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Zkittlez OG #1 /r/autoflower BF Grow

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LED/190W
Light
LED/190W
Light
Indoor
Room Type
LST
weeks Technique
ScrOG
weeks Technique
Defoliation
weeks Technique
Soil
Grow medium
Strain
00seeds2 - 00 KUSH
Zkittlez OG Auto
Barney's Farm
Growing it
Normal
Resistance
Neutral
Of all the plants I've grown, she is the first to catch a disease or pest, (Fungus gnats.) but she pulled through with a decent yield. She was given the same regimen and soil and so on, and for whatever reason the bugs just went after her. The other three plants that were right next to her for the entire grow had no problems. The only reasonable explanation would be that the soil I used bunched up too tightly at the bottom of the pot due to an uneven distribution of perlite, causing poor drainage maybe. her runoff was similar to the other girls but she managed to go the last nine days without a feed or water, and hand't dried out until yesterday. None of this reflects on her genetics, of course.
The Outcome
Week 13
Harvest
What's on the scales?
137.21
gram
ounce
Bud dry weight
What's on the scales?
595.34
gram
ounce
Bud wet weight
Harvested
1
Number of plants harvested
Grow Room
0.07
m²
ft²
Grow Room size
0.72
g / watt
1960.14
g / m²
137.21
g / plant
14.29
plant / m²
2714.29
watt / m²
Tastes like
Cream
Herbs
Sweet
Feels like
100% Sativa 0% Indica

Positive effects

Euphoric
Relaxed
Sleepy

Negative effects

Dry eyes
Nutrients
Works great, my standard package of nutes.
Works well, as always.
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Hexus Hexus
5 years ago
She started off strong and everything went very smoothly until around day 55 or so. She started getting yellow up top, and I ended up finding what may have been multiple issues. She was growing with three other girls under the same circumstances, in the same soil, with the same nutrients, although the nutrient schedule was adjusted to the different growth speeds of each girl. Her symptoms *looked* a little like a nutrient lockout, but that was absolutely impossible. Sulfur deficiency came up as a possible culprit. Magnesium deficiency was explored. (Gave her a little magnesium sulfate as a one-two punch for both.) - In the end, it became clear what was happening when she started getting full on yellow tops, with some dark brown spots, and goddamned fungus gnats started appearing in the grow room. Her drainage was poor. Could have been a dry spot in the soil. I';d water her, and she'd have a normal runoff, and she's dry off up top, but water was pooling inside the pot, *above* the drainage holes. Her roots were so thick that they had been filling the drainage holes as well. I kept being confused as to how heavy her port was when she was dry up top. Anyway, I ran a moisture meter into her bottom and it maxed out, even though her soil up top was dry as a bone four inches deep. In the end I just let her dry out until it looked like she was getting limp. It took nine days. The gnats were janky and weren't going after any other the other girls so I just vacuumed them up off of the flood tray a couple times a day until they stopped showing up. Today I did the first cut off of her, watered her, and stuck her back under the light. From her overall mass and my previous experiences, she looks like she'll give me around five ounces, but the yield number above is still speculative. I'll continues to update as I chop more of her and add more pics, of course. Day 89 - The final chop! She is no more! Well, she's drying on the rack.
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Njanne
Njanneweek 4
I'm growing this variety too :) I'll follow along to watch and learn 😀
Philindicus
Philindicusweek 9
Looks like a sulfur deficiency. You can give her some magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt) for a couple of waterings in between feedings. Use 1/4 teaspoon per gallon of water it should help green her back up again.
Philindicus
Philindicus
@Hexus, it's just odd because Maxi bloom already has a fair amount of calcium,magnesium and sulfur.
Hexus
Hexus
@Philindicus, Nutes in are at 6.15ish and runoff is at 6.6ish. She's actually recovering at this point. I did some magnesium sulfate as you suggested and while those top leaves don't look much better, the problem stopped cold and she's packing on bulk. At this point I'm officially calling her "Okay now" Def no lockout because she's packing on flower and still stretching. Topmost layer of leaves is the only effected part of her and she hasn't gotten any worse. It'd be a super weird issue if only this girl had a PH problem or a lockout because all five of the soil grow are in the same soil and are getting the same nute routine, and I'm PHing with the same meter for the other five girls plus the DWC. If any of them were going to be upset about bad PH readings, I'd imagine it'd be the DWC first. At this point she only has three weeks or so anyway, so we could be looking at a combination of things, including a bit of natural fade even, but all of her new growth is lush so I'm guessing it was a non-mobile nutrient. Sulfur, like you pointed out as a possibility, is a semi-mobile right? So she may just not be able to green back up as quickly. She only started going really pale eight days ago and she's only had one feed in between, with the MagSulf.
Philindicus
Philindicus
@Hexus, I think I would give her a flush it could be nutrient lock out. It looks like more than just one deficiency. Check her runoff ppms see how high they are also the runoff ph see if it high. This could be the issue.
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Wandering_Sage666
Wandering_Sage666week 13
Nice! I'm interested to see how doing 2 seperate harvests on the same plant goes for you. Have you done that before?
Hexus
Hexus
@Wandering_Sage666, Oh yes, with pretty awesome results. The grow is pretty interesting all around, too. - growdiaries.com/diaries/26245-lst-vs-natural-sour-crack-experiment
Philindicus
Philindicusweek 6
What happened your growing in your living room did you run out of room in your grow tent?
Hexus
Hexus
@Philindicus, Didn't see this post! Sorry. Nah, that's the grow room. I built it to grow in. :-D We have 2000 square feet of unused basement so I figured I would build this room as a practice run for completing the whole space.
Njanne
Njanneweek 12
Well done :) I see you learned about gnats... not fun... but it's a good learning experience :D
Wandering_Sage666
Wandering_Sage666week 12
Looking really great! I have 2 out of the 5 Zkittlez in my tent that are looking very similar to your Zkittlez. They're late to flower too. My other 3 Zkittlez are much larger and started flowering sooner. Happy growing!
psyych
psyychweek 8
Looking nice man! Good job! Come take a look at mine!
Philindicus
Philindicusweek 13
Fungus gnats very persistent little f#*ckers. I had some on my last grow any one who tells you they're easy to get rid of is full of it! If you have one plant that has them you may have more in the future. I tried a few natural ways to "control" them. You can try mosquito bits mixed in with your soil mix. It takes time but they may help. They love moist places to lay their eggs. I stopped short of using Azamax on them because I'm afraid it will kill my beneficial microbes.
Philindicus
Philindicusweek 10
Does she have long reddish/purple streaks running up her main stem?