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Week 1. Vegetation
5 years ago
5.08 cm
24 hrs
29 °C
6
75 %
24 °C
10.16 cm
12/21: Looking very forward to trying these fast flowering photo testers from Fastbuds. Their autos are top-notch, so I've got great expectations! 12/23: I pre-soaked 2 of these beans in humic acid and concentrated mycorrhizae with trichoderma for about a minute and planted them in rapid rooters soaked with a weaker solution of the same. They both popped up about 20 hours later. I'll let them root well under the dome and transplant into some temporary seedling pots with Fox Farms Light Warrior soil mix after dusting their roots with myco. I'll let them veg for a week under some cooler color temperatures to try and encourage shorter distances between internodes, then move them into my closet under max "sun." 12/26: They were ready to transplant last night, but I was worn out and put it off until today. Both seedlings were rooted very well, so I planted them in some new, durable, 5.6" tall seedling starters. filled with Fox Farms Light Warrior seed starting soil mix, which has mycorrhizae and humic acids, plus earthworm castings. It's a very light mix. I really like it alot. It has a lot of coco coir pith and peat in it, so even when you pre-soak it, it seems very light. I am now using a killer product that contains: 7 ENDOMYCORRHIZAL Species, 17 BENEFICIAL BACTERIA Strains, 4 TRICHODERMA Species, SEA KELP EXTRACT, HUMIC ACIDS, YUCCA PLANT EXTRACT, Root Promoting VITAMINS with Vitamin B Complex and L-AMINO ACIDS (https://www.amazon.com/GreenEden-EndoBoost-Concentrated-Soluble-Mycorrhizal/dp/B07GSPVQ83/ref=sr_1_15?crid=3G7AW86ZVOF68&keywords=endo+mycorrhizae+powder&qid=1577435831&sprefix=endomy%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-15) No, I am not a paid spokesman, but I used it in my last grow and had amazing roots, so I used it again and had 100% germination rate when mixed with concentrated humic acid for a 1-minute seed soak and rapid rooter pre-soak. Needless to say, I used it again today to dust my new seedling's roots and the holes where they were planted. I also like to add a teaspoon of it to my 5-gallon batches of compost tea, about 2 hours before I'm finished brewing it. The price is about the same, but I had far better results with it than the hyped-up "king shark" stuff... I have them 24" below the 200w 3500k +660nm light for about 12 hours per day, and the 24w cold white panel with the 85w mixed white spectra light at about 15" for the other half of the day. Both of the 12w blue bulbs are hanging very close to both ends of the tray and lit all day long.
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Week 2. Vegetation
5 years ago
7.62 cm
18 hrs
28 °C
6.1
55 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 5
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 7.812 mll
Bush Doctor Boomerang - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Boomerang 2.604 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 2.604 mll
12/31: They are both coming along nicely.👍 Today was the first day in which I fed them some Big Bloom and Boomerang along with humic acid, pH'd to 6.1. 1/3: I've been letting them dry out a bit for the last two days. They've got roots coming out the bottoms now...I'll probably transplant them into 5 gallon fabric pots tomorrow or the next day. I ordered a 4' 180w tube light with 578 LEDs..it has a 360 degree beam with 3000k and a bunch of 660nm. It's waterproof, so no worries about keeping it beneath my canopy to illuminate the lower branches and hopefully increase the density of those buds that never get much top-lighting. Today, I mounted my two new 24w UVA LED lights (395-405nm) to my frame. I'll run them 6 hours a day from the time I put the plants into my closet, until harvest. It is my understanding that exposure to UVA, particularly during the vegetative stage, triggers many different plant defense hormones, which speed growth and can increase heartiness to withstand constant exposure to UVB without suffering as much cellular damage as usual. I'm also ordering a 2' Solacure FlowerPower UVB (285nm-310nm) next week to use during flowering to stress the plants and increase trichome production. 1/4: I foliar fed them with big bloom and fulvic acid a few times today and gave them about 4 ounces to drink. 1/5: Transplanting day. I dusted their roots with magic dust and transplanted them into 5 gallon pots today. I had some excellent compost with biochar and myco that I mixed into their soil, too. I watered them in with about 2 quarts of their first taste of full strength veg nutes, plus mycorrhizal fungi, trichoderma, beneficial bacteria, and humic acid, then I sprayed them with biotabs boomboom spray when finished. The were moved into the closet under the quantum boards, UVA's, and a pair of MiracleLED blue bulbs. I'll start adding far-red spectra to the equation in the next few days.
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Week 3. Vegetation
5 years ago
12.7 cm
18 hrs
28 °C
6.2
60 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 6
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 7.812 mll
Bush Doctor Boomerang - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Boomerang 2.604 mll
1/6: Day 15. I've got a lot of airflow in the closet (and 780w of light), and as a result, they needed water today. I had shit come up and didn't transplant them quick enough from the Light Warrior mix, so they got a little N deficient. I decided to go ahead and feed them. I mixed up 4 gallons of full strength nutes and split it amongst these two and the other 9 plants, so that's roughly 1/3 gallon each...I used my new 40-133gph submersible pump dialed all the way down, and a 1/4" hose, so it took about 2 minutes to water each plant..a slow, gentle soaking with zero run-off.👍 I also cranked up my evaporative cooler in the top of the closet, aimed down over the plants. 1/7: I sprayed them a few times with Axiom Harpin a|b proteins today...it's on.😎 1/8: I watered them today with about a half-gallon each, including the green eden endo boost, humic acid, cal-mag, liquid molasses, armour si, and a little bit of boomerang...soaked it in, nice and slow. 1/9: I took some photos, but left them alone otherwise... 1/11: I fed them with about a half-gallon each..full strength everything. 1/12: I FIM'ed both of them and sprayed with Boom Boom Spray afterwards, right before dark. This is the end of week 3, and they've made good enough progress that I'm pretty sure I'll start flowering them towards the end of next week.
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Week 4. Vegetation
5 years ago
27.94 cm
14 hrs
28 °C
6.2
Normal
45 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
38.1 cm
500 PPM
Nutrients 6
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 7.812 mll
Bush Doctor Boomerang - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Boomerang 2.604 mll
1/14: This morning, I did a foliar application of big bloom and fulvic acid, then about 5 hours later I watered them with about a half-gallon of rainwater each and added armor si, humic acid, endoboost myco/tricho, liquid molasses, and a bunch of cal-mag. Today, I also I wired up and mounted my new samsung sun board strips (660nm/730nm) and my Solacure FlowerPower UVB fixture. I'm running the deep red/far red bud boosters a few hours per day right now, but will run them for the entire photoperiod once I start flowering them. I'll run the UVB for 4 * 15-minute sessions a day for the full flowering cycle, and if they don't protest too much I'll increase each session by 5 minutes and evaluate again. Some strains are more forgiving than others and I've got 5 different strains in this space...so really not sure much time I'll get away with exposing them to the deadly rays without damaging them too much...😈 1/15: I received one of the rapid led/growmau far red initiator pucks today. With the placement of my UVB light, I'm realizing I'll need another far red puck to have even and intense far red coverage, so I'm ordering another with Prime delivery and waiting to start flowering until I receive it. I sprayed them down really well with ph adjusted rainwater tonight to rinse off nutrient build-up from foliar applications. 1/16: I'm really excited to try flowering under 14/10. I grew photos indoors on an off for 15 years before I semi-retired. If I added up all the additional flowering time I could have done through the years if LED technology existed, I'd have had an extra truckload of bud to smoke. I did another application of Axiom Harpin a|b Proteins this evening, right before dark. I'm expecting a big growth burst this week, leading up to the flower stretch. I really need them to trigger under 14/10 within 4 or 5 days🙏 ...if not, I'll switch to 13/11 and wait a few more days🙏😟..if still no pistils are poppin, I'll go to 12/12 and chalk it up as bad luck or varietal indifference to Pr and Pfr manipulation. 1/17: I fed each of them about 3/4 gallon of full strength veg nutes. This will be the last. I'll go with half-strength veg and half-strength bloom for a week, then go with full strength bloom nutrients until I start flushing them in 6-8 weeks. 1/18: I installed the second far-red flowering initiator today and got all my timers configured for flowering: ========================================= timer#1 - power strip with qb's and red boosters   10:00am -12:00am  timer#2 - (dual/independent setting)             sideA- 3-way cube with uva bars                   10am - 3pm                    7pm - 11pm             sideB- flowerpower uvb                    1pm - 1:15pm                    4pm - 4:15pm                    7pm - 7:15pm                    11pm - 11:15pm timer#3 - far red pucks   11:00pm - 12:15am timer#4 - sub-canopy tube   10am  - 1pm    3pm  -  6pm    8pm  - 11pm ======================================== I also did some testing on the timers and sealed myself into the closet to check for any light leaks. All good.👌 1/19: Looks like the FIM job didn't take on one of them..but she's got perfect symmetry. WIll probably have to just top her again next week...gonna be a tall one I think. Tonight is their first long night. It's ON!👍 1/20: I watered them today with about a half gallon each. I'm seeing calcium and magnesium deficiences here and there, so added some boomerang and heavy cal-mag-Fe along with liquid molasses, humic acid, and endoboost myco. I also foliar fed with big bloom and fulvic acid. That's it for week 4-
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Week 5. Flowering
5 years ago
38.1 cm
14 hrs
27 °C
6.2
Normal
45 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
38.1 cm
500 PPM
Nutrients 10
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 7.812 mll
Bush Doctor Boomerang - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Boomerang 2.604 mll
1/21: I rotated the edge plants and foliar fed with big bloom a few times today. 1/22: I fed them about 3/4 gallon each after top-dressing their pots with a heaping tablespoon of happy frog cavern culture( bat and seabird guano). That will make some P and K available to them over the next 2 weeks as they begin to flower. Aside from that, I went with full strength veg nutes because I'm still seeing some yellowing and som cal-mag deficiencies. I also added some more liquid molasses. They're gonna need the energy as they start their stretch. I foliar fed a few times throughout the day with big bloom. 1/23: EXPLOSIVE GROWTH last night...love it...everybody is stretching...pretty sure the 14/10 photoperiod is working!! I foliar fed with big bloom a few times today. 1/24: These girls look particularly sativa in leaf shape and plant structure. The one that ignored my FIM job has the typical pyramidal/coniferous shape. I'll probably tie her main down tonight or tomorrow to encourage the lowers to gain some altitude. 1/25: I tied down the mains of both of them today, then watered with about a half-gallon including cal-mag, humic acid, bembe, armor si, and signal. 1/26: Tied down more branches and raised the lights a few inches. 1/27: No pistils yet on either of these two... That's it for week 5-
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Week 6. Flowering
5 years ago
45.72 cm
14 hrs
27 °C
6.2
Normal
50 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
35.56 cm
500 PPM
Nutrients 10
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 7.812 mll
Bush Doctor Boomerang - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Boomerang 2.604 mll
1/28: DId a little LST and rotated edge plants. 1/29: DId a little photo session. As you can see, I appear to have two entirely different phenotypes of this strain. One looks like a typical hybrid in structure and leaf shape, whereas the other looks like it is almost purely sativa. Very cool.👌 I fed them about 3/4 gallon each. I backed off the veg nutes a bit and added Tiger Bloom and Open Sesame to the regimen. Tied down a few branches to further encourage lower branch growth. 1/30: Raised my lights today about 4 inches.... I don't have enough space to train them outwards, and I am holding off supercropping them until I have no other options. 1/31: My canopy is getting thick, so I started running the 180w tube light below the canopy today. It's on a timer, set to run a total of 10 hours per day, in 2-hour intervals. 2/1: I pulled everybody out of the closet this morning and thoroughly sprayed down all the foliage with BoomBoom Spray, tops and bottoms of leaves. I let them dry slowly under low watt lights with no airflow. I raised the lights again another couple of inches. I have just a couple of vertical inches left before I'll have to either supercrop these girls or do some minor construction in the closet. I'm leaning towards modifying the closet to allow another foot of ceiling space for the girls.
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Week 7. Flowering
5 years ago
71.12 cm
14 hrs
10 °C
6.2
Normal
50 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
30.48 cm
1300 PPM
Nutrients 10
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 7.812 mll
Bush Doctor Boomerang - Fox Farm
Bush Doctor Boomerang 2.604 mll
2/4: Photo session day! The squattier of the two picked up a lot less of the sativa genes. She's gonna be shorter, but she's in a big hurry compared to her lankier sister. The taller one, like most other sativa dominant strains I've grown, really doesn't like being fed so often. At this point, I'll probably just feed her every other feeding day, and on plain watering days I'll give her cal-mag and flavor/terpene enhancers, and maybe a little beastie bloomz. I had a total infestation of Cattus (felis) which I documented in my photos. Eradication seems impossible, so I'm opting to allow a degree of predation, but hoping trichome production will, at least, deter them soon.😁 2/5: I fed everybody today except these girls and my two #3's..they usually protest after a full-strength feeding. I just gave them water with cal-mag, bembe, signal, humic acid, and a little Open Sesame. I also sprayed everybody down with Axiom harpin proteins for the last time today. I made a DIY CO2 generator today using a 5 gallon cat litter bucket, a small aquarium pump, some air line tubing, and a bubble stone, plus 6 cups of sugar and 30 grams of wine yeast in 2 gallons of warm water. I put the tube where the CO2 is exhausted up against the back of the oscillating fan that aims down over the plants so they are being constantly forcefully bombarded with high levels of CO2(1300+ppm) from above. I set the ac infinity controller to allow the temps to climb up to 89f before the fan turns on. 2/6: These girls are a much lighter shade of green than anybody else in the garden. I bought some Gro-Pro pot risers to elevate the pots so that they will dry out faster..seem pretty effective. 2/7: Now they look deficient in N and K...ffs! I'll go back to feeding them with everyone else, but will make up a batch of weaker nutes for them. I foliar fed with big bloom and tiger bloom. 2/8: I ordered a second 6" AC Infinity fan to connect to my controller, some ducting, and a diffuser which I'll mount to the wall, down near the floor. The fan unit will be in another closet, adjacent to the garden closet, and I'll run ducting up through that closet ceiling into the attic, with a filter on the end to keep bugs and particulates out. For the next 6 weeks or so, it will provide a supply of colder fresh air. I did the math, and it will now only take about 1 minute and 40 seconds to completely exchange the air in the closet. Depending on the outside air temp at the time, it should take anywhere between 8 and 20 minutes for the closet to heat back up to 80f and the fans to kick back on again. This Spring, on days when it's not cooler than 72f, I'll disconnect the duct in the closet and stretch it into that bedroom, clipped to the window unit air conditioner output, cranked down as low as it will go. This Summer, I'm gonna just run a pair of the quantum boards and grow 4 or 5 autos in there, but this should help keep the temps cooler in summer as well, without dedicating an air conditioner to the grow op.🙏 2/9: I foliar fed them with grow big, big bloom, and tiger bloom and checked moisture in their pots. They're due for a good watering tomorrow.
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Week 8. Flowering
5 years ago
86.36 cm
14 hrs
26 °C
6.2
Normal
50 %
17 °C
19 L
1 L
30.48 cm
1300 PPM
Nutrients 9
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 7.812 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 2.604 mll
2/10: I watered today with about 3/4 gallon each, plus cal-mag, signal, bembe, armor si, a little open sesame, and their final dose of endoboost. The short one never did stop making the hook leaves on all her new growth, but she seems happy..budding faster than anybody else.. 2/11: Wife home sick today....postponing construction project to raise the lights. 2/12: Today, I tackled the project to raise my ceiling another foot. In addition to that project, I installed and hooked up my new AC Infinity 6" intake fan. It's pulling in fresh air from the soffit vent on the eave of the attic, and currently feeding the garden with 46f fresh air. I'm able to easily maintain daytime temps in the lower 70f's now. I am able to drive the nighttime temps as low as I want. The only issue is that the outdoor RH varies quite a bit, so I ordered a 30-pint dehumidifier to put in the top of the closet. I sprayed everybody with boomboom spray to try and mitigate the light burn damage that is likely to ensue. 2/13: The taller one is still stretching a little bit, but the 2-footer is just budding up. 2/14: I fed them today with about 3/4 gallon each including grow big, big bloom, tiger bloom, cal-mag, signal, bembe, humic acid, and I switched over from Open Sesame to Beastie Bloomz. Raised the lights another couple of inches. I did some training on them and defo'd a little bit. 2/15: Installed the new dehumidifier and rigged the continuous drain on it...works great. 2/16: I rotated the edge plants and removed some old leaves. I added another 22w 3000k 4' bar light under the canopy. 2/17: I rearranged the garden and defoliated a little bit. That's it for week 8-
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Week 9. Flowering
5 years ago
101.6 cm
14 hrs
26 °C
6.2
Normal
38 %
16 °C
19 L
1 L
35.56 cm
1300 PPM
Nutrients 9
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 7.812 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 2.604 mll
2/17: I spent a little time rearranging today. I bought some 32" x 14" plastic ventilated storage shelves and cut the legs down on two of them so I have some different-height platforms for the shorties in the garden. I should also be able to easily flush 6 plants in 5 gallon pots, or 9 plants in 3 gallon pots at a time now, that's a win!👈 2/18: I debated whether to feed or not, and settled on watering them with about 1/2 gallon each. including bembe, cal-mag, signal, humic acid, and a little beastie bloomz. The new dehumidifier is pulling about a gallon and a half per day from the air, so I should be able to feed them in a coupe of days. I've reached the ceiling again with my lights and the tall one is still stretching a little bit. I sure hate to have to supercrop her too...my garden is looking so wild and untamed already...😳 2/19: Rainy day outside, so I'm pulling in 99% humidity, plus the pots are still petty saturated, but the new dehumidifier is keeping up. RH is holding at about 45% today.👍 2/20: Day 31 of flower...the taller plant grew another couple of inches overnight! Damnit!😟 After emptying the closet (again) today and supercropping more branches (and some of the same branches again), a semi-solution occurred to me that allowed me to raise the lights another 3-4 inches! Now I'm truly maxxed out... These two plants couldn't be more different. One twisted-leaf 2-footer that started budding up in the first week of flower, and one beautiful 4-footer that's been very slow to flower.. The structure on the taller/sativa-looking plant is very promising, though...many long colas, and stacking up well...👌 I really needed everybody to finish in the same week so I could get my Spring autos going...😶 I'm still hoping that the big one will hurry the fuck up and finish by the EHD(3/11), but it's not looking possible at this point... I took photos and videos of all the plants today since I had to empty the closet and it wasn't a feeding day. 2/21: I fed them today with about 3/4 gallon each including beastie bloomz, tiger bloom, big bloom, signal, bembe, and cal-mag...no grow big this time. 2/22: The tall one grew another inch...i threatened to bind her up like one of Silky_Smooth's plants if she didn't stop growing immediately. If she doesn't start budding up with serious urgency, she's gonna piss me off...my Spring auto grow must not be postponed! 2/23: I ordered some terpinator because I'm not so sure about Signal's efficacy at this point....I'm usually dealing with odors more by now..
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Week 10. Flowering
5 years ago
114.3 cm
14 hrs
26 °C
6.2
Normal
33 %
16 °C
19 L
1 L
35.56 cm
1300 PPM
Nutrients 10
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
2/24: Busy day, no time for gardening.. 2/25: I watered them today with about a half-gallon each including terpinator, signal, bembe, cal-mag, armor si, beastie bloomz, and a little bit of boomerang for the organic forms of nitrogen (kelp and earthworm castings). 2/26: RH is holding at 40-45% during the day and 35-38% at night. Temps are about 78-80f during the day and about 62-65f at night. The smaller one is fattening up well now, but the tall one is just getting started. 2/27: The garden has gotten so dense that the cool air at the bottom isn't circulating up to the canopy well enough. Temperatures on the floor are low 60'sf and about 80f at the canopy. That's not bad or anything, but over the next couple of weeks, I want to drive down the temperatures as much as possible. I'm achieving 30% RH now, two days after watering...pretty cool. I can't check the moisture level on the plants at the back of the garden without removing a bunch of others, but I'm assuming they aren't dry yet because of the airflow situation. I ordered a double 9" fan like you put in a window to circulate in or out fresh air. I'll put it under the bench that I'm using to elevate the two shortest plants at the back of the closet, facing the front of the closet and pointing slightly upwards. Hopefully this increases airflow across the pots, and moves more of the cool air up to the canopy. 2/28: The new fan came in and was taller than I thought when situated in it's feet, so I just placed it atop my lighting frame facing down into the back of the garden. Each of it's two fans are mostly unobstructed, and the little bit that is obstructed is across two of the heatsinks, so that's fine with me. I'll have to find a diff fan for under the shortie platform. 2/29: I fed everybody today with about a half-gallon each including a little grow big, big bloom, tiger bloom, beastie bloomz, terpinator, bembe, signal, cal-mag, and armor si. 3/1: Just ogled them today...they are really reeking now...👍 The shortie is sexy as hell..even with her twisted foliage...getting fat and frosty. The tall one will have some 12 inch colas...some day...😏
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Week 11. Flowering
5 years ago
114.3 cm
14 hrs
22 °C
6.2
Normal
33 %
16 °C
19 L
1 L
33.02 cm
1300 PPM
Nutrients 10
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
3/3: I watered them today with about 1/2 gallon each, including cal-mag, armor si, bembe, terpinator, signal, and a little beastie bloomz. Short on time, so I couldn't do many glamour shots..I'll try again when I feed in a few days. The shortie is sexy as hell..getting very frosty and thick. 3/4: My new 14,000btu portable a/c was delivered today. I'm replacing the window unit in the bedroom where my closet is located with it so that I can roll it over to the closet and chill the girls out really well for the next couple of weeks. I can aim it at the door and just leave it cracked open and it's keeping the temps at about 75f during the day, just running on low.👌 I'm just hanging a piece of mylar over the door to keep the light in and have the exhaust set on "8" and to come on when temps exceed 75f, so it's pretty stable now. At night, I'm disconnecting the exhaust fan once it gets down to 60f and only have the intake fan pulling cold air in from outside if the temp exceeds 62f. I've determined that I'm gonna have to get another AC infinity fan controller at some point. I hate having to remember to unplug a fan and change the settings at night. I forgot to switch things this morning before I crashed, and was awakened at noon-thirty by the sound of the ac infinity high temp alarm going off...I had it set on 90f!!! If I had a separate controller for the intake, I could really dial it in and not have to remember to change settings... 3/5: I finally found a seller of BioTabs BoomBoom Spray (in Great Britain) that sells to and ships to the US for not-such-ridiculous-prices!! I ordered a 250ml bottle so I won't run out for a while! I'm almost out of Bembe and I've heard good things about Humbolt's Secret Sweet & Sticky, so I ordered a quart to give a try. 3/6: I fed them about a half-gallon of pretty much everything today. Again, I didn't have time for a full-fledged photo session, but I added a backdrop and photography lighting equipment to my cart at amazon...will pull the trigger on it soon! 3/7: Fixed up a new batch yeast and sugar for my diy CO2 generator. 3/8: Beautiful weather today, so I spent the afternoon getting ready for the spring grows (indoors and out) That's it for week 11-
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Week 12. Flowering
5 years ago
114.3 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
6.2
Strong
48 %
16 °C
19 L
1 L
30.48 cm
1300 PPM
Nutrients 10
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
3/10: I sprinkled a tablespoon of Happy Frog Cavern Culture on the tops of their pots and watered it in with about a half-gallon of water including armor si, terpinator, signal, sweet & sticky, and cal-mag. The shortie is stinking badly now! I finally had time to take some photos today- 3/11: Tonight, I plan to decrease their photoperiod down to 12/12 to hopefully get the taller one and the other slowpokes in the garden to hurry the fuck up... 3/12: They slept for 12 hours last night... 3/13: Very rainy...RH is too high! 3/14: I fed them each about 1/2 gallon today including big bloom, tiger bloom, terpinator, cal-mag, armor si, signal, sweet & sticky, and started them on cha ching. I defoliated about 5 pounds of leaves and the canopy is still almost impenetrable. Will do more when I take them out to water this week. Still raining, RH is too high!! I put the dehumidifier on "always on/clothes drying" mode and it's barely able to keep it at 50% in the closet.. 3/15: Still raining...RH is too high, damnit!!!
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13
Week 13. Flowering
5 years ago
114.3 cm
12 hrs
22 °C
6.2
Strong
48 %
14 °C
19 L
1 L
30.48 cm
1000 PPM
Nutrients 9
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
3/16: Rain let up for half the day, but more tonight...damnit... They are due for a watering tomorrow, but with the high RH, maybe not... 3/17: They weren't ready for water yet, so I slept for a few bonus hours! (rare) Both of these plants continue to pack on the pistils with no signs of slowing down...I thought surely the shortie would be ready to flush this week, but she's not even close to ready yet.😕 It rained for most for the day....again... 3/18: I watered them with about 1/2 gallon each including terpinator, signal, sweet & sticky, cal-mag, armor si, endoboost, humic acid, and a little cha ching. It rained all night again..and most of the day today. I took some photos with the qb's turned off and a 135w 5500k CFL on.. 3/19: It rained all night and several times again today...ffs....I've started building an Ark in my free time 😁 3/20: Rained again on and off today..RH still too high... 3/21: I took the shortie out of the closet today to inspect her trichomes. I took about 2-dozen close-ups and zoomed in really close on my PC and couldn't find a single amber anywhere...and prolly only about 30% cloudy at this point.. I went ahead and took some cuttings from her while I had her out. Hopefully I can get at least one to survive and grow outdoors this season. I also took some cuttings from the FFT#6 (the other shortie), and I started a couple of other FFT's (5 & 7) which I'll train out as horizontally as possible to match the shortie's heights. 3/22: Rained again last night several times...and again today for a couple hours...ridiculous. Woke up with RH at 65%!!! Been chatting with other FFT growers and they all seem to be losing a lot of produce to botrytis...I'm starting to freak out..😳
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Week 14. Flowering
5 years ago
114.3 cm
12 hrs
24 °C
6.2
Strong
56 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
30.48 cm
1000 PPM
Nutrients 10
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
3/23: I let them go totally dry. The shortie got flushed for the first time today with about 10 gallons of warm water and Sledgehammer. I fed the big one about 3/4 gallon including terpinator, signal, sweet & sticky, cal-mag, armor si, cha ching, tiger bloom, big bloom, and humic acid. She's nowhere near to ready...but fattening nicely. 3/26: I'll flush the shortie for the second time tomorrow, and maybe water her once more before I harvest her. 3/27: Shortie got flushed for the second time today with about 8 gallons of warm filtered water with Sledgehammer and the big girl got 3/4-gallon of filtered water with signal, terpinator, cal-mag, sweet & sticky, and a little bit of cha ching.
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15
Week 15. Flowering
5 years ago
114.3 cm
12 hrs
24 °C
6.2
Strong
56 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
30.48 cm
1000 PPM
Nutrients 10
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
3/30: The shortie is in the dark until tomorrow. I'll take some photos and harvest from her, but leave some lower branches and foliage and take her outdoors to regenerate. I'll feed her big sister tomorrow. She and one other straggler will end up in my little tent to finish because I'm flushing everybody else tomorrow, and because I started soaking seeds for my indoor and outdoor Spring grows last night and they'll need the closet soon. 4/1: I harvested from the shortie today, but left enough lower growth to take her outdoors to regenerate. I washed her buds [baking soda/lemon juice/hot water | warm clean water | cool clean water] and hung them to dry with a fan on and the room at 70f and 55% humidity. I fed the big girl today with cha ching, terpinator, cal-mag, humic acid, tiger bloom, big bloom, sweet & sticky, and signal
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16
Week 16. Flowering
5 years ago
114.3 cm
12 hrs
24 °C
6.2
Strong
56 %
18 °C
19 L
1 L
30.48 cm
1000 PPM
Nutrients 10
Armor Si - Terra Aquatica
Armor Si 0.651 mll
Big Bloom - Fox Farm
Big Bloom 3.906 mll
Grow Big - Fox Farm
Grow Big 1.302 mll
4/5: Moved the tall girl into the tiny tent to finish Shorties is still drying- 4/6: I harvested the shortie today...she came in at a respectable 191g and smells delightfully dank. First taste test proved to be obnoxiously strong..won't try again until she's had time to cure a little bit, but I'm very impressed so far.
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Week 16. Harvest
5 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
FFT1 - Test Seed Bank
Spent 147 days
Veg Flo Har
9/10
Rated
196 g
Bud dry weight per plant
2
Plants
1.22
Grow Room size
Normal
Difficulty
Sleepy
Energy
Indica
Hybrid
Sativa

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Day air temperature
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Lamp distance
4/19: Both plants are harvested now! The shortie came in at an amazing 191g, and the big one came in at 201g! Great yield from this strain! I've only smoked the shorter pheno so far, and it kicks ass. Very heady buzz..smoke about 3 quick rips and your heart races a bit. Two very different phenotypes from the two I grew...one plant was very dense and very short, and the other was very tall and kinda sparse. The shorter one was the first harvested, and the taller one was dead last...2 weeks later. Bag appeal: 8/10 Bud Density: 7/10 Yield: 10/10 Flavor: 9/10 Aroma: 7/10 Potency: 8/10 Consistency of strain: 0/10 Final thoughts- I prefer more consistent/stable varieties, but it tastes great and it's a great buzz, so I'll enjoy smoking every last crumb of it!👍 I'm so glad that I took some cuttings of the shortie..this strain cures out wonderfully! The flavors are excellent...everybody really likes it, so I'm going through it pretty quickly.😐
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Week 17. Vegetation
5 years ago
55.88 cm
14 hrs
28 °C
6.3
Normal
50 %
20 °C
19 L
1 L
60.96 cm
450 PPM
Nutrients 9
Liquid Kelp 5.208 mll
Liquid Molasses 5.208 mll
Humic Acid 5.208 mll
4/5: Took 4 cuttings from the shortie 4/12: All 4 are rooted and growing! 5/1: Transplanted from 1gallon pots to 5 gallon pots. 5/3: Decided to grow one of them in my tiny tent and the other 3 will go outdoors. 5/4: Took 2 of them outdoors under the 270w and sunshine. 5/6: Trained all of them today and fed some boomerang along with the kelp, molasses, big bloom, and silica. Foliar fed and took the last one outdoors. The one in the tent is really flourishing! 5/7 - 5/17: Excellent growth! The supplemental lights are making all the difference.👍 Did some more training on all of them early in the week. The one in the closet is spreading out nicely and budding up pretty quickly...but what's very cool is that all 4 clones outdoors are flowering?!?!? I sure hope they go ahead and finish rather than starting to revegetate as the days continue to get longer. Much rain for the past few days, but it let up long enough for me to install another 200w of waterproof 3000k LED lights a couple of feet above them. Very intense lighting, great bang for the buck. So now, I've got 350w of 3000k and 120w of 6500k in the outdoor garden. That's gonna have to do it, as I also am using 1400w in my indoor gardens, plus a/c..bills are getting ridiculous. 5/18 - 5/28: The clone in the tent is still stacking up really well. I guess the ones outdoors are too, but next to the seedling plants, they seem puny. Many buds though... Since they decided to flower early, I sprayed them all down with a product that is loaded with hormones and auxins and stuff that's supposed to retard vertical growth and promote branching. It's also supposed to speed arvest time by as much as a week. I hope they can finish before the summer solstice (June 21), otherwise they might try to reveg instead of finishing.. Hopefully it helps keep them from stretching so much that I'll have to supercrop them. Their mamma was a shortie, so they really shouldn't get too tall anyway. I also foliar fed them several times this week with something called MicroLife Maximum Blooms, Pow! They love the stuff! 5/28 - 5/31: I did some training on a two of the outdoor clones early in the week between rain showers, and foliar fed with Microlife maximum bloom formula. She was looking a little N deficient, so I assume the dry amendments have petered out. They were dry enough, so I top-fed her with another couple tablespoons of cavern culture and on the 31st. I gave them big bloom, tiger bloom, grow big, beastie bloomz, silica, endoboost, signal, humic acid, liquid kelp/fish emulsion, and liquid molasses. The indoor clone is looking awesome. I fed her heavily on the 30th. It just feels so strange that I'll be harvesting outdoor photos in June!?! That's it for week 8- 6/1 - 6/8: Early in the week I gave them about a half gallon of water with liquid molasses, cal-mag, silica, and beastie bloomz only. I foliar fed them a couple of times during the week, right at daybreak. I fed them on Saturday, the 6th..about a gallon each..beastie bloomz, microlife maximum blooms, cal-mag, humic acid, grow big, big bloom, sweet & sticky, and signal. They are looking very good..buds galore. The indoor clone got the same nutes, but on different days. She's also covered in buds, and they are beginning to fatten up.👍 6/9-7/4: Busy with other gardens, so not many updates... Indoor clone got to spend the last 2 weeks of her life in my closet under the quantum boards and UVB. I harvested and washed her buds on 6/28, let her hang dry and weighed and jarred her up on the 4th of July. She came in a 111g of cola and 45g of lower bud with only about 5g of larf. Nice!👍 She smells just like her mommy and has the same uber-dense buds. She was topped, so the buds aren't as mighty as the mamma's, but much more plentiful.👌 Outdoor clones: I had a massive spider mite attack, and during the same week, I had a grasshopper invasion...I lost a few plants, one of which as a FFT1 clone. I had just harvested my autos and my indoor clones from the closet, so I moved the remaining two clones in under the quantum boards. I treated them for spider mites several ways for several days and have given them much TLC. Hopefully their buds fatten up some more. They stanky, but they kinda slim... 7/11: I harvested the last two clones tonight. So sticky!!! I washed them and hung them to dry.
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