Supreme Diesel

ETHANol The plant is growing well with the lights set to 50% (dimmed). The first set of true leaves just came in the last few days. The first few days I only watered right around the plant to avoid wasting nutrients. On the last day I started to water the entire pot, assuming the roots have reached that far already. Since the first set of true leaves have emerged I will also switch to the nutrients for vegetative growth.

ETHANol The plant is growing well, but I’ve noticed signs of overwatering. I’m guessing that I may have forgotten to let the soil dry before watering. Let’s see how well it’ll recover (or not). I also topped the plant, which for sure isn’t helping the stress of overwatering (if that’s even the issue).

ETHANol The plant recovered from the overwatering and I think the pH was too high as well. During LST, I accidentally partially broke the two middle branches. Since the pot seems too crowded for my liking, I decided to just remove them completely. Now there is more space for more growth.

ETHANol Just removed some leaves here and there, as well as removing some branch formations I didn’t want. Everything seems to be going well. I watered every time the leaves started to droop. They were back to normal within 1-2h. But this last watering cycle they still look to be struggling. I’m gonna have to see if they just need more time.

ETHANol I was going to just let the plant relax for this last week of the vegetative phase, but got bored and felt like I could fill out a bit more of my tent. So I tried HST (if that’s even what it is) and tried to make the lower branches even with tops. Now I have a nice even canopy that will hopefully grow nicely in flowering.

ETHANol The plant is growing fairly nicely. I just noticed some discolouration on the lower leaves, which I think indicate a magnesium deficiency. I really suck at diagnosing deficiencies, so I’m just going to give this a try. I bough some epsom salt and added it to the watering. Online it said 1tsp/L so that’s what I did. I’m also finally 100% certain it’s a female plant. I was kinda getting worried…

ETHANol To me it send like the Magnesium deficiency might have been a right assessment last week. The plant looks better and no new leaf has shown any discolouration. I’m not sure if I should decrease the amount of Epson salt I’m adding to the watering, or if the plant will keep needing more as she grows. For now I will just keep providing it until I notice a negative change. The flowers are also coming in nicely by now. I have removed bud formations that were lower on the branches and keep removing a few leaves to provide enough light to all the peaks.

ETHANol The nutrient deficency is definitely resolved for now! The flowers are now developing nicely and I tried to spread everything out a bit with a net to use more of the tent space I have. That way some of the buds that are forming lower on the branch can also get adequate light.

ETHANol It’s been pretty warm lately, so without an AC I can’t keep the tent temperature from rising to 30C. I’m using fans to blow right at the buds to hopefully cool them down, but I’ll have to see how that goes. I only watered the plant when the top layer of the coco coir was dry. I think by doing that the pH shifts too much and causes my plant to have a magnesium deficiency. I’m going to try to water more frequently now and let it drain well. Hopefully the growth spurt will increase again. I do think the buds are looking pretty nice already. Since I repositioned the branches, so that lower bud developments can get light too, I’m curious to see if that was a good idea or just a complete waist of energy. That way I’ll know for next time what buds I’ll remove and what I will keep.

ETHANol Watering more regularly has helped the plant grow a bit more, but I think it’s now already focusing on just making the current buds bigger. So we’ll see how it goes…

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ETHANol Removed too many leaves when flowering started. Now with the magnesium deficiency the fan leaves are starting to deteriorate. The stigmas are turning more and more amber one by one. So the plant only needs to hold in for 2 more weeks. Oh I also accidentally bent a branch that almost snapped. I stabbed a metal wire through the bud and just hung it up. No clue if that’s enough.

ETHANol The pistils are turning amber. I would say already around 50% have changed colour. I’m probably only going to wait until the majority are amber since I don’t know at what stage, this strain has its highest THC level. The leaves are also starting to change colour, so I’m assuming that the plant is indeed redirecting its nutrients to the flower buds. But it’s just an assumption. I’m also supposed to water with plain water the next week, but since I only use half the amount of nutrients recommended, I don’t think I need to flush anything out. Regarding my hard water, I need to find a cheap way to get 12L of distilled water for the last two weeks of flowering. I found a research paper that found a negative correlation between the amount of calcium in the water and the THC content produced. But still no clue. I’m open to suggestions :)

ETHANol This is really going on for too long. I’m really bored of those last weeks of flowering. Nothing is really changing anymore and I feel like I’m going crazy watching those pistils to turn amber. I’d already be happy with 75% of them changed… right now I think it just reached 50% or it’s almost there. So here we go for another week.

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