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I have germinated Fast Eddy Automatic CBD from Royal Queen Seeds with another auto strain. Fast Eddy germinated but I guess her tap root got stuck in the seed shell and it developed stem before tap root, and I guess I damaged it because it's detached from the seed when I was trying to grab it :(
Update: I was wrong, Fast Eddy has survived! 😀I have had no hope for her so I planted her with the other strain into the same 7 gal pot with 5 gal soil. I will separate them next days so our little Fast & Surviver Eddy can take the whole space :)
I have to be away from day 3 to day 8. The is soil is still moist and I hope she'll be ok until I get back.
Soil: Biobizz lightmix
Pots: 7 gal fabric pots with 5 gal soil
Tent: 80x80x180 cm (2.5'x2.5'x6')
Veg Light: MH - GE Kolorarc 93029234 - 400W - 26000 lm - 7500K
Flo Light: HPS - GE Lucalox 97240 - 400W - 56200 lm - 2000K
Tip: As I know, dissolved oxygen amount in the water is so important to keep microorganisms alive. It's crucial especially if you grow in soil with organic nutrients. So I always aerate my water for at least 12 hours before giving it to plants.
Day 8 - I'm back and everything seem ok except the soil is really dry. I have separated girls so Fast Eddy will be able to own her space . Watered with plain water.
Day 10 - Slightly watered with compost tea (micro mix & brewed worm casting+bat guano). Lowered the light and raised power a bit (about 300w)
Day 13 - Watered with compost tea.
Day 15 - She looks nice and healthy. Watered with compost from last week.
Day 17 - Watered with compost tea. I got a humidifier so it's easier to manage RH now.
Day 18 - Started LST. I don't have plant twist tie so I'm gonna use teflon tape which is perfect for this and clothes pegs.
Day 19 - Just PH'd & aerated plain water. I have always watered partially (only around the main stem) so far since she is in a big pot for her current size.
Day 20 - Watered with the new nutrient mix. 0.5 l. Defoliated just only one fan leaf blocking newborn nodes.
It's supposed to be the last week of vegetation and everything seems just great so far 😊
(Update: Just turned into the first week of flowering :)
End of the week: She's becoming a big girl :) Nicely stretched along the week. I have experienced pH fluctuation first time and understood how important it is. I will be much more careful about pH adjusting for next weeks.
Day 22 - Watered with 1 l. fresh compost tea at the end of the day. I added molasses and G.O Grow to the tea this time (My recipe is below). Also made a light defoliation only on the main stem.
Day 23 - She just started to show flower pistils. Wow, that was fast! 😁
Day 24 - Switched to HPS bulb. Watered with 1 l. aerated nutrient mix (1.75ml/l Root plus+1.75ml/l Seaweed+1ml/l Grow) + bat guano. Also applied foliar.
Day 25 - Keep going with very selective defoliation. It was a rainy day here and I collected a bucket of sweet rain water at ph 6.8 😋
Day 27 - Watered with 1 l. aerated nutrient mix (1ml/l CalMag+1.5ml/l Root plus+1.5ml/l Seaweed+1ml/l Bloom+1ml/l Bud). CalMag contains N enough so I didn't add any Grow nutrient. PH'd with baking soda.
Day 28 - Foliar spray with 1.75 ml/l Cal-Mag solution.
Compost tea recipe:
10 ml/l dry worm casting
5 ml/l dry bat guano
2ml/l G.O Root plus
1.75 ml/l G.O. Seaweed
0.25 ml/l AN Sensi Calmag Xtra
0.25 ml/l G.O BioThrive Grow
0.5 Tsp/l organic molasses
36 hours brewing at 23-24 C
Young leaves' tips and edges slightly turning into yellow. Also there's some lime-green colouring in young leaf veins and single orange spot in an older fan leaf.
I'm not sure these are some kind of nutrient burn or because of cal-mag or any other micro deficiency. Any idea?
Hey Blueraincoat It's a little hard to tell from the pics, but from what I can see an what you explained it sounds like it could be the start to a cal-mag deficiency. I would try adding a lil bit or do a foliar spray with some cal-mag. I don't know what brand your using so I dont want to say a certain rate of this to water so what ever your using for the cal-mag I personally would try doing a foliar feed make the plant work less thus more happy🙌 and once you have done that watch the new growth to make sure that has fixed the problem, Hopefully it will finger crossed. Also next time you water check your runoff pH just to make sure it is in a good range it seems like it is but I have had it happen to me where the water going in was a at a good pH but my runoff was way off and it started showing problems. So it's always good just to check. Good luck and Happy Growing! Hope this helps👍
Day 30 - After the soil dried, I watered with plain water at pH 7 and tested pH of runoff water, and it was 6.8. This result really relieved me since I won't have to adjust pH or flush my soil.
Day 32 - I removed just 2 fan leaves blocking lower branches.
Day 33 - Just plain water.
Day 35 - Watered with nutrient mix (0.5 ml/l G.O. Thrive Bloom, 0.5 ml/l A.N. Sensi Cal-Mag Xtra, 1 ml/l G.O Bud, 1 ml/l G.O. Seaweed)
Yellowing in young leaves' tips seems slow down, but now the old leaves are turning into yellow and dying. Since she's in 3rd week of flowering, I guess it's more likely because of magnesium deficiency because it has started as interveinal chlorosis on the old leaves and continued with yellowing and dying. It started in the middle of flowering so less chance to be N deficiency than Mg.
I have to left the plants alone at home a few days. It's day 40, soil is still moist, I put a few pots filled with water into the tent to keep humidity as high as possible after the humidifier's water has finished. We'll see what's gonna happen.
Day 37 - Watered with 1.5 ml/l Cal-Mag only.
Day 39 - At the end of the day, watered with nutrient mix (2.5 ml/l Cal-Mag, 1 ml/l G.O Bloom, 1 ml/l G.O Bud)
Day 40 - Foliar spray with 2.5 ml/l Cal-Mag
Unfortunately I had to be away from home from Day 41 to Day 45, and found my girls pretty thirsty and unhappy. Most of leaves are partly or completely yellow. I watered them with plain water immediately. I hope they can handle this and it won't cause a significant lowering at yield.
Day 45 - Watered with plain water.
Day 48 - I think she needs a special treatment. I prepared compost tea (nutrients in the chart + 0.5 tbsp/l dry worm casting, 0.5 tbsp/l dry bat guano, 0.5 tsp/l molasses brewed for 24 hours at 23-24 C at pH 6.7) and watered her with it.
Day 49 - Trimmed all dead and completely yellow leaves and covered the top of the soil with them to keep it moist for little bit longer.
It has started to give its characteristic smell, not so strong though. More pistils are turning into amber. Trichomes started to turn into cloudy. I think a few more weeks will be enough for a great final product.
Day 52 - Watered with 5 ml/l Cal-Mag, 0.5 ml/l G.O Bloom, 1 ml/l G.O. Bud at pH 6.5
Day 53 - Plants seem exhausted and I think it's because of 24 hours light schedule. So I decided to switch it into 20 hours light and 4 hours dark for the rest of the grow. Also, shortening light time at late flowering is closer to natural conditions so maybe it helps them produce more trichomes and denser buds, at least I hope so :)
Day 55 - Watered with 3.5 ml/l Cal-Mag, 2 ml/l G.O Bloom, 2 ml/l G.O. Bud at pH 6.7
We are so close to the end. Some amber trichomes appeared.
Day 58 - Watered with 3 ml/l Cal-Mag, 2 ml/l G.O. Bud, 1 ml/l G.O. Bloom at pH 6.5
Day 61 - Just plain water with 30% runoff.
Day 63 - Harvest on 4/20 😍
After 10 days of drying at 19-22 C and 50-60% RH, buds are ready to be cured. I think more light and controlled conditions would have a better effect on the final yield. I couldn't get big colas but I can't complain it. It was an educational process and I really enjoyed it.
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