ROYAL DWARF AUTO

@CBDbusho, I'm extremely impatient so I generally do partial harvests. Its not usually more than a week or two apart for me but I personally havent seen many issues. I try to trim as little as possible though to stress the plant as little as possible.

@Denzul, Well the problems really started at the beginning of week 5 and whatever I have tried it did not really help but still the plant is growing and the buds are fattening:) Anyway, what do you think about partial harvest on auto? The main colas should be ready soon but the rest, not really.

@CBDbusho, I wouldn't be concerned to much. When you get towards the ends it's common to see leaves dying off as they've reached their life span. Especially during a flush this is actually what you would like. You want the plant to have emptied the nutrients from the soil and now simply want the buds stealing every last nutrient from the rest of the plant. The dead leaves during a flush is a sign your flushing properly and doing well. Plant has shifted focus to purely nugs. Its biologic resction as It is a last ditch effort from the plant to make attempt to be pollinated (which we know it wont be) but at this point she wants to make her nugs as big as possible to hopefully get some seeds and survive till next season. Leaves are no longer essential and she will ignore them till they die off. Hope this helps reassure you.

@CRiSPrGrow, well, I check the weight of the pot every evening and the plant drinks 1kg in 24h hence I water it with about 1l.

@CBDbusho, soil plus the spray is fine and you're right about over watering... i water 1/3 as much as you in a pot twice as big

@CRiSPrGrow,some of the leaves on main stems started to curl up as on the photo I will upload in a minute. Is it part of cal mag problem? It might be overwatering as I added 0,5 to the usual 1l per 24h yesterday to flush it a bit

@howie03, I think I’ve got the watering under control now. My square cloth pot is about 10l and weight is 1,6 with no plant. It is 2.6kg with my dwarf when the soil is bone dry and that’s the weight when I see the obvious signs of underwatering. Currently I’m watering 1l once a day because it drinks axactly 1kg of weight

@CBDbusho, My dwarf just drank 1 l every 2-3 days. Seems to be too much. Do you put nuts in your water every time? Could lead to nut excess in my opinion. What are the signs you relate to underwatering? If your plant has not enough water the leaves will hang down and get wishy-washy. After watering they will turn up again in a few hours ... You can see overwatering in my 1st diary an day 37 of my 1st lady. That needed 2 days to be cured with stop watering. On day 29 and 31 in your diary your plant looks overwatered to me. I measured my dwarf and it weighs with pot 2,6 kg (11 l filled with 8 1/8 l) and it's near to harvest. She will get 1l-1.5l tomorrow. Just enough until the water will come off at the bottom of the pot. That will last for 3 days. Another good method to avoid overwatering is to put your finger into the soil 3 cm deep. If your finger tip doesn't feel a little wet, time has come to water.

@growdoctordc, which 7$ moisture meter would you recommend? I started seeing an underwatering signs recently and decided to be more scientific with my watering. The pot of this size when dry weights around 1.5kg. The pot with the plant with signs of underwatering is 2,6kg and the pot starts to seep through the bottom at 3.1kg. I have also calculated that currently the plant drinks 0.8l per 24h. I would like to water it once a day at the evening and I think today I will top it up to 2.7l (slightly above underwatered 2.6l) and then add 0.6l at the evening to get me to 3.4l From the next day I would just do 0,8l every evening, how does it sound?:)

@growdoctordc,Well, yeah. Yesterday I had my first little problem and it was actually underwatering :) So far I was just topping up the soil with water every day about 0.3l and it worked until the rapid growth started and I added extra 19W of LED light really close to the plant. I’m switching now to 1-1.5l and I will be measuring the weight of the pot before next watering. What do you think ? when should I water? When I lost 3/4 of water previously added? Does it sound right or I should just wait for the leaves to drop every time?

@CRiSPrGrow,to be honest I’m not convinced but obviously I will try. I will have it delivered tomorrow. PS Just added todays photos. Tip burn and light green top leaves are visible there. Apart from that the flowers fattened in the last 2 days nicely and I had really rapid growth and water intake of 1l per day in a 9l pot in the last 10 days which seems a lot.

@CBDbusho, yeah i see it better now, it's cal mag deficiency - hope you get a chance to get control of it 👊

@CRiSPrGrow, the leaves are not becoming yellow only lighter green. It started from the highest branches but I think it spreads throughout canopy but only the very top still. It still can be because of too much light as the whole top is already much closer than manufacturers recimmended. I had some completly yellow leaves but these were at the very bottom and back of my cabinet with zero light penetration there (See the picture added a minute ago) I will have to check if there is any yellowing between the veins but I think no. I thought that it is normal that newer leaves at the top are lighter but it looks like it slowly spreads. The burnt tips spread down definiately hence it might have something to do with nutrition. I will get calmag from amazon quickly just in case. Also most of the petioles turned purple in week 6 it can be seen on photos but it can be normal for this strain. Tell me what you think, thanks

@Tkultranewb,I know what you mean but there is so many variables that you really have to learn from experience and read a lot about every stage of operation. I was truly surprised that it is so kind of complicated:) Feel free to ask precise questions when you stumble into problems. My main advice would be: If you can do not do micro grow:) If you have enough space, use at least 120cm tall cabinet or tent. Microgrows tend to be harder and the cost to benefit ratio will be always less favorable.

@CBDbusho, I understand but kinda rather know what not to do before so I don't lose my only one I've never bought seeds online and got from the best site seedsman from what I read and its the royal dwarf I just need to make sure it grows and flowers til I harvest it I can't keep paying the sky high prices they charge at dispensaries

@Tkultranewb,you will know most of the things before your second grow:)

@The_Projexx, No no, I’m not adding lights to prevent it from stretching:) I’m adding light to cover the corners of the grow cabinet where my plant will reach a blind spot of my main light soon. It’s all because of extremely limited height of my cabinet. That is why I was thinking about restricting light on hours. If that would reduce growth it would be perfect but if that would also extend the harvest time- no good as I’m going on holiday close to harvest and there will be nobody home to handle my plants. I will have a look at your GG diary, thanks

@CBDbusho, no matter how much light you add it isnt going to stop stretching for atleast 1-2 weeks , the plant is making space right now to form up flowers , it will stop soon . So if you bought lights in the hopes of making it stop growing like that you did that for nothing , in the sense that it wont stop the stretch however you will gain more weight on your harvest :D :D . In order to control a plants height you have to train it . You can look at my GG diary and it shows a pretty cool way to train your plants that isnt expensive at all :D :D :D I hope this info helps you understand the "why" abit more to your plants stretching and that it will stop soon :) Thanks for taking the time to respond . -Happy Growing!

@The_Projexx, So far I had no mayor problems. It seems to be great for a first time grower:) Although I’m slowly running out of vertical space, hence I’m adding 3rd supplemental DIY led light soon. The footprint is also already more than half of my space available. Hopefully the slow growth of my Swiss Dream auto cbd will work to my advantage and I will be able to have them together till harvest. Do you think that lack of CO2, scooped up by the dwarf could be one of the reasons of slow growth? Maybe I should increase extraction? But that would lower the temperature in the cabinet...hmmm

@CBDbusho, I measured my pot for you. 25x25x13 cm -> 8 1/8 litres with mix of 40% soil, 40% coco and 20% perlite.

@CBDbusho, My three dwarfs reached not more than 45 cm. I used a china LED panel and 5 x Phillips LEDs with 4000K for vegatition and switched to 2700K bulbs in flowering phase. That means 37Watts per ft². The pots where 9-11 l. In my first grow i did LST to one of my dwarfs and it seems that it has no influence to height. All dwarfs where between 40-45 cm. You can take a look to my actual dwarf in the 2nd grow diary. It will be harvested in 1-2 weeks, I think with 44 cm in soil. You can find nuts schedule in my diaries. In the first grow I used soiless mediums.

@howie03, Hi. I'm a bit worried that it will grow too tall, hence I'm doing a quite aggresive LST. What was the height of your dwarfs? My cabinet is less than 80cm tall and I'm using custom made, wide but not too tall cloth pots (only 12cm tall). I have also modified my Optic 1 LED light by removing the power adapter from the top of it, So it is much flatter and I gained extra 8cm space. Soon I will build a supplementary led light based on 27x 1W Bridgelux 380-840nm leds to get some more light from the sides.

@CBDbusho, I don't know if it is better or not to water them every day. I'm watering every 3-4 days. It's less work and maybe better to avoid wet feet and maybe moldy roots as roots. But I'm not sure 😕 Your girl looks already healthy so why to change something?! She doesn't look overwatered 😏

@howie03, I think I am watering about 1l per 3 days but I’m splitting this into 0.33l every day. Would that be better to do 1l and nothing for 3 days? I think, So far I had no issues and it is my first grow. Dwarf just started flowering:) Tying down have to work!:) It is around the beginning of week 5 and it is 17cm tall. If I would not spiral the main stem around the pot it would be 25-30cm already but you can’t be really sure as LST might actually encourage growth.

@CBDbusho, really not much space. maybe tying down will work 😏 I think at this size and temperature she will drink around 1 l every 3-4 days?

@Tkultranewb,well I know your pain. My first seed of Swiss dream CBD auto had a taproot coming and it died later after planting in soil. It happens sometimes even if you are really careful. Probably you damaged it or overwatered it. My second seed of Swiss dream wasn’t much better, it survived but the root was growing horizontally just a 1inch under the surface which probably led to a general underdevelopment of the plant. Although my first ever grow (Royal dwarf auto) was a huge success. Just harvested it and a total dry weight might be 3 ounces. And that is from a single plant grown in a cabinet just about 31inches tall. Try another seed man, Royal dwarf is really great and the high is a nice sativa type head high. Good luck

@growdoctordc, would the one which do not need any batteries be suitable?

@Mrs_Larimar, thanks for the VPD chart, that will be really usefull. It is a shame that my second plant: Swiss dream auto is running behind and I will not be able to balance the conditions for both plants