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Brand new here and my apologies as I'm actually on Week 5F at this time and have had to scour my journal, notes and photo's to catch this diary up to the present. Next run is 8 auto's( 2 FastBuds & 2 Seedsman) with 4 different strains so STAY TUNED! ...The babies are doing well with the exception that I had two Power Plant beans that failed to pop, third time was the charm which puts it roughly a week behind it's sista's. GSD is just hanging out desperately waiting for the little one's to catch up so she can flower as she's been vegging for 50 days already (I had her on a 19/4 light schedule with a Auto run that just finished). Temp's and RH good to go, daily light water right now with seaweed extract added @ 1tbs/gl.
Girls are coming along nice. Had 2 DP WW beans fail to pop but the third time was the charm which put it a week behind her sista's. They all are getting 6-8oz water daily and foliar sprayed with seaweed extract added to ph'd water.
Girls are all coming along great. Wating for the PP to catch up with her sisters! Watering daily 6.5 w/ seaweed extract added, RH @ 62%, temps 75-80. GSD is on Day 62V.
Girls are really taking off, LST started, GSD has had purple stems from early on and now showing a little purple in some of her leaves. The Auto's are letting the babies have all the light they want...lol!
PP is catching up, need to switch tags on the NL to WW. GSD moved back out of direct light to hopefully slow her down. As soon as Auto run is done going to flip these to 12/12
Girls are getting ready to be flipped to 12/12! All doing great, giving compost tea's weekly and will be top dressing this week in preparation of flower. 70/30 2-8-4 & 4-4-4 with some added Bat Guano 1 tbsp/ea. HLG 650R on the way and I's be running it with two SunSystem's LEC 315 CMH's and just installed a Exhale CO2 bag in the tent.
Auto run finished. Flipping photo's to 12/12 next week! Going to install trellis netting, attaching it to the HV kit framing. Going to throw a 3rd LEC 315 CMH in the tent with plans to replace with a HLG 650R LED.
12/12 flip!!! Now the fun begins. Lollipop'd all the girls. Installed trellis and began training through it. Running the two 315's and a 270w full spectrum LED....waiting on another 315 for a total of 1140w ATW, HLG 650R coming this week!
Third week flower girls are showing off nicely, Power Plant is a BEAST!. Smell is really starting to come on the WW and BD, GSD smells like candy. Continuing 1/2gl each daily of water w/ CalMag+ 1tsp/gl and 1tbsp/gl seaweed extract every third water
OMG! The ladies are exploding with buds. The WW & PP smell absolutely mouth watering! Have noticed some leaf burn on the BD...she is a finicky biatch! The Ol' Lady GSD (over 110 days old) is root bound even after moving her from a 5G to a 7G. Wish I'd have had a 10G to shove her in as she's slowed her groth dramatically and is really starting to turn purple in her stems and shade leaves... Potassium???
WEEK 5!!! Final top dress this week with 2 tbsp/gl of a 70/30 mix of 2-8-4 and 4-4-4 Gaia Green organic dry amendments. Started the week with compost tea @ 1250 ppm. GSD leaves always droopy, continuing to turn purple, then yellow on leaves so going to give her some seaweed extract and bat guano for the added Potassium that I think she's hangry for. Checked soil PH with my trusty BlueLab soil PH pen and low and behold the ph had somehow climbed to 7.0-7.4 on all (should be @ 6.5-6.7). Going to PH water to 6.0-6.2 for a couple of waters and recheck soil. The WW is just fuckin packing on buds and they're getting sticky as hell as well as the smells coming off all but the pissed off BD. Have learned that you have to be ABSOLUTELY on point with that strain!
Soil ph resolved, back to 6.7. End of this week all will get their final top dress and then will just be getting ph'd water with CalMag+ through the remainder of flower. I do plan on adding molasses 2-3 tbsp/gl every 3 to 4 days to feed the microbes. PP has such a strong fruity aroma, WW is hashy, GSD still smelling like a bag of candy. The BD has not really impressed me with growth, tricomes or environmental tolerance....finicky bitch! GSD looks like hell as well with continuing leaf purpling and yellowing. The GSD would have been absolutly FIRE if it had gotten flipped way earlier (note to self for future runs with it).
Top dressed all @ 2tsp/gl 70/30 mix of 3-9-4 and 4-4-4, PP and WW doing fantastic! Shout out to @dutchpassionofficial , defoliated all the crappy looking shade leaves on the GSD. Dropped nighttime temp's to 60F and PH @ 6.3
Week 6 of flower! Coming into the final stretch and thankfully this catches me up to the present with this journal. All the girl's are really getting thirsty faster and I've upped their daily to 1gl each with half doses of CalMag+ and PH'd to 6.3. I'll be changing PH to 6.5 for the last 3 weeks of flower to help with their autuming off. The WW is getting so resinous it's ridiculous. Keeping nighttime temps @ 60F and mid 70's during the day with 4 hours of enhanced UV via the HLG UV bar. Supposed to help with tricome and terpene production....we'll see!
Coming down to the wire with Week 7 flower. Gas pedal on the lights is to the floorboard-1280w at the wall. I had enough with the trellis net/SCROG so 6/28 it came down and I wish I'd done it sooner. Girl's really weren't tall enough to really have it provide some benefit. It's SO much better now... I can maintain everything in the grow way easier now. I moved the PP and WW under the 650R and have the GSD and BD under the 315 CMH's. One of the 315 bulbs failed to ignite one morning but luckily, I had a spare ( note to self...NEED ANOTHER HLG 650R!). Also, got my CO2 meter and installed in the 4x8.....CO2 ranges between 680-1170 ppm as I'm running one Exhale bag and have a ton of air circulation in the tent. All the ladies are STACKING really nicely, even the two 'problem children' GSD & BD (check out the pic's of the BD)...What are your thoughts on what's going on? Deficiency? Lockout? I'm giving all plain water now @ 1 gallon/day ph'd to 6.3-6.4 and add CalMag+ and Molasses @3 tbsp/gl twice weekly as I'm on well water. 6/28- I did give all the girls 1 tbsp of guano with their water to start this week to give one last little blast of phosphorus and am continuing to supplement UV daily for 4hrs. in the middle of the light cycle.
I think you might want to double check your ph pen is accurate, recalibrate it. Then do a small flush and a light feeding. Fortunately you're so close to harvest it probably won't matter with this plants success, but you don't want things continued into the next grow.
I recalibrated my ph pen the other day and somehow it was a whole point off...whether from extended often use, or the pens just wear out over time.👍
Here we go....WEEK 8 FLOWER!!!
Girl's are basically on autopilot, getting 1gl of straight water ph'd to 6.5 daily.
Day temp's in the mid to upper 70's and low 60's at night. Been keeping the RH in the mid 40's and with the 2nd Exhale CO2 bag in the tent now levels are around 900ppm.
They are ALL frosty as hell and the smells coming off the GSD and WW are freakin mouth watering!
The BD seems to have calmed down some and I removed most of the nute burned leaves-new growth looks good.
Even the GSD has made a strong resurgence and is stacking bud like crazy, frosting up and smelling just like a grape Now and Later!
The tricomes on the BD are showing over 5-10% amber but, as the other 3 are close but not quite, I'm gonna chop her with the rest (she'll be a high CBD 'couch locker!).
The other girls tricomes are 70-80% milky and I'm now checking them daily. I'm thinking next weekend may be chop time.
Lessons learned over 30+ years of growing...when you think they're ready, give them another 7-10 days! Grow Strong - Stay Lifted!
7/5- All getting 1-1 1/4 gallon of straight well water ph'd to 6.5. Day temps are in the mid to upper 70's F, nighttime temp's 60-62 F. CO2 dropped to 600ppm for final week of flower. Supplemental UV continues from 11a-3p daily and it really shows in the trichome production and terp profiles as they're all absolute FIRE! BD is just about ready, showing 5-10% amber.
7/7- Daily regiment continues including checking trichomes, BD is ready and going to put her in the dark tonight for 48hrs.
7/9- All three remaining ladies are looking fine as hell! All getting frosty and really stacking especially, to my surprise, the Grapefruit Sour Dream Ol' Lady. She has gone crazy, stacking multiple cola's, pouring on the tricomes and has a terpene profile that is gonna be a winner! Chopped and hung BD...she's smelly very 'hashy' probably the Afghani coming out.
7/11- trichomes on the 3 remaining ladies are 90% milky/5% clear/5% amber...gonna send them into 48 dark in the tent in two more days, then chop & hang them on 7/15.
7/15- PP & GSD finished their 48hrs in the dark. Chopped and hung! Black Domina is drying well and is probably gonna be ready to trim & jar in the next 3 days for sure. Drying room is on point- Air temp: 68degF RH: 60%
I'm gonna have to try this strain again as the pheno that I got was not 'The One'😞. It didn't display the really dark, desirable, coloration in the leaves and was EXTREMELY sensitive to nutrients and water amount! Hard as I could try I couldn't get her dialed in. She looks and smells amazing but she ended up much smaller than I expected and was not a big resin producer. Have to see how she smokes after a 4 week cure!😛
I did end up trying out a nug from a jar that was @ 58%RH. It was ROCK HARD, crystallized and smoked incredible! You can immediately feel it hit you right in the forehead, them moves through you with a tranquil relaxing stupor.
Go get you some of these beans from Dutch Passion and I GUARANTEE you won't be disappointed!👍 Derived from 80's F1 stock this is an extremely stable and easy as hell to grow cultivar. She yields HEAVY, smells she gives off will make your mouth water and she hits you like a hammer....HARD! After 2 weeks of cure she's got a strong as hell pungent cheesy aroma, bag appeal is an 11 and she's got the mouth to go along...leaves that skunk/diesel taste on your palate for 4-5 minutes, ridiculous strain!
Easy to grow, heavy yielder from South African genetics that won't disappoint! There's three known pheno's of this killer strain that has been strictly inbred, never hybridized:
Phenotype #1 - short, compact, fast flowering, indica-dominant
Phenotype #2 - long, compact, fast flowering, sativa-dominant
Phenotype #3 - short, stretched, fast flowering, sativa-dominant
She's a 8 to 9 week finisher indoors, the breeder says 500-600 gm sq/m but my last yield of 271g I feel is probably more realistic....still a killer yield!
The sativa pheno has a very 'heady' high, great for getting stuff done, whereas the indica pheno is more of a relaxing all over high that you first feel right in your forehead that quickly spreads throughout your whole body. Great for sitting down with friends and chatting it up, playing games or watching the TV. This one's the #1 pheno fo' sure, can definitely feel her in your body and what a memorable smell she has!
This girl came from a handful of bag seeds I was fortunate to come into possession of. I vegged this girl throughout an entire auto-flower run which put her @ 102 days old when I flipped her. I did move her from a 5g fabric to a 7g fabric before flipping her as I was concerned that she could be root bound. There's not much of any growing info out on this strain😠 but from what I've learned she's a sativa dominate hybrid, a 9-10 week finisher and if I hadn't topped her 4-5 times would have been a freaking MONSTER! This girl was always hungry and extremely thirsty as well drinking up to 2g a day during flower. Overall I love this strain and plan on doing another run exclusvly with them to pheno hunt!😎👌
TheCannaProphet
