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7 months ago
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Greenhouse
Room Type
LST
weeks 5
Soil
Grow medium
Perlite
Grow medium
15 L
Pot Size
0
Germination
9 months ago
Just put the seed into the earth and added some water to it. I'm using Compo Light-Mix for this phase of the grow. After 4 days the plant started to come out of the earth. One day later you can see the first tiny leafs.
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Used method
Directly In Substrate
Germination Method
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Week 1. Vegetation
8 months ago
5 cm
16 hrs
180 °C
No Smell
67 %
68 °C
15 L
Because of the bad weather in the last days the plant grow too high, so I needed to stabilise it a little. In the next few days I'll put it in a bigger pot where I'll put it deep enough to solve the hight problem. Because of the raid the plant is currently placed in my greenhouse. I moved the plant to the new 15L pot halfway through this week. I put it in deep enough to counter the high growth of the first days.
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Week 2. Vegetation
8 months ago
11 cm
16 hrs
84 °C
No Smell
65 %
15 L
Unfortunately the bad weather continues, so the plant doesn't get as much light as I wish. But at least the greenhouse helps to keep the plant warm and protect it from the rain. It still continues to grow, even with this little amount of sun. Since last week its hight doubled and it developed some nice leaves. At the start of the week I also added some copper-wire around the lower part of the pot, because our area has a lot of slugs right now.
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Week 3. Vegetation
8 months ago
25 cm
16 hrs
25 °C
No Smell
65 %
18 °C
15 L
After another week of terrible weather, the forecast now looks more positive. So I decided to put the plant outside during the sunny time. But I decided to keep it inside the greenhouse at night and on rainy days, because it worked really well during the last 2 weeks. The plant continues to grow beautifully and luckily the copper around the bottom of the pot helped keeping the slugs away.
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Week 4. Vegetation
8 months ago
47 cm
16 hrs
30 °C
Weak
65 %
18 °C
15 L
Another week has passed. Luckily we had a lot more sun over the last few days and the plant really loves that. It almost doubled in size since last week. By now you can see the first signs of the start of the plant blossoming. Let's see how it'll do until next monday.
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Week 5. Flowering
7 months ago
73 cm
16 hrs
30 °C
Weak
65 %
18 °C
15 L
Nutrients 1
Bio Bloom  - Hesi
Bio Bloom 2.5 mll
Over the last few days my plant started to bloom. 2 days ago it got so hot, that it got burned a little bit. Let's hope she will recover from it and it wasn't too stressful for her.
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Used techniques
LST
Technique
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Week 6. Flowering
7 months ago
84 cm
16 hrs
30 °C
Weak
18 °C
15 L
Nutrients 1
Bio Bloom  - Hesi
Bio Bloom 2.5 mll
My plant continues to develop some beautiful blossoms. I did some LST on Saturday, because some buds started to get really close. It's currently really warm, so I have to water my plant like every 2 days with around 5L (1/3 of the size of my pot). I also started to give her some fertilizer, but for now it's only about half as much as recommended, because I want to be careful.
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Week 7. Flowering
7 months ago
65 cm
16 hrs
30 °C
Weak
50 %
18 °C
15 L
Nutrients 1
Bio Bloom  - Hesi
Bio Bloom 4.5 mll
The plant continues to develop some beautiful blossoms. A few days ago they actually started to smell somewhat fruity. For now it's placed outside while we have good weather and inside the greenhouse at rainy times. This week (on Monday) I started to add a little bit more fertilizer (1mL more per 1L water), to get closer to the recommended amount (5mL per L) On Saturday, 10.08., I had to cut off a big part of my main bud, because there was some Budrot. It wasn't a big spot, so I hope that I cut it off before it could spread to far. Unfortunately it wasn't on top of the main bud, so I lost almost 20cm of my plant :(
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Week 8. Flowering
7 months ago
65 cm
16 hrs
30 °C
Normal
50 %
18 °C
15 L
Nutrients 1
Bio Bloom  - Hesi
Bio Bloom 4.5 mll
After cutting off the main bud due to budrot, the remaining buds look fine for now, but i'll keep checking them daily until harvest. As you can see I added some pictures of the trichomes this time. To me they look like they still need a few weeks. Over the last week the plant started to smell a bit more, but to me it's actually a nice smell with some fruity notes in it. --- Well, we had a terrible thunderstorm on Wednesday. You can see in a picture how much my plant had to suffer. Let's see if she'll recover.
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