🌿 Wurlz F1 Hybrid Auto

Very light top-dressing, watered in with a 1/2 cup of watered down aerated light fertilizer tea (using same nutes). 0.03125 gal = 1/2 cup She's coming along. The weak tea maybe could have been even weaker 😕, but I they'll get over it. They were all due for a drink so they got a decent flush to help wash out whatever I did.

with el-cheapo pH/EC/PPM meter in hand, our steadfast hero prepares to enter the dragon's den to save the fair maiden... Lighting=20 on 4 off, blue veg lights on

Just water this week

1Tbsp Dr. Earth 4-6-3 top-dressed, massaged in, and watered down with 1 quart of pH 5.8 de-chlorinated, carbon filtered water. I added a cheap Vick's warm air humidifier in front of my oscillating fan, halfway through the week. Temp/RH much better now... not perfect but as winter approaches, the basement temperature will drop by about 10 degrees (typically) which should improve the VPD in the Basement Grow Zone (BGZ). I've brought BGZ VPD down from 1.7-ish to 1.1 or so. The four sensors are: 1: BGZ @ eye level 2: BGZ @ canopy 3: BGZ @ knee level IN: Main Floor Living Space @ waist level VPD Calculator and Reference: https://www.omnicalculator.com/biology/vapor-pressure-deficit

Coming along nicely. A bit of a slow start due to my own newb-liness. My overall plan this grow cycle is to let grow naturally with limited manhandling, so I can get a decent baseline which can inform my future grows for this cultivar. There is no point in mucking about with unknowns until you know em, ya know?! With the new humidifier comes better data collection! Created a pivot table in my Google spreadsheet to better organize and present the data I'm collecting. Santa bringing new humidifier and lights before Thanksgiving.

Another new week and she's still alive! W00T! Performing the very lightest of LST just to keep her exposed in the center. I've decided that for improved workflow in the garden, I'm keeping my 5gal bucket of aerated water at a low pH; around 3 or so. Why? I find that scooping a few cups of the low pH water into a pitcher and topping the pitcher off with tap water to bring it up to the ideal 6-ish range is fast and easy. In case of passing the pH target I just pour some water from the pitcher back into the bucket, add more tap water to pitcher - just add water... literally.

The new grow lights won't arrive in time to do this lady much good. It will be interesting to compare under-powered vs properly lit grows. Update: New lights are here!! 4ea SZHLUX PT-1800 online, and I've got 4 more waiting for another circuit to be run. The older weaker lights will be used for cloning and seedlings around the grow space. I like how I can arrange the lamps in different ways. I think I want to add 2 more to the cluster, for a 5 lamps X 180w each = 900watt 'cone-of-sunshine' arrangement for deep canopy penetration (vs the 3x180 = 540watt 'teepee-of-light'). I really like the idea of giving my ladies the full 9 (9-hundred watts, that is). ...OR... Maybe it'd be better to go the 1-plant=1-lamp route along the walls. There'd be plenty of overlap in the adjacent light cones to provide decent side-light canopy penetration... maybe?! What are your thoughts on possible arrangements of 8ea of these lights in a roughly 6'x12' corner of a basement?

Even though my Wurlz didn't get the best start, I really do like the form she takes. The main cola and other branches form a pretty nice canopy on their own with minimal fuss. Right now she looks like a dozen or so nice buttons plus the main cola. She seems to be loving the new lights, and I'm watching closely for stresses the higher PPFD and DLI may induce. After playing with the new lights, I've set them to 14" above the canopy which provides: PPFD: 700-ish Lighting: 20/4 DLI: 40 or so... maybe a bit over. 😊

This is one dense dwarf of a plant. Definitely a shower, not a grower. I think the final result is gonna be pretty nice tho. After tucking leaves ( I should defoliate) and moving buds around, my fingers have a soothing mellow 'brown' smell of maybe caramels and chocolates. Persimmon maybe? Def much better than the cat-piss smell of the schwag at the local dispensaries!

with the trim and broken branch, should I call this a Harvest week? LOL! I'm calling the Ounce+ trim and broken branch freebies and not counting towards the final harvest. SHHH!!! It's out little secret! 😉 Updated data pic with latest dashboard layout. It's not perfect, but I think it is better. I'm seeing lots of cloudy and some amber in the closeups on my phone - gonna need to figure out image stabilization on that infernal thing. Anyway, probably gonna give her the axe in the morning.

Closeups showed a fair bit of cloudy and amber, so chop chop chop goes the axe. I pulled an even 28 grams from her earlier, plus the 119grams from the harvest is 147 grams of well trimmed bud on the drying rack - wet-trimmed with enough stem to handle and no massive stalks or leaves that is 5.25 Oz which should dry and cure down to roughly... huuurrmmm... 1.3-ish Oz (36-ish grams) when done. Given the rough start, I'm quite pleased. When I re-run this strain I expect that I'd be able to easily triple the current harvest. It will be fun to watch the side-by-side grow data populate over time. RANT Why doesn't GD provide anny sort of proper dataviz? Not like it's hard or anything - I built my data collection and visualization using stone knives and bear skins while trapped in 1930s New York fer crying out loud! How about an API we can POST/GET. ...aaaaand... while I'm at it, the grow space should be it's OWN diary with specific grows as child records of that space, and weekly diary entries as child records of that.. A little bit of simple database relationship planning goes a long way, people! /RANT Sorry, that was 'Yester-Durp' ; he was a 30+ year data dork, now retired 😏. He slipped loose and grabbed the controls for a sec but is now once again safely restrained 😳. Update: I noticed that some growers have a thing for root-ball-pr0n so I got a little dirty and took / posted some root-nudes.😜