Royal AK Auto RQS (First Grow)

Day 29 (23/06): Today was extremely hot in the Netherlands, and will be for the next few days as well with day temperatures reaching 31C in the tent. I have prepared two frozen bottles to replace during the day while the lights are on but hopefully they won’t suffer too much. I think all three of the girls will need to watered every other day during these hot days because I noticed the soil dries up much faster. So today I fed the AK and the other girls 1L each with the normal nutrients. Day 30 (24/06): Not that many updates today, still very very hot (hence the bottle in the background 😃 But the smaller budlets are definitely catching up to the main ones in the right bottom corner. We are trying to keep the smaller budlets closer to the light now so they can catch up, so the pot will be rotated this way for a bit. I just can’t believe how fast and big it’s growing Day 31 (25/06): Today was an extremely hot day and the temperature was 32C when I woke up so I quickly replaced the bottles but even then it only drops the temperature for a few degrees. It seems like tomorrow will be the last day of the heatwave and it will start raining after that so hopefully the temperatures will go below 30C again. I was also initially planning on watering today but when I put my finger in the soil it wasn’t completely dry (probably because I increased the watering to 1L) so I will water tomorrow instead. Day 32 (26/06): Today is the last day of the heatwave but it was definitely the hottest, temperature inside the tent in the morning was 34C. I’ve managed to drop it down to 31C but it stayed at 31C the whole day, and thankfully it started raining towards the nighttime so the temperature dropped to 28C. Unfortunately there was not much we could do because we are suffering from the heat ourselves, hopefully this heatwave doesn’t affect their growth too much. Other than that, I fed the AK 1L of water with the normal nutrients and it looks happy. Day 33 (27/06): Today the temperatures have decreased by the tent was still quite hot so I sprayed some water a few times to cool them girls down and still using ice bottles to cool down the overall temperature inside. AK is doing great and flourishing, there are so many budlets now and the ones on smaller branches are now becoming almost as big as the main branch colas. I was reading about BioBizz nutrients and apparently the guide that the give in terms of how much to give of each nutrient is just a guideline and it needs to be adjusted to each plant which might be why the very first leaves (they aren’t even fan leaves) are going yellow. But it might also be that it is just the first leaves about to fall off since they are probably not needed. Will keep an eye on it to see if more of the fan leaves start yellowing. Day 34 (28/06): Today we’ve readjusted the training a little bit to give some space to the new budlets that are growing. The stems are becoming more stiff and less flexible so we are being extra careful to not damage her (like we did accidentally with our other Green Gelatos). It is crazy how big the buds are growing and we can already tell that it will be an amazing and big yield. I also decided not to water the girls today because the soil was quite wet and I want to avoid over watering to eliminate that as the cause of yellowing of leaves for sure. The temperature is getting lower so it stayed below 30C today with the ice bottle still inside but I’ve had to spray today to increase the humidity so we will definitely consider buying a humidifier for the next grow to control the environment a little easier. Day 35 (29/06): AK is doing great, the buds are thickening up and they are definitely looking really healthy. Feeding with the same nutrients still and haven’t increased any of the quantities as I want to wait and see if it happy because I don’t want to overfeed it with too many nutrients if it doesn’t need them. Overall, really good growth in week 5 and it has definitely grown when comparing it to the photos at the beginning of the week!