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Unfortunately ive managed to overwater my young plants when experimenting with a new substrate. They looked really droopy with grey edges and yellowing already, so i decided to restart this post for a second try germinating directly into my living soil, like im used to do it.
📆 [23rd of August]
Ive put the 2 remaining seeds directly into my homemade living soil. Exactly 72 hours later, on the 26th, one has popped up and showed their germination leafs.
I am planning to repot the plants into their "real" home after about 14 days of vegetation. That is gonna consist of 2 substrate levels in a 40l container. The bottom 2/3 is going to be a mix of peat, pumice, sand & vermiculite, the top third is gonna be a layer of my homemade living soil, which is made of 1/3 peat, 1/3 compost and 1/3 pumice 4-12mm & Spelt Husk 50%/50% (measured by volume) amended with kelp meal, sproutet bean meal, basalt rock dust, microbial mushroom biomass (chitin), oyster grit, gypsum, charcoal, bentonite and tiny amounts of bone meal & horn meal.
It is my first time growing in a (partly) nutrient poor substrate. I want to do some kind of Experiment this time, as i have not seen many growers use "hydroponic" /nutrient poor substrate paired with the "living soil" approach & organic feeding. I'm trying to boost the growth by providing plenty of oxygen and water like hydroponics does, without needing to use those mineral salt based fertilizers or frequently having to discard "old" substrate.
In my mind this idea would work similar to an "Autopot" system, where you prodive water and oxygen mainly in the bottom with some small amounts of nutrients, but feed mainly from the top by amending. Ive seen this in the "Build a soil" youtube channel.
I've set their homes up already a couple weeks ago and moistened it to let it cook together, so the living organisms could colonize the bottom subtrate before transplanting.
(Edit: Change of plans, those "homes" are gonna go to my Red Hot Cookies instead, ive just transplanted her right into an 8l pot to become a mother. Its made the same way, without the cooking together in prior part.)
The plants are going to be fed purely organic/natural material by top dressing with different amendments like fish hydrolysate, basalt, kelp, gypsum, guano and this "living soil - grow" fertilizer i've showed in the pictures.
Furthermore i am going to be using homemade nutrient ferments on cannabis for the first time. Ive already tested those on roses, tomatoes and some houseplants. (made from fish, insect, kelp, aloe vera, guano, kitchen scraps, plants etc). My goal is to additionally boost the plant growth by watering these quickly available nutrients. It should contain all the essential minerals plants need, as well as phytohormones, amino acids, vitamins, humic and fulvic acid, beneficial bacteria and fungi.
Stay hyped with me!
[Edit Week 4]
I am not as happy with the results as ive expected it. The plants are looking pretty fine and growing nicely, but i dont see any benefit compared to pure living soil yet. It almost seems like the plant is growing a little bit slower than usual and just needs to be fed more with this method, i dont see any "hydro like" boost happening... Maybe i needed to fertigate her more often and topdress more, i didnt want to try out too much though as i want to keep this plant as a mother. I dont have much time to do experiments with clones, so im probably just going to go for it as planned and hope that they will like the system in the big 40l pots. Probably going to amend the soil heavier then by topdressing more and fertilize with every watering later in veg - until mid/late flower.
Opinions & experience inquired - Layering diff. substrates - A good or bad idea?
Look up germination week of my mandarin cookies for infos.
Do you think this project could be beneficial or should i stick with pure living soil? Why? Keep down bro science pls.
THX 💚PM 4 discussion
I have played around with layering, not quite the way you have done it, but not too far off.
My living soil was doo dense, so I added coco and perlite to it to lighten it up, but was worried about it still getting too saturated in my larger pots (regular plastic, not fabric).
I put a layer of coco and perlite alone in the bottom inch so the roots that got there should never sit in stagnant wet soil for long and I added another layer around the middle also about an inch so when the plant is young it can easily access airy pockets easily even if the living soil is a bit on the wet side.
It worked quite well and after the plants finished, I saw their roots had spread more strongly in those airy layers while still having access to the nutrient in the living soil.
I think your concept is fine, but I would maybe worry about the ratio you have of living soil to inert medium.
If the plant stays small it should have enough food, but if you grow a bigger plant, you might need to start feeding more seriously than you normally would to make up for the lack of food.
It will also probably dry a lot faster, so you'll have to water a lot more. Not a problem, it just seems it is going to make you work harder for the same result.
I'm not expert and some of the things I've done may be really silly, but it worked for me and I grow large plants in those 30l pots without any problem.
I just top dress with compost at the start of flower and use FPJ's I make myself and some epsom salt now and then.
I would personally move the sand down to the bottom 1/3rd or 1/4th and have more living soil and less inert medium, but try it out and lets see how it goes.
📆 [27.08. - Day 1]
💬 Going to change the light cycle to 18/6 tomorrow, i want good temperature during the night for MC 2 to pop. I hope she will do so tomorrow...
💬 MC1 is looking healthy.
💦 Watered 10ml filtered rainwater per plant
📆 [28.08. - Day 2]
💬 Looking good so far. Im going to be taking clones anyway, so it would be fine with having just one plant. We will see if MC 2 makes it.
- Adjusted lights from 24/0 to 18/6 cycle
💦 Watered 10ml filtered rainwater per plant
📆 [29.08. - Day 3]
- Nothing -
📆 [30.08. - Day 4]
💦 Watered 10ml filtered rainwater per plant
📆 [31.08. - Day 5]
💦 Watered 20ml filtered rainwater
📆 [01.09. - Day 6]
💬 Noticed low temperature (23 Celsius). Raised the plant up about 20cm.
📆 [02.09. - Day 7]
- Nothing -
💬 Waiting for root development before i start watering (probably around Day 10-12)
📆 [10.09. - Day 15]
🌱 On the first day of the third week it was time to transplant. ✅
💬 Top substrate is my homemade living soil, bottom substrate a custom mix without nutrition. Check out my commentary in the germination week if you are interested in the ingredients.
💬 I am very happy with how she is developing. Very healthy rootball and a lush green. After 1-2 weeks I will probably top her and start taking some clones for flowering. I have decided to keep this as a mother 💬 plant, since it was my last seed. Hopefully she has genetics worth keeping but im pretty confident that she will turn out in my favor. Have you had the experience of growing and/or testing out some Mandarin 💬 Cookies flower? Let me know in the comments!
💬 Added a tiny little pinch of 0-10-0 Guano and some teaspoons of "Living Soil - Grow" fertilizer on top of the soil
💦 Watered about 1 liter filtered rainwater with ~20ml Aloe Vera extract
📆 [11.09. - Day 16]
- Nothing -
📆 [12.09. - Day 17]
- Nothing -
💬 Noticed the mycelium being active, which is good. Finally growing some side branches. The next days she is going to kickstart, after she has made new roots.
📆 [13.09. - Day 18]
- Nothing -
📆 [14.09. - Day 19]
💦 Moistened topsoil with 150ml filtered rainwater.
📆 [15.09. - Day 20]
- Nothing -
💬 Noticed roots starting to poke through the new pot. She is starting to grow quickly, watering soon.
📆 [16.09. - Day 21]
- Nothing -
📆 [17.09. - Day 22]
- Nothing -
📆 [18.09. - Day 23]
💦 Watering 400ml filtered rainwater with 4 ml of my fermented liquid fertilizer and some aloe extract. (with small drainage)
💬 LST
📆 [19.09. - Day 24]
💬 Adjusted LST
📆 [20.09. - Day 25]
💬 Adjusted LST
📆 [21.09. - Day 26]
💬 Noticed the fungus gnats are back, so ive put some more sticky traps around and ordered some SF-nematodes and predator mites. (Hypoaspis Miles)
📆 [22.09. - Day 27]
💦 Watering 500ml (small drainage/run off water)
💬 Topped by accident, she snapped on me while applying LST.
💬 Taking the top as a clone. Dipped it into a mixture of honey & aloe and put it in a glass of water. I will change the water every other day.
📆 [23.09. - Day 28]
💬 Just killing fungus gnats.
💬 Keeping in mind that she is in a cardboard box with low reflection under a cheap led and low temperature, i am pretty happy with the first weeks of growth. She is looking healthy and happy.
💬 If the clone roots successfully, i am going to work with that, keeping this plant as a mother. Hopefully the flower will turn out favorable, its my first time growing Ethos genetics, but from what i have seen there is a good chance for me to be blessed with a keeper.
📆 [24.09. - Day 29]
💬 Treating the soil with predator mites to kill the fungus gnat larvae and as prevention against other pests like Thripse. (Hypoaspis miles)
💬 Treating every single plant in the house with a total of 12.500 predator mites. Flying pests should be controlled in the whole environment if you can not quarantine infected plants. My whole house is full of various different plants, so ive got to treat them all.
💬Something munched on a leaf, wonder what it was.
📆 [25.09. - Day 30]
💦 Watered 400ml filtered rainwater with fermented nutrient solution (4ml, 1:100) + 20ml of aloe extract.
💎 Decided it was time to move them into their new environment today. Finally got warm temps there when the lights are on (28-30 degrees celsius). Hygrostat is set to 55% rh. Going to upgrade to a GSE Climate Controller in a few days.
📆 [26.09. - Day 31]
💬 Applied SF-Nematodes to every single plant in the house. (Soil has to be moist, using against fungus gnats)
📆 [27.09. - Day 32]
- Nothing -
📆 [28.09. - Day 33]
- Nothing -
💬 A couple more days until i can cut more clones. Sadly the one i already took some days ago did not root yet...
📆 [29.09. - Day 34]
🌡️ 23.3°C - 27.1°C /// Rh: 54% - 66%
💦 Watered with 500ml rainwater with fermented nutrient solution (5ml, 1:100) + 20ml of aloe extract + 10ml "BAC Yuccah" watering agent.
💬 Took 2 more clones. Cut with desinfected razor blade, dipped in aloe and honey and then put in a mix of moist peat moss, perlite and sand. Placed in a small greenhouse with the older clone.
💬 When taking clones and scraping them ive noticed a really nice smell coming from the stems, smelling strongly like the typical "cali/gas" with some notes of mandarine/tangerine too! Amazing, she isnt even in preflower yet but smells so good! 💚🔥💚🔥💚🔥
💬 Lowered LED. (Ive raised it higher then it needs to be so the plants can get used to the new lights with UV)
📆 [30.09. - Day 35]
🌡️ 21.1°C - 27.7°C /// Rh: 48% - 66%
💬 Fertilized by topdressing fresh homemade compost (+FF)
💬 Clones have "stood up" again. 77% rh and 22°C right now in the clone box.
💦 Inoculated with BTI Protein dissolved in 200ml rainwater. Using this to kill young fungus gnat larvae.
I dont have a lot of experience in taking clones yet.
Is this going to be enough light for them to produce enough sugar to make roots / should i move them into the veg. tent? I am scared of fungus gnats destroying their roots there. Light is 6.5 W, 400 Lumen, 3000 Kelvin
Thx 💚
Not much. It can't take in enough nutes to do anything but cannibalize itself. A minimal amount of paling is fine but you don't want them to eat themselves too much before they get some roots.
Use Bti to avoid gnats and more, if available in your area. "Mosquito bits" and dunks are the brand i know of. But anything with Bacillus thurgenisis (spelled wrong but close enough) will work on larvea and 100% safe for you or pets. I use bti pre-emptively. You never know when a bale of substrate will bring in a bunch of pests from the store.
Give them weak light and low VPD until they exhibit signs of growth, and improved turgidity (they stand up straighter with greater sustained water pressure inside the plant)
as far as how much light.. just make sure they don't pale too much or fall over trying to avoid the light. High humidity slows transpiration (low vpd). This will reduce stress on the plant and allow it to form roots more easily. Unless you live in a very humid region, a humidity dome is very useful. They key is not giving them uninterrupted darkness for 10+ hours (flower cycle / chance for revege etc), which is easy enough to avoid.
Can they root simply plopping them in some substrate and leaving by the window sill? yes, but success will be lower. Always take more cuttings than you need. Sometimes you'll have a 100% success rate, others you'll encounter a stubborn genotype or maybe it's not as healthy as normal etc... Lots of things can reduce success rate.
if you take 4-5 cutting you could just leave them on a counter and at least 1 would survive, lol.
📆 [01.10.] - Day 3️⃣6️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 23.3°C - 27.7°C ☁️ Rh: 48% - 64%
💬 Noticed some yellowing in between the veins -- amended the topsoil with magnesium in the form of basalt dust. Also added small amounts of "Living Soil - Grow" fertilizer & some kelp meal + insect meal on that occasion.
Clones:
🌡️ 20.6°C - 22.5°C ☁️ Rh: 68% - 89%
💦 #1: Changing water (every other day...)
💦 #2 / #3: Moistened with 12ml filtered rainwater each
📆 [02.10.] - Day 3️⃣7️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 23.3°C - 27.7°C ☁️ Rh: 50% - 65%
💦 Watered with 350ml rainwater, again with BTI proteins against the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 20.9°C - 22.2°C ☁️ Rh: 71% - 83%
- Nothing -
💬 It has been 10 days since #1 was cut as a clone. Still no roots... she is cannibalizing herself and there is some brown mushy stuff starting to grow. I think there will be better chances with #2 and #3 in the substrate. I think the mother plant is ready tomorrow or in some days for more clones to be cut off and I should do this. If i dont get roots soon, the mother will have to be transplanted into the flower tent and a new mother will have to be taken from a clone.
I should probably get some H2O2 for rooting in water, or search for my air pump and bubblestone i guess. I dont like that i cannot see what is happening in the substrate...
📆 [03.10.] - Day 3️⃣8️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 23.3°C - 27.2°C ☁️ Rh: 51% - 62%
💦 Watered with 350ml rainwater, again with BTI proteins against the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 21.1°C - 22.4°C ☁️ Rh: 65% - 81%
💬 Still no roots. #3 seems to be drooping, even though the vpd is decent and they are under a weak 6.5W LED. ( VPD at day: around 0.6 / 0.7 ; at night: 0.35 - 0.6 )
💦 Moistened #2 and #3 with 10ml filtered raintwater each.
💦 Changed water #1
📆 [04.10.] - Day 3️⃣9️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 23°C - 27.3°C ☁️ Rh: 47% - 60%
- Nothing -
💬 Yellow/bright green tips appearing on young leafs... gotta find out where that is coming from, i hope its not ph fluctuations between the substrate layers...Could also be from slight overwatering causing the ph to fluctuate or light stress, the light is set to 40% / 80W and should be far enough away, so i dont think its from light. It appeared after the last heavy watering, so i guess it was a ph fluctuation from that. Going to skip watering today and water with magnesium sulfate and maybe some calmag tomorrow to see if that helps.
Clones:
🌡️ 20.7°C - 22.3°C ☁️ Rh: 61% - 75%
💦 Moistened #2 and #3 with 10ml filtered raintwater each.
📆 [05.10.] - Day 4️⃣0️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 18.4°C - 27.3°C ☁️ Rh: 40% - 58%
💬 Forgot to close the window at night - low temps...
✂️ Took 4 more clones
💦 Watered her with 800ml of 4l rainwater with 1g magnesium sulfate and 1ml calmag. (1:4000) + BTI proteins to kill the gnats. Also added some Aloe extract and Yuccah watering agent to make the water foamy/break the surface tension for a good soak in the soil.
Clones:
🌡️ 20.5°C - 22.7°C ☁️ Rh: 62% - 82%
💬 Still no visible roots or "root bumps"... Going to take 4 more clones later, when the mother has quenched her thirst.
💦 Changed water #1
📆 [06.10.] - Day 4️⃣1️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.8°C - 26.6°C ☁️ Rh: 41% - 60%
- Nothing -
Clones:
🌡️ 20.8°C - 22.6°C ☁️ Rh: 64% - 89%
💦 Changed water #1
💦 Moistened #2 and #3 with 12ml filtered rainwater each
📆 [07.10.] - Day 4️⃣2️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.8°C - 27.1°C ☁️ Rh: 41% - 61%
💬 ToDo:
💦 Watering?
Clones:
🌡️
💬 ToDo:
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📆 [08.10.] - Day 4️⃣3️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 20.8°C - 27.3°C ☁️ Rh: 41% - 62%
💦 Watered her with 1000ml of 4l rainwater with 1g magnesium sulfate and 1ml calmag. (1:4000) + BTI proteins to kill the gnats. Also added some Aloe extract and Yuccah watering agent to make the water foamy/break the surface tension for a good soak in the soil.
Clones:
🌡️ 21.5°C - 24.8°C ☁️ Rh: 64% - 82%
💬 I really hope to see some roots in the next days.
- Nothing -
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📆 [09.10.] - Day 4️⃣4️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.3°C - 27.3°C ☁️ Rh: 41% - 64%
🌞 Increased light power from 40%/80W to 60%/120W
Clones:
🌡️ 22.1°C - 24.8°C ☁️ Rh: 71% - 79%
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📆 [10.10.] - Day 4️⃣5️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.4°C - 27.1°C ☁️ Rh: 51% - 64%
💦 Watered her with 400ml of 4l rainwater with 0.5g magnesium sulfate and 0.5ml calmag. (1:4000) + BTI proteins to kill the gnats. Also added some Aloe extract and Yuccah watering agent to make the water foamy/break the surface tension for a good soak in the soil.
Clones:
🌡️ 22.1°C - 25.1°C ☁️ Rh: 69% - 77%
💦 Changed water (New clones)
💦 Moistened #2 and #3
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📆 [11.10.] - Day 4️⃣6️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 22.6°C - 28°C ☁️ Rh: 51% - 68%
💬 Applied some LST on higher branches
💦 Watered her with 600ml of 4l rainwater with 0.5g magnesium sulfate and 0.5ml calmag. (1:4000) + BTI proteins to kill the gnats. Also added some Aloe extract and Yuccah watering agent to make the water foamy/break the surface tension for a good soak in the soil.
Clones:
🌡️ 22.2°C - 25.3°C ☁️ Rh: 67% - 75%
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📆 [12.10.] - Day 4️⃣7️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 20.9°C - 28.9°C ☁️ Rh: 39% - 69%
💬 Applied some LST on higher branches
Clones:
🌡️ 20.9°C - 24.2°C ☁️ Rh: 64% - 77%
💬 Ditched clone #1
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📆 [13.10.] - Day 4️⃣8️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 20.5°C - 28.8°C ☁️ Rh: 48% - 60%
💦 Watered her with 400ml filtered rainwater.
Clones:
🌡️ 21.4°C - 23.9°C ☁️ Rh: 55% - 71%
💦 Moistened #2 and #3
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📆 [14.10.] - Day 4️⃣9️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 23.6°C - 28.3°C ☁️ Rh: 49% - 66%
🌞 Changed light cycle so that the lights are on at nighttime/off at daytime to raise temps.
💦 Watered her with 800ml of 10l filtered rainwater with 3g dissolved magnesium sulfate. (1:3333) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 21.1°C - 23.8°C ☁️ Rh: 56% - 64%
💬 Closed some holes in the humidity dome & put a glass of water under it to raise rh.
💦 Changed water (New clones)
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📆 [15.10.] - Day 5️⃣0️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 23.2°C - 27.9°C ☁️ Rh: 52% - 71%
🌞 Increased light power from 60%/120W to 80%/160W /// Raised lights higher (40cm distance to highest plants tips)
Clones:
🌡️ 20.9°C - 22.5°C ☁️ Rh: 55% - 85%
💬 I really hope to see some roots in the next days...It's been 10 days since cutting the new ones. The other ones are over 2 weeks old and im not sure if they have made roots in that substrate yet... Those are hard to clone man, i gotta buy clonex.
- Nothing -
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📆 [16.10.] - Day 5️⃣1️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 19.9°C - 27.4°C ☁️ Rh: 49% - 66%
💦 Watered her with 1200ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats. (bottom and top watered)
Clones:
🌡️ 20.4°C - 23.2°C ☁️ Rh: 67% - 77%
- Nothing -
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📆 [17.10.] - Day 5️⃣2️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 19.9°C - 27.8°C ☁️ Rh: 47% - 65%
💦 Bottom watered her with 1100ml of 5l filtered rainwater with 1.5g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 1.5ml CalMag (1:3000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 20.6°C - 23.1°C ☁️ Rh: 60% - 74%
💬 As suggested by the community, i have cut off more foliage on the new clones and punched out the small nodes. They all seem to be having these "root bumps" and looking quite good, so i am going to apply rooting gel and plant them in a clean, light soil this evening or tomorrow.
💬 Took four more clones this evening. This time the proper way, using filtered rainwater, rooting gel and rockwool in a propagator. Everything was sterilized before working / between working with new plant. Ive cut the tip at a 45 degree angle with a razor blade, scraped them with a clean knife around the nodes, covered them in Gel, defoliated the top leaves and removed all the nodes/suckers and them plugged them into the rockwool/propagator. Hope to see some quick roots this time for all the effort.
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📆 [18.10.] - Day 5️⃣3️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 20.7°C - 26.9°C ☁️ Rh: 52% - 69%
💦 Watered her with 250ml of 5l filtered rainwater with 1.5g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 1.5ml CalMag (1:3000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 20.5°C - 23.2°C ☁️ Rh: 66% - 84%
💬 Installed an air pump + bubbling stone to keep the water fresh for the newest clones.
💬 5 of 7 of the newest clones are cooked after not even 24 hours in the rockwool plugs.... What could i have done wrong? Should i have boiled the rockwool out first?
💬 Put the 4 "mid old" clones into a light substrate (living soil). They are looking good and i will probably stick to using just water until i see rootbumps, then plant into substrate.
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📆 [19.10.] - Day 5️⃣4️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.7°C - 29.3°C ☁️ Rh: 53% - 72%
💦 Watered her with 800ml of 5l filtered rainwater with 1.5g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 1.5ml CalMag (1:3000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 21.5°C - 24.9°C ☁️ Rh: 69% - 82%
- Nothing -
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📆 [20.10.] - Day 5️⃣5️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.8°C - 28.9°C ☁️ Rh: 53% - 68%
💦 Bottom watered her with 1300ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
💬 Raised the grow light to 40cm distance to the closest plant tips
Clones:
🌡️ 22.0°C - 24.8°C ☁️ Rh: 76% - 94%
- Nothing -
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📆 [21.10.] - Day 5️⃣6️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 25.4°C - 29.9°C ☁️ Rh: 48% - 64%
💦 Top watered her with 600ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
💬 Raised the grow light to 40cm distance to the closest plant tips
Clones:
🌡️ 22.2°C - 24.2°C ☁️ Rh: 84% - 91%
- Nothing -
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My clones are in water since 11 days now. They seem to be not easy to clone/root... Are these "root bumps" ?
Should i take them out of the water and into a clean wet substrate now?
Thx🌱
When I take clones I put them into a cup of water for 48 hours. This I feel is very important. However, I always make my final 45 degree cut after I take them out of the water. Then I put them into a rapid rooter plug with root hormone. I’ve had 95% plus success doing this.
After about a week under a humidity dome I get nice white roots coming out the plug.
It looks like your cuttings are water logged and starting to rot away. I would either take more cuttings or cut the existing clones way back to more solid stem.
Hope this helps.
Hey, cloning with the new setup went really bad quick, what did i do wrong? Information on my mandarin cookies grow report, read my comments from today and 2 days ago pls
5/7 look like this. Do i need to sterilize the rockwool with boiling water?
Should not need to sterilize rockwool but pooring boiling water over it and then let it cool would give it a good start. I clone in a glass of tap water I don't ph it or do anything special. works fine for me, once it shows root tips little warts, i place em in soil and they grow.
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📆 [22.10.] - Day 5️⃣7️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 23.3°C - 31.1°C ☁️ Rh: 43% - 62%
💦 Top watered her with 600ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 21.9°C - 25.0°C ☁️ Rh: 74% - 94%
- Nothing -
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📆 [23.10.] - Day 5️⃣8️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 23.9°C - 29.8°C ☁️ Rh: 46% - 61%
💬 Raised the grow light to 40cm distance to closest plant tips.
💦 Top watered her with 600ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 21.5°C - 24.0°C ☁️ Rh: 86% - 94%
💬 Still no visible roots. Yellowing on the mid aged clones continues, Hope to see them greening/rooting in some days...
- Nothing -
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📆 [24.10.] - Day 5️⃣9️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 23.0°C - 30.2°C ☁️ Rh: 49% - 61%
💦 Bottom and top watered her with 1200ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats. Small amount of runoff water.
Clones:
🌡️ 20.9°C - 24.6°C ☁️ Rh: 84% - 95%
💬 Another one bites the dust...Still no roots to see. Its almost like they dont want to be cloned...
- Nothing -
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📆 [25.10.] - Day 6️⃣0️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 23.4°C - 30.7°C ☁️ Rh: 44% - 62%
💦 Top watered her with 600ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats. Small amount of runoff water.
Clones:
🌡️ 21.0°C - 24.2°C ☁️ Rh: 77% - 85%
💦 Re-moistened all clones
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📆 [26.10.] - Day 6️⃣1️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 23.4°C - 30.3°C ☁️ Rh: 41% - 63%
- Nothing -
Clones:
🌡️ 21.5°C - 24.3°C ☁️ Rh: 74% - 87%
- Nothing -
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📆 [27.10.] - Day 6️⃣2️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 23.9°C - 32.2°C ☁️ Rh: 51% - 60%
💦 Top watered her with 800ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats. Small amount of runoff water.
Clones:
🌡️ 21.3°C - 24.5°C ☁️ Rh: 84% - 90%
- Nothing -
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📆 [28.10.] - Day 6️⃣3️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 27.2°C - 32.8°C ☁️ Rh: 38% - 60%
💦 Top and bottom watered her with ~1200ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats. Small amount of runoff water.
Clones:
🌡️ 21.2°C - 24.3°C ☁️ Rh: 82% - 98%
- Nothing -
💬 Still dont have roots. Im buying "Clonex" tomorrow and make a bunch of new clones. This time im going to sterilize the substrate and the water aswell (with boiling water). Im planning to just stick them into a mix of peat and pumice, maybe ill throw some vermiculite in aswell. Im not going to cut the edges of the leaves this time and keep the humidity high around 90% rh. (with condensation droplets under the roof) I will spray the plants with water daily, maybe im going to to apply a foliar feed aswell.
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📆 [29.10.] - Day 6️⃣4️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 23.1°C - 31.7°C ☁️ Rh: 45% - 61%
- Nothing -
Clones:
🌡️ 22.1°C - 24.2°C ☁️ Rh: 76% - 85%
- Nothing -
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📆 [30.10.] - Day 6️⃣5️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 25.1°C - 31.9°C ☁️ Rh: 50% - 58%
💦 Bottom and top watered her with 1300ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 21.7°C - 24.4°C ☁️ Rh: 79% - 89%
💦 Moistened each one with 20ml filtered rainwater
💬 Finally got roots on 2 of the middle aged clones (The ones with the green arrows on the picture. One shows a root poking out and greening in the plant middle, the other one is just greening in the middle but i suppose that one has roots too) Yay!!!
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📆 [31.10.] - Day 6️⃣6️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 22.9°C - 31.6°C ☁️ Rh: 45% - 67%
💦 Top watered her with 600ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 21.5°C - 24.4°C ☁️ Rh: 66% - 83%
- Nothing -
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📆 [01.11.] - Day 6️⃣7️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 24.4°C - 29.0°C ☁️ Rh: 47% - 61%
💦 Bottom watered her with 1000ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 21.7°C - 24.5°C ☁️ Rh: 66% - 96%
💬 Another one of the mid aged clones seems to be rooting (the middle one in the left row)
💬 Moved the clones into another box with new/other clones.
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📆 [02.11.] - Day 6️⃣8️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.9°C - 29.7°C ☁️ Rh: 43% - 63%
- Nothing -
Clones:
🌡️ 20.5°C - 24.1°C ☁️ Rh: 79% - 99%
💦 Sprayed the plants and the inside of the greenhouse with water
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📆 [03.11.] - Day 6️⃣9️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 22.2°C - 29.7°C ☁️ Rh: 44% - 65%
💬 She was looking droopy, slightly underwatered.
💬 Topped every high branch & took them as backup clones / for practice.
🌞 Increased light power from 80%/160W to 100%/190W /// Raised lights higher (40cm distance to highest plants tips)
💦 Bottom watered her with 1500ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 20.5°C - 24.1°C ☁️ Rh: 60% - 70%
💦 Sprayed the plants + soil and the inside of the greenhouse with water
💬 Took plenty more clones for practice, because i had to prune the mother anyways. This time without cutting the leaves edges and without unnecessarily removing leaves. Ive only pulled out the "suckers" in the nodes. Ive seen a study from "DeBacco University" proving that this increases the success rate of rooting clones. Ive cut ~3mm below a node with a sterile razor blade in a 45 degree angle, applied clonex gel and stuck them into an "Eazy Plug" tray. After that ive moistened them with "Clonex Spray" and put them into a closed greenhouse box with 100% relative humidity.
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📆 [04.11.] - Day 7️⃣0️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.8°C - 30.3°C ☁️ Rh: 45% - 64%
💦 Top watered her with ~450ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
💬 Added some remaining teaspoons of fertilizer on top (Mainly "Living Soil : Grow": N-P-P+Mg = 6-5-8+2 and a little bit of 0-10-0 Bat Guano)
Clones:
🌡️ 19.2°C - 23.3°C ☁️ Rh: 62% - 69%
- Nothing -
💬 ToDo: Repotting soon
New clones:
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: 100%
💦 Sprayed the plants & the inside of the greenhouse with water (3x/day)
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📆 [05.11.] - Day 7️⃣1️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.5°C - 29.6°C ☁️ Rh: 43% - 64%
💦 Top watered her with ~800ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 2g dissolved magnesium sulfate and 2ml CalMag (1:3500) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
💬 Spotted the beginning of a calcium deficiency. (brown spots in the upper part of the plant) Going to add some tablespoons of calcium carbonate tomorrow.
Clones:
🌡️ 18.6°C - 23.1°C ☁️ Rh: 66% - 75%
💦 Top watered each one with 20ml filtered rainwater
🥣 Topdressed each one with 1 teaspoon of "Living Soil - Grow" fertilizer
💬 ToDo: Repotting soon
New clones:
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~100%
💦 Sprayed the plants & the inside of the greenhouse with water (3x/day)
💦 Sprayed the plants & the inside of the greenhouse with "Clonex Spray" (every other day)
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📆 [06.11.] - Day 7️⃣2️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.8°C - 30.3°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 61%
💦 Bottom and top watered her with ~1600ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
💬 ToDo: Add some tablespoons of calcium carbonate
Clones:
🌡️ 19.8°C - 24.1°C ☁️ Rh: 63% - 72%
💬 ToDo: Repotting soon
New clones:
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~95%
💦 Sprayed the plants & the inside of the greenhouse with water (3x/day)
💬 Opened air vents a little bit
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📆 [07.11.] - Day 7️⃣3️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 22.1°C - 31.1°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 65%
💦 Top watered her with ~800ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
🥣 Added 3 tablespoons of calcium carbonate on top of the soil
Clones:
🌡️ 20.1°C - 24.8°C ☁️ Rh: 62% - 69%
💦 Watered each one with ~20ml filtered rainwater.
New clones:
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~95-100%
💦 Sprayed the plants & the inside of the greenhouse with water (3x/day)
💦 Sprayed the plants & the inside of the greenhouse with "Clonex Spray" (every other day)
💦 Re-moistened the substrate
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📆 [08.11.] - Day 7️⃣4️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.7°C - 30.0°C ☁️ Rh: 46% - 66%
💦 Top watered her with ~600ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
🥣 Added some "Living Soil - Grow" as topdressing (N-P-P+Mg=6-5-8+2)
Clones:
🌡️ 20.5°C - 24.5°C ☁️ Rh: 60% - 72%
- Nothing -
New clones:
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~90-100%
💦 Sprayed the plants & the inside of the greenhouse with water (2x/day)
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📆 [09.11.] - Day 7️⃣5️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.9°C - 31.6°C ☁️ Rh: 45% - 62%
💦 Top and bottom watered her with ~1400ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 19.5°C - 23.1°C ☁️ Rh: 58% - 65%
💦 Top watered each one with ~10-20ml filtered rainwater
New clones:
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~90-100%
💦 Sprayed the plants & the inside of the greenhouse with water (2x/day)
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📆 [10.11.] - Day 7️⃣6️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.9°C - 31.8°C ☁️ Rh: 44% - 62%
💦 Top and bottom watered her with ~1400ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
💬 Topped + applied some LST on high branches
🌞 Decreased light power from 100%/190W to 80%/160W
Clones:
🌡️ 19.8°C - 23.7°C ☁️ Rh: 54% - 64%
💦 Top watered each one with ~20ml filtered rainwater + dissolved BTI proteins to prevent fungus gnats.
New clones:
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~90-95%
💦 Sprayed the plants & the inside of the greenhouse with water (2x/day)
💦 Sprayed the plants & the inside of the greenhouse with "Clonex Spray" (every other day)
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📆 [11.11.] - Day 7️⃣7️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 22.0°C - 31.1°C ☁️ Rh: 45% - 62%
💦 Top watered her with ~1000ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 19.9°C - 23.2°C ☁️ Rh: 54% - 58%
- Nothing -
New clones:
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~85-90%
💦 Sprayed the plants & the inside of the greenhouse with water (2x/day)
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📆 [12.11.] - Day 7️⃣8️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.4°C - 27.2°C ☁️ Rh: 49% - 63%
💦 Top and bottom watered her with ~1500ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 20.5°C - 23.4°C ☁️ Rh: 52% - 57%
🥣 Topdressed each one with 1 teaspoon of "Living Soil - Grow" (N-P-P+Mg=6-5-8+2)
💦 Watered each one with ~15ml filtered rainwater
New clones:
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
- Nothing -
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📆 [13.11.] - Day 7️⃣9️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.4°C - 28.3°C ☁️ Rh: 50% - 66%
- Nothing -
💬 Did some defoliation in the lower third, where very little light and air gets through (removed leaves and shoots)
💬 Topped the highest branches
Clones:
🌡️ 20.1°C - 24.0°C ☁️ Rh: 49% - 56%
- Nothing -
New clones:
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
💦 Sprayed the plants with filtered rainwater once
💬 Day 10 since cutting the clones, no roots visible yet.
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📆 [14.11.] - Day 8️⃣0️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.3°C - 27.9°C ☁️ Rh: 49% - 64%
💦 Top and bottom watered her with ~1600ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 20.1°C - 24.0°C ☁️ Rh: 49% - 56%
💦 Watered each one with ~20ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
New clones:
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
💦 Sprayed the plants and moistened the substrate with filtered rainwater once
💬 Day 11 since cutting the clones, no roots visible yet.
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📆 [15.11.] - Day 8️⃣1️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.4°C - 27.5°C ☁️ Rh: 49% - 65%
💦 Top watered her with 1000ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 19.9°C - 23.2°C ☁️ Rh: 51% - 57%
- Nothing -
New clones:
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
💦 Sprayed the plants with filtered rainwater once
💬 Day 12 since cutting the clones, they seem to be rooting now (yellowing from the cutlings middle)
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📆 [16.11.] - Day 8️⃣2️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.6°C - 27.4°C ☁️ Rh: 48% - 63%
💦 Top and bottom watered her with 1400ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats. Small runoff coming out
Clones:
🌡️ 20.1°C - 23.4°C ☁️ Rh: 52% - 57%
💬 ToDo: Watering!
New clones:
💬 Day 13
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
- Nothing -
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📆 [17.11.] - Day 8️⃣3️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.2°C - 27.5°C ☁️ Rh: 46% - 61%
💦 Top and bottom watered her with 1200ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
💬 Topped her down about 20cm because she is growing too quickly and got too big.
Clones:
🌡️ 19.5°C - 23.1°C ☁️ Rh: 54% - 59%
💦 Top and bottom watered each one with ~25ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
New clones:
💬 Day 14
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
💦 Moistened the substrate with filtered rainwater
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📆 [18.11.] - Day 8️⃣4️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.5°C - 28.0°C ☁️ Rh: 45% - 59%
💦 Top watered her with 1200ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats. Small runoff coming out
Clones:
🌡️ 19.3°C - 25.1°C ☁️ Rh: 54% - 58%
💦 Top and bottom watered each one with ~25ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
New clones:
💬 Day 15
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
💦 Sprayed the plants and the inside of the greenhouse with filtered rainwater once
💬 This morning they looked good like yesterday, but after I removed the greenhouse lid for around 90 minutes and came back they were all drooping. Hope they come back, if not, lesson learned. Its weird because I have other clones just standing in a glass of water, no lid, no light, no nothing... But they are all standing straight for days and weeks.
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📆 [19.11.] - Day 8️⃣5️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.4°C - 28.2°C ☁️ Rh: 44% - 60%
💦 Top and bottom watered her with ~1200ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats. Small runoff coming out
Clones:
🌡️ 19.3°C - 25.1°C ☁️ Rh: 54% - 58%
💦 Top and bottom watered the 2 clones in the back with ~25ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
💬 Swapped front and back rows
💬 Topped the 3 big clones above the fifth node.
New clones:
💬 Day 16
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
💬 This morning they looked quite good again :) Still no visible roots though...
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📆 [20.11.] - Day 8️⃣6️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.3°C - 28.1°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 65%
💦 Top and bottom watered her with ~1500ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats. Small runoff coming out
Clones:
🌡️ 19.8°C - 26.5°C ☁️ Rh: 54% - 57%
💦 Bottom watered each one with ~25ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
New clones:
💬 Day 17
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
💦 Moistened the substrate
💦 Gently sprayed the plants and the inside of the greenhouse with filtered rainwater once
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📆 [21.11.] - Day 8️⃣7️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 21.4°C - 27.4°C ☁️ Rh: 39% - 62%
💦 Top and bottom watered her with ~1200ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 19.1°C - 25.2°C ☁️ Rh: 46% - 50%
- Nothing -
New clones:
💬 Day 18
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
- Nothing -
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📆 [22.11.] - Day 8️⃣8️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 20.9°C - 27.8°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 62%
💦 Top and bottom watered her with ~1200ml of 7l filtered rainwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 19.1°C - 23.2°C ☁️ Rh: 46% - 52%
💦 Watered each one with ~25ml filtered rainwwater + dissolved BTI proteins to kill the gnats.
New clones:
💬 Day 19
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
- Nothing -
💬 Today i saw roots coming out of 2 of the new clones :)
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📆 [23.11.] - Day 8️⃣9️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 20.7°C - 27.7°C ☁️ Rh: 39% - 62%
💦 Top and bottom watered her with ~1200ml stale tap water with dissolved BTI proteins and SF-Nematodes to kill the gnats.
Clones:
🌡️ 18.9°C - 23.1°C ☁️ Rh: 45% - 53%
💦 Watered each one with ~25ml of 2l filtered rainwwater + 1 dissolved tablet of BTI proteins and 1 teaspoon of SF Nematodes to prevent & kill the fungus gnats.
New clones:
💬 Day 20
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
💦 Moistened the substrate with filtered rainwater
💦 Gently sprayed the clones with filtered rainwater
💬 2 more clones have roots, 4 of 11 have made it until today.
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📆 [24.11.] - Day 9️⃣0️⃣
Mother:
🌡️ 20.9°C - 27.9°C ☁️ Rh: 38% - 63%
🌞 Transplanted her into a big pot with 40l living soil, again in layers that are done in the same way I did it in the 8l pot of the now "Old" mother plant, as I consider this experiment successful mainly because this substrate holds twice the amount of water compared to my pure living soil which has a really good drainage. (Read: Germination week of this diary for more information and thougts about this). This time the substrate had a lot of time to "ripen and merge together".
🌞 I have noticed that i have increased needs for CalMag in this substrate and need to feed a lot more in general, also by topdressing. Hope not to run into a bad fungus gnat infection by doing that , as i didnt manage to get rid of them completely yet. This Culinex doesnt seem to work well when feeding heavily through topdressing, i am going to increase the dose. I am going to add a fresh batch of predator mites later to prevent a heavy fungus gnat infestation.
🌞 Also I have to be careful not to overwater her in this big pot.
🌞 She has been moved into a bigger tent to let her flower in some days! Taking clones has taken too much time and it would be a shame not letting this beauty flower now, after that long veg. I am going to keep one of the clones as a new mother of course, the other clones i will give away.
💦 Watered her with 2000ml of 10l filtered rainwwater + 2 dissolved tablets of BTI proteins and 2 teaspoons of SF Nematodes to prevent & kill the fungus gnats.
💬 Installed a scrog net, applied heavy LST. Stem broke in the middle so i taped it together again and filled the crack with molten wax.
💬 Added predator mites ("Hypoaspis Miles")
Clones:
🌡️ 19.5°C - 24.2°C ☁️ Rh: 45% - 55%
💦 Watered each one with ~25ml of 2l filtered rainwwater + 1 dissolved tablet of BTI proteins and 1 teaspoon of SF Nematodes to prevent & kill the fungus gnats.
New clones:
💬 Day 21
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
- Nothing -
💬 Two more clones have roots, 6 of 11 have made it until today.
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📆 [25.11.] - Day 9️⃣1️⃣
🌡️ 20.6°C - 24.9°C ☁️ Rh: 47% - 51%
💬 Reapplied the scrog net lower, applied heavy training/supercropping to lower and spread the canopy.
💬 Added yellow sticky traps against the fungus gnats
New clones:
💬 Day 22
🌡️ ~20°C ☁️ Rh: ~80-85%
- Nothing -
💬 Another clone shows roots, 7 of 11 have made it until today.
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I just transplanted each of these 4 mothers into 40l pots, i am planning to let them flower in 2-3 days. I am thinking if the pots might have been too big for these plants, do you think they will still stretch a lot bcs of the new soil despite being "old" already
Tent = 2m high
In 2-3 days the roots havent colonized the new pot, fully. Still might cause a little extra growth before vege growth stops in flower phase, but given the timing, i don't think you have to worry about anything crazy. You might not see roots throughout 40L of volume by the end, so it's effect will be limited too.
I think you are safe and that the plant will be limited by how much time it has to grow in flower phase and avoid too much extra growth relative to space caused by pot size.
The fact they are mature mothers with size that already fills the area of the tent will probably result in some over-crowding regardless of pot size. No biggie. Just prune them to fit. If you think they are too tall to start, prune back a few nodes to reduce height before flip and give 3-5 days to heal, preferably.
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Original mother:
📆 [26.11.] - Day 9️⃣2️⃣
🌡️ 20.6°C - 25.2°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 51%
💬 Applied more LST
New mother:
💬 Transplanted the best clone into 5l living soil & moved it into the mother tent.
💦 Top watered her with 500ml of 10l filtered rainwwater + 2 dissolved tablets of BTI proteins and 2 teaspoons of SF Nematodes to prevent & kill the fungus gnats.
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📆 [27.11.] - Day 9️⃣3️⃣
Original mother:
🌡️ 20.8°C - 26.4°C ☁️ Rh: 36% - 48%
💦 Top watered her with 2500ml of 10l filtered rainwwater with 3.5ml CalMag (1:2000) + 2 dissolved tablets of BTI proteins and 1 teaspoon of SF Nematodes to prevent & kill the fungus gnats.
New mother:
🌡️ 21.7°C - 29.3°C ☁️ Rh: 40% - 54%
- Nothing -
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📆 [28.11.] - Day 9️⃣4️⃣
Original mother:
🌡️ 19.5°C - 24.9°C ☁️ Rh: 39% - 46%
- Nothing -
New mother:
🌡️ 21.3°C - 28.1°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 57%
- Nothing -
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📆 [29.11.] - Day 9️⃣5️⃣
Original mother:
🌡️ 22.9°C - 25.4°C ☁️ Rh: 38% - 42%
💬 decreased exhaust fan power due to low humidity
New mother:
🌡️ 20.9°C - 28.5°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 56%
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📆 [30.11.] - Day 9️⃣6️⃣
Original mother:
🌡️ 20.6°C - 25.2°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 51%
💦 Top watered her with ~1950ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins and 1 teaspoon of SF-Nematodes to kill the fungus gnats.
New mother:
🌡️ 21.6°C - 28.3°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 56%
💦 Top watered her one with ~500ml of 10l filtered rainwwater with BTI proteins to prevent & kill the fungus gnats.
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📆 [01.12.] - Day 9️⃣7️⃣
Original mother:
🌡️ 22.2°C - 23.1°C ☁️ Rh: 39% - 44%
💦 Top watered each one with ~1950ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to prevent & kill the fungus gnats.
💬 I think she is ready to flip since she is showing a second preflower with many white hairs and the canopy is looking good in my opinion. I will change the light cycle to 12/12 either today or tomorrow.
New mother:
🌡️ 21.5°C - 26.4°C ☁️ Rh: 39% - 53%
💬 Topped her on the highest branches
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📆 [02.12.] - Day 9️⃣8️⃣
Original mother:
🌡️ 18.8°C - 23.1°C ☁️ Rh: 39% - 49%
💬 Changed light cycle to 12/12. Counting beginning of flower from tomorrow since they skipped their night cycle today.
New mother:
🌡️ 21.3°C - 26.3°C ☁️ Rh: 43% - 55%
🌞 Decreased light power from 60%/120W to 40%/80W. Lowered LED.
💬 Topped her again on the highest branches
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Original mother:
📆 [03.12.] - Day 9️⃣9️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 1️⃣
🌡️ 21.1°C - 24,4°C ☁️ Rh: 46% - 56%
💬 Applied LST on the highest branches
🌞 Increased light power from 40%/212W to 60%/318W. Raised LED to 30cm above canopy.
New mother:
🌡️ 20.6°C - 25.9°C ☁️ Rh: 44% - 55%
- Nothing -
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Original mother:
📆 [04.12.] - Day 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 2️⃣
🌡️ 21.1°C - 25.8°C ☁️ Rh: 47% - 54%
💬 Applied LST on the highest branches
New mother:
🌡️ 20.4°C - 26.2°C ☁️ Rh: 44% - 56%
- Nothing -
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Original mother:
📆 [05.12.] - Day 1️⃣0️⃣1️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 3️⃣
🌡️ 21.4°C - 25.8°C ☁️ Rh: 48% - 57%
💬 Applied LST on the highest branches
💦 Top watered her with 3000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to prevent & kill the fungus gnats.
New mother:
🌡️ 21.2°C - 25.3°C ☁️ Rh: 45% - 53%
💦 Top and bottom watered her with 500ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) + dissolved BTI proteins to prevent & kill the fungus gnats.
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Original mother:
📆 [06.12.] - Day 1️⃣0️⃣2️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 4️⃣
🌡️ 20.8°C - 25.1°C ☁️ Rh: 52% - 70%
💬 Did some "lollipopping" by removing some lower shoots
💬 Set the exhaust fan to more power since the humidity was too high
New mother:
🌡️ ~ 22°C ☁️ Rh: ~50%
💬 Moved to a new location
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Original mother:
📆 [07.12.] - Day 1️⃣0️⃣3️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 5️⃣
🌡️ 20.9°C - 24.2°C ☁️ Rh: 52% - 70%
💬 ToDo:
- Set the exhaust fan to more power since the humidity was too high
- Raise the lights
New mother:
🌡️ ~ 22°C ☁️ Rh: ~50%
- Nothing -
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Original mother:
📆 [08.12.] - Day 1️⃣0️⃣4️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 6️⃣
🌡️ 21.0°C - 25.9°C ☁️ Rh: 47% - 58%
💦 Top watered her with 2000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) + 1 teaspoon of dissolved BTI proteins to prevent & kill the fungus gnats.
💬 Set the exhaust fan to more power since the humidity was too high
💬 Raised the lights to 30cm above canopy.
🌞 Increased light power from 60%/318W to 80%/424W
New mother:
🌡️ ~ 22°C ☁️ Rh: ~50%
- Nothing -
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Original mother:
📆 [09.12.] - Day 1️⃣0️⃣5️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 7️⃣
🌡️ 20.4°C - 26.0°C ☁️ Rh: 47% - 55%
- Nothing -
New mother:
🌡️ ~ 22°C ☁️ Rh: ~50%
- Nothing -
💬 ToDo: Pruning
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📆 [10.12.] - Day 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 8️⃣
🌡️ 20.7°C - 26.4°C ☁️ Rh: 41% - 55%
- Nothing -
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📆 [11.12.] - Day 1️⃣0️⃣7️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 9️⃣
🌡️ 21.4°C - 27.1°C ☁️ Rh: 40% - 49%
💦 Top watered her with 2000ml of 8l compost tea brewed from 4 tablespoons of 0-10-0 Bat Guano for 24h in filtered rainwater with some sugar and IMO + 4ml CalMag (1:2000)
💦 Top watered her with 2000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000), 2 teaspoons of SF-Nematodes and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI against the fungus gnats.
🥣 Topdressed each plant with 4 table spoons of "Living Soil - Grow" (N-P-P+Mg=6-5-8+2) + 1 tablespoon of ultra fine basalt rock dust.
💬 Applied LST on the highest branches
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📆 [12.12.] - Day 1️⃣0️⃣8️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 1️⃣0️⃣
🌡️ 20.8°C - 27.1°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 53%
- Nothing -
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📆 [13.12.] - Day 1️⃣0️⃣9️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 1️⃣1️⃣
🌡️ 20.2°C - 25.9°C ☁️ Rh: 44% - 59%
- Nothing -
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📆 [14.12.] - Day 1️⃣1️⃣0️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 1️⃣2️⃣
🌡️ 20.5°C - 26.1°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 49%
🌞 Decreased light power from 80%/424W to 60%/318W because of yellow "bud" tips
💦 Top watered her with 4500ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI against the fungus gnats. Small drainage coming out.
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📆 [15.12.] - Day 1️⃣1️⃣1️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 1️⃣3️⃣
🌡️ 21.0°C - 27.1°C ☁️ Rh: 47% - 58%
- Nothing -
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📆 [16.12.] - Day 1️⃣1️⃣2️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 1️⃣4️⃣
🌡️ 20.1°C - 27.1°C ☁️ Rh: 40% - 60%
💦 Top watered her with 3000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI against the fungus gnats. Small drainage coming out.
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Hey, am i tripping or are these early hermies? Never had them in the flowers this early, could this be from too much light or slight underwatering? Or from bending the main stems and not giving enough recovery time b4 flower? (1 week)
Would you try again or start with new seeds?
Hello there
Your plants look nice don't worry to much we can get this taken care of really easy
I have had the same problem several times when I switched from florescent and hps to led.
When plants 1st start making there buds they still don't require that much light
What you are seeing is light damage from to much light. If you turn down the light just a small amount for about a weeknthen you should start to be able to ramp the light up more and more throught flower.
As long as you tune down the light now by the time the plant is ready for harvest that will disaper.
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📆 [17.12.] - Day 1️⃣1️⃣3️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 1️⃣5️⃣
🌡️ 21.2°C - 26.1°C ☁️ Rh: 46% - 57%
- Nothing -
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📆 [18.12.] - Day 1️⃣1️⃣4️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 1️⃣6️⃣
🌡️ 21.7°C - 25.5°C ☁️ Rh: 48% - 60%
💦 Top watered her with 3250ml dechlorinated tap water
🥣 Topdressed her with 3l of fresh homemade compost
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📆 [19.12.] - Day 1️⃣1️⃣5️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 1️⃣7️⃣
🌡️ 21.6°C - 26.2°C ☁️ Rh: 46% - 59%
💬 Defoliated some light deprivated leaves and removed all shoots below the scrog net.
💬 Installed a second scrog net to hold the canopy in place
🌞 Increased light power from 60%/318W to 80%/424W
💬 Raised the grow lights to 30cm distance from the highest plant tips
💦 Top watered her with 2250ml compost tea
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📆 [20.12.] - Day 1️⃣1️⃣6️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 1️⃣8️⃣
🌡️ 20.5°C - 27.3°C ☁️ Rh: 50% - 56%
- Nothing -
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📆 [21.12.] - Day 1️⃣1️⃣7️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 1️⃣9️⃣
🌡️ 21.1°C - 26.9°C ☁️ Rh: 45% - 58%
💦 Top watered her with 4000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI against the fungus gnats + Yuccah BAC wetting agent
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📆 [22.12.] - Day 1️⃣1️⃣8️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 2️⃣0️⃣
💦 Top watered her with 4000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI against the fungus gnats + Yuccah BAC wetting agent and 1ml/l BioBloom. Some drainage coming out
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📆 [23.12.] - Day 1️⃣1️⃣9️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 2️⃣1️⃣
🌡️ 19.9°C - 26.0°C ☁️ Rh: 47% - 59%
- Nothing -
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📆 [24.12.] - Day 1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 2️⃣2️⃣
🌡️ 20.3°C - 26.3°C ☁️ Rh: 45% - 57%
💬 Raised the grow lights to 30cm distance to the highest plant tips
💦 Top watered her with 2400ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI + SF Nematodes against the fungus gnats + Yuccah BAC wetting agent
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📆 [25.12.] - Day 1️⃣2️⃣1️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 2️⃣3️⃣
🌡️ 20.2°C - 26.0°C ☁️ Rh: 47% - 55%
💦 Top watered her with 3000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI + Yuccah BAC wetting agent
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📆 [26.12.] - Day 1️⃣2️⃣2️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 2️⃣4️⃣
🌡️ 20.4°C - 26.1°C ☁️ Rh: 50% - 60%
🥣 Topdressed the soil for the last time with ~6 table spoons of "Living Soil - Grow" (N-P-P+Mg=6-5-8+2) + 5 teaspoons of 0-10-0 Bat Guano
💦 Moistened the top soil with 1000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI + Yuccah BAC wetting agent
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📆 [27.12.] - Day 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 2️⃣5️⃣
🌡️ 20.5°C - 26.0°C ☁️ Rh: 50% - 60%
- Nothing -
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📆 [28.12.] - Day 1️⃣2️⃣4️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 2️⃣6️⃣
🌡️ 20.3°C - 26.5°C ☁️ Rh: 44% - 55%
💦 Watered her with 2000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI
🥣 Topdressed the soil with some limestone dust because of some signs of a calcium deficiency
🌞 Increased light power from 80%/424W to 100%/530W
💬 Raised the grow lights to 30cm distance from the highest plant tips
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📆 [29.12.] - Day 1️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 2️⃣7️⃣
🌡️ 19.2°C - 26.8°C ☁️ Rh: 45% - 52%
💦 Moistened the top soil with 500ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI
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📆 [30.12.] - Day 1️⃣2️⃣6️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 2️⃣8️⃣
🌡️ 19.8°C - 27.8°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 52%
💦 Watered her with 2000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI
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📆 [31.12.] - Day 1️⃣2️⃣7️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 2️⃣9️⃣
🌡️ 20.1°C - 27.8°C ☁️ Rh: 41% - 52%
💦 Watered her with 3500ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI
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📆 [01.01.] - Day 1️⃣2️⃣8️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 3️⃣0️⃣
🌡️ 19.2°C - 27.9°C ☁️ Rh: 43% - 52%
- Nothing -
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📆 [02.01.] - Day 1️⃣2️⃣9️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 3️⃣1️⃣
🌡️ 20.2°C - 27.9°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 52%
💦 Watered her with 3500ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI + 2ml/l of biobizz bloom
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📆 [03.01.] - Day 1️⃣3️⃣0️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 3️⃣2️⃣
🌡️ 19.2°C - 27.4°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 54%
💦 Watered her with 2000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI
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📆 [04.01.] - Day 1️⃣3️⃣1️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 3️⃣3️⃣
🌡️ 18.9°C - 27.6°C ☁️ Rh: 39% - 52%
- Nothing -
👃 The buds are starting to smell sweet & sour / fruity like grapefruit & grape, but also gassy and creamy like a sherbet strain
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📆 [05.01.] - Day 1️⃣3️⃣2️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 3️⃣4️⃣
🌡️ 19.2°C - 27.8°C ☁️ Rh: 39% - 49%
💦 Watered her with 3250ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI. Small amount of drainage water coming out.
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📆 [06.01.] - Day 1️⃣3️⃣3️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 3️⃣5️⃣
🌡️ 18.2°C - 27.7°C ☁️ Rh: 35% - 52%
💦 Watered her with 2000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI. Small amount of drainage water coming out.
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📆 [07.01.] - Day 1️⃣3️⃣4️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 3️⃣6️⃣
🌡️ 19.4°C - 28.8°C ☁️ Rh: 40% - 54%
💦 Watered her with 2750ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI.
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📆 [08.01.] - Day 1️⃣3️⃣5️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 3️⃣7️⃣
🌡️ 18.8°C - 28.2°C ☁️ Rh: 44% - 54%
- Nothing -
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📆 [09.01.] - Day 1️⃣3️⃣6️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 3️⃣8️⃣
🌡️ 19.5°C - 28.2°C ☁️ Rh: 41% - 54%
💦 Watered her with 1500ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI.
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📆 [10.01.] - Day 1️⃣3️⃣7️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 3️⃣9️⃣
🌡️ 20.8°C - 29.5°C ☁️ Rh: 37% - 50%
💦 Watered her with 1750ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI.
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📆 [11.01.] - Day 1️⃣3️⃣8️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 4️⃣0️⃣
🌡️ 20.6°C - 29.1°C ☁️ Rh: 35% - 49%
💦 Watered her with 3000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI.
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📆 [12.01.] - Day 1️⃣3️⃣9️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 4️⃣1️⃣
🌡️ 20.5°C - 29.1°C ☁️ Rh: 35% - 49%
💦 Watered her with 2000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI + some BioBizz Bloom
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📆 [13.01.] - Day 1️⃣4️⃣0️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 4️⃣2️⃣
🌡️ 18.3°C - 27.8°C ☁️ Rh: 41% - 49%
💦 Watered her with 2000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI + some BioBizz Bloom
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🌞📆🌺🌡️☁️💦💬🥣👃
💦 ~1.8l/day in week 18/19
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📆 [14.01.] - Day 1️⃣4️⃣1️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 4️⃣3️⃣
🌡️ 18.9°C - 27.3°C ☁️ Rh: 41% - 50%
💦 Watered her with 2000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI
👃 She smells amazing, like very sour mandarin/grapefruit and sweet minty gas but also skunky funky stinky. I can pretty much only smell this one plant when i open the tent. Best terps i have ever had the pleasure to grow.
💬 By the looks of it she could probably go another 3 weeks from here, while the other plants (Red Hot Cookies) should be ready in 7-14 days. I have not yet decided whether or not to harvest all plants together.
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📆 [15.01.] - Day 1️⃣4️⃣2️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 4️⃣4️⃣
🌡️ 18.1°C - 27.9°C ☁️ Rh: 41% - 53%
💦 Watered her with 3000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI
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📆 [16.01.] - Day 1️⃣4️⃣3️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 4️⃣5️⃣
🌡️ 18.3°C - 27.9°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 55%
- Nothing -
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📆 [17.01.] - Day 1️⃣4️⃣4️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 4️⃣6️⃣
🌡️ 19.2°C - 28.7°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 52%
💦 Watered her with 1000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI
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📆 [18.01.] - Day 1️⃣4️⃣5️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 4️⃣7️⃣
🌡️ 18.0°C - 28.1°C ☁️ Rh: 39% - 51%
💦 Watered her with 2500ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI + some BioBloom
🌞 Decreased light power from 100%/530W to 80%/424W to prevent foxtailing and preserve the terps
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📆 [19.01.] - Day 1️⃣4️⃣6️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 4️⃣8️⃣
🌡️ 16.9°C - 25.4°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 52%
💦 Watered her with 2000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 4ml CalMag (1:2000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI
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📆 [20.01.] - Day 1️⃣4️⃣7️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 4️⃣9️⃣
🌡️ 17.7°C - 26,5°C ☁️ Rh: 39% - 50%
- Nothing -
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🌞📆🌺🌡️☁️💦💬🥣👃
🌞 Week 22 / Flower week 8
📆 [21.01.] - Day 1️⃣4️⃣8️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 5️⃣0️⃣
🌡️ 17.3°C - 25.8°C ☁️ Rh: 40% - 49%
💦 Watered her with 3500ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 2ml CalMag (1:4000) and a teaspoon of Culinex BTI
👃 Smells unreal, not like weed at all...very sweet & sour grapefruit/mandarin candy with some skunky funkyness aswell. It´s even better than her looks. Definitely a keeper, loudest terps ive ever grown 🔥
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📆 [22.01.] - Day 1️⃣4️⃣9️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 5️⃣1️⃣
🌡️ 16.4°C - 25.1°C ☁️ Rh: 40% - 51%
💦 Watered her with 2000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 2ml CalMag (1:4000)
💬 Cut me off a nice lower branch for testing purposes
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📆 [23.01.] - Day 1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 5️⃣2️⃣
🌡️ 16.9°C - 26.7°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 52%
💦 Watered her with 2000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 2ml CalMag (1:4000)
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📆 [24.01.] - Day 1️⃣5️⃣1️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 5️⃣3️⃣
🌡️ 17.0°C - 26.7°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 56%
💦 Watered her with 2000ml of 8l filtered rainwater with 2ml CalMag (1:4000)
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📆 [25.01.] - Day 1️⃣5️⃣2️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 5️⃣4️⃣
🌡️ 17.4°C - 25.6°C ☁️ Rh: 43% - 59%
💦 Watered her with 2500ml filtered rainwater
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📆 [26.01.] - Day 1️⃣5️⃣3️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 5️⃣5️⃣
🌡️ 17.2°C - 26.0°C ☁️ Rh: 43% - 55%
- Nothing -
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📆 [27.01.] - Day 1️⃣5️⃣4️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 5️⃣6️⃣
🌡️ 17.1°C - 24.9°C ☁️ Rh: 44% - 55%
💦 Watered her with 1500ml filtered rainwater
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🌞 Week 23 / Flower week 9 (Diary is full, cant create more weeks)
📆 [28.01.] - Day 1️⃣5️⃣5️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 5️⃣7️⃣
🌡️ 17.6°C - 25.5°C ☁️ Rh: 44% - 54%
💦 Watered her with 3000ml filtered rainwater
💬 Got some foxtails going on. Couple more days til harvest
🌞 Decreased light power from 80%/424W to 60%/318W
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📆 [29.01.] - Day 1️⃣5️⃣6️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 5️⃣8️⃣
🌡️ 17.5°C - 25.6°C ☁️ Rh: 42% - 56%
- Nothing -
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📆 [30.01.] - Day 1️⃣5️⃣7️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 5️⃣9️⃣
🌡️ 17.7°C - 23.9°C ☁️ Rh: 45% - 52%
💦 Watered her with 3000ml filtered rainwater
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📆 [31.01.] - Day 1️⃣5️⃣8️⃣
🌺 Flower Day 6️⃣0️⃣
💬 I harvested the plant today. Im going to dry her with stems and leaves at 58% rh and 17 degrees celsius for around 2 weeks, then going for a dry trim. I have already cut off the small / fluffy lower buds fresh and froze them to make some semi live resin later (fresh ice o later/bubble hash) together with the dried trim/other fresh small buds from the whole harvest.
The smell is insane, very complex and strong. It is like very sour grapefruit & grape candy, sweet minty gas but also skunky funky/stinky. I could pretty much only smell this one plant when i opened the tent. Best terps i have ever had the pleasure to grow, thank you Ethos for creating this 🌞🔥💚
Im going to add a smoke/harvest review after drying.
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Smoked the first jay of this today after 5 days of drying and maaan, this tastes absolutely fantastic. It is really smooth and tasty already to my surprise, being nowhere near to finished drying. It tastes pretty much exactly like a fancy grapefruit hand soap smells but also like sweet and fruity like grape aroma, its very "oily", leaving a rich coating of sweet funky aftertaste in the mouth. At first the effect is uplifting on the mind and relaxing on the body, finishing off with a strong "stoned" effect in the body. This stuff got me really hungry immediately, smoking halfway through the first joint in the morning 🌞
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🌞📆🌺🌡️☁️💦💬🥣👃
Hey bud. How are your worms holding out? Did you any affects during growth that were worm related?
I'm having quite the trouble balancing out my nutrients because the worms/wormfood is quite difficult to get under control.
@Lerome, The ones that live in the substrate. I fed mine an occasional dessert consisting of a vegetable and fruit, thinking "what else are they going to eat?". Exactly, I have the same type of worms, red wigglers. Ah that's where I went wrong. I didn't concentrate on feeding the fungi and bacterias. I'll read up more about vermicultures and vermicomposting.
Nah, the PH was on key the entire time. The leaf burning issue was narrowed down to an excess of potassium (K) due to the worm castings and all the desserts I was feeding the worms. Without realizing the living soil was providing the plant with more nutrients it could handle, she was given BioBloom (P + K) with her feedings... as you can tell, she didn't like that.
@Spike_KCanG, hey bud, im not sure if i get your question right, are you talking about a worm bin or about those worms that live in the substrate? What are you feeding your worms with? The worms in my substrate are doing alright, im not actively feeding them they got to eat whats left there + some small leaves that i dont pick up from the soil surface. The types of worms im using are mainly feeding on bacteria and fungi or food that has been pre-composed by those, so what im doing is not feeding my plants nor the worms, but feeding the bacteria and fungi living in the soil.
Im having the feeling that your issue could be from a fluctuating pH since youre using an agent to control your pH which is in my opinion not needed in living soil. Living soil can regulate its pH on its own through the microorganisms and ion exchangement but you gotta have the right amount of basic ions from calcium and magnesium for that to be possible to happen, so i think what you may be having is a magnesium deficiency. I would recommend mixing a good amount of ultra fine basalt powder into your substrate to act as a pH buffer/regulator through the supplied ions.
@ThatGuyWhoGrows, Thx dude!
My goal here is to simulate nature´s way of growing, providing a mostly silicon based substrate in the deeper root zone to provide high levels of oxygen and water. The top root zone is where im providing most of the nutrition in an organic form to feed the microbial and fungal life which feed my plants.
Feel free to message me if you want to know more about what im doing or have any questions in general, ive seen you are doing your first grow, thats awesome! 😊
Lerome
