Cultivando dulce CBD

Socaa Very good. I would like to thank the entire Sweet Seeds team for organizing this type of event. Giving the opportunity to try their genetics and, with a bit of luck, snag some prizes during the months of the contest. For this edition, I've decided on these CBD varieties.

Socaa Growing space: 60x60x60 Container: teku 7x7 Substrate: coco Type of watering: manual individual For this grow, I'm going to use my own fertilizers, made with solid fertilizers for agriculture. Solution A provides phosphorus. Solution B provides calcium and magnesium. Solution D provides chelates and micros. And nitric acid to further increase the N. I won't use solution C, which is potassium, throughout the entire growth phase; the coco already has enough accumulated. I showed photos of the balances I'm going to use by combining them. The girls have only received watering with direct tap water without resting and with the pH adjusted to 6 with phosphoric acid. With the 2 fingers of coco, they're going slow; let's see if they perk up a bit in a few waterings. By the end of this week, I'll start with the fertilizers.

Socaa Hello. We're starting the 3rd week of growth, with some problems. Yesterday afternoon I began the drainings with the girls that were ready to be watered. All the drainings exceeded an EC of 4. I prepared a strong solution to carry out the drainage and break the salts. 3 sweet pure couldn't handle the excess and died.

Socaa Starting this week, I'm going to have to learn how to grow again. Today I set up the dron4 200w, 2 Led Cob Citizen CLU048-1212 6th generation 4000K, and 2 of 2700K with CRI 97. They're at half power, very practical and comfortable, to be honest. Now, since I have no clue, I guess I’ll have to start reading and asking questions. I'll post pictures of the little ones that are already recovering. They're still on the same drainage watering, they've improved a lot but they still need another watering. For the next watering, I'll go back to 0.7 EC and pH 6. Best regards!

Socaa This week I'm transplanting to 2.5L containers. Cheers!

Socaa I'm still using tap water directly with 0.7 EC, without letting it sit.. with the pH adjusted to 6. It increased by 0.3 until reaching a total of 1 EC. Solution A: 1ml/L Solution B: 1ml/L Solution D: 1ml/L Nitric acid: 1.2ml/6L This week I added Agrobeta's Cancerbero, 0.3g/L of substrate. Let's see if it does anything. So far it seems I've managed to control the temperature and the girls looked happier today. They hadn't been lifting their heads for days, and seeing them like this made me happy.. I couldn't resist. I'm doing a low trim and the first defoliation.. I'm going to give the little ones a few days with this trim so they can catch up a bit with the others. Now this week I'll increase the EC to 1.4, because of the trim and leaving them bare. Let's see if they don't fall back and finally let me do what I need to, getting used to the hard ground. A couple of photos and that's all for now.

Socaa The girls are stretching out so much, the waterings are still developing good roots. The phosphorus contribution from solution A is giving good results. Since I did the transplant, the waterings have been just right without drainage. EC is between 1.2 and 1.4. pH around 6.2. Starting from a base water, straight from the tap with an EC of 0.75. Normally with the sodium, doing this type of watering by the third watering it saturates the substrate and the girls usually show excess salts. That hasn't happened to me under the LED; I'm amazed at the great nutrient demand the girls have under the LEDs.

Socaa Starting today, I'm going to take a step back and get a bit more personal. Since I see that my watering sessions are getting too long under the LED, due to the lack of consumption from evapotranspiration like with sodium, I'm going to change containers, moving from my current 2.5L container to a 1L container. Defoliation + low pruning, respecting the bud closest to the stem + quite extreme root pruning.

Socaa 6 days after defoliation and extreme root pruning Since these fertilizers are like a complex for agriculture, they don't spoil and I use them little by little. With this jug, I almost have enough for a couple of weeks. The doses I have used are... Solution A. Phosphorus, 20ml/6L Solution B; Calcium and Magnesium, 20ml/6L Solution D: chelated iron, manganese, zinc, molybdenum, boron, and nitric acid, 20ml/6L Nitric acid: 1ml/6L EC: 1.4 pH: 6.07 Water temperature: 21°C Watering with 200ml per pot, fully hydrating the 1L pot.

Socaa This week I'm switching to a 13/11 photoperiod. Since the nutrients are providing plenty of N, I'm stopping the use of nitric acid and starting to use phosphoric acid. Starting with a base water around 0.2, the nutrient doses have been: Solution A, 50ml for 6L Solution B, 50ml for 6L Solution D, 50ml for 6L Phosphoric acid 2ml for 6L The doses seem quite high, but the solutions are very diluted. The reduction in container size has given me the result I expected, and the plants are going to stay small since they barely stretched. For the grow I'm doing, I need to constantly take the girls out, and I want to avoid having uncontrolled plants with the cabinet packed. So I can take them out as I please and not have to struggle too much later to put them back in.

Socaa This week, I've been using an EC of 1.8 for all the waterings. For the next watering, I'll increase it to 2.2. I'm hitting some tokes again to fill up all the space. Cheers!

Socaa From week 3 to 5, I have to start combining solution A and C. I water with one and then the next with the other; starting from week six, I will stop using solution A to provide less N and see if I can get them to finish clear at the end of the grow. This is what I would like; from here to there, we will see since I have never used it before. 😅 In this solution, I added: Solution B; 30 ml Solution C; 20 ml Solution D; 20 ml I lowered the EC a bit to 1.7, as the girls are already asking for water daily. I don't measure pH with this mix, but it should be around 5.8/6; the parts of phosphoric acid usually keep it at optimal levels for growing in coco. I’m posting photos of the girls that are starting to take shape.

Socaa This week I'm increasing the photoperiod to 14/10. And I'm doing another defoliation.

Socaa For being my first grow, the girls are super healthy, the Soquita solutions are covering all the needs of the girls, and some are already starting to spit frost. I'm amazed.. with just 150w the results I'm getting and how the little ones are coming along. These days I've had to modify the potassium solution, as my eye was telling me something was off. I've increased the kilos per liter of water and eliminated the phosphoric acid from the solution. Today the watering they received.. EC; 2.4 pH; 6.1 Watering volume; 500ml Watering frequency; once daily

Socaa For this week, I've prepared 2 nutrient mixes, using tap water with an EC of 0.7. I want to try this tap water without letting it sit and see how the girls respond. Mix A. Solution A phosphorus; 40ml/6L Solution B calcium-magnesium; 40ml/6L Solution D micros + nitric acid; 40ml/6L EC; 2.0 pH; 6.1 Mix B. Solution B; 30ml/6L Solution C; 30ml/6L Solution D; 30ml/6L Phosphoric acid; 2ml/6L EC; 2.1 pH; 6.1 By removing the phosphoric acid from solution C, it allows me to add more without dropping the pH as much as before.

Socaa This week I lowered the photoperiod by another hour, going from 13/11 to 12/12. The grow has been going for about 5 days with extreme temperatures because of the heat that's going on and having the tent outside. Max temperatures for these days.

Socaa This week I'm going to lower the photoperiod by one hour again, current photoperiod 11/13. This week I'm going to try a new combination with the fertilizers. Solution A: 20ml/6L Solution B: 20ml/6L Solution C: 20ml/6L Solution D: 20ml/6L Phosphoric acid: 2ml/6L Starting with tap water without a shelf, with an EC of 0.7.

Socaa The armory is getting packed, in the SAD I'm getting stuck like the mosquitoes.

Socaa Last week of life for the girls, this week all were harvested except for the SAD #4 and the cream caramel #2.

Socaa Variety with good vigor, very easy to grow. Good layer of resin, very aromatic. It still needs more drying time for a good opinion on the effect.