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The seed sprouted on 18/04, although it popped the first leaves on 22/04, which from now on I'm going to consider day 01 for this plant. I planted the seed directly into the final pot, a 7.5 lt. air pot, as to avoid any unnecessary stress during re-potting. I kept the seed covered in with nylon for the first 48 hrs to withhold humidity. I should mention this is my first grow ever so I don't expect crazy results.
Regarding the setup, I'm growing the plant in a little greenhouse that I use as a tool shed. The plant gets direct sunlight until 2 pm, then the shade covers the greenhouse.
Should have mentioned that the growth is taking place in a Mediterranean city, weather for the second part of April has been fairly warm, although we have seen some cloudy days, which meant that on more than one day the plant didn't receive any direct sunlight. Temperature have reached as low as 10 degrees celsius at night. Other than this I haven't witnessed any problem with the plant, although it's my first grow so any advice is warmly welcome!
I have been watering fairly unregularly, only when I see that the plant needs it, will start giving her nutes and regular watering in a few days.
Weather is still pretty good, although the end of the week has been pretty cloudy. Unfortunately, I will have to leave town and have someone else take care of the lady until I'll be back, sorry for the lack of pictures.
In the meantime, I started giving her nutes, Biobizz Bio-Grow and Biobizz Root-Juice.
I'm back to take care of my first lady, I was in shock when I came back because I didn't expect to see her triple in size in just 10 days, especially because we had some nasty weather during my leave. I feel like she has been slightly underwatered during my absence but because we had very bad weather the soil wouldn't dry up.
In the end, since it's my first grow, I decided to avoid LST of topping, simply because I don't have the knowledge to pull it off yet. I'm very happy and looking forward to hearing some comments from the community!
I am incredibly happy about how my first grow is turning out, I haven't run in any significant problem so far and the NL is behaving so well I'm actually skeptic that things could go bad at any time. Temperatures have been very warm this week, and even if outside the thermometer says about 25/27 degrees celsius, inside the greenhouse it feels more like 35 degrees. Humidity has been very low.
I believe she entered the flowering phase (feel free to tell me I'm wrong please) and maybe she will stretch even more, luckily space and height are not a problem. Leaves are looking extremely healthy in my opinion. She started to smell a little bit, I love it!
Beginning of the week we had some good weather, although we had some cloudy days, too. The plant is still stretching and will probably reach 60 cm. by the end of the week. I started giving her some BioBizz Top-Max together with the other nutes.
Regarding the LST, I tied two stick to the side of the pot and then tied the plant on both sides so that the lower nodes can shoot up, hopefully I did it in the right way, let me know what you think, please!
Does my plant have some kind of deficiencies? She's an auto at the beginning of the 3rd week of flowering and she's being fed 1 ml./lt of each of the following Biobizz nutrients: Grow, Bloom and TopMax. The one in the picture is the leaf with the most white spots.
To me looks like the start of some spider mite damage.. are you seeing any almost microscopic bugs crawling around on the leaves or the underside of the leaves? any webbing show up? I'd take a look around and try to rule out pest damage if possible since your outside.. Hope this helps! Happy Growing.. 👊
Hello fellow growers, the 7th week is in the books for my first grow. It has been a challenging one, as I have witnessed some white spots on the leaves (see the question), which according to the community might be an indicator of the presence of spider mites, hopefully, I caught them on time.
I have upped the quantity of each nutrient as well as the quantity of water (I water the plant once every other day). The weather has not been great and sadly we had cloudy skies for more than half of the week (average humidity has been fairly high).
All in all, I love the way she is coming along, I have no clue as to how much this baby is going to yield, feel free to make a guess in the comments! I guess time will tell!
Last week the weather wasn't so great, so the plant didn't get watered as much. I increased all the nutrients to 3 ml/lt.
I tied some leaves together, instead of cutting them down, in order to have more sunlight hitting the buds.
Week number 9 has brought incredibly good weather, I'm so happy about how the plant is doing during the flowering phase. I decided to do some defoliation, as the lower fan leaves were turning gradually yellow and they weren't getting much sunlight anyway. I've increased the nutrients, specifically the BioBloom and the TopMax, which now are given to the plant in a quantity of 4 ml./l.
Looking forward to seeing what the next couple of weeks will bring!
This lady is at day 65 (70 from seed), and since I have a very tight schedule due to upcoming holidays, I'm wondering if she's ready to start flushing (say 12 days of flushing, 2 days of dark, and harvest at day 80)? Also, I'm using Biobizz nutes: do they even need to be flushed?
Hey OT_Hawk,
To me it looks like your plant could stand to grow some more. like another 2-3 weeks. But if you need to harvest because of the schedule, do what you have to do.
I would try and get a look at your trichomes to indicate where it stands in terms of age, "cloudy, clear, amber" I tend to harvest my autos around 13 weeks, but every strain is different.
I'm not a believer of flushing, but I do stop my feeding a week or two out from when I plan to harvest, gives it a chance to use up all the left over feed in the medium, I also do the two full days of darkness if it's in a tent, but if it's outdoors I dry it upside down in a dark room "whole plant" and trim after, I remove all the bigger and smaller fan leaves though, leave all the baby sugar leaves.
Last week of feeding this beautiful lady, I have decided to cut short the time of harvest because I have my holidays planned and I won't be able to take care of the plant while I'm gone.
I did some more defoliation by removing the biggest fan leaves. The buds are huge, some of my friends who have more experience said that it might harvest up to 40 gr., I'm beyond excited!
Loved growing this strain, it was my first experience and I have nothing but positive things to say about the strain and the producer. Wish I grew it in a slightly larger pot to obtain a bigger plant, but it is what it is. Had some trouble with drying and had to toss away a couple of grams due to mold, the harvest would have probably been higher the 30 grams.
OT_Hawk
