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Happy new year everyone!
This diary aint a complete one cause it was my first try and i thought it will be a disaster. so i skipped it and now im regreting it ! :)
ok lets start with the setup im using . im a math/comp teacher so i like to read so everything i bought was from forums and everything the internet has to provide i went even to read about VPD charts etc and the most advanced teqniques. And so i Started.
4 plants in 1,5m x 1,5m 600 hps with wings. no glass protection for heat( bad choice).
i used a home fan for cooling the lamp.a small fan to move air around the base of the plants and a huge outake fan with filter 15cm in diameter.
i used bags of co2 no meter so no idea if they were working but it was the only solution to my heat issues.
My temps inside the room was above 27c all the time. so i tried to overcome this issue with co2 supplementation and humidity based on vpd chart.
And magically i went from seed to harvest more happy than i could ever imagine.
The harvest went down on 2 parts half of the upper plant and the other half is currently hanging and the other half a day in the jars😶
in the pics the 3 biggest bud structures is from king tut auto who had an accident the first day of flowering i droped it and broke the main and the side stem so it was left with 3 lateral stems.But they grew huuugeeee. almost 1.6m in height.Sorry about my english im a bit rusty . Also the pic quality aint the best cause i was taking them for my info and not for a diary.if someone can see something like deficiency and stuff like that pls inform me so i can gain a little more knowledge on the matter. ahh also when the guy sold me the nuts he never gave me cal mag so my plants at some point suffered a bit from that and i also f.....d up the pk and had some yellow leaves etc. first try had more days with issues than normal ones but it was rewarding and loved it . now i have a new passion except my math and tech :) In my early 40s atm.
Nice strain beautifull very dense buds and i had a purple color in the end not on all buds but u will see in the pics. My first grow so any info will be appreciated . Thank you.
i will update with the other half weighted probably around the same.
ok so far for the test result its pretty harsh to me and the smell is heavy it really resembles alot like blueberry. not to my taste i like my grass more like skunk aromas but the yield the look the terpenes is there great plant overall ill give it 7.2/10.
ok lets start that king tut had an accident couple days after flowering and main cola and one of the four lateral colas destroyed (droped the whole plant) :(
But lady luck was on my side and it recovered amazingly . half yield in the jar 94g and the other half still drying as a whole plant.
The dry weight is only for the 3 main colas and their lateral brraches. less than half of the monster plant. I have updated the final weight and i have to say im more than impressed with the cola size it wasnt as dense as bb but it has a clear lemon like smell after almost a week in the jar. overall ill give it a 8.5/10
Hello everyone im still a bit noob on everything even on posting here and staff. ill figure it out in a couple of days hopefully!
Lets start by saying that big bang had an issue because ........ i was growing it and i didnt see that my flores was empty and until i received a new it was almost a week had a lot of yellow on the leaves dying and falling out like doing full defoliation on the plant. have no clue if im lucky or something i do right but when i started feeding couple of days i saw signs of buds getting bigger so i continue. now we are at week 13 and from what i have seen from my previous 2 plants bb and king Tut autoflowers will not forgive when u stun them nut they will forgive slow growth or deficiencies and stuff when they are close to maturity at least for my garden.
Whatever i did to them and i monitored closely everyday made them move on a slower pace but didnt stop them from being huge the only downtime i saw was more time to be ready for harvest.
ill update by the end of the week with pics with the lights out (hps) . The pics are a bit shaky but cant do anything about it atm sorry!
Any advice welcome the first red spots in some of the sugar leaves should i start flush? or wait to see on almost every bud?
25 litres pot and i give it like 4 - 4.5 lit/day it seems that is still growing. Have almost no water out so my question! should i up the water that i give the plant like to 5+ or should i keep it steady. also its 3 months no sign of red heads all milky.browning on pistils 30%.
Hello there, looking good and at the finish line👍
Firstly, if she's eating a tonne, then I would certainly match her needs and give her the 5+ liters of water if you think that will carry her longer. At this stage in the game, though, it's hard to keep up with them since they do eat so quickly and what you're doing daily still may be the best option. Even though they're drying quickly, you're avoiding water logging, which is perfect. This one is more your call then anything else. It is suggested to look for run-off, however, so we know we are washing out excess salts that may be sitting stagnant in our soil (I usually look for a bit more at this time 20-30% RO). So, I guess ya, up the feeding amount and ensure a good amount of RO.
Second part of the question pertaining to pistils and time to flush/chop: I just straight up say trichomes are where it's at when determining the right time to harvest and/or flush. Pistil hairs are good benchmarks to follow and can help you ballpark the point in time you may need to flush or chop. But pistil hairs can be inconsistent and not actually represent the stage of growth in the plant. Sometimes they brown out very early when the girl isn't ripe yet and visa versa, where new white pistils are being pushed but the girl is done and ready to chop. You have the magnifier👍 and from your picture's I see you're very, very close. Most trichs are starting to "cloud" and the clear trichs are becoming less in number quite quickly. Objective for optimal harvest is to aim for 100% cloudy trichomes (100% is impossible to get, but it's a 'goal' lol). When I start my flush (10-14 days before chop) is when I see about 70% cloudy trichs. After that 10-14 days the remaining 30% or trichs should have clouded out and you're in the harvest zone. You will still see some clear and even some amber trichs kicking around in there, but that's normal. If you're looking at 90% + cloudy, you've done a great job in estimating the harvest date👍
That's all I got! Throw me a PM if ever you need and we can shoot the poop further. And congrats on this beast. Happy smoke!
Hello again,
Week 14 update is here and we are still packing weight not with the same speed cause i stoped feeding at the start of the week but its going awesome almost no clear heads all trichomes are milky/white. No red head yet so i decided to try and close the lights for couple of hours and then start again for the final week.im thinking from everything that i have read this far ill plain feed water 10 day and 2 days without water and last 2 days without lights that will give me 14 flush days and hoping for the best.
As you can see on the pics i had to turn the lamp to the side and put another one on the opposite end to see if i can push some more weight in there the last 4 weeks so now im actually using 600 hps and 250 hps with reflectors inside a 5x5 tent. Any advice welcome ty all . 😏
Its a beast actually u can see the photos! Best of my first run i would say by far. Night smoke for most ppl! Love the smell taste update will come after giving it a week drying.
Ok end of the first harvest and lights out 36-48 hours for her atm! 25/1/2020 ill post some pics after ill open the light to chop her down and hung her to dry! optically it looks amazing , hope it translates to the same high i got from test samples a week and 3 days ago! keep growing ty all ! The wet bud pics after a major defoliation are up, couldnt actually weight her so ill post the dry weight in a week or so! :)
DrStrains
