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ActioPauliana ActioPauliana
4 years ago
It’s 9 days since the last update and lots of new growth has emerged. The tent is filling up quickly and there wouldn’t be more room for a fourth plant, so I don’t regret tossing Elin. They also started to smell a bit, so I installed my filter. It completely eradicates the smell, works perfect! However, not everything went smoothly this week. When I came back after 4 days of holiday, on day 24, I found the plants in good health. They had grown a lot and some nodes were showing white pistils. There was still some clawing (tips of the leaves curled down) as seen in my previous update, but nothing bad. However, the day after I returned, they looked a lot worse, especially Anna. She also had some mosaic spots on some leaves. It still looked like a N excess to me. Despite that, there were now pistils everywhere on all three plants. I noticed the ground was dry and it had been 5 days since I last watered them. Hence, I watered again on day 25, with just plain, pH’ed water, as there were still no signs of any deficiencies, on the contrary, it still looked like a bit of nitrogen excess. I watered until 15-30% run off, just like the last time, as discussed in my previous update. During that previous watering, I noticed pH of the run off water was around 5,5. This is slightly too acid and might cause some deficiencies (f.e. calcium). Therefore, this time pH’ed the tap water down to 7 instead of 6.5. Hopefully, my run off water will be a bit higher in pH when I do the next watering, which is probably tomorrow. During day 25 after watering, Ceylin started to show yellowing tips, especially the newest and highest growth. The plants had grown quite a bit. The distance between the tops and the lights had decreased a lot. I figured it might be light stress, hence, I raised the lights. The yellowing of tips seems to have stopped now. Temperature was still a issue, only 20-21 degrees Celsius with lights on. I raised the light a bit more, but gave it a bit more power, around 225 watt. I also placed a fan above the drivers, slightly aiming down; trying to get some of the warm air from the LED drivers down. It worked and temperature is now at 22,5 degree. So, to summarize: Anna is the smallest of the three, she has some heavy curling here and there, especially on the top of here mainstem, and some mosaic spots, but since the last watering it stopped spreading and new growth looks good. Benthe does great, she is by far the biggest and LST worked like a charm on her. She doesn’t show any signs of problems. Ceylin is also doing fine, but she has some burned tips on some of the top growth, probably caused by light stress. All the symptoms had stopped spreading, but then, yesterday. Disaster struck. I LST’ed all three plants and rearranged al stems further. All seemed fine, but when I came back a few hours later, I found Benthe’s mainstem was broken down, like 3 nodes from the top. It was completely snapped off, probably for a few hours. Also, there was little room at the remaining stem to ducktape the top back on. It was just beyond repair and I threw the top away. I noticed the stem was really hollow, so I closed it with a little tape and a small rope. This would definitely shock this plant a lot and probably diminish yield. Especially since preflowers are already showing. However, today, it seems like she is growing like nothing happened. There are now 2 mainstems and they got bigger in just 18 hours. She still looks perky and no symptoms of stress are visible. Wow, is she really this resilient? I was very careful not to overdo during my LST sessions. Also, the stem broke on a spot where there wasn’t even bending, that was 2 nodes higher up. I think I bended her quite far, but because of the rapid upward growth, the tension just became too big and she snapped. It’s also possible it happened when placing the plant back in the tent, but that seems unlikely to me, as I always check everything after placing a plant back. Today, I tried to overcome my fear and continued to LST, but I’m now even more careful. All in all, they’re growing fast and I can still expect some good yield, despite the problems I experience. It’s a rocky grow, lots of lessons learned already. Any tips or advice are always welcome. See you next week!
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BigBeautifulWeed
BigBeautifulWeedweek 10
This is one of the best diaries I've seen here, your set up is state of the art (I take note of the automatic fire suppression system, safety first) and my next grow will probably be Sticky Beast so I'll take this as reference. And I think we probably live in the same country, too, so odd. Great job, amazing yeld! πŸ‘
Cheeba_Inu
Cheeba_Inuweek 8
Great first grow, you should be proud of what you have achieved so far! The USB microscope is a good idea for checking harvest time, just make sure to ignore amber on the leaves and focus on the calyxes. You're going to have some nice fat buds by the end! πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯
thenewdude
thenewdude
@Cheeba_Inu, because of this thread, I will try both, one will be flushed for a week and one for 2, will see the difference in smoke and yield. and let you all know
Cheeba_Inu
Cheeba_Inu
@ActioPauliana, sounds like a good idea, it's usually better to underfeed than overfeed especially when you're getting into the final ripening. I didn't directly read that research project (although I'm going to give it a good look now) but I heard about it through other sources. What I heard about it, and the lack of any scientific evidence to the contrary, influenced my decision to not flush too much or for too long. So I think you're making a good choice! So much of the quality beyond genetics/grow environment is determined by the dry/cure, so I usually focus more on that than worrying too much about the flush.
ActioPauliana
ActioPauliana
@Cheeba_Inu, thanks, that's a sound advice. I've been torn between the two schools of thought regarding flushing. My original plan was to do a short flush as you describe, but got scared by a YouTube movie claiming not flushing could cause headaches and other negative side effects. Therefor, feeding light seemed like a good compromis between the two schools. However, the absence of scientific prove, is a heavy factor for me (being an almost fanatic rationalist, haha). Have you seen the recent researchproject from RX Green Technologies? It compared flushed en non-flushed plants and showed that there were a few minor differences in chemical profile. More interesting: a blind testpanel rated the consumption of non-flushed and flushed plants. The latter scored worse: https://www.rxgreentechnologies.com/rxgt_trials/flushing-trial/ I'll go with the short flush, as you suggest. Thanks!
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Resin_Randy
Resin_Randyweek 9
good job man πŸ€πŸ‘ŒπŸΌ
ActioPauliana
ActioPauliana
@@Resin_Randy, thanks man! My own Tegrity farm πŸ˜†
F4m0u5
F4m0u5week 7
You are doing an amazing job ! Keep it up!!!
ActioPauliana
ActioPauliana
@F4m0u5, thanks, really looking forward to harvest :)
MadeInGermany
MadeInGermanyweek 6
Look very healthy... keep going like this :-)
ActioPauliana
ActioPauliana
LuckyLuke
LuckyLukeweek 10
Great Grow!
OimRausch
OimRauschweek 10
Wow, amazing jobπŸ‘ŒπŸ‘Œ Congrats πŸ‘πŸ‘ SeΓ±oritas look beautiful...
HazeyBobby
HazeyBobbyweek 10
Congrats on the harvest! I had to laugh at your first enjoyable hour of trimming... that was a similar experience for me last year. But the months that follow make it all worth it :)
VovaFarms
VovaFarmsweek 8
Cool info ℹ️ πŸ‘πŸ‘Œ
oneskunkyboi
oneskunkyboiweek 8
Your buds in w4 of flowering looking way more matured than mine in the first day of w5, I’m jealous. Very nice garden !
JP148
JP148week 1
It sounds like your ready for some serious growing. Its quite the set up of equipment for first grow room. Your first girls are looking good. Go easy on the power of your lights till you now what they can tolerate. Good start Good Luck