BlueGem, CocoFresh 1st.Grow

KejmilJeKejmil The seedlings are growing in Light Mix from Plagron 50/50 with perlite + Myco, in the first week only root juice 1ml/L was added to the watering, in the second week the first fertilization with BioTabs + CalMag took place, we'll see how the girls react, hopefully they'll at least take a neutral stance and we won't see any negative signs. The idea is to try growing with an autopot, organic fertilizers (even that little tomato from my own garden tastes different than, for example, from Spain with questionable fertilization methods - so maybe I'll notice it and maybe I won't... hopefully I won't over-fertilize :) ) and because of the possibility to go away for a few days somewhere outside of home and not be completely tied to the girls so they can also become independent as soon as possible. The final pots chosen are 8.5L for the sake of trying to fit them into the tent (2x Autopot, 1 Textile).

KejmilJeKejmil Transplanted on January 24th, in the end, natural selection wanted it this way, so there will be 2x cocoFresh and 1x Blue Gem left. I'm sorry to have to kill the last Blue Gem, but unfortunately, it has to go. There's no room in the tent. The choice was made like this because CocoFresh should be more sedative - probably better for me, and Blue Gem is more stimulating - and stimulants don't do my heart any good. And I think that in terms of yield, Blue Gem should perform better, so I'll balance it out with this selection. But that's jumping ahead, and we'll assess it hopefully at the successful end of the life cycle; it will probably be more about catching the more suitable terpenes (that's what they say). But these are just assumptions, and as they say, "the goat thought - until it died," and everything will be different. Topping is planned, but when? That's up in the air. Added 1 and 1/2 tablets of biotabs to the autopot, only 1 in the fabric - why? Because. For now, watering is done manually. So hopefully, an update again in a week. Czus! Let it grow!

KejmilJeKejmil So today I did a manual watering – I gave 1 liter of water adjusted to pH 6. I'm struggling a bit with nutrient excess; after watering, the girls always let me know they have more food than they would like. During drying, it relatively balances out, except for the BlueGem, which seems to be more sensitive to nutrients than CocoFresh and especially shows signs of nitrogen excess on the upper branches. It's probably because I gave the plants in the Autopot 1 and 1/2 Biotabs. By splitting one, it probably dissolves faster and gives the plants too much of a "boost." I hope that after watering with plain water during the week, it balances out and I can switch to flowering. Otherwise, I'll have to keep them in "vegging" longer until they recover from this. I only topped BlueGem because it stretches a lot and is thinner, so hopefully, it slows it down for a while and the rest can catch up. I didn't top Coco Fresh also so that all three can fit in the tent after the switch. So that's all, group. Let's grow!

KejmilJeKejmil Hey there! It's "BOj"! So I would start by saying that on Sunday, February 8th, I watered the BlueGem, which had a nitrogen toxicity issue, with water adjusted to pH 6.5 - about 8 liters. The runoff had something over 3 EC, and after watering, it was at 1 EC, and the girl got back on track. Otherwise, I'm now watering everything with plain water without pH adjustment (water pH around 7), and I've added Bactrex in one of the waterings. I did one foliar spray with cal mag (0.5ml/l), and I did some aeration of the lower parts of the plants (after which the percentage of leaves showing slight nutrient burn increased, especially with CocoFresh 1). So I'm continuing with plain water. I'm planning to switch the girls around Sunday and probably turn on the autopots too. The height of the tallest plant is about 45cm. In an ideal world, they would have already been switched, but I still want to dilute the nutrients in the substrate so it doesn't cause any issues later. So that's it... otherwise, I wish you a smooth grow.

KejmilJeKejmil Switched to flowering on 12.2. (Thursday), autopots are running at full speed and so far they seem great, I'm just feeding them water and in the next few days I'll add the first watering of compost tea. The only mistake I'm aware of is that I unnecessarily added calmag from Plagron to the tank as a precaution, and once again I encountered the problem of high nitrogen with CocoFresh1, so I emptied the tank and am only using water now. Oh, and I also added a controller from Ac 69Pro, so I started the VPD mode, hopefully that helps maintain a stable environment, they're growing like crazy, I hope I won't need to get rid of the middle plant due to space... we'll see, so that's it and happy growing.

KejmilJeKejmil Hey, so we're in the second week of flowering, exactly day 12, and I'm starting to worry if my plants will fit in the tent, the tallest top from CocoFresh is 74cm, and I really don't want to do SuperCropping because of the thick stems and fear of breaking a branch. I hope it stops growing soon. The light is 40cm from the tops at 260W. I only have 10cm left to raise the light, otherwise, I'll have to move the oscillating fan to the side of the tent, which is heavy, and I'm worried the side pole might buckle under the weight, and maybe even the exhaust from the tent. I've prepared 2L of compost tea with Bactrex and Orgatrex, giving each plant 0.5L. CocoFresh 2 was ruthlessly executed on the advice of Ombréé, but I take it as good advice. So that's it, and happy growing!

KejmilJeKejmil Hey gardeners. So we have another week, and it looks like everything is running smoothly so far. We'll see how I supplement the lower leaves on the BlueGem; it seems the plants are taking some nitrogen from reserves. I've read that 15L pots might be better with biotabs fertilizers for greater pH stability and overall better distribution of those biotabs nutrients. It's a bit of a swing from one extreme to the other. A lot of nitrogen during growth, and then too little during flowering. So I gave a boost dose of 20ml/l of Orgatrex with Bactrex on Sunday for nutrient supply, and even then they have a slight deficit, so hopefully, we can manage it somehow. This weekend, I’m probably looking at defoliation + Orgatrex 5ml with PK5-8 2ml and Bactrex. It seems like growth is slowing down; currently, the light is already at max and 33cm from the tops to the LED. So I hope Ombreee was wrong and my worries were unfounded. But we’ll see. Wishing everyone a pleasant continuation! Czus.

KejmilJeKejmil Hey! So over the weekend I added Compost tea, and on Monday after 24 hours of the autopot valve being off, I added PK 5-8 5ml and then another 24-hour break for partial drying. On CocoFresh, there was a hunger for phosphorus and probably Cal Mag too, so I added Cal Mag to the tank because the water had an EC of 97 µS/cm and that soft water is probably very hungry... adjusted in the tank to 420 µS/cm. Hopefully, that Plagron Cal Mag won't mess things up with the nitrogen it contains. Another observation - next time, I should add dolomitic lime to the substrate, which should help stabilize the substrate's pH and provide some long-term Cal Mag. But for now, it looks like the process has stopped, so I hope that's true and the plant stabilizes and the second one won't be thrown off either. It seems they're still growing, they smell a bit, but nothing specific that could be described, or maybe I just don't have the nose for it and enough imagination. So, peace and let it grow.

KejmilJeKejmil Hello everyone. Another week behind me. Not very successful, I found out that CocoFresh is over-fertilized and probably has a lockout, most likely that Cal Mag blocked it since it keeps sucking from the autopot tank (nitrogen - probably). The autopot has been turned off for the last few days, used Bactrex, and the next day just clean water - everything was done with the system off, watering from above. Amateur hour from Excelance, but what can you do. Starting today, the system is back on, and I hope that the clean water will dilute those nutrients and the plants will survive. I'm attaching a few photos as a lesson for next time. Plants can really teach you a lot. Cheers and strength to everyone!

KejmilJeKejmil Cuz, so the ladies are on a diet. BlueGem has lightened up a lot, hopefully, it can pull through. Both of them had a week on just water because they didn't feel like drinking, probably from that lockout, and the pots were completely soaked and heavy with the autopot on. So I drained them and watered them by hand into the saucer, which turned the top layer of substrate into solid concrete from the salts, so there was probably a diet from oxygen too. Yesterday I cleaned the substrate with bugs from Bactrex, compost tea, and a bit of Orgatrex from PK. Today I watered with pure H2O and Cal Mag. So if it doesn't kill them... we'll find out soon. I'm pushing this cart forward with my eyes as much as I can and still cheering them on. So, fellow warriors, happy growing!

KejmilJeKejmil Czus, so this week continued with top watering, added what is probably the last CompostTea with PK and Bactrex, and from now on just Biobizz cal mag in the waterings. That target line, as they say, is going "shitty but stable." On the CoCoFresh, fox tails started to appear, probably from the stress it's been given. The structure of the buds is airy compared to BlueGem, where it looks like they will probably be denser. I would like to give them the last week so the girls don't suffer too much, but we'll see, since I don't have any equipment and a good macro on my phone to take a closer look at the condition, I'll probably just go by the color of the pistils. So let's go, group!!!

KejmilJeKejmil So, greetings to everyone at the end of another week of this hopefully educational chapter of my "growing" life. It looks like I might be able to finish my first round. At the beginning of the week, the last round got PK 5-8, and throughout the week, I also gave them some Bactrex for good digestion, otherwise just water with Biobizz cal mag. I got a macro lens from apexel for more detailed shots, so I've added a few close-up photos. I see harvest day on Sunday because the state of the leaves has been begging for it for a while now; hopefully, it will make it to Sunday, and if the condition is better, I might give it another week, but I won't poke the snake. Czus!

KejmilJeKejmil Hello everyone from the green valley. These are the last photos before the harvest + the harvest. I gave them another week at the end, so hopefully it helped a bit with ripening. I trimmed a few dry and ugly leaves, and watered only with Cal Mag water. The chop happened on Saturday, April 18, so overall 9 weeks; they could definitely use another week, but oh well. I’ll try drying according to VPD at 0.9 and the offset on the controller changed to 0°C, oscillating fan (oscillation off) set to level 4 in the corner of the tent on the floor. I'm adding a few photos for viewing, so that's it for now. For the next round, I'm ready with Hindu Kush from Barneys and Durga Mata II CBD from Paradise Seeds, so it will be more of an indica grow with a hint of CBD. I also have Ice Cream Cake from Barneys (the original version to Hindu) on standby, but I'm not really into those modern strains, so the goal will be to balance things out. Cya!

KejmilJeKejmil Viz. BlueGem.