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Alright got a diverse grow but I love my cbd so growing 4 cbd cracks. One didn't germinate so it's how 3 cbd crack by Fastbuds a cheese by canuk and northern lights x big bud by oasis genetics. These are all autoflowrrs so the lights are on 20 hrs this entire grow.
I have two in airpots because I want to try them. The cheese and nl x BB are in the air pots. My soil is promix organic omri rated soil as the base. Amended with:
Germinated directly in soil.
Humble got burnt a bit from something. She's doing iight. Just spraying with water in the morning... Make sure the tip layer is moist once a day.
Gaia 4-4-4 all purpose
Gaia 2-8-4 flowering
Gro4 Ewc
Vigro organic soil
Wow Myco fungi
The northern lights was planted about 4 days after the others because my one cbd crack didn't germ.
Still waiting on the nl x BB to germinate. I'm sure she'll be here Soon. Labeled all my girls so it'll be easier to know who's who for everyone.
The one cbd crack might have been attacked by gnats. Either way everyone looks really good. This week is going to have a lot of growth I'm excited!
Fighting gnats. The are low population for now
Light being high is probably what's causing slower growth than I would've expected. Either way they'll grow at the pace they want. I should def move my lights closer... Or get those pots higher.
Harvested blackberry. Lights at 26 inch. Using laundry clips with pipe cleaner as garden stakes for training. Hopefully it works well lol... Got the top 1.5inch now as Gro4 worm castings which should stop the gnats.
Got a white noise generator in the tent and some stones for positive vibes. This grow is going very well right now.
Set lights to 24 hrs after learning about ruderalis. Let's goooooo
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shows 28"x28" footprint for 1 light. @18" it's a 500 umol/s blanket coverge, which is great for a mature vege'ing plant. 2 in a 3x3 might be too much. ~500 would be the minimum you want for bloom, for reference.
12" with 2 in a 3x3 could work -- as long as you don't see fewer trichomes at top as it deveolops... should occur top-down. if not, it's a sign they are evaporating due to heat or too many photons of energy. if you ever see buds below more rip than above, it's very likely your lights are too close regardless of other specs.
you're tent size isn't optimal for your footprint in vege, but it can work. you'll just have a hot spot in middle at 24-30" for vege. In bloom it'll be better due to a roughly ~1" strong footprint, but with overlap, you'll have a solid coverage in your tent at 12-16". it'll be weak at front and back, though (or any 2 sides.) line your equipment on one wall, and that takes care of it, lol. offcenter lights where plants are.
a rectangle shape is better for you. a 4x2 would kick ass with those lights in bloom, i bet. custom 48x30?
get a cheap lux meter for $10. it'll allow you to even out the coverage. if specs are accurate, the lux can even it out just as well as a PPFD meter. anyway, along with their par readings and 28x28 coverage, you can pick a height, then lux meter can help you even it out with spacing/positioning of lights.
Watering with a bit of EM1. Switched to 24 hrs on. Moved my lights to 26 inches. Went camping came back to some tip burn. Moved the lights away 3 more inches. I guess these lights are really strong for this space.
Put lights to 33 inches. They already seem better. Guess these lights are way more intense than I thought lol.. :)
Put in the trellis. I'll probably weave some string through to make it tighter. Day 7 of week 4 these girls are streeeetching. The cheese I can see is about to explode.
Nl bb has huge fan leaves.
Would my front cbd crack (Urbie) be considered a "runt"? Or is she a nice size? She's identically topped to the one in the back corner with the blue name stake. Same time planting, same everything.
Thanks.
My guess is the way you have your plants placed and your lights turned she's just not getting the same amount of light as the others. Why I prefer straight lines for my pots so I can then set my lights according to a lux meter reading around my plants! Other than that she's growing fine. Perhaps rotate your plants around in the tent to help even out light coverage! Happy growing!
Entering week 1 of flower the tent has a nice canopy. This northern lights x big bud is going to be a MONSTER
I'm genuinely concerned about big she's getting. The one cbd crack is just a main cola and 4ish side branches. She isn't taking up a lot of sq ftage of the canopy which will help the case of my nlxbb. The cheese is very small. She's stretching a bit but I'm clueless as to the shape she's going to take.
This is my most successful grow so far I'm soooo excited to see the trellis get involved and the harvest I'm going to pull!
Late week 5. Cheese has gone into flower. Lots of stretching from everyone. Good stuff. This will take careful canopy management to not get this tent overwhelmed. The fim in the nlxbb has 4 more tops plus side nodes that'll be pushed out horizontally.
Lowered light 1 more inch. Watering 3L every few days. Airpots get 1L every other day minimum. I'm going to dismantle the pipe cleaner trellis after I get into flowering and most of the structure is settled/branches harden in place. The fuzzies might get in the bud. For now it's no problem, but once they start to swell I'll be taking it apart.
Moderate defoliation on all plants. It was mild - moderate depending on the plant. They're all healthy they'll bounce back no problem.
Nlxbb is getting that fimmed top shoot bent over to feed those shoots into the centre of the tent. I hope this training works out. If it does it'll look super cool.
Redid my entire journal by day as the week /day system was messing me u up.
Much easier to see now!
Slowly lowering light 1 inch every day and a half to see what's good.
Final feeding. Just em1/molasses/bath salts here on out.
Did a lot of defoliating. Fan leaves... Low shoots. The vegetation comes back really fast. I'll probably defoliate at the end of this week.
Lowering lights. At 16 inch right now.
My nlxbb is huge and in a small airpot. I've watered 2 litres everyday the last 3 days. It seems when I wake up the pot is always light no matter how much water I give her. Should I be watering until I see water pouring out the bottom? I usually separate watering by a Cpl hours
Been getting hotter of course. Just watering when they need water ya know? Will probably do one more feeding of some Gaia power bloom at the end of next week and a final defoliation of just some annoying leaves nothing too drastic.
Just water, em1 molasses and bath salts. Humble is already frosting right up
Moved seedlings into sun. Still lots of gnats but it doesn't seem to be affecting the garden goo much really.
Sick plant. Kind of want to quarantine...
Gnats are plenty but the girls don't seem to be affected... Def going to have some better gnat defense ready. July is weeks 4-8 of flower then anyone not done then will most likely be finished off mid August. (August 12th is estimated harvest day)
I have a plant with some disease symptoms. Weird stripes in the leafs and some dead leaves one at a bud site reference week 7 cbd crack Urbie. She doesn't seem to be drinking too much as she's still heavy while all the others are gulping water like crazy. Any help is appreciated.
There are a few things that can couse this. I had a couple of plants under 24 hours of light and they always had problems with the leaves when they got into flower. 70% humidity is a little high for flower and maybe that's why one of your plants don't drink. Btw your plant doesn't look stressed or ill to me.
Feeding with pure blend pro bloom soil as well as the Gaia power bloom dry amendments that were top dressed. . I am continuing to feed with em1, and molasses during my waterings. Touch of bath salts (mag sulfate) as well.
I won't be using the pro bloom soil every watering. Probably every other watering. I'll probably be flushing/doing a flush in the last 2 weeks /1. 5 weeks. Ppm of my water is 110 out of the tap.
Happy Canada day!
NL x BB drinking 2 litres a day.
My NL x BB is drinking about 2 liters a day. The top leaves aren't up as often these days. They are almost always in a constant state of going up and down. Can she possibly be rootbound in an airpot? Or it's just the fluctuations of wet > dry going sooo fast every day?
Are you watering to runoff and soaking the entire pot? If not the roots might not have grown very big. I'm putting in about 2.25 - 2.5 gallons of water per plant every 3 days in my 5 gallon pots.. Roots won't grow where the substrate is dry.. 👊
Oranging of hairs. Yellowing of leaves. Really hitting the last 3 weeks. My gnat problem is not as high right now. They seem to just come in waves.
NLxbb takes about 1.5L a day. She's thirrrsty! Her leaves are yellowing already, which means the faster flowering seems to be accurate.
Included some macro bud shots to compare to harvest/close to harvest.
Had to increase lamp height because of the nlxbb showing some intense stress growing about 9 inches away from the lights.
Heat wave for about 8 days now. I just keep the windows open, and ventilation on max. The temps don't reach 31. Humidity can be mixed high, 55-65 in lower canopy to 65-85 near the lights.
Took a lot more pics on Day 59 because of the larger shift in the growth cycle. Want to get more angles before she goes deep.
I am using 2-5 Ml of pro blend soil bloom per watering.
HEAT WAVE OVER!!!!!
FLIPPED TO FLOWER FOR NLXBB LOL
tHIS nl X bb IS supopsed to be an auto, I have been vegging her this entire time and didn't clue in she wasn't in bloom. I feel really silly, but whatever it's funny. I switched to 12/12.
Huge upgrade happening tomorrow for me.
My plants are coming along great. Really putting on weight. Humble in the back seems to not be growing, but the light on her side of the tent is very high because of the towering nlxbb. I've been contemplating just harvesting her....
Cheese leaves have been down for a while. Maybe nutrient toxicity? I don't know. I'm just going to let the container dry out a lot and give her a really good watering.
Noble is seriously going to give me a lot of bud. Wow I'm excited!
I also think the NLx BB could be my first 150+ gram plant. I've been vegging her for 60 days. Silly old me. Small container, but I have nutes so lets rock!
Cheese should be done in 10 (aug 26ish) days is my guess. I want to harvest with roughly 30% clear 70% milky as I enjoy stimulating highs.
The CBD Cracks will hopefully be entering their harvest window in 16 days. I will also be harvesting with 30% clear as it is a sativa strain. I want the energy.
I will be bud washing all my buds.
NEWWWW TENT!!!
Feeding bioactives. Cheese is so close to being done. wow
1.5 weeks left cbd crack
Lots of super cropping on this beast nlxbb. Flowering very fast it seems, staying true to the fast flowering nature as advertised.
This girl hasn't put out any new hairs in weeks. She seems frozen in time. Doesn't seem like she's drinking water either... But it's only week 6, and she looks healthy right? Any Reason why she hasn't been putting out more calyxes? Phenotype thing? She seemed to stop a while ago.
she looks fairly small.. size is directly related to output.. If that's how big she got that's how big she got.. If there are no new calyxes.. That is all she wrote.. How do the trichomes look are they developed and mature?
Gave humates. Some other products. Bringing my plants back to life like crazy.
Cheese is looking really close to done. 80% cloudy trichs. Looking to maybe harvest by end of Tuesday. The other 2 CBD cracks I think are going to go another week. They still have lots of white stigma. Going to see wait until this round turns dark and then harvest.
All plants are exceptionally healthy and packing on weight. The Cheese made me scream like a little girl when I pinched the bud and smelt my fingers. Dankest fucking cheese wow!
Noble and Urbie (cbd crack) have their own sweetness to them.
Is it harvest time for the Cheese? There are still white hairs. She's at 8.5 weeks, don't pay attention to the weeks listed. Do I have to wait for those white hairs to fade away? If not then, Thursday afternoon. Trichs are 80 percent cloudy 5% amber.
I'd say another week if you want more amber for heavy high. But watch each day closely, maturity can happen fast. You want at least 50/50 amber cloudy, but it's your preference
I do believe she was underwatered and that is why she didn't get big.
Maybe chopped a week early, but for the first time I can harvest a bunch of plants at different intervals. In the case of the CBD crack I have 3. I cut one @ 6 weeks because she was a time waster, I cut the other now maybe 1 week early, and my big girl I'm going to let go as long as possible to see how big she'll get. If it's 12 weeks it's 12 weeks.
This plant has more of a pepper smell to it. The large nugs are super dense. Smaller nugs are less so.
Probably underwatered which is the case for all these plants which means her full potential was most likely stunted. Regardless the buds fattened up big time. Should've trained way earlier.
The leaves were droopy for weeks and she wasn't gulping water.
Smell floors me. It's unbelievably potent and good smelling.
Chopped at third node as per Basement Ganja as done in some of his grows. She bounced back amazing and trained out into perfect shape for flower. My biggest buds I've ever harvested. I have a bunch more of these I will happily grow when I have time/space and room dedicated to growing more. For now it's on to other strains! Great strain, really.
Started to foxtail out while being huged. Decided to chop on day 79 (may 13th broke soil)
Advertised 56 day flowering. Mad yellowing I think is root bound stress, over watering/under watering, magnesium deficiency... I have no idea. I top dressed with myco, azos, and a bunch of soil to give her some extra food for the last 3 weeks. I'm hoping it'll solve any issues. I'm going to put the airpot into a 7 gal cloth pot to try and relieve some root bound issues. I never intended for her to be this big in a 2 gallon... She was an auto after all that never flipped.
Harvested @ 90 percent cloudy. Could've gone for weeks more I'm sure... But I needed the tent. Chopped at day 5 of week 8.
Hopefully my first half lb harvest. Stellar plant to grow.. Didn't flip to auto.
Uberfetus
