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Hi GD world.
This is my very first grow diary so I'm a bit nervous actually...
I will be using Vertafort nutes for the second time only.
Also I will try FIMing for the first time so I hope it's gonna go as planned.
Thanks in advance for any of your tips or comments, I'm here to learn and discuss so feel free to post anything you want.
Here after a little shout out to some brands I'll be using.
Peace!!
BioCanna Soil
Vertafort nutes
OG TEAs
Asturhumus
Airpots
Method Seven glasses and lens
Secret Jardin monkey fans
RVK extraction fans
Zamnesia propagator and smart start
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets: 25g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort grow tab: 1tab / 6Ltrs of water (1tab / 1.5gal)
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets: 25g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort grow tab: 1tab / 6Ltrs of water (1tab / 1.5gal)
I have to say I am a bit surprised by the look of the fan leaves... just like straight indicas!! This strain is 60% sativa but it looks like the leaves genoa come from the 40% indica in it. Will see if she stretches like sativas or indicas...
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets: 25g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort grow tab: 1tab / 6Ltrs of water (1tab / 1.5gal)
Voila! FIMing done! Will see what I end up with.
Do some of you have an idea when I should start the LST? I'm not going to train the main stem but only the branches so that they stay horizontal.
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets: 25g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort grow tab: 1tab / 6Ltrs of water (1tab / 1.5gal)
The babies are slowly recovering from Fimming and everything looks fine but still can't know how many top branches I will get...
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets (once): 25g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort grow tab (every watering): 1tab / 6Ltrs of water (1tab / 1.5gal)
Last week in the 1L pots and they will get transplanted to their final 9L airpots. As I keep only three of them I will have to choose the one that has to go. Already know it will be the tallest one that sprouted 4 days before the others so that I'm left with 3 same size ladies.
Transplantation done! I had to change my mind on which plant I would get rid of because the taller one that I chose initially is actually the only one on which the FIMming went as planned. On the three others I must have cut a bit too high because they weren't even topped, just as if I cut above the end of the stem!
So I had to top them!
Anyway they all seem to be fine and the real training will start now.
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets (once): 25g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort grow tab (every watering): 1tab / 6Ltrs of water (1tab / 1.5gal)
The three ladies looking good! It's my first time training and I really enjoy it, not shure about the result but we'll see...
The new soil with more nutes (5g of pellets / L of soil) and bone meal and cal/mag added seem to be ok.
Still wondering if I should cut off some fan leaves...?
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets (once): 50g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort grow tab (every watering): 1tab / 6Ltrs of water (1tab / 1.5gal)
Some days I just hate myself... I broke one of the top branches of the #2 by bending it to much. So she as only 3 top branches instead of four... symetry is gone... Anyway she healed and looks fine now.
Switched to 12/12 on the 3 of december so it's been a week till now. Still no major changes for the moment but I presume the low temps I can't deal with will slow them down a bit. I'll wrap a heat cord around the pots to preserv the roots from getting too cold.
Took off some lower leaves and corrected the training.
I'll switch to bloom tabs as soon as I see the first pistils.
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets (once): 50g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort grow tab (every watering): 1tab / 5Ltrs of water (1tab / 1.3gal)
Low temps seem to slow down the ladies quite a bit but they are fine.
Some pistils are showing their tips I will picture them next week
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets (once): 50g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort grow tab (every watering): 1tab / 5Ltrs of water (1tab / 1.3gal)
Didn't defoliate but just pushed down all the fan leaves to expose the main bud sites to the light. I may soon take off some of them to help air circulation and light penetration.
Turned on the second light and switched to bloom tabs.
I'm happy to see they don't show any deficiencies at that point.
Stretch seems quite little but it's not finished yet, we'll see.
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets (once): 50g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort bloom tab (every watering): 1tab / 8Ltrs of water (1tab / 2gal)
First defoliation done! It was a light one, I will repeat the ops next week to cut off the biggest fan leaves remaining.
I'm very happy I don't see any yellow leaves, the Calgel complement has been helpfull!
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets (once): 50g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort bloom tab (every watering): 1tab / 8Ltrs of water (1tab / 2gal)
BioGreen CalGel (every watering) : 0.3ml/L of water
Tryed to better clean the canopy but may have to take off some more leaves from time to time.
What I can allready tell is that the smell of the buds is sooooo mouth watering!!! I bet this will become one of my favorit strain! Those ladies are already slapping my face with fruits every time I open the box!! Can't wait!
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets (once): 50g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort bloom tab (every watering): 1tab / 8Ltrs of water (1tab / 2gal)
BioGreen CalGel (every watering) : 0.3ml/L of water
Can't wait! The smell is starting to be strong and so fruity! Give me that time travelling machine pls! So far this is surely the sweetest weed I ever grew. The RQS description for this strain seems completely correct!
Also they are not showing any defincency for the moment, happy I am!
RQS says 10 weeks of bloom so we are half way through wich leaves a good amount of time for the buds to fatten up.
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets (once): 50g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort bloom tab (every watering): 1tab / 6Ltrs of water (1tab / 2gal)
Innitially I wanted to take the same macros every week till the end but I really could't find time to shoot this w-e :-(
Macro photography takes quite a lot of time.
The girls are fine and buds keep on fattening. Some nice colors are appearing on a few leaves, the fade should be beautifull!!
Hopefully only two more weeks to go!
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets (once): 50g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort bloom tab (every watering): 1tab / 6Ltrs of water (1tab / 2gal)
Team building is still in progress! I think I will have to cut those ladies at diffrent days. Even a week maybe between #1 and #3, tricomes will say. Smell is more and more invasive in the house... so in the garage where the box is I can't tell you! Actually you can smell them from outside in front of the garage door! But as I live in a remote place I don't have any filtration, that's why.
Hope you will enjoy some macros, my new tripod is amazingly steady compared to my old one, day and night regarding sharpeness!
I started to flush them the day after the pics, they should show us a colourfull fade from now on.
Vertafort nutes are a bit special so I can't fill the amounts. I will write them here in the comments.
Vertafort pellets (once): 50g / 10 Ltrs of soil (.8oz / 2.5gal)
Vertafort bloom tab (every watering): 1tab / 10Ltrs of water (1tab / 2gal)
Was too busy with amnesia harvest to update last week sorry guys.
Things are looking good even if those last two weeks the ladies have slowed down quite a lot due to the very low temps in my garage... Some nights even around 10°C/50°F!
Also just before starting the flush I PK boosted her a little bit... too much! The #1 and #3 have taken it good and fatten the buds but the middle one seem to have suffered a bit more (possible lockout). Anyway it's the end of the second week of flush and I may take them down this w-e, trics will tell.
What a grow guys... Many things went quite wrong but it's the price to pay when experiencing new techniques. The result is 110 grams of some nice dense and frosty tops and less dense but still frosty little buds. Plus at least 30g of premium quality trim that allowed me to give DME another try for making live resin.
Vape test on the buds is quite surprising as I could clearly feel a gassy/diesely taste mixed in the globally fruity overall taste. Even more surprisingly this taste doesn't appear when dabbing the live resin. Will see how it evolves with the curing process.
VAPE TEST UPDATE: after a few week in the jars with the proper Intergra boost things changed quite a lot! Exit the fuelish taste and welcome the fruit aromas!! Quite impressive! I was a bit disapointed while trimming about the lack of sweet/fruity taste but I'm now very happy with the almost final terpene profile of fruit spirit! Hope this modification continues with more curring!
The effect is powerfull, not as much as the amnésia but still enough to get me stuck in the couch in the middle of the evening. I probably vaped/dabed too much... but I had to for report purpose ;-)
So the yield is clearly low but the quality is good and I learned tons of things.
See you for the next diary mates and thank you very much to everybody that came along!
End of this winter grow! Those ladies have been a pleasure to grow even if the very low temps may have had a negative impact. I also messed up by boosting them a bit too much before the flush but I think it helped densifing the buds in the end. Smell is awesome, trichs density is good as well as bud density, can't wait to vape test her!!
My first attempt in lst was maybe more hst like, broke a few branches, stressed them too much... So I will be more gentle next time and I hope the hardware I'm working on will help me in that.
@Magnetous,bro dry cure then Finnish your diary that will take till after this one technically you might harvest this month but it’s not a complete diary till you put dry weight up then diaries finnished and that when you enter it I don’t agree with it being entered when it’s still drying the diary is not complete then see where am going with this am shore @growdiaries will agree
@@Tryhard, Thanks so much master! As I already have a diary in the diary of the month and as I will be updating with the dry results next week I hope I will be able to place it in the March giveaway...
Beautiful again bro how u doing it with the colours bro im so jealous lol buds look dynamite nice trichs wicked grow can't wait to see the dry product congratulations dude well deserved happy growing
@Magnetous, Thanks bro i really need to try some low temps they look beautiful your buds can't wait to see the final yield and dry pics thanks for getting back to me💪
@biggreens420, Thank you so much! I really believe the temp is the major reason for the color! On the end of this grow for about two weeks the temps here in Belgium went very low and some days the ladies had like 16° at day and 9° at night and there is nothing I can really do about that, my garage is a strainer. I tryed to airproof it as much as I could but when the outside temp goes down to -4 there is nothing I can do. I had the same result last year with the ayahuasca purple that turned almost dark blue, you can check it on mi IG. Maybe the combination of those low temps and the IR and/or UV leds in the lights emphasis the color change coz the inner leaves are less colored. I'll post the dry weight next week. As I have been very shy on defoliating the lower inner buds are a bit less dense but it should be a correct yield, I hope!
Bro, I hope this diary wins the Diary of the Month. You deserve it. These plants are a dream. Photos are wonderful. About those trichs photos: I'd like to lick them! This is one of the diaries that will always find a place in my bookmarks list. Congratulations! And since I'm a vape smoker, I can't wait to read about your vape test. Cheers!
@BigDaddyK, usually I flush two weeks but on this one I have been quite heavy handed on the boost and the very low temps slowed them down so I will give them one more week to allow the EC of the runnoff to lower a bit more. I'll be cutting them in two or three days. They have close to 10% ambers so it should be good for me.
@Tonino, grazie for your advice. As I plan to transplant in the final pots this w-e I'm gonna start lst right after. Also the branches still look very weak so I don't feel comfortable with doing it this soon.
Looking great! I do see a lot of Red in fan leaf stems just like your Amnesia Haze... I wonder if this is Phosphorous deficiency? If it was just one of your Girls showing Red one might think it is just the pheno, but 2 Ladies showing Red makes me think there might be something going on. Might not be a deficiency at all but just some reaction to the particular nutes regime your utilizing. If you find an issue with your Amnesia Haze Harvested Buds, you might want to explore what happened, or maybe try a new Nutrient regime like BioBizz + Cal/Mag/Zinc.
@Magnetous, I've heard good things about Vertafort.. It might have been dilution as you mentioned or possibly a PH thats a bit off which can cause phosphorous to lock out (Phosphorous is the first and easiest to get locked out because it only needs PH to be slightly off). What I meant about the AH Buds is when you get to tasting them! As far as looks - The density and red color look outstanding!! If they taste dope, then I wouldn't worry too much. I know that there is a lot of good Nutes out there, but I just cant say enough about BioBizz! Dont forget to add a good smoke report to your AH GD 😉
@BudKingsGrow, Yes definitively! I came to the same conclusion about phosphorous. If it would have been Cal/mag the leaves would have been more damaged than that. This is quite surprising because those vertafort bloom tabs have a good amount of P in it. I admit I was on the lower ratio and I should have maybe less diluted them. I think vertafort is a good feeding program but you got to know very well the strains you are growing.
Regarding the buds of the amnesia the only thing is they lack a bit of density but the trics are present and the smell is awesome. But the buds here seem way more dense, we'll see!
And yes I will be returning to my first love aka biobizz for the next decade I think 😀
Thank you so much for your accurate diagnostic BKG!
@biggreens420, Thanks! I have been a bit rough on the training I admit, unwillingly snapped a branch or two. I will be more gentle next round but definitely will continue training them to stay flat. It's the first time I try this tech so many improvements to come I believe!
@TOTEM, thank you a lot for the kind words! I really enjoy taking pictures, would love to have more time to do it... And I have to say yours are pretty awesome too btw!
Beautiful! What's the difference in Grow Room Setup between this grow and your Amnesia Haze? That Gal way out performed these Fruit Spirits and its got me curious lol 😀
@Magnetous, Excellent response! I did read some on FS but I did not catch that it was a photo which would've changed the way I commented originally lol! I'm truly becoming jealous of all you guys with sick LEDs running for your Ladies... I wish I could provide my Girls that kind of love 😍
@BudKingsGrow, The hardware is very similar not to say identical. Same cob led lights, same fans, same pots, same soil, same nutes (feeding slightly different). So the real difference is in the plants. FS are photos and have been trained wich needed longer vegging where AH is an auto almost untouched (very little defoliation). I started AH more than a week later than FS and she will be ready 3 to 4 weeks earlier. And AH has a quite long life cycle for an auto, but it's my gf's favorite strain so I will stick with her in the small box. But for next run I'll be running new lights with her, full spectrum cree leds with sun like spectrum. Can't wait to try them.
@biggreens420, it's the first time I have such healthy plants, very happy! Thanks for the pics and don't hesitate to give a like on IG if you are on it... 😉🙏
@Magnetous, I had a feeling lol! I also had done many grows before finding GD, so its a bit of a cheat for me honestly. But I am still new on here, and dont know what the best ways are yet to log entries... Like what do users really want to see and know from my grows. I just try to think to myself, "What do I want to know about this or that grow" and then I try to document that in my own. You'll figure it out though so no worries! You have the growing part down well enough, which is the hardest part 😀
Looking beautiful see some nice Amber's in a few of those trich shots love the dark orange of the pistols too some nice tight nugs coming with this harvest I'v enjoyed watching this one pan out it's been a wicked grow💪
@biggreens420, Thank you for your support!! I believe what you see may not yet be amber tricomes but in fact the stalk base color being reflected through the head. The tricomes head act as lense and difuses the inner color of the stalk. The amber color comes directly from the head, at the junction with the stalk. This plant is the less mature so I think ambers will show in a few days.
Also I may be wrong, I will double check with the microscope but this w-e I didn't see any ambers yet.
Didn’t see the fade starting on the bottom, yeah it’s gonna be really nice.
It’s one of my preferred part, with the stretch and the swell. You can really see the plant changing days after days.
@JUNGLE_B4RNS, Yes you are right for #3 on the right it could take a bit longer but as you said #1 and #2 are already showing some colors, especially #1 on te left, she is a bit ahead.
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