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No noticeable issues. She is bursting with life!
Just started my nute regiment. Giving her 1ml per L of AN micro/grow/bloom. Spread out during the week with straight RO water in between feedings.
End of the week notes: I did not feed straight RO water this week but did feed her on the first and fourth day of the week. Tomorrow starts a new week and will probably begin with a straight RO watering.
Oh man I'm pumped with her growth so far🌱💪 make sure to Follow along as I update pictures daily!!.
For those curious. I using a cheap Chinese 1000w full spectrum sun like led. As far as I know it is a quantum board with SMD LEDs. The heat it produces is not enough for my garage grow box, so I'm using an electric heat emitter from my reptile stuff to keep night&day temps right where they need to be.
Finally got my ppm and PH meter. Ph is a little high for coco, will have to correct that before to long. Noticed my ro water is at 200ppm.(time to change the filters) so I cut back the amount of nutes ..Other then that she's doing terrific!
Side note: October 28th I gave her 2ml of calmag and sensizym added to her regular 2ml base nute feeding.
Everything is going well except for my PH levels. Tomorrow I will be getting some Ph down to bring my ph to a more appropriate level for coco.
I count 9 tops!! That's right 9. I got a triple topper!👍 this week I will be letting her stretch a bit so I can tie her down again.
So far I'm extremely happy with her growth and excited for the next week! Follow along my growing journey🤟
I try my best to update pictures daily.
HAPPY GROWING!
Update: nov,3 2019. I got some AN pH down and now at a pH of 6.2
I have also discovered that my run off ppm is WAY higher then what I'm putting in, so basically that's telling me shes in lock out right now as nutes are just building up instead of being soaked up.. I'm going to flush with a very weak strength nute mix about 1/4 strength until my run off ppm drops.
Last week was touch and go for a bit, I think I've actually been under feeding.. maybe I worry to much. Lol
This week I will be very slowly upping her nutrient intake.
November 13 update: she's doing very well, seems that I was under feeding her. But she has recovered well and is flourishing.
Very satisfied, she's not very tall. But that's what I'm going after anyways. Probably going to veg for another 3 weeks.
Questions/comments, you guys know what to do!
Will add more pictures throughout the week. So make sure to follow along!!
November 22 update: my 56L air pot is ready, going to pick up some more coco/perlite tomorrow and prep for transplant. I wanted to avoid transplanting by planting my seedling in her forever home. Turns out her root growth is doing so well that I'm left with little choice but to transplant.
Update November 24: Transplant day. Root feed with seaweed supplement.
Update November 26: night time foliar spray with seaweed supplement. She seemed to Love that!
Update November 27: now -11°c outside and has dropped my box temp to 23😒. I have added another ceramic heat emitter.
Last update of the week: I had some very droopy leaves last night, pretty sure it was a mix of stressful things piled on in the last couple days, but after a healthy watering of PH'd seaweed water. (No AN nutes) this time, and the added 100w heat emitter. She is bouncing back vigorously. Can't wait to see what challenges I face next week!!
Happy growing🌱👍
Soo... I have roots starting to come out the bottom of my pot. Should I be worried at or will it be fine for the rest of her life..(I do have and am using sensizym) When is transplanting "cutoff"? Can you transplant any time before flower?
@Rusticbuds Yes you can transplant her into a bigger container but try to do it just before lights off as this will reduce the stress also a seaweed based supplement is excellent for reducing transplant stress so a light watering with some mixed in would be of benefit. Also if you dont want to transplant you can gently trim off any protruding roots but if you have the space and means to do a transplant I would consider doing so Good luck my friend
Last week(8) was a bit stressful for my girl, first was transplanting, then the temp and humidity dropped considerably. I have corrected the issues and now she is looking happier then she ever has!! Looking forward to seeing what this week has in store for us.
Quick note.. I counted germination as the first week.. so I guess technically I'm actually on week 8 now.
December 1st update: she is doing very well and plan to flip her at the end of this week.
December 4th update: pulled the bottom ties a little tighter and add some more above the OG tie points, she is definitely growing like a weed!!
December 7th update: I couldn't wait any longer and switched to 12/12 on December 5th 2019. The main is definitely getting chunky💪 I can already see I'm going the have height problems with her. I may in fact have to upgrade the grow box. Also noticed brown tips on the leaves.
December 9th update: last update of the week.. I cut her nutes down a bit for the next feeding or two. Now that I've switched to 12/12 flower she is growing about 1 1/2" -2" a day!!
Be sure to like and follow along as I update daily!
Happy growing 👍🌱
yes it is a sign of very early abundance of nutrients but simply you don't need to flush.Only flush if you start losing more leaf surface.I mean,if signs get bigger and more parts of leaves get brownish,crispy,weird looking,you should flush.Since you are in coco,do not skip nutes.If flushing,flush with sufficient amount of pure water then give some nuted feeding solution.At this point,you don't need to flush,just decrease amount of nutes for that plant for a week and watch if it increases or not.Unnecessary flushing will do more harm than a very very slight nutrient burn,trust me.I've experienced it a few times before.
But...
I see you are giving 4ml of each one and this is %100 of what it says on the bottle,right? No need to feed that much in my opinion,especially in veg.I would immediately cut off Bloom part and back off with Grow nutes to 1ml at least.Good luck.your plant looks great
Last week was great and she started to take off after transplant! Her main stem is Close to an inch think💪 I have done some more LSTing to help spread things out.
December Friday the 13th update: she is growing incredibly well so I decided to cut her down to size. 😈🔪
Happy growing everyone!👍🌱
Photoperiod OR Autoflower!!??
What has been your favorite to grow and what's brought you the best harvests!?
Everything is going very well and am super excited to finish this girl.
She has begun forming buds, hope the one light I have will be enough for her.
December 21 update: fed her 2ml per L and used a full 8L of mixed nutrients
December 24th update: ordered a new 1500w chinese smd led. nothing else to add really, she is growing very very well and she is starting to stack nicely.
Update December 26. Patiently waiting for my new light! Also starting to run out of room in my grow box.
Happy holidays everyone 🌱👍
She's still stretching like crazy and am really starting to run out of room. I will have come up with something to get more height out of the box.
More updates to follow.
December 31 update: fed 6L of mixed nutrients, and added the other light. (1500w) Now at 2500w led total, Actual power draw is around 300w. new light has IR and UV. I'm hoping this added light will help keep the stretch down and of course produce a much bigger harvest!!
January 2 2020 update: everything is looking great, the stretch has slowed down and am seeing lots of trichome production!
Happy new years!! And Happy growing everyone 🌱🌿 may you have Bountiful Harvest🙏
I know it takes time for buds to stack and fatten up. My question is, will molasses be of any benefit to me or is that for the organic grows? As I've read the sugar feeds the microbes and not the plant itself. Also how's she looking? if it was your plant what would you change?
Your plant looks perfectly happy and healthy. Molasses in any kind of hydroponics or coco can feed bad bacteria which will make your pH spike and cause a lot of issues. If you are looking to add sugars then you can add bud candy to your feeding schedule. Good luck finishing her up!
Super stoked for last week, watching her flower is pretty incredible, so from pretty much week 9 of veg up till now I've been feeding her half strength base nutrients with fluctuating strengths of sensizym and Cal-Mag always mixed with 8L of basic filtered water.
Update January 5 2020. Back from my fishing trip! Happy to say that everything with the durban is going swimmingly, I fed her today 8L with half strength base nutrients and half strength of sensizym. I will probably do one more feeding with sensizym and call it good.. in two-three weeks I will start adding my Overdrive nutrients to my base.
January 11 update: Not much going. Just playing the waiting game now.
More updates to follow. Update pictures daily!!
Happy growing everyone!🌱👍
Super stoked for last week, watching her flower is pretty incredible, so from pretty much week 9 of veg up till now I've been feeding her half strength base nutrients with fluctuating strengths of sensizym and Cal-Mag always mixed with 8L of basic filtered water.
Update January 5 2020. Back from my fishing trip! Happy to say that everything with the durban is going swimmingly, I fed her today 8L with half strength base nutrients and half strength of sensizym. I will probably do one more feeding with sensizym and call it good.. in two-three weeks I will start adding my Overdrive nutrients to my base.
January 11 update: Not much going. Just playing the waiting game now.
January 13 update: its gotten really cold here, like -37 with wind so I put a ceramic heat emitter back in, now back up to 250w heat running 24/7. Growing in an unheated shop is definitely a challenge! But with the other one in things are picking up and shits drying out finally. Should have put the other heater back in a week ago. My bad.
January 15 update: -37!! Holy fu*ck, fed her 3L of mixed nutrients at half strength. With just a splash of overdrive.
January 17 update: outside temps finally warming up to -25°c yay!! Inside grow box temps up to 28°c she likes it warm, Fed her the remaining food I had mixed up, she got about 5L. Seeing fattening of the bud sites👀👌
January 19 update: No idea when this happened but it did.. got a crack right at first top. Now I know to leave more of stem above where it splits off into two. Quick tape fix till I figure it out, fed her 5L of mixed food with just under full strength OverDrive and some organic growth plus.. it has a high pk so I'm using it once.
More updates to follow. Update pictures daily!!
Happy growing everyone!🌱👍 Stay warm my Canadian friends.
Super stoked for last week, watching her flower is pretty incredible, so from pretty much week 9 of veg up till now I've been feeding her half strength base nutrients with fluctuating strengths of sensizym and Cal-Mag always mixed with 8L of basic filtered water.
Update January 5 2020. Back from my fishing trip! Happy to say that everything with the durban is going swimmingly, I fed her today 8L with half strength base nutrients and half strength of sensizym. I will probably do one more feeding with sensizym and call it good.. in two-three weeks I will start adding my Overdrive nutrients to my base.
January 11 update: Not much going. Just playing the waiting game now.
January 13 update: its gotten really cold here, like -37 with wind so I put a ceramic heat emitter back in, now back up to 250w heat running 24/7. Growing in an unheated shop is definitely a challenge! But with the other one in things are picking up and shits drying out finally. Should have put the other heater back in a week ago. My bad.
January 15 update: -37!! Holy fu*ck, fed her 3L of mixed nutrients at half strength. With just a splash of overdrive.
January 17 update: outside temps finally warming up to -25°c yay!! Inside grow box temps up to 28°c she likes it warm, Fed her the remaining food I had mixed up, she got about 5L. Seeing fattening of the bud sites👀👌
January 19 update: No idea when this happened but it did.. got a crack right at first top. Now I know to leave more of stem above where it splits off into two. Quick tape fix till I figure it out, fed her 5L of mixed food with just under full strength OverDrive and some organic growth plus.. it has a high pk so I'm using it once.
January 21 update: things are slowing down now, just a waiting game to find that nice mix of cloudy/amber trichomes. Might feed one more time then it's on to flushing!
January 23 update. Fed her another 5L of mixed nutrients with full strength OverDrive. Seems how I have about 2-3weeks left, that will be the last feed. I have lots of "buffer" leaves and pretty sure I've been overfeeding a bit so it's now flush time.. I will be flushing for last 2-3 weeks with just plain PH'd tap water. My "buffer" leaves should keep it going till it's time.
January 25 update: first flush done with about 8L of store bought RO water. Water that came out was slightly brown. No point checking run off yet as its first flush. I will check ppms next flush in a few days. She's starting to smell really good! Like an earthy diesel .
January 27 update: wasn't going to but the leaves are dry as f*** so dumped in another 8l of RO flush water. Trichomes are I'd say 99 to 100% cloudy with a few Amber's here and there.. I will try to time it for Feb 1st harvest. If I'm a few days early due to flushing coco then so be it.
I would to thank everyone for the kind words/likes and encouragement!! The growing community is full of great people 👍keep on keepin on!
More updates to follow. Update pictures daily!!
Happy growing everyone!🌱👍 Stay warm my Canadian friends.
Super stoked for last week, watching her flower is pretty incredible, so from pretty much week 9 of veg up till now I've been feeding her half strength base nutrients with fluctuating strengths of sensizym and Cal-Mag always mixed with 8L of basic filtered water.
Update January 5 2020. Back from my fishing trip! Happy to say that everything with the durban is going swimmingly, I fed her today 8L with half strength base nutrients and half strength of sensizym. I will probably do one more feeding with sensizym and call it good.. in two-three weeks I will start adding my Overdrive nutrients to my base.
January 11 update: Not much going. Just playing the waiting game now.
January 13 update: its gotten really cold here, like -37 with wind so I put a ceramic heat emitter back in, now back up to 250w heat running 24/7. Growing in an unheated shop is definitely a challenge! But with the other one in things are picking up and shits drying out finally. Should have put the other heater back in a week ago. My bad.
January 15 update: -37!! Holy fu*ck, fed her 3L of mixed nutrients at half strength. With just a splash of overdrive.
January 17 update: outside temps finally warming up to -25°c yay!! Inside grow box temps up to 28°c she likes it warm, Fed her the remaining food I had mixed up, she got about 5L. Seeing fattening of the bud sites👀👌
January 19 update: No idea when this happened but it did.. got a crack right at first top. Now I know to leave more of stem above where it splits off into two. Quick tape fix till I figure it out, fed her 5L of mixed food with just under full strength OverDrive and some organic growth plus.. it has a high pk so I'm using it once.
January 21 update: things are slowing down now, just a waiting game to find that nice mix of cloudy/amber trichomes. Might feed one more time then it's on to flushing!
January 23 update. Fed her another 5L of mixed nutrients with full strength OverDrive. Seems how I have about 2-3weeks left, that will be the last feed. I have lots of "buffer" leaves and pretty sure I've been overfeeding a bit so it's now flush time.. I will be flushing for last 2-3 weeks with just plain PH'd tap water. My "buffer" leaves should keep it going till it's time.
January 25 update: first flush done with about 8L of store bought RO water. Water that came out was slightly brown. No point checking run off yet as its first flush. I will check ppms next flush in a few days. She's starting to smell really good! Like an earthy diesel .
January 27 update: wasn't going to but the leaves are dry as f*** so dumped in another 8l of RO flush water. Trichomes are I'd say 99 to 100% cloudy with a few Amber's here and there.. I will try to time it for Feb 1st harvest. If I'm a few days early due to flushing coco then so be it.
January 28 update: no water. Still seeing some slight fattening of the buds. Every bud site including the lower pop corn buds are just covered in dense trichomes🤤 I'm going to have some pretty killer trim to work with.. I will be making canna butter for the first time😀 side note: will be cleaning the grow box tomorrow when the lights are on.
January 29 update: None. I did however find out sunglasses make great UV filters for taking pictures and videos 👍
January 30 update: None.
January 31 update: large flush with about 14L of water, cleaned out run off tray. That's pretty much it.. oh, trimmed a few more leaves that were covering any buds. So close I can almost taste it!!! 🤤🤤 sure not very strong smelling though🤨. I'm sure that will change once I start chopping into her.
February 1st update: 10L flush, noticed one of my intake fans has been off for some time now🤦♂️🏻 fired that back up. I did mention that I might harvest today.. she's not quite ready yet, I will let her dry out 3days prior and do a 48hr darkness prior to harvest as well.
February 3rd update: last day of week 16, trichomes are right where I want them for the affect I'm after.(and will continue to amber up during cure) So tonight I will be chopping her down. Going to do a "wet" trim and hang buds in the drying rack till ready for curing jars. Planning on a 3 week minimum cure time.
I would to thank everyone for the kind words/likes and encouragement!! The growing community is full of great people👍
More updates to follow. Update pictures daily!!
Happy growing everyone!🌱👌Stay warm my Canadian friends.
Super stoked for last week, watching her flower is pretty incredible, so from pretty much week 9 of veg up till now I've been feeding her half strength base nutrients with fluctuating strengths of sensizym and Cal-Mag always mixed with 8L of basic filtered water.
Update January 5 2020. Back from my fishing trip! Happy to say that everything with the durban is going swimmingly, I fed her today 8L with half strength base nutrients and half strength of sensizym. I will probably do one more feeding with sensizym and call it good.. in two-three weeks I will start adding my Overdrive nutrients to my base.
January 11 update: Not much going. Just playing the waiting game now.
January 13 update: its gotten really cold here, like -37 with wind so I put a ceramic heat emitter back in, now back up to 250w heat running 24/7. Growing in an unheated shop is definitely a challenge! But with the other one in things are picking up and shits drying out finally. Should have put the other heater back in a week ago. My bad.
January 15 update: -37!! Holy fu*ck, fed her 3L of mixed nutrients at half strength. With just a splash of overdrive.
January 17 update: outside temps finally warming up to -25°c yay!! Inside grow box temps up to 28°c she likes it warm, Fed her the remaining food I had mixed up, she got about 5L. Seeing fattening of the bud sites👀👌
January 19 update: No idea when this happened but it did.. got a crack right at first top. Now I know to leave more of stem above where it splits off into two. Quick tape fix till I figure it out, fed her 5L of mixed food with just under full strength OverDrive and some organic growth plus.. it has a high pk so I'm using it once.
January 21 update: things are slowing down now, just a waiting game to find that nice mix of cloudy/amber trichomes. Might feed one more time then it's on to flushing!
January 23 update. Fed her another 5L of mixed nutrients with full strength OverDrive. Seems how I have about 2-3weeks left, that will be the last feed. I have lots of "buffer" leaves and pretty sure I've been overfeeding a bit so it's now flush time.. I will be flushing for last 2-3 weeks with just plain PH'd tap water. My "buffer" leaves should keep it going till it's time.
January 25 update: first flush done with about 8L of store bought RO water. Water that came out was slightly brown. No point checking run off yet as its first flush. I will check ppms next flush in a few days. She's starting to smell really good! Like an earthy diesel .
January 27 update: wasn't going to but the leaves are dry as f*** so dumped in another 8l of RO flush water. Trichomes are I'd say 99 to 100% cloudy with a few Amber's here and there.. I will try to time it for Feb 1st harvest. If I'm a few days early due to flushing coco then so be it.
January 28 update: no water. Still seeing some slight fattening of the buds. Every bud site including the lower pop corn buds are just covered in dense trichomes🤤 I'm going to have some pretty killer trim to work with.. I will be making canna butter for the first time😀 side note: will be cleaning the grow box tomorrow when the lights are on.
January 29 update: None. I did however find out sunglasses make great UV filters for taking pictures and videos 👍
January 30 update: None.
January 31 update: large flush with about 14L of water, cleaned out run off tray. That's pretty much it.. oh, trimmed a few more leaves that were covering any buds. So close I can almost taste it!!! 🤤🤤 sure not very strong smelling though🤨. I'm sure that will change once I start chopping into her.
February 1st update: 10L flush, noticed one of my intake fans has been off for some time now🤦♂️🏻 fired that back up. I did mention that I might harvest today.. she's not quite ready yet, I will let her dry out 3days prior and do a 48hr darkness prior to harvest as well.
February 3rd update: last day of week 16, trichomes are right where I want them for the affect I'm after.(and will continue to amber up during cure) So tonight I will be chopping her down. Going to do a "wet" trim and hang buds in the drying rack till ready for curing jars. Planning on a 3 week minimum cure time.
February 4th update: updating after work today. Stay tuned!!! You won't wanna miss it👍 Side Note: I've update my lights to better reflect the actual watts from the wall not what's claimed. My "1000w" pulls around 100w and my "1500w" pulls around 185w. Something don't seem right with those numbers, but hey, that's what you get with Amazon lights.lol
February 5 update: Forest my Chinese water dragon checking for any bugs! Haha.
Buds still drying. Stay tuned for final weight
February 9 update: buds dried and in jars/bag to cure. I will updating to harvest tonight!!
I would to thank everyone for the kind words/likes and encouragement!! The growing community is full of great people👍
More updates to follow. Update pictures daily!!
Happy growing everyone!🌱👌Stay warm my Canadian friends.
Lol awesome question friend.
But you didn't say yours? At least i didn't see it in this weeks update?
I'm a sucker for lucky charms... but...my inner baker has a tendency to explode out when I'm stoned and I'll go crazy in the kitchen! Nothing beats homemade Pizelles! Granted i usually burn approximately half of them since they bake about 25 seconds lol but even the burnt ones are yummy. Snag some vanilla bean ice cream outta the freeze... oh so good ya know?
Grow cycle was long, but at the same time feel I could have gone a little longer. I have learned a ton in the relatively short time I've been here, and even made a few friends!✊ Open your arms grow fam cuz this guys here to stay! I have my next grow planned and am excited to get growing again🌱😁. A serious shout out all the people that came by to check out my grow, you guys🤘. Don't know what else to say, super happy with my outcome, quality is far superior to anything I've smoked in a long time.
February 15th update: couple things to go over here with you fine folks. First off is the canna butter I made. Holy crap!! This stuff hits fast. The taste is very nice, you can taste the cannabis but it's not over powering. Taste F'ing amazing with honey. (Also quite tasty in Kraft dinner with a dash of black pepper😁)The high is nice for me, you feel very mellow yet alert. One and a half tsp seems to be a nice dose to start with. Over all I am very impressed with my cannabis butter👌
Last thing you will notice in my "Picture Diary" is my home made moonrocks! Oh yah buddy! These are made from:
My home grown Durban poison hand picked buds. Then rolled into my uncles home made whitewidow RSO, then lastly pressed and rolled into a DP/WW/Random kief mix. Make sure to buckle up cuz these are sure to take you for a ride!🚀
I'm having a blast trying new things and experimenting with different cannabis cooking methods.(all first's for me). Big shout out to the comments section, you guys rock! We had some great munchie replies that left me straching my head haha! Jk.. It's been great learning and sharing on this site but it's talking with everyone that makes it fun!
✌️ Till next time! And happy growing grow fam!!!🌱🌱😀
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