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Screwed up on an autoflower and finally got it going. Maybe 3-4 weeks in. Bottom leaves fell off. Nice white tap root coming out of net and hydrogaurd being used for root rot. We will save and put under 450led until I need the space or it takes off.
Res changed, plant is into flowering and forming buds. Going to keep it under the 450led for now until it's needed.
Will most likely finish flowering for bud sample under 150led.
Started a lst mid week last week.
Using kind base and bloom at 2/3 strength.
Started lst last week.
Roots are doing great.
Still under 450led-moved it closer.
Small project fan on base now.
Heat has been a concern, nest thermostat is acting up. Trying to get temp back down to 80 In day (at plant under light).
Using kind trio 1/2 strength.
Won't lst anymore or crop, plant is developing in some areas and less in others.
Looks like it will still bud up nice, may have to harvest at different times which is ok.
Had the 400led on it. Was bleaching the buds, moved it to a 150led and gave it a private room/phone line.
******Please see article on light bleaching here for my question below
https://www.leafly.com/news/growing/white-tips-on-cannabis-buds
My issue category is not listed..
Light bleaching with LED's, fake news or naw?
One website says it's bad, an article reposted by an led company says it's great and you get an f-ton of tricombs.
I've looked in the past with my zorb, there seemed to be more trics to me.
Hello there!
Light bleach / light stress, light burns are the terms used for this family of issues, no need to worry too much on that, just move your lights away. The affected buds that turned white often mistaken as white cannabis, starts to loose potency or have no potency depends on the severity. So this trichomes info sounds strange.
A few things to keep a look on are your temps too, to make sure you don’t have heat stress...
There is a technique i had tried before called Back Building, you can have a look on that, basically is a HST technique that makes the plant focus the energy also in the lower buds, have a look on the timing is made also so you do not compromise the growth since you are making an auto.
Happy growing, cheers!
Last update was later in the week so in trying to get back on track.
Using Kind nutrients at half strength.
Everything is good, plant is filling out. Main bud side obviously had the stress with the leaf shape, the rest is maybe 2-3 weeks behind (opposite side of the bud site).
Was getting bushy so I tied 4 of the corners to spread it out a little and expose the bud sites more.
Thank you everyone for responding to my grow question! I figured the potency argument by the guy selling the LED's was probably not valid, but wanted to see if anyone had done their own research.
Cannasim- I enjoyed reading about a new stress techique. Even cooler that it isn't well known, as I've never seen it in training articles and there's little mention of it online (compared to other methods).
Using Kind Trio half strength.
Looks like a plant in week 6 of flowering. The main cola with the funky leaves is weeks ahead still. I'm still planning on cutting that first when it's ready.
Moved plant a little farther away from light as it looks like it had it's flowering stretch after the main cola formed buds (makes sense as I did lst late as the top was just beginning to flower).
Smells great, plant will be getting a roommate to share light with tomorrow (no diary for the roommate).
Using kind trio.
One day I'll figure out how to take nice pics. So hard to paint the picture.
Still looking good. Thought I was going to have to harvest the big bush in the middle this week, but the tricombs look like they are still developing (pictured).
Had a huge stretch on the opposite side of the bush, grew right up to the light. Hit those with some extreme lst/accidentally super cropped one.
Smells so great. Was disappointed I didn't get to try some this week.
Using Kind trio half strength
Sorry, had to delete a pic showing the main bud before it was trimmed. It was 52.33gr untrimmed
Pulled the hot mess (main bud). Was going through it and thought I saw bud rot. Chopped immediately, it was a dead leaf that I had spilled some water on way inside the mess. Still happy I cut the main bud(early). It was not developing like the rest of the plant.
Everything else is looking good. LOVE the feel of theese buds. Soft and dense like styrofoam. Very excited for the rest of the plant to finish developing!
Using kind nutrients half strength.
Sweet grape supplement half strength.
I thought the crispy leaves we're light burn or the plant finishing it's cycle. Thinking maybe not- noticed further down plant. Res was pretty dirty. Did a clean and sanitize, got to 6.0ph and tied down the top 3 main buds to hopefully help.
AC wasn't on and I wasn't home over the 80+ degree weekend so that may have contributed
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Buds look like they are still fattening up, some are just ready, others are less ready (probably because of the early issues with the plant). If buds continue like this, then I'll flush 3 days and chop. Right now I think I can take this another week or 2.
Using kind nutrients half strength.
We are still good, trics look nice still, dealing with something affecting the pH/plant -see below.
SOMETHING is going on. pH keeps dropping from like 6.2 to 4.5 overnight. I read two things- root problems or the plant in flowering does this. Had a few incredibly humid days in the room and house when ac was broke, so that sucked.
Noticed my well water went from ph 6.0avg to 7.0 can't find info on that one online which is kind of weird (gotta be the mandella effect...only thing that would make sense).
I'm thinking pH issue is maybe root related. My hydrogaurd in using was wayyyy expired. Res was incredibly dirty too.
Bleached everything including air stones, changed air lines. There was a little bit of Gunk on the air stones so it makes me believe it was root related.
Sweet grape supplement was beginning to harden inside (as old as hydrogaurd) so that's gone too just in case. Moved light up a few inches for the next few days.
Great strain, can't believe what I put it through for a good result.
Root probs from the beginning. Got it going, then hit it with light burn....then more pH probs.
Amazing unique smell, will be growing another Mephisto again.
Huge trim bucket for dry ice hash.
AllGrownUp
