Holmes grows Gelat.OG by Seedsman

I will be starting a Gelat.OG strain grow in a very discreet closet grow in a 24 x 24 x 48 tent and will try to accommodate two plants. My goal is to at least have both plants reach up to 2-2.5 feet from the medium to the top of the canopy at the end of flowering and will also be adding more equipment for better growing conditions as the plants continue to spread and demand better environment. I have a vivosun 300w LED light that I have set above the seedlings at factory suggestion about 24-31 inches from the top of the plants with a small budget friendly humidifier, a commercial intake fan, and a 6 inch fan for the light exhaust and to push air around the top of the plants. Humidity and temp will be high during the day in order to get these seedlings up to shape for the coming week and as soon as they sprout, i'll try to set temp and rh a little lower as well as lower the lights a bit so they can stretch out when i'm feeding nutrients, but for now it's regular pH balanced water of about 5.8-6.1 and will be keeping them in small half liter plastic containers of soil less mix until after week 2.

The seedlings are now almost an inch off the soil and have grown beautiful little future fan leaves, no signs of stress except for a little yellowing towards the middle which I think might be from overwatering so I switch the watering to about once every few days or so and it fixed it up right away. The pictures and logs for every week will be for the beginning of the week to give a recap from the last week and explain what I will do for the current, instead of waiting to log details until the end of the week and disregard the last. It will also help with going into detail with what I will be doing during the week to fix possible complications and deficiencies and showing results in the recap the week next. Right now they're doing fine and I will now be giving small dosages of nutrients to boost growth. I'm also going to be transferring them to 2 gallon fabric pots after this week or as soon as I feel they have grown enough to be resilient to handle the transplant stress and lowering the lights way down in order for them to stretch, I will be keeping an eye on the growing environments carefully this week.

It's now the end of week 2 and over these days i've seen significant growth and even more resiliency with early transplants of the two plants into larger 2 gallon fabric pots. They're both showing nice growth especially one that has been stacking a couple nodes really great. I wish I could say the same with the other which has been growing a little slower than the other phenotype but i'm not too worried because even though it's been taking its time spreading its first few leaves, the color is phenomenal with slight purple colors in the middle and symmetrical growth. I was hoping to transplant them towards the end of week 2 but around a few days prior, I noticed that the roots have grown so much after i have given them nutrients on their first week after sprouting almost as if they were looking for air so I thought it was time for an early switch to bigger spaces AND an extra element I will be adding in its feeding. I have done a little research on which nutrients will help with the plants structure to combat with uncontrollable problems like temperatures, humidity, mold, and pests so I wanted to introduce potassium silicate to their nutrient feeding which helps with plant cell wall growths for stronger and thicker stems that makes it more resistant to most growth issues, and perhaps with pH as well but don't take my word for it, speaking which I have risen the pH to another .6 so the silicon can be absorbed with the other nutrients along the spectrum of elements that the potassium silicate can actually promote in nutrient intake. Anyways I will continue to add silicon until at least the week before harvest and hopefully it will lead to higher yields since the bigger stems will allow for more consumption of nutrients, can't wait until the end of week 3 to see the progress!

It's been a chill 3rd week and from what I can see both plants seem to be growing out nice and fast, with at least 2 more nodes popping up within the week. I feel confident enough to add slightly more silicon as I see good results from the strong stems it's been developing. I will be low stress training sometime in the 4th week if it grows any thicker as I would not want the main stem to thicken from the rapid growth before I start. Temperature and humidity will be a problem now that I will be busy with work, regulating both when i'm not nearby will be an issue so I went ahead and bought a 4" inline fan with an australian virgin charcoal carbon filter, a digital timer for the lights, and an auto climate control humidifier. I have a budget friendly humidifier already but with this one I can set a humidity setting for it to keep it at a certain percentage when i'm not around, around 55-60% will suit the grow well. The fan and carbon filter will be helping with the smell since the plants are now releasing a slight sweet skunky scent throughout the ambience outside the tent prior to installing it, and the temperature will now be regulated as it was hitting a little too high for my taste (about 87° F) the potassium silicate also helps to withstand the fluctuating temps and rH as I planned since I won't be as attentive until pre flowering so resiliency is what i'm aiming until I get the height and spread from the training.

Hey guys it's finally week 5 and lots have happened this past week that include a few upgrades and a couple issues that aren't serious but still put me in a position to make some serious decisions. The one plant that had a head start in growth I mentioned these past weeks has actually been getting way more bushier with bigger and thicker stems/fan leaves that the bottom growth sites had also grown in proportion, so much that it's stems were poking out for more sunlight and I had to fumble and rearrange some leaves so most of them would get as much light as possible. I might even have to switch this plant with the other just so it gets the light it deserves and let it do it's thing because I need it to recover from some slight defoliation I did before I low stress trained it yesterday. I basically removed the bigger fan leaves that weren't getting enough light since the growth sites were now blocking them and further into the week before I trained them I also removed the two other fan leaves that were getting in the way of them as well, leaving only the ones from the top of the plant near the main stem. I haven't topped it yet since I don't want to stress it too much, it seems to show a lot of resiliency from nutrients and even has the run off water reading at a lower pH at about 6.2 so it's drinking and isn't showing signs of slowing down, nevertheless I will be topping it later on, perhaps during the middle of this week after it's recovered. As for the the other one, this plant has actually been showing a lot of improvement and even might be considered the more behaved phenotype since the other has been growing wild and has actually been receiving more care and attention than this. I might be topping this one sooner than the other just so the other can catch up in height and even train it even more later, the growth sights underneath has been growing slowly due to the lack of light and I even had to trim off a couple fan leaves underneath, leaving the 4 you see now, but I'm deciding whether I should defoliate some more or wait until I top it because either way will put some stress that I'm not sure how the plant will react. I will update on that the next week. I have also bought a self watering irrigation system that will come in handy when these ladies get too bushy and it's working wonders without the hassle of moving and touching these plants too much. All the upgrades from the last week I also mentioned have helped with making the grow medium as comfortable as possible with the exception of the high humidity at night rising up to at least 70 rH, but it doesn't seem to be affecting them since the stems and leaves are so thick from the silicon I added to its feed so it's nothing to worry about. I highly recommend this nutrient to be added to their feed if you have unstable grow environments or just want the possibility of bigger yields due to the bigger intake for the stems, leaves, and roots. Catch ya'll next week!

It's been a wild week 6 and lots have happen as usual for these two beautiful plants. To recap from last week I decided to start training them a few days after and would rearrange the plants so light would be divided evenly between both of them. I also did some slight defoliation which I turned out to do more often as these plants grew and recovered, in fact they recovered quite fast and didn't really show signs of stress but actually helped with spreading and growing within the growth sites and stems. I mostly cut huge fan leaves a day or two at a time depending on how much I would cut off just to make sure I wouldn't be hurting them so much. As for training it went well until I accidentally bent one stem too much and heard a loud snap only to find out I had half severed it, I didn't even know I snapped the branch until a couple days later that same stem was wilting and changing colors from bright healthy green to a dark hazy green and the stems turning white. I thought I could save it by doing a cloning process with that stem but it was too malnourished and perhaps already dead to go further...fuck... Yet I still had to keep going and make sure that didn't hurt the main plant too much. The next morning that plant flourished like nothing happened, probably due to the fact that it occurred to a bottom stem so the energy had transferred mostly to the top ends of the main stem, whew! (by the way, it happened to the slower growing one catching up to the other one thats doing excellent) Towards the end, both plants are doing very well and after training them has lost an inch and a half in height and growing mostly in width getting more bushier by the day. I still do some defoliation but not as much as this past week where i was removing about 10% of the plant every 2 days. Regardless it still grows and is so resilient and healthy no matter what I do and feed it. The roots are starting to poke through the fabric pots on the bottom and starting to self prune itself so it's getting a lot of air, also rearranging the pots sideways made it wayyyy easier to maintain it's stature and keep it aerated by changing the fan from the side to behind it, keeping tent pressure from the carbon filter intact so fresh air is always flowing through, properly. I've risen the light from 12 to around 16-19 inches so it can start reaching up instead of stacking nodes since i'm almost close to pre flowering it soon after week 7. I will also be changing it's feeding a tiny bit and perhaps giving it more silicate now that i'm confident that it will adhere to the changes very well. see y'all next time.

Welcome to week 7 and to recap from last week, the smaller and slower growing plant has fully recovered from the snapped branch I had accidentally trained too hard and is utilizing the space left by bending other branches in its place. The other faster growing plant has been excelling fast as usual and have both been defoliated from time to time, it's been defoliated less and less though throughout the week since it has grown in height enough for air under the canopy to breeze right through, as well as have each major nodes to be exposed to enough light to spread. There is actually not much to cover this week except an upgrade in its irrigation system, change in pH, and watching it grow and recover from a week of mid to heavy defoliation. I might leave them alone in terms of defoliation a long with some light retraining of branches as space becomes less of an issue this week For the irrigation system I have bought a couple of shut off valves because i've noticed each plant needed to be fed more often than the other sometimes so watering both wouldn't work if one doesn't need to be watered. I found the valves at my local hardware store which can easily be found in most gardening sections but you can also find them on amazon for cheap, it helps a lot because i found myself unplugging the hoses and using my thumb to plug one of the flows which was hassling and nerve wrecking because it was so close to very fragile leaves when forcing hoses out the plugs. The pH might be a bit high for this late into veg so i'll be lowering it to 6.1 from now until late flower so more proper nutrients can now be absorbed for recovery in time for the transition. Now that they both grew back that extra inch they lost from a couple weeks ago and has spread more evenly throughout the tent, I decided to take the tupperware risers from underneath and rotated the smaller plant so the other plant can also use that empty space where the snapped branch used to be, and to let one part of the plant that's lacking in height to stretch out more in the light. The light is now about 19" away from the canopies and is now focusing on all parts of the tent which will prepare the ladies next week when i decide to start flowering them. Nutrients will stay the same until next week but I will be changing it again to smaller doses to get ready to pre flower and the final stretch. I will be buying another light to replace the budget friendly 300w Vivosun grow light to one that can cover both plants evenly and have veg/bloom light switches that i'll be needing as soon as it starts to flower. On another note I'd like to thank some of the people who follow and liked my page over the weeks, I did not expect many people except the ones i share my page to give such support so I appreciate the likes and comments a long the way. I can see there are many experienced growers in this community with awesome grows and yields and hope to get the same on my end, cheers!

Welcome to the best part (in my opinion) of growing, week 8 pre flowering. I've done some light last minute defoliation earlier in the week so by the time week 8 has arrived, it would have recovered from most the defoliation in order for most of the growth sights to be exposed and hopefully will stretch in the pre flowering stretch that i'm anticipating. The only issue i'm concerned about is if the light is giving enough space for what i think might be a tall growing SoG type of flower so to be extra cautious, I've invested in a couple pair of grow light hangers that will give these plants the space it needs when it might possibly double in height when flowering starts. I've also invested in a new grow light since the first Vivosun 300w light was a budget friendly choice and wouldn't give efficient lighting for the plants since it comes in a full spectrum instead of VEG and BLOOM adjustments in the Viparspectra TC450 LED light that I'm going to need in order to produce a comfortable bud growth environment. The hangers are a great help in spreading the light evenly across the canopy since i'd only been able to rise it so much with the factory clip hanger it came with that was attached thru the same hole as the ducting on the tent to a a pole outside of it which wasn't good in terms of keeping the tent completely sealed from outside elements. The canopy isn't as even as I hoped it to be probably due to its long recovering periods from defoliation and possibly nutrient/pH fluctuations but now after leaving these plants alone after that week of trimming fan leaves and even with a light defoliation afterwards has made these plants look healthier and grown into a satisfactory height, i'm ready to start flowering and will be switching its light schedule to 12/12 from now on. The light I just bought comes with its own timer and a programmable VEG/BLOOM spectrum (with remote!) that will come in handy in the next couple months. I'm a little worried about the temps and humidity as it starts to pre flower but I can always turn up the inline fan for more air circulation and pray that the plants don't hermi from the leaf stress or mold from high humidity. If anything I will have to switch out the humidifier for the dehumidifier to regulate rH. The nutrients for both of them will be changed slightly with the FloraGro being cut down to .5 and every other measurement staying the same. In the next following week, i'll try my hardest not to disturb the plants from giving birth to these magnificent bud sites and watch as they turn into great bouquets in the coming weeks, see yall next week!

This week has been great for the grow tent now that flowering has begun, i've noticed pistils on the SECOND day of flowering and it's shown me that these plants are eager to grow as much as fast and tall as possible. I've also upgraded the dehumidifier to a much much better one since the first one i had was a budget friendly one, which sort of did not really work as well and doesn't have humidity control like the new one, although it was hard to find a dehumidifier that was small enough with features that could help with keeping the grow tent under control when i'm not around, this one did the job enough and kept the humidity from going from 70+ and kept it to around 50-ish, which was good enough. I wish the humidity was under 50% but hopefully the silicate nutrients i've fed it throughout their life and strains genetics will keep it from growing slower and prevent it from growing mold, i'm confident the grow will have no problems since i've not only avoided much of the issues (aside from some yellowing on the new leaves prior to flowering) so lets hope for the best as this coming week will help produce some nice young buds. I've defoliated and removed some stems as well as lollipopped it as soon as it started to flower so it should help with keeping the rH under control and tried to prevent the water run off to flood on the bottom too much so these weeks after veg will be important for the flowering stretch up until the third week of flowering so I will be leaving these plants alone won't be removing anymore leaves until the third week where I will be selective defoliating some fan leaves that are covering bud sites keeping the canopy as exposed to light as possible, after that I will be lowering their nutrient feeding again and probably only do ph balanced water to feed them in between nutrient feedings depending on how fast its growing, but I doubt it since this strain seems very resilient to nutrient toxicities. More on next week!

Welcome back guys to the start of week 10, to cap off last week I upgraded the tent with a brand new dehumidifier, lollipopped them, and as well as remove some stems that wouldn't grow as much under the main canopy and produce me some larfy buds towards harvest. The humidity from last week had significantly dropped from around 70% to around 48-54% which was great news, and the temperature has also dropped to where i wanted to the most 78 degrees and 68 at night, at which the cold temps will help give the plants great dark purple color that i'm noticing now on the new tiny leaf blades on the growing bud sites. Speaking of which have grown so fast over the week and I believe will be growing a bit taller and fatter as I make some changes to the light spectrum in the coming week so it gets enough reds for flowering and blues to control height. I still have a little less than 2 feet of space between the light and top canopy so growth won't be a problem- for now. A little before the week ended, I did its first of 2 last major defoliation since it's gotten so bushy with its fan leaves covering a lot of the smaller bud sites on the larger plant that now most bud sites are exposed to air and light and can be left alone until hopefully harvest if they don't run into light problems. The smell has been getting more stronger in terms of inside the tent but some of it has been leaking out of the tent so I've been thinking of investing on odor neutralizer gel if the smell gets out of hand outside the tent since i'm trying to grow discreetly from my neighbors and roommates. For feeding I will actually be continuing the same amount of nutrients in its feeding for another week but will give it plain pH water in between those feedings. They've been getting thirsty now that i've had to water them at least 2-3 times a week rather than just once or maybe twice when it was just vegging so for this week i'll be giving them a nutrient feeding, then plain pH, and then a final nutrient feeding before I make changes to lower nutrients into mid flower. I still have some stems training and I think I'll be leaving some tied down and releasing some as well once they've reached a point where I feel they will probably get light and air without blocking any other growths without tying them down. OK see yall next week!

We are now 11 weeks in to growing these two gelat.og strains from seed and 4 weeks into flowering, we still have a long ways until harvest but they're inching higher as we speak. Perhaps, too high. These two plants are still in their flowering stretch and they still have about a foot of growing space until I have to worry about them being too close to the lights. Hopefully the plants only grow up a few more inches and stay put into growing its buds fatter instead. In this log I'm going to be explaining mostly about my future plans on mainlining next grow. I've noticed a few other grows on this website showing short bushy plants done with a focus on just one plant growing many fat colas and yield out good weight quickly with manifold techniques and high stress training so I might do a one plant grow using the mainlining technique since I now know the limits on how much I can stress a plant when training and defoliating, all the while with this current grow, I tried to train it the best I could with only a limited space available but the canopy still didn't come out as even as I thought it would so I will be trying this after I start my first auto flower grow which will be interesting since many have told me to start off growing indoor with auto flowers yet I still chose for photo periods to be able to observe how different phenotypes react with the most key elements of training, hoping to try to understand and implement some of what I know on my up and coming grow. Back to these plants, theres nothing much to cover in this log besides for some thoughts for the future grow and a few points to mention. They're finally producing some frosty trichomes around the buds and on some leaves, even some near the stem of some fan leaves still growing near the top which looks real nice against the hue of purple on their stems. The smaller healthier plant has not produced any color changes on its buds but they still remain the most healthy as well as developing a good amount of trichomes. I did some very very light defoliation on cutting off leaves that were covering smaller short growths hiding under the canopy, also fan leaves that look like could be blocking light for the smaller growth sites under the main cola on each branch. I'll be defoliating one more time on the 6th week of flowering when it gets into mid flower. I'm still going to follow the same nutrient formula for another week until I feel they've grown into mature enough to lower nutrient measurements and keep alternating between nute feedings and plain pH waterings like last week, the plants seem to love that. Until next time!

Happy new year everyone, glad we made it to week 12 from seed, and week 5 into flower. Last week I did a couple trims of some large fan leaves and also trimmed some that were covering other main bud growths from the lights. I did an extra week of alternating the same nutrient measurements and plain ph water until the colas had start getting bigger in girth. Height has slowed down and stayed at a good 13.5" from the growing medium and has at least 16" of head space from the lights, which is not a problem for now since I've changed the spectrum on Sunday from 100% blue and red light to 100% red and 40% blue, so that I can give it the go to grow a little taller and bigger in yield with the red lighting. As soon as the buds start getting bigger in mass I can change the spectrum again to an even red and blue light so it can go back to focusing on potency and node stacking. The grow tent is starting to smell a very sweet tangy citrus candy smell, but i'm starting to wonder a few things I will go into details about the two plants. One plant i've noticed has a distinct smell and phenotype (the smaller one) that i've noticed is starting to be very different from the bigger plant. The bigger phenotype is growing much more sporadically with its many colas now developing with a hue of purple in its buds and a much more potent smell that describes what the breeders page had said it would be. The smaller plant has fewer colas counting at 9 but are significantly healthy and looks like will develop huge yields but the color is not as purple— in fact, there's no purple almost at all within its bud sites or main growth except the fan leaves' stems and parts of the main trunk. The odor is also very different from the other, it smells distinctly the same but with less fruity/candy bouquet and more skunky/earthy smell. Either these are two different strains or different phenotype plants which I might assume for the most part since i've seen photos of complete grows and some yields came out to look like either one of the plants i'm growing right now. This is all just observation and not really complaints about my initial purchase of the seeds since i'm overall satisfied with how things are going so far. I've invested in a microscopic lens that will come in handy when harvest comes close at hand for viewing trichome colors and pistil color changes. I've taken the liberty of taking a few photos and manipulating the lens with my phone to get some nice photos of the trichomes. Nutrient measurements will now change for more yield and flowering until at least 2-3 weeks before harvesting when I will begin to flush the medium. Hope yall had a great holiday and see you next week!

bad and good news everyone (mostly bad) but had to cut the grow short and harvest a little prematurely due to some personal living issues, but I will be doing another grow that will definitely be done from start to finish since it's only going to be one auto flower plant. I'm not sure how this harvest will turn out since it's still curing but if anything I will be using it for edibles, so far it looks and smells good .Stay tuned for the next grow.