Penguin Day 57, didn't upload anything as nothing had changed.
Day 58, still no noticeable changes to her but gave her a pH 6 drink. QB still hasn't arrived but hoping soon. The temps here have turned very pleasant and the tent stays between 21 and 25 throughout the day and night. My humidity also stays under 50% which is nice. Ordered a PPM meter, more pH calibration solution and some new soil for the next grow after this one. Ordered some "Super soil" mix that apparently should cover the first 2 months of nutes. Fully prepared to make the next grow a good one after the learning experience on this. I managed to source 5 RQS Diesel Autos and 5 RQS Royal Madre Fotos (I guess the guy only had stock of the older seeds as he listed it by that name and not the Mother Gorilla that I wish it was). I also have the random bagseed growing in the tent with this NL Auto still in Veg but it showed sex this week and turned out to be female. I was using it to practice HST and attempted to FIM / Top her so I will see how she grows and maybe finish her out before starting my next grow of the Diesel Autos, probably 2 at a time.
Day 59. Noticing a lot of the lower leaves are yellowing more than before. Not sure if this is at a normal rate or because of a deficiency. Bud sizes don't seem to be increasing in size still but I am not expecting them too at this stage. I am hoping the yellowing is a normal process at this age and isn't happening too soon as she doesn't have a lot of them to spare if they start dropping off this quickly!
Day 60. Definitely noticing a lot of leaves starting to fade and die. I am not sure if I should be doing something to fix this or if its part of the natural cycle at this point in her life? Buds look like they are putting on some nice frost though and the smell is really strong now. I had got used to it because when I left the house for shopping and came back, I could smell her from downstairs. Need to invest in a filter but for now making sure the door is closed in the room with the tent seems to be working.
Day 61. Decided to give her a watering today as she was looking a bit droopy. My PPM meter still hasn't arrived so I am unable to check the runoff at this point but hopefully the soil isn't still too hot for her. Also waiting for the loupe to arrive to check trichs but from my best attempts to zoom in on them, they still look to have a fair ways to go.
Day 62. She's still chugging along. Haven't noticed any new issues or changes to her today since watering yesterday. Temps got a bit cold last night and the tent dropped to 18c from its usual 21c at night. Doesn't seem to have bothered her too much though. QB arrived today! Swapped out the noisy hot blurple for this 150W QB. Currently running it on 100W as I am not sure if the shock between the 230W actual draw blurple to 150W QB would stress the girl out too badly. Already have to say the light coming off this thing feels "cleaner" somehow and its a beauty for taking pictures with. In love already and can't wait to get the next one going. I have a bag seed in veg in the same tent as the auto that I was planning on flowering after she is done, I think the QB on this intensity might fry her though?
Day 63. She has spent some time under the new QB and hasn't shown any visible signs of stress with the light sitting at 13" and 100W. I bumped the wattage up to 110 this morning and plan to do 10W more a day until at the full 150W. Gave her a watering today until about 10% runoff. Watered at 6.5 and the run off measured in at 6.6 so next watering I will go for a lower pH. Not sure how it's built up as I've been watering around 6 for a while. Will keep a close eye on her again after bumping the wattage and watering her. The bag seed seems to be perfectly happy with the change in lighting as well and hasn't shown any signs of stress yet. Also got my seeds today! Will likely grow one or two together, not sure which yet though and will wait for the bag seed to finish up. Will give her the whole tent for flowering to see what kind of yields it will pull. Anyone got experience with the strains Royal Madre or the Blue Cheese from RQS?
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everything is going as I predict ))) Congrats with new lamp.
@Afterglow, thanks for the info again, I'll keep this in mind going forward. She is showing heavy signs of yellowing that I suspect is N deficiency. Again not sure how serious this is at this point in the growth cycle but I'll upload pictures shortly. Peace
@Penguin, and always use formula:
PPM up / PH down: decrease the dose of nutritions
PPM down / PH up: increase the dose of nutritions
PPM stay / PH up: keep it going, everything is right
@Penguin,
1. You will never change PH of soil by flushing with pure water, even with corrected PH. It is always bad idea to give pure water in coco-soil. Always add nutritions but with low concentration.
2. PPM on your stage should be not over 1000 US PPM (there is also EC PPM) in drainage.
3. To decrease PPM in drainage - just give half of nutritions you gave previously.
4. To encrease of decrease PH - use coefficient 1.2, but not lower 5.5 and higher 7.0 for the final result. For example your drainage shows 7.1 PH. 7.1/1.2 = 5.9. Or shows 5.7 and you want higher: 5.7 * 1.2 = 6.9. After two days PH in drainage will correct.
Hey how goes the battle:sunglasses:
Plants look good:+1:
I harvested a northern lights auto, took 81 days from sprout to harvest, turned into some descent smoke:ok_hand:
I found this strain to be very fussy, needed lots of time to recover from LST, topping and defoliation.
Luck and Grow Big!!
@Penguin,Hey good morning
Most autos will finish between 60-90 days, there are some that take longer.
Depends on how much stress the plant goes through early on in veg.
My northern lights auto, also my first one took 81 days form sprout.
Rule of thumb for autos is less is more, check out my diaries, I did a lot better in my second grow, but had a lot of help from the people on GROW DIARIES:+1::+1::+1:
everything is an experiment
Later!!
@northernMike, Hey! Thanks for the comment man. This is my first grow so I am doing lots wrong and learning from it (hopefully). I think my girl has been really patient with me so far but as of a few days ago I am starting to get some fading on the leaves and I am unsure if its a natural fade which is expected late in a grow or if its too early as she definitely looks like she has a ways to go before getting close to harvest. What do you think? How much did you manage to yield from yours? Mine is looking very light on the bud front sadly but its all for experience. My next grow was supposed to be a couple more autos but just found out the seller of the seeds ran out so I am going with some foto periods instead. Hopefully the learning curve won't be too steep coming from an auto!
Greetings from Russia! They look very good, keep up the good work
@RussianGrower, Thank you man and greetings from Brazil! Your grows look great. Hoping grow number 2 gets close to looking like your ones!
For autos? Yes, actually stop feeding and flush.
@Athos, You think I should only flush with pH'd from now on then? I was expecting a good few more weeks from her due to size and bud development tbh. I have given just pH'd water the last couple times though. If you think I should flush then I probably will. Waiting for a jewelers loup to arrive this week so i can better see the trichs too