when you remove all the lower leaves so that the energy from the plant is directed to the flowers above, making them bigger and more potent. The other defoliation technique is actually leaving the leaves but removing the small flower nodes lower on the branch because these flowers actually won't get that big, so if you take them off the plant will start to channel the energy on the larger flowers up on the stem. Actually when you defoliate, even one or two leaves, for you it's maybe nothing, but for the plant it is actually high stress training, right? the heavy heavy defoliation you did is for sure going to stress the plant for the next 2-3 weeks, it will be focussing it's energy on survival, and making new leaves. so what's the point ? I cant really find the logic on how that helps the plant cant survive with no leaves, so it will make many leaves again, and i wont focus on anything else. My best advice to you is to wait until you have plenty of leaves back and the plant is bushy again before you flip to the flower mode. Why? because if you flip now , instead of doing a full flower stretch the plant will do half stretch half leaf, and overall it will significantly hurt your final size and therefore yield. I'm guessing you want a big yield right? so that's my best advice, brother. Hope this helps ! 🚀
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Week 6. Flowering
6 years ago
36 cm
20 hrs
29 °C
6.1
45 %
19 °C
20 °C
19 L
35 cm
Nutrients 3
Nutriplex Micro 1 mll
Nutriplex Grow 1 mll
Nutriplex Bloom 1.5 mll
Today marks day 46 and she is a few days into flower. She has come back strong and sturdy showing awesome traits. She can now focus all energy on bud development. Happy with this week so far.
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Week 7. Flowering
6 years ago
51 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
6.1
55 %
19 °C
20 °C
19 L
50 cm
Nutrients 3
Nutriplex Micro 1 mll
Nutriplex Grow 1 mll
Nutriplex Bloom 1.5 mll
Today marks day 53. Week has been great only had an issue with a dying hps which i replaced yesterday back to the MH. Looking strong and getting beautiful pistils.
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Week 8. Flowering
6 years ago
58 cm
20 hrs
25 °C
6.1
55 %
18 °C
19 °C
19 L
45 cm
Nutrients 3
Nutriplex Micro 1 mll
Nutriplex Grow 1 mll
Nutriplex Bloom 1.5 mll
Today marks day 60. She has finished off her stretch and is now focusing on bud production. She has had a light defoliation today because she was extremely bushy.
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Week 9. Flowering
6 years ago
60 cm
20 hrs
25 °C
6.1
45 %
18 °C
19 °C
19 L
40 cm
Nutrients 3
Nutriplex Micro 1 mll
Nutriplex Grow 1 mll
Nutriplex Bloom 1.5 mll
Day 68: Wow what an amazing Auto. She stands at 60cm and is looking on point! She in now finishing her life under warm Cob LEDs that run 150w at 2amps giving an apparent output of 300w. Its the spectrum and output im looking for though. Great week so far.
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Week 11. Harvest
6 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Rated
8/10
Rated
Back Legal Growers! Thought we may aswel post this update. Awesome smoke she was :)
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Spent 64 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
79 g
Bud dry weight per plant
1
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1
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Positive effects
Happy
Positive effects
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Citrus, Fruity, Tropical
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Sleepy
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Indica
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She was an incredible grow from start to finish. Relaxing smoke with a passion fruit like terpene profile. Fun plant to train and she had amazing resiliency. Great for beginners.
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BudsZA
BudsZAcommentedweek 16 years ago
Nice! I am also going to plant the same seed soon but outdoors. Happy growing :)
LegalGrowZA
LegalGrowZAcommented6 years ago
@BudsZA, Awesome I will be sure to follow along and thank you!
ORANGECRITICAL
ORANGECRITICALcommentedweek 36 years ago
Powodzenia w uprawie a odmiana o kolego będzie nieziemska gratuluje wyboru. Zajrzyj do mnie mam identyczną tylko już ho ho na 12 tygodniu ale obejrzyj jak to wygląda to, to nie drzewko to busz mały jest :P growdiaries.com/diaries/17670-orange-punch
CRiSPrGrow
CRiSPrGrowcommentedweek 56 years ago
hey man , people like to defoliate, but the heavy heavy defoliation like you did I'm not sure about. there's a few proven techniques in defoliation that for sure increase the yield. One is called lollipopping, which is when you remove all the lower leaves so that the energy from the plant is directed to the flowers above, making them bigger and more potent. The other defoliation technique is actually leaving the leaves but removing the small flower nodes lower on the branch because these flowers actually won't get that big, so if you take them off the plant will start to channel the energy on the larger flowers up on the stem. Actually when you defoliate, even one or two leaves, for you it's maybe nothing, but for the plant it is actually high stress training, right? the heavy heavy defoliation you did is for sure going to stress the plant for the next 2-3 weeks, it will be focussing it's energy on survival, and making new leaves. so what's the point ? I cant really find the logic on how that helps the plant cant survive with no leaves, so it will make many leaves again, and i wont focus on anything else. My best advice to you is to wait until you have plenty of leaves back and the plant is bushy again before you flip to the flower mode. Why? because if you flip now , instead of doing a full flower stretch the plant will do half stretch half leaf, and overall it will significantly hurt your final size and therefore yield. I'm guessing you want a big yield right? so that's my best advice, brother. Hope this helps ! 🚀
CRiSPrGrow
CRiSPrGrowcommented6 years ago
@@LegalGrowZA, yeah man, that's what i figure meself ... let me just take this opportunity to give you and my SA bredren a shoutout lol, looks like your diary is a meeting place for the SA boys haha @orangecritical @biird @budsza BIG UP 🙌 from your Senegal boy haha Bless 🙏
LegalGrowZA
LegalGrowZAcommented6 years ago
@CRiSPrGrow, I was experimenting around and your logic makes sense. I appreciate the feedback. My logic was to get optimal light into the bud regions from top to bottom hence the heavy defoliation. I thought that if doing it this way we could get more "focus" onto the lower stems instead of removing them in the form of lollipopping of selective removal. I wanted to test this out but it seems to be a 50/50 scenario where 50 percent is focused on new leaf growth and 50 percent on recovery instead of boosting bigger flower sites to the tops via lollipopping. Could have been a waste of time
biird
biirdcommentedweek 36 years ago
Yo! Where did you get the green tape? In SA? Saw Mendo Dope using it and been wondering. Thanks!
LegalGrowZA
LegalGrowZAcommented6 years ago
@biird, Hi dude, the tape is a special tie down grow tape I got from the buddies at Greenthumb Hydro here in Johannesburg.
420Maru
420Marucommentedweek 16 years ago
Goodluck with the grow!
LegalGrowZA
LegalGrowZAcommented6 years ago
@420Maru, Thank you!
420Maru
420Marucommentedweek 26 years ago
Looking good so far :)
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