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Just popped! Very excited about this grow. It is the first time I will try topping an auto as well!
Update: watered w nutes yesterday and today (day4) . Going well so far.
Week one done. Everything perfect so far.
Just transplanted. She is growing really nicely. Increased the base nutrients and added a bit of calmag since she was showing early signs of def. She will be topped at 5th node.
Update day 11: she already recovered from transplant and is growing well. She seems to have a slight calmag def. I am spraying 4x daily with sensi calmag xtra so well see. She also seems like she is a bit overwatered?
Day 14 update: she is growing well but got some calmag def. Upped tge dose today. Lets see
Just started week 3. Growing very fast, minimal maintenance. Should top in 3 days at node 5.
Update day 18: Calmag def is spreading. Maybe I will drop the Calmag xtra as I have read thay it can cause issues with the ph perfect.
Update day 19: calmag spread a bit more. Topped today for the first time (in autos)! She did not seem to care so all is good.
Dropped the calmag and upped the A and B, started today with double watering per day.
Update day 21: end of week 3. She is growing very fast and did not slow down at all with the topping. The lower branches are already growing and since ai topped at 5th node there are now 10 colas trying to reach the top. I am doing leaf tucking to get more light to the lower branches. Calmag still there but she seems yo be growing through it. All in all a successful week.
All my current coco plants have calmag deficiency. I have been supplementing at 1.5 ml/L which should be more than enough. Could it be that this is messing up the ph perfect? Anyone has experience with this?
I do not see any mention in your diary of the coco coir itself.
How was it prepared?
Was it buffered?
90% of problems in coco are caused during the prep for the coir itself.
Ill preped coco will strip the CA and MG right out of your plants as a worst case, out of your soil commonly.
A foliar spray would be called for if thats your issue.
Long term you will be adding cal-mag through the grow
Feel free to msg me
Start of week 4. The calmag is still persisting. The nodes are competing for the top, so I tucked a few leaves out of the way. Might still consider defoliating.
Update day 24: everything is going well. Growing very fast. Have been doing leaf tucking and trying to expose all the 8 colas that came to the top. Pondering lolipopping.
Update day 26: cruise control now. 8 main colas are now balanced, did some leave tucking and stem rearranging to achieve this but she is very stubborn. Calmag seems to be calming down with upping the base nutrients.
Update day 28: End of the week. She is growing fast. I have been LSTing some parts of her but mostly leaf tucking to expose bud sites but she bounces back too quickly. No signs of flowering and she is starting to look too big for my grow box. I might start to change the nutrients ratio to induce flowering otherwise she might outgrow the area.
Start of week 5. Still no flowering. She is getting difficult to manage, I have been trying my best to tuck leaves to expose bud sites but she is getting too jungly. So far removed only one leaf. Might have to remove more soon. She is outgrowing all horizontal space.
Update 31: Have been avoiding defoliation but it is inevitable. I have removed a total of 8 leaves now. She has outgrown the space and no signs of flowering to I started adding big bud now in the hopes that it will induce flowering. Have also supercropped around 6 branches that were getting out of control. Hopefully she wont stretch too much after flowering or I will be in trouble.
Update day 32: I must admit I am a bit intimidated by this strain. She completely outgrew her space. Had to remove the CBD 20:1 from the grow box as she was being conpletely dominated. This is not the best strain for microgrowery (the way I grow).
Update day 33: so today I saw one or two very small pistills. I hope this means she will soon focus on flowering.
Update day 35: end of the week. Everything is going well. She is now very thirsty drinking more than 1 L per day. There is a small pistil here and there so tomorrow I will consider the flowering has started.
Start of week 6: Flowers! Finally. So I tried upping the watering frequency to 4-5 times but she seemed overwatered so I will stick to 3 times a day. Doing some minor LST and supercropping here and there.
Update day 38: she is flowering fast. I am having a bit of trouble with the watering though. If I water more than 3 times she shes a bit overwatered but if I water only 3 times she seems very thirsty by the last time I water. I will keep this routine and in one or two weeks when she starts drinking even more I will start watering 4 times a day.
Update day 40: she stretched a bit and its difficult to get a completely even canopy now. I will leave her alone except for tucking a few leaves out of the way occasionally.
Update day 42: end of the week. She is still stretching. She is getting what looks like a calmag def on top leaves, presumably because I increase the LED intensity and they are getting closer to it.
Start of the week. She is now handling the watering 4x a day. She is still stretching and I had to move up the lamp, but I think she is settling now. I hope she buds fast since I will go away for 3 weeks on the 1st August, so that leaves around 1 month till cut :(
Update day 49: She is flowring well, but she grew too tall. The tops are getting bleached as a result. Not sure what to do as she literally occupies all the space available. Did some lollipopping today as the lower leaves were decaying from not gwtting light, and removed the popcorn buds that would never amount to anything.
Start of week: she is now flowering hard finally! This week has been super hot here so it has been a challenge to manage. Tops are getting bleached. In a week and a half I will start the overdrive for the bud swell.
Update day 56: She is packing flowers. The LED burn is getting a bit worse. Hope she does not hermie.
Week 9: the LED burn is progressing. I have raised as much as it is physically possible but still. Started 50/50 big bud/overdrive to start fattening up. Removed most weak colas that did not receive any light (lollipopped basically)
Update week 10: she is starting to smell with a lovely smell of mango with a hint of apple. Very distinct smell, I would bet if someone who has never grown something like this before would never guess its cannabis. The LED burn is progressing fast though. I have ordered a tent with a bit more headroom so hopefully that will stall it for the remaining 12 days se has.
Update week 11: she is gaining a lot of weight now and the buds are starting to fall. It was a mistake to assume they could support themselves and remove the ties. The trichomes are mostly milky but she has a lot of new pistils. This is the last week as I need leave my place in 2 weeks. I will probably start the flush tomorrow.
Hi everyone, so I need to leave town for 3 weeks in 15 days. I would like your opinion on the two following options:
1) start flushing and cut in 5 days, dry for 10 days, put in jars with boveda
2) let her go for 10 more days, dry for 4 days and put in freezer
Yeah I would start flushing now and let her finish in flush for a week then dry, make up my mind about the rest later when you see what you have to work on.
You would be best off with a quick cure ifmyour not available to burp the jars. Flush, chop, trim, layout to dry, when they feel smokable but their not put all buds together in a cooler and let sweat for bout an hour max. Open the cooler and let the top dry, then move bottom to the top and let dry, repeat until it's all dry. If it's taking to long and you have to leave soon lay it all back out until dry. A little extra dry is good if your gonna throw in jars. It's ready to smoke and it tastes great this way. Cheers friend
All in all this was probably my best grow so far. I am now much more confident that topping will yield the best results if your auto is growing vigorously. She grew fast and took my bending, twisting and cutting like a champ! It was a pity I had to cut early and I did not have the vertical space for her as she was suffering from LED burn. Still, I got 66gs of tops, 35 of great dense buds making for 101gs of top quality flowers and 50 gs of more airy buds making for a total of 151 gs. I will use the airy buds for making kief and edibles so I only counted 25 gs in the total dey weight. The wet weight is an estimation from my side as I havent measured. The buds are remarkably dense for a pure sativa. The aroma is amazing, the high is poetic, so this plant receives a solid 10/10 from me.
Odissey
