Amnesia Lemon Haze

Soil: Coast of Maine Bar Harbor potting mix Lights: Roleadro 100W dual Cree COB, Kingbo 45W panel (flowering), Exo Terra Repti-Glo 10.0 Desert Terrarium CFL bulb (flowering) Acquired 5 clones from a friend who had surplus. Gave 4 to my dad, he told me to keep one. At just 9 inches tall and no flowers, this thing stinks! Impressed with the genetics!

She started turning yellow, so I fed her a full dose of pHeno-Gro. Tried the line last grow , had good results, didnt burn my plants. Had some stuff leftover, might as well put it to good use! Started training at the end of the week when her color started to return.

Some of the leaves on the taller branches were showing spots. I'm ruling out nute deficiencies because it's Coast of Maine soil and I fertilized last week. Looked into fungus, but it's not spreading, and it's not yellowing the leaves. Found something about droplets of water on the leaf surface that magnify the light and create tiny burn spots. Plausible, since I dribble a bit of water on the leaves by accident when I water. Cut off the most spotted of the leaves anyway. Also dealing with a few gnats (no more than 6 or 7) but no matter how many I kill, they seem to keep coming back...but never any more than 6 or 7. Got a Raid stick in there, may hang a stickum strip from the ceiling as well.

The leaf spots have been spreading. Could be a fungus from all the gnats, but research on the web shows the spots much more similar in appearance to what's seen in a mineral deficiency. Magnesium, manganese, and sulfur are the three micronutrients whose deficiencies look the most similar to the leaf spots on this plant. I've never had mineral issues with this soil, so if that's the issue, it must be the demands of this strain. My dad, who's growing clones from the same breeder, is having similar issues. She'll get a full feeding with calmag first thing next week, see if that doesn't cure her spots. Can't complain about much else, though. She's definitely getting bigger, and she's pulled her LST braces out of the soil.

The feeding seemed to stop the yellowing and leaf spots. After reading the label of the bottle, I found out I've been giving 2-3x the recommended dose of calmag...and somehow this plant still got deficient in some mineral. Green Farm's pHeno Gro already has magnesium and manganese in it, so I'm not sure how it could have depleted the soil so quickly. This plant has a weird appetite. Whatever it was, it seems to have cleared up now. Have to be careful during the bloom stage. If it's this hungry during the veg stage, it'll probably demand live sacrifices during bloom. Speaking of bloom, I'm probably going to flip her this weekend.

Brown spots have reappeared on a couple larger leaves. Hit her with another small dose of calmag, but unsure if this calmag (Earth Juice's OilyCann) has other trace minerals besides Ca & Mg. Flipped her to 12/12 lighting cycle this week, but no signs of flowers yet. Hope she flowers soon! If she grows any taller, I'll have to find a way to mount the light to the top of the tent, or her colas might get bleached.

Little flowers have finally appeared, we are now officially in the bloom stage! Added supplemental 45W panel, ordering UV/IR bulb soon. Pruned/defoliated again at the beginning of the week. Removed shrimpy nodes, smaller branches, and fan leaves below canopy line. The leaf spots have reappeared, 98% sure it's manganese deficiency. Gave a full-dose feeding of bloom formula and calmag, hope it clears up again. Mn deficiency is apparently most commonly caused by high soil pH. Going to test the soil next watering to see where the pH, nitrogen and phosphorus levels are. Since bloom formula is low in nitrogen, I'll likely give full doses (rather than half-doses) of nutes, and hopefully that will clear up the trace mineral problems without burning her. Although, given this plant's voracious appetite, I'm sure extra N, P, or K levels won't be an issue...

After just 2 days between waterings, it took an entire gallon of plain water just to get a few drops of runoff for a soil test. Going to start watering every other day. Soil test results: N = great, P = good, K = great, pH = 6.0. Soil conditions are perfect for Mn absorption. The 3 hypotheses I have for the Mn deficiency (if that's what it is) are: 1) This particular strain just simply has a higher Mn demand than the nutrients supply. 2) The Mn got locked out by iron (Mn and Fe compete for absorption channels.) 3) The Mn got bound up by something and lost its bioavailibility. Switched out the Myco Chum for blackstrap molasses, which has a decent Mn content. Will stick with that until the leaves start to green up again. She may look sickly, but the tiny flowers are still steadily growing. Just have to make sure to keep up with the P demand! The deficiency symptoms arent going away. A buddy of mine suggested that I was overfeeding, and the macronutrients were locking out micronutrients, showing up as a deficiency. Flushed her with 4 gallons of plain water. Soil test after revealed low levels of N and P, and good levels of K. Seeing as I flushed out most everything, I gave a normal dose of bloom nutrients. Going to lay off the molasses and calmag for a while. I'm getting very sad and frustrated over this. The yield and potency of the final product is probably going to take a hit because of this.😩

It seems like all the leaves are dying bit by bit, but the buds are still growing. Don't know how this will affect final yield/potency...but I guess I have no choice but to find out.

Skipped 3 weeks because I couldn't create new diary entries and it took Grow Diaries 3 weeks to fix it. Hasn't stopped the plant from growing. Sort of. She looks terrible, has no fan leaves to speak of, but still smells skunky and is growing out the buds bit by bit. It's pretty embarassing honestly. I've stopped posting pics on my IG and don't really want to post any pics here either. Part of me wants to finish properly, another part of me wants to just put her out of her misery and start a new grow. Nonetheless, I whole-heartedly believe that you can't improve and master an activity--any activity--if you don't fail at it several times. This grow is a mess, but if I just forget it and move on, 100% chance I'll make the same mistakes over and over again. Besides, I know her flower will get me high, so anything I take from her is still a win...even if only a small one. So here she is in all of her sickly, crispy glory.

Went to water her, and the water immediately started coming out the bottom of the pot right as I started watering. To me, this means she's not sucking up any more water and has about reached the end of her line. Gonna let the soil dry out for another week, then harvest her. The flowers are pitiful. Whatever went wrong this time, it badly affected flower size, density and resin production. She may be the biggest plant I've grown to date, but I'll lucky if I get an ounce off her. Just as well this is over, on to a fresh start with a new plant!

Tiny buds, but way more resin than I expected. Damn shame about the deficiency/lockout (whatever it was,) the genetics of this one were phenomenal. Can only imagine the nugs and the smell if everything had gone perfect. Glad it's done with. This'll make some awesome gummies and butter. Learn from the mistakes, and on to the next grow!