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2009
5 years ago
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Week 1. Vegetation
5 years ago
18 hrs
50 %
11 L
91.44 cm
19/4 2 are pushing through and one needed a little more time to germinate it was very slow but all are the same strain. We will mark this as day 1. 21/4 the two sprouts have gone well, one is yet to be seen so I'm having doubts unfortunately. I really wanted to get 3 going but that may not be possible. I'll apply more water to it today and see if she manages to push through. 25/4 Gave them a spray with the spray bottle and they're coming along nicely. Week 2 tomorrow
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Week 2. Vegetation
5 years ago
2 cm
18 hrs
50 %
11 L
91.44 cm
27/4 Used a spray bottle to water them and started introducing nutrients to them through the means of a spray bottle at 1/4 strength. First time introducing nutrients to seedlings but have been told to give it ago as soon as week 1 so this counts as 1 week from sprouting. 29/4 Gave her a light spray with the same nutient solution as above 30/4 Gave her a bit more water to hopefully last a little longer and hoping for a take off soon. 2/5 is the next week
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Week 3. Vegetation
5 years ago
5.08 cm
18 hrs
6
50 %
3 L
0 L
60.96 cm
2/5 I know they're only seedlings but I feel this is going to be a very slow growth compared to the blue cheese clone, starting up week 1 nutes at full strength tomorrow, I have been feeding them at what I believe to be a 1/4 strength nutrient mix I may have messed up a little when I did it I was tired so it may even be 1/2 strength however it's been a week and I think it's time for full strength nutrients tomorrow however I am hesitant because they're seedlings though this is my experimental run. 3/5 Full strength nutes tonight and will wait and see how it all goes. 4/5 New leaves have developed so I gave her some more feed 8/5 started week 2s nutrients because she needed a feed and it's close enough anyways. 9/5 starting week 2 of feed if they last through the next mixture.
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Week 4. Vegetation
5 years ago
12.7 cm
18 hrs
6
50 %
3 L
1 L
60.96 cm
9/5 just gave them some feed from week 2. 11/5 Giving another feed. 13/5 Assessed coco coir and will water tomorrow. I have started doing some lst and will see how I go for yield with this lot and wether it's worth doing clones or doing seeds because I prefer autos as they grow themselves. 14/5 Gave them some week 2 nutes and this time used 2 ltrs on both, fingers crossed itl make some difference. 15/5 Gave them new pots, 18ltr pots will help with my lst and I'll feed week 3 now to help them. 16/5 is week 3
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Week 5. Vegetation
5 years ago
12.7 cm
18 hrs
6
50 %
3 L
1 L
60.96 cm
16/5 Just fed yesterday 15/5 with week 3 feed, they're very small for week 3s. 18/5 Gave them a feed and left back under the lights. 21/5 Just did a bit more lst and left the smaller one to for, so far it's worked out just fine and the smaller ones now the taller one. 22/5 Gave them a feed and added a new led into the same timer with an adapter so it should keep to the same light cycle. Both are developing very well I think I might just keep slight lst and possibly super crop the main stem when it gets too tall and keep it level with the rest. 23/5 is week 4 and lights will be changed to 12/12 because the other ones going into flower.
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Week 6. Vegetation
5 years ago
12.7 cm
18 hrs
6
50 %
3 L
1 L
60.96 cm
Week 4 started the 23rd Just fed them over the week. 27/5 Gave them a feed. 30/5 Will feed week 5 nutes on the 30th
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Week 7. Vegetation
5 years ago
12.7 cm
18 hrs
6
50 %
3 L
1 L
60.96 cm
30/5 Gave them the same nutes for one last day and small amounts of defoliating, it's important to note I kept it on this feeding week for 2 weeks to help stimulate growth as my expectations are the autos will take a bit longer like the last ones I did. 1/6 These two autos are rather small, hopefully they will stretch since they're about to be out into flower nutes. 3/6 Will feed new week 5 nutes. I'm a bit late but oen feed should be fine. They're both now flowering? Hope they stretch 6/6 will feed week 6 nutes till the 14th
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Week 8. Flowering
5 years ago
50 cm
18 hrs
6
50 %
3 L
1 L
60.96 cm
6/6 Just gave them both some feed, one is starting to flower which seems about the right amount of time but the other hasn't so I'm just giving her flowering nutes and keeping them in sync. I'm hoping they just bounce like my NYC diesel auto did during flowering. Once the cheese clone is out of the way then I'll have way more room although I feel they might be very close to each other, maybe I left the clone going for too long? It's my first time with photos so this is a learning curve. 9/6 Had a look at them and they're still good, I'd like to out them under my other light but the cheese is taking all of that up. 12/6 The inspection didn't go as planned my real estate found a leaf in the back yard so I moved everything off the property incase they do a random inspection so for now it's set up elsewhere to the heat dies down, she got a bit damaged in the process but should bounce back just fine I'll finish the grow but it's a 40 min drive to feed them every 3 days. 13/6 is the new week
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Week 9. Flowering
5 years ago
50 cm
18 hrs
6
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3 L
2 L
40 cm
14/6 Defoliated and gave new nutes for the week. 17/6 Gave her some food and trimmed a few leaves. Added a dehumidifier and I'm trying to keep it around 40/50%. 20/6 Gave her a feed on the same nutes I will come back in a couple days to change nutes over. Next week is on the 21/6
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Week 10. Flowering
5 years ago
60 cm
18 hrs
6
Normal
50 %
3 L
2 L
40 cm
22/6 Gave them a feed and a slight defoliation. 25/6 Fed the girls and they're starting to show their buds which is fantastic. I hope they fatten up a bit more but considering they have been under a lower watt led whilst the cheese grew ginormous they're probs just in need of more light which is coming soon. New week starts on the 29th
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Week 11. Flowering
5 years ago
60 cm
12 hrs
6
Normal
50 %
18 L
2 L
40 cm
28/6 Gave a feed of nutes to the girls, I was worried about one of them as a major branch snapped last week, I put take over it and it seems to be healed I just can't do anymore lst to that plant. I'm not expecting a huge yield off these two as my blue cheese clone took majority of the light. 1/7 Gave them a feed and accidentally snapped a couple branches, I just secured them and glues them back on. 3/7 Gave them a feed today and I'm thinking of reducing the amount I feed them to reduce the run off, might start doing 3 ltrs each instead of the 4 at least till they get a bit bigger.
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Week 12. Flowering
5 years ago
60 cm
18 hrs
6
Normal
45 %
18 L
2 L
65 cm
6/7 Gave them a feed. Harvested my cheese clone. 8/7 Gave the girls a feed and a few of the other ones. Light defoliating now they're no longer fighting for the light, I'm hoping the buds will fatten up as there's next to nothing on them. I was hoping they would be done in a week or 3 but I'll have to wait and see now. 11/7 Gave them a feed and defoliated a little, they're coming along good and I can't wait to see the end result. Week 11 feed chart starts on the 13th
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Week 13. Flowering
5 years ago
60 cm
18 hrs
6
Normal
45 %
18 L
2 L
65 cm
13/7 Just fed them and slight defoliating. They have gotten a bit fatter which is great and I'll keep feeding them till 14 weeks and harvest them without the flush as I don't think it does anything imo. 15/7 Gave them a feed and set up my new girls in the same tent. 18/7 Gave them a feed and left alone.
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Week 14. Flowering
5 years ago
60 cm
18 hrs
6
Normal
45 %
18 L
2 L
65 cm
20/7 Gave her a feed as it's the last week on the feed chart. 22/7 Had to move them back to mine and thankfully nothing got damaged. The leaves have started to go purple in places so Im getting calmag for the last week. Not sure why this has happened maybe my pH pen was out. 23/7 Gave them a feed however the inner buds are still coated with white hairs so I'll have to leave for another week. As for the possible calmag issue iv added humibooster again and I'll monitor. 24/7 Okay so found out there was a major issue it's not a calmag issue my plants have been locked out. For those who don't know it's when there's an excess salt build up and it's easy to do if your experimenting like I was for instance I dropped from 8 ltrs of feed to 6 ltrs between the two plants to reduce run off as I was having a LTR + go into the drain tray each feed and then I'd have to empty it and it got very repetitive so I dropped the nutes to 6 ltrs not realizing I reduced my run off and I had salts build up over a week and then the next feed I bumped back to 8 ltrs but the salt content was too great and has locked my plant out of feed it needs. So what do I do? I either I have to flush my plant for 1 week then feed for 1 then flush again or I flush for 2 and then harvest and considering it's an auto flower it's not worth running another 3 weeks as I have another 3 going ATM so I could use the space. 25/7 Gave her another flush and got ps down to 600ish with water. 26/7 Gave them a feed as I can see deficiency is spreading so I put her back on full strength nutrients and I'll monitor for another week and see how she goes. Ppms were coming out around 800 and pH was slightly higher, not sure if it was because of water left over from yesterday in the drain tray but I'll leave it for now, less is better with these plants.
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Week 14. Harvest
5 years ago
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Royal Gorilla Automatic - Royal Queen Seeds
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Grow went well I had trouble from the start though, 2/5 beans worked and of those two they weren't very quick growers I mean my NYC diesel auto grew faster and was stunted for 4 weeks. Pretty good in terms of actual problems, the branches weren't very thick and snapped quite easy by accident. Overall I won't be doing this one again unless RQS wanna chuck me a couple beans to repair the relationship here, could be bad seeds but the vendor is out of stock and I don't think is restocking. I have only got enough room to harvest 1 plant, the other will be flushed for a couple days till the first half is dry enough to start curing. Plant 1: 4 ounces Plant 2:
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