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Hello everyone and welcome to my grow diary!
For the entire setup I invested around 350$.
In addition to that I had to buy seeds, soil, nutrients and pay energy bills.
This is my second indoor grow, so I'm still a beginner and thankful for every helpful advice :)
Both seeds were germinated at the same time, but the smaller one had a pretty big problem early on.
The seed shell couldn't be properly removed by the plant itself, and after adding more water didn't help I carefully removed it with a pair of tweezers.
Unfortunately it was too late and one of the Cotyledon leaves was already yellow and around one third of the size of the healthy one.
In the following days it died off completely.
That obviously seriously stunted early growth which you can see in the pictures from weeks 2 on.
Her big sister is doing very well.
Added a little more ventilation: open tent + 30W fan in front of it.
Going to order a decent fan for flowering replacing my four tiny PC fans the beginning of next month when there's money for it.
Transplant to around 10 liters for the big one and 7.5 liters for the small one.
Using Plagron Grow Mix with (a little bit of) perlite. Will definitely add another 1.5-2 liters of perlite to the Plagron mix the next grow.
Both plants got slighty stressed by transplanting, but after 36 hours both were looking fine again.
Not much development on the little one.
Big one is doing great.
I am pretty restricted in maximum plant height.
My available vertical space looks like this:
140cm (~4.5t) overall grow box height
- 20cm (0.65ft) from the containers / soil
- 20cm (0.65ft) minimum ceiling distance for the lights to be properly installed
- 20cm (0.65ft) minimum light distance to plants
This equals a maximum plant height of 80cm (~2.5ft).
So LST is a must for me, which I started on the big one.
Tried to very carefully start LST on the small one as well by slightly bending the main stem which had almost no resistance because it did not have enough grip to the soil due to it growing (intentionally) at about an 45° angle due to light placement.
I immediately stopped, put a bit of soil around and "under" the stem, watered it and slightly pressed it down.
To keep the height down to a minimum I also decided to top the big one above the 4th node.
Now there's enough foliage to profit from additional light, so turned on the 200W 2700K CFL with a modified (aka cut off), more narrow reflector so it fits next to the LED lights.
Also changed the position/angle of the lights so the small plant now has one LED right above it to reduce further horizontal growth of the stem and strenghten it for LST.
The big plant is being placed between the other LED, which is now slightly angled at about 20°, and the CFL so the new growth gets as much light as possible from all sides.
The tiny one is slowly catching up in growth but there's still a huge difference.
She is at least a week away from being big and strong enough for LST though - she will probably end up pretty small anyway.
Big one took the topping very easy. Healed great and is growing rapidly :)
Welcome to the 4th week of my mini grow :)
I've upgraded my tent with a decent fan to be able to provide enough airflow when my girls are flowering.
As you may have noticed I have no exact data on how much I water. Well, that's because I don't follow a strict watering schedule. I am watering them oldschool: when they need it, based on moisture of the top soil and the container weight.
A good approximation would be around 2 liters per plant every 3 days, but it varies every time due to changing temperatures, humidity etc.
The small one is now strong enough, so I started LST on her. I will not top her tough, since she already lost much time due to the one Cotyledon leaf dying during germination.
I used Plagron Grow Mix as soil, which provides nutrients for about 3 weeks. I'm going to start to give them low amounts of nutrients from day 25 on.
Day 24: Plants showing bright and slightly burnt looking tips on new growth.
Since I didn't feed them so far and the problem appeared over night nute-burn is very unlikely.
I raised the lights a bit more to make sure it's no light burn.
Probably a slight pH issue - I'll keep an eye on it.
Overall they are still in a good condition though :)
First tiny pistils have emerged on both plants, but they are too small for a decent photo.
Any ideas on the bright/yellowish tips?
Nute-burn is unlikely since I did just feed pure water to that point.
Maybe light burn? Moved the lights around 5 cm higher.
My tap water is around 7.2 pH
So week 5 has started :)
The tips on the big one still look kinda burnt, but it should not be a big deal.
Pistils keep emerging and growing everywhere.
I defoliated both plants since they got a little bit too bushy.
Had some problems with PM a time ago, so I'll do anything that helps to prevent it and other kinds of low airflow / much shadow problems.
Welcome to week 6 :)
Both of the plants have started flowering now and stretched a lot in the last week.
I should be fine with my 80-90cm max height though.
I also added BioBizz Bio-Bloom into the fertilizer mix.
Week 7
Winter is coming...
... not quite yet, but it's starting to get frosty in my tent! (at least a little bit)
Because of some serious space issues I had to find someone to adopt the little girl. But I know that she is in good hands :)
So there is just one girl left now, but she's getting the full light and full attention of course :)
She's now pretty much using the entire tent, I still have about 20 cm in height for her to grow before I'll have to change the light arrangement.
The growth within the last seven days was just around 10 cm and kept slowing down, so she should reach her maximum height very soon and will probably finish at around 80 cm.
You can see how much the plant has changed in the last days and how the bud sites kept developing.
There are also the first tiny frosty areas showing :)
She still has a long way to go, but it's looking really good so far.
Happy growing!
Week 8 has started and nothing out of the ordinary happened so far, which is a good thing I guess :)
The tiny buds keep fattening and getting more and more frosty.
Removing the second plant was definitely the right choice as the big one pretty much uses 100% of the tents space now.
She has stopped growing though with the main colas being at 75 cm and most of the other top branches at around 65-70 cm.
Below that are just some mini branches which I left so they can absorb the rest of the light coming through, making the most of my weak lights.
For one decently trained plant in a small space they are doing the job just fine nevertheless.
Hope your grows are doing well too!
Week 9 is up!
I'm kinda late this week, but the plants are doing great :)
The buds keep fattening and becoming more and more amber.
Some of the leaves turned yellow but I guess that's just an aging thing.
She still has a few weeks to go though.
The days are getting hotter and she is extremely thirsty right now.
I'm watering about two liters per day. Two days pure water, one day with the mentioned amount of nutrients.
Week 10!
Because of the extreme heat of the last days the temps in my tent were peaking at around 38°C, so I decided to turn off the 200W CFL and keep the two 50W LEDs running.
She is still doing well and will soon reach the end of her journey :)
Week 11
Difficult light conditions for pictures due to the missing CFL, so some close ups must do for now :P
The leaves keep yellowing and I'm planning to harvest in about a week.
I cut off two smaller side branches for drying and some early smoke testing :)
Update Day 74:
Added more pictures.
Also changed feeding to 4 ml BioBizz Top-Max per liter.
Update Day 77:
I harvested her today!
Will update again when drying is done :)
Nice strain for indoors! My buds are a little bit airy, but that's probably down to my weak lights.
They easily compansate for that by being very frosty :)
The one plant outdoors (not in this grow diary) had severe bud rot problems though, even in a very dry summer. Had to throw away around 50% of the yield :(
Overall she reacts very well to training, including topping.
I did not actually weigh the buds since I'm just a self-supporter and don't have a proper scale. My approximations should be pretty close though :)
I will update smell and taste once the weed is fully cured.
The potency is surprisingly high with a nice mix of Indica and Sativa, leaning more towards the Indica side.
Overall I'm very satisfied with the genetics and the entire grow as long as you grow indoors.
I can NOT recommend to grow this genetics outdoors though. Her sister flowering outdoors had bud rot on multiple spots, forcing me to throw away around half of her yield :(
And that was in a very dry summer. Maybe it was just bad luck :P
Update 7. September: The weed smells and tastes great now and I'm still surprised by the potency.
Will definitely grow this strain again indoors :)
Happy growing guys!
Bud_Di_Spenza
