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Fission 300W High-Intensity Discharge/400W
Custom
Fission 300W High-Intensity Discharge/600W
Custom
Indoor
Room Type
Topping
weeks Technique
Soil
Grow medium
38 L
Pot Size
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Week 1. Vegetation
6 years ago
2 cm
18 hrs
24 °C
No Smell
20 °C
0 L
I started 3 Sour Diesel seeds, 2 Godberry and 2 Jack the Ripper. None of them sprouted. I started 3 more SD, 2 more Godberry and 2 more Jack. Only 1 SD Sprouted. Was so sad coz I chose Godberry and JtR specific to my Fibromyalgia and other medical conditions. But never fear, I have many other seeds.
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Week 2. Vegetation
6 years ago
10 cm
18 hrs
24 °C
No Smell
19 °C
0 L
Nutrients 1
Bloom Seaweed 0.4 mll
After failing to grow the other seeds, I started three Northern Lights X Big Bud. This was a gift seed but it seems to fit my medical conditions so thought it was best. All three sprouted, which after my bad luck felt amazing. They just took off after that, first it looked like Sour Diesel would always be ahead but they have been great working together. I started giving them some Bloom Seaweed in the yellow bottle as well as some mykos on the roots poking out the bottom.
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Week 3. Vegetation
6 years ago
20 cm
18 hrs
23 °C
Weak
18 °C
1 L
Nutrients 4
Bloom seaweed 0.4 mll
Soil A - House & Garden
Soil A 2.5 mll
Soil B - House & Garden
Soil B 2.5 mll
Transplanted and Topped this week. Plants showed extreme thirst and desire to be transplanted. I gently removed the jiffy pellet mesh, applied mykos to new soil (Canna Terra Pro Soil) and directly onto roots and started full veg nutrients. A couple of days later I topped them.
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Week 4. Vegetation
6 years ago
20 cm
18 hrs
23 °C
Weak
13 °C
1 L
Nutrients 4
Bloom Seaweed 0.4 mll
Soil A - House & Garden
Soil A 2.5 mll
Soil B - House & Garden
Soil B 2.5 mll
Not much to document this week. I’m doing this from memory tho so I probably have some out of order. Took me far too long to find a good journal for this.
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Week 5. Vegetation
6 years ago
23 cm
18 hrs
23 °C
Normal
12 °C
4 L
0 L
Nutrients 4
Bloom Seaweed 2.5 mll
Soil A - House & Garden
Soil A 2.5 mll
Soil B - House & Garden
Soil B 2.5 mll
My damn Lumatek ballast, less than a couple of months old, died on me. And since my awesome EyeHortilux bulbs refuse to be powered by my shitty powerplant ballast, I had to switch to my shitty Vivosun MH bulb. So the spectrum has been reduced. I’m so sad. But growth seems to be continuing despite it. Just want that warranty exchange ASAP. Update* Dan mentioned they will need repotting soon, checked out their roots and he’s right. Repotting tomorrow. Update* Potting done, I’m a little scared not having used the fabric pots before. They are looking a little droopy, hoping just from the repotting. Update* HOUSE AND GARDEN ALGEN ARRIVED FINALLY!!!!!! All H&G from now on
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Week 6. Vegetation
6 years ago
18 hrs
22 °C
Strong
10 °C
8 L
1 L
Nutrients 4
H 0.3 mll
Soil A - House & Garden
Soil A 2.5 mll
Soil B - House & Garden
Soil B 2.5 mll
Strictly House and Garden nutrients from here on out. Ventilation items arriving this week and Humidity Monitor and clone tent. These are the second last pots, next is 35L. Update* SD is growing up right now. I plan to clone and switch to flower either this week or next. Was in hospital yesterday so a bit behind. Update* I repoted SD today, I struggled a lot with it. Not sure if I will have the strength to repot the rest. It’s so damn hard. I also took my first ever clones, dunno how they will turn out. Update* Dan says I have to repot. So I did. Now I’m dying. Turning to flower tomorrow
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Week 7. Flowering
6 years ago
12 hrs
22 °C
Strong
10 °C
38 L
2 L
Nutrients 4
Soil A - House & Garden
Soil A 3 mll
Soil B - House & Garden
Soil B 3 mll
Multi Zen - House & Garden
Multi Zen 1 mll
Physically and mentally I am so drained. I’m trying my best to get these finished. Started flower today. I’m gonna run out of height. 🙁. Clones are ok I think. Update* had to move to the ground in a rush. Everything looks good. Docs have me on bed rest now.
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Week 8. Flowering
6 years ago
12 hrs
22 °C
Strong
50 %
9 °C
38 L
2 L
Nutrients 4
Soil A - House & Garden
Soil A 3.6 mll
Soil B - House & Garden
Soil B 3.6 mll
Multi Zen - House & Garden
Multi Zen 1 mll
Struggling a lot this week with motivation, pain, exhaustion. Hoping they just take care of them selves. *Update. Week 8 day 1, little wisps are showing. *Update. Removed the big leaves
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Week 9. Flowering
6 years ago
12 hrs
24 °C
Strong
50 %
12 °C
38 L
2 L
Nutrients 5
Soil A - House & Garden
Soil A 4 mll
Soil B - House & Garden
Soil B 4 mll
Multi Zen - House & Garden
Multi Zen 1 mll
Growing strong Some more leaves gone. Just playing the waiting game No news lol
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Week 10. Flowering
6 years ago
12 hrs
24 °C
Strong
50 %
11 °C
38 L
2 L
Nutrients 4
Soil A - House & Garden
Soil A 4.8 mll
Soil B - House & Garden
Soil B 4.8 mll
Algen Extract - House & Garden
Algen Extract 0.5 mll
Nothing exciting happening. Cutting leaves. Moving light. Cutting leaves. Moving light. Water water water nutes water water etc Getting very sticky now. Need to start wearing gloves now. SD is a little behind the NLXBB though
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Week 11. Flowering
6 years ago
12 hrs
24 °C
Strong
50 %
11 °C
38 L
2 L
Nutrients 4
Soil A - House & Garden
Soil A 4.5 mll
Soil B - House & Garden
Soil B 4.5 mll
Algen Extract - House & Garden
Algen Extract 0.5 mll
Trimmed down. Very sticky.
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Week 12. Flowering
6 years ago
12 hrs
25 °C
Strong
50 %
21 °C
38 L
2 L
Nutrients 4
Soil A - House & Garden
Soil A 3 mll
Soil B - House & Garden
Soil B 3 mll
Algen Extract - House & Garden
Algen Extract 0.5 mll
Not much action going on. Just that thc filling up and the buds getting dense. Finally got to the back plants and trimmed some of the bigger leaves away
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Week 13. Flowering
6 years ago
12 hrs
25 °C
Strong
50 %
21 °C
38 L
2 L
Nutrients 4
Soil A - House & Garden
Soil A 3 mll
Soil B - House & Garden
Soil B 3 mll
Algen Extract - House & Garden
Algen Extract 0.5 mll
Getting closer. SD is a little behind The NLXBB which I did expect. Tried to get some no HPS light macro shots. Not sure they are the best.
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Week 14. Flowering
6 years ago
12 hrs
25 °C
Strong
50 %
21 °C
38 L
2 L
Nutrients 4
Soil A - House & Garden
Soil A 3 mll
Soil B - House & Garden
Soil B 3 mll
Algen Extract - House & Garden
Algen Extract 0.5 mll
Harvesting in the next couple of days. Seeing some amber tris now. Pretty scared of the work involved in that. Gonna need a comfy ass chair and a good hand pain day
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Week 14. Harvest
6 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Spent 100 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
66 g
Bud dry weight per plant
1
Plants
Normal
Difficulty

Height
Day air temperature
Air humidity
Light schedule
Night air temperature
Pot size
I feel like this harvest was too soon. The buds were dense, much stickier to harvest than NLXBB. Probably about the same yield. I didn’t weigh it.
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Week 14. Harvest
6 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Spent 100 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
60 g
Bud dry weight per plant
3
Plants
Easy
Difficulty
Positive effects
Giggly, Relaxed, Sleepy
Positive effects
Negative effects
Dry eyes
Negative effects
Taste
Flowery, Woody
Taste
Sleepy
Energy
Indica
Hybrid
Sativa

Height
Day air temperature
Air humidity
Light schedule
Night air temperature
Pot size
The first plant I didn’t trim as well. Next two were good. Quite sticky. Fairly dense. Good for my first round.
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RxPharma
RxPharmacommentedweek 16 years ago
I am a disabled, single mum, just trying to grow medicine for my conditions. It’s hard work, I tell you. I finally found this site after trying many other journals so my first 4 weeks data is a little off coz I’m trying to do it by memory but photos should be accurate, but I can’t see dates when I upload so not 100% on that. This grow is my second ever grow, the first one I knew NOTHING. I stunted my plants, I had gnats, but I still took them to harvest to learn along side a professional grower. This round I have everything I need and a lot more knowledge and experience. Let’s put it this way, my 4 week old plants are bigger than my 4 month old plants last round 😂 I am using: • A disabled Bathroom • Sungro 150mm Air Cooled Reflectors • Lumatek variable Ballast -- Running: —-Eye Hortilux Blue MH 400w (veg) —-Eye Hortilux HPS 600w (flower) • Back up is Powerplant Mini Ballast -- Running: —- Vivosun MH 400W (veg) —- Vivosun Super HPS 600w (flower) • Jiffy Pellets • Canna Terra Professional Soil • Generic black plastic pots • Vivosun Fabric Pots • Almost exclusively House & Garden Nutrients. Except for Bloom (my Algen alternative) which is an Aussie brand and Mykos. • No ventilation yet except a bathroom exhaust fan • No gauges/ monitors yet • Generic powerboards and timers • Sprouted the seeds in 24hr light. Changed to 18 hours after NLXBB sprouted. There is actually 10 days between SD sprouting and NLxBB Sprouting. • Guided and advised by the one and only Mr Dan Williams. 💚
Anxious_Passenger
Anxious_Passengercommentedweek 146 years ago
Wow! What a yield, well done.
RxPharma
RxPharmacommentedweek 116 years ago
My Sour seems to be much smaller than the northern lights, but SD does have a longer flower period.
RxPharma
RxPharmacommented6 years ago
@@Crisdolemeth, not completely wrong. Both can produce dense nugs. Right now, the SD is more dense, leaves and nugs are closer together than the NLXBB. Complete opposite of what I should be seeing 😆
Crisdolemeth
Crisdolemethcommented6 years ago
@RxPharma, SD is a 70% sativa so the nugs are gonna be way more larfy and longer than NL which will have super dense indicas nugs rights? i may be totally wrong.
Crisdolemeth
Crisdolemethcommentedweek 116 years ago
COOL GROW! our sour diesel nugs look exactly the same other than yours being like double the size lol
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