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2 months ago
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Indoor
Room Type
Pruned
weeks 3
Defoliation
weeks 5
LST
weeks 5, 7-9
Prune
weeks 7
Soil
Grow medium
Perlite
Grow medium
Coco Coir
Grow medium
Other
Grow medium
19 L
Pot Size
0
Germination
6 months ago
Day 1: I’m using a cloth towel instead of a paper towel, but I also have it in a warm grow tent with a humidifier running nonstop. Day 2: The seed popped, and the taproot appeared by the end of of the day Day 3: The seed was planted in soil (5gal: 40% Country Roots Living Soil, 25% coco coir, 25% perlite, and 10% yard compost. The soil mixture was fed with 1 cup Down to Earth Bio-live. Another tiny pinch of the Bio-live was mixed into the hole where the seed was planted. The light is set at 36%, 18 hours, and sitting about 18 inches above the soil. A humidifier is running in conjunction with the exhaust fan to keep the relative humidity at around 80 - 83% and the VPD at 1.5 - 1.7 kPa. Day 7: finally a sprout! There is a little damage to one of the cotyledons where soil was stuck to it
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Germination Method
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Week 1. Vegetation
6 months ago
2.54 cm
18 hrs
25 °C
6
No Smell
78 %
20 °C
19 L
17.78 cm
Week 2 Day 2: finally a sprout! There is a little damage to one of the cotyledons where soil was stuck to it. The night humidity is a work in process Day 3: I brought the light down to about 7 inches above the seedling and adjusted the average VPD from 0.6 to 0.7 after seeing a couple gnats. Day 4: No gnats today. I did some cleaning in the tent because the bottom had a bit of water in it. Unfortunately, when I picked up the cloth pot, the soil shifted enough to pop the seedling out. I gently flicked the seed off the root Day 5: leaves are growing Day 7: watered until runoff
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Week 2. Vegetation
6 months ago
2.54 cm
18 hrs
27 °C
6
No Smell
75 %
20 °C
19 L
45.72 cm
Day 1: watered again, raised light intensity to 45%, distance to 18”, PPFD ~700, VPD ~0.8. Got high and top dressed 1/4C used coffee grounds Day 3: drenched the soil… didn’t really need it, but I was testing new emitters
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Week 3. Vegetation
6 months ago
5.08 cm
20 hrs
27 °C
6
No Smell
75 %
20 °C
19 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 1
Bio-Live 5-4-2 - Down To Earth
Bio-Live 5-4-2 1.56 mll
Watering a little bit each day Day 3 (24): some curling and chlorosis on the oldest leaves. Roots to light imbalance? Day 5 (26): pinched/dropped off the oldest leaves that were deteriorating; top dressed with 2tbsp Bio-live. Forgot to turn schedule back on 2x
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Week 4. Vegetation
5 months ago
10.16 cm
18 hrs
27 °C
6
No Smell
75 %
20 °C
19 L
53.34 cm
Nutrients 1
Stash blend 0.07 mll
Slowly increasing dark period and VPD; if all looks healthy, the plan is to flip to flower next week
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Week 5. Vegetation
5 months ago
10.16 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
6
Weak
60 %
20 °C
19 L
43.18 cm
Nutrients 2
Stash blend 0.07 mll
Fish Bone Meal 4-12-0 - Down To Earth
Fish Bone Meal 4-12-0 3.91 mll
Switched to 12/12
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Week 7. Vegetation
5 months ago
10.16 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
6
Weak
60 %
20 °C
19 L
43.18 cm
Nutrients 2
Stash blend 0.07 mll
Fish Bone Meal 4-12-0 - Down To Earth
Fish Bone Meal 4-12-0 3.91 mll
Do most people call it flower as soon as they change to 12/12?
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Week 8. Flowering
2 months ago
15.24 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
6
Normal
60 %
20 °C
19 L
43.18 cm
Nutrients 1
Stash blend 0.65 mll
Filling out
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Week 9. Flowering
2 months ago
12 hrs
22 °C
Normal
60 %
20 °C
19 L
43.18 cm
Nutrients 1
Stash blend 0.65 mll
Getting bushy
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Week 10. Flowering
2 months ago
12 hrs
22 °C
Normal
60 %
20 °C
19 L
43.18 cm
Nutrients 1
Stash blend 0.65 mll
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Week 12. Harvest
2 months ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Afghan Kush - Homegrown Cannabis Co
Spent 65 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
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Day air temperature
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Small harvest but good kushy pine taste with relaxing/sleepy effects
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