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Dropped RQS Diesel Automatic this week, she has not sprouted out of the soil yet, but its only been 4 days. I expect her to pop in the next 24-48 hours. I'll add new pics once she sprouts.
Planning a slightly different strategy with this girl. no HST, only LST, and FIM'ing instead of topping. Looking forward to watching what happens.
She is front-center in the group pics.
My Perpetual Harvest strategy…. Originally my plan was to start 2 seeds each month, but had some seeds from one breeder that did not germinate early in my rotation. Ultimately, this caused single seeds to pop and messed up my 2 at a time plans. But, that seemed to work out OK, because now I think starting one seed every 3 weeks is a better strategy. This should provide me with 4-5 plants at a time, instead of 6. By the way, I never had any germination problems with seeds from other breeders. (I don’t want to bad mouth any breeders, but the seeds that didn’t germinate came from a popular breeder/advertiser that is most commonly known by 4 letters).
Plants get fed once weekly on weekends. Seedlings get water only. Plants in vegetation get water and Recharge. Flowering plants get water, Recharge and Big Bloom (Fox Farm). Feeding is done using 2 gallon watering can. Any additional waterings during the week are given on an as needed basis per plant. I lift the plants to help determine which plants are more dry (lighter) and provide water any plants via water bottles and watering spikes.
I also rotate each plant 90 degrees every day in an effort to make sure the plants get equal lighting from all sides. I rotate the plant in place by turning the pot 90 degrees (I am not rearranging the layout of the plants in the tent on a daily basis).
The soil is an ‘organic super soil’ I mixed myself using organic top soil, organic potting soil, organic compost, organic peat moss, organic perlite, organic vermiculite, lime, epsom salt, expanded clay pellets and Jobe’s organic fast start. I am also recycling my soil and water with Recharge when using recycled soil.
For plant training I have tried a variety of things, but my plans here are to do LST bending only, no HST this time. Around 3 week I'll do a FIM cut/pinch once there are 4-5 nodes established. I will also be doing some defoliation around the 3rd week of flowering. I have been doing HST bending and having good results, but think the HST may be causing the plants to take longer to harvest. I hope LST only will help increase harvests while getting me to harvest sooner.
Setup:
1- Grow Tent 24”x48”x72”
2- Viparspectra 300W LED’s (1-V300 & 1-R300)
1- Hanging 100w CFL (26w actual)
1- Carbon Filter w/ 190cfm Fan & 4” ducts
1- 6” clip-on fan
1- 700w electric heater - oil filled radiator (in front of air intake behind tent)
RQS Diesel Automatic is about one week above ground now and looking strong. Just getting water so far. Will start some LST on her once she starts showing a few nodes. She's front-center in the group pics.
Seeing some mixed coloration on the leaves, not sure what that's about specifically yet. But going to let her keep growing to see if she grows out of it. If anyone on GD has other suggestions feel free to let me know what's going on. Water only mainly so far, but gave a little Recharge this weekend too.
Hello GD friends. My little Diesel Automatic is showing some odd mosaic'esque coloring on the baby leaves. I'm inclined to just let it go for now and see what happens. But if there are any suggestions on helping her out, please let me know! Thanks!
I have this too, i heard its just phenotype thing, not a problem unless they develop other symptoms. seems to happen more with autos
hopefully someone else can elaborate
RQS Diesel Automatic is growing along pretty strong, pushing out some nodes. Leaves still showing that mosaic look, but all the comments from the GD community have been to not worry about it, so I'm not worrying. But curious to see what happens as she flowers. Gave her some Recharge this week.
Diesel Automatic is growing and growing. She is still showing the odd color pattern on the leaves, I'm not super concerned yet, but I asked @James from RQS to take a look, waiting on his expert opinion.
Diesel Automatic is doing OK, growing slowly and still with the mosaic pattern on the leave. @James from RQS took a look and said:
I would say that you might have a potassium deficiency on your plants. the deficiency might be caused by an excess of fertilizers and nutrients. Excess salt is especially common as it tends to build up in the growing medium. Nutrient lockout is a very common cause of most deficiencies. When the pH of the soil is too low, it makes the medium too acidic. This causes stress in the root zone and prevents the uptake of potassium. Here you have an article that might be helpful:
https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/blog-potassium-deficiency-in-cannabis-plants-a-how-to-guide-n671
I gave her some Recharge and Espoma Organic Grow 2-2-2. Lets see what happens. 👍
7 weeks from dropping the seed, 6 weeks from seedling and she is still small with not too much growth, and she still has that mosaic coloring on her leaves. I tried some defoliation with the most affected leaves this week hoping that might spark a growth spurt. But, so far no spurt has begun. I'm starting to get a little worried about this girl, but I felt similar with my Auto Lemon from Seedsman then she took off around week 7 or 8. I'll let her grow and keep my fingers crossed. 🙏
Kill, Fuck, Marry?
She's almost 8 weeks old growing really slow. Still has the same odd coloring on leaves. Tried defoliating the most affected leaves. But no improvement. Should I kill her and cut my losses? Say fuck it and leave her grow? Or marry and try new solutions?
I can't remember the name but there is a disease that happens to tobacco plants that causes the exact same coloring on the leaves, i don't think it has any real damaging effect o the plant but i can't quite remember. I do know that it's pretty rare tho.
I hate giving low stars, but she was a sick plant from the start. Looks like Tobacco Mosaic Virus. No idea what might have caused that. I don't smoke or use any tobacco products and all my plants are using the same soil. But after 8 weeks she was still having issues, growing very slowly and didn't look like there was going to be much change. I'll try RQS Diesel Automatic again in the future and hope for no TMV next time.
I chopped her down. I have more RQS Diesel Automatic seeds and will try again. But this sure did look like Tobacco Mosaic Virus, I don't want it spreading.
hello dude! if you may check my northern express diary i have same issue with this lady but she growing faster than the others and structure is good looks healthy except colour. But i believe that all is good and nothing to worry! Good luck brother
lol i know its a bit late but it looks like the problem you had might well have been an iron deficiency! click on this link for a look https://duckduckgo.com/?q=iron+deficiency+symptoms+in+cannabis&iax=images&ia=images
next grow try making more holes all over your pot, so more oxygen will flow thru, and maybe water less and distant from the base of the plant, so the root will develop all over the soil searching for water and when they reach the oxygen spot they will send signal to the base to send more roots to there.
Plants need to be thirst often, and you should make the roots grow so the plant can grow.
Kill, Fuck, Marry?
She's almost 8 weeks old growing really slow. Still has the same odd coloring on leaves. Tried defoliating the most affected leaves. But no improvement. Should I kill her and cut my losses? Say fuck it and leave her grow? Or marry and try new solutions?
RQS said it looked like a phosphorus deficiency to them. I've tried giving her some Big Bloom & Recharge but no change in the past couple of weeks. New growth is small, I don't see any hairs at all yet. My gut says to kill her and cut my losses, but I'm curious what the GD team thinks.
@Jeff123fish, I’ll test my feeding solution next feeding. And also test the run off. But I primarily water with Recharge only recently started feeding Fox Farm Organic Big Bloom (1/2 strength. I would not expect the ph to drop into the 5’s, but I’ll Test and let you know. Thanks again!
@DudeGrowsWeed,yes it ends in the optimal range but that in Theory means that your pouring in a very low ph solution and then the soil is buffering to 6.3-6.4. I can only guess that maybe your feed solution is maybe 5-5.5 which maybe is too acidic for this plant?
@Jeff123fish, I watered yesterday and checked the ph in the soil itself today and the soil ph was 6.3-6.4 in all containers. Isn't that in the optimal ph range?
I had a rqs diesel automatic not even germinate, with your skill and it still failing, glad it didn't for me tbh. I would have stressed myself out so much over this but she was a freebie with my order, now if there's anything wrong with the USA premium wedding cake I will be mad lol
Such patterns on the leaves come from an excess of calcium in tap water. When you lower your Ph, calcium is released and takes on an easily digestible form.
RQS fans should check out their Facebook fan page ASAP. @james from RQS is offering free seeds in exchange for posting the grow on GD. Seems like a no brainer to me! 👍
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