Durban Poizon Indoor

HoneyBlunt42 Day 13 End of the first week of veg. Seedlings have stretched to around 7 cm. One has rooted nicely. The second is still being supported. Both looking healthy, pushing their first node of leaves under a 250W HPS.

HoneyBlunt42 The plants are coming up nicely. Second node of leaves has developed. Misting with water mixed with CalMag and Simplex Vega. Been leaving them in the tent overnight for the past couple of days. Five days after transplanting into 1.5-litre pots they're doing well. Will be taking the cup domes off soon.

HoneyBlunt42 Stretched to 10 cm, pushing into the 4th node. Looking great. The weaker plant caught a slight nitrogen deficiency (mild stem reddening on the fan leaves) — was letting it dry out too much under the HPS. With HPS, skipping even a day of misting is enough to fatally dry out the coco in the net cups. Topdressing with BioRoot stimulator once a week (seaweed extracts in the mix). Focusing the first 30–40 days on building a strong root system. The strongest seedling has already pushed roots out of the net cup and is ready for transplant into coco or hydro. Planning to transplant into 15-litre pots and flip to 12/12 in about a week. Might hold it in veg for another couple of weeks with some topping and LST using rubber bands — want to build a solid trunk and root system before flipping.

HoneyBlunt42 Day 34 Flipped to 12/12 under a 240W LED. Transplanted the stronger seedling into a 15-litre AeroPot filled with buffered coco substrate. Used a Simplex Coco Brick Mini for the plant — soaked it with 4 litres of standard nutrient solution and got 9 litres of coco substrate out of it. Then added 2–3 grams of OrganicMix BioRoot into the hole, seated the seedling and watered it in with a spray bottle. Topped it — this is a sativa and my tent is on the shorter side. Without topping and LST the plants hit the light and burn. Planning to flip the second seedling in the next few days as well.

HoneyBlunt42 Day 40 First week since flipping to flower. The plants got a bit cooked — I'd lowered the light to 10 cm, so I raised it back up and they started recovering. Topped them, leaving 3–4 pairs of branches with leaves. Pulling those out toward the edges of the pots with rubber bands. On the feeding side — a few more additives arrived, so now I'm running the full manufacturer's schedule. Mixing solution in a 15-litre AeroPot with an air stone, giving each plant 0.5 l per day. Looking pretty healthy since raising the light to 30 cm. Noticing 1–2 cm of new branch growth — after the heat stress stall they're pushing again. The main thing now is keeping up with the bending.

HoneyBlunt42 D 44 Beautiful pre-flower, week two. Fan leaves are palm-sized. Keeping growth in check with rubber bands — bending tops down once or twice a week. Just got BioBizz RootJuice for the roots. Still fine to add it during pre-veg — watering with 2 ml/l once a week. Everything else follows the Simplex Coco schedule. How I mix my solution in the AquaPot (15 l): Start with 13 l of RO water, then add in order: CalMag — 1 ml/l SilicX — 0.25 ml/l (wait a minute after CalMag) Simplex Coco A and B — pre-diluted in separate 1-litre bottles (30 ml Part A in one bottle, 30 ml Part B in the other), 2 ml/l total Simplex PK Boost — 1 ml/l Simplex Taste — 1 ml/l Simplex Aroma Punch — 1 ml/l Simplex Fulvic Gold — 1 ml/l Simplex pH Down — 1 ml/l Let it sit for a few hours with the air stone running before watering. Noticed slime building up on the air stone after just 4 days. Simplex Taste and Aroma Punch might be worth adding separately from the main solution. Day 47 Plants are developing actively in week two of pre-flower. Every two weeks I bend and spread the branches out — it slows vertical growth and helps them fill the tent more evenly. Visually they look great, no deficiencies.

HoneyBlunt42 D54 The bushes look healthy — visually 2–3x bigger than at the end of veg. Stretching hard in pre-flower. Threw a net over them and I'm tucking the tops under it. Managing to slow the growth down that way for now. No buds spotted yet — third week of pre-flower. This is a sativa that grows up to 2.5 m in the wild. Hoping the net and LST will keep the tops under the light. Feeding fully by the Simplex schedule, only dropped Simplex Taste and Aroma Punch. Need to check whether the slime is gone from the air stone. The additives I mix separately in a small 1-litre bottle with CalMag and hand-water the plants — not through the auto-watering system.

HoneyBlunt42 Plants are actively stretching upward, still in pre-flower. No buds visible yet. Watering from a bottle, 0.5 liters per day. I've been wanting to try Green House Power Feeding Bio for a while — interesting feature: you can mix it once into the top layer of coco and then just water with plain water. Decided to give it a try. Three days ago, I mixed 30g of Green House BioPower Feeding with 10 liters of coco substrate and top-dressed the plants. Since yesterday, I've been watering only with water plus additives: CalMag — 1 ml/l Simplex pH Down — 1 ml/l Simplex Taste — 2 ml/l Simplex Aroma Punch — 1 ml/l Foliar feeding with Simplex Mass and Power stimulators once every 2 weeks (10 drops per liter). Raising the light once a week. After mixing the charged coco, I burned some of the tops, but now the plants have recovered and are growing vigorously upward. I can barely keep up with tucking them under the net. Stems are getting stronger. Can't wait for flowering!

HoneyBlunt42 Day 69 Both plants are looking healthy — top leaves have grown to palm size. They're at 65 cm, again just 2 cm from the light. No burns. Pulled them out today and realized only one plant has barely started flowering after 4 weeks of 12/12. Looks like I was accidentally light-leaking it when feeding the other box. The plant closer to the door is barely flowering, while the one further back (which was shielded by the first) is already showing bud sites. LST'd both girls down to 40–45 cm using soft tie wire — grabbed a roll from the garden store for 100 rubles. Moved them to the lower box, which runs the same light. Swapped them with a Jack Herer sativa that went up to the top box — she's flowering confidently now, and the extra headroom up there is already coming in handy. While moving the three sativas around, I noticed one pot felt suspiciously light. Confirmed — took 4 L before any runoff came through. Need to water it more frequently and keep it away from the fan. Overall, expecting an interesting yield from the lower girls in 8–9 weeks from today. Stems are thick, and after topping there are several fat main colas developing. Tops have dodged the light so far — hoping that holds. Added supplemental lighting — a 150W / 2700K floodlight from Ozon for 1500 rubles. Looks like a solid deal; I'll report back on whether it makes a noticeable difference. Growth is very active — hoping to get the bending done in time. Stems are still soft and taking LST well.

HoneyBlunt42 Day 73 The plants look healthy and deeply green. First buds have appeared — flowering is going great. Over a week ago I removed the base nutrient Simplex Coco. Now running only Power Feeding Bio — mixed it into the coco and topped the substrate with it. Watering with plain water at pH 5.7–6.3, CalMag, and flavor additives at 1–2 ml/L: Simplex Aroma Punch and Taste. Previously these same plants showed nitrogen toxicity — red petioles on the large fan leaves when using Simplex Coco base at 2 ml/L as per the manufacturer's feed chart. On bio nutrients and water, new growth is coming in clean. Some leaves still show minor spots from previous acid overdose. A week ago I ordered basic pH and TDS meters from a local marketplace. Now dialing in the water properly: first bringing TDS to the target level with CalMag, then adjusting pH down with Simplex pH Down. Sometimes as little as 1 ml of acid is enough for a 15-liter bucket. The new auto-irrigation system arrived — in the coming days I'll set up drippers in the substrate and find a 5-liter reservoir for the tank. The speed at which the Durban plants have started flowering in a fully blacked-out tent is impressive. Waiting for some fat buds! 🌿

HoneyBlunt42 Day 76 One plant is actively flowering, the second is a bit behind. I'm topping the canopy every day to avoid light burn from the lamp. Set up an auto-watering pump that came in from Aliexpress. The plants look healthy and green, maybe slightly paler than ideal. Thinking of doing one feeding with Simplex Coco mineral base. First time running GHS bio nutrients — not sure yet how well they cover macro requirements.

HoneyBlunt42 The bushes are shooting up fast — the fan leaves, palm-sized by now, are already poking into the light. LED is not HPS lamp, good for me :) I'm training the branches daily with soft wire ties from the garden shop — cheap as chips. Watering with RO water, pH dialled in. A 15-litre reservoir makes it easy to manage PPM and pH, and the air stone keeps the solution well-oxygenated — roots love it. 3 weeks in without Simplex Coco base. A couple of days ago the stems started showing a slight red tint. Figured I probably didn't mix enough nutrients into the top layer: I went with 3 grams per litre of substrate — 9 litres of Simplex coco brick and 3 scoops of nutes, carefully blended. Was worried about overdoing it. Still, even at the minimum dose I got minor burn on the lower leaves. The substrate had been pre-soaked with Simplex Coco base — should've flushed it for a couple of days first with a CalMag solution and pH 5.6–6.3. Three weeks later I top-dressed with another half scoop (5 g) per pot. For a long-flowering sativa that's pretty standard practice — topdressing every 2–3 weeks works well. Overall, Bio Feeding is a really straightforward option — accessible and easy to follow even for a beginner like me. Can't wait to taste the end result: never grown bio before, only mineral nutrients.