4 Assed Monkey grow diary (journal) week2 by EelGrows

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Good Luck on your grow, I’m following along. I am completing my first grow and had a 4AM in my tent. I will be harvesting in the next week or so. You can smell the grape crinkle for sure. I was also concerned with my watering schedule and wasn’t sure how much to give. After the seedling stage I began to water twice a week with about 1.25 L. I then switched to every other day for watering with an occasional 3rd day if they felt heavy still. I also watered them with 1.75L a few times when the smart pot felt too dry. I used 5 gallon smart pots and feel I didn’t underwater my plants but that I didn’t saturate enough of the outer soil to get full potential. This is also my first grow so I’m just learning too. Good Luck

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EelGrowscommented6 years ago

@Electro19, I thought mine were growing a bit slowly at first too, but I think it's just the 4AM phenotypes that stay short more often than not. I doubt more veg nutes would help, atleast I doubt it would have with mine. I think maybe more/better light at a further distance during early veg would have helped them stretch at the start. I was afraid of overstretching my seedlings so I put the light rather close and I think that's why ALL(the White crack I'm growing alongside these 4AM) my plants stayed extremely short during veg and only showed stretch at the start of flower like yours. I'm measuring height daily not so I can see what's going on for sure. Seems they are still slowly stretching out a bit.

Electro19commented6 years ago

@EelGrows, I didn’t get the stretch I had imagined with any of my 3 plants. I felt I had the biggest stretch between weeks 3 and 4 which at the time I thought was the final veg phase but in reality was my beginning flower stretch. I had a little more growth after that but my 4AM stayed under 15” total. The Mephisto website says it is on the small side of medium but I’m not sure what that means. I will definitely give veg nutes earlier in the seedling stage next time to try and jumpstart the veg. I’m not sure if the smaller size is normal or if it’s something I was responsible for. Next time will only teach me more.

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EelGrowscommented6 years ago

@Electro19, Thanks! Coincidence! I've been keeping a close eye on your grow mate! Since it's my first time I've been comparing my plant's growth rate to others around the same age. At the moment the only thing I'm a little concerned about is them not stretching much more. Right now they are about 28-30 CM tall, just starting to show first signs of frost. First time growing mephistos so I'm very excited. About the watering; Yeah I realized when I watered 2l and still didn't get any real runoff that I needed to up it. Decided 3l was a nice place to start next. I'd think I got something like 10-15% runoff with 3l, which I'm more than happy with. Will stick to 3l till the end of the grow now, probably will have to up the frequency. I gave em their first 3l watering on wednesday, thought for sure I would have to rush and feed them today after work(saturday), they don't feel completely empty yet, probably in 4-6 hours. I saw 1-2 fungus gnats this week so I want to let the soil dry out extra well. Will have to keep an eye out for them. You think I'm going to get a atleast a bit more stretch now that I'm in week 6?(Day 38 today)

Experimentgreencommentedweek 26 years ago

Hey there I was just curious if your plants had any reddish color to them? I notice your question mentions discoloration and it could be the lighting giving #3 a red/purplish tint to the stems and what not?

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EelGrowscommented6 years ago

@Experimentgreen, I just use imgur to post pictures, don't really use it to ask questions. But I'm sure you can.

Experimentgreencommented6 years ago

@EelGrows, that imgur is cool...you can ask about anything on there?

EelGrowscommented6 years ago

@Experimentgreen, See my comment above with the imgur link. I have the spot in question outlined. Thanks for the reply though

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DeaneRcommentedweek 116 years ago

Way to grow! Congratulations on your harvest! What's next?

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EelGrowscommented6 years ago

@DeaneR, Thanks! If all goes to plan, this summer season outdoors I'll be doing 2x Midnight Mass(photo strain) and 2 auto runs(both will be 1x C4 Auto, 1x Sour Hound Auto, 1x Zkittlez OG Auto) spaced about 3-4 weeks apart.

StonedWolfcommentedweek 116 years ago

This is a BIG ASS harvest, 0.89gr/watt is awesome 😲 And they look delicious too

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EelGrowscommented6 years ago

@StonedWolf, Thanks! I couldn't be happier! Only thing that kind of fucked up this harvest for me was driving into a random police checkpoint the day before... License is gone for now and probably a large fine(blood was taken for testing and i know my thc values are through the roof lmao). I've been driving for 14 years now and never had an accident and any large speeding tickets(at most 10kmh too fast on the highway). Sucks it being illegal where I live... Oh well live and learn. Atleast I got this great stuff to smoke for now! And walking is good for me anyway! 😅

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OKgrowscommentedweek 116 years ago

Looks so good!

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EelGrowscommented6 years ago

@OKgrows, Thanks mate!

ROM101commentedweek 116 years ago

Congratulations mate great grow and result keep it up👌👌

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EelGrowscommented6 years ago

@ROM101, Thanks mate! Hope to improve! Althought I'm far more than happy about the results!

DeaneRcommentedweek 26 years ago

What is the brandname of your pots? Will follow....best of luck on your grow.

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EelGrowscommented6 years ago

@DeaneR, From where I bought them they just said "Air Pots" 10L

drzoidbergcommentedweek 16 years ago

looking good following this one also

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EelGrowscommented6 years ago

@drzoidberg, Thanks man! Looking forward to sharing my first journey!

HighTVcommentedweek 16 years ago

Hope you don't mind me following along with these 😎

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EelGrowscommented6 years ago

@HighTV, Please do! It'd make me try even harder! 😁😉

CRiSPrGrowcommentedweek 66 years ago

Great diary Eel loving the details , I see why you're trying to add 7ph water, but what matters is the incoming pH more than the outgoing pH, pH of rainwater is 5.5, go with God for best results you know 😉 anyway let me know if you have any more questions I ll do my best to answer.

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EelGrowscommentedweek 26 years ago

Thank you everyone for the answers. I have 2 fans blowing in the tent atm, the plants are being moved slighty by the breeze. Will get atleast 1 more, maybe 2. My night time temps are around 21 celsius. Day time 24 celsius. RH is 50-55 and now that i have ph down all waterings will be ph'd to 6.2-6.5ph. I'm not quite sure if i'm underwatering; they arent showing any signs of underwatering. I water every 2 days now. Will read up on applying rhizz as a foliar spray(havent done it as i was worried about the lights then burning the wet leaves).

EelGrowscommentedweek 26 years ago

This is the spot I'm talking about in my question: https://imgur.com/gallery/5hnfnwn

Eel's 1st indoor grow-Meph 4AssedMonkey