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Southwest Facing Balcony Grow at 52° N

paetel

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4d ago

4 Assed Monkey x Toof Decay

Mephisto Genetics

Power Plant

Dutch Passion

Mephistos Wedding x Grape Walker Kush

Organic herb & growing soil peat-free Soil

Primaster

Outdoor

Room Type

12 L

Pot Size

Start at 15 Week

paetel Originally started this grow only with Mephisto seeds, which I dircetly planted into the growing pots (3 gal./12 L) on May 3rd. I also added a small cup of potting soil and mixed it with natural mycorrhiza according to the book "DIY Autoflowering Cannabis" by Jeff Lowenfels. Double Grape germinated after 5 days, Sour Stomper and Orange Diesel after 6 days. The freebie seed 4 Assed Monkey x Toof Decay needed some assistance after 7 days. While reading several growreports with a similar setup I stumbled across a comment about regular feminized seeds which caught my interest and decided to germinate 2 additional Power Plant seeds (paper towel method), which are 7+ years old and were stored in my refrigerator all the time. Germination is still in process. Some additional context: I only grew cannabis (Skunk #1) once before in an indoor setting while it still was illegal in germany and wrote a report on the hanfburg forum. Since 2017 I grow mostly vegetables in a small allotment which is unfortunatley not suited to grow cannabis according to the current german legislation. 😕

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Used method

Directly In Substrate

Germination Method

1/4

3 cm

Height

5 hrs

Light Schedule

20 °C

Day Air Temp

No Smell

Smell

40 %

Air Humidity

0 °C

Substrate Temp

paetel I keep them inside at night because temperatures dropped down to ~4° C. During the day they currently get around 4-5 hours of direct sunlight. I still use the UV protection hat because the sun is quite aggressive this year and I want them to slowly adapt to the UV rays. Double Grape got a bit leggy and I added some additional soil to support her. Unfortunately on May 13th I found her bent over under the protective hat, but luckily the stem is still intact and I added even more additional soil for support. On May 12th I started to germinate the 2 additional Power Plant seeds.

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1/5

8 cm

Height

5 hrs

Light Schedule

15 °C

Day Air Temp

No Smell

Smell

37 %

Air Humidity

0 °C

Substrate Temp

8 °C

Night Air Temp

paetel Today, May 15th, marks the beginning of Week 2 for the Mephistos. Double Grape is already developing their second pair of leafs. Sour Stomper and Orange Diesel are lagging a bit behind, but nothing to worry about, I guess. The freebie is still struggling to get their head up, but I won't give up on her yet. 😉 To my surprise both Power Plant seeds germinated and I'll transfer them to small pots today.

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1/4

10 cm

Height

5 hrs

Light Schedule

15 °C

Day Air Temp

No Smell

Smell

294 PPM

TDS

45 %

Air Humidity

15 °C

Solution Temp

0 °C

Substrate Temp

6 °C

Night Air Temp

12 L

Pot Size

paetel With the beginning of week 3 there is not much to report. I gave them around 1 liter filtered water each on friday last week. Weather has been quite cold and windy, but nothing too serious. The freebie 4 AMxTD managed to grow a bit despite the not so pretty conditions. I am optimistic that she'll contiune to catch up a bit. The Power Plant seeds are about to sprout soon (seed leaves peaking through the soil already). I guess I will start a seperate report to document the progress.

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1/5

11 cm

Height

5 hrs

Light Schedule

20 °C

Day Air Temp

No Smell

Smell

294 PPM

TDS

45 %

Air Humidity

20 °C

Solution Temp

0 °C

Substrate Temp

10 °C

Night Air Temp

12 L

Pot Size

paetel Plants are developing and looking nicely. Only gave them water as required. The freebie suffers some serious stunted growth as you can see in comparison and unfortunately both of my Power Plant seedlings died on me. Bonus picture is a lulo seedling (Solanum quitoense) whicht took me 7 weeks to sprout.

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1/4

12 cm

Height

5 hrs

Light Schedule

25 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

No Smell

Smell

226 PPM

TDS

68 %

Air Humidity

23 °C

Solution Temp

0 °C

Substrate Temp

13 °C

Night Air Temp

12 L

Pot Size

paetel Week 5 starts on a happy note as the freebie has finally decided to live and grow. Although not much yield is expected, I will let her finish for the sake of science. 😉 I wish I could get a little more sun, but it is what it is. I forgot to mention that there is a 11 story building across the street, so I lose a few hours of early evening sun due to shading.

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1/8

13 cm

Height

5 hrs

Light Schedule

16 °C

Day Air Temp

6.0

Weak

Smell

460 PPM

TDS

69 %

Air Humidity

16 °C

Solution Temp

16 °C

Substrate Temp

12 °C

Night Air Temp

12 L

Pot Size

Nutrients 1

Bloomify 3-2-4

1.6 mll

paetel Past week has been pretty bad weatherwise, so not much vegetative grow has happened. Fortunately that has changed and I am looking forward to a maximum of direct sunlight in the upcoming days for my now preflowering plants. I started to feed them because I think they show signs of a light Nitrogen deficiency (50% of recommended dosage). I also started to take measurings since my pH pen arrived last week and I am now adjusting the water accordingly with citric acid.

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1/5

15 cm

Height

5 hrs

Light Schedule

24 °C

Day Air Temp

6.4

Weak

Smell

530 PPM

TDS

30 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

24 °C

Substrate Temp

15 °C

Night Air Temp

12 L

Pot Size

Nutrients 3

Bloomify 3-2-4

1.6 mll

Bio-Bloom

1 mll

Bio-Grow

1 mll

paetel Today marks summer solstice and the plants are doing fine. They continued to gain a few centimeters each and Double Grape ist now clearly flowering. On June 2nd another freebie seed, called Mephistos Weeding x Grape Walker Kush, popped and is now 20 days old. I am not sure if this plant is just a genetic outlier or the general conditions were much more favorable for vegetative growth than at the start of May because she is already quite tall and big. The other freebie keeps on struggling and I should have get rid of her, but still my curiousness is too big...

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17 cm

Height

5 hrs

Light Schedule

24 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

Weak

Smell

580 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

24 °C

Substrate Temp

16 °C

Night Air Temp

12 L

Pot Size

Nutrients 2

Bio-Bloom

1 mll

Bio-Grow

1 mll

paetel I am currently very much enjoying to follow the progress of my second freebie. She's only 26 days old, already surpassed the Double Grape in height (21 cm to 17 cm) and started preflowering. I added another plant to the grow: Apple Fritter Auto from RQS. Used a cool promo where I just had to pay the delivery cost to receive the seeds. This will cover the timeframe until september and hopefully gather some useful information for future balcony projects. Since I started the grow I became more interested in also growing indoors again. After some extensive research I finally pulled the trigger and bought some nice gear. 😏

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20 cm

Height

5 hrs

Light Schedule

27 °C

Day Air Temp

Weak

Smell

580 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

27 °C

Solution Temp

0 °C

Substrate Temp

15 °C

Night Air Temp

12 L

Pot Size

Nutrients 2

Bio-Bloom

1 mll

Bio-Grow

1 mll

paetel Weather got pretty crazy here with heat warnings by the public government. Plants took it reasonably well though. Hence the watering schedule got a bit tighter and I am feeding them every other watering. Unluckily my pH-Meter already broke down (cheap 20€ one) and I already ordered a new one that should be more sustainable. The life cycle of Apple Fritter is already over because one of my juvenile crow buddies thought I probably be hiding a snack in the pot.. 😂

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20 cm

Height

4 hrs

Light Schedule

23 °C

Day Air Temp

6.2

Normal

Smell

630 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

23 °C

Solution Temp

23 °C

Substrate Temp

14 °C

Night Air Temp

12 L

Pot Size

Nutrients 2

Bio-Bloom

1 mll

Bio-Grow

1 mll

paetel Just a quick update because life has been pretty busy. Finally received my new pH-meter from Apera Instruments and I am satisfied so far.

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20 cm

Height

4 hrs

Light Schedule

23 °C

Day Air Temp

6.2

Normal

Smell

630 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

23 °C

Solution Temp

23 °C

Substrate Temp

14 °C

Night Air Temp

12 L

Pot Size

Nutrients 2

Bio-Bloom

1 mll

Bio-Grow

2 mll

paetel Weather has been fairly cold and the plants didn't catch that much sunlight. To illustrate how bad it was: I just watered once. And if I understood correctly, cannabis plants do get purple spots when the temperature drops a fair amount, which is happening to the double grape plant I think. MWxGWK is currently measuring 37 cm in height, so almost twice the size of the double grape and I assume that all of my firstly germinated plants suffered from stunted growth. Age overview: Double Grape 73 days Sour Stomper 64 days Orange Diesel 64 days 4AMxTD 64 days MWxGWK 40 days Power Plant 38 days

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20 cm

Height

4 hrs

Light Schedule

24 °C

Day Air Temp

6.2

Normal

Smell

450 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

23 °C

Solution Temp

23 °C

Substrate Temp

16 °C

Night Air Temp

12 L

Pot Size

450 PPM

CO₂ Level

Nutrients 3

Bio-Bloom

2 mll

Bio-Grow

1 mll

Calmag

0.15 mll

paetel Nothing major to report, weather is still relatively cold and humid for july. Double Grape might be ready in 1 - 2 weeks, I included some macro shots. Let me know what you think.

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20 cm

Height

4 hrs

Light Schedule

22 °C

Day Air Temp

6.2

Normal

Smell

350 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

22 °C

Solution Temp

22 °C

Substrate Temp

15 °C

Night Air Temp

12 L

Pot Size

Nutrients 3

Bio-Bloom

2 mll

Bio-Grow

1 mll

Calmag

0.15 mll

paetel Another week of exceptional bad july weather. Everytime I step out on the balcony now I get greeted with a nice bouquet of terpenes, but nothing to crazy in terms of nuiscances for my neighbors. Guess I'll harvest Double Grape within the next week. Trichomes on the top bud are turning amber. I forgot to mention that I added a RO-System to my Setup. Tap water here has a very high concentration of calcium and unfavorable ratio to magnesium. I want to have more control over my nutrient solution.

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20 cm

Height

4 hrs

Light Schedule

24 °C

Day Air Temp

6.2

Normal

Smell

290 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

24 °C

Substrate Temp

14 °C

Night Air Temp

12 L

Pot Size

Nutrients 3

Bio-Bloom

2 mll

Bio-Grow

1 mll

Calmag

0.15 mll

paetel Summer is back and I aim to harvest all the remaining Autos next weekend. The photoperiodic Power Plant looks kinda weak, but I am not sure yet what's the cause.

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Happy Harvest Day!

Double Grape Mephisto Genetics

7/10

Rated

Can't blame the genetics since I think the stunted growth resulted from the cold nights when I should have brought her back in. On the other hand I can't really make a comparison yet because this is my first outdoor project. I may update the rating when the drying and curing is finished. So far I like the strain.

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Spent 107 days

Ger Veg Flo Har

9.08 g

Bud wet weight per plant

Plants

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1/3

paetel She enjoyed two days of summer sun before I chopped her down.

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Equipment Reviews

Bio-Bloom BioBizzWWO

10/10Rated

Bio-Grow BioBizzWWO

10/10Rated

Calmag BioBizzWWO

10/10Rated

All-Mix Peat Free BioBizz

10/10Rated

20 cm

Height

4 hrs

Light Schedule

24 °C

Day Air Temp

6.2

Normal

Smell

290 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

24 °C

Substrate Temp

14 °C

Night Air Temp

12 L

Pot Size

Nutrients 3

Bio-Bloom

2 mll

Bio-Grow

1 mll

Calmag

0.15 mll

paetel I decided to give them another week until harvest. Drying went smooth so far, I think I can start curing soon.

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Zanarkandcommentedweek 13mo ago

Viel Erfolg! Meine stehen auch Südwest, aber haben 1-2 Wochen schlechtes Wetter mitgenommen im April. Das Wetter sind ja nun aber viel besser aus!

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GERGrowDesignscommentedweek 23mo ago

Good Luck with youre Project 🌱

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SheyTailfeathercommentedweek 23mo ago

Top line up 😉 die Mephistos jucken mich auch aber ich kauf nix was nach Teufel klingt 😂 Deine Erde schaut aber ziemlich trocken aus für das Stadium oder täuscht das?

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paetelcommented3mo ago

@SheyTailfeather, die obere Schicht sieht schon etwas trocken aus, aber die unteren Schichten haben noch eine gute Feuchtigkeit vom ursprünglichen angießen. Die Double Grape hat gestern Abend aber noch ca. 1 Liter gefiltertes Wasser bekommen.

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Schnahackencommentedweek 02mo ago

Ich hatte auch damals, auf der Hanfburg meine ersten Versuche gezeigt :) war eine Hollands Hope. Viel Erfolg dir dieses Jahr

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OrionGrowgulcommentedweek 23mo ago

Good luck my friend !

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Springtimecommentedweek 23mo ago

Viel Erfolg! Wir sind ja fast zeitgleich gestartet! Bin gespannt auf den Südwest zu Nordwest vergleich vom Entwicklungsstand.

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Springtimecommentedweek 62mo ago

Huhu! Ich glaube die sind noch nicht in der Vorblüte, sei froh denn wenn dem so wäre dann würden die sich jetzt einmal noch dick strecken und dann war es das. Glaube die sind noch in Vegetation.

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paetelcommented2mo ago

@Springtime, Danke für deinen Kommentar. Ich hoffe, dass das der Fall ist und sie noch etwas Biomasse zulegen bevor die Blüte richtig losgeht. 🙏

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