So the story starts... this grow is really an experiment for me to train one plant within my 4'x2' grow space to ScrOG vertically and use the SP250 light on its side. I'd like to gain experience with how bud development changes/reacts to a vertically focused setup and to specifically improve my LST techniques. My plan is to only apply LST to grow the main stem horizontally with all node branches growing vertically. I may be forced to prune but hoping to completely avoid any pruning/defoliation during this grow. For the majority of the vegetative stage the light will be hung normally above the plant until a week prior to flipping the light schedule and initiating flowering.
Germination:
Soaked one seed overnight (14hrs) within the boiler area of the house for warmth.
Seed was then placed between moistened paper towel sheets on a plate and placed in a warm dark place. Covered with another plate and being monitored for moisture and humidity.
Sprouted root on the seed the next morning.
The seed was put into 3.5L pots with Coco the following day (ideally I need to start with a smaller intermediate pot). The medium was not buffered (as it is pre-buffered by Canna) and watered using cooler room temp water from the tap. The pot was moved into the grow space/tent. Setup a propagator style cover with freezer trays to increase the humidity and maintaining it just above 60%.
Fertigation started the day after the cotyledons opened. Fertigation is maintained to once a day at lights on. Light on period is during the night time to better maintain heat/humidity conditions during light off period (which happens during daytime).
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The grow setup includes;
- Secret Jardin DS120W tent (120cm x 60cm x 180cm) placed inside the bedroom. Passive or active intake of air is from a closed off section of the room where the central heating boiler sits - the intake is warm air (20 degC.) and fairly dry (40% RH) used during the winter months.
- Mars Hydro SP250 LED light
- extraction fan - AC Infinity Cloudline T6 (gives me great control over the environment)
- ventilation fans
- aquarium heater for nutrients solution
- small oil heater (for winter use only)
- small dehumidifier
- 20L Airpots and 3.5L general pots for seedling stage
- Canna Coco substrate mixed with 40% perlite
- GHE Flora trio nutrients
- pH and EC/TDS meters
- 2x Govee Thermo/Hygro meters (one at canopy the other at the roots level)
@HazeyBobby, If you have the space, fill that bugger up! Haha. Can't hurt. And Hell yah. Fan stems the size of your pinky looks awesome. Great health and vigor when I see these things. Word up fella๐
@JinksyGrows, cheers mate ... some of the bigger fan leaves have stems like branches ๐ can't even use my fingers to pinch off :) I think I like growing bigger plants :)
@HazeyBobby, @Mrs_Larimar Hard yes, I really hope you enter this beauty!!! Holy smokes man! DOTM is Diary of the Month๐ (But hey, just not this month cause I'm in it, K?๐ ๐ )
@GanjaTorturer, I use the Coco for Cannabis site as a good scientific and practical reference, and it has a great feed schedule with lots of info - well worth reading through the articles on the site. Best information I have come across to date online.
@HazeyBobby, I am sure to steal...I mean try this tech for my next grow ๐
I noticed your EC and that your nute cocktail has it all, higher level cannabis knowledge in action โ
@HazeyBobby, I'm in the lucky position that every one in my apartment building knows me and they don't call the cops even though there from time to time smells all over ๐
@BlackOpsGrow, cheers mate - harvesting and trimming inside the tent made it the most relaxed harvest yet for me. I've had a few harvests in winter where I was sure the whole building would be smelling weed, and with a summer harvest (open windows everywhere) I couldn't risk it ๐
@Mrs_Larimar, yes I agree about the light distance... next grow I will dim the light for the first few weeks as you suggested a few weeks back - there's a lot of heat and light waste during those first few weeks. The short internodes makes it harder to do LST and even watering :)
@HazeyBobby, Well if you ask me, i would say its the distance to the Light.. you got some reel powerful light here. But i have to admit that the Og Kush grows extrm strong. I had her Outdoors and it was a very strong Plant with bigass leaves and very sturdy leaves and branches
@Mrs_Larimar, yep... crazy short internodes & big leaves. I'll just let her grow under the ScrOG net and see if it flowers as much as it grows :)
My last grow took 6 weeks to reach this stage ๐. I think I need to give it a higher EC feed as the run-off is getting very low in EC.
@@JP148, cheers - it grew fast and strong ... I couldn't really keep up with spreading every branch out nicely, I'm sure to see many crossed branches as I start harvesting ๐
@Experimentgreen, thanks and yep there a Tropicanna Banana growing outdoors - I have big plans for that one on the balcony :) I'll start a diary for it when growth is substantial - SO much slower outdoors in soil :)
@@@@@SNoWfLaKe420, at the end of the day it comes down to what works for you. I've really enjoyed growing with the Airpots - predominantly because they are very easy to handle, to clean, transplant (as you unroll the pot open), allow me to anchor hooks in the air-holes with LST, air pruning of roots and allow for high frequency fertigation. I have a problem with over-nurturing (over-watering) plants in regular pots. I have a plastic tray the pot sits in and I know the roots at the bottom will never reach the tray (as they are air pruned 5cm from the bottom of the pot). I'm also using fabric pots and like them other than the muddy mess you can end up with at times. I tried airpots since I liked the idea of more air circulating around the medium. Have a look at the harvest photos of last grow diary 'Time for a Strawberry Lemonade' or 'In need of a critical cure (CBD)' to see what the roots look like at the end of a grow.
Last note :) - using the 20L airpots, I found it hard to find any normal pot trays that fit under it and had to use a tray made for office work.
@@SNoWfLaKe420, Iam using both Types of Pots. Both are great.
For outdoors and automatic grows i take the Smartpots.. Smartpots keep the humidity very well inside. and are comfprtable to move and handle.
But if you have a problem with overwatering its a mess-
Airpots iam using for my Photoperiod Plants- Because its so easy to transplant, without hurting the Roots
But if you are in impatient person in watering ... i wont recommend them. You may use the wateringsystem from the company, or watering often ( daily) not to dry out the plant. and its good to have buckets under the pots.
But in total it totally depends in you wich you prefer
@GanjaTorturer, thanks heaps! I wasn't expecting this much but the buds just weight a lot. And there was over 70g of larf/trim which I'll extract into hash oil ๐ very happy :)