V:The Series - They Came for the Harvest

TruTraTri Well, if there are visitors watching us. I am sure they must be on a mission to eradicate humanity - if not they are so stupid they are dangerous!😂 So.... subconsciously, I try to get rid of her - or I am just clumsy and stupid. I dropped her on the head and she completely fell out of the soil. Would be enough stress for such a young one, but that would be just a normal mess up. I managed not to drop her just on the head.. but on the head on a sticky trap .... 💩😂 So she is already a war veteran, with a damaged first leave. Nonetheless, new growth does not mind and I hope I did not mess up all symmetrical grow from the start 😅 “The Visitors are not our friends!” — Juliet Parrish

TruTraTri The treacherous attack had major impact. The Resistance failed in it's futile attempt to take the life of the dear visitor. New growth is not in sync due to my clumsy handling😪 On the positive side growth was not really inhibited and rooting was strong. At the moment she is an outdoor plant (way too early) so I am happy with every step she takes. Outlook: As she will just slip in into another run, I can't really give her the best veg or any training. 1) 1-3 weeks more veg. 2) Final transplantation in 8L ASAP (perhaps this week if the rooting stays strong) 3) At max LST if stretch is too strong 4) Extensive Lollypopping, just aiming for some headbuds. “They actually believe that a conspiracy exists.” — Steven Just recognized the awesome pot "Coole Typen wenn's heiß wird." 😹

TruTraTri Well, as she grows the early damage gets visible. Nonetheless, she still grew fine and rooting was excellent. 💪 Very fast transplantation in final pot was possible.😎 As soon as she looks like a small little and happy cannabis plant she will be moved inside and flipped. The human will is much, much tougher than we bargained for.” — Diana

TruTraTri Last outdoor week. Switch in 1-7 days. Weather was more or less fine, so was the Visitor. The early mess up did outgrow and she looks nice. 😋 Not sure what the new run will look like. So probably some LST or removal of some lower branches. “We either win, or we lose!” — Ham Tyler

TruTraTri Switched, gave them no time to adjust to artificial light😈 Moving her indoor + change of light (+ schedule + intensity) was a bit harsh😅 Evil visitors I'll get you one day.. Long live the resistance! “That embracing change is never easy.” — Anna

TruTraTri These evil, black hearted lizard visitors.. you will be defeated! The Resistance arrmbared the Rousey out of the visitor (own leaf training).. the evil one was not impressed.. Her limbs were ripped apart and F-5'ed on the ground.. she was not afraid of the punishment.. Daily she was treated with Tongan Death Grip (just bend the tip around a bit manually.. somehow I hope it's a bit like LST 😹) .. She did not acknowledge humanity.. No other choice then to restrain her with a black widow (LST)... outcome unclear. Long live the resistance! “I prefer the direct approach.” — Diana

TruTraTri The evil visitors reach out to rule our planet and stretch very much. Tied them down to the ground again to prevent any evil doings... you despiteful lizzard alien Overlords👽 I switched early (after bad condition outdoor veg) and fast but I am not sure the pot is big enough. Let's hope the soil got enough juice in it. Not much todo except for letting time pass by.. until it's cured 😆😅 So as I got some external motivation .. I put some work in the pictures 😋 Just 10 to 15 weeks until the first smoke . 👽👻 “Be very careful, Steven.” — Diana

TruTraTri The treacherous green invader showed his ugly lizard face. It's hunger was only surpassed by it's reach out for power. Haha... live with the consequences. Now it's stretched all over the place trying to dominate our little blue planet, but it's small feet can't carry it's weight and sun is burning its flesh. *Perhaps some early signs of a problem/combinations: - Pots too small (pretty sure) - soil short in N (or just pots too small..) - soil not ripened long enough (or just pots too small..) - stretched .. idk.. like 5 times more than the others Leading to --- wide open plant --- too close to the light --- heat --- strong air movement. --- low RH --- chaotic training Or if everything is fine... just a bit stretch paleness and stress 😹 Lucky me.. as I told my self I just want to have a smoke ... I am relaxed and already happy with the result😂 So if anyone goes for yield/perfect run.. laaaarge stretch. I estimate they would be round about 1,10-1,20m at LEAST without LST. 👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽 “Just be sure not to ask anything that would paint us in a negative light.” — Anna

TruTraTri YIKES! The lizards are deceiving... humanity won't fall for it. To hide their presence they spray disgusting smell around.... like peeled crustanians, but sure they are not our friendly martians (GREAT movie! Think a diary is coming with Lobster Man from Mars😛😂). This week on the serious side... some thoughts... First of all, target was and is a test smoke, so that is going to happen😂 So I am fine.. so even if it reads bad .. it's all fine somehow😎 Why she looks not perfect: Too close to the light ... leading to too hot and dry environment... not the best nutrition uptake. Too small pot (nutrition lack) Soil not long enough recycled (nutrition lack) On the other side, the stretch looks still somehow in line, she is not too thin, many budsites.. bud development is in progress beside her problems. I am a bit clueless about the whole plant, the others with training can take up more/better nutrition (https://growdiaries.com/diaries/298618-grow-journal-by-trutratri). They have a better environment, because of their size/distance to LED, but should need way more and stable nutrition... Second, the THC-V really smells like old fish/shrimp shell!!! I can't tell if it's from the soil or plant. In addition it's a bit chemical/salty, which is definiteley coming from the soil. But the soil is clearly working with the other genetics.👻 So perhaps combination of different needs, environment.. and a "natural" fish smell?😂 Still curious about the salty smell with my just water setup... perhaps she secretes something? 👽👽👽👽

TruTraTri Finally, the efforts of humanity in the war against the invaders are showing some results. Lesson learned after last week’s futile attempt to strike the Visitor down and the counterattack with that death-bringing smell: the Visitor was left alone in his cave, licking his wounds. Instead of a healthy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle green, his skin reflects the evil inside — poisonous, radioactive green. 👽 The scales of the lizard are falling off its flesh... or is it just shedding its old skin? 💀 In another desperate last-resort attempt, special agents Mulder and Scully were employed and launched another assassination mission. Secretly, the water base was poisoned with acid and biological weapons. Let’s see how you handle this, invader. *Probably hard to understand... She was too stinky last week, so I won’t get her out of the box again until harvest. 😹😹😹😹😹😹 I was afraid she would be my first plant that blooms but doesn’t make it. Still not sure, but I’m feeling positive again. 💪 With the other plants as comparison, I can see that my soil lacks all kinds of nutrition. I still cannot say whether the fishy stuff comes from this or that. But in my case, the chemical smell usually comes with a pH swing. If this happens, or if any lack or excess occurs.. I go with the flow..l, I'd just stop watering and change recycling of the soil. In this case I think I was forced to do something or they would've been goners. So this week I added some H2O2 to my water for a bit of general cleanup. In addition, the THCV received some citric acid from my kitchen cupboard and a small dose of drain cleaner (enzymes). Both lower the pH, which matters because my soil is heavy — so when it is off, it has a huge capacity to stay off. The enzymes should also help clean up the root space a bit. I also added some cheap, non-branded, all-purpose mineral fertilizer, because besides the probably pH fuck-off, the soil lacks nutrients anyway. Sadly, most leaves have already dropped. 😕 On the positive side, I think she will finish. 😅 Despite her looks, the buds are still developing and have not stopped growing... fingers crossed. 👻 “They must pay.” — Anna

TruTraTri The Visitor is struck and finally seems to struggle. All efforts aside, nature did the trick: simple, plain fungus gnats — unnoticed and harmless to humanity, but the arch-enemy of the Visitors. Secretly, they invaded their home bases, damaging the entire invasion army. The Visitor gathers its last strength for one final, malicious act of revenge: to make humanity share in its suffering and drag them down into the abyss. Even without functioning organs or bodily processes, the Visitor keeps growing its buds in one last attempt to spread its evil among humanity. ***After last week’s assumptions and the treatment with nutrients and other adjustments, I discovered a whole army of fungus gnats hiding in the soil. Strangely, there were almost none on the sticky traps, none on the neighboring plants, and even here they seemed to stay mostly at soil level — no real flying activity, no obvious swarm, nothing like that. So I assume this was the reason for more or less everything that went wrong. The strange part is that I had already used BTI once, exactly to prevent this from happening. The other plants, both with ground cover and without it, show little to no symptoms — at least nothing nearly this severe. I still don’t see any flying gnats, but I gave everything another light surface watering with BTI. I thought she had recovered pretty well, but after seeing the massive infestation, I am worried again that she might become my first blooming plant that won’t make it. The leaves keep fading, and it is slowly progressing towards the flowers. 😭😭😭😭 Anyway, she is still fighting. The flowers somehow still look nice and are still developing. It would have been great to see how she would have performed without this major infestation. 😈💩💩 *** “Anyone could be a Visitor.” — Erica Evans