GG auto first closet grow

zirpp Started with a viparspectra 150 for the first few days, as i have heat problems with the viparspectra 300. I been using viparspectre 300 in the day time with the closet open, and the viparspectre 150 at night with the closet door closed (because of heat). I have a spider farmer sf-1000, hopefully it will cause less heat. Also need to do something for better air intake in the closet. I also have a new humidifier on the way, as the cheap ones from amazon got bad quite fast running all the time. I will also be able to control the new one from a raspberry pi, making the environment more stable For other future improvements to the grow: Bought an 11 liter pot to transplant to when it arrives, as 5 liters might be too small. Recieved sf-1000 light at day 5

zirpp I repottet the plant from 5 to 11 liters at day 8. I tried to provide as little stress as possible, by cutting out the bottom of the 5 liter pot, placing it in the 11 liters and then filliung up with earth. Once it were stable, i removed the rest of the 5 liter pot. Sadly i did not have enough coco, so about 30% of the mix is organic soil. I also changed the light hours to accommodate heat. Experienced underwatering on day 12, so i fed 1 liter of nutrient solution and then fed ph 6 water till it came out the bottom of the pot. Upped watering from day 13 to one 0.33 ml nute feeding in the morning, and a 0.33 ml ph water in the evening

zirpp This week will focus on water. It turns out to be more thirsty than I can keep up with, so I will hook up more pumps to the PI and do automatik watering. On day 13 i checked run off PH, and saw it at 7.4. I then flushed with ph 5.7 water till i saw a ph of 6.4 (about 3-4 liters) and then fed a liter of nutrient solution, and checked run off to be same EC as the solution. Lets see how it goes :)

zirpp This week will be all about training the plant into shape before flowering. I've been training over the last couple of days, it seems like the plant responds very well. I am seeing pistols, i will keep my nutrient solution the same, and wait another week before ramping up the bloom. Saw runoff at ph: 6.5 and EC: 1.9 As the plant seem to thrive i will not flush but i have a slightly lower ph feeding water this week. Will keep the nutrients the same as last week.

zirpp Started out checking run off at 6.8 ph and 2.3 ec, so flushed with 5 liters of ph water, and gave nutrient solution. Run off ended up with 1.25 ec, and 6.2 ph. I switched the solution to be bloom dominant, and added GH bloom to stimulate bud growth, as I like to help kick the plant into bud making mindset

zirpp The plant is now root bound, I see roots coming out of the top coco layer, and roots in the drip tray. I have gradually changed the water from over the last week, starting with the stats last week and now I landed on the stats posted for this week. The plant is now more or less at its maximum width, and it is happily producing buds. Now I will just wait it out, continuing to removes leaves to expose budsites Update: The plant is doing okay, but it does look like there are some nutrient issues (long thin leaves , bended tips) I have read up on NPK a bit and have settled on going from a bloom dominant feed to a micro dominant feed. I am now running the ratio suggested by royal queen seeds (https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/content/46-the-blooming-phase#tres) at 3,22-1,69

zirpp Everything is going well, I noticed the rear of the tent is alot higher than the front, so I rotated the plant and skewed the light.. It will be interesting to see if that has an effect on the lower bud sites

zirpp The plant was starving a bit, so I doubled the nutrients some time last week,after noticing yellow leaves at the bottom. After that leaves has turned dark green in color, and the buds are fattening. I will keep an eye out for crystals forming so I can start taking microscope pictures of the progression of those as well

zirpp I removed a lot of leaves as i saw some condensed water trapped between layers. It seems to be going good, and i do not plan anything special, but hope to see some trichomes this week :)

zirpp The plant is fattening up nicely, and beginning to show lots of crystals. Stretching seem to have stopped so I guess I have a bit 2 weeks to go

zirpp I believe I am closing in on the harvest window. I think I will have to follow the thricomes from a microscope from now on

zirpp Started using ripen in this week. Have pictures but i have forgotten to update theese weeks

zirpp Again, i forgot to update this one.

zirpp Only pictures from one day, as i weretn home this week :)

zirpp Will give last nutrient feed friday, and then start flushing sunday. I expect to harvest by next weekend, maybe thursday.