Special Kush #1

First grow I did, I grew two plants in a 2x2 closet. Veg for 5 weeks, and about 25cm tall when I flipped. Doubled in size, and gave about 120g of bud. Second grow I did, I grew one plant in the same closet. Veg for 10 weeks, and 30 cm tall when I flipped. Doubled in size, and gave 200g of bud. Both plants grows were done with a scrog line and LST to fill out the entire 2x2 space. That was using a 600W Meizhi light. It pulled 252watt from the wall. I recently got a 300W Meizhi light, which pulls 110watt from the wall. Now I am going to grow 4 Special Kush #1 plants in the same closet. I am not going to be using a scrog line for this grow. I had multiple open packs of 11L coco blocks, which I just hydrated and dumped into my soil bucket. But I think I might have gotten a little to much coco into the mix, compared to soil. Probably closer to 50/50 coco/soil, than the 20/80 coco/soil I have grown in before. This probably just means I have to water more often here in the start. I am going to fix the soil mix before I transplant into 3gal pots. 4 seeds were placed in paper towels. After 12 hours: The paper towel felt almost entirely dried out, oops. I rehydrated it, and have been looking to it more often since then. After 24 hours: 1 seed was showing root, so I planted it. After 32 hours: 1 more seed was showing root, so I planted it. After 72 hours, the last two seeds have still not sprouted. They were showing no signs of cracking open themself. After searching around, I found several threads with advice to gently crack open the shell. Using a pair of tweezers, I did just that, before putting it back between wet paper towels. Update: Cracking open the shell did nothing. I wish I knew if this was just two bad seeds, or if it was because of the dry periode. So at day 6 from the original batch, I put two new seeds into germination.: After 12 hours, I can already see one seed showing signs of opening. After 24 hours, the seeds were both showing root, so I planted them.

Germination did not go very well, and after sprouting the seedlings are growing very slowly. The first two seeds to sprout had their shells still stuck on tight, and I had to manually remove the shells. The first seed grew two very deformed first leaves, but I have no idea if that was caused by the stuck seed shell, the drying out doing germination, or just a bad seed. Update: I have no idea how I am going to do this grow now. The fact that all the seeds sprouted on different days, over almost 2 week, mean none of them are at the same stage of growth. I would have liked to be able top them all at the same time, so I am wondering if it is worth it to just wait and cut off more growth of the oldest seedling in a weeks time.

Starting week 3. Going to transplant to two larger plants and keep the other to in their first pots untill they are a little bigger. Note: I am a colossal idiot.. Been watering from a spray flask I also use for growing Cat Grass... Don't bother to pH fix for the barley, so I forgot to do for my seedlings.. Despite watering with water at pH of 8, they look healthy. But I guess I can attribute some of the slow growth due to wrong pH balance. Update: So the two large plants have been transplanted.. Did not go very well, both of them was rather hard to get out of their pots; and a little worried how much damage I managed to do to the roots, when pushing them lose from a sigular hole in the bottom of the pots. A few days after the transplant, and both the plants are showing signs of overwatering. I watered after the transplant; so there is nothing to do but wait now. I wanted to top later than I have done previously, because I am going to be growing 4 plants and it might be hard to move around late flower; so I need to be able to reach the back two pots for watering, without branches getting in the way. However, with the possiblity (quite likely) of transplant shock, and with the addition of signs of overwatering, I don't want to add even more stress to the plants. So I am going to wait until they no longer appear to be overwatered.

I am having more trouble with this grow, than my previous two attempts. The larger plants was transplanted last week, and I have now topped them and pruned some of the lower growth that would be in the way of watering doing flower, when I can not just take them out of the grow room. The smallest plant.. I completed fucked doing the transplant :( I have had a lot of problems getting the other three plants out of their pots; ending up having to use a blunt knife to loosen the dirt from the sides of the pot.. I tried to use the knife immediately on the last seedling, but somehow I ended up losing the bottom 1/3rd of the root system / dirt of the pot. It was smaller than the other plants, but showing a lot more roots going out the bottom. Which is why I choose to transplant it now, rather than wait. Edit: I have been doing dry transplants previously, without problem. Having a dry medium seems to pull away from the sides of the pot, but this time it wasn't enough. When I couldn't get the plants out after several minutes of trying, I tried to wet the dirt hoping it would loosen the plant from the sides. Neither option worked. I have transplanted several plants from these same clay pots, with a dry medium without problem; so I am not entirely sure what is going wrong this time. For next time I am going to stop using clay pots, and just get some regular plastic pots; that I can just cut up if push comes to shove :)

My original plan was to flip to 12/12 after 5 weeks of vegetation. However, with the problems with germination, two of my plants are way behind schedule :( One has just been topped. The other is just looking so weak and sad; although it still has a healthy look to it, I don't want to stress it out by topping it. If all 4 plants looked as seed 1 and 2, then I would probably be flipping the light schedule next week. But as it looks now I don't really know what I wanna do. Two larger plants have been placed directly under the Meizhi 300W light. The other two plants will not get light directly from the Meizhi, but I have a 26watt TLED from secret Jardin, The youngest plant will not be topped.. Just going to see how a plant grows without being topped.

Light schedule has been changed to 12/12. Seed 1: 25cm tall Seed 2: 30cm tall Seed 3: 15cm tall Seed 4: 25cm tall Seed 4 has not been topped. Since it was small and thinner than the other plants, I choose not to top it. Now it has the right hight compared to Seed 1 and 2, so I am just going to let it be and use this to learn how the plant grows under normal conditions (Not having a stupid human cut off it's top ;)) I have tried to even out the canopy. The pot of seed 1 has been raised 5cm, and the pot of seed 3 has been raised 15cm. I have also started adding Nutrients this week. I should be providing 3 times the amount of Part A for a plant entering flower, but since I am just starting adding the nutrients this week, I am going to do it incrementally.

Second week of 12/12 Seed 1: 45cm tall Seed 2: 50cm tall Seed 3: 30cm tall Seed 4: 50cm tall Seed 3 has been raised on a platform to get on the same level as the other plants. I might have underestimated how much space the plants would take up when the entered flower, so my grow room is a little tight for space. It appears that when flipping to 12/12, the cannabis plant wants to get as many tops (stems) into direct light. This has caused the grow of branches growing from lower nodes, to be fast and lanky. I have included pictures that show how some branches have 5-10cm of deadspace between nodes. Which is obviously extremly ineffecient for an indoor grow in tight space. My previous grows utilized a scrog line. By using the scrog line to keep the plants low and spread them out across a wide area, hidden nodes get direct light already doing vegetation. This appear to allow the plant to grow more slowly, and with a closer spread of nodes. Which in the end would provide a higher yield. OR maybe, the lanky branches is because I am using 110watt for flower, instead of 250watt in my previous grow.

Third week of 12/12.. The plants are now fully in flower. White pistils shooting up on every cola. I did however remove ~20 total branches from seed 1-2, that were not showing any signs of flower yet. Seed 1: 65cm tall Seed 2: 68cm tall Seed 3: 40cm tall seed 4: 80cm tall Seed 1 and 2 appear to be experiencing a little nitrogen deficiency, will increase amount of Part A in next feeding. Seed 4, the untopped plant is growing way to tall, if it continue to grow taller, I will have to bend the top to grow sideways instead. I don't know what is going on with seed 3. It is hardly growing, and is barely showing signs of begining to flower. These four plants are really sitting tight together in my grow room. So, I hope this is a strain that is no picky with having neighbours. At the start of this grow, I bought a lux meter. Since I could not find any decently priced par or lumen meters. I have seen it mentioned that a lux meter is not accurate for a blue/red LED. However, I do not have anything better to measure with. This is the reason the LED light is now at 10cm.. Way closer than the 25cm I was doing on my last grow. Since the light produces 35-40k lux at 10cm. Update: Seed 4 continuous to grow. It had grown to 85cm, so now I have bent the top cola down. Seriously, that is a bendy stalk. I bent the stalk so the top was pointing down. 5min later, I can already see the plant trying to correct it self and go upwards again. Heliotropism is cool to watch.

I was still seing signs of of Nitrogen Deficiency [https://www.growweedeasy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/nitrogen-deficiency-yellow-leaf-sm.jpg]. So I increased the amount of Big Plant Science: Part A. I have read that red / purple stems could be a sign of Potassium Deficiency, and since I was going a bit light on Big Plant Science: Bud Explosion, I have now increased the amount in this weeks watering. The lower leaves now appear to lose color between vains instead of the leaves yellowing entirely from the start. This could be a sign of Magnessium Deficiency, and I have just been out to buy Big Plant Science: Aroma Boost, which contains Magnessium. Going to start adding it to the water from next week. Example 1-2: Light green / yellow growth, on top colas on branches hidden from direct light. I am mostly just going to ignore this, and use popcorn buds to try my hands on making Ice bubble Hash.

The problem I am having is persisting. And I am starting to worry. It is currently 6 days since I last watered, and the dirt is still showing / feeling very moist. I thought the problem I was having was one of or a combination of the following deficiencies: Nitrogen, Potassium and Magnessium. After increasing the amount of nutrients last week, nothing changed and even more leafs are affected now. I have yet to have a watering where I added the additional Magnessium, but due to the fact I only water every 7-8 days I need to be sure of the problem now, before to much growth end up dying. Update: I have now given water to Seed 1, 2 and 4. No Nutrients this time; I am going to believe that I have a nute lockout, due to overfeeding Nitrogen. Hopefully this is the correct answer, and my plants will stop losing more leaves. Seed 1 was dropping leaves like crazy. None of the plants were droopy, and the dirt still felt moist a knuckle down, so I thought they didn't need water. Seed 1 and 2 had gone 9 days without water. Seed 4 had gone 12 days without water. But, other than the leaves losing color and wilting like in the pictures, they didn't appear to be suffering from underwatering. Seed 3 was last watered with the Seed 1 and 2, but it is smaller than the other two, and the pot still weights more. It is however, the one who looks to be doing the best in term of resin production. The upper leaves, sugar and fan, are absolutely covered in trichomes. Hoping I didn't screw up to badly with seed 1, 2 and 4. But in the end, anything that aren't top buds is going to be used for masking bubble hash. Plants have a really nice sweet and fruity smell

Started feeding again. Seed 1, 2 and 3 all seem healthy from a week without nutrients. There have been less progression of the dying leaves. Seed 4 is doing worse. Every fan leaf seem to now be wilting and dying starting from the tips of leafs. Suger leafs are not affected.

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Seed 1 and 2, might have experienced underwatering two weeks in a row. I have been watering every 7 day. I had misremembered when I last watered, and ended up going two days over before remembering to check my calendar. Leaves were hanging and dropping off at this point. There are some wilting of leaves starting from the lower part of the plants, not sure why they are wilting. I believe there is also some phosphorus deficiency, but harvest should be comming up in like 2 weeks, so I am not sure there is anything I can do at this point. Seed 3 is loaded with trichomes. Seed 4 has a monster top cola. (0.5l soft bottle for size. It is right next to the cola) They all smell really fucking nice. Like fruity tic tacs.

The seed info list this as a 7-8 week strain. I am now in week 7 of flower and have stopped adding nutrients. The trichomes on fan leafs are mostly Amber. The trichomes on sugar leaves are probably 50% Amber, and the trichomes directly on the cylaxes are starting to see some Amber, but still have some clear crystals as well. I am not sure yet when I will be harvesting. I only really have time doing the weekend, so it would either be at the start of week 8 or start of week 9.

Going for the full week 8. Doing week 7 I saw Seed 2 leaning over more than usual. When I took it out of the grow room, to see what the problem was, one of the main branches was falling over and the entire plant also looked like it was about to fall over.. As such I am not going to take the plants out of the grow room anymore, afraid that they will fall over and snap before they are completly done. the day before harvest, I am going to turn off the lights, giving the plants ~36hours of darkness.

Harvest done! Wet weight: Part 1) 248g of top buds, those most mature looking. Part 2) 502g of lower buds, popcorn buds and sugar leafs with a lot of crystals. Part 1 will be hang dried and then cured. Part 2 has been put into the freezer and I will try my luck with doing some homemade ice-bubble hash. Update (3days): I have started putting buds into jars for curing. When the buds feel dry to the touch and squeezing I put them into jars. I find it extreamly hard to judge when buds are ready to be cured; even when buds feel cumbly, after a few hours in the jars it will be wet again. I am going to be keeping the buds in the jars, but opening up very frequently and for long periods. Before cutting down the plants, there was a really nice sweet fruity smell. After hanging part 1 up for drying, the smell become less apparent; only the buds from one of the plants currently has a tint of the fruity smell in the jars, while the other have a very hay like smell. The smell is still there on touch. Update (~2weeks): The jar containing the buds from seed 1 has the most amazing sweet fruity smell. The rest of the jars don't quiet have the same smell when opening the jars, but they seem to be getting better. When pulling apart a bud, the smell is already there. Smoking it taste like it smells, except that it is combined with a sort of woody taste. Update (~4weeks): One month of curing. The entire batch seem to have matured past the hay smell. There is a very nice "cannabis" smell, with a sweet, fruity or citrus smell to set it apart of my previous grow of Northern Light. The buds are dense and sticky. More so than the yield from my previous two grows. Really like smoking this strain. Also note: I have chosen to input the yield as a single plant, so the gram/watt is for the entire grow and therefor comparable to my other grow diary.