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My first time growing.
Hopefully, I'll become auto-sufficient in 90 days.
Here, I'm registering the log for Auto Cheese, bought from MNSL.
Those guys were really fast to send seeds from the UK to New Zealand (5 DAYS).
I'm still waiting for some gear: hygrometer, smart pots (those made from fabric - 11L), PH tester and nutrients.
Not sure if I will use nutrients. Probably just some root booster, once that autoflowers have a short lifecycle.
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Week 2. Vegetation
7 years ago
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6.5 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
7
No Smell
65 %
23 °C
11 L
250 L
50 cm
Nutrients 1
Seasol Seaweed Health Tonic (root development) 0.01 mll
This is the week 2!
Well, the plant looks really healthy, and she kept growing up, straight to the light!
Good to see that even after the strange beginning, with the stem crooked, she recover her path!
This week, I'm also planning to start feeding them with some NPK.
Just need to read a little bit more about it and buy nutrients.
Probably I'll try Canna stuff. Anyone know if it's good?
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Week 3. Vegetation
7 years ago
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10.5 cm
20 hrs
28 °C
7
No Smell
75 %
25 °C
11 L
0 L
100 cm
Nutrients 2
Seasol Seaweed Health Tonic (root development) 1 mll
Starting week 3 today, with a challenge ahead with this little bad girl!
It seems to be a lack of Nitrogen, and I'm pretty afraid of burning the plant.
I'm feeding the plant once each two days, with Seaweed Tonic, 150ml with the suggested dilution from the bottle.
Now I have also a bottle of Canna Terra Vega, with NPKS 3-0-3-0.
Is it a good idea to start feeding the plant, with also this nutrient?
The soil is a mixture of 80% organic soil + 20% of coco coir.
Could be a lack of nutrients from the soil? What is the best agenda to follow with nutrients?
(:
Cheers!!
UPDATE (17/02 - Day 17): based on the suggestions made by many members, I've tried to gather the best of all and decided to make some moves in an effort to save this plant, and to avoid the same situation to the other 2 plants:
#1 - Lifted the LED panel to double of the height, so the distance to the plants went from 50cm to 100cm
#2 - This change with the distance from LED panel helped to low down the highest temperature achieved during the day from 27.5°C to 24°C
#3 - Since day 15, the plants haven't been watered, in a move to try to dry a little bit the soil, once I was watering every day with something close to 250ml a day. Now I'll return with water in a few days, while I wait for some signals from the plants that they are needing water
#4 - Pushed forward the idea to start feeding them this week, and maybe I give just a little bit of seaweed solution to root development when I come back with watering.
Hope it works fine!
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Week 4. Vegetation
7 years ago
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18 cm
20 hrs
29 °C
7
Weak
70 %
25 °C
11 L
0 L
100 cm
Nutrients 2
Seasol Seaweed Health Tonic (root development) 1 mll
Today we started the 4th week of growth for this little girl.
Last week we had hard times here because the plant started the week showing some signals of issues, and it was really difficult to evaluate the root of the cause.
After many research and a LOT OF HELP from some masters of GD, I've decided to lift the LED Panel and low the watering.
Seems to be working, once that the new leaves are showing a healthy dark green.
This week, I'm also working on nutrients for root development and growth.
Wish me luck, buddies!
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Week 5. Flowering
7 years ago
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28.5 cm
20 hrs
28 °C
6.8
65 %
24 °C
11 L
0 L
80 cm
Nutrients 3
Seasol Seaweed Health Tonic (root development) 1 mll
Starting the first week of flowering here, and it's really exciting to have this experience for the first time.
I'll keep the nutes scheme with Canna Vega for this week, and will add some Monsta Bud.
Should I keep the seaweed for root development?
Wish me luck, mates!
*Day count based on the day I put the seed on moist paper
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Week 6. Flowering
7 years ago
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34 cm
20 hrs
29 °C
6.8
Weak
65 %
21 °C
11 L
0 L
75 cm
Nutrients 3
Seasol Seaweed Health Tonic (root development) 1 mll
OK, so we started the 6th week and the plant is showing some growing signals.
It's impressive how a plant that looks really bad, can actually keep growing and developing itself.
This week I've started to see some development on bud zone/spot, and I believe that even making some mistakes ate the beginning, I'll be able to taste some buds from this little girl.
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Week 7. Flowering
7 years ago
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52 cm
20 hrs
28 °C
6.8
Weak
65 %
24 °C
21 °C
11 L
0 L
65 cm
Nutrients 3
Seasol Seaweed Health Tonic (root development) 1 mll
Another week, another challenge!
This week I'll completely fade out from the vega nutes and focus on bud boosters.
She had a great development since last week, and it seems that it will give me some buds to enjoy.
@Zannabis7, thanks for the suggestion bro!!
Probably I'll wait a few more days to decide it, but I think that I'll do it for the benefit of self-learning!
(:
Cheers, mate
@Zannabis7, hey mate!
I followed that plan, and it seems like they are off to a great flowering phase.
(:
About the burned leaves, do you think that it's a good idea to remove them? So then the plant can focus on the buds
@GreenZealand, That's great news and I'm glad you figured out what was going on both with the light and the water. It's always nice when you troubleshoot something and get the grow dialed in. Great job buddy. Continued best wishes on the grow!
@Zannabis7, hey bro!
I think we're on the right track here.
It looks like it was really a light-burn problem...
After reading some stuff here, I found something really interesting, that fits perfectly for my situation.
http://www.growweedeasy.com/cannabis-light-burn
Two parts of the article represent exactly what happened here.
1) "Light burn is often mistaken for a Nitrogen deficiency ... A nitrogen deficiency starts from the bottom of the plant and moves up, while light burn often is worse at the top of the plant"
The upper leaves were the ones that showed the yellowing... and the lowest ones are looking good with a regular green. And 3 days after doubling the distance from LED to the top of the plants, the new leaves from the top showed to be also with a regular green, like "healthy"
2) "If the lights are only slightly too close, maybe just an inch or a few cm, the yellowing from light burn may happen slowly over the course of days (or even weeks!) because leaves are dying early instead of immediately. Because of that, the light burn may first appear on somewhat older leaves, which can be confusing and make it hard to diagnose."
As said on that part, the older leaves are the ones that showed to be really affected by the light burn...
Well, along with that I think that I was really over watering... so besides lifting the LED Panel, I also stopped the "daily watering" routine... now I'll back with watering when the plants show they're in need.
Do you think that when I'm back with watering (probably tomorrow, or a max day after), I'm good to start feeding them with 1/2 of suggested for Canna Terra Vega + Seaweed?
As you said, I'm putting all my heart and the best energy on those babies! It should work at all!
Cheers mate!!
@GreenZealand, You are doing great! No, you are not going to lose the plant, we just need to dial things in before the flower!. Hang in there mate! Your heart in it, that's what counts! Rock on mate!
Seedlings are looking great. Yes, great idea to feed them some form of microbial product or a light seaweed product. Just feed them light nutrients (1/4 strength at week three) and then slowly increase the nutes with maturity. Best wishes...
@GreenZealand, I personally recommend Recharge. There a lot of growers on here that use this as their go to microbial product. But there are others like SLF 100, Mammoth P, etc. Cheers!
Looks great, I'll follow your progress. I'm growing two msnl auto cheese also. I have one that is flowering and one that's taking it's good time. Is it normal for autos to flower at different times even with being sprouted at about the same time. I want to grow as big as buds as possible.
Hey mate! I wouldn't take off the leaves, she's fine, and the leaves, even if spotted, are a consistent part of her structure and nutrients tanks. I personally think that it's useless and stressfull, at this stage of growth. Keep rockin! 🤘
Hey dude watching this one closely too - got my msnl auto cheese on day 8 since germ. Your set up is sick - looking forward to seeing how you go with the LEDs.
@Esseebee, thanks for following mate!
Looks that MNSL have some strong seeds, considering that I had made some mistakes, and even though she recovered fast!
Hi mate! 🤘 Hope everything's fine with this lady! Next time, if you want to lower your water's ph, try to add some drop of apple's vinegard or lemon juice, they lower the pH, but tend to fluctuate a bit, even if the soil has the "tampon effect". Now, if you don't want to get mad, buy a PH down, it's more convenient in the long time. And I think that the stains on the leaves were caused by some product you use to spray'em, maybe?
Rock on! 🤘
@Endriu, hi bro!
I'll work with a PH down on the next days. Hope it helps to keep the soil at the right point!
And yes, I remember to have sprayed the plants ate the beginning, could be related.
Thanks for the advice regarding PH
Cheers!
See your having some troubles, a plant that young having a deficency from anything would be hard.. it's a baby it needs hardly anything
My thought/observation
1) the container seems large for the small plant
2) you seem to be watering every couple days? You need dry periods too and a good balance, this is hard when you have a very large pot for a very small plant
3) LEDs are super intense they should be 4+ feet away for a seedling
4) checkout and follow The Grow Boss on you tube for tips and guidelines
To me it looks overwatered and too much light, rotting the root hairs will cause the plant to not take in nutrients, then you think you have a deficiency (you do then, just not from not enough nutes, it's from rotted roots)
Hope some or any of this helps
@Fun_Growin, hi mate!
Thank you so much for your considerations.
I've taken some of them to be addressed:
1) interrupt watering until the plant shows some signals that it is in need (last time watering was 2 days ago, with 250ml of distilled water)
2) Lifted up the LED panel, from 50cm of distance to 100cm
I'll keep the light cycle in 20h on/ 4h off because from my recent research this is not quite a problem to auto-flowering plants, and also, so then I can change and check on thing per time, to be more accurate on my log.
Keep checking the grow, and hopefully, you will see your advice making some positive changes here!
Cheers mate
@RumRunner, hi mate!
I mean during this time of seedling before go to a regular pot. Some friends told me that they have weak roots and that this is one of the most critical aspects of having good yields or not. Is it true? Do you think that it worth feeding them with a something to root stimulation?
I've bought this:
https://www.bunnings.co.nz/seasol-1-2l-seaweed-health-tonic-concentrate_p02962108
But even during vegetation/flowering, I didn't find something clear for autoflowers... one thing that still not clear to me is the fact that they have a short lifecycle, and I'm afraid to burn them overfeeding... Listened a few times that is better to be low on nutrients, and try to fix it rather than overfeeding and not having a way to fix it. Is it true?
Cheers bro!!
GreenZealand
