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Critical Auto germinated sucessfully.
Auto Marmalaide (free seed) didnt germinate. still trying.
running 2x18watt CFL, will add 150watt dual cfl and some more cfl like the ones using now.
still waiting on some biobizz light soil mix, biobizz try pack indoor, pH water test kit, and some fans for circulation and air renewal.
first grow ever, all help appreciated!
stay blazed
First grow, so still learning.
Should have started out with 11lt pots, and the big 150watt CFL was only added mid week 2.
Still have no extraction or intraction, just a big fan, and grow door a bit open on the underside.
The bigger Critical has begun flowering, I suppose, because of smell and little buds.
Very happy, except for some FUNGS GNATS, because I started with bad soil and previously infested, on week 1
Started out on very small pots, and infested soil.
I noticed some very small flies, that looked like mosquito's. Learned now it's Fungus Gnats. They have been eating and making some tears on leafs.
Have changed to bio bizz light mix soil. Any homemade recipe to help?
for fungus gnats actually the solution is very simple : they need moisture to keep their eggs safe, so as long as you stop overwatering then they will just basically disappear within a few days. You can see the symptoms of overwatering like the puffy space between the veins of the leafs and the downward curling tips . the main thing is to respect a very strict wet dry cycle, just leave it one more day than you usually would or even more if necessary. diatomaceous earth works well, but my favorite remedy for any type insect is actually biological : use bacilus thuriengiensis , this bacteria doesnt harm the plants at all but it will parasite the eggs, larvae and even go into the brains of the flying insects... after you add it you'll start seeing the flying ones behave in wierd ways when they fly and in like 10 days everything will be gone. Hope this helps ! 🚀
I had the very same problem a few weeks ago. I bought yellow sticky pads from amazon and placed them on the sides of the tent which catches all the flying ones. Problem is they lay eggs very quickly on top of moist soil. To kill the eggs i recommend you buy neem oil and do a soil flush when watering the plants. This kills the larvae and stops them reproducing. Also try to only water when needed and let the soil really dry out between waterings as they can only thrive in moist conditions. A combination of yellow sticky pads and neem oil wil get rid of them. The neem oil also protects the roots. Also mix neem oil and water to spray bottle and do a foliar spray as it protects the leaves from being eaten. Hope this helps. Good luck 👍
Critical n1 getting fatter by the day.
Added 2 LED globes for a total of 40watts combined.
Critical n2 on veg, its 10days or so younger.
Not growing as fast as I think it should.
I have 11liter pots, but for some stupid reason I only put 8 or 9 liters of soil on each one. Soil has sunk a bit on each pot.
Almost at the end. Don't have photos of the last days of this week. Buds getting fatter on critical n1. Last feed was this week. Flushing already end of week, and start of next week.
Critical n2 also going good, Lst was much better on this one. I think it's going to yield more
CFL GROW AND 40WATT LED
Both plants, at end of last week and start of this week, suffered from NO WATER, . Was gone for 5 days. Leafs were all down when I got there. Maybe 48hours off the regular water schedule
Very fast strain for sure. I'm a first time grower.
N1 ready for harvest. 3 days full darkness. Will take a bud today, and test it. Going for drying today
N2 maybe more 8 or 15 days, I guess.
Lst was better done on this one, most probably gng to yield more.
N2 sprouted on April 13th, N1 on April 6th, so it took only 2months from sprout to harvest.
keeping in darkness while slightly augment TCHa highly reduce terpene in return
https://youtu.be/C-Ns7j0WIJM?t=343 <= darkness before harvest with lab result
I think you still have about 2 weeks left before harvest. Don't worry about leaving her to dry too much, it really doesn't matter. More important to give her the flowering time she deserves and harvest later rather than sooner. 🌱👍
keep it in the dark any longer it'll die and rot on your branches.
judge your trichomes, get some picture references from google image and various forums.. or here too! Maybe it's my eyes, but that doesn't seem to be quite enough magnification.. maybe if you get up close with your eye it works better?
anyway, darkness is only important relative to preventing photosynthesis leading up to harvest. If it "seems" to help development at top of canopy, then it is more likely your lights are too hot -- either heat or photons, both are energy that can do this. you are likely evaporating trichomes off the top.
if doing it just because you read it somewhere, i'd tone it down at the least, if you want to continue doing it. 36 hours is about as long as it takes.
the theory behind the harvest thing is that it prevents biological processes related to photosynthesis.. Catabolistic processes take place (may have made up a word there! BWAHAH) like breaking things down to be used in sugar, then anabolic process like building molecues for internal development take place. supposedly this is bad for taste.
i do it just in case, because all i have to do is harvest in morning to accomplish the goal.. no big deal. starving the plant of light for 2 or 3 days isn't a net positive in any context i can thinkoff of the top of my head, unelss you burned off triches, which doens't look to be the case, fwiw. i speak mostly in generalizations, because there's all sorts of data missing when answering questions - no fault to anyone invovled.
sccma
