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Day 0: Thur Mar 19th 2020
Day 1: She broke the soil March 21
Setup:
3x3 grow tent
2x sf1000 leds
Temperatures are always 20 celcius at night and 25 celcius during the day. (+- 2 celcius)
Rh very consistently at 40-70 with the most average of 50.
Watering with tap water bubbled in a container to eradicate chlorine. Tap water 90-110ppm.
Strain is Blackberry Auto Fem by Fastbuds.
Light schedule for first 5-7 weeks will be 12-12 as I'm currently flowering 3 photos.
This is going into my solo cup while I wait for wow myco to come in the mail so I can line final container with myco.
Solo cup contains:
60 percent promix hp with 25 percent worm castings, 10 percent organic soil mix top dressed, and 5 percent alfalfa meal and Gaia 4-4-4.
Final container (7gal cloth pot) recipe:
BOTTOM HALF: 75 % stepwell super soil, 10 % promix hp, 5 % organic soil mix, 5 % worm castings. Final 5 percent is a mix of gaia green alfalfa meal, 4-4-4 all purpose, and 2-8-4 power bloom.
TOP HALF:
80 % pro mix hp, 10% worm castings, 10% organic soil mix. Top dress is currently 1" of worm castings with 1.5" of organic soil mix as top layer.
I put a lot of nutrition in the bottom half of my container. I see roots like to curl around the edges of containers, so I'm loading the bottom half to make sure I get all the way through flower. The top half is mostly pro mix hp. The top half will be routinely top dressed so hopefully the upper half being more pro mix will allow nutrients to mix into the pot better.
Goal for this grow is:
Begin a crop immediately using complimentary seed to toke faster.
Experiment with extremely low stress regiment. I will only transplant, and lst. I will not do any defoliation this go, and will simply be tucking fan leaves or wrapping them. No defoliation of any bud sites is allowed either. I want to see the range of bud sites that a plant develops without inference.
I also want to investigate how an auto will do in a 12-12 regiment.
I am very interested in using wow myco grow and will be strategically placing granules centered around where the tap root will be. It will also be scattered around the pot.
Happy growing!
Growing at her own pace.
Lights are about 40 inches away.
Day 4 I realize that my solo cup has tons of holes in it. This means the roots will grow through the cup and when I went to transplant it'd rip the roots. I pulled the cup up and there were only a 3 or so roots sticking out of 60+ holes. When I went to transplant I fucked up and the soil spilled everywhere and she toppled over and got fucked up.
I just picked her up pat her down. She responsed by bouncing back and growing even more. So I fed and watered her in. First feeding week 2 day 4. You can see she bounced back.
Fed her right after transplant. Bad idea, she needed two more days. Ah well. She's growing.
Increased height even more... These lights are so strong.
Got second node coming in. Super humid at night. 70-85rh.
Just watered the container. That's all. As mentioned keeping this very low stress. Once the first node can be trained when its big enough I'll train.
I won't be transplanting autos ever again lol.... Shit. She looks like she is starting to stretch I think.... If I was in 18hr of light and didn't stress her! I think it would've been 1 or 2 nodes higher.
I'm getting these days mixed up...... Zzz zzz
Maybe she's in flower? The stalk is getting thick which to me says bountiful harvest ahead.
Put 4 teaspoons of wow myco through the container. Let's see if she explodes.
She's flowering. Curious to see how she flowers with the poor vegetation start. She was so stunted. I learned my lesson. I'm hoping she'll still yield a bunch!
Looks like pH lockout developing. I overwatered... I think it's that combined with me putting in 1 teaspoon of molasses per shake litre. So she got 4 teaspoons of molasses plus I did 4 litres one day, then did another litre and a half the next day. It was all downhill from there.
Over watering toxicity + pH lockout maybe from molasses... Or its just starting to fade as she enters week 6? I'm not sure.
Finally into 20 hrs on. The toxicity from the over watering of last week hopefully got fixed when I watered again for the first time in 5 days. I think the fresh batch of water might help her out. Just did straight water nothing else. Packing on weight tho... Oh ya. Starting to really smell like berries it's nice. The buds are developing that dark color too.
IT WASN'T WATER TOXICITY. Just her going into late bloom.
Final lst. She's going to stay there until end of flower.. I wish I did this earlier and the buds would've been much bigger. Better late than never
I overwatered. Did 4 litres into the pot. Then did another 1.5L the day after (in a 7Gal cloth pot) I think this caused overwatering toxicity.
Does the strees look like:
Water Toxicity?
PH Lockout?
Or fade from entering in the latter half of flower?
Buds getting bigger still.
Normal that late in bloom, if near done. You can keep a canopy mostly green up through the end. Feed a bit more and it stays green longer. simply provide what it needs, properly.
if you have been feeding constantly, back off the pedal a bit, especially in soil. It retains it longer than other mediums. if you were causing any toxicities, you'd know from what you are doing to the medium.
I don't think it's waterlog droop though. If it is, it'll go away soon and let it dry top 1/2 to 1" or so (soil, anyway). weight suggestion is even better.
Some people like to flush or purposely cause a big fade at end, but you have to time it - which is better with a clone or known quantity of course. Otherwise, you just hurt your yield for a bunch of hocus pocus and 'bro science.' Various tissues are diversified in their function. unless you find cells mixed with calyxes and pistils, it's not storing excess anything there.
As far as most of your questions, you'd have to test such things and if the meter says it's too high or too low, yo have an answer. I can't tell very well in pictures, but your buds look fairly close to done, if not mistaken. The decimated canopy may not be a problem as long as you can harvest soon. You still have lots of green to give, so it's still fine. If you think it has a long time to go, stop flushing if you are already, and if not delay it a bit longer than normal.
autumn-like leaves can be caused by slightly cool temps at night - maybe 65F and increased rate the furtherbelow that you go.
check your runoff and see if it is lower or higher -- note that this is not your soil's pH but can be an indication it is too lower or high based on how drastically different the runoff is from what you put in. Same with a soil slurry. It may be a bit more precise, but it isn't accurate; or swap those around; you get the idea.
Trying to just feed her water and some em1. I'm writing this 2 days away from week 8.
I'm not sure if she'll fatten out. I don't know how much longer to wait. But I've seen swollen buds and these are not very swollen. So if I have to wait unti end of week 9 ya whatever dude. Lights on 20 hrs a day lots of space.
I don't take pics everyday so it looks like thr plant grew faster. Muwaha!
How much longer does she look like? The buds don't look swoooollen up but fastbuds lists it as not having the highest yield ever. As I am just entering 8 weeks I'm curious if having her for another 2 weeks will visibly swell her buds up much bigger? Thank you.
I think your lights are too intense for your space, all your leaves are dried up and yellow, which is kinda normal but not too your extent. You would do well to raise the lamp distance or dim the power if possible. This will also help your younger plants stretch! 👍🌱But you definitely have another 2 weeks left
I would suggest investing in a small jewelers loop. pretty cheap and helpful for inspecting trichomes. Your looking for around 20-30% amber for the perfect time to harvest your girls! Cheers and happy growing! if you got a minute come check out my first grow and drop some knowledge on me! cheers and happy growing!
Hey :-) Look with a microscope 👌If the trichome heads are about 70% milky and 30% clear, you can start with the flush. If the trichomes are about 70% milky and 30% amber, it is a very good time to harvest 👍🙏🏻 but do not pay attention to the leaves of the trichomes on the buds 👍
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@MadeInGermany, fuck ya dude! She's exploding with growth. This is pretty much a hands off grow. Just move the container for watering.. Rotate the container. Ima just let her do her thing!
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