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Hello everyone and welcome to my very first grow and of course my first growdiaries.
I'm really excited to be doing this in conjunction with Green House seeds Co and Growdiaries for this wonderful opportunity and competition.
I will be growing one of there newest strains bring old school to modern westcost USA - bubba slush (pre 98 bubba kush x gelato)
Of course the nutrients i will be using will be Green House powder feeding BoiGrow, BioBloom and Enhancer
The medium I'm using is a mix of 5 parts of potting compost 1 part of high quality top soil and two parts perlite. I also mixed in BoiGrow to the soil at a mix of 3g per 1 liter of soil. I may have to add more on week five to eight as I'm growing outside and it will take longer then eight weeks for the longest day of the year to come around and kick start the flowering. I wiil just have to see and adjust as I we go along.
To germinate the seed I left it in a small cup mix of water and enhancer 0.5g-1L for 12 hours and then placed it into a paper towel with the same solution for another 24-36 hours. By now the tap root was three times longer then the seed so I popped it into the soil and lightly misted with water.
Less than 72 hours it had popped its head above soil and within the next 24 it dropped its seed husk.
Week one down and going really well. I'm really excited to be involved in this competition.. This strain! this type of feeding and definitely keeping it simple.. JUST ADD WATER..
Stay safe everyone
Hello Everyone
This week went smoothly
I increased the water amount as necessary and everything seems to be going fine.
Two days ago over night a small yellowish area on one leaf appeared. (visible in photo)
I'm unsure of what this is, iv been researching as much as I can to find out what it's from and to be honest I'm still unsure. It's really small and hard to diagnose at this stage.
It has not spread at all since iv first noticed it and the plant is growing the same amount each day since.
Hopefully this is nothing to serious and I will figure it out. I'm really enjoying this and learning loads
Hello Everyone and welcome to week 3
This week has not been the best weather wise. The temperatures stayed in a mild range so didn't get two cold but was overcast most of the week with high winds for over 24 hours, so not the best growing conditions. This is all part of growing outside.
Due to this the feeding stayed in the same area as last week but I did give it its first feed today of Green House Seeds Enhancer with a mix of 0.5g/1Lt of water a gave it 300ml. This seamed to be a reasonable amount for the 7.5Lt pot and size of the plant.
Obviously there was no run off.
Beside the weather this week everything is going well, plant is healthy with a lovely color.
Thank you again Green House Seeds for this opportunity and for everyone else for checking out my grow...
Hello Everyone and welcome to week four of my Bubbaslush by Green House Seeds
This week everything went well with wonderful weather the whole week.
Watering quantity has been increased and everything looks healthy.
Now what I'm trying to figure out is what type or style of growing I will do with this. I will almost certainly do LST but wether to top or mainline I'm unsure. With the growth so far mainlining probably is not the best but iv seven weeks of veg left so that could change over the next few weeks.
Any input or suggestions are welcome.
Only problem was I lost my mid-week pictures and a grasshopper had a visit but didn't do any damage.
So all is well..
Thanks for checking out my grow..
Please help!
Iv just returned home from three days in hospital and this has happened to my plant. The soil did not get two dry or to hot. I don't know what is happening. Its only present on the third node both sides
Hello Everyone and welcome to week five of my Bubbaslush by Green House Seeds
Right where to start...
I took on this opportunity, project and competition because last year I became really quite sick. Iv been in and out of hospital continuously, passed from specialist to specialist with still no end in sight. I suffer from a few problems but over all I live with chronic pain and panic attacks. I have been prescribed all sorts which honestly is devastating and add to my problems.
I have taken a stand to not take any of these drugs as being terribly sick isn't enough but to become a victim to opioids and antidepressants is what I need. All I want is to get back to my life and live it.
I took this on because its less dangerous and still being not to kosher it starts and ends with me.
All said this week I was in hospital for three days and when I came home excited to see how the plants were doing and this one is now sick. It definitely hit harder after getting bad news already. All I can say it it didn't get to hot or soil didn't dry out while I was away.
I posted my first growers question showing the problem on last week's diary.
A kind grower named Fruitgrower responded saying it could be nutrient water splash or lacking calcium. I don't spray so it would have to be needing calcium if this is correct. I have fed it a small quantity of Canna calmag agent to see if it responds well. I hope this this helps and she pulls threw as its given me something pleasant to focus on and look forward to.
Whoever ends up reading this if your healthy and able to move, please go doing something you want to and truely enjoy yourself
Thanks again everyone
Hello Everyone and welcome to week six of my Bubbaslush by Green House Seeds
I'm happy to say that whatever was causing this one problems seamed to have stopped and the new growth is looking healthy. Sadly its not the prettiest right now over the damage but I'm sure it will look great again in no time. The worst thing about this is not knowing what happened.
I have also started LST on this and it has respond well. The timing is also good as there's a few node's and the side branching is starting to grow.
This is the first time I've tried LST and my approach is to try and twist the stalk before bending to try and put the lateral fibers in a more flexible construct like rope. I repeat this process up the plant to try and get each node flat. I don't know if this is the way others do it but I believe that it will help not crack or split the plant while growing.
The weather was not the best so feeding was not increased over last and was just given plain water.
Thanks again for checking out my Growdiarie
Hello Everyone and and welcome to week Seven of my Bubbaslush by Green House Seeds
This week has been terrible on all growdiaries.
Every one has displayed a deficiency or some sort of problem. I unable to figure out what it is or what I should do as the nutrients should and are present in the soil, so all I can do is monitor and water..
I don't know if its me or if its the nutrients I'm using are two strong. I can't do anything about it now so it's alot of time and effort lost with no understanding to what and why
I'm considering ending all grows as this added stress on top of my bad health is the opposite of why I started to do this.
Hello Everyone and welcome to week eight of my Bubbaslush by Green House Seeds
This week has been better than the last one. Growth is back and its looking alot more healthy.
I am considering giving this some more Green House feeding BioGrow but only 1g mixed into topsoil and watering threw. I gave it 3g/Lt at the start but as you can see it got sick.
I'm unsure if it was over feed or another type of deficiency like calcium but I don't use RO water and its in soil so it shouldn't be that but it did look like it, I'm really unsure and wish I knew.
I have also removed the bottom damaged leaves but well after the damage stopped. I done this to try and encourage bottom shoots to stretch and to make new healthy leafs and flower sights before flowering starts.
New hight is highest point from soil not main stem length
I hope that what I'm doing is helping so I'll just have to see.
Thanks again for checking out my Growdiarie
Hello Everyone and welcome to week nine of my Bubbaslush by Green House Seeds
I'm unsure still of what is wrong with this and I really wish I knew. Iv been into a few grow/hydro shops going over what's happening, crunching the numbers and still come up with a miss..
It has been said a couple of times by different shops that could it just be a bad seed? Now I know that there can be some variation from plant to plant but I didn't know that there can just been ones prone to problems or sensitive.
I really should have popped more then one seed when I started this if I knew, I only done one for space and two so I can do more later indoors maybe if all goes well.
I know this is not a competition winner but its definitely a insight to some of the reality of growing
I guess I'll just have to wait until next year to try and get it right and better
Thanks for checking out my Growdiarie
Hello Everyone and welcome to week ten of my Bubbaslush by Green House Seeds
The uphill struggle continues. It isn't looking good at all and the water quality is looking right where it should be so I don't know..
Should I kill it and be done with it?
I have re-potted it into a 14.5 Lt pot with goid quality soil and perlite at 20-25% which I hope it gets it back on track before it preflowers.
If I had any idea that this could have happened I would have started two more at the beginning to increase the odds of success.
What makes it worse is everyone else with this seed seems to be doing really well and even gorilla growing plant and forget is way more successful so what is wrong with this?.. Is it something I've done
All help and imput is appreciated and once again thanks for checking out my Growdiarie
Hello Everyone and welcome to week eleven of my Bubbaslush by Green House Seeds
The fucking cat strikes again!!
This week has been terrible on this one. The cat again distroyed another one but strange enough it's still alive! The last two were alot younger so couldn't hold there ground but this one is still going.
LST was redone after the attack and the defoliation was not planed obviously.
It's a complete joke of a grow now with every step of the way going wrong and to be honest I'm truly sick of it.
I started the project to relieve stress and have something to look forward to and it has done the exact opposite from week four onwards.
I'm sorry this hasn't been more enjoyable to follow along
Thanks again for checking out my Growdiarie
Hello Everyone and welcome to week twelve of my Bubbaslush by Green House Seeds
This week i have given it some Green House feeding Enhancer at 0.5g/Lt and gave it 1lt. The new growth has burnt tips, this was there before I gave Enhancer. I don't know if its from stress or what but the run off is between 6-7ph.
I can't do much else but it has started to grow again. Not much else to say but I wish this damage didn't happen in the first place.
Thanks for checking out my Growdiarie
Hello Everyone and welcome to week 13 of my Bubbaslush by Green House Seeds
Everything is much the same and not looking good. It hasn't started to grow much yet so I'm afraid that if it doesn't so good improvement over the next week I will be ending it.
I would like to thank Green House Seeds for this opportunity but it hasn't worked out for me.
From growing problems from week four to a cat almost killing it there's not much point in trying to keep going. It's not doing well anyway and so far from a winning grow.
Sorry this hasn't been more enjoyable to follow along
Thanks anyway for checking out my Growdiarie
Update: 11/08/2020
The plant is dead.. It wasn't doing well at all, the leafs started to crisp up again and was a real light color of green. I couldn't keep it up to see what happens so I gave it the chop and dumped it in the compost heap.
Growing outside this year has been very hard for me with half of my plants has failed by been stunted due to weather and the cat killing some.
I would like to thank Green House Seeds for the opportunity and I will try to grow this again with more success inside possibly and outside again next year.
Thank you to everyone along the way who help me out with sound advice but there were to many factors against me this time and others I could have improved on.
🌱🌿🍀🔥
@DaSofaSurfer, Hey man thanks for the input. I'm growing outside so I can't control the temperature but iv been bring then inside every night so there being kept at 15-17* at night time now and iv noticed a improvement already. But that doesn't seam to be the problem and now every one of mine is showing a problem or has had a bad hit of one and is in a bad way. Iv been on top of what I can control and I'm doing it to the book. The only thing I can't change or fix is the premixed nutrients in the soil so I don't know if its because of to much something or not enough.. I'm struggling man with my health and I was using this as an escape and something to look faward to but it's kicking me big time. Everything is showing a different problem and there all getting and are in the same stuff... Just water besides the premix. I don't know what to do
@Dupo_1, hello my friend. Could your problems be due to Vapor Pressure Deficit? I mean I just saw your night temps are down to 12° that's quite chilly bro. Even your day light temps could use a bump tbh. Try putting a small space heater on low setting. If might be just that simple, if it's not you won't lose anything apart from a couple bucks on your utility bill
make sure to monitor your thermal amplitude for first couple of days just to be safe and have peace of mind your temps are sound. I'm pretty sure u'll benefit greatly from extra 7 degrees on your max temp and 15 on your min temp.
I bet it's taking up little water and with little water comes little nutrients.
Best of luck, Jah bless brother.
Growbuddy, don't get disheartened, you seem to be getting back on track.👍
Others have offered sensible advice here, however, part of your problem could be choosing a pot size that is too small to feed a plant for an 8 week veg period. If using an organic feeding method (i.e. prepping the soil and then just watering) I would recommend using at least a 25 ltr (5-7 gallon) pot or bigger. I have used BioBizz All Mix Soil with a half dose of Green House Feeding BioGrow (about 30 grams in a 25 litre pot) without any defeciencies or issues. Looking at your photos , IF, PH issues can be ruled out (is your PH pen properly calibrated?), then it looks like a mobile deficiency mostly affecting the old growth at the bottom of the plant. Mobile deficiencies affect nitrogen, phosphorous. potassium, magnesium and molybdenum. A great many issues can be caused by incorrectly PH'd feeding solution which can create nutrient lock outs, which look like deficiencies, so you throw more whatever at it and make the problem even worse. Start with PH (check and calibrate your equipment); then look at potting up into a quality soil and see how things go.
Every grower has grows that go seriously FUBAR (your is not one of these!) and in many ways these are the times when we learn the most as growers. Every one of us comes out of a tricky grow, a better grower.
@Dupo_1,
That all sounds good 👍
Often it is better to 'reset' the growing conditions rather than to try and fix what can sometimes be complex problems. That is what you have done here and during veg (when you can get away with a lot) so hopefully you will be well set up for flower.
I would recommend 35 grams of GHF BioBloom mixed well in with your soil and then feed GHF Enhancer every two weeks along with a cal/mag supplement (half dose for cal/mag once a week).
Keep monitoring your run off - if it is between 6 and 7 (aim for 6.5) then you are good. The soil will also act as a natural buffer for PH but you should still ensure every thing you put into the soil/pot is properly PH'd.
Aim for 25 litre airpots or fabric pots for future grows which will help negate any deficiency issues. If you are growing outside choose white pots if you can as they reflect heat and keep the roots from getting too hot.
No thanks required, I needed a lot of help when I started (and often still do!) and the cannabis community has always been very generous to me.
@Interalia666, Thank you again for trying to help me out. I did as you suggested and re-potted into the 14.5lt pot with good quality soil with sufficient perlite.
I also checked ph in and it was 6.5 and ph out was 6.2. I have also ordered a new pH pen, up and down and calibration powder. I also checked the pH with paper just as a second opinion if my pen is way out. The water going in was between 6-7, stayed orange with a small green mark. I then made a little puddle in the topsoil, placed paper inside and watered with 6.5 and it didn't change at all. Then with the run off it was the same, didn't change color so this seems to be OK, between 6-7. I will cheack again once my new equipment arrives but hopefully I see significant improvement before then.
As for feeding iv left it alown for now and will give it some Enhancer next week and then some Green House feeding BioBloom once it starts preflowering at the dose you recommend.
Thank you again for taking the time to help me out, honestly it's really kind of you
@Dupo_1,
When I am trying to sort my own problems out, I always start with the simple basic things and then slowly build up from there. At its most basic we want our growing medium to be in perfect health which means enough macro and micro nutirents to sustain the plant coupled with a perfect PH level within the soil (test your run off). This provides your plant with enough primary sources of nourishment and managing your PH levels allow the plant to access those nutrients with ease.
Potting up to a 15 litre pot will immediately help your plant which will have double the substrate (use a good quality soil) to spread her toes.
Based on the fact that you mention that your days are shortening and you expect signs of flowering within the next three weeks; I would only use BioBloom (around 35 - 40 grams for 15 litres) well mixed in and just water at PH 6.5 at the moment. There should be enough nitrogen in the additional 7.5 litres of fresh soil that you are adding but watch your leaves for signs of yellowing. Always look at your new growth to check your progress. You can top dress with more BioBloom (1 gram per litre) at the third week of flower if you have a cultivar that requires a flowering period of longer than 8 weeks. Keep using 'Enhancer' every other week until flush. Raise your pot off the floor with a bit of wood which will help water drainage from the pot, airation of the roots and also insultate the roots from the cold floor a little. Almost all cannabis plants universally loathe the cold!
This may not fix your issues but it is the kind of approach that I would take as a preliminary step towards an eventual diagnosis.
Happy trails man. That strain is so beautiful to grow. Mine did it's 3rd week yesterday but since I started in rookwool it's considerably bigger than yours. It's incredible. I've never seen a prettier plant than the BubbaSlush. Yours looks happy and healthy. If you're like me who never grew this strain before.... prepare to fall in love with her
@DaSofaSurfer, Couldn't agree with you more. I'm hooked and ya your completely right I enjoy growing as much as enjoying the finished result.
Ya I'm doing as mush research as I can and I believe iv got a good understanding to the whole process. Before I decided to start this I did understand that the dry/curing process can make or brake your grow and iv experienced smoking great looking but bad smoke and not great looking and lovely smoke more then once.
I was going to do it by using a big box with two flaps cut into it, one top and bottom opposite side. String it up inside for hanging and have a desk fan on low a meter or so away from it blowing in the bottom flap and leave it in a dark neutral room for ten days. The room will saty around 15-17*c with a window slightly open during the day. And then jars in a dark spot with burping for how ever long it takes. Iv also got a small air temperature and humidity gauge that I can put in the box and jars to monitor. Hopefully this will be sufficient.
Thanks again for your input, I really appreciate it. I didn't know what to expect when starting on here but with the community being so open and helpful, this is one of the best decisions iv made in a good while.. Thanks again buddy
@Dupo_1, that's awesome Growmie. U found yourself a hobby that will give you a lifetime of pleasure. I promise you it will never get old.
You certainly landed a banger strain for your first grow. If you've done your homework you're gonna be fine. It's not rocket science and if you've got any problems or doubts there's plenty of good ppl here willing to help. myself included.
I'm gonna tell you my first three grows weren't the greatest but they were pretty good. I too had done my homework. I would call it Instagram weed tho great for taking pics but the smoke itself was like...meh
I was doing everything correctly but then I threw away all that time and effort by not monitoring my temp/humidity parameters when it came time to dry/cure.
Once I did tho. That's when I started to pull consistent dank. No better feeling. I still don't have an air conditioner or dehumidifier (kind of) but I found a way around it that works for me. That was my experience. You'll have yours.
Tbh I enjoy the path just as much as the destination. Growing gives me almost same joy as taking the medicine.best of luck and happy trails.
@@Resin_Randy, thank you man.. I know right iv had terrible luck with this almost right from the start. Up to week three was good then each week delivered a new problem, couldn't catch a break. I think now I should just kill it off because its just hard and frustrating to look at.. On another note yours look amazing!! If I had one tenth of what you've got going on I would be a very happy man. Keep it up
@BipolarHellas, thank you man it honestly means alot, even more that we don't know each other. Support from your fellow man, really thank you..
Update on the plant, the yellowing has spread to the next node so I don't know what to do. I'm thinking of flushing it and see if it helps but I just don't know. Sometimes I think of starting a new seed but then should I battle on with this and let that be part of learning and the journey
In order to fight the kitty... We must think like the kitty.. The kitty likes the green foliage that is all.. He likes to eat his veggies on occasion.. So I'd recommend getting Cat grass (grass lol). And putting a few pots of cat grass around your plants... The Cat will eat the grass first because he is lazy :).
Dupo_1
