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Attempt 1. Planted 26/05/20 anticipated harvest: 21/07/2020 - failed
Attempt 2. Planted 2/6/20 anticipated harvest 28/07/2020 - failed
Attempt 3. Planted 9/6/20 anticipated harvest 17/08/20
day 1 to 7 = week 1
day 8 to 14 = week 2
day 15 to 21 = week 3
day 22 to 28 = week 4
day 29 to 35 = week 5
day 36 to 42 = week 6
day 43 - 49 = week 7
day 50 - 57 = week 8
day 58 - 65 = week 9
day 66 - 73 = week 10
day 74 - 81 = week 11
day 82 - 89 = week 12
day 90 - 97 = week 12
Week ends: 16/06/20
Day 1 - 7
Technically this is my first grow, but in reality it's my second. Why? Because I have completely screwed it up. Attempt 1: germnated the seed, touched it, killed it. Week wasted. Attempt 2: failed to germinate seed. Tried to recover the seed by attmepting a different method of germination. Failed. 2 weeks wasted. Attempt 3: successfully germinated seed, didn't touch it, and now it's growing.
Lessons learned.
Day 7 - small still, but lookig healthy. Perhaps just a slow starter. Don't know, never grown it before.
Week 3
Day 15 - looking ok so far - all healthy and growth upwards.
Day 16 - more upwards growth.
Day 20 - I followed the LST instructions as demonstrated by GrowDiaries team here: https://growdiaries.com/journal/The-Advantages-Of-Training-Cannabis-Plants. My previous attempt was mostly gesswork, and i hadn't tied far enough up the main stem, so it as only slightly bent over. This is almost from the tip to 90 degrees.
Week 4
Day 23 - LST is working a charm. Will continue doing it this week and stretch it even further. This strain seems to be a taller one than my dwarf, so will start preparing the frame for the ScrOG screen - making it at home.
Day 25 - Astonishing growth in just a couple of days. LST has worked very well. Homemade ScrOG net has been made. Not exactly a work of art, but thanks to the Crazy Russian Hacker how-to guide, pretty happy with it.
Day 29 - very happy so far. LST has worked out very well, and all looks good. Grow is flatter, and I think will work better than my first grow - was a little more aggressive with it, and not so scared of breaking it.
Day 36 - Another Tuesday and another update. Very favourite day of the week. All looking good. Trying to manage height, and still looking good. I'm a little more confident on identify the start of flowering, and can see the nodes starting to form, but not quite flowering.
Day 40 - flowering has started. Whisky pistols have started to show.
Day 43 - Flowering is very much in progress. LST has paid it's dividend and I much prefer the spread outwards rather than upwards. I think this one may be suffering from being in the shadow of the other, but still very happy with how all is progressing.
Day 47 - Looking good and flowers starting to grow bigger.
Day 58 - In my excitement in watching and recording my first grow, I've been neglecting my updates on this little superstar, quite literally growing in her sisters shadow. Looking good though, and flowering is very much underway. As things look, I'm going to stick my neck out and say that she'll be twice the size and hopefully yield of the Royal Dwarf next door.
Foliage seems to be much thinner, but I don't think the stretch has yet begun. That, my LST is doing what I hoped it would - keep height down and growth outwards rather than upwards. No issues so far, happy with the progress. Also, she's in an awkward spot to get to so difficult to photograph. Won't be an issue for ong though, as neighbour is very close to harvest (I'm hoping).
Day 66 and all is well. Heat has ramped up to around 40c with humidity hovering around 40%. Not sure if damage is being done, but there's not a lot I can do about it, and there doesn't appear to be too much evidence of heat stress. She'll get the lions share of the light soon, once RQS Royal Dwarf is harvested this week. I'll also move her to pime position so I can take better pictures without obstruction.
Day 69 and all is not so well anymore. After her move to the best spot in the grow area, I can see that the heat, overwatering and over feeding have had an impact. Leaves are curling downwards at the tips. Will hold back on feeds for a while and let her recover. Have also reduced the watering cycle. She does look perhaps a little stunted, but guessing this is a light related issue.
Day 74 - still growing, but not looking as healthy as I'd like. Leaves are curling downwards at the tips, and tips turning yellow/brown. I think this is a one of the classic signs of overwatering and over feeding, so have cut back nutes and watering, and will re-assess next week whether or not to go back to old schedule. Have also diluted the reservoir, so oping that a slow gradual easing will sort things out. She also looks quite stunted in growth to me - she's all of 50cm tall. The RQS data sheet advises 80 - 120, but she has been in the RQS Royal Dwarfs shadow, so perhaps needed more of the light earlier on. I was warned about overuse of the PK nute and am think I've learnt my lesson here.
Fingers crossed all will be fine. On the up side, she's defintely flowering.
Day 75 - might be wishful thinking, but tip curling seems to have been brought under control and looks to be recovering. Phew.
Day 77 - definitely wishful thinking. Did some readings, and found ph has leapt up to 6.67, and ppm at around 2500. will ph down a little later, and continue to monitor.
Day 82 Last week was a terrible grow week. My ph was all over the place, I am still trying to recover from overfeeding, and I think this is going to be a pretty poor effort all round. ph is now back down to 5.6 and holding steady. Growth has been stunted, but hoping that maybe I get lucky and see a little bit of stretch this week, but not holding my breath.
Day 85 - staggering recovery since getting things back under control. No stretch, but abundance of pistils have appeared on each flower. Very happy that this might not be the failure I was anticipating.
Day 90 - going to hold off feeding for another week, until I'm sure all has normalised. I'd guess and say that she's still got some growth to go. Will try to slightly increase ph from 5.5 where it is now to somewhere closer to 6. I'm not anticipating much more upwards growth, but hoping for some fattening up. Will try for some macro photos a little later to get a better look at the pistils.
Day 91 - Another crap attempt at macro photos. Sadly, tis was the best I could manage.
Day 92 - better attempt at macro.
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