...And this is what I came back to on monday! Just look at the last pic from last week and see the difference! Growing very nicely :). Glad I managed to retain myself from watering them before I left.
Speedy at day 15. Growing very nicely, and look at that colour! I have never seen such a vibrant and lush tone in any plant. It´s beautiful lime green and just absolutely shining. I could spend hours just watching her gorgeous colours.
Speedy, day 15
...And this is what I came back to on monday! Just look at the last pic from last week and see the difference! Growing very nicely :). Glad I managed to retain myself from watering them before I left.
Speedy at day 15. Growing very nicely, and look at that colour! I have never seen such a vibrant and lush tone in any plant. It´s beautiful lime green and just absolutely shining. I could spend hours just watching her gorgeous colours.
Week 3 started off good! The plants are just absolutely thriving and they grow at insane speed.
First feeding was on monday at day 15 of Speedy, I gave 0.5 litres to everyone with 1/4th strenght nutes + some seaweed extract. I am a firm believer in seaweed, I use it both foliar and in the waterings. Altough Cheesy is the smallest and youngest, she seemed to enjoy the watering the most. So far Cheesy and Speedy seem to be most resistant to problems, while StressK seems to be very easy to stress; she doesnt like water, too much light, too much fan, too much heat, nor anything else :). Very sensitive plant compared to the other ones, I have to be more careful with her.
From this day on (21/2/2018) we are up to date with diary and will be reporting daily how things go. If you didnt read the previous weeks, I started this grow on 4/2/2018 and backlogged the first two weeks, luckily I had some pics taken so I could put them up aswell :).
Edit 21/2/2018:
Started to LST all the autos, bent them gently outwards from center of growspace to expose side braches to light. Speedy will be topped tomorrow, I will give a little more time for the 5th node to develop before I cut her. Everything is going very well, the temperature is steady at 23c and they grow so fast it´s almost unbeliavable. I check them every few hours and the ch ange is visible every time :). Speedy is on day 17 and her foliage spread is 30cm. The LED I am using seems to produce very squat plants, no stretching on plants, quite the opposite. The gap between nodes is very tight.
Edit 22/2/2018
Speedy is doing very well. Decided to top her today. She has a very nice fruity hash-like smell, I have high hopes for her future :). I think I will give her two more weeks before switching lights to 12/12. I will wait for the side branches to grow a bit and tie them down to get a nice and even canopy of colas. I don´t want to veg her too long tough since I have only 10l pot for her, I don´t want her to be rootbound when I flip lights and she starts to stretch.
Edit 23/2/2018 Speedy recovered from topping very fast and is reaching for the skies! She is a very vigorious plant, seems to have good genetics, so thanks @James for always providing the highest quality :). The lime color just keeps getting better and she´s develeping very beautiful smell, fresh & fruity. Today I also received the grow tent I ordered, decided to go over the budget with it - altough it was only 50 euros from Amazon - but still a lot of money for me at the moment. The closet ain´t completely lightproof and I don´t want Speedy to go full tranny on me, and I would have problems with ventilation if I tried to seal the closet with something. And I can´t drill air holes into it since it ain´t mine and I don´t want to pay for a new one :). Not sure if I will put the tent up today, because today I also received some Amnesia Haze from a friend and it seems to be doing it´s job very well, feeling a bit too soft to do anything that requies me to move :)
yo mate! I have a "mutant" Chile in my tent, she's growing like a tree. I would suggest you to cover those white buckets to keep the roots at dark, it's better for them. You may use some aluminium foil, better than anything! Keep on growing! 🤘
Hi! Yes I checked your journal, your Chile is getting Big :D. I will cover those white buckets, I have a huge roll of black/white -plastic I am going to use for it.
Going to start flowering for Speedy on sunday when she hits 3 weeks. I was planning to veg her for 4 weeks but space is seriously going to be an issue with 60x60x140 tent and four plants so I can´t let her get any bigger.
Speedy recovered from topping very fast and is reaching for the skies! She is a very vigorious plant, seems to have good genetics, so thanks @James for always providing the highest quality :). The lime color just keeps getting better and she´s develeping very beautiful smell, fresh & fruity. Today I also received the grow tent I ordered, decided to go over the budget with it - altough it was only 50 euros from Amazon - but still a lot of money for me at the moment. The closet ain´t completely lightproof and I don´t want Speedy to go full tranny on me, and I would have problems with ventilation if I tried to seal the closet with something. I can´t drill air holes into it since it ain´t mine and I don´t want to pay for a new one :). Not sure if I will put the tent up today, because today I also received some Amnesia Haze from a friend and it seems to be doing it´s job very well, feeling a bit too soft to do anything that requies me to move :)
I hope she flowers as good as she vegs, and I am really anxious to see the actual flowering time for her. Like I mentioned earlier, I am going to take some cuttings off from her and veg them on the side while this one is flowering. I don´t know yet if I am going to do one plant with SCROG or a nine plant SOG or something from between, I have to see what happens when I put her into 12/12. @james, what do you recommend for maximum yield in 60x60x140 space, soil/coco -mix and 300w (150w true) LED? SCROG or SOG? I am going to flip lights when she is 4 weeks old, so I have a good 7 or 8 weeks to work with the cuttings and do a longer veg if I end up with one plant so vegging time ain´t an issue.
@SKELETOR, thanks for the info, the plants look healthy and well developed, it was more of a comment on the settings than a remark on the plants. Good job, it's always best to listen to the plant and adjust everything to their needs, sometimes they can be quite sensitive.
Keep up the good work ;)
@bobo420, I have tried placing it lower but leaves start to droop and curl up within couple of hours from lowering the lights. I tried 20cm, which almost killed the autos, and 30cm but they didnt seem to like that either. I will wait until they are flowering before hanging the lights lower again.
Here we go! Just followed this fresh, new and interesting diary. Since you’re growing Speedy Chile, I suggest you to follow @Endriu‘s diary as well! He has one of them, and she’s getting amazingly huge. Very cool diary!! Happy growing bud!!! 😃
Hey hey wats up buddy , i really love your low budget grow really a lot hey makes me thinks back a year ago when i just started no tent box nothing a small plant on a bucket with one damn light big up to you for this show people it can be done !! If you have the time please check out my diary "Rubob" lol guna follow if you dont mind ?!
Girls recovered from foliation much faster than I expected, cut off some leaves 24 hours ago and the new growth is clearly visible! From autos Royal Cheese is responding to LST and foliation very well, Northern Light and Stress Killer are still trying to put most of the growth into the top of main stalk. So if you are looking for an auto that is easy to train, I recommend Royal Cheese.