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Started using paper towel method on the afternoon of 9/7. Placed in my veg hydro rig on the evening of 9/9. Seedling / early veg rig is a two gallon bucket with a lid, a top feed pump and a single air stone. Nutrient levels are very light. PH is around 6. The light used is a 12W LED bulb on for 24 hours per day. The air pump is in the tent with my current plant in flower. The line is split right after the pump and the part of it feeds 1 of 2 air stones in a the main tent. The other part of the split runs out of the tent into the to the veg hydro rig which is next to the tent. A little funky, but this set up allows me to not devote my whole tent to a seedling that is less than 6" for the first few weeks of its life. The plan it is to leave it in the seedling / early veg rig until I can put it in the big reservoir after I harvest my current plant in flower. She'll be in the veg rig for at least 3 weeks. She looks happy to me. She at least looks viable.
On Day 8, she is growing vigorously! Also, she has enough root mass in the reservoir that it makes sense to take the topfeed pump out which I did. I propped her up a little to make sure she grows straight. Otherwise, she is viable and I'm happy with her progress.
On Day 12, she has exploded with growth. This rapid growth is why I use top fed hydroponics. She still has at least a week more in my little veg hydro rig but she seems to be happy and doing well to me.
On Day 18, she has continued to explode with growth and she seemed vigorous enough that she was ready to handle the manifolding process. I've learned how to care for plants in my little bucket rig over the least few grows but she is probably the biggest, healthiest 18 day old plant I've ever had. Her leaves are curling a little because of how close I have the little LED light bulb. I have learned that I prefer to flirt with having the light too close rather than be too far away and make the plant stretch. I want to keep her short and squat for my manifold. I have topped too early in the past and didn't want to repeat that mistake and I don't think I did. She had around 6 or 7 growth nodes before I topper her and looked strong and healthy. I topped her down to her 4th node and left the 3rd and the 4th. I removed the first and the second. I really like this little 2 gallon bucket with a little LED bulb for the first few weeks of seedling and veg phase. My plant in the big tent under the big light will get harvested this weekend. This plant will move into the big tent under the big light when she is 19 days old so she'll have at least a couple weeks under the bigger light and in the bigger reservoir before the switch. I'm really happy with her growth.
On Day 19, I harvested my plant in flower so I moved her into the tent with the big light and big reservoir. She looks happy. Her newest growth is light green and appears to be growing fast after the manifolding chopping process yesterday. For anyone with limited space in their tent who does hydroponic, this little seedling / veg rig with a cheap little 12w LED bulk is awesome. Also, now that she is nearly 3 weeks old, she is going to experience her first dark soon and go from 24 hours to 18 hours with the lights on.
On Day 20, I took the fan leaves off so only 4 growth tips remained. She looks happy in the bigger space so I hope she takes this change as easily as all the other changes I've thrown at her. So far, I've been impressed with how resilient she has been.
On Day 21, she still looks happy and is growing fast considering all the chopping I've done for the last couple days. I'm really excited at how vigorous this plant is. I'm hoping she'll turn into a monster before I switch her to flower.
On Day 26, not much to report. She looks happy under the bigger light and in the bigger space. Chopping her for my manifold definitely slowed her down a little but that is to be expected. She is recovering fast and it looks like I'll be able to manifold her well.
On Day 33, it has been an exciting week. I live in Northern California and the power was out for 48 hours straight. She doesn't seem worse for wear. I just left herin the dark with no bubbles in her water and she came through it fine. If she were late in flower and airflow stop, she would have gotten stinky and maybe bud rot could have started. In the middle of veg though, she seems fine. I'll probably veg her a little longer to make up for lost time but she seems fine.I did the last part of my manifold by cutting the tips off the four main branches. So theoretically, each branch will have 4 tips and there are 4 branches so 16 tops. This is likely too many to be ideal but I wanted to try this. If need be, I'll chop some off in early flower.
On Day 40, not much to report. Last week, I did the last part of my manifold by cutting the tips off the four main branches. So each branch will have 4 tips and there are 4 branches so 16 tops. This is likely too many to be ideal but I wanted to try this. I am going to veg for another week and then flip to flower. She would be way bigger had I not chopper her so many times but I have 16 tops all very low right now so it feels worth it.
On Day 44, she seems happy to me. I tied down a few of her branches that wanted to eclipse the other branches around it. At this point, the goal is to keep her as flatus possible so the stretch results in a bunch of tops all at the same height. Otherwise, there is not much to report. I switched her to flower today as she seems ready to me.
On Day 53, the stretch has started. She is stretching a lot and I am trying to tie certain branches down while propping other branches up. With 16 tops, I am not successfully keeping everything at exactly the same level but it is working better than you'd expect. We'll see what the rest of the stretch brings. Shown here are both before I tried to tie her and the result of my tying.
On Day 60, she has stretched really nicely! She is almost all grown up. I'm happy with 16 kolas and they are filling up the tent nicely. I hope she is done stretching soon. I have another 6" of space over my light but that is it. I saw the beginning of flowers this week. Overall, I'm really happy with this plant and her genetics and progress.
On Day 68, I hope the stretch stops soon because I am almost out of overhead space. Overall, considering my 16 kolas and my general set up, I am thrilled with her growth and progress. Some of her kolas are starting to get higher than others so I took these and bent them to the side, not enough to hurt them but enough to slow them down and let the other kolas catch up. I have run out of overhead space before so I hope that works and doesn't happen with this plant. Otherwise, she is a beast that doesn't smell strongly and I look forward to seeing what she does for the rest of flower.
On Day 75, bending the tallest kolas slightly slowed them down well. I am using my typical structure to hold kolas up using bungees and gardening wire. I don't like scrog screens and this works well for me. I cleaned up the bottom part of the plant that won't ripen properly. Overall, I'm thrilled with my 16 kolas and her progress. This plant has the perfect amount of stretch for my manifolding technique and tent height. I can't wait until she ripens up a little more!
On Day 89, not much to report. She looks happy and is putting on weight nicely. My environment has been on point lately because it has cooled down here in NorCal. As she ripens up a little more, I plan to manage her canopy a little more using gardening wire. For now, I am just letting her do what she wants.
On Day 96, still not much to report. My environment has been good because I am using cool air from under the house to cool my tent when the lights are on. I am getting later in flower and the smell is getting stronger but not bad. I don't tend to use scrog screens. Instead, I use bungees strung around the edge of the grow space and gardening wire to prop up kolas so they aren't seeing on each other. I am doing less defoliation than I tend to do and just did the top of the canopy but left the mid canopy. I lollipopped her weeks ago. Overall, I think my 16 kolas are excessive. I don't think each one will fatten up. Instead, I think I'm going to end p with a whole bunch of smaller buds. This many kolas was kind of an experiment anyway so I don't regret it. Overall, she is a great plant and has been a vigorous grower this whole time and we'll see what she does for the next 3 weeks or so.
She is pink!!! She smells great. I think I have too many kolas and I'd get more weight in harvest if I had 8 kolas instead of 16. Otherwise though, this whole grow has been a dream. She has grown vigorously in veg and great in flower. She has stretched nicely but not too much. Great plant!
On day 117, she is done!!! She is beautiful and her fan leaves are starting to discolor. All the hairs on her buds are dark or orange and her trichomes are cloudy. She has been a champ through this whole grow. It was fun to do 16 kolas but I think 8-12 is the right number. I'm going to harvest her now. I am a little sad to chop her.
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