Germination
09/08/2020 - 13/08/2020:
This grow is one seed of Sweet Zkittles by Sweet Seeds and there will also be three other girls in the tent, one of Do-Sweet-Dos and two of Red Hot Cookies. Dropped the seeds at 10am on the 9th. Transferred them to a cotton pad the next day and waited for the tap roots to grow a little. On the 11th the roots were ~1cm long so I planted all the seeds in the morning in BioBizz Light Mix and put them in a tent. I later realised that the soil was not moist enough which is probably why the girls took 3 days to come up from the soil.
Week 1
Day 1 (14/08/2020):
All four girls in the tent popped out of the soil today and I watered them with 100 ml each of water with BioBizz Root Juice at (4ml/1L). In this grow there will be some upgrades since the last one: we have purchased Air Pots which I will be transplanting the girls into after a week! We will have a humidifier from the beginning, so that it is easier to control the environment when temperatures get too high (we will be using the vapor pressure deficit guideline). We will also be using BioBizz All Mix this time as opposed to the Plagron which should keep the pH balance perfect.
Day 2 (15/08/2020):
All of the seedlings grew so tall just over night! The soil is still moist and not dry at the top. The light is at about 80% intensity and there is a fan blowing the air around as as well. I set the humidifier at max during lights on which gets the humidity to around 75-80% with temperature at 30°C. During lights off the temperature drops to 26°C and I turn the humidifier on the lowest setting and the humidity is between 70% and 75%. If they start to grow too leggy I might cover them with a cm more of soil.
Day 3 (15/08/2020):
She is growing so quick and so beautiful already and the second set of leaves is coming out as well. I will definitely be replanting at the end of the week into the new Air-Pots to make sure that all the roots can grow into the pot and start getting air pruned.
Day 4 (17/08/2020):
This morning I decided to add another cm of soil to make sure that all the girls have sturdy stems. Before I added the soil, the girl was 5cm tall (4cm after added soil) and in the evening she has already grown to 4.5cm! The first set of leaves is definitely growing much bigger as well!
Day 5 (18/08/2020):
This girl is growing taller and taller and is already at 5cm tall. Her leaves are growing super fast as well! I sprayed the top of the soil today as well as it was getting a little dry but will do a proper watering tomorrow.
Day 6 (19/08/2020):
Wow this girl just loved growing taller, I think this one will need a lot of training to not outgrow the tent 😅 I watered her and the other girls with 100ml of water with Root Juice and saw some run off, I think this pot might be getting too small in a few days haha
Day 7 (20/08/2020):
This girl is growing a bit slower than the other girls. I will be including a picture of all the girls together tomorrow after the replant to show the size differences so far. It might be that she is in the smallest pot so maybe there is not enough space for the roots to develop but hopefully she will thrive after being moved to the Air Pot!
Wow beautiful monster flowers. Makes me think I let too many smaller branches develop when I see such a concentrated and controlled grow like yours. Enjoy the results!
@Superjd, Thanks! I actually think I should have lollipopped and removed more of the smallest ones at the bottom to let the main buds grow even bigger. But they have just finished drying so will post a Harvest diary soon!
Thanks for sharing a new diary with one of our strains.
We hope you enjoy it :P
Once finished, with the final notes of the strains, you can ask us for more seeds to share another diary.
Sweet smokes!
Jaypp
Great grow so far!! Sweet Zkittlez is definitely a great strain, can’t wait to see your results!
Also, I don’t think that the damage is from gnats or any environmental factor. It appears to be a calmag deficiency on the brown splotchy damaged leaves. Lower leaves shouldn’t be yellowing this early, this typically tends to be a sign of a nitrogen deficiency. Sometimes PK deficiencies can look similar but its a little early for that.
A white widow I was growing showed almost identical signs and as soon as I gave her organic Calmag + more vegetative/grow phase nutrients she stopped showing signs of deficiency. I only grow organic as well so I use Root’s Organic CalMag since it is certified and OMRI listed.
FreshCoastBudz, Hey, thanks, that's really helpful! I had no idea what it was but CalMag deficiency actually makes a lot of sense because yesterday some of the fan leaves on her have been going yellow on the outside but still staying dark green in the centre I really wasn't sure what it was. Thanks for the help! I have some BioBizz CalMag which I got in case this happened so will use it at next watering with some more nitrogen as well and hopefully it helps! 😀