Nov. 5, 2019 Just planted germinated seeds into 5gal. fabric pots. Three of each strain.
Organic soil mixture of...
Equal Parts Of...
PeetMoss/Coco
Worm Castings
Perlite
Then added...
1 Bag Water Only Soil Mix
Azomite
Dolomite Lime
1/4 cup FoxFarm Seed Starter
1/2 cup Kelp Meal
Nov 6, 2019 Germinated seeds just popped through the soil.
Looks like the Zkittles are maturing a little faster the the California Snow.
Nov 9, 2019. Seedlings are taking off. Probably almost 2 inches now. New pics will be up this evening or early tomorrow.
Put them on an 18/6 light cycle now. Added a space heater to the veg area. In monitoring the temp and humidity with my Govee while at work I notice the temp drops a little more than I like (low 70's lights off) once the light cycling started.
Rotated the pots one half turn. Noticed they were already leaning some toward the strongest light.
Also misting the seedlings with straight water a couple times a day while lights are on.
The room is in my basement all finished and climate controlled... except that room.
Watering as needed with straight filtered well water. The last Ph testing was this past summer and it fell between 6.5 and 7.0.
Nov 10, 2019
Noticed the seedlings are stretching a bit too much. I questioned myself several times as I watched them grow over three last 4 days... seeing this with other people's grows... reading forum responses..." you lights are too high". I was over cautious with this as my first grow experience.
My son verified my thoughts so I lowered my lights to about 7 inches freon the tops of the seedlings.
I'm vegging under t5's. I'll give them a look tomorrow morning to make sure I'm not getting any leaf burn.
Nov. 11, 2019
I was advised by a member over at Grasscity forums... thank you Organic Since... to mound up the soil around the stems to counter the stretch. I'll post after pics on the next weeks veg. calendar.
Continuing to water and doing foliage spraying with straight water as needed.
@raptor65, Thank you... its going pretty well so far. LSTing will begin in about a week. The grow will be keeping me a bit busier then, looking forward to it.
Let your zkittlez go longer if you can, i cut mine at 10 weeks due to necessity but could have easily let her go another couple, however smoke results were still great even though i went early. Good luck looking good
@johnnyblatez,
Thanks for confirming my findings. I feel better about my choice now.
I accidentally deleted my original reply to your comment when I tried to edit week 10 and change it from flower to harvest. Apparently that can't be done. I think I'll add week 11 a call the harvest week and just note i harvested half way into week 10.
@WeedWacker, I hear you, good reasoning ill tell you your speaking facts there, mine were about 20% Amber and this is a evening smoke for me, smoke in the morning and im dreaming all day, a few earlier buds i pulled for a test 1 week prior were very uplifting and got me active so i have to agree. Anyway look forward to seeing your update on taste and effect. Thanks for your reply.
@johnnyblatez,
Thanks for your advice. I thought they could've went a little longer... they had no amber trichomes. I harvested them lay night though... I'm going to update my diary tonight.
I harvested them before amber trichomes because I learned on here from another grower when he harvested his after waiting for a few amber tricomes that I changed thr buzz profile a lot, more toward a mellower couch lock kinda buzz. I didn't want that, so I harvested them last evening.
Lookn gud so far bro congrats. Oh an i hate to tell ya but ur in flower now not veg lol. Jus playn around cauze i seen u put it under the veg tab n not flower an i go dwn an bam see flowers i was like huh lol. But yeah man lookn gud i currently have a Zkittles from FB in some Highbrix organic soil myself. Am she is starting to be a beast lol. But yea im subbed an dwn to watch ur grow an cant wait to see how urs turns out come harvest. We can see how each turns out gud luck bro an if u got any questions dmt hesitate to ask.
@WeedWacker,
Jus member the hps is more for flower and mh for veg. So u shud be seeing some change but it shud be new growth and bulking up why what are u seeing? And dam bro that tent is awesome id be filling that bitch up specially with 2 hps hoods u got going those suckers shud bulk up some plants for sure.
@FrostyBlaze420,
Thanks for checking out my grow diary. Yeah lol I realized I forgot to switch to flower after I saved... was going to fix it later, but you guilted me into doing it right after I ready your reply. Lol๐. It's all good๐.
Thanks for subbing... I'll check yours out too.
I may check in with some questions... I'm seeing some different responses in the plants from putting then under the 600w HPS's.
I'm going to give a couple more days before I worry and react.
The kids are looking good so far. Watering as needed... seems to be every other day, straight well water.
Foliar spraying with straight water.
Will start watering with an AACT in about another week+.
Will be assembling my 4ร8 tent Monday Nov 11. These 420 FastBuds autos be moved into the tent under 2 600w HPS lights when they start to flower.
I'll be adding photoperiod clones to the veg. bench and rotating them to the tent once they're ready to flower... perpetual grow.
This diary will only be about the autos in the pics.
I may start another diary for the traditional photoperiod clones... not sure what strain they'll be. Check beck and see.