First grow🌺💋

Maindrugger During the day, the lamps heat up the temperature inside, but at night it drops to the room temperature. In the photos, the plant is 5 days old. I watered it with 200ml of water every other day. Where it's under the jar, the plant is 2 days old.

Maindrugger This is the end of week 2. At the end of the first week, my plant almost got burned because I lowered the lamp too low (less than 50cm) – it wasn't intentional. Also, during the first week, the plant got overfed; I think it was because I added some fertilizer to the soil when mixing it with perlite. It said on the package that it helps root development, but in the end, it just harmed it. My plant is also not developing side branches well; it’s probably just this type, and it’s unlikely they will stretch out much on the sides in the future. So when I do LST, I’ll probably have to pull the top down to the ground, which will be difficult. I’m giving the Flora growing kit nutrients: grow, bloom, and micro at 0.2ml each per liter, alternating, watering every two days (like every other day) following the scheme of compote, water, compote, water, and so on, pouring about 500ml. I raised the humidity this week to 50% and turned on a small fan.

Maindrugger It's the very end of week 3, beginning of week 4. At the end of the week, I lowered the lamp a bit and slightly burned the plant, but nothing critical. I just did some topping, you can see it in the picture somewhere. I watered according to the compote scheme, water. I watered every other day with 600-700ml. In about a week, I'll switch to flowering. I just raised the humidity to 50%.

Maindrugger It's been exactly 30 days of vegetative growth, and today I'm switching to flowering. Turns out I've been watering it with water at pH 7.3 all this time, but a few days ago I bought pH down, so everything seems fine. I've been watering just like before, every other day with the schedule of 1 time juice, 1 time water with nothing. I gave 1 liter per watering. Now I'm thinking maybe I should lower the lamp for flowering. The spot I trimmed during topping has produced branches, although they look more like leaves, but I think in a few days they'll turn into proper branches. Anyway, I'm ready for flowering, I've already bought all the necessary nutrients for a dense harvest. It's a shame I can't keep it in vegetative longer; I would have given it another 2 weeks and it would have been a monster with the potential for 100+ grams dry. The only thing that's unclear right now is what that spot on the leaf is; you can see it in the last photo. It's not light or shadow, it's some kind of spot.

Maindrugger It's day 7 of flowering, and I can't see much yet, although I'm writing this the day after I took the photo, so it feels like I can see spots where the buds are forming. I've been watering 1.5 liters every other day. I started giving not just the base nutrients but also bud factor x, and on day 7, I gave big bud. Everything's good except for something with two leaves; one looks like it’s been chewed at the edges, and the other one is missing a tip (circled in the picture) and also looks like it’s been chewed, although I haven't seen any insects, and it's unlikely they could be there. It's strange, to be honest. I think it might be because I'm not giving calmag, but I'm not sure if a deficiency could cause this. Overall, everything is fine; it's growing quickly, and I think I'll increase the water dose to 2 liters. Oh, I forgot to mention the smell. At the beginning of this week, there was a gas and citrus smell, but now it has become sweeter, and it might turn into something berry-like. I've seen others say that Tropicana smells like berries, but I don't have that yet.

Maindrugger I increased the watering to 2 liters every other day. I noticed a bit of a calmag deficiency, but I don't have any, so there's nothing I can do about it (not because I'm cheap, but because two online stores refused to sell it to me). Overall, everything looks great (except for the second plant, which is doing poorly). The buds look better and better every day, I don't have much more to say.

Maindrugger In the last 4 photos, you can see the yellow leaves; they turned like this in the last 2-3 days. I didn't know and still don't know exactly what it is, but after reading, I have thoughts that it might be a salt buildup in the soil. I've never watered the plant so that water flowed out from the bottom. Tomorrow I'll give it not 2 liters but 4 liters to flush it properly; maybe it will help. I also think it could be a nitrogen deficiency because only the lower leaves started to yellow, and I just reduced the nitrogen a bit. I want my buds to be purple or something close to that, so I analyzed other diaries and read some stuff, and I need not just cold temperatures but a temperature contrast. That's why I set it to around 25 degrees during the day; this is also why I reduced the nitrogen (nitrogen, by the way, affects the green color), and my nutrient dosage chart says so too. The buds look good; nothing is yellowing on top, etc. I hope the yellowing on the other leaves won't develop further and that it will stop at this. By the way, I added a 50w fan for airflow; it seems fine.

Maindrugger In the second-to-last photo and a few others, you can see the leaves. I think it's a bit of overfeeding + salt buildup. When I wrote last Friday, the next day I gave it 4 liters of nutrients and started seeing the side effects more clearly. So, after 3 days, I gave it another 4 liters, but just regular water and didn't water it anymore. Sugar (trichomes) appeared, and its lower leaves were yellowing, so I trimmed them a bit. I think I'll give it 4 liters of nutrients tomorrow but with a reduced dose of additives. I'll follow the base instructions, and the reduction will only apply to Big Bud, Bud Factor X, and Taste Terpenes. I hope everything goes well until harvest and nothing happens. It's a bit sad that there probably won't be any red/purple buds, but there's nothing to be done about it; it still looks amazing. And for anyone interested, it might even be useful: the salt buildup was because I was giving 2 liters of water, and it wasn't draining from the bottom. Now that I'm giving 4 liters, there's drainage water present, and ideally, the salt is being washed out.

Maindrugger I've been watering according to the schedule: water, fertilizer. Every 3 days, 4 liters. The leaves are still slightly yellowing, but it's manageable. I'm thinking of starting to give 4.5-5 liters of regular water, while keeping the fertilizer at 4 liters. There are a lot of orange pistils, not purple, but still nice. It's a shame I don't have calmag; it's a really useful supplement. I think everything would be more stable and better with it, but it's not bad as it is. I can't wait for the harvest! I bought a microscope, so next week I might take some photos of the trichomes.

Maindrugger The buds seem to have finally stopped increasing in size, at least the top ones. I watered every 3 days with 4 liters of nutrients and 4.5 liters of water, gave another 2ml of bigbud per liter of water, I think I'll harvest in a maximum of 2 weeks. The trichome photo isn't very good, but it's something. I got tricked with the microscope as always, but what can you do? 🤷🏽‍♂️. I think I'll do one more feeding with nutrients and a flush at most.

Maindrugger Tomorrow's the harvest. I might have given them a little more, but I don't want to. I've only been watering with water, giving 5 liters each time. The last watering was 3 days ago. In the last 3 days, I've been opening the window at night to make it cold, so it's been around 15 degrees for the last 2-3 nights.