The Three Amigos

All LED lighting with a Viparspectra 450 hung 20" above canopy and a Roleadro 300 hung 15" above canopy. Combined actual wattage 325 watts. Tent is gorilla lite 2' x 2.5' x 5.5' with a 2' extension if needed. Can max 6" exhaust fan with 6x16" carbon filter. 2 6in clip fans. Started as a DWC switched to Coco Coir due to improper res temps and no space for a chiller. Troph Blumats installed for constant drip feed with zero runoff and I routinely slurry test coco to see root zone ph and ppms. Due to my fantastic 503ppm tap water (joy of coastal Southern Cal) I am running RO water only. CA COMPLIANT MEDICAL GROW. This is my absolute first grow all knowledge gained by reading forums and websites. Any input is greatly appreciated.

Tap root dropped and growth has started

Plants starting to droop. Roots went from bright white to slimy brown. Root rot struck and quickly. Brewed hydro tea and added to reservoir. No changes after a few days. Plants are not doing well at all. pH has been crashing from 5.8 to 4.2 overnight, after researching, it's a classic symptom of a reservoir infection and roots are definitely no bueno.

Transplanted from dwc to Coco Coir to try and save the plants. Acquired a free Lemon Skunk clone and Afghani Clone.

These gals are resilient and have made a 180* turn from rot and are recovering and growing again. They were stunted for about 8 days but appear to be back on track. Also switched to Canna Coco Nutes. Installed Troph Blumat to feed while gone for 2 days. May keep installed for constant drip feeding.

Installed trellis to attempt a scrog. Transplanted the NL and FO into 1 gal smart pots and removed the Afghani from the tent. Equipment fell and broke several of her branches. Placed outside in the sun and will let mother nature take her course. I am feeding the Afghani same mix for indoor plants. Swapped lights to put higher wattage LED over thicker plants. I also switched to 12/12 as trellis is 75% full but the stretch is kicking in

Bloom switch was flipped on last week on the viparspectra and these ladies are stretching and have completely filled the screen. I am working lst the best I can to keep her at canopy level and have made a few high stress u turns on a few branches (done slowly and gently) Budding sites ramping up to produce and now officially entered flowering period. It has been very humid and rainy this past week. Battling high humidity and have maximized airflow as much as I can in tent. I have passive 6" ducted and filtered intake flowing into the bottom of the tent added another 6" clip fan blowing over canopy and turned can max fan from low to medium setting (264 CFM) tent sides sucked in. 1/14 - humidity problem improving

1/15 Carefully removed around 20 fan leaves combined from all three plants to increase light penetration to Fire OG. Cleaned up a bottom of plant removing some leaves and sucker branches. Will give these ladies a few days rest to see how they respond. Took one clone from NL plant from lower branch trimming. Placed in nursery and will go in my Auto tent on 20/4 light schedule after they root. Clone currently under 23w 6500k cCFL in a root riot. First cloning attempt, unfortunately I did not have any rooting stimulant. 1/17 they stretched again on me 2" over night, raised my lights up accordingly. No signs of light or heat damage but don't want to risk it. 1/20 over past 10 days plants have stretched 12". Installing the 2ft tent extension this weekend. 1/18 another inch in height gained over night, NL joined the budding party too!!

1/22 flushed all three plants with florakleen and then immediately fed afterwards. Runoff from NL and FO ph 5.8 ppm 573. LS runoff ph 5.5 ppm 650 1/23 plants look great after flush and really started to drink up. Increased canna coco a+b from 9 to 12, reduced calmag from 6 to 5, increased canna boost to 10. Ppm up from 900 to 1000 6 1/25 backed nutes down on canna ab to 11ml total ppm 950. NL stretch appears to be over, no new hiegth achieved last 48 hours. Tent extension was wrong kit, had to order the right extension and delivery time frame is 5 to 15 days. Keeping eye on top branches, one NL branch is and has been 11" away from the light. No evidence of burn. Viparspectra recommended 24" but have read multiple sources of people getting them as close as 10" with out problem. I never go more than 14 hours without visiting this grow room and have my eyes peeled for light or heat stress. 1/27 backed a&b down to 10ml. Saw some signs of tip burn. Looks like 950ppm is what they like right now.

1/30 backed a&b down to 9ml each and added first dose of pk 13/14 @ 4ml. Ppm clocked in @ 900. Reminder, these ladies are on constant drip feeding via troph blumats. They drip non stop and rarely is there any runoff and the media never dries out. I do flush with florakleen about every 2 weeks. Verticle growth ceased all plants. Airpots have been fully penetrated all around from top to bottom, roots are bright white and healthy. 2/1 finally recieved extension and raised lights up. No evidence of burn but it was a little too close 2/2 ordered high CFM kit for the gorilla tent. Walls sucked in much further and intruding on space. 2/3 spoke with the person I acquired the LS clone from and found out he grew it from DNA Genetics seed

2/5 Don't know why I never thought about it, but I lifted the FO and placed a container underneath to raise its canopy on to the same level as everyone else. 2/6 LS branches getting heavy and everyone is gaining weight, happy dance. Trichome development looks amazing (at least to me) 2/8 LS has really started packing it on. DNA says it's a quick finisher, but I'm in week 5 and I think it needs at least 4 more 2/10 not much of a post tonight, too depressed. Found seeds on the NL. Totally pissed off right now. Found 2 on main cola. For me.

2/12 throughly looked over plants, could not find hermie parts. May be buried in a bud. No other plants so signs of seed production. Tight close quarters in this tent. Just gonna let it ride out the last few weeks and see what happens 2/13 stopped pk boost with last reservoir fill. LS is still coming along nicely. I'm pretty sure the NL got to close to the led panel which probably triggered her to stress and former nanners. I did not find any male pollen sacks after spending hours looking on all plants. 2/16 flushed plants with 2 gal of florakleen each then fed to bring root zone into target range. Overnight leaves appeared to be experiencing ph problems, sure enough runoff was 2100ppm and 5.0ph. Got root zone back to target ppms and 5.8 ph. 2/18 plants responded to flush very well. Have a lot going on this weekend, no photo updates until monday.

2/20 went away for 48hrs, unfortunately I screwed with the blumats before leaving and came home to underwatered and NL and LS starting to show purple stems. Gave them a good feeding and reset blumats. Majority of trichomes are cloudy, no signs of any amber. 2/22 FO has been dealing with WPM since it's 2nd week and probably should have been destroyed way back then but I had it "undercontrol" on her until the past couple days. A lot more affected leaves so I decided to pull her out of the room. Upon close inspection it appears to have infected about half of the plants leaves directly under the buds. After reviewing under a magnifying glass I saved around 25g wet and discarded a lot. She never really grew well and I'm kicking myself for not removing her at the beginning. Lesson learned. I gave all plants a thorough check and both LS and NL appear unharmed. Not looking forward to nuking the setup after this grow. 2/23 cut down on a&b to 7ml

2/26 lots of clear trichs on all plants. The smell is getting fairly strong. My carbon filter is unable to totally scrub the air and the house definitely has a dank smell. Thankfully the wife loves it too. Next run I will either DIY a filter or get a reputable brand and not brandx China crap. 2/28 more ambers starting to show. NL is majority cloudy with a couple amber and a couple clear. Trim her tonight. Will flush in 2 days and harvest after 2 days of flushing. 3/2 she took very well to the trim and buds are fattening up. More cloudy trichs visible and actually going to push harvest back and give her another week unless she goes 25% amber and then I'll chop her down. Gave both plants florakleen flush followed by light feed. 3/3 Smoke report Lemon Skunk - i performed a quick dry method baking at 170 for 20 min and then left in a 20% rh regulated container overnight. She was juicy dripping sticky wet when I plucked this from about midway down the plant. Flavor profile of citrus and diesel, sour citrus on the hit and fuel on thr exhale. since this was just a test, the plant has not been flushed for harvest. Definitely going to love the finished product. She hits strong and a little harsh, quick head rush and body high and energetic. Kinda makes you want to ocd clean your house. Week or so and a good flush and short cure and I think this will be a keeper.

3/5 trimmed dying leaves off LS. It's getting close, more cloudy trichs everyday. Probably finish by next weekend. trimmed a low bud off the NL and has been drying 2 days. Will need another couple and will make a test report 3/8 putting them on final flush. both plants are about 70% cloudy 20% amber and 10% clear. Buds fattened up nicely past week. going to flush with ph'd ro water, and 3ml calmag and 10ml cannaboost per gal 3/11 0400 started dark period

3/12 Harvest time. Plants cut and trimmed last night and I'll post a harvest report once dry. Wet weight including stems 583 grams. Drying at 70f 60% rh. harvested at 8.5 weeks flowering time. 3/14 48 hrs drying time under belt. Buds are slowly drying out as they should be. Aiming for a 7 day dry time. I have my quart jars and Boveda packs ready to go. 3/16 96 hrs and still drying out nice and slowly 3/17 getting close to done maybe another 18 hrs or so. Sampled a small bud a smooth clean hit. Will put a full smoke report in the harvest post. Ive sampled 3 grams each plant so far from a week before harvest until now and it has only been getting better 😏

She was definately sativa dominant and wanted to stand up tall. I trained her under a trellis and she took to it very well unlike my northern lights did. She was centered under a cheapo Roleadro "300w" LED but plugged into my killawatt showed 110w pull from the wall. I would definately grow her again in a much larger space. 2x2.5' was not enough space to let her flourish. Going to put that LED on the shelf or use it for supplemental lighting in my other grow. On nutes, i found her to be very sensative and i stuggled with ph swings and at one of her flushes, runoff was pouring out at 3000 ppm and ph 4.1 . I was gone for 3 days and came back to a lot of lower leaves browning and dying. After the flush I got the runoff ppm down to 200 and then gave her a good feeding but the damage was done to some of the lower buds. Light penetration from the weak LED was far from optimal and had to cut out a lot of underdeveloped bud throughout the flowering time and probably lost an ounce and a bit. Her tent mate that was destroyed (fire og) came down with wpm and their leaves were intertwined. The lemon skunk fauggt for her life but the last two weaks a couple small patches popped up on a couple leaves, wiped down with sm90 and crossed my fingers. I inspected all buds with magnifying glass when jarring and only had to toss one grape size nug. Wanted to share the highs and the lows of her life, not going to hide that I am a total greenhorn and definately made some major mistakes from the grow, but I have definately learned and my second grow that is now 5 weeks in flower is doing great

This lovely lady had a rough start to life. My inexperienced and eager self decided to attempt a DWC with out a chiller or tea and she ended up with rot and lost 90% of her root mass at 2nd week. I treated her with physan 20 and then brewed "richy richs" hydro tea and fed her it for 2 weeks and transplanted her into coco as a last ditch effort. She pulled through. Next issue I ran into was space, when I flipped 12/12 the trellis was near 75% full (the grower guide I WAS following said to wait until 75% full) and she stretched and stretched and the trellis filled up and the only space to go was up. Then I ran into height issues and ordered the height extension for my tent which became a nightmare as the store that sold the tents did not have a clear listing and bought the wrong one, ended up finally getting it installed after 3 weeks of searching and locating the right one. The Viparspectra 450 was definately too close and she foxtailed all over the place. This LED is very strong for a cheap amazon deal. I would use this LED again, but I would hang it no closer than 18" next time. First grow attempt and I made it to harvest and pulled 5 oz combined from 2 plants in 5 sq ft. On top of the 5oz or prime bud, there was another 24 grams of larf to make hash with. Can't wait for the next adventure in growing. Thank you to everyone thayt helped out, especially my fellow growers and their diaries. This community is amazing!0