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Day 1
Never grown before, but always liked plants. Especially plants like these 😊
Seeds came today. Only one will be grown for now (Bloody Skunk Auto). The seed was slightly scraped (purposefully), and then placed in distilled water. Seed sank to the bottom with a little push after 6 hours. Hopefully that's a good sign :) Seed was then taken and put into rooting medium. Currently lights are on 24/0 to warm the area surrounding the seed. Tomorrow temperature/humidity measurement will be set up.
Day 2
Was able to measure the temperature. It's about 22 C. Natural humidity is a bit low in the area (35%), so a humidifier is being used occasionally to increase that. Seed has sprouted now (15 hrs after being put in the rooting medium), maybe in two days there will be some real growth 😊
Day 3
Root looks like it's off to a good start. Positioning seems a bit off though. Will keep an eye on it for the next couple of days.
Day 4
There was a surprise waiting today 😁 Plant pushed through the piece of sponge at the top without a problem apparently. The light has been switched to a 125W 5500K CFL, for now without any reflector. A bit worried that this might be too strong, especially for a seedling. However there aren't other 5500K or higher Kelvin value lamps available, so going with this one for a couple of days. If there are problems, will go back to just a collection of 2700K bulbs and hope the plant survives haha.
Got a heating pad, so now the temperature is being kept around a comfortable 73-76 F. Night temperatures should drop to around 66-68 F.
Lighting schedule has been switched to a 20/4 schedule, to allow for better plant development. Will probably stay with this schedule for the first couple of weeks.
Could also see the taproot poking out of the Root!t sponge. Not sure if that's going to bad for this root to be exposed to light at this stage. Once (if) the leaves start to get wider than the Root!t sponge the plant and sponge will be transplanted to a small 1 Liter pot. If the roots continue growing but the plant stays stunted then it will also be transplanted.
Andddd....got nervous about the 125W lamp. Decided to switch it out for the previous lights (two LEDs, two CFLs, all at 2700K). Total lux value is about 10000 measured by the seedling. Seemed also like the seedling might have been craving some water, so gave it a few drops. It hadn't been watered since being planted. Hopefully not over-watering here...
Day 5
Seedling has grown by another centimeter. Leaves haven't really changed that much. Nevertheless, decided to put the seedling in a slightly larger container. The cup was taken and filled with some potting soil (Compo Sana Anzuchterde) and the Root!t sponge put into that. Did this because the tap root was poking even further out of the sponge and didn't like that. Gave some more water, mainly in the lower section of the soil. Will not water again for a few days unless it seems really too dry. Don't want to over-water 😑
Day 6
Seedling doubled in height. Starting to get concerned about stretching.
Read conflicting information about the optimal humidity for seedlings, but most seemed to say that less was better, and a humidity dome not necessary after sprouting. One source suggested that seedlings stretch when under a humidity dome. So that's been removed.
Switched to the 125W lamp as well in case the seedling was stretching because of not enough light. Added a fan for a breeze to occasionally move the seedling...hopefully this will make the stem a bit sturdier. First set of leaves has begun to develop a bit more..but it seems a bit slow. Might just be being impatient 😄
Day 7
Not much has changed. Soil is getting to be dry enough where watering again should be ok. So that will be done tomorrow morning, with a small amount of BioBizz RootJuice.
Day 8 - Watered today with a medium amount of Root-Juice. The plant's roots have already begun to develop decently. Unfortunately the previous container was tipped over accidentally today🙈🙈...so that's been re-potted to a 1 Liter container. Hopefully there's no shock to the plant the next few days.
Day 9 - Seems to be doing alright.
Day 11 - Watered again today. The leaves seem to be taking their sweet time to develop, but at least the roots seem to be building themselves up well. Already noticed a root poking out of the bottom of the pot.
Day 15 - Watered again today. Plant grew quite a decent amount and the stem has finally begun to thicken. Will need a bigger humidifier for sure, and then one that can automatically keep humidity at a certain %
Day 16 - Growth is definitely starting to take off. Stem is finally getting thick enough to where LST seemed to be a good idea to start. Smell is getting stronger, but still can only be sensed when holding the plant to your face. Will probably need to plant into the final container in a week. Going to also add another light (105 W) by the end of the week.
Day 18 - Watered, got new humidifier. Just using that for now in the whole room, since it gets too dry in here anyways with the heating.
Day 19 - Transplanted to what should be the final container today. Was a good time to transplant too, the roots were beginning to bunch up at the bottom of the previous container. Using Atami Bio-Growmix as the soil now. Accidentally damaged one leaf during the transplant. Stopped with LST for today to let the plant recover a bit from the transplant. Then will resume it tomorrow. Might be trying out SCROG...but first will read more about it. Also thinking of FIMing soon...but also going to read a little more and let the plant recover more from the transplant first.
Have another lamp now, the 105W. However, didn't realize that it has a low kelvin value. So getting a couple of new higher kelvin lamps soon. Will just use the 105W in combination with a 125W during flowering.
Smell is increasing, but not noticeable outside the tent.
Day 20 - FIMmed today. Not sure if it was a great idea, the part taken off seemed to have possible beginnings of flowers inside. Not certain though, so yeah...will see what happens 😅. The third set of fan leaves turns out to be 7 leafed, so she went straight from 3 leafed for the second set to the 7 leafed. Is that a good thing...?
Also resumed LST.
Day 21 - Seems like the plant might be recovering from the FIMing. Temperatures got way too low last night though, at 60 degrees. Since two 125W lamps (5500K) are being used now, the temperatures are getting a bit warmer, from 78 to 80 degrees. So it's important that the night temperatures don't get that low again. Was thinking of eventually doing three 125W lamps with the 105W for blooming phase, but that will probably be too warm even with an extraction fan (the 105W, being older, produces more heat than the 125W). Not yet sure what will end up being done for the blooming phase lighting.
Tomorrow is week four...flowers will probably start appearing soon by the end of the week. Hope it's been able to fully recover from FIMing by then.
Day 22 - Well, instead of continuing to vegetate for a week, it seems the plant decided to start flowering 😱. So the lights have been switched once again back to the 105W and 125W. The 105W is in the reflector. Could also smell it pretty decently this morning, it's definitely gotten stronger, but as the day goes on the smell tapers off.
Lighting schedule has been made to have the 105W light on for 19 Hrs. The 125W will be on for 17 hours, turning on one hour after the 105W and going out one hour before the 105W. Have absolutely no idea if this is a good/bad idea, but just trying it out. Seems like it would mimic the patterns of the sun outside a bit, since the initial/ending light of the sun is more reddish and weaker than later in the day.
Still having issues with heat generation. It may be due to the oscillating fan blowing air towards the passive intake, so will try switching that around tomorrow and see if things improve. Also will water tomorrow. And start a second grow :)
Day 24 - The plant seems to be recovering well from FIMing. There now appear to be 4 flowers instead of one main cola. Switching the position of the fan helped for heat problems, but still not to a satisfactory level (temperatures stabilize around 78 degrees but sometimes spike to 83). Also temperatures dropped again briefly to 60 last night. Tomorrow will get a couple of things for temperature control, so hopefully these issues will be taken care of then.
Other than that, the plant seems to be doing well. Have counted in total 10 flower sites so far, but perhaps there are a few others not yet spotted because noobishness.
Day 26 - Plant seems to be doing great. Temperatures have gotten under control now, not exceeding 78 degrees at all in the day, and last night it only fell to 65. Wanting to get it to just be 68 though, so there's room for improvement.
Only issue of concern right now is the 'rust spots' and they do seem to have started to spread to another leaf. So I will be measuring the PH much more meticulously for the next watering and try to make it slightly more acidic. Also will measure the PH value of the soil soon. As @Athos mentioned, the PH value could be causing this issue. I think @Jeff123fish and @Hellhazard are also right in that it could be a calcium deficiency. I think it might be a calcium deficiency caused by the PH of the watering being slightly alkaline, not due to a lack of calcium in the soil itself. We'll see what happens.
See the last photo from Day 24.
There are a few spots on this one section of one leaf.
Because it's limited to this one area, I'm not too concerned.
But I would like to know if someone thinks this is a nutrient deficiency/excess or something to be concerned about.
Without more information about your nute strength, and quality of water you are using is hard to diagnose what it could be. Since you are not posting either pH or EC/PPM, my first guess would be that the pH of your water / nute solution is way off. Before adding anything, get a cheap pH pen and check your water.
Day 28 - Got other nutrients today. Will be using them for the rest of the grow. Plant keeps doing well in development, although the rust spots have progressed a little more. With the nutrients I'm hoping this will stop now (CaMg-Boost). Controlled also the EC and PH values of the run-off. EC Runoff @ 1.9 (little high), PH Runoff @ 6.25 (little low).
The side nodes have grown a LOT. They were sturdy enough to where it seemed a good idea to do some more LST.
Day 30 - Watered again, soil was dry even past my knuckle and could see that on the bottom it was dry as well (container is clear on the bottom). Only used a bit of Alga-C and Flower-C because it looks like there might be some nutrient burn on the tips of two leaves (see photo). Otherwise the flowers are continuing to develop well.
Day 31 - Starting to see the beginnings of a clear color change 😍
Day 35 - I was initially worried the bud sites were too small when she started blooming. They are still on the small side, but are definitely starting to fatten up now. The pistils have slightly begun yellowing, so I guess we're maybe in the last 2 to 3 weeks of flowering now as well.
I've slowly reduced the temperature last week from 78 to 75 now. Trying to preserve terpene content with the lower temp. At night also allowing it to get slightly colder to continue bringing out the color changes that are occurring in the leaves (so beautiful 😍).
Watered yesterday because she was beginning to droop. Used just a small amount of Cal/Mag and yet she got burned again. I think the stuff is too concentrated, I'll have to start measuring it with drops 😅. Although the end EC value was only 0.9. Also started with a little Bloombastic. Depending on how the leaves look, and a macro shot of the trichomes I might start increasing that dose a bit more.
Overall it's still doing quite well so far I think. I plan to drop the humidity to around 30-35% in the last 10 days or so of flowering.
Day 38 - Watered with pure water today. Trichomes look cloudy (or I'm still too new at this to know what cloudy looks like). Guys on a forum feel like she still has at least a few weeks to go, especially because the pistils are still so white. I kind of hope they're right, because then it gives more time for the buds to fatten. Dropped humidity to 40% today.
Day 40 - Watered today with a worm tea, 2.5ml of RootJuice, 1ml of Flower-C and 1ml of Bi-Bloombastic. PH 6.3 and EC 1.3.
Also slightly cut-off the top of three buds. This is a little bit of an experiment to see if this technique increases trichome production in these buds (supposedly it does).
Day 42 - Kinda crazy how fast it's gotten to be day 42 (the meaning of life - *) in the grow. Haven't watered yet. Plan on doing that with the above nutrient schedule tomorrow or the day after. And I think that might be the last time I give any nutrients to the plant. Pistils are beginning to curl, and I've seen (just a few) amber tirchomes on one bud. I want to harvest on the earlier side because I don't want this harvest to have a big couch-lock effect. Prefer a more cerebral high, although some bodily relaxation is nice too.
So I think I will be harvesting at the latest by April 10th (Day 56). Of course I will continue to watch how the plant develops and if no further trichomes are turning yellow/brown in a week, I'll wait longer.
The trichomes on the sugar leaves have a wonderful lemon citrus smell by the way. Not what I was expecting, but that's fine 😛
Day 45 - Made a video of the trichomes. They definitely look cloudy enough to me. No more nutes for sure, harvest in 10 days max I think.
Day 49 - Clearly she's starting to get to the end of the life-cycle. The nutrient reserves are being used up in the leaves, although I also suspect a bit of nutrient lockout as well. Today only gave PH'ed water. After taking another look at the trichomes today, I'm starting to wonder if she really is ready for harvest yet or not 😅 I guess I'll take another video in a few days and see how they look then. The pistils are curling in though now, so that's one sign that harvest is getting closer.
Day 53 - Watered again today; she was a little droopy 😳 PH was about 6.05
And took another video of the trichomes...a good one this time. And what do you know...plenty of the trichomes still look clear AF, although I do notice some amber ones. Going to wait until at least next week for sure now to harvest.
Harvest starts today on Day 56. 36 Hours of darkness begins now. Watered yesterday. Don't have time to upload/process photos, will do so later. For now just the one video of trichomes. You can also see an unwelcome guest at the beginning, although I'm not sure if it's a spider mite. Not taking any chances though, and the trichomes have begun to decay anyways, so harvest time it is.
I'm kind of in shock about reaching this point in the grow 😨
Day 57 - Harvest early tomorrow :) Going to control the humidity to be about 55%.
Day 58 - Harvest. And oh my god that smell. Is...Grape soda, which has been sweetened a little too much. It's overpowering when smelling it, but it doesn't get the room too smelly (also have decent ventilation though).
I'll post harvest and effects later, after it has dried for a few days and then cured for a week or two. Yield won't be much I think, somewhere between 20-30 grams. Wet weight with stems is around 75.
The beginning of the high is very much body focused and relaxing/couch-lock, but after 10 to 15 minutes there is also a good head high. Strength to me is something like 7 out of 10. I do not smoke (only vape), but am told that the smoke is very smooth when doing so. It's definitely more indica than sativa and would not be my choice for using at a festival or something. Still, it's good to have for relaxed nights.
The taste is a flowery, a little earthy and sweet. The smell on the other hand is like artificial grape soda with extra sugar. However even each branch of bud was somewhat differing in the smell, with some having a very strong grape sodaish flavor and others a more sweet flowery (almost lavender) smell.
Interestingly I didn't get much of an increased appetite with this.
Dry mouth happens, but it's not as bad as I've had with other sorts.
Overall this was an interesting experience. I'm honestly a bit surprised I got anything, let alone some really decent product. The plant tolerated my mistakes fairly well, like transplanting multiple times, initially just watering with tap water, and occasionally damaging a leaf or two. The final pot and soil I had chosen was a mistake as well and I think the plant began to run out of nutrients towards the end of the grow, causing the heavy yellowing it experienced.
Still, in the end it came out decent and I'll be satisfied for the rest of the year as far as indicas go I think 😊
Going to continue curing it for a couple of weeks, but it's very much worth using already :)
Thanks for all of the answers @@Athos@Jeff123fish@Hellhazard. Fair enough about not posting the EC/PH values. I did measure the water being used once after distilling it. EC values were 0.4 and PH slightly alkaline around 7.1. Only using Root-Juice as nutrients for now, the soil should have enough nutrients for the most part. Will eventually check out the soil PH once there's time enough to.
Root-zone shouldn't be getting cold since there's a heater right next to it during the night now.
@Perth, @CANNASIM, thanks for the advice. I'm curious why you both think over-watering is happening? I'm actually a little worried about under-watering, the soil was already fairly dry yesterday (one day after watering), and today was fairly dry even past my second knuckle. I can also see the bottom of the container because it's clear, and it did not look moist. Drainage is good enough I think. I normally have been watering every 3 days or so, but today on Day 30 is only 2 days since the last watering.
@CANNASIM, you're right about the container size I think. I didn't measure it but rather went off of what I thought were the measurements on the under-side of the container. But now that I actually compare it with a 1L measuring cup, this container is probably only 8L in size. Too late to change now though I guess... I will be using something like air-pots in my next grow, this grow was to just see if I would kill the plant straight away or not. PH used to be around 7.2 for water (until Day 28), but I've been lowering that now to around 6.3. I think you're right about the calcium as well, because the spotting pattern doesn't seem quite the same. But I'm still unsure what the issue is then...maybe nitrogen abundance?
Btw, I've tried closing the growing question but that seems to be impossible and growdiaries doesn't respond to my message, so yeah...if anyone wants to continue to add advice though feel free to 😂
Hey @Eryan I have ran girls in a critical point and as you are going to see Cannabis is very resistant, generally is hard to kill :) .
In my solution I suggested to have a look on the water practices, to make ensure, and make sure, because of the looks, if your pratices are on point that is the important thing. 👋 You have to feel and find the balance based on your current plant state, in time that becomes natural. In my case i have to water every other day, i feel the vase weight and top with my finger, if i'm uncertain I use a soil meter to check, you can also have a look on that is like an antena you stick in the soil.
Generally speaking to have a good root mass is what what will regulate that too, for that I suggested the use of the bennies, that is nice to use thru out the grow.
The PH bonces also are not ideal, in my opinion, and that kind of deformed leafs some rustiness i have got in the past when not ph'ing properly.
Autos do not like to be transplanted, there are a few that do it, I just don't like stress during the grow, that is very personal, stress = less time to grow with autos or during flower, basically with the photosensitive you choose the time to flip, and you can play around and let them recover.
For the pots, you will find much easier with the Air or smart pots, saves a lot of problems like root bond and is easier to water(more frequent too), growth is faster too. Solid color vases are Ideal too.
As for the N toxicity, i don't think so, they get very dark sometimes with plastic look. At EC 1.4 is hard to burn.
Good luck happy growing!
Cheers
According to the Sweet Seeds timeline you are around 20+ days away. I say that is with perfect conditions (light,nutes,environment)..Your should be a bit longer. I never read before about cutting tops to make other buds more strong. If anything, taking away bottom popcorn buds should allow the tops to grow fatter and more potent. Mine is still green. I dont think it will change
@Eryan, You'll need a small microscope to see trichomes properly. Many growers purchase 60x scope which can be found fairly cheap on the web. There is loads of reading on the net about when they are ripe, when to harvest ectect by looking at trich colour. Some of your bud will mature at the time the plant is still budding hard, so its subjective still. I think you'll have a good gut feeling when it is done by following the timeline, growth/stunting. Try to time in a great flush and fade ( the hardest part to do as a new grower, myself included)
@Hellhazard, yeah that's what I would like think too, that it's still a ways off. That's why I gave the worm tea and other nutes, because I'm not sure those fan leaves yellowing and the necrosis is natural at this point.
However, looking at the trichomes I'm not so sure that there are still 3 weeks or more to go.
Still hard for me to tell since this is my first grow, but they look cloudy to me. Just kind of in wait and see mode at this point.
Cutting the tops of those buds is supposed to make the cut buds produce more trichomes, not the rest of the plant. I remove only a few millimeters of material, so I feel it's less drastic than removing the popcorn sites. But unsure about messing with it too much either, so that's why I did it just on three sites.
www.youtube.com/watch
https://www.cnnbs.nl/maak-wiettoppen-harder-dikkermet-simpele-handeling/
She looks a lot better than she did last week & you're right the buds have fattened up a little.For your first grow i think you're excellent.If you plan on growing more in the future I'd get a better grow setup & invest a little more money especially on a light.You have to ditch those CFL's.
@Eryan, LED's in my opinion is a good way 2 go when & if you decide to grow again.I use LED's & they've always been good to me & my girls.I 2 plan on breeding & creating my own strains one day.Working in the marijuana industry has become a passion of mine.
@DaGrowQueen, Thanks for your comments 😊
I don't plan on getting any other lights at the moment until I've finished certain other things in my life :P But, if everything else goes well then maybe a year or so from now I will be using LEDs.
Yield at this point is not very important to me anyways since I maybe use 2g of bud a month , I'm in no way a heavy user 😂
It's more about the quality for me, and also that it's just cool to watch a plant like this grow. Making my own seeds eventually also seems interesting.
Your photos are stunning. Growing this strain a second time but the phenotype is so different this time, using your Grow as a guide. This strain was my first and will probably be sweet spot for me always.
@MadMama, Thank you 😊
Yeah I chose this as my first as well because of the looks and size. I just wish there was a regular feminized version so I could grow a huge aromatic black bush.
The smell is definitely amazing, matches up with what you said in your last journal about the strain :)
I will be growing it again for sure if the high is good enough...then maybe try and cross it with another strain to get the autoflowering out but keep the color + taste.
She is coming along perfectly IMO. If you look at your plant's leaves compared to mine you'll see that yours is much more Indica and mine Sativa. You also have the Red genetics whereas I dont. Your girl is going to taste very sweet judging by the fade on your leaves now.. :D
@Hellhazard, Yeah I've definitely noticed that with yours, also when one looks at the stretch. Phenotypes eh. Pretty sure you'll get a lot more yield though 😉 Although half of that is to do with me probably stunting this one.
Yeah she was switching between lemon and lavender in the last couple of weeks, but now it's mainly a sweet fruit / lavender scent when one rubs a few of the trichomes.
My tap water EC is really low (0.05EC/25PPM) so I always use a Calcium & magnesium additive to compensate. I use GROTEK Cal-Max. If you start using it be careful with the amount you use, I gave my seedlings a bad burn with a 0.4 EC solution. I would start with a 0.15 to 0.2 EC worth of cal mag additive (in my case this is 0.4 to 0,5 cc/liter and see how they react.
My first symptoms are actually not rust spots, but purple stems and/or petioles than I have come to associate with Mg deficiency.
What I can say is that the development of my seedling this time was a lot faster than the last time (without cal mag additive)
@Hellhazard, yeah but you also see a lot of the ambers, right? I also thought it was strange they don't seem to be yellowing and then turning amber, but eh whatever. Prefer a more cerebral high anyways 😄
And I kind of want to know too, but at the same time not really 😬 After drying I'll be sanitizing everything with rubbing alcohol.
@Hellhazard, Yeah seems like I did. The color didn't really start to come out though until after a week of flowering. So maybe the same happens to yours still.
I always thought that measuring pH and EC values was too much, and grew a couple of crops without them, until I had a problem like you and just had to get both of them and realized how important they were.
What kind of soil are you using? Using Biobizz soil? light mix? all mix? something else?
@@Athos, thanks for your advice. I think you're right in conjunction with the other answers about a calcium deficiency, see the comments for Day 26 and a recently uploaded photo showing what seems to be progression of the rust spots.
The soil mix is Atami Bio-Growmix, the plant has been in there for about 1 and a half weeks now.
https://www.hydroponics.eu/atami-organicmix-soil-20l~9201.html
I guess it actually is a good idea to add some more nutrients though soon, perhaps calcium indeed because the soil is only fertilized for the first 3 weeks or so 😅
Those "rust spots" are very hard to evaluate and diagnose. If searched the answer is Calcium deficiency but it can be a host of issues. Cold rootzone will cause this, having your pots on concrete or feeding with cold water. PH fluctuation will cause this also. I've had it happen (way worse than yours is showing) to one plant and the plant next to it with no issues at all. Same environment/feed/temp ect..... I often wonder if it is just an issue with the Sweet Seeds genetics, I've yet to end up with a Red plant from the red family of seeds and always get this issue with at least one plant.
Anyhow congratulation on your flowering, my BSkunk is around day 60 with only preflower and very little pistals showing, its a massive bush Ive started to force with 12/12 to get on with it.
Good Luck, hope she turns blood red!
Eryan
