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hello! since my grow tent will be empty on saturday, i put new seeds in soil :) this time i decided to try Shining silver haze from royalqueenseeds. James, thanks alot for seeds!
I like to germinate direct in soil, last 18/18 seeds germinated perfectly, so i will stick to this method.
The setup stays the same
Homebox 1m2 grow tent
400w HID for vegetation
600w HPS for flowering
Hydrofarm radiant 6inch
Lumatek 250-600w digital balast
Prima klima 800m3 adjustable fan
Soil
utritient: plagron
This time i will try air pots for the first time (for final pots)
I will keep you updated how things goes :)
Last time i had fantastic result with royal gorilla. RQS rocks!!
URL to strain: https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/feminized-cannabis-seeds/121-shining-silver-haze.html
Girls are now 14 days old.
Still wattering only with watter. This week i will start to give them pure enzyme and power roots. In small dosage.
Nice progres in growth in just two days after transplant to bigger pots (see picture in weeks one)
I was reading alot about wattering the plants that grow in aipots. do you have any tips on wattering?it can get pretty messy. how often do you watter them?when twice per day, always with nutrients? are u sattisfied with airpots?was there any difference in yield?
Hey there so the air pots are alright, they function the same as many other air pruning pots, however they are one of the few who has such a tall and small diameter making them top heavy. I think a wider pot is better because of all the fibrous branching roots vs the 1 tap root. Regarding water if you want there to be the most perfect and even watering I'd suggest looking into a blumat, you can add nutrients and they're powered by gravity no electricity. Otherwise, i noticed my 1 gallon pots need watering almost every day once the plants have gotten decent sized they drink alot and the air dries the pot some too. Probably alternating the nutrient and plain water is a good way, unless you're feeding such a small amount that each watering is most likely alright also.
Good luck with the grow. ✌️
Girls are dooing fine after topping. I will give them few days than start LST.
The plant in the top right corner looks different than the other 5. I hope it is not a male plant.
There is big difference in height between flowers. Two of them have really long branches , the others are shorter.
I saw little burned tips on leaves. Dont know if this is from light or nutrients. I lift the light few cm.
Btw my grow tent was never so messy than now. Damn air pots :) i hope it pays off at the end
*****DAY34****
I added more soil to pots, removed more leaves. I was experimenting with removing all, some and none leaves and lower growth.
What is your oppinion on removing lpwer growth? Do you leave or remove it?
Day 35.
Same age, same strain, but different types. From small and bushy planta to big with long branches. I will try to compare how plants react to defoliation. Removing all, medium and almost none leavea and lower growth.
How do you like to trim them? Do you remove all the lower growth and leaves?
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Day 40
I removed alot of small growth and big fan leaves. I am amazed how well the plants react to heavy defoliation. They just got bigger and stronger every time. I guess in one or max two weeks i will switch to 12/12. I need to hurry up before the summer and heat kicks in
I really love it how great they recover after defoliation and small growth removal.
Last two weeks before flowering.
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So, this plant in the middle is cousing me problem with dropping leaves every day. She is wattered well and everythin. I will try to lower humididy. In the morning she was fine. Yesterday i gave her 1l of watter and the day before also.
We will see in the morning if she recovers. I wont watter her today.
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Today was the day to torture the plants again :)
I am testing different options, so, what do you think, which one will yield the most?
hello, i have problem with one plant. it keeps droping leaves every day, and when i give her watter, the next day in the morning it is ok again. than on the afternoon, leaves are down again. i doubt she needs that much watter. the soil is wet. will post picture in album
Hey Pixsna, great question. The main problem you have is overwatering , i can see this from the "puffy space" in between the veins of the leaves. The drooping and the curling from the base of the stem to the tip of the leaf are also signs of over water. To fix this, nothing simpler than just letting the medium dry out completely and follow a strict wet dry cycle. Careful to make sure you do this otherwise you could get more serious problems like root problems or even mold. Hope this helps ! 🚀
Same strains, same age, different type of defoliation.
Little or almost none small growth and leaves removal, medium and almost all.
4 of 6 plants are short and bushy, two have much longer branches.
This week i will switch to 12/12. Hot summer will be here fast, and this strain needs 11 weeks to finish.
Which one do you think it will produce the most?
Nothing special during this week.
I am strugling with this grow. They have some kind of deficiencies but i cannot figure out what is wrong. Lile i said previous week, my next buy needs to be ph and ec meter.
This weeks they made nice recovery, the green color is back and giving them the right nutrients dossage helped the recover. I have made mistake giving them way too low dosage. My mistake.
Because of this mistake, the yield will be much smaller, i guess. They had big potential in vegetation, but unfortunately i am bad in math and i gave them way too low dossage of nutrients.
If u see pictute of week 3 and now, the difference is big in positive meaning. I hope they will be ok
Another great progress was done during this week. Buds delope nicely. I am giving them terra bloom again. Lets hope for the best after all this problems.
Buds are really dense and smell awesome.
Today i removed all the lower popcorn buds
Nice progress this week. There is only one plant left with yellow leaves, looks like she wont recover fully. But i am not worried because she looks "happy" and the buds are developing very well.
I checked the trychomes on one plant today. She looks reasy to be harvested in 7 - 10 days, so i have flushed her.
Smell is amazing, buds are sticky, and rock hard.
In about 3 weeks they will be harvested.
Slowly but surely getting to the end :) tomorrow i will check other plants trychomes, it is hard to see how far the plants are under the HPS light.
But i think max 3 weeks, one plant will be harvested this week.
New week is here :)
One plant was harvested two days ago. Buds are super dense and have great smell. Yield is not for world record - i guess trimming the plant to the max, every week is not such a good idea. I defoliated everything, just 4 main colas were left. If u check previous weeks you will see about which plant i am talking about.
One more plant was flushed and will be harvested in next few days. Other 4 need 2 more weeks.
So here its what is left from this grow. Two plants were harvested, and one plant partly. Two buds were finished, the rest not.
3 plants are flushed, one still needs some time. Two - three weeks.
I never had a grow that were so different in flowering stage. Same strain that needs different period of flowering stage - finish.
Overall, buds are nice, sticky and dense.
So, this is the only plant left. All other plants were harvested.
After all the problems this grow is comming to an end. I really like RQS strains, the plants are really strong and even if u did the huge mistake like i didy they still are able to recover.
This was the hardest grow so far, but it was totally my mistake. I did not know why the plants are behaving this way. After few days i figured out i was giving them wrong dossage :/ but in the end everything was ok. Yield was small, but ok. We learned something new every grow :)
I love RQS strains!
Great setup =) airpots are and will remain a bitch to water. (Such a bitch that I won't use them anymore in flower) A tip, right now your soil is too low in the pots. If you put it all the way to the top the first 2 rows of closed holes "help" the water stay in the pot, (They really don't do so well)
I see barks in your medium so I assume it is a peat mix. This makes aipots trickier to use because those mixes get very hydrophobic when it's dry. To see that in action, fill a transparent cup with peat mix, let it dry out and water it from the top and see what happens. This is why you have to water very slow. The more hydrophobic your dry medium, the more water will run out the sides if it too much is poured on too quick.
Just water when the pots are light and follow a wet dry cycle. Go for 20-40% runoff and you can feed with every watering. That will be every 2-3 days with fully rooted airpots in my experience. YMMV
When the plants are at this stage, i.e. they have not rooted the pots, I don't have to water them for 10-12 days and they grow very vigorously
@Pixsna, Np, good luck with the grow 👍
Another thing I learned is to pack them tight when you prepare those pots. Get some moist peat/coco and pack up the holes on the sides good and tight, before filling in the center. The manufacturer actually recommends users to pack the medium a bit tighter in general. I packed super tight and had incredible roots the last time I used them. Some people are scared to pack tight, I say whatever- https://growdiaries.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/static/post/video/7325/13112_pineapple-chunk-critical-xxl_cnv.mp4
Another thing to consider is to obey the wet dry cycle less. I watered every 2 days because in the 3rd day it all gets bone dry and that's when the hydrophobic mix becomes a huge issue. Overwatering is almost impossible with these anyway. If I used them again I might water daily because the EC probably gets quite high when it's dried.
Short with all lower growth removed will harvest 🌲🚜 you the most. But o am just guessing.
Plants look real nice. 👍🏼
From your diary I have learnt
some new things. Nice comments and photos in your diary🏆
😄✌️🏼
And yes if the soil is very dry/ the watrr likes to run out of the holes. but if you are patient, and give small amounts until the hole can is empty, you will have good success. I love my Airpots, and wont change them
I don't know about your feeding and watering of course, but with the plagron nutrients a rule of thumb is that 1 ml/l adds about 100ppm. 5ml on top of my tap water brings me to about 750-800ppm. 5 ml dose will bring the PH from ~7 to ~6.4. So the full dose is not super strong. (1 - 1.5 EC depending on which conversion scale, I'm unsure in this case)
@BillMonroe, i dont give them that much watter. I forgot to change it in diarie. :)
Normally the plants in flowering stage are very thirsty, but not this one. I give them 1L per 4-5 days.
I lift the light 10cm two days ago.
Tomorrow i will remove all the small grow and may i will flush them too. Between week 2 and 3 small progress was made. I noticed the white hairs today. So they are not totally death :D
@Pixsna, np! Hmm, that is a possible approach but I'm not really sure, because it would depend on the runoff. For instance, if I were to water my 800 ppm mix and noticed the runoff was above 2000 ppm I would maybe do it. Otherwise it's too much of a hassle because it takes so much water to properly flush the peat.
I really have no idea about advice 😞. I see different plants are affected differently despite similar treatment, can't really tell what's going on because of the light color. If the 2L a day stat is accurate - I would say maybe there is not enough canopy to warrant such amounts of water added daily, but I'm not in your grow of course so it's really just a hunch. In this exact size pots I had to give about 3.5L of water every 2 days. That was only under 315 watts, but those plants were big and my tent was very full of foliage which all transpires the water bringing my room to 85% humidity in the peak days.
At any rate, it looks more like an environmental kind of thing rather than nutrient related, combined with maybe some individual differences between plants... E.g. One of the criticals I've grown didn't like being too wet and was droopier. One of the silver haze I'm growing can't handle the same light intensity as the other 3... maybe something like that is going on here.
Personally I would just let them dry out until the pots are light and the bottom leaves show loss of turgidity, see how long that takes, and then feed normally with a lot of runoff. But maybe that's bad advice hehe.
Hey Pixsna, nice work, the gorillas looked unreal 😍👍
I have a few questions because i have some problems with plagron lightmix.
Did you use plagron soil for your last grows and if yes, growmix or lightmix?
And how often did you feed them with the 5ml bloom and 1ml green sensation? every time watering like on their feeding schedule?
@Mrs_Larimar,
This comment was for royal gorilla grow and not for this one :) i know 1L is too much for such small plants.
Some say roots go towards humudity and the others that is better when the soil is dry :D
@Pixsna, 1 liter is way to much for a plant like this. your little ones will need 20-50 ml per day. my recommondation is to let the soil dry out for 7-10 days( depending how warm it is. and then starting with one cup of water for 2-4 days.. happy growing.
If you go on giving them 1 liter per day. its like standing in a swamp and the plant gets lazy . she dont have to look for waterand building less roots.
And!! overwatering bring alot of issues like pest and mold an rotten roots.
give them small amounts of water, so they have to look for water, and spreading the roots
@watchyoutubeTHRIVE,
Hello!Thanks!
Yes i used plagron soil, but after first 3 weeks. It was growmix. I used terra bloom and green sensation for every wattering. 5mlL of terra bloom and 1mlL of GS. I just followed plagron feeding schedule.
Google plagron feeding calculator.
I watter the plants every two days with 1L. (15l pots)
Definitely get the EC & PH metres. I dont know how I would manage without them. I even have spares.
I think your plants are going to give you some BIG buds.
💪🏽😁👊🏼
@Pixsna,
On my 1st grow I followed instructions on label. X amount of mils of nutes to X amount of water. Luckily I had an EC metre. I found the EC way too high. So you cant really go by label/info alone. Now I dont follow instruction amounts.
Grow 🌱 well
@Puffer_Bill,i will buy them for my next grow. Than i need to learn about PPM, how much they need in different stages of growth.
I never used one, i guess it will help me alot with nutrients dosage.
For now i have just followed feeding schedule.
@Mrs_Larimar, Haha that's cool miss , I don't know what using an air pot imply and how it's really works ! I've seen your last grow a in air pots ( and your actual ) and I also know that stick are using them 😊😄
Looking good ... Just got done harvesting a Northern Lights Auto & a AK-49 Auto myself. Currently waiting on my White Widow Auto to finish up. I wish you the same success.Good luck with the rest of your grow.
IMO.... the leaves look much better now than week 3.
Hopefully it will work out just fine. 😎🍀
Question... if I may please. How do you soil growers know how much nutrients to add? Is there a soil tester or is it done by a growth chart or just by leaf colour.
Thanks
@Puffer_Bill, u are right. They really look much much better. And the buds are getting nice, dense and big.
Normally i am just following the feeding schedule, but this time i really fu*ked up.
I don't know about your feeding and watering of course, but with the plagron nutrients a rule of thumb is that 1 ml/l adds about 100ppm. 5ml on top of my tap water brings me to about 750-800ppm. 5 ml dose will bring the PH from ~7 to ~6.4. So the full dose is not strong at all.
@BillMonroe, thanks for this info! I am feeding 1ml/L of pure zym and power roots and 5ml/L of terra grow.
Now i will start to give them 1ml/L of green sensation and 5ml/L of terra bloom.
U think i can add more? I never mesured ppm so i really dont know what are good values :/ i would really appreciate some help. Thanks again
Pixsna
