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Started in a solo cup with 50/50 coco/perlite mix (mother earth coco). Seed sprouted 36 hours after being planted. Room humidity 60%, temp 80⁰, seedling under dome: humidity 99% temp 80⁰. Solution I mixed was diluted ( original solution was apx. 600ppm). Fed apx. 100ml with apx 50ml runoff. 200ppm in 200ppm out, pH 6.1

My lady was looking a bit sad, maybe over watered due to poor drainage. I transplanted from solo cup to 3/4 gal pot. 50/50 coco/perlite mix. (Mother earth coco). She also looked a bit pale, maybe hungry, so I Fed with 350ppm solution. End of week 2 and she's slowly recovering, a bit of stunted growth. Hopefully next week she bounces back.

She's slowly making a comeback, I switched her over to dry amendments when I transplanted least week. Using Dr. Earth (can find at home depot). Just giving water at a pH of 6.2-6.5 Still really stunted thou.

She kinda just doing her own thing. I still don't have the dosing for the dry amendments down yet. Growing slow but next transplant should cheer her up. I've been very lazy with this plant, but I've been growing her for a mother so I don't want her to grow too fast.

She just hit the 1 month mark and Im getting ready to transplant (if I don't get lazy again). Just transplanted from a 3/4 gal to 5 gal. She was somewhat root bound, gave her a nice watering. Light is 18" away at 50% (120w) hitting apx. 16,500 lux. Room is running at 200w. She's ending the week at 12" tall, took well to transplanting. I'll be topping her tomorrow (beginning week 6).

Topped her on day 36, the beginning of the week 6. She's looking good so far... I think haha Looks like the lower nodes are starting to grow out (day 37) I was out of town for 4 days, I watered her when I left and prayed that she would be fine. When I got back the RH was 47% and soil was dry but she looked ok. She grew nicely while I was away, she currently stands 16 inches tall and apx 16 inches wide. Some of her fan leaves are almost a foot wide. She looks ready to tie down and start some LST.

Start of week 7 so I made a few changes, put her under 3 led bulbs (reg household bulbs, 15w each 45w total) She's looking great, lower nodes are showing good growth. Pretty soon I'll take a few clones and flower them to close the journal. This plant will be a mother for future grows so I won't be flowering her. Did some defoliation and cut some clones, hopefully they root fast. Im going to flower outdoors as soon as they root. The plan is to transplant once they are rooted and transfer outdoors. They are going to go in 1 gal "pots".

She's recovering from the defoliation, and there's 1 clone that is rooting faster than the others. Strangely enough there was a random seed in the starter I cloned in. I was able to separate the seedling and clone and went ahead and transplanted the clone. I will officially start week 1 of the clones veg time congruent with week 9 of the mother in the same journal.

Week 9 is finally here, and today marks the fist day of veg for the clones. The plan is 4 week veg then flip to flower. Currently there's 8 clones that will later be reduced to 4. Let's see how it goes Day 6 and they are looking good, I see 4 I like and will probably be transplanting at the end of the 3rd week.

Mother is on week 10. Clones are starting week 2. So far so good. They are looking kind of hungry, I might end up transplanting at the end of week 2. Mother just got a top dress, she has some growth I need to cut but I don't need clones yet so hoping she can hold out a bit. I topped 4 of 8 clones, they were growing a bit uneven. I left the 4 most even in growth alone, I plan on topping those after transplanting. So I went the lazy route and just top dressed the clones. Hopefully the hold out another 2 weeks. Soon I'll be removing the mother to give the clones more light.

Started the week with the mother in her new location. The clones now have the tent to themselves The topped clones are looking good, mother is doing fine and I took more clones to clean up the mother a bit. Going to top the rest of the clones soon just not sure when. So I ended up topping the rest of the clones on day 17 before lights out. So far they look ok, lower growth is stretching. The ones that's were topped earlier seem to be growing better, I'm not sure which ones will end up in the final leg of the grow. The end of week 3 for the clones is almost over. Day 21 is here end of week 3 and the clones are looking great. The ones that got topped early have much better lower growth making them bushy, the ones that got topped later would be good for someone who has a taller ceiling (my tent is 6'). The mother is growing great as well, I'm actually worried I gave her to much nitrogen cuz she looks almost blue under her new light (6500k). Clones are on day 5 with no visible roots but I'm also not doing anything special just spraying with water in the mornings, no heat mat just the tray/dome.

Last week before flip and there was a slight change of plans. Now all the clones along with the mother will be flowered. 9 plants total in a 5x4 space currently under the 400 MH bulb. The ladies got moved outdoors to their final spot. So far the night's haven't been too cold, but once it cools down I'll toss a heater in there. There might be one final round of clones taken from momma

So last week had some last minute changes but all in all the grow is going fine. The lady's are stretching nicely and I took one last round of clones from the mother. I also did some defoliation and LST, unfortunately I ran out of ties so I'll have to resume another day. Currently there are 8 clones and the mother. 4 in 5 gallon fabric pots and 4 in 3 gallon fabric pots. The mother is in a 5 gallon plastic pot. 5 gallon set was topped early, 3 gallon set was topped later. Mothers been in the 5 gallon for 60+ days and will finish in that pot. Finished training the ladies (day 5) now it should just be smooth sailing for the rest of the grow.

The ladies are doing great, I blasted them with a feed of general hydroponics flora line. 4ml calmag, 4ml micro, 8ml bloom, 1ml liquid Kool bloom (all ml/gal). They were looking a bit light in color, but now they have a nice healthy green. Not much to do this week just letting them coast along

The Nights are getting colder, I'm going to have to kick on a heater soon. The lady's had a crazy stretch, I'm hoping they won't get much taller my tiny makeshift green house is short (apx. 4'8"). The mother measures 4' from tops to bottom of the pot. The clones measure 3' from tops to bottom. Unfortunately I found a few ball sacks on a few of the clones. Thankfully they were tiny/underdeveloped but I inspected all the plants to be sure. I suspect that a house light might be what's making them Herm a bit. The mother shows no signs of herming thou and is directly in front of the window that casts the light. I'll update as it goes, but I pray the ladies stay ladies lol * I tossed in a photo of some of the last clones taken from the mother. So I did a final defoliation on the ladies and checked them for any more nut sacks. Unfortunately I did find more, strangely they were only on the lower underdeveloped growth. I cut them all off (every clone had some sacks), but the mother had none. To avoid more problems I stuffed them (literally) in the tent. With some canna magic I fit five 5gal pot & four 3gal pots (9 total) into a dam 4x4. That will eliminate any light leaks now my biggest enemy is going to be humidity. Pray for me guys! 🤣 So far the ladies look good, the week is almost up and they are getting really hairy, and a starting to development a pleasant smell.

Started working this week so unfortunately I couldn't document as much as I would of liked. The ladies are just cruising along. Took some pics under "normal" light. Finally turned up the ballast to 1000w this week. Some color change is starting to happen. Is kind of hard to get decent pics with HPS. I'll try later at lights out

The lady's are filling out nice, some more pronounced color change is going on. I'm unsure if the nutrients in the dirt are going to be enough for her to finish but I'm NOT going to add any more nutrients or feed when watering. Just some molasses to help finish out what's in the dirt. My only other worry is humidity, it's a bit low during lights on but shoots up to about 70 during lights out. Next run I'm going to need a better dehumidifier... This is supposed to be a 7 week strain, we are starting week 5. My guess is it might go to week 8 to finish off. I'll start checking Trichomes next week. Some pics are a bit blurry but still ok

Start of week 6 and the lady's are looking beautiful. Not the biggest buds but that's also due to cloudy weather during the first 3 weeks of flower, also why I moved them indoors. They still have some time hopefully they bulk up. They are still sprouting hairs and the Trichomes are looking clear for the most part. Still just giving water. They are getting some molasses tomorrow but besides that they are just cruising along. So checking the ladies day 3 of the week I noticed some PM on one of the buds. I promptly cut the offending bud checked the ladies to make sure there wasn't any more. I've had troubles in the past with PM and in my experience it better to just pull them. So 48 hr off darkness starts immediately. Followed by a bud wash for the ladies to make sure and remove any PM that might be on them So I chopped and bud washed the ladies, now they are tucked away in the tent to dry. They have a dehumidifier and a humidifier to keep the humidity in check and have 2 fans blowing air in the tent. The mother was starting to split on me, but strangely enough a tiny bud helped keep her together.

Maybe this seed was just a less desirable phenotype, i would try again but definitely not as a mother. I wonder if pulling all those clones stressed them out from the start. Maybe I'll do a redo in the future. All in all some beautiful colors.