Mia_BIOTABScommentedweek 131d ago
they are fading lovely, happy cutting
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Cheese Auto
Follow
Fan
Oscillating Fan
Generic
Filt
PK125EC-TC
Hortisol (Terra Preta) Other
Kanamu Pacha
Indoor
Room Type
Topping
weeks 4
LST
weeks 4-5
Defoliation
weeks 7
22 L
Pot Size
1 L
Watering
Start at 13 Week
G
Germination3mo ago
Nutrients 2
Urgesteinsmehl (basalt rock dust)
5 mll
Mycorrhizal Inoculant
1 mll
Aircoholic That was 5 grows in a row of Anesia Seeds and while this time I'm growing one of them as well, I was craving some cheese. Mhhhh cheese! Everything is better with cheese!
And as everybody knows, the best cheese grows in organic living soil - at least that's what I heard, and I want to find out. The recipe is simple, take some old living soil mix from a previous plant, let's say 1/3. Add 1/3 fresh Terra Preta, 1/3 of Canna Terra Professional to fluff it up a bit - the roots are really into that! Also add some mycorrhiza to keep the roots company and some basalt rock dust for some long-term silica and pH buffering and this should be ... hand on, I start sounding like I knew what I was doing here, which I don't. I'm just stumbling through the dark, hoping to make some guesses that don't turn out to be completely terrible. Look, all I want is some decent, no good, no fine cheese, don't look at me like that!
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Directly In Substrate
Germination Method
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Week 1. Vegetation3mo ago
5 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.2
pH
No Smell
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
22 L
Pot Size
0.25 L
Watering Volume
43 cm
Lamp Distance
Aircoholic She's off to an excellent start, starting to roll into vegetation like a good healthy wheel of cheese.
She lifted her head out of the substrate and cracked through the seed shell after 5 days - not the fastest I had, but still perfectly normal and fine - she can take all the time she needs!
Now it's about keeping the soil moist enough for her roots to spread all the way through. I want to sail the seas of cheese in the end, not drown the cheese in a sea of microbes and RO water.
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Week 2. Vegetation3mo ago
6 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.2
pH
No Smell
Smell
60 %
Air Humidity
22 L
Pot Size
0.25 L
Watering Volume
55 cm
Lamp Distance
Aircoholic Not much to report just yet. She's focused mainly on the roots (not shown in the Foto), building her foundation for a big harvest - at least that's what I'm hoping is going on.
She's looking all healthy and well above the substrate, so I don't see any reason for action of any kind. But for how long??
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Week 3. Vegetation2mo ago
9 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
23 °C
Day Air Temp
6.2
pH
No Smell
Smell
55 %
Air Humidity
22 L
Pot Size
0.5 L
Watering Volume
50 cm
Lamp Distance
Aircoholic She's growing as beautiful as I've ever seen cheese growing. So far, everything growing according to plan. Not time for Topping yet, but I'm considering feeding some EMs to stimulate root growth.
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Week 4. Vegetation2mo ago
18 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.2
pH
No Smell
Smell
55 %
Air Humidity
22 L
Pot Size
1 L
Watering Volume
52 cm
Lamp Distance
Aircoholic She's growing so fast. Topping didn't stop her, now I'm curious what she'll be up to. Can't wait for her to stretch, although I'm a bit worried that the ceiling in the grow room might be too low...
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Used techniques
LST
Technique
Topping
Technique
5
Week 5. Vegetation2mo ago
29 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.2
pH
No Smell
Smell
60 %
Air Humidity
22 L
Pot Size
1 L
Watering Volume
48 cm
Lamp Distance
Aircoholic Big cheese is growing wild! She's started to stretch significantly, she's also started to show first signs of very early flower - first pistills - but not quite enough to call it flowering just yet. Next week I'm sure she'll have transitioned properly. Giving her some LST help with 3d printed braces, to help her grow tall and bushy.
So far I only gave clean RO water, without any amendmends or nutrients, will start feeding CalMag, EM-1 and Growzyme soon, to keep her happy during this phase.
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LST
Technique
6
Week 6. Flowering2mo ago
60 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.2
pH
No Smell
Smell
60 %
Air Humidity
22 L
Pot Size
1 L
Watering Volume
42 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 3
EM-1 (effective microorganisms)
1 mll
Organic CalMag
2 mll
Growzyme
4 mll
Aircoholic The cheese keeps on growing, stretching really nicely now. She seems to like the nutrients I feed her soil, I fed her a delicious ACT today, let's see how she reacts to that.
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Week 7. Flowering1mo ago
84 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
23 °C
Day Air Temp
6.2
pH
No Smell
Smell
60 %
Air Humidity
22 L
Pot Size
1 L
Watering Volume
31 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 1
Schachtelhalmextrakt
10 mll
Aircoholic No idea if her stretch is about to stop, or if it goes on for a little longer, but her Buds are already nicely developing and even show first signs of trichomes. She reacted well to the ACT and her soil is home to at least one worm, whose castings I found on top of the soil one day. Happy soil, happy plant, happy grower!
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Defoliation
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Week 8. Flowering1mo ago
88 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.2
pH
Normal
Smell
68 %
Air Humidity
22 L
Pot Size
1 L
Watering Volume
38 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 1
Organic CalMag
2 mll
Aircoholic She's (pronounced: Cheese!) in full flowering mode now - I'll try my best to keep her happy, feed some nutrients that make the biome in the soil happy, maybe some ACT, maybe some Top-Dressing with worm castings.
Gave her some millet-water (from washing millet before cooking - same idea as with rice-water) about a week ago, and she responded really well, with her sugar leafs growing nice and big with more and more trichomes. She also starts to smell in her own characterisitc way - delicious!
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Week 9. Flowering1mo ago
90 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.2
pH
Normal
Smell
70 %
Air Humidity
22 L
Pot Size
1 L
Watering Volume
36 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 1
Organic CalMag
2 mll
Aircoholic Buds are growing, Trichomes are being manufactured, the aroma is getting stronger and it smells so damn nice already - love the smell of young cheese!
She looks pretty dark green, a little too dark green for my taste. It seems like someone had a little too much Nitrogen. I'm trying something new this time, well it's not a new invention or scientific discovery or even breakthrough, it's just new to me. It's woodash. Plain old ash from burned wood. 1/2 teaspoon as top-dressing have been added, let's see what results this experiment will produce.
Also, she drinks less, but is not nearing harvest yet - I suspect some dry areas in the soil. My solution is a deep watering, basically putting her in a large enough bowl (not fat-shaming her, she's just a big girl!), watering her 4L RO water (with some CalMag) and letting her sit in the runoff and hope she'll absorb some of it and rehydrate the dry areas.
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Week 10. Flowering24d ago
90 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.2
pH
Normal
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
22 L
Pot Size
1 L
Watering Volume
35 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 3
EM1
1 mll
Organic CalMag
1 mll
Growzyme
2 mll
Aircoholic We're entering the phase where there's not much new to report. The buds keep growing nice and strong, she's producing trichomes, that form a white layer and a lovely contrast to the dark green of the leafs. The leafs are still a little too dark for my taste, which indicates too much Nitrogen in her system, but it starts to slowly fade to a more healthy lighter green on some fan leafs.
She gives off a lovely aroma already, even though it still smells 'unripe', I can't stop smelling her buds.
Now I'm trying to keep on route for a delicious harvest.
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Week 11. Flowering18d ago
90 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
6.2
pH
Normal
Smell
55 %
Air Humidity
22 L
Pot Size
1 L
Watering Volume
35 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 3
EM1
1 mll
Schachtelhalmextrakt
5 mll
Organic CalMag
5 mll
Aircoholic Turns out the woodash really wasn't that great of an idea. I mean, on the bright side, it helped mobilize the Nitrogen in the plant, so there's less excess now, but as is the case in complex systems, you change one parameter and it causes nutrient issues as a consequence. That's a lesson learned, right there. Okay, now trying to steer against and help the microbes in the soil to recover. Next week, I might brew some delicious ACT, but I don't want to overdo it, but I also don't want to wait too long into flower for the microbial kick to hit.
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Week 12. Flowering10d ago
90 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
28 °C
Day Air Temp
6.2
pH
Weak
Smell
60 %
Air Humidity
22 L
Pot Size
1 L
Watering Volume
35 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 3
EM1
1 mll
Schachtelhalmextrakt
5 mll
Organic CalMag
1 mll
Aircoholic She's struggling, but still hanging in there. She lost her aroma almost completely, which I understand to be caused by the microbial life in the soil not being strong enough to provide all the necessary nutrients for terpene production. I fed her some EM1 (Effective Microorganisms) with some molassis, which helped to reactivate her aroma and at least slow down the decay of the fan leafs. Brewing some BioTabs PK Boost ACT right now, hope to get her back on track so her last weeks of flowering are as comfy for her, as can be, considering the circumstances.
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Week 13. Flowering4d ago
90 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.2
pH
No Smell
Smell
50 %
Air Humidity
22 L
Pot Size
1 L
Watering Volume
35 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 2
PK Booster Compost Tea
999 mll
Organic CalMag
1 mll
Aircoholic This is turning into a total disaster.
It makes me really sad to see her in this condition and to know that this is on me. The problem is, I'm still not totally sure what happened. The small amount of wood ash I gave her wasn't a great idea, I understand that now, but she had issues before that already. Her leafs showed clear signs of Nitrogen excess beginning of flower, which made me try the wood ash, but what caused the excess and...
And why didn't any of my countermeasures work?
She lost almost all aroma, her sugar leafs showing a thick red coloring now and most fan leafs are yellowing or have completely died off. Her trichomes didn't signal harvest ready last week, but I'll check again, maybe I need to safe what I can before she becomes completely necrotic.
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yan402commentedweek 62mo ago
I like your thinking growmie, """I feed her soil"" 👌♥️
Good luck with the rest of your grow 🤞🍀
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Aircoholiccommented1mo ago
@yan402, thanks, growmie!
I'm getting more and more into the living soil mindset 🌱🌈🌿✨
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yan402commented1mo ago
@Aircoholic, Cool growmie 👌❤️
Seen some beautiful grows based on living soil and the no till version of it, seems a bit "slower" but much healthier looking plants, it's like watching them grow out in the wild, pretty cool 😜👌
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Aircoholiccommented1mo ago
@yan402, it really is a beautiful process to observe! ❤️
You're right, it's "slower", but also more chill, less intervention - it truly feels like watching them grow out in the wild, just letting them do their thing. I like that comparison! 😊👌
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Canabisseurscommentedweek 91mo ago
Suggest shifting focus to bloom nutrients rich in P & K.
Deep watering is a smart move to fix dry pockets and ensure even soil moisture.
Keep RH around 45–55% now that buds are thickening to avoid mold.
Wood ash adds potassium, but go easy – can spike pH.
She's on track – good luck fine-tuning
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Aircoholiccommented1mo ago
Thank you for the valuable advice, @Canabisseurs, much appreciated! 🙏
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BelSun_420commentedweek 13mo ago
Good luck mate 🤛🏻💚
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Aircoholiccommented3mo ago
Thanks, @BelSun_420! 🙏💚
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Fast_Budscommentedweek 03mo ago
Hi there, thank you for running this diary. We will be looking forward to your updates. Happy growing 🌱🌱 & good luck 😃
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Aircoholiccommented2mo ago
Thank you, @Fast_Buds! Keep checking in and see you at Mary Jane in Berlin?!
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