Black sugar- Happy Frog

It's week one so fairly uneventful. Planted and sprouted in Fox Farm Happy Frog soil. This stuff looks great so I'm hopeful for a good easy grow. Currently regular water ph'd to 6.2. Week 2 I'll start introducing light nutes and increase from there.

This week I saw lots of good growth. I had to pinch off some secondary branches that started on the first and second nodes. I started with 1 Tsp of the Grow Big and it reacted well so the second feeding I upped it to 2Tsp and it seems to of liked it even more! Everything's looking nice and green without getting dark from too much N. No other signs of deficiency. She got topped at the end of the week due to great growth. I'll let her 4 tops grow out for a day or two then likely start LST and beginning my cross shape.

Bumped feed to 3tsp/gal to aid vegetative growth, she still seems to like it just fine, no signs of deficiency or too much N. She recovered from the topping in no time to continue growth. All four tops are looking good although my suspicions were confirmed, I used a razor blade to top her and slightly nicked the side of one of my tops. She healed and should be okay but I'll need to be careful bending that branch. LST is in full swing. I'm bending out the four tops to form my main cross and I've started selectively cutting secondary branches to help create my uniform canopy. I'll decide at the end of next week if I'm going to do a fifth week of veg or go on and flip to flower.

Everything is continuing along nicely. I'm continuing training with stakes until she grows past the pot then I'll use string to tie her back. I'm feeding her twice a week with tap water in between. Slowly defoliating leaves to expose branches I'm training off of the main lines. I'll continue one more week of veg and training flat then flip to flower. I marked it had a weak smell because I haven't hooked my carbon filter up yet and you can smell vegetative growth. Will be correcting that soon.

This week I started tieing my mains back to keep everything flat. I defoliated to help expose branches I want to grow and help reduce crowding where I can while keeping what I can to keep encouraging growth. I'm continuing to prune certain side branches to select the ones I want to grow as exposed tops. Currently there are 20 and more should form during the stretch. At the end of this week I've officially changed to a 12/12 light schedule. I'll be expecting a good amount of stretching to help fill out the net I've created to make a nice canopy. I've had to start using a funnel to help water to avoid getting nutrient solution on the plant. It's awkward but if it all works out like I hope I should have a fair harvest.

I flipped to a 12/12 light schedule at the beginning of the week and within 48 hours I had pre flowers forming. Since she's starting flowering I'm not expecting much from the stretch portion so I'm stopping LST and allowing the scrog net to do its job and let her build some nice stalks hopefully for some long colas. I'm still doing light defoliation as leaves grow over tops or overcrowd space to help keep the canopy as even as possible. Smell is still very minimal at this point but expecting it to ramp up over the next week or so.

This week has been a treat. She's stretching nicely and manageably while working on her first budding sites on the tops. Not all of my tops stretched, a few stalled out and grew slowly but I'm still expecting good things from those. At the end of the week I was also greeted with my first smells of flowering! It's very faint but a distinct smell non the less. I've finished giving pre-flower regimen and will be swapping to my flowering regimen so I'll be swapping out Open Sesame for Beastie Blooms and pulling my Grow Big back to 1Tsp. Everything is looking green and healthy which makes me happy. I'm still defoliating as I go, I took a little extra off at the end of the week because the lower larger leaves were making it difficult to water. I'm still planning on doing a full defoliation at 21 days next week then I'll likely leave the leaves alone unless they become troublesome for tops.

Well this week definitely had a lot of surprises. On day 50 you can see the leaves are a bit droopy even after being watered the day before. Been dealing with low humidity and low temps so I closed off my tent and recirculated the air to try and help. She perked back up ther next day, but the humidity ended up going through the roof so I tried a few things to help with that but I still had moisture building on the wall. I ended up changing my space heater and opening my system back up. Moisture has gone down and she's drinking at her normal rate again. Temp seems to be better but I'm still monitoring. Did the big defoliation to open the canopy up and have removed small branches and buds I don't want growing. Changed the pre flower feed to regular flower feed for this week and next week. Everything's in full swing so nothing really to do but ride each week out until she's finished!

This week has been quite calm. The bud sites are starting to fill out throughout the canopy after defoliating. The smell is getting stronger. It's currently sweet smelling like candy but it's beginning to get a little stank to it. You can see trichomes beginning to form on a lot of the the top leaves. I held back a little on defoliating last time so I removed a little more at the end of this week since I was still within the first 21 days of flower. I'll be increasing the flora bloom this upcoming week and I'll hopefully see a great increase in bud size.

This has been a good steady week of growth. I increased the liquid GHE Bloom to 2 tsp/gal because she's fully focused on flowers now. Her smell is becoming more pungent to where I can immediately smell her once I open the tent. It's still very sweet in general but developing some fruity/lemon notes within slight hints of gas. The flowers are slowly stacking and forming nice sized colas. Im definitely looking forward to the swell here in the next few weeks. Trichome production seems to be coming along nicely. But it's expected to peak around 20% with near perfect conditions so im not expecting a totally frosted plant. The leaves look healthy but are beginning to claw downward leading me to believe there's mild nitrogen toxicity happening. This makes sense with how far into flower she is but this week im dropping FF Grow Big as per scheduled so perfect timing. I'll start with a regular 6.2ph water feed tomorrow to help give a light flush and move to her mid flower feed schedule.

Boy this week was stressful but successful. Everything started off great, I removed grow big from her diet although I should of done this about a week ago because of how early she finishes. Halfway through the week I began to have rust spots develop, I believed it to be a deficiency in either P or K so I gave her an additional feed bumping my Cha Ching by .5tsp. The problem increased drastically over 24 hours. After this I then shifted to nutrient lockout, likely brought on by not giving enough plain water feedings, I gave her a thorough flush. The rust spots seem to of stopped spreading although the leaves already affected aren't going to get better. So crisis averted however yield, potency, and aroma are likely going to be effected because of this. The smell in the tent has already been effected, can't smell get anymore until I put a bud right under my nose. Im not sure if this is because the leaves being effected are creating a competing smell or if I've destroyed terpenes with ther lockout. I'll be feeding her water with light cal mag from now until next week then pure water until finish. 3 weeks can't come soon enough.

This week she put on a little more weight and the trichomes are getting much more cloudy. The necrosis of the fan leaves has moved to the dry, crunchy phase but it's still green toward the base so I'm trying to save as much as I can for trim. I need to figure out how to remove the dry crunchies because im concerned they will cause some mold/fungus. Should be about two weeks out but due to the lockout/burn problem I created I started flushing with plain ph'd water last week and will be continuing this until the end. I caused a lot of damage but she's recovering and finishing nicely. She's definitely a trooper.

Getting closer and closer lots of milky trichs and a good amount of amber but there's still some fairly clear ones left so she's going to continue on. The breeder estimated flower time is around 55 days which is one more week so hopefully she'll be getting the big haircut by next weekend. She's still only recieving 6.5ph water till chop. I ended up being correct in my thinking about her smell "disappearing", the necrotic leaves were masking her scent. I used a vacuum and tried to carefully cut and suck away as much of the dead leaves as I could but I'll definitely need to ho back for a round 2. The scent began to become more pronounced but it's not going to completely come back until it's dried and all of that junk is trimmed off. However, she still smells amazing! Gently rubbing a flower reveals a tangy lemon scent with lots of gas currently. I'll be happy to find what her final notes will become after curing. The buds are still packing on a bit of weight as some branches are beginning to bend a little outward. This is definitely going to be a great harvest!

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