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GerHardGrows - Day 8 - 20 Hours Light - 200 PPFD - PH 6.0 - 300 ml Water - 0,5 ml/L CalMag

GerHardGrows - Day 11 - 300 ml Water - PH 6.2 - 0.5 ml/L CalMag - 75% humidity - Temp 24° ON DAY 12 A HUGE ACCIDENT HAPPENED! The Humidifier was accidentally put to "purify" which was doing a constant steam and turned the Grow Tent into a Sauna and it was dripping everywhere! I dried everything, the Light was still working. I banned the humidifier. Everything seemed normal again. However... Next day the Light didn't light up. Had to change to 3 x LED Bulbs for the next days until the 16th day when the new Lights came and I could use the one from another Tent which was the same model that stopped working. (cheap Sonlipo SPF 1200 PRO)

GerHardGrows - Day 15 - improvised Lights because of an Accident - Osram LED Base Classic A 100 13w Cool White 1521 lml - Day 17 - 500 ml Water - Day 19 I was able to use a Sonlipo SPF 1200 PRO again like the one which was destroyed - 500 ml Water - PH 6,3 - Added BioBizz Grow and ActiVera over the week - LST of the Main Stem by Hand daily - no Strings attached

GerHardGrows - Day 22 - Humidifier re-recruited for some seedlings - 80% humidity - 23° - TRAINING STARTED - LST by Hand ( I push down the main stem and just chill out a bit, doing that 2 - 3 times per day. - I lost a bit of my word file so I don't exactly know how much I watered during that week however, - Day 24 - 2,5 L - 0,5 CalMag - 0,5 Grow - 0,2 ActiVera - 7 Drops PH Down per Liter

GerHardGrows - Day 29 the left Plant started - Pre-Flowering - Light mode switched from Veg to Veg + Bloom full spectrum to - support stretch to use the height of the tent - 350 PPFD - Day 30 - watered 3 Liters - FUNGUS GNATS SHOWED UP and because I could not get Nematodes for a few days I - added Vermiculite on top - sticky Traps and - sprayed Lavender Oil Water around the Tent Area to keep them off as much as possible until being able to add Nematodes - Day 35 - 4 Liters water - 2 ml Bloom / 1L - 1 ml TopMax - PH 6,3

GerHardGrows - Day 38 - 41- added Nematodes - Stopped LST - 500 - 600 PPFD Light - Maybe CalMag deficit showing? - (will add 1ml/1L next time I water) Feel free to comment if you know what the stains could be caused by! They start Greyish / Black and turn Brown. Btw. I added the Vinyl LPs to bend the Tent to make more Room because it's just a 60 x 60 Tent

GerHardGrows Day 44 - Resin Production began and Bulking starts - Changed Lights from Grow + Bloom Mode to - Bloom Mode for more Red and less Blue to keep the Buds from fox-tailing. - Changed Dimming from 75% to 100%. - ~ 700 PPFD - Set Duct Fan to 55% humidity and maximum Level 6/10. -Set circulation fan to 2/10 blowing slightly up and into both plants middle. - ActiVera had mold spots in the bottle so I trashed it WHY does my run off water have PH 7.8??? Water: 4,5 L Water Temp. 23° Humidity 67% Air Temp 25° Left Plant (60 cm) Bloom: 11 ml Grow: 1 ml TopMax: 4 ml CalMag: 5 ml PH: 6,5 Right Plant (55 cm) Water: 4 L Bloom: 11 ml Grow: 1 ml TopMax: 3.5 ml CalMag: 4 ml PH: 6,3

GerHardGrows Day 55 Added top layer All-Mix Watering: Left Pot 4,5 L Right Pot 3,5 L PH 6.1 PH Drain 7.5 (still very high 7.5 (?) 3 ml Topmax /L 3ml Bloom /L 1 ml Calmag /L 1 ml Grow /L I don't feel like I can do anything about the weird sqare shaped marks and rusty CalMag Freckles and just continue since it won't have much time left anyway. However, I love her look and smell, just beautiful and very fast growing and sturdy plant. I barely trained her and she still got strong arms. Sure it's nothing compared to a highly trained fat tree but good enough for me. :) Any tips are still very welcome since I'm still a beginner trying to find out what's wrong with my grows. They always get the rusty Speckles but CalMag doesn't solve it. Trying a different approach next time. Maybe straight up Coco / Perlite or only Bio BIzz Soil but that didn't work that good for me in the past. How am I supposed to get a proper PH wihtout using PH down? My Tabwater has a PH of 7.4 after adding the BioBizz stuff if I don't put in PH-Down before. Should I use Lime next time? How much and with what soil? So many questions, possibilities and options! Let me hear what you think! Update 3 Days later: The rusty Speckles seem to have stopped appearing, I guess I missed the right time to add more CalMag into the Mix. I should focus more on Nutrients for 2nd - 3rd Week Flowering in the Future I guess.

GerHardGrows Looking forward to harvest on Nicholas Day 6th December. I'm not doing a flush at all this time, let's see if it makes any difference. Buds are not that big, I barely lollipopped but looks enough to me. Next time I would give them more Space and move them to the bigger tent. Not sure if switching the light modes was a good or bad thing since I read it's better to only give them the same spectrum the whole run through. Any thoughts on that? I think I had a slight CalMag Issue in 2nd Week Flowering but I think I was able to not let it go out of hand and she continues normal growth. Next time will be grown with a different light that has only full spectrum mode and we'll see how that turns out. After all she is really an impressive plant, she was growing very fast indeed as usual with FastBuds. I barely trained her and she still got strong enough Stems and Arms. Buds will be not the greatest but the Looks is just so amazing. And after what I smelled (really smells a lot like Blackcurrant) it will be an insane smell. The intense Berry Smell the Buds give off is unlike anything I have smelled before. Let's see how the Aroma turns out when chlorophyl is cured out. I have high hopes for this one! FastBuds didn't disappoint so far. The BubbleGum I grew of them also had an amazing smell and grew fast. EDIT! I just found out my PH Meter was off by 0.5! Now that makes a lot of sense! Too high PH for a Coco based Soil. Next time can only get better! :) A friendly reminder for everyone to recalibrate once a month, I used it like for half a year and already and such a shift. I used the Apera PH20 btw.

GerHardGrows I hang them to dry with most leaves on, the whole Plant hanging upside down in the Tent. Slight wind from the Bottom to the Top with the Clip Fan on lowest level, two PC Fans hanging next to the Plants. Humidity was dancing between 60 % and 50%. Took them out after 9 Days drying when most stems snapped, trimmed them and put them in Glasses, which I burp daily. As usually I did not flush because I always water with a bit drain and use organic Fertilizer so I don't need to do that. It would be a waste of Resources and after Curing it usually smokes even smoother than the medicinal stuff. Never had an Issue with that so far. Blackberry Auto by Fastbuds Right plant was less trained and less defoliated and had almost no nutrition issues compared to the left Plant which there grew smaller but therefore more buds compared to the right plant, which had bigger top buds and smaller buds to the bottom because I barely defoliated. Right plant was overall smaller and had less yield. Space was not optimal obviously so they were pretty small. The Terps of the left Plant are brighter on the Berry side and the right one is a bit more kushy. Left Plant: Dried and trimmed Buds 42 g Right Plant: 33 g Drying: 10 - 11 days Terps: - Blackberries - Blueberries - Pine - Gummy Bears - Red Wine - Skunk - Marker (Edding) - Hops Very unique and layered but Berries are the Main Terp. Really nice! One of the best smelling Strains I had so far, right after Fat Banana. 9/10 Taste: (Vaped) - Berries - Menthol - Fuel - Pine - Marker (Edding) (pure Joint) - berries - marker (edding) - gassy - super smooth, no coughing At first it tastes like Berries while you still taste the dry herb, later when smoking hot it tastes a bit like a mild permanent marker, a bit like the marker (edding) smell, a bit gassy but darker. Very smooth smoke, didn't cough even once and note that I did not flush the plant. (smoked in bowl) - sugery - herbal (8/10) Effects: - euphoric - happy - silly - heavy body relaxation - uplifted - strong - recreational - skunky / kushy It hits fast with a strong and euphoric high, makes you uplifted and active at first, then heavy body relaxation follows, fades into sleepyness at the end. Perfect High for me but more on the recreational side, still has lots of medical positives tho. 9/10 Side Effects: - hungry - dizzy Can make you dizzy, but no dry mouth. Definitly hungry later tho, so be prepared for munchies. I think it has potential to amplify anxiety and paranoia but personally, I felt fine in social Situations and didn't feel nervous. I can focus with it, it can amplify hyperfocus for me as an ADHD patient but at the same time it has a silly side which leans towards skunk strains and so it also can lead to less productivity. Overdozing with this tends to sleepyness instead of racy heart and anxiety for me personally. Yield: - rather small - small plant - airy Buds My 2 Plants both dried and trimmed Buds: - 75 g Was partially my fault because of not enough space and some nutrition problems but it also grows very small and has airy Buds. 6/10 (I only weight the dried and trimmed Buds and not the whole Plant because it doesn't make any sense to me to do that, too many Factors like Defoliation and Training Methods influence that so I only weigh the dried and trimmed Buds, no leafs.) Optics and Bud Structure: - vibrant orange hairs - beautiful dark purple buds - airy - leafy - foxtails - small clusters - sticky Overall: Terps are really nice on this one and it outweighs a lot of the negative sides like airy bud structure and small yield. Growing was relatively easy but I had Problems, probably not enough CalMag. Looks are obviously BEAUTIFUL, I rarely saw such a good looking Strain. The High is perfect, exactly what you expect from Cannabis, like all good sides of it in one Strain without dry mouth, really like it! 8/10 The End of my first Grow Diary! It's a learning Journey and a Journal and took a lot of effort but I want to learn and share my experience and joy growing! Thanks for anyone who gives support.