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Three seeds were started in Rapid Rooters in the windowsill. Used plain bottled water until they germinated and a root was seen emerging from the Rooter. I then moved them to their DWC bubbleponics set up in the grow tent with lights scheduled to be on 18 hours per day. All but one germinated but we put her in a bucket anyway just in case and have been top - watering that one. Put water in buckets higher than normal, touching the baskets so that the clay pellets stay moist this week as the baby roots grow. Nuted well-water with General Hydroponics based on the week 1 schedule on GrowWeedEasy, Also used 1 tsp of hydroguard per bucket as well as recommended amount of Calimagic. Ph'd up to around 6.0. Each bucket holds about 3 gallons of water usually and I use that as my basis for measuring nutes even though the buckets are more full this week (so nutes are a little dilute). Each bucket has an air stone in it, but no top watering paraphernalia, as I just check them once or twice a day to make sure they aren't dried out until the roots grow down. There are grow baskets in the lid of each bucket and I seat the Rapid Rooter in expanded clay pellets.
Week 1 went well and I moved the plants to their buckets this week. Small sprouts on all but one Think Big. I went ahead and moved the other rooter to the bucket anyway and will continue to top water a couple of times a day.
Great growth on 2 of 3 seeds. Roots visible and happy green leaves. Ph went way up through the week and was over 7 when I checked, so this time when I mixed my nutes I did not pH-up to 6.0 like last time. This time, I left the pH where it was (between 5.4 and 5.6). I'll check the pH in the morning and adjust if needed. Lights still on 18/6.
The one seed that didn't make it was due to user error. I was not consistent on top-watering this time and one of the babies dried out. The other 2 had roots that were long enough when I put them in the buckets I guess. Next time I'll wait until they are an inch or so tall before I put them in the buckets.
Interesting, one of the leaves on TB 1 is curled up oddly.
Nutes:
Week 3 from growweedeasy.com autoflower schedule for the General Hydroponics Trio + CaliMagic
https://www.growweedeasy.com/high-yield-bubbleponics-technique#nutrients
Think Big is doing well with dark green leaves and great roots as well. Checked the pH each morning, had to pH down a couple of times until it stabilized within range after a couple of days. Did not change the nute water today, will do that on Wednesday or so when they drink down a little more. If it ain't broke and all... This time I am going to fill the buckets a day or two before the change to see if the pH stabilizes earlier in the week.
Pulled off the one odd deformed leaf from last week, like a little tumor. Everything else looks great!
When I do change the nute water this week, I'll put in week 3 nutes.
What a great amount of growth this week! Super bushy plant so far. I changed the nute water yesterday and put in week 4 of the General Hydroponics Trio Floraseries, Calimagic, and Hydroguard. I used the recommended amounts from growweedeasy.com for week 4.
Hopefully the water will have a good pH all week, didn't have to adjust this time I think because I filled the buckets a few days before I did the water change.
I'll probably do some LST this week on these girls, maybe it can wait until next Sunday.
Looking good Think Big! Nice root balls on these girls and they have responded well to the low-stress training I did on Thursday. I'm pretty sure they have flipped to flower at this point, I have some close ups of the tops of the colas.
Still following the nute schedule from growweedeasy.com and it seems to be working wonderfully. I pinched off a few fan leaves after these photos were taken to open them up a bit.
These ladies are looking great, and got a haircut this week. The root balls are awesome, and everything looks healthy, but I've been having some issues with heat and humidity in this tent. One of my other plants got root rot this week in the same tent, so I am doing a full schwazze on all of them. At this stage of flowering, I find removing all of the fan leaves opens up the bud sites to a lot more light and airflow, and as long as the plants look healthy I figure they can handle the stress.
What beautiful flower growth on these Think Big plants from Dutch Passion! They have responded really well to the defoliation I did last week, and you can hardly see through them again! The buds have grown and are fattening up already. I can't wait to see what these babies are going to look like in a couple of weeks. There are already trichomes forming and I'm getting a nice fruity smell when I rub them between my fingers, so I'm really excited about how the terpenes develop on this one.
These two are looking lovely and stacking well. I can't wait to see how things go as they fatten up. The roots are happy, and the plants seem to be responding really well to LST and defoliation. You can hardly tell I did it two weeks ago!
Changed the water a couple times this week, Saturday was the most recent and I put in week 8 nutes from the same schedule I've been using.
The smell is lovely, can't wait to toke on these girls!
Super happy with how these ladies are progression. They are fattening up and getting really sparkly. The only bad news this week is I got some black worms in my roots. Turns out it was drain fly larvae, I saw one flying in the tent, so I got these mosquito dunks based on a reddit post I found about it. I put an eighth of a tablet into each of my buckets this week and so far it hasn't seemed to damage the plants and I haven't seen any more worms. I can't wait to see how these girls chunk up as they continue to flower!
I'm really surprised that these ladies are ready already, but the trichomes don't lie! Dutch Passion says this one should take the full 13-14 weeks to fully ripen into their biggest buds, but I don't love the body high as much so I don't want all of my trichomes to be amber. As you can see in the photos, these ladies are nicely ripened and the leaves are already entering senescence, so it is time for final defoliation and flushing. I went ahead and removed all of the yellowing and fan leaves and put them in plain water with hydroguard to flush for a day or two. I'll start trimming these ladies this week and update next week with my harvest results, but it looks like I'm going to get some great weight out of these two plants.
Loved these plants. The buds are dense and heavy, and supported themselves. The plants each have a slightly different smell, one is a little skunky and one is sweeter. I'm interested to see how the taste changes as she cures up. Right now she tastes clean and herbal, sweet on the back end, but still pretty green. 15 oz dry weight is hard to beat!
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