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First time grower here.
Germinated seed in paper towel with seaweed extra water for about 24hrs, Seed popped and planted into medium.
Soaked medium in seaweed extract before planting.
Once seedling popped out of the ground, positioned the pot under light.
Kept the pot moist with seaweed extract twice a day.
Day 14: Growth has slowed down for some reason. I cant figure out what’s causing the slow growth. She looks healthy, no signs of any trouble.
Does anyone see anything wrong here?
Day 20: Added organic calmag this week.
The Ph runoff was off from the beginning I guess that is the reason for the slow growth. I’ve rectified it and since then she started to grow again.
Day 28: woke up to the plant all droopy. Not sure why definitely not over or under water. Everything seems healthy.
Few hours later: she’s back up perky as if nothing has happened. What a tease!
Day 33: growing healthy without any signs of trouble. She’s loving the feed i gave and wants more.
She’s branching out really good. I noticed some pistils have developed ok tiny bud sites which just popped out. Might change to flower soon when side branching is well developed.
She is loving everything provided for her, no complaints no deficiencies all healthy and happy.
Day 40: New week new haircut. Did some little defoliation to let more light penetration to bud sites below as she was getting really bushy.
Her feeding frequency has increased now as she’s getting bigger.
Day 44: Only been 4 days since defoliation and already getting bushier again. Growing strong, healthy and fast. Pistils are popping out everywhere now.
End of week 7 now. She exploded in growth this week and still growing coming into week 8. Branches have grew nicely with bud sites. Pistils are everywhere now. Waiting for her to start blooming. Cant wait once she does. Will reduce calmag to 1ml in week 8 and start using PK booster 30-20.
See how dark green is the foliage? That is nitrogen overdose. Also, 1 ml per liter of cal mag is enough. Keep in mind that as long as there are no deficiencies, there is no need to up the feeding.
New week and she’s still growing strong. In just 1 week plus she tripled her size. Im surprised how big she grew considering the sized pot i put her in really didn’t expect that, a good surprise definitely. Now just waiting for the flowering to kick off, bud sites are starting to open up. I had to tuck some fan leaves under to give way of some bud branches. She is really bushy though but i dont dare to defoliate anymore. Started using PK booster this week.
End of week 8 and still growing slowly.
Pre flower are developing nicely. She is still growing i hope she stops growing soon cause im running out of height space. Its a real shocker she grew as big as a plant in a big pot, I guess if you really take care of a plant she will yeild big for you. Im really curious how her roots look like in the small pot shes in.
Increassd PK booster by to 2ml, thats the max i will go.
Day 63: Defoliated some tiny lower buds that were not getting enough light also to let the plant focus more on the upper developed buds.
There are 2 situations when I use calmag. Whenever I use ro water, I use botanicare calmag+ at 5ml per gallon.
The other time is after I have ensure my ph is correct and ec in range, I will add calmag+ if the plants are telling me they need it.
If your source water is tap with a ppm over 150, you should be ok ditching the calmag. I do not use calmag in my tap water grows. My tap water is 300ppm alone.
Could someone point out what these brown spots & edges are? Im hoping its age as she’s coming into week 10. Ive read that it could be cal def but it cant be since im giving calmag since veg. Its only on first set leaves on bottom other leaves are fine no signs of it.
Start of week 10, she’s finally stop stretching..i think. More into bud development now and is coming along nicely. Reduced water frequency as ive read plants at this stage take up less water but still sufficient is required (correct me if im wrong). I’ve cut back on calmag cos it contains 3% nitrogen and nitrogen is not needed anymore at this stage, also she doesn’t require calmag anymore. Updates as the week goes.
Let me know what you think of her so far.
Start of week 11, Vertical growth has finally stopped at 75cm. As she was very bushy lights were not getting through to the lower part of the plant. Lower bud sites are not as big as middle sites so I decided to defoliate unnecessary leaves that were blocking and couldn’t be tucked. Now light can penetrate through better hopefully lower sites will progress. Also reduced nute dosage since there’s less foliage to store any.
Buds are stacking up nicely, hope they will fatten up as they supposed to. I’m doing everything right for her even though its my first grow im still learning alot along the way.
If there is anything anyone would like to advise feel free im willing to learn more.
Leaves has strated to die and fall off. Some are still yellowing and will fall off anytime. She has a strong skunky smell overpowers the smell of the Blackberry. Took off a sample bud to dry off and test the smoke out. I think another week before harvest so im going to flush soon.
Day 93: Did flushing today. Leaves are dying off nearing end of life.
Chilipadi
