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This is my first grow ever indoors.
Week 1 has been good. 1 pic for this week. That pic is of her about 3 weeks old, but at end of 1st week in setup. I topped her about 4 days into her new dwc home. Started diary late. Will have more pics next week. Using ph perfect 3 part. Really theres nothing perfect about it. Still needs ph down. Hopefully it all goes well. At the moment it's a little bit of trial and error.
I'll try to take more pics and be more in depth with detail as she progresses through her life cycle.
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Any advice or tips are always appreciated. Feel free to tag along with grow. Many more to come.
She looks great, nice green leaves. So far so good. A bunch of new foliage since she was topped. Seems to enjoy the feed. No signs of any root rot or deficiencies. Seems to handle the nutes a lot better than the other strains. They dont seem to be able to handle the strength like her. Raised the light 6 inches. Was getting some light bleaching on some of her step sisters. Lowered light back to 24 inches on day 11
Day 15. Res change today. Still looks good and healthy. Has a bit of a smell if you get close enough. Roots are very nice looking, thought they might have a little rot but it was just the nutes staining the roots. Root builder helped quite a bit of new root growth in the bucket. Lst training has not been done. Canopy is filling in nicely.
Day 18 (HST). Supercropped her today. No outer damage to stalk. First try at it so I'll see how she responds to it after a couple days.
Day 20. Responded well to (HST). Ph needed a little bit of adjusting. Starting to give off a nice aroma.
Day 22. Res change today. Growth has exploded. Roots are a nice thick ball. No training today. Lots of newer growth. Recuperated nicely from (HST). Ph perfect nutes may not have brought the ph down to so called "sweet spot" but it sure does help keep the ph stable after bringing it into the sweet spot by downing ph. Upped the nutes a little. Ppm is around 1100. Used a little calimagic this week. If a couple others can catch up a little she'll be going into bud next week.
Day 23. She looks beautiful today. Responded well to nutrient increase. Stalk is nice and firm now. No sign of any deficiencies. If all goes well I will be switching her over to 12/12 on day 29.
Day 24. Very nice green color. A lot of new growth underneath. Needed to fill res a little. I am very pleased with her so far.
Day 25. No pics for this day. She is growing very nice. Not as tall as the others. Ordered more lights. Room is getting quite full now. Outer edges need more light. Ph needed minor adjustment.
Day 26. No pic today. Nice growth still. Res needed some filling. Minor ph adjustment. Minor defoliation. Waiting on lights still. Room configuration will need minor adjustment to accommodate light setup.
Day 27. No pic. Bounced back pretty good from minor defoliation. Letting her get some well needed rest in her last few days of veg. Major defoliation coming in next couple days. Will definitely have pics for the next couple days. Dropped camera a couple days back.
Day 28. Nice sturdy stalk lots of growth. Looks ready for heavy defoliation, light change and nutrient increase. Ph was pretty stable at 6.1. Lights came in. Light coverage is excellent now.
Flower: bloom switch. Next grow I'll use both veg and bloom to see if there is any difference in growth.
Day 29. D1F. Res change. Trying Bud Ignitor its suppose to start flowering in 7 to 12 days. So I'll see how that goes. Light change. Air stone change tm. Major defoliation done. Bumped up nutes to make up for defoliation. Satisfied at this point with her. I'll have to see how she responds to it over next couple days.
Day 30. D2F. Things look good. Stones were severely clogged. Seems to be responding well to defoliation. Left a little more on her than I'd like. Tons of light through the plant now. Lots of bud sites. Will have extreme defoliation done again around week 3. I've tried several different stages of defoliation in room. Some extreme (almost bare), some had major (big and medium fan leaves), and some minor (big fan leaves) defoliation. Curious to see how they respond.
Day 31. D3F. Looks nice. Minor nute burn on a couple leaves. Starting to give off nice aroma. Very healthy. May need minor defoliation again before week 3.
Day 32. D4F. Very healthy plant, couple days after defoliation and you could hardly tell. The ones that were exfoliated extremely have stunted a little but that's ok. Gives this girl time to catch up in height a little. Tight node spacing 3/4 down the stalks. Definitely good genetics in that seed.
Day 33. D5F. No signs of pistils yet. Topped up res. Ph needed very minor adjusting. Plant looks healthy as ever.
Day 34. D6F. Temp and humidity are stable, ph is stable at 6.05. Looking very nice.
Day 35. D7F. Temp and humidity were good. Res change tm. Temp and humidity level change tm. Ph was a little higher than I'd like at 6.3. But it should be good until tm. Gonna cut back on the nutes a lil this next week. Was just a bit too much last week, very minor nute burn.
Day 36. D8F. Res change. Lowered nutes a little. Looks very nice today. Still no signs of bud. Hoping in the next couple days. Smell is getting stronger. I'll try to get some better pics (camera sucks) within the next couple days. Very large root ball. Voodoo is working very nicely.
Day 37. D9F. Temp and humidity stable. Lowered rh to 50%. Ph stable at 5.6
Day 38. D10F. Temp and humidity stable. Ph needed a little adjusting. Growing very nice now.
Day 39. D11F. Stable conditions. Res needed water. Going good so far. Tons of bud sites.
Day 40. D12F. Need to add another air intake, humidity was off 5 to 10%. Stretching for the sky. Tons of new growth through the middle. Getting very bushy now and will definitely need some defoliation next week. She was thirsty today. Ph was adjusted.
Day 41. D13F. Stable conditions. Budlets just starting to form. No problems this far. Nice and healthy.
Day 42. D14F. Conditions stable. Add fresh air intakes tm. Res change tm. Coming along nicely.
D 43. D15F. Sorry for bad pics. It's quite large now hard to get a good overhead shot. Res change. Looking very healthy. Little budlets have started. Tons of growth still. Think I'll be good on height. Roots were massive. Definitely cutting clones from that one. Have 2 more of the same strain, this one is twice the size of both.
D 44. D16F. Conditions stable. Ph stable. No signs of deficiencies. Looks very healthy. Still stretching for the stars. Once stretch has stopped she will need some light defoliation.
D 45. D17F. Stable conditions. Very nice canopy. Very minor defoliation. She is looking very healthy. Left the lower growth on for cuttings later in week. Lower growth will be stripped. Not sure how much though, light seems to be penetrating nicely, even to the bottom.
D 46. D18F. Conditions stable. Ph adjusted. Getting very big, still stretching. No pics today.
D 47. D19F. Needs to be cleaned up underneath. Lollipop in next couple of days. Very nice growth on bottom for healthy cuttings. Looks really healthy. Conditions stable. She has been chugging back the water lately. Almost 6 litres she drank over last couple days.
D 48. D20F. Lowered night temp a little. Conditions and ph stable. Looking healthy. Some signs of very minor nute burn. Gonna dial it back a little. Cleaned up the undergrowth. Took a bunch of large cuttings.
D 49. D21F. Looks great today. Conditions stable. May have some issues though due to her size.
D 50. D22F. Res change. Conditions stable. Major problems accured during res change. Plant mass is too much for just buckets. Rookie mistake on my part. Ordered netting trellis. Kinda sucks that they are already in flower but that's the only way to save the room IMO, they are definitely in need of major support.
D 51. D23F. Tied heavy branches to main stem for now. Conditions stable. Ph good.
D 52. D24F. So far quick fix has worked. Still waiting for netting. Conditions stable. Ph good. Very healthy looking.
D 53. D25F. Stable conditions. Filled res. Lollipopped more. Definitely helped stability.
D 54. D26F. Conditions stable. Budding nicely. No signs of deficiencies.
D 55. D27F. Conditions stable. Ph
adjusted. Budlets all over her now.
D 56. D28F. Stable conditions. Ph good. Res change tm.
D 57. D29F. Res change. Conditions stable. Lots of nice little buds forming now. Growth is great so far. No deficiencies as of yet.
D 58. D30F. Conditions stable. Growth excellent. Healthy beautiful plant.
D 59. D31F. Conditions stable. Ph good. Looking very good. More pics to come. Buds are getting bigger.
D 60. D32F. Stable conditions. Ph needed minor adjustments. Growing nicely.
D 61. D33F. Conditions stable. Ph adjusted. Res topped off. Looks good so far. I feel buds are on smaller side but we'll see as the weeks progress. I feel it's the 3 part nutrients holding it back. Next round I'm going to try switching product lines to CYCO, for some nutrients but not all (yet). Still have quite a bit of the 3 part left.
D 62. D34F. Conditions stable. Ph good. Buds are starting to get bigger. Already starting to frost up a bit on the leaves. Supercropped a couple branches that were growing into each other. Healthy looking plant. Definitely could have used a screen in the room. I'll show you what I mean when I post a pic of the room at the end of grow when shes close to done. It took some work already to make sure no buds were touching. Will lower humidity when the buds start to fatten up some more.
D 63. D35F. Conditions stable. Ph good. Res change tm. Starting to gain bud size slowly.
D 64. D36F. Res change. Conditions stable. Ph'd to 5.5. Stones were clogged. Needed changing. Plants were starving for oxygen, roots were wrapped around that stone so tight.
D 65. D37F. Conditions stable. Stripped some bigger fan leaves. Cut some hopeful clones. Very nice frost starting. Hoping the last few weeks go smooth. Some branches may need minor lst to keep buds from touching, nice bud grow so far.
D 66. D38F. Conditions stable. Ph good.
D 67. D39F. Conditions stable. Looking good so far. Seems to be nice and healthy.
D 68. D40F. Conditions stable. Ph adjusted. Buds are getting bigger everyday. So far so good.
D 69. D41F. Conditions stable. Res topped off. Looking very nice so far.
D 70. D42F. Conditions stable. Looks very good. Looks a couple weeks behind schedule, but could be because I started flowering week on light change and it took almost 2 weeks to show pistils.
D 71. D43F. Res change. Conditions stable. Looking very nice. Buds are fattening up. Finally got some night pics of her.
D 72. D44F. Conditions stable. Going good so far. Starting to give off nice aroma now. Frosting up very nice already.
D 73. D45F. Conditions stable. Ph good. Very happy with her so far.
D 74. D46F. Conditions stable. Ph adjusted.
D 75. D47F. Conditions stable. Ph good. Res topped off.
D 76. D48F. Conditions stable. Ph adjusted. Looking good and smelling very pungent now. Very frosty buds already. More night pics to come.
D 77. D49F. Conditions stable. Ph good. Buds are looking frosty and are getting denser.
D 78. D50F. Res change. Conditions stable. Humidity lowered to 45% RH. Very beautiful and frosty buds so far.
D 79. D51F. Conditions stable. Ph good. Buds are gaining mass. Some tops will need to be supported. Starting to lean over a little
D 80. D52F. Conditions stable, ph stable. Buds are starting to fill in nicely. She going strong. About 3 weeks or so to go.
I'll post some trich pics later in the week, this microscope takes amazing clear and up close pics.
D 81. D53F. Conditions stable. Ph adjusted. Very pungent, almost has a sweet citrus smell. Almost like fruit loops. Very dense looking buds.
For not ever growing before and starting with dwc, I think she looks pretty good so far.
Theres a couple things I'll do different the next grow, and I'm thinking of trying some new nutrients. I have an outdoor grow using REMO nutrients. So that will be my test to see how they react to that brand. I use AN 3 part for indoors. I don't understand why you would be using the grow part of it if it's in flower. And you use bloom during veg. I guess we'll see how harvest goes.
D 82. D54F. Conditions stable. Ph good. Super frosty buds, they are fattening up nicely now. Super dense
D 83. D55F. Conditions stable. Res topped off. 3 weeks roughly to go. Looks very happy in her environment. I can hardly wait to see the final results.
More pics to come.
D 84. D56F. Conditions stable, ph good. Topped off res. Looking very good.
D 85. D57F. Conditions stable. Res change. Started overdrive this week. Things look good. May have let them veg too long. She doesn't need too much support at the moment. But some of her neighbors are monsterous and so big they were leaning sideways.
D 86. D58F. Conditions stable. Ph good. Really potent smell. Home stretch. Going to check out trichomes in the next couple of days.
D 87. D59F. Conditions stable. Ph good.
D 88. D60F. Conditions stable. Ph adjusted. Looking frosty. Going to invest in new leds soon. I love them but I'd like to use some with dimmable spectrums. Pics all look the same. Messes with your eyes when you're in there.
D 89. D61F. Conditions stable. Ph good. Buds starting to pack on weight. Overdrive seems to have given her the boost she needed.
At end of week trichome check.
Home stretch. So far so good.
Any suggestions on next diary?
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Purple Star Killer
Skunk #1
LSD
Leave me a comment of your pick.
Happy Growing!!!
D 90. D62F. Conditions stable. Ph good. Packing on weight now. Should be close to the end soon. Will check trichomes at start of week 14. Looked at a piece of sugar leaf. Just starting to cloud up. Little to no amber yet. Really danky smell now.
D 91. D63F. Conditions stable and ph good.
D 92. D64F. Conditions stable.Things look good. Most trichomes are milky. Some amber. But not much. Flush has begun. About a week to go.
D 93. D65F. Conditions stable. Humidity lowered. Flush. So far so good. Sorry about blurry pic, camera stand is on its way. I had a few good looks through microscope. Too sensitive to any movement.
D 94. D66F. Conditions stable. Ph good.
D 95. D67F. Conditions stable. Plant is looking beautiful, not huge nugs but really dense and stinky.
D 96. D68F. Conditions stable, ph good. Flush is going well. Buds are dense and caked in crystal. Can't wait to see final result.
D 97. D69F. Conditions a little on the warm side. But humidity is stable at 40%. Air conditioner definitely needed for the summer. Thank god we close to the end. Buds are just caked now looks and smells wonderful.
Blurry pics from lights being on. Will have more when dark period starts.
2 days of darkness starts D 98. D70F.
D 98. D70F. Day of darkness.
Looks wonderful. Just bursting with crystal. Couple days of darkness and she should be done. The end is so close I can almost taste it.
D 99. D71F. Day of darkness. Conditions stable.
D 100. D72F. 48 hours of darkness ends. Time for the chop today. Rh 50%
D 101. Cut and drying. Some nice buds from her, will update new photos during trim. RH 50%
D 102. Drying. Rh 50%
D 103. Drying. RH 60%
D 104. Drying. RH 60%
D 105. Trim and cure in jars.
I am definitely going to make some changes to the nutrient lineup.
The grow went very well. Healthy big plant. There was no signs of deficiencies or pests. Very resilient to all conditions. Only problem was the yield, for such a big plant it didn't yield what it definitely should have. It had problems holding any type of weight, even the fan leaves weighed it down to the point of breaking. Even any super cropped spots never recovered. Will be adding a silica to the next grow. I took clones of her so I'll see what happens with the next grow.
@Smokeys_Garden, Oh for sure.. Silica is the number 1 thing that most nutrients do not have for Hydro growers.. Notice how I don't really feed Silica? I think I add it about 3 or 4 times.. Be careful with what you add something I would never tell you around the store is almost always never use what any nutrient company recommends on the bottle. 1/2 what they recommend and for things like Silica supplements you have to use very sparingly.. The added structure may be give way anyway under high mass conditions so if you support from the get go. The need for silica is marginal. The end goal is healthy clean smoke.... Chemicals doesn't mean harsh or bad, considerations need to be made is all.
@DeadwebsiteBoringcommunity, I'm trying to get away from AN. I over bought so I am trying to get rid of what I have left. I've tried Remo on my outdoor grow, they seem to be loving it. I've started to incorporate that brand into my indoor grow. The structural stability was due to lack of sufficient amounts of silica. This round they seem a lot more stable.
@Smokeys_Garden, I'd love to see you using less Advanced Nutrients that's for sure.. Structural Stability.... Is a problem even for experienced growers :). Mitigation through plant support seems to be the best course of action.
@Garreweedlover, thanks. Explosive growth in hydro. Plant doubled if not tripled in height. Ya they look like dense buds already. Thanks for checking out my diary.
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