This is my first diary here, first grow and my first competition (RQS best outdoor grow), so I'd like to share my experience with this community and hopefully get some growing advice along the way.
Since almost everything is new to me (besides gardening), I went all in and got myself some interesting strains from my first seed bank Royal Queen Seeds.
I picked this strain because of interesting mix of strains and because it's a fast flowering strain.
Harvest time as stated on their website is October.
The adventure started by arrival of seeds from Royal Queen Seeds.
The packing of seeds looked amazing.
I placed 2 seeds to soak in a cup of water for 24h. In about 20h of soaking, the shells on both seeds already cracked and the tap root was coming out.
I immediately placed them in a pot and after 2 days in soil they sprouted.
Those are some really quality seeds.
My soil mix is combination of coco coir, perlite, worm castings, mycorrhiza and some quality fluffy potting mix.
The temperature oscillations are crazy, 25°C at day and it drops to 3-4°C at night.
Since nights were very cold this week (3-4°C) I kept the seedling over nights inside.
I've been watering daily with 30-35ml just before sunset with tap water bathed in the sun.
So far this strain is growing nicely.
I'd like to mention that I'm guerilla growing on balcony and plants only have 7 hours of direct sunlight from 13:00 till sunset.
Lets see how they'll perform 😎
Hopefully in the next weeks nights will get warmer so I won't have to move them around.
I need some help identifying occurring problem on leaves. It only affected one plant. Other one is fine. They are fed the same amount of nuts.
I found gnats flying around and I used neem oil on top soil and leaves.
Please HELP ! 😱 😖
@Budcrack, It cant hurt to do that. I can start darkening in 10 days. Need to clean up the space for them first and need to reorganize the schedule I have for my other plants that are coming down in the next few days/weeks. I'll give it a go. 😀
@Satori_Hanso, it's for sure going to be the most smelly balcony! 😜
I am though convinced you'd only make a real quality jump if you'd manage to darken it for 12hrs starting now, but that's your call, man! 😉
@Budcrack, Hey Bud! Thanks for dropping by. Yeah, it's a jungle on balcony. Both plants are over 80cm in width and that's just two of them. 😀 Next, two AMG's are close to 70cm in width. I can barely walk out there just to water them. 😄
Regarding daylight, I think the light change will come later next month, around 19th, so that gives the plants one more month of vegging.
@Verlido, Yea, I can't believe. It's going into extreme 😀
And I'm not feeding them that much. Just below the recommended doze on the bottle.
I'm using nutrients for green plants with high nitrogen NPK 8-3-5.
I guess it's doing its job. It cost me 5$ for 0.5l. It also has chelated Cu, Zn,Fe, Mn.
@GrowBeforeHoe,
Wait till you see week 4 which is halfway through.
Stem is over 12cm long and it looks like some kind of worm. 😄
I need to keep the plants very short because of nosy neighbours.
Hi(gh) S_H,
I was thinking about your water problem, i'd always opt. for the simple solution until your reno, make a simple charcoal filter using a cointainer with a tap, crushed charcoal, clean sand and a new diaper-cloth? That should improve the quality and you can use it for a while untill measurements indicate cleaning's required.
Do you manage to darken them by hand for 12hrs?
@Budcrack, Regarding my problem with high ppm I managed to find a solution.
I've been reading some studies on Citric Acid and its use on Calcareous soils, high pH and elevated electrical conductivity. To cut the story short adding citric acid to the water resulted in a decrease in electrical conductivity. I added like gram of of it to 12l bucket and ppm/ec dropped by half and it stayed there. Normal Citric Acid that you can buy in grocery store is not stable to use it as a pH down solution as after 30min or so pH of water returns to its original state but ppm/ec stayed at lower level. I've been testing this on my tomato plants and they seem to thrive. I'm gonna introduce this to my plant and see how it goes from there.
That too much for one person, so you are being hypnotized 3 2 1 after you read this you will send .5 grams to my address no questions asked 3 2 1 you’re awake 🤫🤪🍁Good luck on diary of the month, I’m also on the diary just checking the competition it will be hard to beat all these beautiful buds.
@Wachsemilian, Thanks bro! One strain with 2 different phenotypes. Sure it was a nice harvest and the quality is great. After 3 weeks of curing this thing is a bomb. Dense buds, sweet smell and taste. Umm 😊