Ztrawberriez Auto & Amnesia

FrostyFarmers Stoaked from the first achievement we ordered more seeds an decided to start germinating a 4th one, Ztrawberriez Auto, on Feburary 23rd, with the same method used before. Again, 2 days later our 4th girl came out of the soil aswell. After having some starting problems with fungus gnats (probably because of the soil) we established a strong defense with some sticky traps, because we didnt know what to do exactly :D It seems to have worked, since we never saw them again after a few days (Not even sticking to the traps).

FrostyFarmers In this week the plants just kept growing bigger day after day until our first real problem occured. Because we dont really measure the amount of water we give each plant but use the special eye-measuring method, the water for each plant differs. Furthermore our measuring tool (which also apperently is for measuring ph-levels) isnt the best and not accurate at all as it seems. The result is watering each plant individually on seperate days. The ultra high humidity we cant get fixed atm results in us almost not watering at all unluckily. On 6th of March. two of four plants got water with some nutrients (the ones in the back of the tent). One day later they started to look unhappy in a time frame of only a few hours. We did nothing about it, because we didnt know what to do again. If anyone knows why this is or what this looks like please let us know. Our little Ztrawberriez only received BioBizz Root Juice (1ml/L) and CalMag (0,5ml/L) and doesnt seem to have any problems. At this time we also noticed that the tent is going to be way to small for those 4 plants. We keep it going anyways. Our problem got worse and the leaves started to turn yellow-ish at some points. Especially our 3rd Amnesia plant is mysteriusly receiving some yellow points on one leave aswell, even though she didnt receive any water since. Also the tips of some leaves look burnt (second picture from the 08.03.). We started to cut off leaves from the 2 plants in the back that look unhealthy, one by one, day after day. In our minds, the occuring problem is due to firstly lack of Calcium & Magnesium or secondly the ph-level of our substrat. Keeping that in mind we talked to really nice personn from a well reputated grow shop. According to him it is probably because of the ph-level, since we give our plants 0,5ml/L CalMag as a prevention of low Calcium & Magnesium levels. With that information we tested our ph-tester resulting in it being faulty (It was 6 Euros). Now with a new tester, which is better quality we can actually measure our real ph levels and get them from PH 8-8,5 to a more reasonable 6-6,5 using citric acid starting on the 14th of February. Fixing our humidity we just keep the door of the tent open a little to keep it at around 60-70%, which is fine for us. We bought a humidier aswell, that we could put inside if we cant keep the desired levels. With the new Equipment we now have the ability to share more information about our grow and hopefully keep our girls healthier.

FrostyFarmers On 6th of March. two of four plants got water with some nutrients (the ones in the back of the tent). One day later they started to look unhappy in a time frame of only a few hours. We did nothing about it, because we didnt know what to do again. If anyone knows why this is or what this looks like please let us know. Our little Ztrawberriez only received BioBizz Root Juice (1ml/L) and CalMag (0,5ml/L) and doesnt seem to have any problems. At this time we also noticed that the tent is going to be way to small for those 4 plants. We keep it going anyways. Our problem got worse and the leaves started to turn yellow-ish at some points. Especially our 3rd Amnesia plant is mysteriusly receiving some yellow points on one leave aswell, even though she didnt receive any water since. Also the tips of some leaves look burnt (second picture from the 08.03.). We started to cut off leaves from the 2 plants in the back that look unhealthy, one by one, day after day. In our minds, the occuring problem is due to firstly lack of Calcium & Magnesium or secondly the ph-level of our substrat. Keeping that in mind we talked to really nice person from a well reputated grow shop. According to him it is probably because of the ph-level, since we give our plants 0,5ml/L CalMag as a prevention of low Calcium & Magnesium levels. With that information we tested our ph-tester resulting in it being faulty (It was 6 Euros). Now with a new tester, which is better quality we can actually measure our real ph levels and get them from PH 8-8,5 to a more reasonable 6-6,5 using citric acid starting next week. Fixing our humidity we just keep the door of the tent open a little to keep it at around 60-70%, which is fine for us. Just ordered a bigger tent, because the one we have is 50x50cm. Plants are looking good and healthy again. On the 20.03 the new tent arrived and got set up. Furthermore we topped the Ztrawberriez and changed to 19L pots with every plant. They took everthing pretty well.

FrostyFarmers We ordered a bigger tent this week, which is set up next week. Personally we think we were a little too ambitious putting 4 plants into that small 50x50 tent without any ventilation :D. New one is going to be way bigger and all will need hopefully.

FrostyFarmers The new tent arrived and looks good. Now our plants have some time left to get bigger. Before our plants start to flower we also put all 4 of them in a 19L pot, which they took fine. Furthermore we topped the Ztrawberriez.

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FrostyFarmers This week we gave ladys a little haircut. No idea if thats how you do it, but the plants seem to be fine with it and recovered quickly, seeing great progress in growth the next days. Overall i think the plants are looking great and seem healthy. The Ztrawberriez gets some Bio-Blomm and Top-Max aswell with higher doses the next days.

FrostyFarmers We just found out that our Amnesia plants are not autoflowering :D (11th April). To stop the growth upwards a little we are going for some topping. Hopefully we dont run into any problems while the plants are streching in the early floweing phase :/ To prevent further unnessacery growth of those plants we are also going to switch the light cycle to 12/12 after a few days, so the plants have some time to heal before going into flowering. We started with topping the two plants on the right hand side. The plant behind our Ztrawberriez on the left side of the tent is still very small in comparison to the other plants and will remain untopped. We also want so see how the buds change when not topping the plant and see how it looks in general. The Ztrawberriez plant starts to get a strawberry-like smell I´d say. It could also just be me knowing it is supposed to be strawberries.

FrostyFarmers After 5 days recovering from topping it is time to switch the light cycle to 12/12 on 17th April. Lets see how they will perform in the next week :). This week we also found out, that the lightcycle was 16/8 instead of 18/6. Maybe we do our maths tighter the next time. The Strawberriez now gets around 3-5ml/L Bio-Bloom and 1-2ml/L Top-Max with a little Bio-Grow, to hopefully boost bud-growth. When watering the amnesia plants i start adding Bio-Bloom aswell. Light cycle is now at 12/12. Since topping the 2 Amnesia plants the growth of those is stunning. They keep on getting bigger fast and im a little concerned about them fitting in our tent. Lets see the next days how the plants are strechting. Some leaves show some heat-stress signs we think. The SF2000 was on 90%, so we dialed back a little.

FrostyFarmers In this phase of the plants we tried giving each shoot access to as much light as possible. With that in mind I cut a few fan leaves so the shoots located lower as the rest get enough light. I think you are supposed to just bend the leaves down, but it’s easier to just cut them :D. The overall growth looks good and I’m supprised the Amnesia plants look as good as they do. Especially the two on the right side of the tent. ------------- Amnesia 1: plant right front Amnesia 2: Plant right side behind Ztrawberriez Amnesia 3: plant left side behind Ztrawberriez At the end of the week the light was on 90% again. I measured the ppfd for each plants highest point: Ztrawberriez: 600 ppfd Amnesia 1: 650 ppfd Amnesia 2: 1100 ppfd Amnesia 3: 500-550 ppfd Obviosly this isnt optimal and we would like the Ztrawberriez to get more light. We learn as we go tho and decided to not change anything, since the Ztrawberriez is ready for harvest in around two weeks we think? We honestly have no clue and just go with flow. This week was the last time we fed the Ztrawberriez with extra nutrients. She is getting flushed now and exceptionally gets water.

FrostyFarmers Only the Amnesia plants receive fertilizer from now on. The plants look healthy. We defoliated the Ztrawberriez a little for the last time trying to be careful not to cut to much. Looks pretty good I´d say. Im wondering how much they are strechting from now on. We will see the progress of the plants in the course of the week. Amnesia 2 shows some signs of over-fertilization a website said, causing purplish discolouration, on a hand full of leaves. Since its only one plant that has that problem at the moment we arent worried too much. Every Amnesia plant gets the same nutrients with every watering. Regarding the week: The Ztrawberriez is starting turning purplish. We are planning to harvest her next week. Amnesia 1 is loving her life in there. No signs anything negative. Stems got really strong during stretching and looks beatiful. She will keep on getting fertilized water. This plant looks absolutly stunning considering we just let her grow however she wanted As I said before at the start of the week, we had some problem with over-fertilisation on Amnesia 2. During the week it got very much worse caused by be us watering with the same high dose of fertilizer again by accident. It is what is tho. Theres a few leaves affected by this ,which we will cut off, otherwise the plant looks really happy with the new buds getting bigger and bigger. I feel like Amnesia 3 is a ticking time bomb for mold. Because she grew so bushy in such a small space I repetedly cut off leaves. I think this is resulting in a weird kind of grow now.

FrostyFarmers Lets see what this week brings! :)