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Dark Devil auto is coming up nicely. Just been spraying with ro water twice to three times a day. Using pro mix and fox farm soil. Be interesting to see what the difference is😎
Like my other diary, I now have my weeks straightened out. These are now on day 14. End of week 2.
DD in the fox farm is doing the worse. thinking I’m over watering In the fox farm soil. At least that’s what I’ve come up with cause I have given the exact same water to the girls in the pro mix and they are 3-4 times bigger.
I also swapped out my 600w viparspectra for a 1200w Aglex with two cobs
This week has been a bit of a battle with Christmas and everything the girls got a little neglected but seem to be doing ok except for the one in the fox farm soil.
I’ve been filling the humidifier everyday and still having a hard time keeping it at 50%. The humidity has been fluctuating between 35% and 55%
All the same genetics but each one is individual. The purple coming out on the one girl is awesome. But the others are still white.
The girl in fox farm is coming. Slowly.
Had one with a bit of nutrient burn other then that it’s been a good week.
Well, another learning curve. I had one girl nutrient deficiency’s and a couple that seemed to be starting to show symptoms as well. I was feeding them all the same nutrients but each plant is acting different.
So I toke them into the shower and flushed them with my tap water which is ph 7. Water that came out the bottom was ph 5.3. Kept flushing till ph run off was at 6.3.
Also the ppm was at 3500. Got that back down to 600.
I will up the ph and lower the nutrients when I start watering again.
They all look better and the sickest one has two shoots that have taken right off.
It seems like I kinda get one thing figured out and then something else is going on.
One girl has decided she needs to start stretching while the rest are not.
Three of them have spots but I believe that’s left over from the ph mess up. Will keep an eye on them.
I have left the lady in the fox farm soil alone and just going to let her do her thing.
Pistols are starting to change colour this week as well.
I’m all over the map with these girls. I gave a feeding of straight ph water then a watering with just solo tek bloom because I was thinking to much nitrogen but that wasn’t the case with two of them. Maybe three. I came to check on them and the one that is having a growth spurt, it’s lower leaves turned yellow and are dieing.
I am really not having much luck with my first run of autos😔
The one girl is filling in nicely. Well the only one that stretched. The others are thick and stubby. They are so stinky.
Father-in-law asked if I had a skunk around the other day. Had a little chuckle to myself😏😜
Guess I should get a carbon filter, but they are just about done. If it was illegal then I might do things differently. But I have my medical and grow license. He’s just still got the old mentality😔
Not much changed this week. They are still filling in but seem airy I guess. Trichomes are getting milky. Haven’t noticed any amber ones yet. Will probly flush them this week and see what happens😎😁
Not much happening this week besides more deficiencies. A little frustrating.
I moved the light up to 27”. See if that changes anything.
Still no amber trichomes. Have a different magnifying glass coming this week. I hope it’s better to see with them what I have
We are at the end. These girls have been a challenge. I flushed them five days ago and they still don’t need water. They just quit growing. They will go into 24 hours of dark and then be harvested in the next day or so
I flushed them, and 7 days later they still had not dried out. They just quit growing so I harvested them.
They are still drying. Will update weight later. I never toke a wet weight. My bad😏
I can’t rate the taste or effect cause I haven’t tryed it yet, so my ratings are false. That’s the only way it would let me save it.
It’s all being made into oil
Man your PPM were high! How much water do you give them per watering and how often? Do you feed every time you water? I used to feed every time I watered, but I'm finding that is too much. Now I feed+feed+Recharge. Recharge is for my roots and their little buddies. Photos are so much easier, aren't they!
Be careful on your nutes when you resume feeding. The last time I grew Dark Devil it was the purple pheno and it finished fast. She was done around 9 weeks.
@Quexos, thanks for the knowledge😎 I will water the girls with more at a time. That could also be part of why they looked better after being flushed. All the soil was wet🤨
@@79bronco, It sounds like you really took your time and made sure everything was being done correctly. I think you've kinda figured out what might've happened. You are watering small amounts frequently. I've been finding, the more I saturate the medium, the healthier and happier my plants are. In a 3g container I would be watering 2 liters per watering. I'd do more, but it seems that 2l is the close to saturation point in my grows. In 5g containers I try to get to 1 gallon per watering as quickly as the plant allows. I don't worry about frequency. The plant will tell me when it needs more water.
@Quexos, I was trying to keep my ppm down around the 500. I was watering every 2-3 days and about 1L per plant with 1/2 the recommended dose of nutrients. I was also ph ing the solution to 6.3. So when I flushed them and everything was out of whack, I was shocked.
I had not been watering to the point of run off, because they are so small and I thought they wouldn’t be able to absorb that much water in these pots.
Goes to show, you can do everything right putting water in, but if its not coming out the same it can play havoc with the poor lady’s.
I think I will feed every other or third weathering and see how that goes.
@Autounderground0513, thanks for stoping by. It’s weird, all six are the same genetics, but each one seems to have a mind of its own. They just naturally turned purple, well most.
Crazy! They are like bonsai versions of Dark Devil. The buds look fat and juicy. I wouldn't worry about deficiencies at this point. Those plants are pretty close to harvesting. I'm not able to see the trichomes with a magnifying glass. I have to use a jeweler's loupe. Old eyes need a lot more magnification.
The important thing is that you learn from your mistakes.
Good job on finding and learning from the problem! 😊
You were born to be a good grower. 😜
Sweet smokes!
-Apolo
@@79bronco, I don't know what causes that. I see pictures all the time of tiny plants. You could grow 2 plants side-by-side and one of them could become gigantic and the other tiny. It might be Ruderalis genetics being the dominate trait. Just guessing. Maybe the bud will be like baby rattlesnake venom, more potent and concentrated!😁
@Quexos, thanks.
Yours are so much bigger. It’s like mine forgot to grow and just went to flower. Going to be interesting to see what they actually finish like😎
Which Fox Farm soil are you using? Some of them are pretty hot for autos. When I used Fox Farm I mixed Ocean Forest with Happy Frog so it wouldn't burn my plants. I actually switched to HP because I was concerned that my soil was too nutrient rich for my autos.
@Quexos, I just about did mix them 50/50 but thought I would get a better feel for how the plants reacted to each type of soil. I think I might give the 50/50 a try next time.
Not sure how old the soil was. Thanks for the info
@@79bronco, You could do a 50/50 mix of Ocean Forest and Promix. Then you would have enough nutrients to get you through veg. for the most part. You could still feed, but it wouldn't be as vital.
Maybe use Rehcarge or some other microbial additive.
Just add water throughout veg and you should be fine. I was talking to a guy at our local shop and he said the soil is only too hot when its freshly packaged. If you bought a bag that was 6 months old, the nutrients are greatly diminished.
@Quexos, good to know. I’m using the ocean mix. Only one is in the fox farm, others are in the pro mix. I was going to run them all in fox farm but the store was out so I got the pro mix. Kinda glad they where out or I might be on the road to disaster 😏. guess this is what happens when learning new things. cant be perfict all the time😜
@@Alexa, thanks. I was thinking the same. I’m going to give plain water for the next couple times and keep an eye on them. I’ve read that they can be sensitive to to much nutrients
79bronco
