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Gandalf's Moby Dick [First Grow]

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Fission 300W Light Emitting Diodes/135W
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Fission 300W Light Emitting Diodes/135W
Custom
Indoor
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5 L
Pot Size
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Week 1. Vegetation
6 years ago
3 cm
24 hrs
25 °C
6
380 PPM
45 %
5 L
0 L
90 cm
Nutrients 1
Growers Ark - First Feed 1 mll
Under a makeshift humidity dome. First attempt inside my newly constructed grow wardrobe, no teething issues yet.
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Week 2. Vegetation
6 years ago
6 cm
24 hrs
22 °C
6
150 PPM
55 %
22 °C
5 L
0 L
90 cm
Nutrients 1
Growers Ark - Root Tonic 2 mll
Potential over watering early on has stunted the growth considerably. Pictures are 14 days after previous diary entry. I waited to keep it true to 2 weeks. Each diary will be weekly now. Will keep watering and feeding to a minimum and try to 'read' the plant
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Week 3. Vegetation
6 years ago
10 cm
20 hrs
22 °C
6
250 PPM
55 %
22 °C
5 L
0 L
90 cm
Nutrients 3
Growers Ark - Root Tonic 2 mll
Growers Ark - Coco Grow 1 mll
Growers Ark - Universal Extra Traces 2 mll
Plant maybe running a little colder than I want at times, not sure if the fan blowing on it can cool to the point of slowing growth? Going much better after the slow growing PH issues which I (wrongfully but successfully) fixed with an overdose of nitric acid. I now have access to Reverse Osmosis water which should make a difference.
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Week 4. Vegetation
6 years ago
10 cm
20 hrs
22 °C
6
300 PPM
55 %
22 °C
5 L
0 L
90 cm
Nutrients 3
Growers Ark - Root Tonic 5 mll
Growers Ark - Coco Grow 2 mll
Growers Ark - Universal Extra Traces 3 mll
Few new shoots starting to take off! Glad I will have a couple of bud sites (as long as it's not all larf/popcorn..) Tight internodal structure, but a bit more spaced out compared to the girl scout cookies growing next to it. Growth still slower than expected. These nutrients were tailored for my local tap water so will try them with that again or buy some new ones to use with RO water
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Week 5. Vegetation
6 years ago
14 cm
20 hrs
22 °C
5.7
300 PPM
50 %
22 °C
5 L
1 L
65 cm
Nutrients 4
Growers Ark - Root Tonic 5 mll
Growers Ark - Universal Extra Traces 3 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A 2 mll
Flowering has just about begun. A bit of stretch but not as much as I had hoped. Not predicting much of a yield still, but might aswell see it through. Has a very faint smell of freshly cut apples at the moment. It's lovely.
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Week 6. Flowering
6 years ago
22 cm
20 hrs
24 °C
5.7
Weak
300 PPM
50 %
20 °C
5 L
0 L
55 cm
Nutrients 4
Growers Ark - Root Tonic 5 mll
Growers Ark - Universal Extra Traces 2 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A 3 mll
Really stressed her out Overwatering at the very start of this week. New growths still coming through will curled down over watered leaves, so I hope the roots are okay... The medium seems bone dry and light to pick up. I put small clay pebbles in the bottom of this fabric pot. I thought it might improve drainage, but it seems to have done the opposite.
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Week 6. Harvest
6 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Spent 92 days
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120 g
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??g - Sugar leaf 16g - popcorn/airy buds 104g - Quality Buds I haven't included the sugar leaf In my final total, but I will update this comment once I have processed it into wax extract. So happy with this harvest. Huge fluffy buds covered in trichromes. Really looks the part and will last me a while for sure! Dried this a little too quickly so have a bit of a funky smell to it, hopefully just a little more curing will fix it. Certainly will have to grow another dinafem autoflower! Couldn't be any happier with the help I received by them on this grow.
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Week 7. Flowering
6 years ago
32 cm
23 hrs
25 °C
5.7
Weak
350 PPM
50 %
20 °C
5 L
1 L
50 cm
Nutrients 4
Growers Ark: Root Tonic 2.5 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A 5 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B 5 mll
With a lot of thanks to @Ga4rd2en0er I have got this grow back on track! After a big flush I have upper the nutes and the overall watering. 2 dead leaves were removed from the bottom with no noticeable shock. Flowering has really kicked in and she has finally stretched out perfectly.
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Week 8. Flowering
6 years ago
51 cm
20 hrs
25 °C
5.7
Weak
800 PPM
50 %
20 °C
5 L
2 L
30 cm
Nutrients 3
Growers Ark: Root Tonic 2.5 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A 5 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B 5 mll
Really shot up. Some sugar leaf starting to come through at the bud-sites. Pistils stretching but I don't think think these are going to be very big buds.. Perfect node spacing at this point. Enough for light penetration and a decent airflow. Plant looks fairly healthy in my opinion. Unfortunately the mainstem has grown quite close to the LED and my setup could do with adjusting. Surprised how close the plant seems to be able to deal with, but wouldn't want to leave this much longer.
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Week 9. Flowering
6 years ago
54 cm
20 hrs
23 °C
5.7
Weak
800 PPM
50 %
20 °C
5 L
2 L
45 cm
Nutrients 5
Growers Ark - Root Tonic 2 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A 3 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B 3 mll
Really nice week of watching the buds start to fatten up. Fair bit of sugar leaf coming in across the plant now. Probably would have got a far better yield if I was a little more consistent with my feeding ppm. Noticed early nute burn on leaf tips but have now reverted to early deficiency as I'm being too cautious. I have since added B-52 to my feeding regime hoping this will help somewhat. I also added a silica to the mix for no reason other than it worked out cheap, so might not keep this one for long.
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Week 10. Flowering
6 years ago
60 cm
20 hrs
22 °C
5.7
Normal
1100 PPM
60 %
20 °C
5 L
2 L
35 cm
Nutrients 6
Growers Ark - Root Tonic 2 mll
Growers Ark - Universal Traces 2 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A 4 mll
Can't believe it was still stretching this week! Few spots appearing on the leaves. I'm not sure if this is magnesium or potassium deficiency but I have upped the feeding of both a little. The amount of bud on the mainstem is really blowing my mind! Hopefully there will be plenty to get through once she is done.
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Week 11. Flowering
6 years ago
62 cm
20 hrs
22 °C
5.7
Normal
1250 PPM
60 %
20 °C
5 L
2 L
35 cm
Nutrients 7
Growers Ark - Root Tonic 2 mll
Growers Ark - Universal Traces 2 mll
Growers Ark - Boost It 1 mll
Buds are feeling really dense and leave a wonderful smell on my fingers. I believe I'm having quite a bit of a potassium deficiency, spotting appearing on the old leaves and newer growth coming through a little wilted and dark. I've used a small amount of PK booster but I'm probably a bit late to reverse the damage. Finally got myself a jewellers loupe, only to find more thrich heads are clear than I had hoped. Couple of weeks til haven't hopefully.
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Week 12. Flowering
6 years ago
65 cm
20 hrs
22 °C
5.7
Normal
80 PPM
60 %
20 °C
5 L
2 L
35 cm
Nutrients 1
pH Down - Vitalink
pH Down 0.1 mll
Final week before harvest! Only feeding with pH'd RO water. She has put on some serious weight, cannot wait to see what the scales say! Starting to push out a few foxtails, not sure if I continued feeding a little too long or if it's some form of stress? Stress will probably be in the roots as she's all stuffed into a 5 liter fabric pot.
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Week 13. Flowering
6 years ago
66 cm
20 hrs
22 °C
6
Normal
20 PPM
55 %
20 °C
5 L
2 L
34 cm
Nutrients 1
pH Down - Vitalink
pH Down 0.1 mll
Lovely fade on the leaves. Buds are giant. I have never seen anything like it, I'm sure they are quite airy, but plenty of trichromes. Im going to have to do this strain again. So pleased with the results. Will be harvested as soon as my other plant is done in my DIY dry chamber.
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Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommentedweek 66 years ago
Hi Gandalf, are you growing in coco? If so, do not let it dry out. It will cause your root zone ppms to go crazy which will turn into lockout/deficiency/or even burn. From my experience with coco, I never let more than a few grains on the top go dry. Coco is to be treated as a hydro system. Feed lower ppms at a more frequent intervals. Feed to runoff as well. I would recommend flushing your plants with half nutes. Check the initial ppm runoff to see whats going on. Ideally that ppm should be close to what your putting in plus or minus 100. If its significantly higher, keep flushing until you bring it down to range. Also, take a coco sample from deep in the root zone and do a slurry test. Take 1 part coco and mix with 1.5 part 0 ppm RO water and mix thoroughly. Set aside for 2 hours and mix it up again and check the ph. Make sure your in the 5.8 to 6.1 range better 5.9 to 6.0 to be perfect for coco. This was my biggest "A-HA" in improving my grows. Lastly, your feeding ppms seem awfully low as well, most autos in flowering if fed once a day should get 500-800 ppm. I see signs of N, P, CA, MG deficiencies which will really hurt bud development especially resin and could lead to hermie as well. If it were me, I would flush the hell out of the coco until the rootz one ph reads 5.9 to 6.0 and ppms running off at 700ish ppm. Just trying to pass along some experience, not trying to step on toes. Best of luck finishing her out. Cheers!
Waters
Waterscommented6 years ago
@Ga4rd2en0er, I’m stoked I read this. Did not know at all that I should not let coco go dry. I’ll keep that in my mind from now on.
Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommented6 years ago
@GandalfTheGreen, I use Troph Blumats. Depending on where you live, they can be found on Amazon. Make sure its the TROPH line. I place a 3 gal reservoir on a shelf about 5 feet above my plants to ensure good back pressure as its all gravity feed. It uses water filled ceramic plugs that sense the moisture content of your media and automatically opens and closes the valve at your desired wetness for the media. They can be scary to run as the valves can "runaway" if it wasnt set up properly and dump your res out within a few hours. If you use one, make sure you check it a couple times a day for the first week to make sure its dripping properly. I'm installing mine shortly. I'll put up a little video on the diary.
GandalfTheGreen
GandalfTheGreencommented6 years ago
@Ga4rd2en0er, this grow really has proved to me how forgiving coco really can be! Do you reccomend your drip feed system? I love watering and inspecting the plants daily but I know after a few months I will value a slightly more automated system.
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WeedTheNorth
WeedTheNorthcommentedweek 56 years ago
Looking good Gandalf, best of luck!!
Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommentedweek 66 years ago
Just dropping by, hope all is well with your ladies.
Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommented6 years ago
@GandalfTheGreen, from my experience, removing a few dead leaves shouldn't really stress her. Pruning dead leaves for all plants help them redirect their energy to the good parts of the plant. Once leaves are damaged that badly, they will never recover. Look at your new growth for signs of recovery. The fact that she perked up after a good watering is a plus that she wants to live.
GandalfTheGreen
GandalfTheGreencommented6 years ago
@Ga4rd2en0er, definitely looks like she is getting her strength back. a more uniform green spreading back across the plant. Will trim those bottom yellow leaves off shortly! Are the dead leaves much less likely to shock the plant when removed? or is it just because i'm only trimming a couple of them that it isn't shocked?
Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommented6 years ago
@GandalfTheGreen, next step I would do is remove the few very yellow leaves at the bottom. They wont recover and could be pulling energy from other parts of the plant. Especially the ones that maybe laying down touching the coco. Just dont do any thing else other than a couple dead leaves otherwise it could lead to shock and she is very vulnerable until she gets her full strength back. Looking forward to seeing your next entry to see how your babies are recovering.
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Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommentedweek 126 years ago
Gat damn she's looking great. Can't wait to read your harvest report. Pop off any low buds and sample yet?
Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommented6 years ago
GandalfTheGreen
GandalfTheGreencommented6 years ago
@Ga4rd2en0er, thank you. You helped me get here 😃 not sampled any yet. Not really sure how I've had the patience!
Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommentedweek 86 years ago
You can do a little lst by gently bending over the main stem. You can use twine or similar to gently pull over the stalk and it can be attached to something sturdy such as tent pole, a heavy weight placed on the floor, etc. Also. Watch the ppms feeding and making sure you get good runoff feeding. Looks like you may have the start of nutrient burn. https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/blog-nutrient-burn-in-cannabis-plants-n680 Other than that, her comeback looks incredible!!
Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommented6 years ago
@GandalfTheGreen, i have a bottle of canna pk and only have used it once. My last grow was having nute issues in flower so my focus was stabilizing her root zone so I didn't want to throw another cog in the machine. Haven't decided on what I'll do with my current one. I haven't used it enough and with enough consistency to really make a recommendation on it at this time.
GandalfTheGreen
GandalfTheGreencommented6 years ago
@Ga4rd2en0er, i've lowered the feeding ppm quite a bit as of last feed. I'm not LST'ing this one as the stems pretty thick. I've just adapted my grow space and gained another 25cm. If it stretches to that then I will have to no choice but LST! Thanks for all you help. Do you reccomend flowering/pk boosters? Probably a bit late for me now anyway but I'm curious.
motaman311
motaman311commentedweek 136 years ago
Beautiful plant! 😻
GandalfTheGreen
GandalfTheGreencommented6 years ago
@@motaman311, I wish I could share it with everyone! Thank you.
Fruitgrower
Fruitgrowercommentedweek 116 years ago
Monster grow bro. Well done. That cola! Fml. 👍
GandalfTheGreen
GandalfTheGreencommented6 years ago
@Fruitgrower thanks!
WeedTheNorth
WeedTheNorthcommentedweek 126 years ago
You created a monster Gandalf, be careful she doesn't roll you up and smoke you Haha!!
GandalfTheGreen
GandalfTheGreencommented6 years ago
@OhcanaDAbiz hopefully this will be smoked for a while!
Vegasgrowermx
Vegasgrowermxcommentedweek 126 years ago
Niceee plant bro 👍
GandalfTheGreen
GandalfTheGreencommented6 years ago
@Vegasgrowermx thank you!
ShotGunBob
ShotGunBobcommentedweek 46 years ago
Hey:) how much lux do your babies get? Best of luck
GandalfTheGreen
GandalfTheGreencommented6 years ago
@@ShotGunBob It read at 25,000 just below the top of the 'canopy'. I'm using a single quantum board. Thanks!
ThatoneAKguy
ThatoneAKguycommentedweek 106 years ago
Amazing looking plant and a great journal. I have a Moby Dick heading into week 5 and she’s a little bushy as I did lst. Thanks for sharing and I hope mine climbs like yours!
HerbalEdu
HerbalEducommentedweek 106 years ago
Love it's structure, nicely done 😃👍
Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommentedweek 106 years ago
Her recovery is awesome! My Moby took forever to finish the stretch as well at about 4.5 weeks after 12/12.
Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommentedweek 96 years ago
Lots of budding sites you got there!! Looking much better!
Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommentedweek 76 years ago
Alright alright alright, she's turned the corner and looks back on track. Now, since she's gone through some pretty stressful couple weeks at the start of flowering, keep a good eye on her flowering sites. Its not a guarantee, but plants that have undergone high ppm stress can be prone to becoming a hermie. Keep a watchful eye for nanners or balls on her. If any nanners pop up, they can be carefully removed with wet tweezers (water neutralizes pollen), balls or actual pollen sacs are much more problematic.
Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommentedweek 76 years ago
Wow!! She has made an incredible comeback!! Keep it up!!
ShotGunBob
ShotGunBobcommentedweek 46 years ago
Nice :)
terps234
terps234commentedweek 66 years ago
Really nice plant! What lights do you use?
Ga4rd2en0er
Ga4rd2en0ercommentedweek 136 years ago
Looking awesome, airy or dense it all goes to the dome 😂. Congrats on a job well done adapting and overcoming along the way. The key to success!! I can't wait to grow her again either. I hope to grow her outdoors next spring/summer and see how many pounds she can make. I have no doubt with these genetics and proper care will be huge outside basking in the So. Cal sun.
DinafemSeeds
DinafemSeedscommentedweek 116 years ago
Now that's one impressive looking Moby Dick Auto 👌 I would start reducing feed mate in preparation for harvest in 10-14 day's time 👊 Looking fantastic my friend 👍 All the best ✌️ Mark..
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