First Grow - 2x Candy Kush Express from RQS

SpecialWolferine The first leaves are here, let’s go! As the substrate is pre-fertilized, according to plan, fertilizer will only be added from the 4th week onward. Regarding light: Due to legalization in Germany, there are hardly any lamps left on the market, at most at sky-high prices. Therefore, I helped myself and built a lamp from 9xE27 LEDs with 4000K and 3xE27 LEDs with 6500K from Amazon: ULIGHT A65 LED Lamp 15W Drop, 120W equivalent incandescent bulb, 4000K natural white light, 1550 lm, 170° beam, 220-240V E27 base, 10 pieces Feileman E27 LED 20W 6500K Cool White Replacement for 153 Watt Lamp, 2500lm LED E27 Bulb Super Bright Light, A65 LED Bulb Ultra Bright Non-Dimmable 3-PACK To increase the output during flowering, I plan to add 2 cheap Amazon 30W Blurple lamps with UV and IR.

SpecialWolferine In the 2nd week, the two have done well. So far, they're still only getting water, though perhaps a bit too much.

SpecialWolferine The excessive watering and the cheap hardware store soil have taken their toll. Fungus gnats are spreading... But at least the tent, filter, and fan were finally delivered. Both the carbon filter and fan are designed for 1000m³/h, a bit overkill but this way I save myself the extra fans in the tent for airflow. I can also better maintain the temperature in the tent in the attic. Both plants were topped at the end of the week before I put them in the tent.

SpecialWolferine Soweit machen die beiden sich gut im Zelt, die Phänotypen sind doch recht unterschiedlich. Während die linke Pflanze eher buschig wächst, wächst die rechte eher etwas höher. Leider haben sich über diese Woche die ersten Defizite gezeigt. Reddit empfahl mir CalMag. Was ich zu dem Zeitpunkt noch nicht wusste ist, dass die Cal/Mag Probleme durch eine zu saure Erde verursacht wurden. Ph des Wasser liegt bei 7, was unten aus dem Topf kam war nur noch bei 5.8. Dennoch habe ich die kommenden Wochen CalMag eingesetzt was sich später noch rächen wird. Die sehr beschädigten Blätter habe ich im Verlauf der Woche etappenweise entfernt. Das Toppen der rechten Pflanze hat zu ganzen 4 neuen Trieben geführt! Ebenfalls habe ich in dieser Woche begonnen mit BioBizz Bio Grow zu düngen. English translation: So far, both are doing well in the tent, the phenotypes are quite different. While the left plant grows more bushy, the right one grows somewhat taller. Unfortunately, the first deficiencies appeared over this week. Reddit recommended CalMag to me. What I didn't know at the time was that the Cal/Mag problems were caused by overly acidic soil. The pH of the water is 7, what came out of the bottom of the pot was only 5.8. Nevertheless, I used CalMag in the coming weeks, which will come back to haunt me later. I removed the very damaged leaves gradually over the course of the week. Topping the right plant led to a whole 4 new shoots! I also started fertilizing with BioBizz Bio Grow this week. French translation: Jusqu'à présent, les deux se portent bien dans la tente, les phénotypes sont assez différents. Alors que la plante de gauche pousse de manière plus touffue, celle de droite pousse un peu plus haut. Malheureusement, les premières carences sont apparues au cours de cette semaine. Reddit m'a recommandé CalMag. Ce que je ne savais pas à l'époque, c'est que les problèmes de Cal/Mag étaient causés par un sol trop acide. Le pH de l'eau est de 7, ce qui sortait du fond du pot n'était que de 5,8. Néanmoins, j'ai utilisé CalMag dans les semaines suivantes, ce qui me jouera des tours plus tard. J'ai retiré progressivement les feuilles très endommagées au cours de la semaine. Le pincement de la plante de droite a conduit à pas moins de 4 nouvelles pousses ! J'ai également commencé à fertiliser avec BioBizz Bio Grow cette semaine.

SpecialWolferine This week I continued as before. I was on vacation for 4 days, but not much happened in my absence either.

SpecialWolferine By watering too much, I unknowingly got the overly acidic soil under control, yet the excess of Cal/Mag continues to smolder in the soil... The switch to 12/12 took place in the middle of the week.

SpecialWolferine Over the course of the week, the first flower formations appeared, so I have now started fertilizing with Bio Bloom as well.

SpecialWolferine This week, both plants looked really good. Unfortunately, although I didn't know it yet, the excess of Cal/Mag began to show in the right plant...

SpecialWolferine Unfortunately, the problems caused by too much Cal/Mag in the soil now became apparent. The excess probably led to a lockout of other nutrients. I therefore removed the damaged leaves. To make matters worse, this week saw the first heat wave of the year with temperatures well over 30°C, which also led to excessively high temperatures in the attic. However, the recirculation fan managed to keep the tent at a maximum of 2°C warmer than the apartment. The flowers are still developing well :)

SpecialWolferine Even though the right plant hardly has any normal leaves left, the flowers are developing splendidly.

SpecialWolferine The flowers continue to develop splendidly. Unfortunately, this week saw high fluctuations in temperature and humidity again. This led to the left plant being so stressed that it formed a nanner on three different buds. Fortunately, I recognized them quite early and now hope that no pollen was released.... I also added 2 cheap 30€ Amazon Blurple lights this week.

SpecialWolferine During the week, my grow light, a MarsHydro FC E3000, was finally delivered. This gives me more light with only a little more wattage. The plants are slowly drawing sap from their leaves to put into the flowers. Therefore, the left plant is now also slowly losing its fan leaves. To counteract this, I'm now also giving them BioBizz ALG-A-MIC as a supplement.

SpecialWolferine According to RQS, with a flowering time of 7-9 weeks, it should now be slowly moving towards harvest. Therefore, the observation of the trichomes now begins. The different phenotypes are now also becoming apparent in the buds. While the buds of the left plant tend to grow wider and become round, the buds of the right plant continue to grow conically in height and width. The first leaf tips are beginning to dry. This week I also planted the next grow. A Skunk Auto from Dutch Genetics.

SpecialWolferine First of all: Sorry for the delayed upload. Unfortunately, I've been quite busy lately. But now the information about the harvest: In week 8 of flowering, it was finally time and I initiated the harvest. I first did a rough wet trim and then after 12 days of drying, I dry trimmed the rest. Due to the fact that I really let all the buds grow, I then spent almost 3 hours trimming :D My conclusion on the strain: Grows great, smells very citrusy, but is a bit picky when it comes to pH. It was perhaps the wrong choice for a first grow, but it was worth it. The high is head-focused due to the relatively early harvest. I would describe it as a very pleasant mellow high. There's no couch lock. I didn't weigh the wet harvest. But dried, after a very thorough trim, it became exactly the 50g which are allowed in Germany. The smallest popcorn buds and the trimmings would have surely been a few more grams, but unfortunately now they’re just making the compost smell good.