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5 plants. 2 plants grown directly into 2.5gallons pots, 3 other plants will be transplanted into my experimental super-soil (5gals pots) in the future.
Girls in 2.5gal pots will receive no stress throughout the growth.
Here's my recipe. For germination stage.
Ratio
60% coco coir
40% potting soil
4-4-4 3tbs/gallon
earthworm casting 2tbs/gallon
kelp meal 1tbs/gallon
Quantity
4 gallons coco coir
2 gallons potting soil
18 tbs of 4-4-4
12tbs of earthworm casting
6tbs of kelp meal
I think I am seeing spidermites on my young plant :(
I am trying to eliminate them whenever I see one. I lightly touch alcohol mixed with water with my finger and stripped them off from the leaves. Then I sprayed with P.H water to the area that I touched to clean off alcohol.
I burned a little bit of my plant with alcohol, so I changed to using dawn soap mixed with water. So far it's working out, I am not seeing any mites or eggs in Day 11, however since I have been having spidermites problems for a while now and I don't want to spray bottles later so I am doing permaculture by growing garlics next to my cannabis and 1 in my infected pot. I think it's one of the most natural way to prevent mites from the beginning.
Please let me know any feedback and suggestions guys!
Day 14~ Transplanted the plants into 5 gallon pots since the roots seem ready to do so.
5 gal pots contains:
Ratio
33% coco coir
66% potting soil
4-4-4 3tbs/gallon
earthworm casting 3tbs/gallon
compost 2tbs/gallon
tiny bit of bat guano
Quantity
4 gallons coco coir
2 gallons potting soil
45 tbs of 4-4-4
45 tbs of earthworm casting
30 tbs of compost
5tbs of bat guano
Girls in 2.5gal pots will receive no stress throughout the growth.
Day 18~ I gave low dose aerated tea to my plants and started LST. All the plants are under 600w LED now. Seems very healthy and happy! I am topping one of the plant to see the difference in yield. I know topping autos is not recommended but meh. Let's see the difference.
Here's the formula:
3/4 gallon water
2tbsp earthworm casting
1tbsp compost
half tbsp kelp
half tbsp 4-4-4
half tbsp molasses
Day 24~ looking good! Topped the same plant again since it is doing great. I use velcro to wrap the highest node so that light can reach bottom leaves.
Day 25~ Not very noticeable yet, but pistils begin to sprout today. Pre-flower time started.
Day 27~ I top dressed the soil today since they will begin to need more nutrients for flowering later.
I used the following to top dressed my plants.
2tbsp per 5gallons
20% earthworm casting
20% chicken compost
20% Gia-Green 4-4-4
20% Gia-Green 2-9-4
10% Bat-Guano
10% Kelp Meal
Day 29- Increased Silica Gold dose by 1ml.
Day 33- Defoliated some fans leaves that are blocking the new shoots.
Day 34- Check out the shoots!
Comparison- The 5gal plant that gets topped is doing much better than other two 5gal plants in LST!!
Probably going to replenish the soil with aerated worm+microbe tea next week.
Day 36 - I did light supercropping/Chiropratic training to the plant that get topped.
Day 39 - I believe they healed up completely from the training. (Very fast heal!!!) I gave them Aerated tea again but this time also boosting phosphorus lightly at the same time.
Aerated Tea includes-
for every gallon of water
1tbsp earthworm casting
1tbsp compost
half tbsp seabird guano (very rich in phosphorous)
half tbsp kelp
half tbsp molasses
2181ppm! My run off ppm got very high at the water at the end of this week. I boosted them with 7ml/gal of earthjuice big blooming guano + 2.5ml/gal earthjuice meta-k. The initial water ppm was 176ppm. Should I flush it off immediately with plain ph water? Please help guys!
Terrible week.
Day 43 - No sign of over-fed. They are doing great regardless the ppm so I checked online and found out the ppm In organic soil could be higher and it's normal. Anyhow, I gave my plants plain PHed water after the fed, and the run off is about 1800ppm. I think I will remain around this ppm for coming weeks.
Day 45 - Half of the Led broke.
Day 46 - Gave them natural sunlight. Accidentally broke the main stem :((((
Day 47 - New Light, New Tent!
(It's BloomPlus BP-1500 light)
Day 50- top dress my plants (4tbsp/5gallon pots)
(10tbsp earthworm casting
5tbsp 3-9-4
5tbsp seabird guano)
Defoliation/lollipopping
Day 52- increased big bloomin dosage. (8ml/gal)
Day 54- problem :(((
These spots started to show up 3,4 days ago before I even topdress my plants. I topdress it, also increased nutrient a little bit, but it doesn't seem to go away. The stems are a little red. Is it P deficiency? What seems to be a problem here!??
It won’t matter how much light you add if you do not address that thrip issue. It will become ab infestation if it is nit already. Check underside of leaves with magnifier. You are looking for tiny, tiny movement from translucent orange / white translucent buds. Those are what are eating your leaves, stressing your plant, and reducing the health pf your plants.
Thrips. You can treat them in flower in a way that doesn’t compromise the health and quality of your flower. Conversely, there are ways you can treat them and poison your product...so choose wisely. You are what you smoke as @organoman loves to say.
Good luck
I took out the sick plant out of the tent into outdoor, since it has the most pests. (specifically thrips)
After taking suggestions from the comments of the question I asked last week,
all the plants recovered from excess nutrients.
For the pests, I used just dawn soap and water to spray the infested fan leaves for a couple of them. I also defoliated quite a bit last week, especially the infested leaves.
For this week, I only watered with PHed water with molasses.
Day 70 from seed today. They are getting there, trichomes are white a couple days ago but I am waiting em to be a little amber. Probably harvesting real soon.
My finding: The other 2 plants that are not topped, but low stress trained are still developing buds but they seem likely to finish slower than the ones that get topped. (I think it's due to the amount of stress the plant takes)
Cheers!👻
2 other plants that were topped were harvested, one on Day 72 and one on day 76.
The harvested plants went under 48hrs darkness before harvest.
The 2 LST plants are still not ready yet and developing buds!
The yield is
1st plant: 23.5g
2nd plant: 60g
3rd plant: 46.5g
4th plant: 56.6g
I avg 2ozes/plant for these autos except for the untrained one. It's been a great grow and gotta love the harvest. The nugs are dense and big, esp the last plant. It gives one of the best high, and it suits to smoke during day time.
BongRip
