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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
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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!
Pixsna
