DWC GDP x Solodial x Lemon

These seeds didn’t have the best colour to them, but they both completely popped by day 4-5 as shown in the picture. The room temps were high so insulated the DWC pot to see if it helped. Turned on fans to reduce overall temp and adjusted the lights upwards. I was experiencing 32C res temps so I had to find a solution.

I’ve increased the nutrients by 100% to bring it up to a 66% dose of the recommended amount. The plants curled their tips for half a day and adjusted well with no nutrient burns. As you can see at this stage it looks like it’s going to be a promising strain to grow. I insulated the DWC pot with Mylar bubble wrap and this brought the temp down to a steady 28C during lights on. I suffer from a broken back and nerve damage so I have chosen a strain that should be higher in CBD than your normal popular strains, while still hopefully packing a very nice indica dominant punch.

Week 3. I’ve insulated the reservoir better, I have Also been using ice packs that I rotate every 12 hours to keep things nice and cool. Nutrients have been increased to full strength and while doing this I experienced some low humidity which made the plants perspire and caused some burning on the leaves, but no apparent nutrient burns. By dropping the reservoir temp I have been able to increased the humidity to a steady 40-55% and stop the plants perspiring. The Purple x Solodial x Cheese strain has produced two slightly different looking plants in the beginning of their lives and now they both look to be similar in terms of colour, but one has crystals popping up consistently with each new leaf at this early stage. I have increased ventilation this week as the smell has begun to increase. LST training underway from this week as the stems are now beginning to thicken up.

This week has been a bit of a balancing act and also the removing of the larger plant, I am growing with reg seeds and it began showing sex a week before the smaller plant. I took a good thorough guess from my previous knowledge and removed the larger plant as it was causing some nutrient issues. After having a 900ppm reading I got a reading of 120ppm after 5 days. I noticed that the leaves were displaying copper deficiency signs most likely due to PH issues. I also added CO2 for the last 2 weeks to attempt to curb what I thought was heat stress. I have adjusted the nutrient ppm down to 850 to try to reduce any burn the plant could be experiencing from the previous 1200ppm level. Sorry there no good photos of this week.

Light swapped to HPS. This week I have removed a lot of the yellow leaves. I have been changing the reservoir water every 3 days with fresh nutrient water try and diagnose what appears to be a copper deficiency or heat burn from the lights themselves which are as high as they can go at this point. All things point to PH being just a little bit higher than I thought from eyeing the tests colour. I have removed the Male and successfully spread out the female using rubber bands and LST training. Note: the rubber bands are annoying the heat makes them snap more easily and the plant has learnt to resist the rubber bands and pulls itself up every day. I’d estimate there is currently 15-20 viable branches that are thick enough to produce a good final product. I’m flowering them short due to height constraints in my grow room.

This is the second week or flowering and as you can see in the order of the photos that the planted has roughly stretched 50% - 75% The plant has many heads and many many more branches that I will be trimming or training. My suspicions were correct and I have a confirmed female. My room is small and the plant is starting to get some heat related nutrient burning. Nutrients solution has been swapped to flower for 4 weeks and then fruiting nutrients. The LST training has worked well and I have a nice spread of heads forming.

This week things got a little too big and I had to scramble to keep my stealth and healthy plants. Not much to report. 150% stretch

Will update soon.

To be updated fully at a later date. Nutrients changed from “flower” to “fruiting”

To be updated

Unfortunately the plant imploded the DWC about a week and a half early. Branches broke off and I was forced to collect early.

Diary took a back burner due to life getting in the way. Plant got too heavy for its DWC bucket and it imploded the lid, which required me to harvest it a week earlier than I wanted to. Easy to grow, avoid this strain as a stealth grow.