Albertina I [Pineapple Express auto]

1st week seemed to be going just as supposed to. I gave her no nutrients, just the tap water in tiny amounts - about 1shot glass every day. The first two days she was sitting under this shitty grow light from aliexpress that gives you around 50 ppm on a 1cm distance. When the exhaust system for my tent arrived and I transferred her to the final pot (5gal). Since then she is living in a tiny 40x40x160 Caluma tent under the Vivarspectra P600(100w) light.

Through this week we haven't grown much( the whole week I'm trying to find the reason of the stunted growth. NO luck for now. The most probable reason is lack of nutrients since other requirements are all checked. so on the 11th day I fed her 5ml of 7-14-7 nutrient diluted to 200ppm. I also have balanced the pH to 6.0. There is a chance that stunted growth is due to a too intense lighting. First week it was around 350-400 pphd. When I dimmed the light down(150-200), the plant actively stretched her leaves towards the light . While the whole previous week they were rather neutral or were pointing down. day 13th. Looks like we're back on track! gettin green again!

This week we are growing really fast. I'd fed her the second portion of nutrients. It was 1/2 of what is prescribed by Hesi. ppm 600 volume 2l water temp 23,5 ph 6.13 Also I've managed to dial the humidity level by the means of the cheapest 3€ cup humidifier connected to a 2€ smart usb plug. It keeps the humidity level right where i need it. for this week it is 70-75, while it is right now insanely hot outside [Germany].

So this week was full of struggle against the environmental temps which were nuts. It was 34C at peak. It wasn't easy to keep the tent in the proper VPD range. I switched the nightday light cycle somewhat a week ago at the beginning of this heatwave. (now she grows at night when the temps are at least acceptable) Through the week I thought she was a bit too shirt to apply LST yet. That's why i did it only at the end of the week i decided to apply last with a net.

So.. this week we switched to a bloom nutrients. i fed her twice: on 15th it was veg mix(1l), and on 20th it was bloom mix (2l) The whole week I was applying LST with net, garden wire and plastic clips. Also i was trying to defoliate her gently removing only small amount of leaves at a time starting with 1-2 and about 6-8 at the end of the week. next time i think i would try to apply these techniques on the different weeks to reduce the stress. She was enjoying VPD somewhere between 0.8-1.4. And probably my worst mistake - I tried to increase the light again... this time to about 1000 ppm and 60DLI. I thought that since I'm supplying her with extra CO2 with my DIY CO2 generator, she can handle more light. it might happen that generator wasn't producing enough gas or the light was too high even with added CO2 😕 I don't have a CO2 meter so I cant be sure. I also have noticed some browning on the tips of the bud sites. I'm not sure what it might be. Research is required. Any way we end up with a stressed plant. Which you'll be able to fully observe in the beginning of the next week.

This week i continued to apply lst. I had raised the net and tucked the highest ones under. And i have to confess: I did lST every day little by little tucking and adjusting the colas to spread the as even as possible while Albertina the 1st is still flexible. (Im still not sure how does that affect the final yields though, i guess we will find out soon) Meanwhile the main stem almost completely stopped its expansion, which is a sign of the fact that we're fully into flower, i guess... I'm still trying to play with the lights. I read somewhere that 60 DLI might be a good idea. So i dimmed the lights. And, quite obviously, Albertina didn't react well. It did overlapped with the outside temps peaking at 30 degrees. Well... now DLI is back to 40~45 which she obviously enjoys. I was also defoliating Alby bit by bit, starting with 2-3 huge fan leaves, raising this number every day. This time I tried to feed her with 3L of water at once mixed with early flower nutes . Which was stupid because she went droopy immediately. In 3-4 hours time she completely recovered though. Next time its going to be 2L.

This week i gave her no nutrients. I only gave Albi ph: 6.2 1l water 3 times. I did it because she showed some slight nutrient burn on the tip s of her leaves. I think it happened because i placed a layer of the hot soil for tomatoes on the bottom of the pot. Since the burn is very slight? ill just wait till she eats it all. Runoff now shows ~2000 ppm which is a lot. Guess I'll wait until it drops down. Other than that this week she was pretty stable. Larger colas completely finished their stretch. They reached ~45 cm height. Meanwhile lower colas still showing a little growth. This week was also was very hot up to 30C and very humid. its 70 while I'm writing it. Due to that fact the LVPD was a bit unstable - fluctuating somewhere from 1.1 to 1.7. i cant afford dehumidifier right now so cant do much here. Lights this week were ~40 DLI. I did an average defoliation session once and was performing a minor defoliation almost every day after. I know most people do defoliate a lot at once and just a few times during the life cycle. But I'm really interested to try this other way. We will see how it goes.

Soo.. this was a messy week. Some kind of deficiency was discovered early on. First i thought it is a magnesium deficiency caused by over abundance of nutrients. The pattern seemed kinda similar to what i see on the pics on the forums as a phosphorus or magnesium deficiency. so. I watered her in the middle of the week with 3 l 6.2 water, then measured runoff. it was: 600 ml | 6.0 pH | 1400ppm the nutrients were a bit much but not tooo much, right? So I fed her another portion of Bloom+Phosphorus+PowerZyme+Vit (1L balances as the schedule from HESI says) Hoping to increase magnesium levels in the soil. and only the last day of the week I found out that the Nitrogen deficiency in it's early has somewhat similar pattern to Magnesium's. and i found the smallest and oldest fan leaf that fall off by itself it was completely yellow and pale. Which finally convinced me that it is most probably a nitrogen deficiency. so, I mixed 500ml solution of TNT 2.5ml500ml plus Bloom 2.5ml500ml. Then sprayed it directly on the leaves (about 50ml) and the rest 450ml went to the roots regular way. *fingers crossed*

Ye it is a magnesium deficiency after all... I bought a pack of Epsom salt. And gave her a little with water. 0.2 Tbsp for 1L. Sprayed 30ml directly on the leaves and poured 0.5L to the soil. It looks like leaves are not getting more pale. And it feels like they slowly regaining their color. I'm not 100% sure, its more of a feeling than a fact. The buds were growing really slowly whole week though. I'm also struggling with a excessively moist environment since i don have the dehumidifier yet. Humidity rarely drops below 60. Hopefully i won't get any molds to the end of the run 🤞

This week i fed her no additional bottled nutes. Because runoff's ppm was still too high. around 1900-2000 I only fed her epsom salt with one watering about 0.4 Tbsp per 3L. I also removed some older fan leaves to improve airflow, as well as some fresh ones to improve light penetration The higher leaves keep getting more and more purply. I guess that might be the sign of her reaching maturity. i also noticed some amber trichomes on the flowers. So there is a chance that next week i'd have to harvest her, Since I'm not a huge fan of a stone-coach-weed.

So this week she turned all colorful. Lots of purple and yellows. I think that's due to a wrong light intensity, wich was ~50DLI til the last day. I should've dimmed it down to 40-45 at least. Hope it won't affect the harvest musch. tomorrow we chop!

Wow! It happened. Still hard to believe that i managed not to kill my precious. I guess the low stress techniques worked out pretty well. she grew dense and matured evenly as far as i can tell. The most stressful days she had only during the heat wave and my poor nutrient management in the end of the run. Cant wait till she dries up. Speaking of which. i decided to do a dry trim, thus hanging her to dry as a whole plant to stretch the drying period a little. Oh! And huge thanks to the community, especially to those who answered my noobie questions. I couldn't make it without ya'all! Drying time 12 days. Dry weight: [66.6 bud + 5.9 popcorn | 72.5g] + trim (sugar leaves) 12.3 = 84.8g The smell is insane btw! hope my neighbors will forgive me this evening🤞