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Hello again.
Here's my setup:
2 x 4 Mars Hydro Tent
260watt HLG Qb equivalent to a 600w blurple
6" Can-lite carbon filter
6" Hyperfan Stealth
2 x 6" hurricane clip on fans
5 gallon smart pot as the final pot
Let's go!
Amended the soil as always using peat moss, sifted cow manure, cow manure ash and forest soil. Also added some Nectar of the gods one shot and some Foundation mycos to the mix. Will be adding the calmag to the final pot before transplant and add it to her feed around week 4.
Germinated her in paper towel over 48 hours and she had only grown about 4mm worth so decided to plant anyway. Added Great White to the planting hole and she sprouted 24 hours later. Let's see how she goes. My first gelato :)
- Day 1 all good
- Day 2 all good. Her roots are already poking through the bottom but that's because she's sitting on a pot with moist soil underneath. Not worried too much tho. I'll just have to put her on dry soil tomorrow.
- Day 3 all good. First set of leaves after the true leaves have started to grow. Looks like she's gonna be a fast one.
- Day 4 all good. Still misting twice a day. She seems to be doing well.
- Day 5 all good. Second set is growing nicely.
- Day 6 all good. She should be ready to transplant by tomorrow or the day after.
- Day 7 Amended the 5 gallon pot with Elemental Calmag as per usual. Also dusted the planting hole with Great White. Transplanted her into her final pot but unfortunately her roots were stuck to the sides of the cup a bit and kinda raised up when I removed the seedling from it. Hopefully this won't affect her but we'll see how she goes. Also gave her a 1L watering with stims.
- Day 8 she's doing great after the transplant. Didn't skip a beat. We'll see how she goes over the next few days
- Day 9 all good. Decided to hold off in the watering cuz the soil was still moist.
- Day 10 0.5L watering today so that I can sync her watering with the rest of the girls by tomorrow. She's doing good tho
- Day 11 0.5L plain watering today to sync up her watering with the rest of the girls. Should fall in line next watering. Looking good tho.
- Day 12 all good
- Day 13 1L watering with nutes and mycos. She's looking good tho
- Day 14 all is well
- Day 15 1L plain watering. All good tho.
- Day 16 all is well. I'll start training towards the end of the week I think
- Day 17 1L plain watering. Her 4th node has appeared so I'll LST her a bit in 2 days time just before watering as she's going to be more malleable then with less water in her. I'll try and detail my LST as much as possible this time.
- Day 18 some light leaf tucking today. All good tho.
- Day 19 was attempting to LST her today and the main stem snapped proper in the middle. I quickly took the training off and righted her and also wrapped some masking tape around the snap to keep it in place. This was a really bad snap so I just hope she's able to recover. Stupid mistake on my part. Anyway gave her her normal 1L feed with nutes and mycos.
- Day 20 she's still recovering from her torture of yesterday so let's hope she bounces back tomorrow.
- Day 21 1L plain watering today she's still coming along slowly
Hey guys. Seems I proper broke the main stem broke completely when trying to LST. Managed to bandage it with some masking tape. Will it be able to recover or is there anything else I can do to help?
@Gr33nFi3ld Hi mate these things happen but luckily for us the cannabis plant is very resilient.
Your masking tape job should suffice as long as its done up done up tight enough to completely hold the two broken parts together. It will eventually form a hard knuckle where the original break was. Hope this helps mate
- Day 22 she's doing better now. Checked where her stem had snapped and it had nearly come clean off. Only about 4 mm thickness left on it. Surprised the top half of the plant is still surviving. I'll let her recover some more before trying to train again.
- Day 23 gave her 1L watering with nutes and mycos. Trained the branches that were below "the snap". Seems her main stem has stopped growing as much but I'm not really surprised due to her - trauma. Also removed a couple of fan leaves to allow for some more light penetration. We'll see how she goes.
- Day 24 she seems perky today. Seems "the snap" has helped keep her an even canopy so I don't think I'll be training her much this time round. Removed a couple more fan leaves to allow some more light penetration. All good
- Day 25 1L plain watering today. She's doing good tho.
- Day 26 all good. The main cola isn't growing as much as I'd hoped but at least she's not dead.
- Day 27 2L plain watering today as well as some defoliation to allow some more light through her canopy. She's a bit droopy as it was a little bit after the defoliation and she's in a bit of shock. Should be back on track tomorrow. Decided to up her watering amount since she was getting massive.
- Day 28 all is well. Looking pretty.
- Day 29 2L plain watering today. She's a big one. Supposed to go into flowering this week so we'll see how it goes.
- Day 30 all is well. I'll defoliate her a bit tomorrow.
- Day 31 2L watering with nutes, mycos and calmag today. Also gave her a bit of a defoliation of her big fan leaves to open her up a bit. She's looking good tho. She's a big one.
- Day 32 all is well. She's recovered well from yesterday.
- Day 33 2L plain watering today she's doing good tho. Slight heat stress on the leaves so I've raised the lights a bit as well
- Day 34 all good. She's looking perky today. I'll do another round of defoliation tomorrow.
- Day 35 2L watering with nutes, mycos and calmag. Defoliated her a bit and removed the lower bud sites.
- Day 36 all good. She's recovered well from defoliation. Her main stem has also caught up to the rest of the plant.
- Day 37 2L plain watering today. She's looking good though. A nice knuckle has formed over where she had snapped but I'm still keeping the "bandages" in place for now.
- Day 38 all is well. Her canopy is so even just from the snap it's a pleasure to watch her grow and not do too much training.
- Day 39 2L watering with nutes, mycos and calmag today. Also did a major defoliation of the fan leaves. All good though
- Day 40 all good.
- Day 41 2L plain watering today. She's looking good. So perky.
- Day 42 all is well
- Day 43 2L watering with mycos, nutes and calmag. Also defoliated her quite a bit as I'm hoping this is gonna be her last defoliation. Looking good tho.
- Day 44 all good. Took a close up of the main stem where she had snapped. Amazing how she healed.
- Day 45 2L plain watering today. She's looking good tho. I'll defoliate a little more of the lower growth before next watering and then that'll be it hopefully.
- Day 46 all is well
- Day 47 2L watering with nutes, mycos and calmag today. All good tho
- Day 48 all good. Some growth coming up on the lower bits of the branches which I had snipped initially but they've made a come back so I'm gonna end their life tomorrow.
- Day 49 2L plain watering today and also did some defoliation and removal of the popcorn bud sites. She's definitely a fun one to grow. She would've been a monster if she hadn't snapped.
- Day 50 all good
- Day 51 2L watering with nutes, mycos and calmag today. She's looking good tho.
- Day 52 all good
- Day 53 2L plain watering today. All good tho
- Day 54 all good
- Day 55 2L watering with nutes, mycos and calmag. She's looking good tho.
- Day 56 all good
- Day 57 2L plain watering today. She's starting to smell a bit. Getting notes of pine which is a shame as I was hoping more of a gelato smell but oh well.
- Day 58 all good
- Day 59 2L watering with nutes, mycos and calmag today. She's looking good tho.
- Day 60 all is well
- Day 61 2L plain watering today. All good tho
- Day 62 all good. She's starting to show her Calyxes and is still smelling piney unfortunately.
- Day 63 2L watering with nutes, mycos and calmag today. She's a big girl. Have some slight leaf tip curling so she might be a bit too close to the lights but I think she'll be fine.
- Day 64 all is well
- Day 65 2L plain watering today. She's doing good tho
- Day 66 all good
- Day 67 2L watering with nutes, mycos and calmag. She's doing good tho
- Day 68 all is well.
- Day 69 2L plain watering today. She's doing good tho. Had a couple of the lower leaves turning yellow for some reason so I'll keep an eye on her.
- Day 70 all good
- Day 71 2L watering with nutes, mycos and calmag today. She's looking good tho
- Day 72 all good
- Day 73 2L plain watering today. She's smelling more like pine which is a bit disappointing so I'm hoping more gelato aromas start coming out soon.
- Day 74 all good
- Day 75 2L watering with nutes, mycos and calmag today. She's looking good tho
- Day 76 all is well
- Day 77 2L plain watering today. Also removed some of the yellow leaves. She's smelling good and Pistils have started browning so she should be good in a couple of weeks.
- Day 78 all good
- Day 79 decided to stop feeding her as she was getting some bad nute burn so now I'm just gonna start her flush until she's ready for harvest by the end of the week earliest.
- Day 80 all is well
- Day 81 2L plain watering today. All good tho
- Day 82 all good
- Day 83 2L plain watering today. All good tho
- Day 84 she's gotten some amber showing and it's about 10 % amber currently so she'll be harvested this weekend.
- Day 85 2L plain watering today. She should be good for the chop tomorrow.
- Day 86 decided to hold off on harvesting her since the trichs were still mostly milky. Must've been seeing things. I'll leave her to do her thing for another week.
- Day 87 2L plain watering. Seems the calmag elemental is good for soil amendment but crap for water feeding so I'll be getting some Cali magic to add to watering after amending the soil with Calmag elemental. That should take care of any Cal and mag deficiencies in the future.
- Day 88 all is well. Gonna remove all the leaves affected by the mag Def tomorrow just for appearance sake.
- Day 89 tried removing as much of the affected leaves as possible. I'll be chopping her tomorrow as she's gotten some amber trichs showing. Gave her her last 2L plain watering.
Despite me having snapped her main stem early during her growth when I was trying to LST, this girl has surprised me.
She was able to bounce back no problem and even maintained a nice canopy and gave nearly 4 main colas in the end.
Gave me a little problems in terms of mag deficiency towards the end but I blame that on my supplement since its powder and not liquid. Ordered some Cali magic to prevent this in the future.
Ended up with the largest wet weight ever, a whopping 472.5g. Took me 2 and a half hours to trim her fully and put her in the herbs now.
So now we await about 3 to 4 days for the dry.
I'll be giving a first review then. Stay tuned.
Update 1: decided to pull her a day early from the dryer to see if the buds would produce more smell when in the jar compared to last time I used it. Seems to have worked as it smells quite nice only after a couple of hours of jarring.
Ended up with my biggest harvest yet and manged to taste some of the smaller buds which were quite nice. Had a nice piney taste to it with a bit of sweetness to it. Waiting for a couple of weeks cure for a proper review.
It doesn't really compare to mephisto but it's still a tasty plant to grow and a well rewarding one too.
Update 2: after about 3 months of curing I must say I really like this one. When you open the jar now you're hit with an ice cream smell almost.
When smoking you still get a bit of pine taste on the inhale but on the exhale it's more of a creamy sweetness to it.
The high is a nice balance of indica and sativa. You'll still be able to get stuff done and it won't totally couch lock you but you'll still feel relaxed enough to chill.
A really interesting smoke and a very resilient plant to grow. She really surprised me.
@Gr33nFi3ld, the copper cropping may have been the key to the massive yield perhaps? Yeah, I always count my plants from seed to harvest. But I'm going to start counting the days from beginning of flower now which hopefully should be soon!
@DILLIGAF, Alright I'll keep that in mind. Hopefully her stems get strong enough to support the weight. Have my lights low enough so that the plants don't stretch too much. Thanks again.
@Gr33nFi3ld, also a small stake like a kebab stick or similar pushed down into the soil right up against the
main stem will add the extra support for later on
Gr33nFi3ld
