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Week 1. Vegetation
4 years ago
7.62 cm
24 hrs
26 °C
6.4
50 %
24 °C
24 °C
26 °C
11 L
0 L
152.4 cm
300 PPM
This is a heavily amended soil with a soil content of 1.026-0.35-0.35. Since this is my first time using this soil and amendment ratios, this will largely be water only, maybe some teas if I start to see anything going on and possibly a top dress right before flower. I've also planted cover crops with the seeds. I germinated the seeds directly in the hot soil. I placed the seeds approx. 1cm down into the soil and kept the soil moist with a humidity bell over it, I remove the bell when the seed comes above ground. Within 3 days the seed was above ground, this pictures above are 7 days after breaking ground. Using the surrounding plants to offer shade to them so they don't get blasted by the flower light on the other side of the Orange Sherbets.
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Week 2. Vegetation
4 years ago
17.78 cm
24 hrs
26 °C
6.2
No Smell
50 %
24 °C
24 °C
26 °C
11 L
1 L
152.4 cm
300 PPM
Plain PH'd water and giving em a bit more light slowly, one of the leaves started to curl upwards so I moved it a bit more in the shade and raised the light 4 inches and they leveled out in a few days. Fast growth, feeling pretty good out of the gate for day 14. Keeping an eye out for any deficiencies but I'm pretty sure this soil should carry through to flower with a bloom top dressing in pre-flower/start of flower. Always a fun learning process trying out new things.
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Week 3. Vegetation
4 years ago
17.78 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6.2
No Smell
50 %
24 °C
24 °C
26 °C
11 L
1 L
152.4 cm
300 PPM
Nutrients 2
Uprising Foundation - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Uprising Foundation 1.321 mll
Uprising Grow - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Uprising Grow 1.321 mll
Some mag deficiency started showing up and I top dressed with 1 TBL of Uprising Foundation and that is taking care of itself, noticed overall slow growth and top dressed about 2-3 days ago with 1 TBL of Uprising Grow and most of the growth you see has happened since that feeding. The soil should be rich enough and I'm literally top dressing with the same stuff I amended with. I'll keep on a normal top dressing schedule from here on out. I also think I went a little overboard with the clovers, had to do a little landscaping while LST'ing.
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Week 4. Vegetation
4 years ago
35.56 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6.2
No Smell
50 %
24 °C
24 °C
26 °C
11 L
1 L
121.92 cm
300 PPM
Nutrients 2
Uprising Foundation - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Uprising Foundation 1.302 mll
Uprising Grow - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Uprising Grow 1.302 mll
Deficiencies have gone away and they are growing more and more each day, a little spindly in my opinion for a cheese, but hopefully their branches will bulk up a bit before putting on flowers.
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Week 5. Flowering
4 years ago
76.2 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6.5
No Smell
50 %
24 °C
24 °C
26 °C
11 L
1 L
91.44 cm
300 PPM
Going to spread them out this week and transfer them into a 14 inch tray to do so. Healthy growth, a lil N-tox on the smaller one, but nothing too major. Looking forward to these flowering, now the fun begins! I am going to top dress with some Uprising Bloom and Foundation this week, 1TBL per pot.
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Week 6. Flowering
4 years ago
96.52 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6.5
No Smell
50 %
24 °C
24 °C
26 °C
11 L
1 L
91.44 cm
300 PPM
Nutrients 1
Uprising Foundation - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Uprising Foundation 2.604 mll
These plants kinda exploded once I spread them out a bit. They caught some thrips from the Gelato.OG I brought into my tent from a friend. Put diatomaceous earth in the soil and put Cucurmeris predator mites on em and it is working in spades. I've got time-released breeding bags that are hanging so I should have enough predator mites to last the extended life cycle of a thrip. Will def have to wash these buds when done though. Rapid growth and healthy plants, started to show a big of Mg this week again so I did the foundation. They both look like they've got enough nitrogen, if not too much on one plant, so I'll hold on on the bloom for a bit since the soil has 0.5/0.5 PK in it.
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Week 7. Flowering
4 years ago
96.52 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6.5
No Smell
50 %
24 °C
24 °C
26 °C
11 L
1 L
91.44 cm
300 PPM
Nutrients 4
Uprising Foundation - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Uprising Foundation 2.604 mll
Uprising Bloom - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Uprising Bloom 2.604 mll
Seabird Guano Powdered - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Seabird Guano Powdered 2.604 mll
Still growing up and stretching on week 3 of flower. Starting to show some yellowing, went out of town for a week and came back to a good bit of color change, not much to do about it at this stage other than keep feeding and make sure she is getting even watering.
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Week 8. Flowering
4 years ago
96.52 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6.5
Strong
50 %
24 °C
24 °C
26 °C
11 L
1 L
91.44 cm
300 PPM
Nutrients 5
Uprising Foundation - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Uprising Foundation 2.604 mll
Uprising Bloom - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Uprising Bloom 2.604 mll
Seabird Guano Powdered - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Seabird Guano Powdered 2.604 mll
Another week down, the buds are coming on nicely an looking great, the fade is starting to come on a bit earlier than I anticipated. The soils got plenty of food in it, ph is great, microbes are happy, so I'm guessing she's done uptaking nutes. I'll stop feeding and just do plain water until she tells me she is done. The smell right now is a sweet funk and has come on in the last week, when the lights shut off at night, I can smell them coming up from the basement through 2x carbon filters.
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Week 9. Flowering
4 years ago
96.52 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6.5
Strong
50 %
24 °C
24 °C
26 °C
11 L
1 L
91.44 cm
300 PPM
Nutrients 5
Uprising Foundation - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Uprising Foundation 2.604 mll
Uprising Bloom - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Uprising Bloom 2.604 mll
Seabird Guano Powdered - Aurora Innovations (Roots Organics)
Seabird Guano Powdered 2.604 mll
Ended up deciding to feed for 1 more week to make sure, and yeh its done taking up nutes. Apologies for the rushed pictures, I'll be taking some nicer photos soon before harvest and trimming her up a bit more. Going to let them run out another week or so any see what they do, they are extremely frosty and the smell is very pungent.
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Week 9. Harvest
4 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Royal Cheese Automatic - Royal Queen Seeds
Spent 64 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
10/10
Rated
67 g
Bud dry weight per plant
2
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What can I say about these two plants! The light colored one is Chocolate, Sweet, with a bit of stale refrigerator behind it on the smell and the smoke. The dark one is denser and the best way I can describe the smell and taste of it is.... Turkey Gravy and Hot Sauce. The hot sauce is really pronounced, vinegary an slightly spicy followed by a rich fatty taste of turkey fat. It is mind blowing. I'd really love to get the "Stinky Cheese" pheno again as I call it, but the Chocolate is an incredibly smooth an enjoyable smoke.
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