Grasshopper96 Let's start this run (I should mention right away that I received free seeds along with many other things from Sweet Seeds, so let's begin by thanking the company that believed in me). I waited to see leaves to "introduce to the world" everything I'm doing. I want to clarify that when the plants are transplanted into the final pot, they will go into a fully equipped 60x60. Stay with me, keep me company because in my new home I feel alone 😁. Let me feel all your love and support because remember, without you I'm just a grower that they define as promising, but with you following me (whom I will never stop thanking), I'm something different. I don't call myself an influencer because I'm not and I don't want to be; I define myself as a person who shows their hobby here on Grow Diaries and shares it with others.
Day 3: the seedlings have opened well and have made their first true leaf. I'm hesitant to do T.A. organic pro grow just out of fear of making a mistake...
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Other
Germination Method
1
Week 1. Vegetation
1mo ago
1/7
7 cm
Height
16 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
6.8
pH
No Smell
Smell
70 %
Air Humidity
25 °C
Solution Temp
23 °C
Night Air Temp
2.5 liters
Pot Size
0.35 liters
Watering Volume
30 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 2
Pro Organic Bloom
0.5 mll
Pro Organic Grow
0.5 mll
Grasshopper96 The Crystal Candy started off pretty okay considering how I kept them the first week... Now they've been moved to a homelab 60 with an extractor, humidifier, and once they get bigger, I'll also set up a fan. They're currently under the trusty SE1500 from Spider Farmer set to 20% power with sunrise and sunset lasting 10 minutes each....................
Nutrients - in the new tripack from the T.A ORGANIC PRO line, I found a more complete chart compared to what was on the packaging with the old graphics. I think I'll be making some purchases.
Anyway, I gave 0.5ml/l of organic pro grow and organic pro bloom together since the organic pro line is an all-in-one line that basically has these two nutrients, one for vegetative and one for flowering, which only need to be given together at certain stages. This week I'll also give trikologic, which I didn't give in the first week because I think it doesn't make sense to try to colonize roots that are still forming with Trichoderma. Next watering, I'll give another product for the roots from Top Crop, and then in the middle of the week, I'll do a Trichoderma inoculation with the trikologic. At least that's the "battle plan" 😅😁..........
Update 4th week: I gave trikologic at the end of the third week.....
Final thoughts: I admit they're not the most beautiful plants in the world, but they're victims of me wanting to see if I could use a home cabinet as a seedbox. Never was a worse choice; I think I'll bring my homelab 40 when I want to start another cycle without waiting for this one to finish drying.....
Edit day 3 - I topped plant number two to try to save time without waiting for the usual 5 formed nodes.
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Used techniques
FIMing
Technique
2
Week 2. Vegetation
1mo ago
1/11
12 cm
Height
16 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.8
pH
No Smell
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
25 °C
Solution Temp
23 °C
Night Air Temp
2.5 liters
Pot Size
0.35 liters
Watering Volume
45 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 1
Pro Organic Grow
2 mll
Grasshopper96 Here we are tonight, with me smoking the pipe while I write the recap of the past week...
Let's start by saying that even the plant "Ugly" has bounced back great 😍
As for the plant I topped... She's not doing bad either, but she made me particularly happy with the unintentional F.I.M. I just hope that the internode with only two small leaves in the last photo starts to develop well.
Nutrients: I gave what the base sheet of T.A. says with my trusted Organic Pro products. Finally, I'm starting to give 2 ml of Organic Pro Grow, and soon I hope to integrate other T.A. supplements as well because I'm more than satisfied with their Organic Pro tripack. I want to see what comes out with Fulvic, Humic, and Seaweed, in addition to the T.A. silicates, which are both slow and fast-release. Not all commercial silicates are like that; I spent a week reading prices on various grow shop websites, and I think I've decided where to buy from 😁
Pests: none, as soon as I can, I mist Flipper from Solabiol for prevention. Remember that Flipper is a broad-spectrum and residual insecticide and acaricide allowed in organic farming, and it's extracted from the waste of olive brining to make olive oil.
Final thoughts: as I always say, up! Up to the moon! Little by little, we'll get to the Moon, and we'll make all the Growrooms inside the domes of the lunar modules 😎
Update day 4:
Number 1 has outgrown number 2, number 1 has officially been crowned champion of the box 😁 Maybe if I hadn't topped number 2, they would have been equal now... My mistake?!
Edit: now that I'm updating the third week, I'm adding the graphs of the parameters from last week (week two).
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Week 3. Vegetation
22d ago
1/3
15 cm
Height
16 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.8
pH
No Smell
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
25 °C
Solution Temp
23 °C
Night Air Temp
2.5 liters
Pot Size
0.35 liters
Watering Volume
45 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 2
Pro Organic Grow
2 mll
TrikoLogic
0.1 mll
Grasshopper96 E un altra settimana inizia, numero 1 è diventata un alieno predator che sta allo stadio di crisalide
Numero 2 anche non scherza poi dopo l esperienza che ho avuto con le afghan kush penso che quando Shiva mi fa uscire un f.i.m. inaspettato quando volevo una cimatura pulita è sempre un ciclo benedetto🤩
Nutrienti: ho dato due applicazioni di t.a.organic pro grow a concentrazione 2 ml/l , le piante ne hanno trovato giovamento
Considerazioni finali: se riesco a mantenere gli stessi parametri della settimana passata penso che settimana prossima travaserò le piante in 11 litri, vediamo l' aggiornamento del 26/10
Edit giorno 5 : ho annaffiato con la stessa soluzione nutritiva,aggiungendo però 0,1gr per litro di trikologic di T.A. in vista del travaso che verrà fatto a giorni, secondo me non ha senso inoculare tricoderma alla prima settimana quando l'apparato radicale è ancora minimo..... Ma ha senso farlo quando hai già tante belle radici e magari stai per travasare nel recipiente definitivo 😉
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Week 4. Vegetation
15d ago
1/15
20 cm
Height
16 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.8
pH
Weak
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
25 °C
Solution Temp
23 °C
Night Air Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
0.35 liters
Watering Volume
45 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 3
Root Booster
3 mll
Calcium Magnesium Supplement
1 mll
Pro Organic Grow
2 mll
Grasshopper96 And this week, I smoked the pipe while updating the diary—not while writing, but while waiting for the device I write on to charge. Unfortunately, I suffer from a common disease in my generation: constantly dead batteries in electronic devices....
Anyway, back to the grow. Yesterday I transplanted them from 2.5-liter pots into 11-liter pots, so the plants look a little droopy—they were transplanted yesterday....
Nutrients: To start, I gave them 3 ml per liter of root booster. I don’t think I’ll give them Organic Pro Grow this week, since I’ve just transplanted them and the fresh Plagron soil (the local grow shop had run out of BioBizz) has the nutrients a Light Mix should have.
Day 5 update: Watered with 1 liter of nutrient solution and 0 runoff, with root booster at 3 ml/l, calcium magnesium at 1 ml/l, and also 2 ml/l of Organic Pro Grow. Let’s see how they react in my final thoughts on the week before week 5. If you don’t start following me, you’ll never find out 😊
Pests: I can say with all my heart (and a little fear) that there are none, and I’m waiting for the Solabiol Flipper product to arrive.
Final thoughts: I’ll share them at the end of the week, once I see how the plants have reacted to the transplant 🤞
As we say in southern Italy, we’ll cross our fingers 🤘 and throw salt behind us.
In the meantime, I have to say that after comparing them with last week’s photos, they’ve grown quite a bit. Number 1 has grown taller and put out new nodes, while number 2 has spread out. I think as soon as I can, I’ll take cuttings from all the branches on number 2 except for the three main tops you can see in the photo from above.
I’m planning to do it again, trying to do better what I did last winter, which may be the best thing I’ve shown here on GD.
Day 4 update: The plants are doing well. Yesterday I saw a root peeking out from under number 1’s pot 😁 I went to my local grow shop to pick up some T.A. Cal-Mag too, so I wouldn’t mix different brands. This makes it the fourth Cal-Mag in my collection 🤣☺️
Day 5 update: I’m posting the photos, and I’ll say right away that I’m taking quite a risk. Seeing the roots reach the bottom of the pot, I decided to top number 1. Those who knew me before GD know what I’m trying to do with the top I removed 🤞 I’ve been carrying on like this for a year and a half, cloning the same plant over and over 😂😁—the same plant grown from seeds imported directly from the U.S.A., from a pack of good seeds 🐦 that cost €200 🐦😅😁 A little blue bird brought them to me while eating katsu (Japanese breaded pork). You have enough information to figure it out 😁
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Transplantation
Technique
Defoliation
Technique
Topping
Technique
5
Week 5. Vegetation
6d ago
1/10
30 cm
Height
22 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.8
pH
Weak
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
25 °C
Solution Temp
23 °C
Night Air Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
0.35 liters
Watering Volume
45 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 4
Calcium Magnesium Supplement
1 mll
Pro Organic Grow
2 mll
Magnesium
0.5 mll
Grasshopper96 After having Sunday lunch with the family like a good Italian, I swear I didn’t eat spaghetti 😁🤣 and I played the guitar, not the mandolin, because you only see those in Naples 😁
Anyway, enough with the introduction—let’s get to the plants: OMG 😱 Plant number 1 has recovered from the deficiencies it had, and now it needs to finish recovering from the transplant. Being transplanted and topped in the same week—or within 10 days at most—is pretty stressful for a plant...
Plant number 2, on the other hand, is growing beautifully. It’s turning into a lovely little bush. Too bad number 1 will almost certainly push it into a corner since it has more branches, if I do the SCROG I have in mind.
Nutrients: today I’ll give it Organic Pro Grow at 2 ml/L and Cal-Mag at 1 ml/L. I’m not sure whether to give it more root product; I need to check whether there are already lots of roots underneath the pot.
Pests: maybe the Plagron soil I bought brought something with it... I saw something flying around... I resorted to “green chemistry,” namely Solabiol Flipper. Flipper is a product approved for organic farming, made from the leftovers of olive pressing. I found out it “dissolves” insects that feed on the plant for a week after it’s applied. I’ll add a photo of the package, but I don’t know if you can find Flipper abroad... I hope so 😊
Day 2 edit: I put up the SCROG net; now I’m hoping to fill it quickly 😍
Day 4 edit: I sprayed a solution containing 0.5 ml/L of Canna single-component magnesium to fix a magnesium deficiency. This was happening even before the LEDs, because my water is very hard and low in magnesium. Sure, I gave it Cal-Mag, but the imbalance was already there, and I think a foliar spray with just Mg was the best thing I could do for it.
Day 5 edit: my “sweet mom,” Sweet Seeds, sent me a discount code, which I took as a Diwali gift. After all, Diwali only comes every 5 years, so it’s normal for us to celebrate it. Imagine how awful Christmas would be if it only came every 5 years—when it’s finally Christmas, you’d also be celebrating all the 5 years you spent waiting for it ☺️
Final thoughts on the previous week: I put plant number 1 through a lot of trauma while training it, and it’s recovering now. Even though it looks fine, I want to wait a little longer before celebrating. I’m really happy that the clone taken from the top of plant number 1 may have rooted. It’s been standing for a few days now and hasn’t wilted ☺️😊
Cycle dedicated to a person who will surely comment soon, you are my best follower even after two months of absence. I shared a houseplant and you liked it and commented, you are special my brother.
@squalino, thanks my friend, I see your plants and it always makes me feel bitter about mine... This is a good thing because it pushes me to do better 🙂
@Grasshopper96, it's not that virtual. since I'm talking to you just that we've never seen each other 😍☺️. I'm speaking with sincere words. have a good day my friend