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1st grow - Northern Lights

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6 years ago
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Fission 300W Fluorescent/150W
Custom
Fission 300W High-Intensity Discharge/250W
Custom
Indoor
Room Type
LST
weeks Technique
Topping
weeks Technique
Defoliation
weeks Technique
Soil
Grow medium
11 L
Pot Size
4
Week 4. Vegetation
6 years ago
18 hrs
6.8
No Smell
65 %
1 L
5 cm
Nutrients 1
co2 tablets 1 mll
This is my first grow. About my grow setup: - 115x76x130 (cm) grow tent. - 400m3 Carbon filter. - 2 regular fans. - 190m2 extractor fan. - 2x1L regular pots. 2x11L regular pots. - The soil is organically fertilized with compost, perlite, vermiculite, mycorrhiza so i'm not using any fertilizers until flowering. - Filtered tap water. PH is 7.3 - 7.7 always need to adjust down. - Topped above the 4th node. - Started LST - Plants strong. Side branches developing well. - There were slightly yellow colors on one of the plants leaves. Trying to keep the PH at 6.75.
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Week 5. Vegetation
6 years ago
12 cm
18 hrs
25 °C
6.8
No Smell
65 %
1 L
4 cm
Nutrients 1
CO2 tablets 1 mll
- Lowered CFL - Stopped LST, will wait until the plants are in a more convenient structure unit LST takes places. - Learning to LST, a bit clumsy with this. - In the beginning of the week one of the plants leaves were getting more yellowish. Keeping conditions consistent, hoping that plant will adapt. - At the end of the week the leaves colors went back to normal.
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Week 6. Vegetation
6 years ago
15 cm
18 hrs
25 °C
6.8
No Smell
65 %
11 L
5 cm
Nutrients 1
CO2 tablets 1 mll
- Plant growth started to slow down, and soil when pressed with finger feels solid and dense. Time to transplant to 11l pot :) - When transplanting i sprayed the root ball with water with dissolved Mycorrhiza to help the roots. - Transplant successful. - Feeling more comfortable with LST. Bending with more vigor :) - Waiting for first signs of stigmas to induce flowering.
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Week 7. Vegetation
6 years ago
18 hrs
25 °C
6.7
No Smell
65 %
11 L
5 cm
Nutrients 1
CO2 tablets 1 mll
- Snapped a branch when LST-ing. tied it with duct tape. - Will have to delay flowering until the branch is in perfect shape. - Took a few days for the broken branch to bounce back. Looking healthy! - Ready to induce flowering next week.
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Week 8. Flowering
6 years ago
30 cm
12 hrs
27 °C
6.7
Normal
55 %
23 °C
11 L
30 cm
Nutrients 3
CO2 Tablets 1 mll
Boost - Hesi
Boost 10 mll
Bloom Complex  - Hesi
Bloom Complex 25 mll
- Both plants looking strong and rapidly developing - Initiated flowering. - Defoliating some wide leaves that block flowers. - Some brown spots appeared on some leaves, but eventually no new appeared. The damaged didn't recover. Very minor impact. (Possible due to the addition of Hesi Boost nutrient) - Continuing to LST. Branches are becoming stiffer. Need to be very careful.
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Week 9. Flowering
6 years ago
30 cm
12 hrs
28 °C
6.7
Normal
55 %
23 °C
11 L
30 cm
Nutrients 2
CO2 Tablets 1 mll
Bloom Complex  - Hesi
Bloom Complex 25 mll
- Very rapid growth - When i water i let 10% of water run out. This is not only good for the plants, but allows me to measure the soil PH. Found out that there were some imbalances in soil PH, and had to increase PH of the water a bit. Plant #1 had 6.51 PH, Plant #2 had 6.3 PH. - Both plants look healthy and don't show any issues. - Defoliating leaves that block light to nice flowers. - Temperatures started to climb as high as 31C when lights are on. Had to open the doors. This lowered the temperature down to 28C. - At night Humidity gets to 70-75%. Need to solve the problem as soon as possible. Need RH less than 60%... - Flower buds starting to develop.
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Week 10. Flowering
6 years ago
34 cm
12 hrs
28 °C
6.7
Normal
55 %
23 °C
11 L
30 cm
Nutrients 2
CO2 Tablets 1 mll
Bloom Complex  - Hesi
Bloom Complex 25 mll
- This week is a Humidity problem week. Daytime humidity is ok 52-55%. At nights my RH gets as high as 75%. I tried to use a crystal dehumidifier, but it is useless. Maybe it sucks 1-2% of water from the air. Had to purchase a KLOUDIC dehumidifier. 23w. 600ml capacity. It works, now night RH is around 62% at night. But i would prefer significantly lower. - Obviously the bigger the plant is, the more humidity it releases into the grow room. Not sure if this small dehumidifier will do the job right. - Also i have to keep my grow room doors open as it lowers the temperature from 31c to 28C. - In general the week #10 went very well. Resolved my humidity problems. Now RH stays 45-50% during the days, and around 58-60% during the night. Beautiful resin glands are forming. Thoughts: 1. What do you guys think is 190m3 extractor fan enough for a 400m3 carbon filter? Or the extractor fan is doing a bad job? 2. Noticed that even though the plants are same strain. Their color and leaf density is different. One is green, the other is dark green. Wonder why this is the case? I feed them all the same
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Week 11. Flowering
6 years ago
40 cm
12 hrs
28 °C
6.8
Normal
55 %
23 °C
11 L
30 cm
Nutrients 2
CO2 Tablets 1 mll
Bloom Complex  - Hesi
Bloom Complex 50 mll
- So far so good. The growth has significantly slowed. Now only the buds are growing. - Defoliating a few lower leaves that are 50% dead and don't receive light.
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Captain_7
Captain_7commentedweek 106 years ago
Nice looking trees. Different plants will grow slightly differently from each other, it’s normal. Siblings aren’t identical.
McMorris
McMorriscommented6 years ago
@Captain_7, You must be right Cap 😉. Its an organic process, not a "copy paste" function.
CelticGrower
CelticGrowercommentedweek 116 years ago
Wow great look at them praying to the god of light have northern lights from rqs will be popping this soon
McMorris
McMorriscommented6 years ago
@CelticGrower, let me know how it goes ;) I'll be happy to talk about this beauty!
Puffer_Bill
Puffer_Billcommentedweek 76 years ago
Plants look strong and healthy. 💪🏽😁👊🏼 Good work on the amputee 🏥🚑🌱 and on the LST ( I haven't tried LST ) Best wishes on your first grow. 🍀😎🤞🏼
McMorris
McMorriscommented6 years ago
@Puffer_Bill, thanks man! LST is awesome. It really takes use of horizontal space, especially if you want a bigger harvest and want to control the growth height :) A lot of buds receive light that they wouldn't received if growing without bending.
Lovemabud
Lovemabudcommentedweek 76 years ago
Damm...those Damm snapped branches. Looks good either way. How much fun is your first grow? I'm loving mine that's for sure...and will love the bud even more
McMorris
McMorriscommented6 years ago
@Lovemabud, Its incredible! I have a cannabis growing encyclopedia 500+ pages by Jorge Cervantes. Studying every aspect in detail. Very interesting! A lot of details to consider in my microenvironment. The branch blew my mind. 90% of it It was snapped off. And it healed completely. Magic of mother nature. I imagine if a cut human limb could grow back in the same way :)
Homegrown_Mary
Homegrown_Marycommentedweek 106 years ago
you know your game mate! Well done so far!
Puffer_Bill
Puffer_Billcommentedweek 46 years ago
Looking nice and lush. Healthy colour. 💚🌱💚
Puffer_Bill
Puffer_Billcommentedweek 56 years ago
Good you gave the plants a stress break. They look gr🎱
Puffer_Bill
Puffer_Billcommentedweek 66 years ago
Growing really well.🌞 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
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