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First attempt at growing so using all bagged seed and purchasing equipment as I go along to keep the costs low. I had x2 seeds from a garlicane strain that I found. I know its not giving me the best chance but ill give it a try.
Seeds put in cup of water for 24 hours and then wet paper towel for another 24 hours. Both seeds germinated but one root much shorter than the other. Both seeds planted in 3" jiffy pots w/ happy frog soil.
4 Days - Both broke soil but one way behind the other.
7 Days - Started adding little nutrients on Day 6, one plant looks stunted and no real progress.
Day 8 - Plants were getting cool at night and so I turned on the heat pad. Was busy away at worked and forgot and the humidity got too high before I caught it. Mould appeared on the surface of the pots so I immediately transplanted them to new pots. I tossed one garlicane as it there was an issue and didn't even start producing leaves. The fun begins, hopefully they do not get too stressed. Planning on moving them into a new tent in the next few days and transplanting them into 3 gal pots.
14 days - moved into a new tent and able to control the temp and moisture much better. This garlicane not doing as good as the others but has been moving along. My plan is to only have 3 plants in this tent so it may not make the cut.
17 days - Moved the plant to the final 3 gal fabric pot. I was having issues with mold on the jiffy cups. It’s in a mixture of 30% perlite 70% fox farm soil. Doing ok a bit far behind the others.
21 days - Everything still looking good. Still behind other plants but growing everyday. Only watering every few days right now still with light nutrients.
27 days - Still moving along, I thought it would be bigger at this point. It is the smallest of the bunch. Growth may have been stunted a little as I think I was under watering. Right now it’s every 2-3 days. I just watered today and increased the nutrients to 2ml/litre. This one is pushing out its fifth node.
If you include the first set of single leaves, not really sure what is correct. Also thinking of topping the fifth node, any advice weather I should or not being my first grow?
33 days (27 veg) - not too impressed with the growth on this one, it is way smaller than the others and started from seed at the same time. Not sure if it’s just the strain or what. I went ahead and topped the 6th node off. I am planning on giving another couple weeks of veg to recoup from the topping then switch it over. We’ll see how it looks then.
44 Days (38 veg) - This garlicane is still hanging in there but is still way behind the others. Using AN PH Perfect is keeping the water ph down to consistent 6.3-6.4. Soil ph is around 6.9-7.0, I am considering using some ph down to try and get the soil to 6.3-6.5. I added an oscillating fan from Vivosun that clips onto the tent poles, works excellent. I am still only using a couple of T5 sun blaster lights but moved them closer. I think the lighting has not been close enough and slowed downed the growth. I am going with a new mars hydro SP250 in the next few days and I think I will be switching over to flower. I wanted to give it a full 2 weeks after topping.
Day 4 Flowering
New SP250 light in for about 5 days and very noticeable gains. Wish I would have gotten the light in earlier. I was only using x2 -4ft sunblaster T5, not enough light.
Started using RO water and it is getting the ph of the water with nutes down to about 5.9, the soil is measuring about 7 after feeding.
Switching to 12/12 I am having to close the tent and it is getting the moisture way too high when lights off. I installed a dehumidifier and it works but I don’t think it’s keeping up so I guess the next add will be a ventilation system before the humidity causes an issue.
There have been some noticeable gains with this one since the new light was added. This one may actually make the cut if it’s a female. I am hoping sooner than later to find out so a couple can be culled to free up some space, I plan on keeping up to 8.
15 Days Flowering- Down to 6 plants in the tent 5 unknowns and the one garlicane ended up being a female. Recently added a ventilation system with a carbon filter and fan by ac infinity with the temp and humidity controller. This one really came back, it was so hurting I didn’t think it was going to be worth keeping. Its now almost as big as the rest and has some nice buds forming.
17 Days Flowering - still stretching about an inch a day, up to 24” today.
Day 67 - 25 Flowering
Still stretching and flowers getting bigger, now up to 26.5”. The leaves are starting to show some crystals and looking pretty good so far. I had to leave them for a few days and worried about water because they need it every 2 days. I decided to get some wick rope and 2 litres of solution for 3 plants each. I gave them a water before leaving and left them with the wicks. 3 days later the plants haven’t looked better and not dry. About 3/4 solution was gone from each jug, though I believe some loss to evaporation. Added a corner shelf in the tent which turned out to fit perfectly. I wanted to have a shelf for a heater in the winter and a humidifier and air conditioner if needed in the future. Also added a temperature controller for the heater which has wifi so I can control and read the temp on an app. Next thing I would like to do is make a box with louvers for the air intake of the tent. I would like to keep the flap open during the 12 off and not worry about light leaks.
Bud and resin production continuing. Actually surprised at how much crystals are showing already. Some pistols are starting to turn brown. Just keeping regular watering every second day and temps/humidity dialed in
Stretching has completely stopped and noticed increased bud size and resin production.
Some leaves are starting to yellow and some brown spots. Not sure if it’s normal in this phase or too much nitrogen. Stopped using nutes just in case as there are only a couple weeks left, we’ll see over the next week if it helps.
Day 58 - Buds just keep getting bigger with lots of resin. Just watering with straight water. Some of the leaves are turning colour from the lack of nutrients. Watching the trichomes everyday to watch for any amber. Most of the pistals have turned red so should be ready to chop any day now.
Day 62 - Trichomes still cloudy and not much really turning amber, we’ll see here over the next few days.
Flansdaman
