Why So Critical?

Pow pow and Welcome 🙏 Let’s start second journey with GrowDiaries! This time I’m running almighty “Critical” from Royal Queen Seeds 👸 Equipment: -Vegetation Stage- Mars Hydro 1m x 1m x 1.8m Tent Spider Farmer SF1000 LED Light Humidifier Dehumidifier Small Fan -Flowering Stage- Mars Hydro 1.5m x 1.5m x 2m Tent Mars Hydro TS3000 LED Light RAM dehumidifier 2 Large Fans Air Carbon Filter with extraction system Nutrients - mainly Advanced Nutrients line modified with House & Garden Amino Treatment and Roots Excelurator Germination with paper towel method - successful after 48h First few days seedlings spent in Jiffy under humidity dome before transplant to first fabric pots. At this stage 3 of them upgraded to Level 2 and landing in Hydro Coco 60/40 mix with clay pebbles 2 still under humidity dome. Before transplant no nutrients- only water After transplant introduced first nutrients - EC 0.4 / pH5.8 Stay tuned!

Week 2 is here 🙌 Girls starting to get bigger and looking healthy...apart from the mutant lol (Keeping as experiment) Starting to get bit more food with EC around 1 As they getting stronger we have started LST sessions 😉 Stay tuned 🤘

Welcome in week 3 of veg. Girls getting stronger every day. First of them took topping yesterday and that’s what should happen with second one today..I missed so FIMing on one of the plants for the first time. Let’s see what it will bring. Stay tuned!

Welcome in Week4 of Veg with those Critical girls 🙌 Now all 4 of them are after topping and looks like they took it smooth. From this week feeding schedule same as implemented with my first grow with Nirvana and Bud Candy as a pre-load 😉😎 Surprise surprise...fifth Critical girl who supposed to be dumped, after good care came back to life and looking sweet. Far away behind her sisters however mutated to funny tripod. I’m really wondering how she will end. This one I will keep as it is without topping with only low stress. Stay tuned! 🙌

Welcome in week 5 As for now girls are stretching nicely. From this week definitely starting to give them more water per plant daily as I can see they need more nutrients. Stay tuned with photo updates during the week! 🙌

Welcome in Week 6 of Veg. Today as we finally have space in big tent, girls moved to much more comfortable area. Last week didn’t bring any massive changes apart from slight nutrient burn however it’s nothing serious. This week we will be as well transplanting all 5 to final pots so we can start flowering from the next one. Hopefully hot weather will finally end as there was few days where temperature in tent hit 32.5 C Stay tuned with photo updates in next few days 🙌

Pow pow and it’s already Week7 so Week1 of Flower! This week girls got final pots and new feeding schedules. For now they are really thirsty so may need to start giving them bit more water daily. Stay tuned with photo updates 🤘

Pow pow and it’s already Week8 Girls are definitely in stretch now getting some training on ScrOG net to fill this tent in full. Somewhere this week they will all go through defoliation process and planning to lower the upper net. EC this week going up to 2.0 Temps around 26C Humidity around 60% Stay tuned with photo updates 🤘 Video update Day6 - defoliation done, second net done, all plants on same level done. Stretching very nice in last few days 😍

And we are in week 3 of flower ladies and gentlemen 🙌 Couple days ago we performed a defoliation on lower branches below net and girls took it very well. Stretch is amazing as they already doubled in size. Stay tuned with photo updates during the week 🙌🤘

Pow pow and we are in week 4 of bloom already 🤘 Girls just stopped stretching and getting to 46inch in highest point. From now energy is going only into forming flowers what we can see day by day. From how thing are looking in next few days we will introduce Overdrive in the feeding regime aiming to finish them on week8. Stay tuned with photo updates 🙌 Photo update - day 3 🙌 Video update - day 6 💥

Pow pow 💥 week 5 of flower is here 🙌 No much changes apart from fact that I needed to swap base nutrient to Connoisseur. We are now in cruise control mode. Next weeks all energy will focus on flowers and I can’t wait to see that 😎 Stay tuned with photo updates during the week 🙌

Welcome in week 6 of bloom with those Critical ladies 🙌 Another very steady week in cruise control mode. Full energy of the plants is now fully focused on flowers. Every day they are getting bigger and bigger with some pistils turning orange already. This week will be the last week of fertilising for them with slight increase of EC every day. With start of week 7 they will start flushing time with only PH’d water. Stay tuned with photo updates during the week 🤘

Pow pow 💥 Week 7 of flower is here. At this stage we are starting flushing the garden. Girls getting around 2 litres of tap water in 17C (Lower temp to make those buds even harder) and 5.8pH with no nutrients. From all 5 plants we can now exactly see 3 different phenotypes. I’m really hyped for specially the unending upper left corner. Pistils not getting any close to orange however buds and leafs are absolutely covered with snow 😍 Two of them are almost done and 80% orange pistils with crystals almost everywhere milky. Other two are a mix of those above. Bit more frosty however with mostly white pistils. Next 7 days should tell us everything and decisions about turning lights off will be made 😉😎 Stay tuned with photo updates during the week 🙌

So it’s almost end of the journey with this one ☝️ Girls are now 8 days in flush mode and in probably next couple of days the light will go down. Two of them are done already, two almost there and the last one (single completely different pheno) - really hard to say. Unfortunately can’t afford to cut just some of them as next grow is already waiting to switch tents. Today they will get last portion of water - this time with neutral pH without adjusting. Stay tuned for next week and harvest outcome 🤘🙌

Great strain to grow, very easy to maintain and totally ready for hard conditions. I’m very pleased with outcome however I know I could push more from those girls. Definitely I should defoliate more in mid flower as big part of each plant was covered by fan leafs not letting light in and producing quite a lot of popcorn buds. All buds from upper parts....omg..hard as stones and very dense with great aroma. I had 3 different phenotypes of Critical in this garden and one of them (laying mostly to sativa end) is and absolutely beauty if it goes to amount to resin. She is sticky and smell phenomenal. RQS Critical will probably stay with me for some time as I will be trying to grow her again in some time. 🙌