Hi everyone!
This is my 5th diary!
The original idea for this one was to grow one single plant, and focus all the energy and the entire tent on her.
But with one single plant vegetative stage is longer, so i changed my mind
So, after buying seeds, i'm here, growing 4 plants :D
The Breeder i chose is Sensi Seeds, again, because i found it very good the last time, and i took the opportunity to buy their CBS oil ;)
By the way, i decided to grow Sensiseeds' "Silver Haze" feminized, who is the star of this diary
In the same tent i will also grow Green House Seeds"' "Super Silver Haze" feminized
Below a short description of my equipment:
The tent is one square meter big, with a 500m3/h air extractor with filter and two timers which govern it, so that the air changes once an hour
I can't leave it full time turned one, because the next months it will be cold outside, and i have to take care of the temperature inside the tent
The two lamps, same lamps i used before, are from Viparspectra, 400W per lamp at full power, divided between 200W for vegetative (blue light spectrum) and 200W for flowering (red light spectrum)
I also have a temperature regulator, which is connected to my 1000W heater
This time i also bought these new pots, 9 liters AirPot, fillet with coco and perlite (75/25)
Regarding the nutrients, i bought almost everything from Advanced Nutrients (AdvN) and some components from Cellmax
So, for the vegetative stage i have:
- AdvN base nutrient Sensi Grow Coco (part A+B)
- CellMax RootBooster for the first weeks
- AdvN Piranha to increase root mass and protect the plant from diseases
For the flowering stage:
- AdvN base nutrient Sensi Bloom Coco (part A+B)
- AdvN carboload, which contains carbohydrates to give the plant more energy for the bloom phase
- AdvN Bud Ignitor - leads the plant to start earlier the buds production, with less stretch of the branches
- AdvN BigBud - increase bud weight and dimensions
- AdvN Overdrive - for the last two weeks of flowering
- [in addition] - AdvN Bud Candy - with this, the taste of the flowers will be much sweeter
And Cellmax Ph- to adjust ph level
I hope to have enought time to write complete reports, with good pictures, and update the diary at least twice a week
That's it, this was the introduction. Now let's start with the diary
Enjoy :D
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Starting day is 17/09, i unboxed the seeds and put them in water. After 12 hours, i pushed them on the bottom and they sunk, so i waited 12 hours more.
18/09 - Seeds have already sprouted in the water, they are amazing. So, it's time to plant them in the RootRiot
20/09 - One seed's come out, probably because i didn't plant it deep in the RootRiot, but that's good!
21/09 - Keep waching them and sprayng them multiple times a day with water (ph 7.5).
22/09 - Rootriots are in place, in the half-liter coco coir pots, with only 200W blue spectrum light. I'm keeping them wet. The small box ventilation port is half opened, to keep humidity al high level.
At the moment, i gave them water (ph 6) and Cerllmax RootBooster (only 3ml/l)
23/09 - I'm spraying them with water (ph 7.5), also sprayed the walls of the box, tomorrow i will full open the ventilation port
All SH seeds have broke the ground :D
24/09 - full opened the ventilation port
25/09 - Day 3 - 2 seeds haven't sprouted yet (Green House), probably they are dead. One seedling was bent over a little bit, so i put something to sustain it
28/09 - the first seedling which has sprouted is died. Probably becasue i started feeding them with nutrients too late, my fault :/
The heater also broke so the temperature for two nights was very low during the night, despite lamps were turned on (not my fault)
@AsNoriu, niiice! I will try with 72 hours, but i will keep watering them during this night period, properly flushing the roots. I have a green headlight, which is perfect to do things inside the tent without "waking" the ladies :D Thanks again for your advice
@Ninja31, i read a lot about darkness shock. There is one really good article or research work about it from holland scientist. Short version of it. Plant needs at least 72 hours ( 3 days ) for results to be expressed in real trichoms increase.
In shorter time plant reacts, starts to defend himself, but for that to become reality plant needs time, 3 nights. Research showed aswell that there is no bigger increase up to 5 nights, but cuttoff minimum is 3.
Water them well before darkness, give 3-4 nights and enjoy frostiest weed ever ;)
@AsNoriu, Unfortunately i must plant this activity due to job issues :/
My aim is to dry them in the tent, because outside humidity is very high and i have to limit the smell.
That's why i can't harvest buds separately, even if this would be a great choice (i like the cluctch effect too ;)
By the way i will wait 'till the end before harvest... I also want to try 36 hours of darkness this time, i read that this increase potency :O
http://ursalighting.com/effect-green-light-plants/
I stoped disturbing them in the night, first 5 or last 5 min of darkness wont change much, but gives you vission even with simple flash light.
Green light beeing reflected , but still is used in photosintesis. You can influence your cycle.