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Day 8, decided to transplant to final pot size.. I usually start in the final pot, and wanted to experiment with solo-cup start, then transplant. not very impressed- will continue starting seeds in final pot for maximum growth rate.
Day 16 for this Pineapple Express auto! She is starting to take root, after the transplant out from the 1/2solo cup!
Day 19-LST (1 Tsp Floranova Grow in 1 gallon Distilled Water, with 3 drops of PH+ to be at around 6.3ph.) 1 gallon dosage should last for ~3days!
Start of week 4! LST for the main, and a light defoliation for the rest, to allow equal light among all nodes!
Day 25 LST and defoliation for this Pineapple Express auto!
Day 28 - pulled a few leaves that were covering the canopy
Day 29 - 16 nodes lolipopped off to give way to the remaining 10-12! first time lolipopping an auto! She still seems to be vegging, so i'm excited to see how she responds!
Day 31 - Lolipopped more off! - I decided that I wasn't strict enough.
Day 35- Starting to transition to flower!
Day 37 - Starting to transition to flower! She was defoliated today, low-stress-trained, and lightly lolipopped! (6 small nodes off).
Day 42 - I think she's transitioning from veg into flower...
Day 50 - Before and After - Start of week 8 from seed (second week of flower)!
Another big defoliation session for this Pineapple Express auto! She's big! :)
I fed a 1 gallon dosage of the above listed veg nutes after defoliation. For the next feeding (in 3-4days (once the soil is 90% dry again)), i'll switch her over to bloom nutes!
Day 53 - before/after defoliation! Switched to bloom nutes (FloranovaBloom) - concentration is the same as what's shown in the above listed nutes.
Day 56 - Flushing the grow media next watering to prepare for harvest in a week!
Day 63 - 2.5 gallons dosage of the nutes listed above. Should be dry, and ready for the next 2.5 gallon dosage in 5-6 days.
Lightly defoliating every few days from now, 'till harvest!
Day 70 - End of week 4 flower! She's been defoliated hard every 3-4 days for the first 4 weeks of flower!
Should be smooth sailing from now until harvest!
Day 77 from seed! Been removing the occasional leaf that's blocking bud-sites, or that's looking at me funny! ;)
She's been getting fed 2.5 gallons dosage of the above listed nutes, every 4 days (when the soil is 90% dry again).
Next week(tomorrow) I will be adding "GH dry Koolbloom" to the nutes at a concentration of 1.25 grams/gallon.
Day 84 - Truckin steady!
2.5 gallons dosage of the above nutes every 4 days! This weeks food has the addition of dry koolbloom (3.1 grams / 2.5 gallons).
Just plucking the occasional leaf that looks at me funny, and watering when dry! (every 4 days)
Day 91 from seed! She's been fed/watered every 4 days (when media is 90% dry) with 2.5 gallons flood-and-drain style of the above listed nutes.
Other than that, I have only been plucking the occasional leaf that looks at me funny! :)
Next week is flush week! I'll start next week by dragging her into the bathtub, to flow 50 gallons of tap water through the roots.
Then she will be on plain tap water(2.5 gallons every 4 days) for two waterings - She should be dry on day 100, and ready for harvest!
Flush week! 50 gallons of tap water flushed through the roots at the start of this week.
She has been on plain tap water(2.5 gallons every 4 days) for the last two waterings.
She was a "slow and steady wins the race" phenotype! 6 weeks veg + 8 week flower.
She vegged strong through week 6, and then stacked up some intense colas, because of being lolipopped before flower!
During her transition to flower, she was defoliated every 3 days to allow light and air to penetrate the canopy, and allow for maximum stackage!
This is possible because, she didn't stretch much during her transition. Instead, she was stacking a tight node structure; and with every new node, comes a set of two leaves!
This lady holds my personal record, for my largest yield from an indoor plant!!!
Absolutely knocked this out of the park. Holy smokes, haha. Great job and congrats. Enjoy your plentiful smoke👌. Well deserved.
Cheers and have a great week☺️
@aerolover, This is my largest yielding plant to date! The "(3)" represents this as the third Pineapple Express I've grown. Feel free to ask me any/all questions.
@Basementganja, it looks good I believe its the true yield . I am just wondering is it 1 plant or 3 for this yield? XD I mean I will be buying SF-4000 too
@@growingmadnes, :) ok... What will suffice as proof? I can video record the weighing from now on.. Is there anything else that I should be doing to prove legitimacy? Obviously a size comparison with any of my other plants hang drying isn't enough.
When you say running 50 gallons of tap water through her roots, are you keeping her in the same pot? through the original soil? If so, do you lose a lot of soil and then replenish it? sorry, just trying to be like you hahah
@Basementganja, wow, thank you for giving every detail I could have inquired about, truly. I copied and pasted your response in my Advice/ fundamentals portion of my grow journal I keep. Thank you
@Fuzzbird, The soil doesn't really get disturbed while watering or flushing. (The same pot) There's holes at the bottom of the pot, that allow for extra liquid to flow out. At this point in the plants life, the pot is also going to be filled with roots, which increase the structural integrity of the soil/root-ball. When I do a normal watering, I gently siphon the liquid into the top of the pot. When I flush my plants, at the end of their cycle, I do the same, except i'll have moved the plant into the bathtub for draining - since vacuuming out the run-off water would be too much work. After the first 30 gallons of water has gone through the roots, the colour of the run-off-flow shifts from the brown colour of the nutes, to clear water - indicating that the roots have been flushed clean. Clearing out the nutes from the soil allows for the plant to starve, which causes a fade to yellow from the reduction of chlorophyll in the plant - assisting in finishing off the plant, and, also making the bud smoother. Feel free to ask me any questions, or repeated questions to clarify! Happy growing :)
Top notch grow as usual. I'm reading this diary like a book--my current FB PEx lady looks like she's the same pheno... day 36 and in no obvious hurry to start flowering lol
@Lplategrows420, I grow 4 plants at a time under the sf4000. My sf4000 is in a 3x3 tent, and is dimmed to 333watts. My pots are 16" diameter, so 4 plants leaves 4" of space around them, which is taken up by the walls of the tent (negative air pressure from exhaust pulls the walls inwards).
@Fuzzbird, The 2nd: 2.5 gallons dosage at one time, then rest, until 90% dry again. With this size of pot, there's about 10% run-off that I vacuum out, after delivering the dosage. Feel free to ask any questions! Happy growing! :)
My man, this grow is a learning for all us, the way did you document all day by day its something great for us, I have the same strain I know I have a guide to follow and compare. Thank you and please, try with LSD-25 from fast buds, its a weird plant, short shorty plant but nothing compare with the flavors
Really really impressive man, congrats
How do you decide or select which leafs to defoliate? im farad because I don't wait to over stress the plant with defoliation but I saw you do a lot with great results
@bungolio, Thank you! When training plants, YOU will be stressed out, much much more than your plants will be... There's definitely a balance of removing too much, vs too little, that can only be learned by experience. I try to keep the plant in a progressive state, so I'm usually removing leaves that are getting to be the size of my hand. I start by remove any leaves that are blocking nodes from the light. Then the leaves that are bridging the gap between nodes. You want to maintain a balance, and supply light/airflow to as much of the plant as possible. Without defoliation, only the top couple inches of the plant will get any light/airflow to be able to boom, and the rest of the plant will just be larf.
Basementganja
