BlackBerry Auto - 1st Grow

AlienOriginFarms -Seedling week 1. Kept humidity dome on for 3 days -24/0 light schedule. Will back down to 20/4 light schedule for second week and on -Light watering with PH’d water. Will start 1/4 strength nutes week 2

AlienOriginFarms Seedling week 2 -Changed light schedule from 24/0 to 20/4 -Growing in coco/perlite so I started 1/4 nutes this week with waterings, alternating PH 5.8-6.1

AlienOriginFarms Days 15-21 Started LST on day 18. Less nodes than some recommend starting LST but I have a height restriction I’m going to be working with so I wanted to be a little more aggressive with it earlier. Starting the shape initially curving around. Plant is taking well to the LST by day 21 and node sites are growing bigger. Will up the nutes in coming days as plant is getting filled out

AlienOriginFarms Days 22-28 - F****ing found spider mites on plant this week. Treated with neem and spraying around tent with alc/water solution. As of day 28 mites are off plant but still present and lessening around tent. -Did a big flush with lower concentrated nutes on day 26 and since resumed veg strength as showing slight calcium def I believe. -Daily tiny adjusts of LST and on day 27 did very light defoliation

AlienOriginFarms Day 29-35 Was gone for a couple days this week so watering was a mix of help on 1 of the days hand watering and AC Infinity base. She survived by the time I got back! Adjusting LST slightly here and there for optimization. No toxicity or deficiencies noted Thursdays are my cutoff for posting and got back Friday. Friday she was flowering so my next week post will start flower :)

AlienOriginFarms Day 36-42 -Start of flower! Came back from out of town and pistils had changed from just showing sex, to grouping a lot more at the center. Also some noted increased growth rate. -Plant has been healthy and not showing any signs of deficiency or toxicity. -Daily small adjustments to LST and did some light defoliation for bud sites. -Humidity is low to mid 50’s lights on and increasing to 60-65 lights off. I’m having trouble decreasing despite changes to inline fan and oscillating fan. Going to buy a dehumidifier to remedy this

AlienOriginFarms Days 43-49 Stopped LST right now after day 44. Adjusted nutes more gradually this week to the full bloom nute regimen. Happy with the growth of all the nodes. Most all have bulked pistils compared to some last week. Overall happy with the progress of growth this week. Hoping she starts bulking soon!

AlienOriginFarms Days 50-56 -Still super healthy and thankful. Pretty sure by day 56 that stretch has slowed and possibly stopped. She’s short but I’m perfectly fine with it. -Did 1 big defoliation because she was really bushy and covering sites. Airflow is significantly better through canopy. -The bud sites have started turning purple and it’s got me so excited :)

AlienOriginFarms Days 57-63. -Good progress this week as sites continued to start filling out. Spacing seems to be good between them and they’re starting to widen a little bit. -Kept full bloom nutes this week. -Temp RH VPD is dialed in :)

AlienOriginFarms Days 64-70 Some progress this week with pistils, color and some bulking. Made a mistake of upping bloom to help bulk buds and caused some nute burn. Trimmed off affected leaves and back down on it. Trichomes are 40% milky with ~30% pistils turning in and amber, so I think shes on the home stretch

AlienOriginFarms Days 71-77 End of flower! Harvesting tomorrow day 78 As nutes lowered towards end of flower, developed deficiency but not totally worried because she is matured and ready for harvest. Trichomes are milky and turning amber, and pistols are about 60-70% orange Plan is to wet trim and dry in tent