The Cinderella 99 Story GH FloraNova

— Day 8 (10/18/2020): Going into Week 2 of the grow diary for Cinderella 99. I’m really excited about this grow, as this brings back memories of the first time I grew Cinderella 99 when it was introduced. Now that it’s back I can’t wait for the final product! I’m really curious on also how the taste experience between the Organic and Salt Based FloraNova Nute line. I’ve heard organic is better for taste and aroma but I have never really did a side by side comparison from the same genetics. Time will tell and can’t wait to try them both. Anyways Week 2 will be interesting; this is where I will start introducing the seedlings to their new environment, the 4x2 grow tent. By the end of this week, I will be introducing them to their respective nutrient line w/ my mixture of coco and perlite. Today I have added about 20ml of dechlorinated water to each cell, no runoff. I have also set the lamps so that the seedlings get at least 350-400 umol of light. I will steadily increase as they get bigger. All my circulating fans are set to low so they get a gentle breeze so they can develop nice strong stems and keep the air from going stagnant. — Day 12 (10/22/2020): As we near the end of Week 2, the plants are starting slowing its seedling vertical growth spurt and developing more leaf growth. The second set of true leaves are still developing, and growth seems to be green and healthy. I did notice some seedlings first true leaves have a slight curl or fold, but it seems it is not affecting any growth. I’m curious of what causes this? I did added another 20ml of dechlorinated water to each cell, no run off. By the end of this week I’m going to transplant them into larger cells using 50% of my starter blend medium, 40% buffered and rinsed coco, and 10% Worm castings. I’ll post pictures on week 3 of all the ingredients I use as the grow progresses. At Week 3 I will increase the light output to 400-450umol par using my HydroFarm PAR meter and introduce the FloraNova Nutes as well. — Day 13 (10/23/2020): I noticed two days ago my seedlings true leaves started to twist so I ask the growing community of growdiaries.com about my issue and got a fast response from the_canna_scientist responding it is a humidity problem and that I need to put back the dome back on. My grow room is always constantly 50% RH so it made sense, I put the dome back on with a few spritz of water land she started looking good the next day! So stoked to be part of a community that we can always rely on each other for help😊 Anyways I kept everything the same except I’m going to keep the dome on a little longer until I can figure out on how to control my humidity in my grow tent. It’s going to be hard because the air in my grow room is shared between the tents. My other tent has a plant that’s still in flower and I can’t raise the RH due to risk of bud rot. Luckily she has about 3 weeks left. So my other option is once I get them transplanted I will probably have to spritz the tent walls and floor 2-3 times a day to see if that will help any. — Day 14 (10/24/2020): The end of week 2 has come and the these girls are finishing up their second pair of true leaves. On this grow I’ll be using mainlining to train my plants outward in hopes to control upward growth and promote lateral growth. I will most likely mainline upwards to 8 main colas using Nugbuckets mainline method. I’m going off this guide https://www.growweedeasy.com/mainlining-nugbuckets I use this method a lot and seems to provide me good yields and manageable tops. It does require a slightly longer veg time approx 1-2 weeks more than usual but the benefits out way the time in my opinion. You’ll get a very nice short bush with a bunch of main colas. Going on to Week 3 I’ll be transplanting these girls into a 1 liter pot when I start seeing roots popping out the bottoming the current cells.

— Day 15 (10/25/2020): It’s now the beginning of week 3 and these girls are starting to get bigger day by day. Soon they will out grow their starting pots and will need to be transplanted soon! I decided to start transplanting them into 1 gal fabric pots instead of the 1L pots, as I think they will out grow these fast. So I started hydrating and buffering my Canna Coco. I know it is probably unnecessary since Canna Coco did this already but I also wanted to filter out all the coco fines, which canna coco bricks have at least 10-15% of its weight in it, I will also buffer by soaking my coco in a solution on GH CalMagic at a ration of 10ml per gal of water coco mix. So here are the steps I used to wash and buffer my coco. Step 1: Fully hydrate your coco. Step 2: Start straining your coco using a medium to fine mesh food strainer. Flush the coco with dechlorinated tap water. Keep flushing until majority of the fines are out. Step 3: Put washed coco in a 5 gallon bucket and fill it until it becomes a nice slurry that can be easily stirred. Add the corresponding amount of CalMagic depending on how full your bucket is (10ml/gal). Let soak for 24hrs Step 4: Strain and rinse your coco once more to clear out solution. Put washed and buffered coco in fabric bags to drain excess water. Your coco is now ready for use! You’ll be amazed on how much fine coco dust is in your bricks. Buffering also prevents Calcium and Magnesium lockouts which is notorious when using coco as a medium. I’m still waiting for my coco to be be buffered so I will update the photos as time goes by! — Day 16 (10/26/2020): Today I water each cell about 20ml of dechlorinated water. I still have the all plants in the dome as a way to control my humidity. So far growth is consistent. Today I strained out my coco from the slurry of dechlorinated tap water and CalMagic. I then rinsed the coco for a second time through a food strainer. I then put the rinsed and buffered coco in a fabric bag to drain to dry it out a bit. I’ll be transplanting tomorrow using my Soiless medium mix: Coco medium: + 7 parts Coco + 3 part Perlite I will then be using GH FloraNova Series Nutes. — Day 17 (10/27/2020): It was a very eventful and busy day today as I started mixing up a small batch of Veg Medium Mix with 7 parts coco and 3 parts perlite. Simple and plain! Following a salt based nute plan is very simple and it’s really easy to correct a nute deficiency as the nutrients are already available to the roots. With organic you feed your soil, with salt based nutes you feed your plants. I’m curious on how this grow will compare to their organic sisters in my other diary. Anyways to make the medium it’s really easy. Just two ingredients coco and perlite. I then transplanted these baby girls into 1 gal fabric pots with maybe at least 1” of stem buried. I kept the ppfd around 350-400umol as they get situated with there new homes. I’m going to continuously spritz water on the tent and the plants to keep the humidity higher. — Day 18 (10/28/2020): It is halfway through the week and it’s time for these girls to give them there first feeding of GH FloraNova Nutes! See the nutrient section my dosages per gallon. On most of my plants using GH FloraNova, I always feed twice then use ph water in between the two feedings. So basically when the plant are dry I do feed, feed, water and repeat. I also runoff at least 10-20%. I do this to keep the salts down, so they don’t create problems in the future. I keep the dosages low so the plants can slowly acclimate to their new feed. These girls will probably won’t respond in a few days due to the transplant, but we should see rapid growth by the end of this week.

— Day 22 (10/30/2020): As expected the plants are experiencing transplant shock, and some light stress as I accidentally left the lights at full brightness when I was watering the plants. So I dimmed the light back down to the usual. So most likely won’t see any potential growth until late this week. They should be ready for their first topping hopefully after they get stabilized in their new pots. I’ll keep updating as time goes by. So far I’ve been continuing watering with the nute schedule listed in this diary. — Day 24 (11/01/2020): So far these girls are recovered and seems to be new growth emerging. I did increase the light par to about 400-450. I continued to water as normal with the nute schedule listed below. Once she has at least 5 or more nodes, I’ll be topping her at the 3rd node and removing all other growth below it. This will be the start of the mainlining training.

— Day 32 (11/09/2020): It’s the start of the 5th week and we will now start Mainlining these girls for some extra Colas! I plan to mainline all these girls with at least 8 main colas. I will cut these girls down to their third node and remove all growth below. It will look scary at first and they will have to recover a few days but as we do the next 2 toppings she will recover a lot faster in the future. These next few weeks will be mostly training these girls to be proper ladies. So far I’ve been watering/feeding every 2 days. In comparison to the organic grow, these girls seem to recover from stress quicker and growth has been much faster. — Day 34 (11/11/2020): So far these girls are responding pretty well with the 1st topping and growing pretty steady. I don’t see any stress and they seem to like the environmental conditions. I will continue to use LST to manipulate the branches out more as they grow. I’m trying really careful not to snap the branch. Nothing has changed as for as waterings and environment goes. Once they get about 4-5 nodes on the branches, I will top once again on the third node, which will give me 4 main branches, til then we gots some waiting to do!

— Day 36 (11/13/2020): Going on to Week 6 and she is picking up speed! I will be trans planting her very soon into bigger pots. I will most likely transfer these girls into 3 gal fabric pots. I like to slowly ramp up to larger pots. This is done because I’m trying to balance the waterings in between. I don’t want large pots as this creates longer water intervals which means less oxygen exchange and can’t get fresh nutes in without drowning them. And don’t want to small where you are just wasting time watering everyday. I like it when my plants get watered every other day. So it’s beneficial for my time and these girls health. So far I haven’t changed their feeding schedule. Once I transplant them I will start upping their nutes. In comparison to their organic sisters, these girls are really growing out of control. If you want strong vigorous growth salt based nutes are the way to go. But these comparison grows is more of quality of final product and not performance. — Day 40 (11/17/2020): She is definitely loving life! So now its time to give her another haircut. I topped her off again so I can now have a total of 4 colas. So far she seems to love the light intensity and environmental conditions. So far I haven’t change the nutes yet, but I will be definitely upping it a bit on the next following week. I will also be transplanting these girls in bigger pots to stretch out those roots sometime next week.

— Day 44 (11/21/2020): It’s day 44 and they have gotten pretty big for their pot. So I transplanted both of these girls in 3 gal fabric pots with the same medium. I also put them in another tent separate froM the organic grow. I did notice that the FloraNova needs less light than the organic grow. Yet they are still growing faster than the organic grow. But like I said before it is not all about the speed but the quality! She seems to be responding to the 2nd topping and transplant very well. She is not showing any signs of slowing down or deficiencies. All lamps are at 50% so using a total of 225 watts at 21” inches away which gives me a PAR of 500umol. I raised up the temp in the grow room to 78 and raise the humidity to about 60% RH. So far nutes has been the same.

— Day 49 (11/26/2020): So far growth has been steady, She appears to be ready for her final 3rd topping. I did a 3rd topping at the 3rd node of that branch. I have been doing the third node of each branch in hopes she will spread out a little more providing some space between each cola. Im going to incorporate a scrog net to help spread out the canopy. Once these new branches get at least 4-6 nodes in growth. I’ll transplant these girls in a bigger 5 gallon pot. — Day 53 (11/30/2020): So far growth has been great! All 8 colas are starting to making its way through the canopy. I raised up the Nutes to 4.5ml of FloraGrow and kept all environmental factors the same. Might be flipping these girls pretty soon!

Day 60 (12/07/2020): So its been great growth and these girls look ready to switch. I did their last defoliation and their last feed of veg nutes before I start making the switch by the end of this week. I will let these girls recover first from the defoliation and see if they are stress free before I make the switch.

— Day 1 (12/10/2020): Its Day 1 of flower and I just started slowly incorporating the FloraNectar and FloraNova Bloom. I’ll be slowly replacing the Grow with Bloom in the next 3 weeks. After about 3 weeks I will do another defoliation and trim some lower branches that are not getting enough light. So far they have nice even canopies and look healthy. — Day 4 (12/13/2020): Its Day 4 of flower and these girls are picking up the growth. I have set the lights to give them around 750 umol of light and they seem to like it. The canopies are still even and seems like one plant is growing taller the the other one, possibly different phenotype. They seem to have the same number of nodes, it just appears that one of them have larger node spacing. I’m digging the ViparSpectra Led, These have been my first set of led and they been great. Seems like my plants grow a little more bushier and compact but not sacrificing any yields. They also run way cooler than my HID. Anyways can’t wait til I see some pistil action with these Cindies! — Day 7 (12/16/2020): So it’s been a week of flower and she is feeling the stretch! At this time I have maxed out all lights, with a total of 450w of LED. This strain definitely adopts the sativa side of growing with her thin leaves and spread out canopy. She is definitely a heavy feeder and I now have to water 1.5 gal of water/feed a day per plant. Luckily my humidifier and A/C in my lung room is keeping the humidity to acceptable levels.

— Day 12 (12/21/2020): So Day 12 has show some great growth! These girls are loving life and stretching towards the light! The lateral branching of each branch is almost even, but I will be defoliating and removing the nodes not getting enough light on the third week. All the lights are maxed out in this grow tent and keeping the lights around 12” from top of canopy. I have about 450w of true LED power. I’m hoping to get at least 1g/watt but we will see as it all depends on several factors like genetics and human inputs. This FloraNova nite regime has been promising, so for no signs of any deficiencies and nothing but good growth. Its definitely a lot easier than a 3-part. I do notice the FloraNova has both organic and inorganic materials. So it’s like a hybrid Nute! Anyways can’t wait to see what 3rd week brings!

— Day 16 (12/25/2020): Happy Holidays! So it is Day 16 of flower and these girls appears that it’s nearing the end of stretch. There are ton of bud sites and can’t wait till they start filling up. A couple of days ago I did gave them their last defoliation and did some supercropping to get the canopies some what even. I will definitely invest on a taller tent because these Cindies do stretch but not as much as other sativa dominant strains. The mainline in combo with LST and HST does keep these girls at a manageable indoor height. — Day 21 (12/30/2020): It’s the end of week 3 flower for these Cindies! I just did a massive defoliation of these girls to really bring out the buds and to improve air circulation. I’m really loving these genetics so far and BrothersGrimm has these girls dialed in right. I have grown many variants of Cindies from different breeders but none comes close to the original. So far nothing really change as far as feeding and training. I have been supercropping the taller colas to try to level out the canopy other than that nothing new. It does seem she has finished the stretch and now is focusing on bud development.

— Day 29 (01/07/2021): It’s the end of week 4 and these girls are starting to fatten up. It looks like training paid of to keep these Cindies nice a short. The tent is starting to smell like a citrus peel! Definitely a unique smell. There are buds everywhere, can’t wait to see them fatten up over time. The FloraNova nutes are really kicking this plant into overdrive with growth, I will be doing another small defoliation to get more light deeper in the canopy.

— Day 33 (01/11/2021): Week 5 of flower and seems the buds are getting bigger by the day! I haven’t changed anything as far as environment and feeding goes. So far loving my setup and I also finding new ways to make my grow efficient in terms of watering and feeding goes. I also have plans of updating my grow tent to Gorilla tent since the tents I have now are not the best for my needs. 2021 is going to be a new turnover for me as a grower.

— Day 42 (01/20/2021): Week 6 and looking good! Nothing really special as far as maintenance. Just trying to keep the branches up from the heavy buds. I really need to start using trellises, but always seem to lazy out of that one, now it’s haunting me. Just keeping these girls watered is a chore. I definitely need to make some simple automated watering system next time around.

Week 7-8: So nothing really not mentioning just the buds getting bigger and the trichomes developing. At the start of week 8 I’ll start flushing these girls with RO water for about a week and start harvesting at end of week 8.

Week 7-8: So nothing really not mentioning just the buds getting bigger and the trichomes developing. At the start of week 8 I’ll start flushing these girls with RO water for about a week and start harvesting at end of week 8.

It’s on week 9 and I have already started flushing a week ago. I will be giving these girls 2 days of darkness before harvest and will be starting pre trimming and hanging these buds to be dried for about 7-10 days at a humidity at around 55%. These buds look really plump and full of trichomes! Can’t wait til these babies are dried and cured!

Sorry for the long delay, had to catch up on things. Anyways just finished the grow with Cinderella 99 and I’m pretty happy with the results. The smell is amazing and considerate it moderate in the smell strength. The buds are nice medium sized dense colas. I have been currently curing the buds in mason jars at 62% RH. Most of these buds will be turned into Rosin, while some for joints and bowls. I’ll report in a little while with a smoke report. So far the synthetic grow yielded the most with very frosty nugs! The buds do look more leafy than the organic grow, nonetheless seem to produce larger buds. Can’t wait to try it out.