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Started a seed on 28/8/19 by the 7/9/19 it hadn't popped so I started another. Checked on 1st seed on the 10/9/19 and it was dead, tap root had started to come out then died.
11/9/19 2nd seed popped so calling it day 0.
10 weeks is up on the 10/11/19 so should be my Christmas smoke.
Started seed in jiffy pellet in humidity dome, just used warm tap water.
I probably put it in the dwc system a bit early. I used 15L in the dwc which is probably a little high as my pellet was fairly soaked so removed 1L to 14 which seems better. Overall the week has gone well but I should have waited for roots to show before moving it. The nutes are as above. water temp been around 22/23Deg.
Setting Ph at 5.5 then let it rise to 6.5 before lowering again.
Week 2 Ran with nutes as above until day 14 25/9/19 When I did a res change and upped nute strength to next weeks. Should have really upped my nutes around day 10 but put it off till 2day.
During the week I added about a litre of water when it really started to show roots. Day 13 was last day I poured water over the clay pebbles.
Day 14 I also topped her so I will have 4 sets of nodes to work with.
So far it's going fine.
Week didn't start off well, roots started go brown but I think that's the die from the nutes.
Day 16 I removed the single fingered leaves the 1st 3 fingered leaves and the 1st 5 fingered leaves.
Day 17 I really wasnt happy with the nutrients so prepared my water and worked out a different feed schedule, I think the one the company recommends is way to much and slightly off balance.
Day 18 Fresh res with 1.1ml/L micro, 0.8ml/L grow, 0.95ml/L velokelp, 0.95ml/L magnifical. This was a Ec 0.9 start Ph 5.5 as and let Ph drift to 6.2 before knocking it down again. I did this early on in the day and by night the plant was looking better so removed the other set fan leaves and started my torture training.
Day 19 and it looking good, responded well to training and has started drinking properly.
Day 20 looking good. Just using a few drops Ph down to keep in near Ph5.8
Day 21 She is doing fine now. Drank nearly 2L since I altered the nutes and is really starting to look better, she responds well to training. Going be making my own ratios up for these nutes for the rest of the grow.
Not many pics this week as she has looked shit most of the week. Had leaves with nute burn and signs of calcium deficiency. It looked crap and I gave her a good defoliation getting rid of most the shit leaves.
Did a res change on day 26. 1.1ml/L micro, 1.0ml/L grow, 1.0ml/L velokelp, 1.0ml/L Magnifical. Ec 1.0 Ph 5.6.
Been lowering Ph to 5.6 from 6.2 throughout the week.
Pics are from day 27 and 28. This is after removing leaves.
I reckon she got another week in veg left in her, would prefer another 2 weeks in veg.
Week 5 has gone fine, got rid of crap leaves and tried getting a better balance for the nutrients.
Have fucked the grow up slightly by feeding way to high early on. Tomorrow I will change res to flowering nutrients, that's the start of week 6.
1st Day of the week changed to nute schedule above. Should have probably left the candy and astroflower out as it's only in transition.
Part way through the week I decided I wasnt happy with the roots and found some shogun katana roots I forgot I had, and applied that to the res at a rate 0.2ml/L. Within a day my roots started looking better and new root growth started.
Overall week 6 has gone well, she drinking about 1L a day. Seems happy at Ec1.2
Been managing feeds on the above nutes. Been drinking 1L a day and been maintaining the EC at 1.2 and letting PH drift between 5.7 and 6.2. Roots are starting to look better. Would say it hit early bloom on Day 48. Changed res on day 48 to next weeks schedule. The old res was 12 days old.
Also been defoliating through out the week, any leaf that looked burnt or shit got removed.
Just topped off everyday with 1 or 2L of water with hydroguard. Res went from Ec1.4 to Ec1.1 and the plant seemed to still want the res to be lower on the EC, so next week I'll start on a lower Ec and see how that goes.
Plant is doing well, the hydroguard seems to have stopped the roots turning nasty.
A day late with update. Android app wont load so using web browser.
She still doing her thing. Maybe been to high with nutes again. Drinking about 1.5L a day.
Week 12 has flown by. She is doing fine, still has deficiencies but plodding along. She likes the lower Ec. But at the end off the week the Ph crashed. So my plan is to lower the Ec to 0.5 next week and cut out the nitrogen.
Week has gone fine, still drinking about 1.5L a day. Cut out N this week. PH crashed again after about 4 days. Literally From Ph5.9 to Ph4.9 in 24hr period. Going to res change early next week to start flushing. She is getting close to the end.
Been flushing this week. I accidentally broke a cola by lifting the plant into the light when changing the res, that's going be my tester which has a wet weight of 40 gram. The rest of the plant is going to be taken down on day 101. So next entry will be the harvest.😉
Part way through week 15 and decided to harvest. Give a clean res on day 99 and turned the light off to give it a few days in dark. Day 101 she got chopped with a wet weight of 420 gram.
Will add a harvest week when I get the nice looking buds into jars.
Had a small sample from a bit chopped a week b4 harvest and it was nice, could function quite well from it. Had only dried and cured the sample for a few days. I have had this strain b4 and its always a good smoke. The buds are fairly compact and there are plenty of them.
For starters I have grown this is soil b4 and got a 1oz yield from it. I suck at growing in soil. This time I used my dwc setup as I get way more quality buds this way. She grew fast at the start and I managed to do a clean top after the 4th node giving me 8 main colas. During growth I had to sacrifice smaller nodes while I was pulling the plant as flat as I could. Main problem doing this for me is my space, I couldn't stretch the plant out as far I should have due to the small space she is in (0.6m*0.6m*1.6m). Due to stressing the plant out by topping and being quite hard on the LST and getting root problems part way through I was never getting the 11 week target harvest. Genetics of this plant are sound. Handles topping and LST easily. Would highly recommend this to anyone. Dont be put off by it taking me nearly 15 weeks to harvest.
Looks like it's done really well - I'm currently doing a Fastbuds Zkittlez and I have super cropped it. It's taken very well too it and is showing no signs of stress. Check out my diaries if you get a chance! Happy growing
@Bashgrowsitall1989, I did a zkittlez from fastbuds on previous grow, it was a awesome smoke. I only did lst on it but I recon it could have handled more stress. I'll have a look at yours.
f'ing love these strains... tempted to grow em. Would you re-grow these?
Look forward to keeping up with your grow, i'm following as of now. Im growing a few similar strains check out my progress, i'd love to hear your feedback.
@Kid_Colombia, I would defo grow these again, these fastbuds seeds always seem to perform for me. I have already bought some smoothie auto fastbuds seeds for my next grow as I have that much faith in the breeder. I'll have a look and follow your grow.
@Freddd, cheers. I normally drop my ph to about 5.7 and let it drift to 6.3, when it hits 6.4 I drop it down again. At the moment I'm in reverse, up it to 6.0 then it drifts down to 5.0 in a 24 hrs. I think I need to lower my nute strength because 24hr after a top up with water my Ec creeps up 0.1.
wicked,Looks like your grow is coming along nicely👍enjoy the the ride and good luck , have fun and I hope that the outcome👌is everything you hope for 😉
@Bigrobbud, On that grow it was about 15L of water. The tub could hold about 20L but allowing space for net pot to hang you can only get 15L in. The grow after this I connected another bucket so I had twice the water.
@Bigrobbud, I don't use ro water. My tap water has a ec 0ff 0.15 so i don't bother with ro. The tent is a secret jardin ds60 60*60*150 I think. The temps in the dwc start at 17deg and rise to about 21deg sometime up to 24 degrees. When I added another res out of the tent I had more consistent temps as its easier to cool down the external res by putting frozen bottles in it.
Hashy
