KooKoo FOR COCOA PUFFS
THE FIRST LEAVES WERE UNUSUALLY LIGHT GREEN, HOWEVER, THEY SEEM TO BE DARKENING UP SOME TOWARDS THE ENDS.
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Week 2. Vegetation
18d ago
8.26 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.4
pH
No Smell
Smell
68 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Night Air Temp
18.93 l
Pot Size
0.15 l
Watering Volume
55.88 cm
Lamp Distance
KooKoo FOR COCOA PUFFS
PPFD - 300
DLI - 21.6
VPD - .96
NO ADDITIONAL CO2
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Week 3. Vegetation
11d ago
1/2
12.7 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.4
pH
No Smell
Smell
67 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Night Air Temp
18.93 l
Pot Size
0.15 l
Watering Volume
45.72 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 3
All Purpose
2.351 mll
Power Bloom
2.351 mll
Worm Castings
12.495 mll
KooKoo FOR COOA PUFFS
PPFD - 400
DLI - 28.8
VPD - 1.03
LOOKS A LITTLE LIGHT IN COLOR.
COULD BE A LACK OF NITROGEN?
COULD BE TOO MUCH LIGHT?
COULD BE A LITTLE OF BOTH?
SOIL PH WAS AT 5.8 AT TIME OF TOPDRESSING.
I BUMPED UP THE PH OF THE WATER TO BRING THE SOIL UP TO 6.35 PH (FOR THE MOMENT)
PERHAPS MY LIVING SOIL GROW MEDIA REQUIRES A LOWER PH THAN A REGULAR SOIL MEDIA.
GROW MEDIA ...
40% PROMIX
20% HAPPY FROG
20% WORM CASTINGS
10% PERLITE
10% RICE HULLS
I DUNNO ... BUT I FED IT TODAY. i'LL ADD THAT TWO OTHER PLANTS IN THE SAME GROW MEDIA, AND GROW ENVIRONMENT, DON'T APPEAR THIS LIGHT IN COLOR.
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Week 4. Flowering
4d ago
10.16 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
pH
No Smell
Smell
57 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Night Air Temp
18.93 l
Pot Size
0.15 l
Watering Volume
45.72 cm
Lamp Distance
KooKoo FOR COCOA PUFFS
PPFD - 630
DLI - 45.36
VPD - 1.36
Well … this grow has become a salvage operation. Every day the past week I have considered pulling up the plant, mixing a new pot of soil and planting a new seed.
However, I do not know why it got so stunted. So, I have decided to make this a learning situation.
This is the 3rd grow in this soil, re-amended each time
The base mix ( 5 gallon of mix ) for the first grow was:
40% Promix
20% Happy Frog
20% Worm Castings
10% rice hulls
10% perlite
5 tbsp Gaja Green All Purpose
5 tbsp Gaja Green Power Bloom
1 tbsp kelp meal
1 tbsp Glacial Rock Dust
topdressed with 5tbsp All Purpose & 5 tbsp Power Bloom on day 28
topdressed with 3 tbsp All Purpose & 7 tbsp Power Bloom on day 49
topdressed with 5 tbsp power bloom on day 70
The first grow went good.
The second grow ( with the same added amendments as first grow) had small plants and about ½ the bud weight as the first grow.
This last grow is severely stunted. Why this is , I do not entirely know.
The plants do seem to have way too much nitrogen. And I may have watered too much.
Also, I tried to increase the ppfd a bit hoping it might produce a larger plant by flower time.
It did not.
I believe that over the course of the three grows in the same soil I have too much nitrogen, and other minerals, in the soil. As everything else has remained the same as the first grow.
Today … my plan is to try to grow them all out as well as I can. The next grow I plan to dump ½ the soil out after each grow and replace with new mix. And add ½ as much Gaja Green as I have been.
So … any thoughts and comments are certainly appreciated.
@squalino
, Yes, i have several problems here. my first grow with this soil mix was great. The second was good, but yield coulde have been a bit larger. for this grow, re-amending the used soil, i greatly underestimated the amount of Nitrogen that was still in there from the two previous grows. also, i thought id try to give the plant more light early on, hoping that might make the plants a bit bigger when they began to flower. once i began to see signs of way too much nitrogen i watered way too much in an attempt to wash out some of the nitrogen. I regularly check the soil ph, it stays around 6.0 to 6.3. This grow has become a salvage opoeration, a learning experience, to see if i can get any smoke-able bud from it ... we"ll see.
And thank you for your comment, i do appreciate it.