Space Bucket Grow Attempt #1

smokeshi 4/25 Start of First week of Veg. 4/26 put seedling in Kratky Jar under grow light at 200umol. Noticed growth was a little slow but expecting that to take off soon. 4/27 following morning when lights flipped, observed the plant to discover really dark coloration but lighter green on cotyledons. Realized I was stupid and read some nutrient misinformation meaning a seedling should not be given 1200ppm nutrient solution. Decided to dump nutrient water, brought to 230ppm and pH'd to 5.6 I'll have photos at the end of the week!💪

smokeshi 5/3 Start of early veg, decided to wait a day after to switch water to fresh solution since i also have a dwc with lettuce growing. 5/4 Replaced nutrient solution with fresh pH’ed water to 359ppm. Light intensity remains the same in the bucket. Cotyledons started to die off. 5/5 Decided passive hydro will suck in long term, bought fungicide for both this grow and my lettuce DWC, got humidity gauges, dynabloom, and some coco pre amended with calc. Should all arrive on 5/7. No silica though for the lettuce. might have to get a fan for them. Plant started yellowing, checked jar, water level wasn’t at proper level for the roots. Got the hydrometer, fungicide and coco, decided to just repot due to how rough the plant looked. pH was at 5.6, run off came out to 5.78 ppm of 137, started low to try not to burn plant. Rockwool had a grey like fungus and roots started to darken so I'm not sure if it was the water not reaching the roots or the roots just not doing their best due to health issues. 5/8 plant still looked rough but figured it was due to a lot of factors into play. Temperature was exceeding 80 f and needed a quick solution. Had asked AI and it said to place a frozen water bottle near intake to lower temp and increase humidity. Did this around 10:40am and noticed a 10 degree difference and humidity levels rising to around 52%. Being that the bottle is less then a liter, they required two swaps prior to lights shutting off. Bottles were not fully frozen at the time of placing them so that may have played a part in the effectiveness in longetivity of the bottles "cooling effect". 5/9 plant stopped yellowing, either its getting used to the coco and the vitamins/ bacteria culture as well as the bottle helping the environment not be as hot. Good news too me, bad news for the time this grow will take.

smokeshi 5/10 plant still is yellowing slowly, kinda doubting the bucket build. Still have to be patient on the recovery though. 5/12 plant is continuing to yellow and my coco looks like its taking forever to dry. I didn't have the fan running during the night cycle so now I am and I'm waiting to see if drying out the medium with reduce the stress from it being overly moistened. Night time humidity would soar to the high 70's. 5/14 lower leaves basically all yellowed, decided to believe that the medium was too wet and decided to repot the plant in a new coco medium and tried the ring method to encourage root growth. Had taken a peek at the root system and the root ball was still small. Hopefully I see improvement with growth and no yellowing of the top node otherwise were cooked.

smokeshi The auto died, but i decided to keep the grow going with an photoperiod. This i believe was the week before It officially went to veg.

smokeshi Im not really being strict with this grow but following week we’ll flip and see how she looks that saturday. Usually we do 2-3week veg but my bucket is small.

smokeshi First week of flower, starting to see very small white pistils on the main stem. I’m not topping, training or anything. Just seeing how she grows. After i used my 430 ppm veg solution up im just going to create a bloom solution for the next coming weeks. Not sure if i should keep with the nitrogen but again im not being picky.

smokeshi Some photos at the start of week two, plants been doing fine, still using same strength as last week but plant is drinking a ****ton more! Was debating if i should transplant her event though it would possibly set her back or let her fly.

smokeshi This week its been showing signs of nitrogen deficiency and possible anginess of transplanting to a 6in pot. I think the last fertilizer solution experienced some nutrient lock as i just learned about how nutrients will leach away when introduced to another particular solution in a certain order. I am using Tap water but last time i introduced my bloom nutrients first and then my cal mag and it started to bubble? This time i did it the other way around so we will see how it goes.

smokeshi Moved girl into a tent to get better humidity readings. Growth has been going well! No more detrimental yellowing of leaves so i think the transplant was done at a decent time however i'm dealing with humidity issues and its been too dry for the plant. Trichome production is still happening but i believe it could be way better. 7/13 I hooked the hygrometer to hang in the middle of the dense bud area toward the top and continue to put a wet rag near them. Still only reaching 38-44% humidity. Also put an inline fan in the closet to exhaust some heat but hasn't seen much improvement. 7/15 I dimmed the light yesterday to see if that will assist with production of thiols. I noticed an increase of aroma when I placed the rag in water and near a fan to flow toward the girl. The scent resembled something similar to cilantro and a mild skunk almost similar to GMO strain. Why would this strain smell like this when I was told it had more myrcene and fruity notes? Beats me. Plant as it appears in the photos is slightly stressed due to light intensity but will monitor over the next couple of days to see any more improvement.

smokeshi 7/20 late post but plant is still doing good. Humidity not where i would like it and the smell seems pretty faint. VPD is not in correct range and needs to be around 45-50%. I put out a tray filled with Leca and water under the pot to see if the evaporation of the tray will help at all. Will need to do an early harvest on this one.