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FIMing
weeks 16
Topping
weeks 4
Defoliation
weeks 5-7, 9
LST
weeks 6
ScrOG
weeks 6-10
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Week 1. Vegetation
5 years ago
Seeds started 7/15 sprouted 7/17. Have 6 seedlings but doing 4 plants, 2 kali and 2 juicy fruit. Going to affix little razor blades to their main colas and let them battle to the death. Last 4 alive move on. Grow here is under a new set of lights. Have 2 sets of lights each with 3 qb96 v2 boards and 480 watts total. Pretty excited to see how those perform.
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Week 2. Vegetation
5 years ago
18 hrs
24 °C
6
No Smell
540 PPM
60 %
20 °C
20 °C
76.2 cm
Moved to the medium on 7/22 7 days from seed. Top feeding and will start light nutrients tomorrow. Also sadly all of our contestants have not made it to this stage. We have 4 in medium, one dead, and one hanging on as an understudy in case something goes wrong.
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Fordprefect42x10
Fordprefect42x10started grow question 5 years ago
I have one of these seedlings showing wrinkled and droopy leaves. Was guessing light or wind burn and adjusted accordingly. Ph 6.1 temp 76 and humidity at 60%. Ec 500 or so with some hard water. Any opinions on what might be causing this?
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Ch33cH
Ch33cHanswered grow question 5 years ago
Looks overwatered to be honest. Little sprouts dont need much.
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Week 3. Vegetation
5 years ago
18 hrs
24 °C
6
No Smell
540 PPM
60 %
20 °C
20 °C
76.2 cm
Having some wrinkly leaf issues still on one of the juicy fruits. Not sure that one is going to make it. Interestingly we are experimenting with 1 of each strain in net pots and one in fabric bags. The fabric is having more of an issue for both strains. Suspecting there might be root rot at play especially on the one that looks mummified. Added some hydroguard to the reservoir and will see if that helps.
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Week 4. Vegetation
5 years ago
18 hrs
28 °C
6
No Smell
570 PPM
56 %
20 °C
20 °C
76.2 cm
Think I may have a calcium or magnesium deficiency on that mummy. A couple of necrotic spots that look like a calcium deficiency, but also a little chlorosis between the veins on some leaves (pictures don’t show it well). Added 5ml calmag in the kali reservoir and 10ml in the juicy fruit. Both are about 20 gallons so relatively small amounts. Also bumping the temperature up a bit to something more appropriate for leds. August 11 did a reservoir change as both were getting some algae. Looked like floating snot. Pretty gross. Keeping the reservoirs covered with panda film and added hydroguard. Let’s see if that helps. August 13 topped a juicy fruit and a kali. Will top the other Kali tomorrow. That sick thing isn’t getting topped. Not sure what to do with it really.
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Week 5. Vegetation
5 years ago
18 hrs
28 °C
6
No Smell
540 PPM
56 %
20 °C
20 °C
76.2 cm
Given the sad status of our mummy we added our fifth seedling that had been growing in soil at the window. My wife refused to give it up when we narrowed it down to 4 seeds so we washed the roots of and stuck it in with the others. Also believe our mummy may have been due to ph issues. Compared our meter to a liquid ph test which implied the meter was off by at least 0.7 putting the water below the normal threshold. After recalibrating the meter and dropping tds a bit it does look better. Whether it yields is a different question. Topped plants looking decent and recovering nicely. Mummy isn’t really getting much better. Any yield at all on that one will be a win
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Week 6. Vegetation
4 years ago
27.94 cm
18 hrs
28 °C
6
No Smell
560 PPM
56 %
20 °C
20 °C
76.2 cm
Starting to grow quickly except for that mummy thing.
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Week 7. Vegetation
4 years ago
33.02 cm
18 hrs
28 °C
6
No Smell
590 PPM
56 %
20 °C
20 °C
76.2 cm
Planning to flip the lights in 2 days. Pretty much given up on the dwarf mummy plant thing and chalked it up to crappy genetics. The kalis both look good. Lights now flipped.
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Week 8. Flowering
4 years ago
33.02 cm
18 hrs
28 °C
6
No Smell
605 PPM
48 %
20 °C
20 °C
50.8 cm
Starting to see some pistils after flipping the lights 5 days ago. Can’t wait to see what those qb96 boards do in flower. 8 days post light flip changed reservoir to flowering nutes Starting to see little buddlettes forming towards the end of the week. Also feel like I’m losing the scrogging battle. The netting isn’t strong enough and the plants just push it out of the way.
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Week 9. Flowering
4 years ago
40.64 cm
18 hrs
28 °C
6
No Smell
575 PPM
48 %
20 °C
20 °C
50.8 cm
Plants have been stretching pretty good and the buds are starting to fill out a little. Trichomes are pretty clear now too. They’ve been drinking a ton of water, but nutrient levels have been up pretty much every day so they are drinking more than they are eating. Cutting back on the tds to account for that.
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Week 10. Flowering
4 years ago
50.8 cm
18 hrs
28 °C
6
No Smell
565 PPM
48 %
20 °C
20 °C
45.72 cm
Dialing down nutrients a little more as they are drinking much faster than eating.
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Week 11. Flowering
4 years ago
50.8 cm
18 hrs
28 °C
5.7
No Smell
530 PPM
48 %
20 °C
20 °C
45.72 cm
Dropping nutrient levels again this week as I’m seeing burnt tips. Did a full res change on the Kali and will likely do the same for juicy fruit tomorrow as they are on separate res’s. Flowers looking good though except for the mummy which will produce maybe an eight of larf if I’m lucky. Also took the scrog off as they seem to be done stretching and the netting was getting in the way. Really happy with the fattening of the buds so far. End of week update: Dropping the ph a bit to see if that improves nutrient uptake. Also that Kali rescue plant is starting to kick ass. Probably has the best buds of all of them. Kind of cool considering it spent the first 3 weeks of its life in a Dixie cup by the window. The juicy fruit has been disappointing as far as bud size. They just aren’t fattening like the critical Kali mist. They look dense just not getting any coke can sized buds out of them.
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Week 12. Flowering
4 years ago
50.8 cm
18 hrs
28 °C
5.7
No Smell
530 PPM
48 %
20 °C
20 °C
45.72 cm
So sadly tragedy struck this week. The largest plant in the tent Hermied and I missed it. It completely pollinated itself and parts of 2 of the other girls. Ripped that dude wannabe out and made hash. This has left a gaping hole in our grow room and our hearts. On the other hand shit happens and it could have been worse. I don’t think the collateral damage is that bad. No new pics yet.
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Week 13. Flowering
4 years ago
50.8 cm
18 hrs
28 °C
5.7
No Smell
600 PPM
48 %
20 °C
20 °C
45.72 cm
I think these have developed a phosphorus deficiency over the last 2 days. Leaves went purplish very quickly. Bumped the P levels last night. Hopefully that helps. Those juicy fruit buds look like a bunch of cacti. It’s either foxtailing or some weird alien strain.
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Week 14. Flowering
4 years ago
50.8 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6
No Smell
620 PPM
48 %
20 °C
20 °C
45.72 cm
The juicy fruit is just weird. The foxtailing on those is so bad that some of them look like ghosts and mummy’s rather than buds. We think we can make a chess set out of them as some of them look like serviceable pawns.
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Week 15. Flowering
4 years ago
50.8 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6
No Smell
620 PPM
48 %
20 °C
20 °C
45.72 cm
The smaller CKM is getting close to chopping here. Tentatively planning on it in a couple days. Seeing some amber trichomes mixed in with milky. Other 2 have a bit longer but think they will be chopped by week 9.
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Week 15. Harvest
4 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Juicy fruit - Custom Breeder & Strain
Spent 114 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
7/10
Rated
138.91 g
Bud dry weight per plant
1
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Difficulty
Sleepy
Energy
Indica
Hybrid
Sativa

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Will report back after I get it dried and weighed. Smells great. Harvested 60 days into flower.
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Week 16. Flowering
4 years ago
50.8 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6
No Smell
620 PPM
48 %
20 °C
20 °C
45.72 cm
Pretty close to done here. Juicy fruit chopped yesterday. This one is going soon. Been an interesting grow and lots of things learned that I’ll do a post mortem on later.
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Week 16. Harvest
4 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Critical Kali Mist - Delicious Seeds
Spent 114 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
7/10
Rated
96.39 g
Bud dry weight per plant
2
Plants
Easy
Difficulty
Sleepy
Energy
Indica
Hybrid
Sativa

Height
Day air temperature
Air humidity
PPM
PH
Light schedule
Solution temperature
Night air temperature
Lamp distance
I’ll have some full commentary after they have had some time to cure. This is a very energetic strain. Makes me want to go hike 10 miles.
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