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Day 0 - 16/11/19 seedling in box to sprout; light in veg. 60cm above seedlings. seedlings in little house sprayed with ph water. on a heat map for couple of hours a day.
Day 1 - 17/11/19 slowly poking up
Day 2 - 18/11/19 all up and growing leaves
Day 7 - 23/11/19 nothing interesting to report for the first week.
Day 8 - 24/11/19 repotted in final 11l fabric pots (tap root came out of bottom of jiffy). lights still on veg & height 60cm. heat map on. little PH water
Day 11 - 27/11/19 0.5ml root juice in 1l ph. each plant 200ml water
Day 12 - 28/11/19 turned on full spectrum light. temp went up.
Day 13 - 29/11/19 - mix with 2ml (too much) root juice&1ml heaven. 200 ml of water.
Day 14 - 30/11/19 - lowered light to 50cm
Day 15 - 2.12. - lowered light to 33cm and back up again to 40cm. heat strong.
Day 16 - 3.12. - watered approx. 400ml with 1ml grow&heaven. lights down to 33cm.
Day 18 - 5.12. - looking good and small, slow starters i guess and my hustle with the light was maybe stressing? hot and not so humid.
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smaller grow so far and small internodal distances due to too little light/light distance. since light is closer (30cm) smaller internodal distance.
found this helpful, save as reminder: https://www.maximumyield.com/what-a-plants-internodal-spacing-reveals-about-its-health/2/3701?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
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Day 19 - 6.12. - 3.light on (left back corner plant smaller cause less light) over night with exhaust on, 24C & 45% humidity (2lights)🙌 3lights= 27,7C & 40%
Day 20 - 7.12. - watered morning with 600ml and per 1l = 2ml grow&heaven. very hot without exhaust. exhaust on for longer now. really tight and small node spacing but big and healthy leaves.
Day 22 - 9.12. - still very small node distance, so light back up from 33cm to 40cm. maybe this makes her stretch a bit more, so my planned LST will work better.
Day 23 - 10.12. - watered with ca. 600ml with 2ml heaven and 2ml grow.
Day 24 - 11.12. - watered again 300ml 1ml heaven&grow. first LST
Day 25 - 12.12. - added scrog net. plants reacted great to LST from yesterday. also seem to be stretching more due to bigger light distance
Day 27 - 14.12. - fed 500ml with 2ml heaven&grow.
Day 30 - 17.12. - pre-flower 😍 mixed 2ml of each heaven, grow, bloom & topmax (too early aaaargh, still learning) into 2l. split 800 between blue dream & gsc and rest for wedding cake. she is growing a small bushy lady.
Day 31 - 20.12. - heavy lst. looking good.
Day 33 - 20.12. - watered again. approx. 300ml
Day 34 - 21.12. - had to water again. they were all dry, seem to need more because of stretch. watered with 800ml mixed with each 2ml calmag, heaven, grow, topmax, bloom. wow.
LST ist working !!!! BROKE HER MAIN STEM :( I was leaning on it and it broke half way through. I put sticky tape around it and secured with a small wooden stick. maybe not enough water per each watering (used to 600ml). FORGOT to PH 😱😱😱
This must have been the week I overfed them. Leared to slowly increase in pre-flower, maybe 1/4-1/3 of rec. dose. Note to self, stop feeding too much!
Christmas week when I installed an automatic watering machine, since I wasn't with them over Christmas.
Day 36 - 23.12. machine start. watered in morning with machine. each 4min approx. 800ml with 1 day old mix of low nutes of bloom, topmax, heaven, grow.
Day 37 - 24.12. not at home
Day 38 - 25.12. supposed to water 800 each
Day 39 - 26.12.
Day 40 - 27.12. back home. supp. to water 800 each. it did. but they feel light already. 2l for all three with 2/3 of the dose of week 5 except topmax.
Day 41 - 28.12. wedding cake shows brown tips on new growth 😱 next time plain water
Day 42 - 29.12. dried out again, needed to water more. 2l for all three mit 4ml calmag. watered until runthrough.
Learned, amount of water given increases fast especially in stretching phase first 2-3 weeks in flower.
Day 43 - 30.12. installed 2nd fan
Day 44 - 31.12. watered all three plants with 2l reg. nutes. look droopy. wedding does not seem to fill out the scrog, she seems done stretching? maybe something is bothering her? dont know.
Day 45 - 1.1.2020
Day 46 - 2.1.20
Day 47 - 3.1.20 looked all droopy and sad. watered with nutes 2/3of dose in 4l of ph water. hour later looking better.
Day 48 - 4.1.20
Day 49 - 5.1.20 watered all three plants with 2l with heavy almost full nutes.
Day 50 - 6.1.20 found yellow tips on her. nute burn. plain water min. next two waterings. thanks reddit. but looking back, what did I think? I watered them once with plain water and then went heavy on the nutes again. stupid me :) she is much lower than the other plants, put her on stool to raise up.
Day 51 - 7.1.20 watered plain 6,5ph water. almost 4l for all. runthrough with all. they were really dry already. humidity went down to 38% which is weird after watering. but window was open.
Day 52 - 8.1.20
Day 53 - 9.1.20 noticed roots grow out the fabric pot bottom which is supposed to be good. watered 3l plain ph water
Day 54 - 10.1.20 learned, yellow tips on only new growth can also be light stress.
Day 55 - 11.1.20 watered in the morning 3l plain ph water. defoliated little. photoshoot
Day 56 - 12.1.20 overall note: gsc takes the nutes the best so far. she the only one with no yellow tips. wedding and blue dream both yellow tips on leaves.
Day 58 - 14.1.20 watered in the morning. lower nutes. all together 3l.
Day 59 - 15.1.20
Day 60 - 16.1.20 watered with 3 l with very thin nutes. removed yellowing leaves.
Day 61 - 17.1.20 almost all plants have yellowing leaves. mostly bottom. especially wedding and blue dream. some leaves are clawing upwards. some have brown burnt spots. 😔 defoliated little for better airflow.
Day 62 - 18.1.20 installed bottom fan properly. hopefully increased airflow.
Day 63 - 19.1.20 needed water, they got 1/2 dose grow(molasses?), topmax, heaven. thinking about flushing soon. esp. weddings brown hair. little defoliation. evening time felt lighter again. seem to drink a lot. changed light cycle to 21/3 hours so 3 hours more sunlight wohoooo
Day 64 - 20.1.20
Day 65 - 21.1.20 watered in morning. 3l ph water for all three. buds getting bigger and fatter.
Day 66 - 22.1.20 watered again at night. with 1ml budcandy per l and bloom and calmag.
Day 67 - 23.1.20
Day 68 - 24.1.20 watered 3l bloom algamic bud candy heaven.
Day 69 - 25.1.20
Day 70. - 26.1.20 watered 3l with 2ml bloom/l 1ml flawless finish/l & 2ml bud candy. FLUSH has begun 😍 noticeable more smell after 1-2times bud candy. whoop
Day 71 - 27.1.20 noticed swelling of calyx. checking trichomes everyday. she does not look anywhere close to ready, but her trichomes say something else...
Day 72 - 28.1.20 watered 3l with 2ml bloom, 2ml bud candy and 2ml flawless finish.
Day 73 - 29.1.20 checking trichomes, sugar leaver a good 30% amber, calyx trichomes all milky.
Day 74 - not sure when to harvest or prep them for harvest
Day 76 - some trichs milky, some amber, some clear :D she looks very close
Day 79 - gave all three a big water flush (9l for all three). She is only slightly fading, couple of yellow leaves at the bottom. She has also aged quite evenly all around. Looking at the trich shots, she is milky. Leaving for my business trip today, will come back in 4 days, until then, no more water for this beauty, hope everything turns out well and she is ready by the time I'm back. Exciting 😃
Day 83 - back after 4 days business trip with no water for the ladies. today checked trichomes and they are not there yet. so the plan of harvesting when I'm back, did not work out. some trichomes are amber, but mostly on the sugar leaves and not on the calyx. so decided to water her with flawless finish again.
Day 85 - first day of Week 13 and she is going into darkness for 48 hours. Hasn't been watered since 2 days.
Even though she looks the least done of all three, her trichomes are now a good 20-30% amber with the rest milky and some tiny bits of clear. I checked her buds on the calyx all around, from top buds to middle to bottom. She really shows a lot of heavily swolen calyxes, which I have never seen like that. I can now add that to the things I learned/experienced: calyxes swell a lot before the plant is finished. Let's see. My Girl Scout Cookies does not look like she even has calyxes. Funny individuals. Happy wedding cake day, almost 😍
Day 88 - out of darkness. She was in there for 2,5 days. Opening the drying tent she gave off a really strong smell of hash 😍wow. She has some nice looking buds and looks def. more done, but below her dress, she has some light fluffy buds. I have hung all of them now in the dry tent, after I removed some of the bigger fan leaves. One part of it, I think I want to low and slow dry in the fridge. I am interested in finding out about the difference in taste, when a more wholesome profile is retained. For anyone interested, I can highly recommend this forum and this article: https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/drziggys-low-and-slow-drying-maximizing-your-harvest.366783
Another part I would like to use for fresh cut oil, also from here: https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/fresh-harvest-infused-cannabis-oil.363371/
As with everything else, I was obsessing about the perfect dry room & conditions. I bought a small tent (40x40cm), a small oszillating fan hung over the buds/on top of the tent. Due to size limitations, I have the filter on the bottom with the duct leaving the tent at the bottom connecting to an exhaust fan. Inside the tent I have a humidity sensor from an Inkbird Humidity regulator. Connected to that is a mini-dehumidifer and a humidifier. I have set it to 20°C (68F) and 50-55% humidity. I'm excited to see how long my dry will last this time. My first grow was drying way too fast in the middle of the heat wave last year with 30% humidity.
The overview added to the pictures, I started making over Christmas. It was when I noticed, that I'm a so impatient, and that something must be wrong, especially in the first weeks. I get so obsessive, that I tend to overcare. Which she showcases beautifully in this overview. I hope this will calm me down the next time. Oh my haha
Let's see what the final dry weight is. My guess is about 25-35g. Any other guesses? Happy Wedding Cake day 😇
UPDATE - 24th of February 2020 - DRY WEIGHT & LOVE
32g total dry weight, after I gave them a very nice trim. They started curing in glass jars on 19/2/2020 and are currently only at 61%RH inside. I let them dry too long :( They felt really dry when I took them out, min. 2-3 earlier would've been better. Slowly bringing them back up in humidity. Adding Bovedas soon. Burping every day for couple of minutes.
Buds are small and dense, just like I remembered them. Also their smell is very familiar, hashy and strong. Getting better by the days. I dream of them becoming small hash balls, aaaaah 😍 Depending on how well they smoke (worried because of drying too long), I will make them into oils or press them into something.
I am happy with this grow and look forward growing her again, seeing an all new side to her. She has beautiful colors and hair, really surprised me with her beauty while trimming. I can't wait to try her properly cured and get to learn her whole taste spectrum with the low and slow dried buds. Some of them will be processed to oil and edibles. If I find time, I might document some more. Until then, happy growing everyone, peace 🙏
Tried 2 different drying methods:
1. Regular hang dry: For 10 days in small grow tent, darkness at 50% humidity & 20°C/68F - she was way too dry after all those days 😱
2. Low & Slow dry: after washing & hang-drying for 4 hours, she went into the fridge for 8 days in a paper bag, followed by several jar tests until she was at a steady 65% outside; She dried like this in the fridge for 8 days. I didn't trim her too much, since I want to preserve everything for oils.
Some details:
16. Nov. 2019 - 10. Feb. 2020 - 85 Days - Grown from Seed
Smell of Hash; Massive swolen calyxes; Lots of green leaves until the end.
Chop on 10. Feb 2020 - 266g (stem on)
Put in pot in Dry Tent Darkness for 48 hours.
(50% humidity & 20°C/68F)
Total wet - no trim - 266g
Total wet - slight trim - 244g
//Regular dry in tent - 50% humidity & 20°C/68F // 180g with little trim went in
Total dry - trim - 24g
//Low and slow dry in fridge // 46g went in paper bags in fridge (forgot one bud in the hang dry box)
Total dry - trim - 8g
Check 420magazine for “Low and Slow”-Dry. They are lovely.
Happy day to you all
I just harvested this plant and after looking at her rootball, I saw a white patch close to the stem (see pics), does anybody have any idea, what that might be? Also, does anyone have experience with checking soil after harvest and "learning" anything from it? Thank you <3!
I always check my root structure at the end and do a sort of evaluation. Iv'e learned from hydro grows that It simply can not grow if the roots can't grow the they want too :). It could be salt... It could be just a harmless bacteria that happened to thrive for a bit your soil. Your harvest looks great :), Your wedding cake turned out way better then mine I blame the poor quality led light I was using.
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