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Germination Week
5/13-Soak seed overnight in water
5/14-Seed into paper towel in closed container, heat pad, and external heat to low 80's
5/15-Tail emerges, seed into coco prepped with light nutrient mix
5/17-Sprouts
Week #2-May 25-31
5/25-Upped nute load
5/28-Coming along nicely. No adverse effects from increased nute load.
5/31-First 2 weeks have gone well. The plant is a little shorter than I expected. Will increase nute load again next week and look for some vertical growth.
Week #3-June 1 to June 7
6/1-Watered to runoff
6/2-Fimmed her between 4th and 5th nodes last night. Watered to runoff this morning. No bad effects observed so far.
6/4-Watered to runoff and increased nute load
6/5-Watered to runoff with 1.5 liters. I decided to do a defoliation of some fan leaves because they were blocking light to all the lower new branches.
6/8-First 3 weeks went well.
Week #4-June 8-June 14
6/10-Canopy is starting to take shape. I think the fimming might have stunted growth a bit but she seems to be filling out.
6/11-Did some defoliation to get some light into the canopy.
6/14-Watered to runoff. Seems to be going a little slower compared to my Old School Mango Haze grow.
Week #5-June 15-June 21
6/16-Looks like one more week of veg feed.
6/19-I can't tell if this one is just slow developing or I screwed it over by fimming it. Stalks are kind of scrawny, slow to preflower, and just kind of lagging. We'll see if she recovers by the end.
6/20-Runoffs have showed low ph and nutrients uptake so I did a fairly big flush to clean out the coco coir. and get Ph levels where they needed to be.
6/21-Switched to flower nutes a bit early.
Week #6-June 22-June 28
6/24-Lots of growth both vertical and horizontal since I changed over to flower nutes.
6/26-Continued growth. No adverse effects from switch to flower nutes.
6/28-Solid week of growth. Runoff continues to be a mystery. When watering I continue to get significantly less Ph and PPM (4.8 ph and 109 ppm) than my inputs (6.2 ph and 155 ppm) but the plant looks healthy. I have no idea what is going on or if its even a problem.
Runoff continues to be a mystery. When watering I continue to get significantly less Ph and PPM (4.8 ph and 109 ppm) than my inputs (6.2 ph and 155 ppm) but the plant looks healthy. I have no idea what is going on or if its even a problem. Should I be worried and what can I do?
This is what is meant to happen.
Feed goes in, less comes out.
PH from run-off from feeds etc. You really should look to see what you're seeing.
Its weekly flushes of just water. You will use the pots value of water for a hard flush to flush of salts and that.
I'm not an expert on coco, I've only used it once. But, you shouldn't be seeing large run off in every feed.
Its a weekly process, or a fix if overfed etc
Also you're using way to many nutes.
Big bud: good.
But you don't need sugars, bud enhancers until there is actual bud.
Big bud is a stim used for the 1st 2 weeks in pre fower. Then you start adding the sugars etc..
There are many guides.
She is looking super tight though. Don't stress it too
Week #8-July 6-July 12
7/6-Up to 24 inches. Buds are starting to fatten up. Lots of internodal space between buds. Looks like a small yielder at this point.
7/8-Bud sites are starting to emerge down low. Bud sites up top are starting to get some density. Things seem to have happened a little late but are looking better each day. Looks like she is going to be a fast finisher.
7/12-Solid week. Plant is looking healthy and the buds are starting to fatten up.
Week #9-July 13-July 19
7/15-This one is starting to finish a bit faster than my Old School Mango Haze which planted and sprouted the same day. Buds are bigger and more dense, albeit there are not nearly as many of them. Some of the pistils are just starting to turn amber. I think this one has got 2-3 weeks left in her.
7/19-Lots of great growth this week. Buds are fattening up nicely and she's closing fast.
Week #10-July 20-July 26
7/22-This baby is finishing fast. Buds are taking on a pinkish glow now. They are getting very dense. I'm going to start flushing w RO water only now until chop.
7/24-Trichomes are cloudy and starting to get amber. I think sh's got another week before harvest.
7/26-I've been watering with RO water only the last week and the trichomes are showing its very close now. Day to day.
7/27-I decided to harvest today. I could have probably waited 2 or 3 more days but I had 2 plants going at the same time. My Old School Mango Haze was taking a bit longer to develop and so I decided to get the Apricot Auto into the Cannatrol Cool Cure unit first. If I harvested them both at the same time I'm not sure I would have had enough room. So Apricot goes first and we'll dry on its own for the next 5-7 days at 67 degrees and 53% humidity. The buds were very sticky and had almost a blood red look at the bottom of the buds which were very dense. The yield, 9.34 ounces, was very small by my past grows. I cut all the buds off the stems and wet trimmed them close to final form. If my previous track record holds true that should net in the neighborhood of 23-25% dry weight which should get me a couple of ounces when all is said and done.
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