First Grow - Point out my faults plz :)

Hello everyone, this is my first grow so help where you can will be much appreciated!! I am using coco coir + 20% perlite. Germinated in coco coir rooters with small amounts of water twice a day. The seeds were gently taken off the seedlings on day 7 and the plants unfolded over night Week 1 Day 1 - germinate in coco coir Day 4 - dark devil sprouts Day 5 - all seeds sprouted

Day 8 - Day after seed shells were removed from leaves, the first set of “real” leaves emerged on all plants. Dark Devil is furthest ahead and all are responding well to the nutrients being added from Day 7. Day 10 - Dark Devil Auto is growing nicely! Fastest grower so far. Roots on plants looking white and healthy, going to increase nutrients slightly soon as I’m playing on the cautious side! Day 13 - Plants are growing well, Dark Devil is getting its third node and the nodes are starting to extend. Moved my LED to 30 inches away as i realised it was to far away. Upped nutrients to current values above too, hoping they'll start shooting up now!! Will update as the week progresses!

Day 16 - Brown spots have been observed to get slightly worse over the last day on Cream Caramel, I believe it’s due to the lower leaves dying off like the small round ones are as there is definitely enough CalMag! Watering every 2 days now with 20% runoff, might have been overwatering slightly. Raised pH to 6.2 in case Calcium uptake is blocked. Dark devil is just looking beautiful. Last 4 days have shown serious growth! SAH is looking a bit dull :( but still growing more by the day! I believe it’s leaves were damaged due to the seed being stuck on the seedling for too long and it has struggled since then but it’s 5 bladed leaves are starting to come through so I’m hoping for a boost in the next few days! Additionally, I lowered the light to allow for 40 moles of light to be absorbed per day (the max before CO2 has to be added) so hopefully I can keep the light at this distance for the rest of the growth to allow for optimum lighting! All growing nicely, just praying for greater growth to allow time to LST before flowering!! Day 18 - Upped nutrients to boost nitrogen before preflowering kicks in, I’m expecting it in around 10 days minimum so will start LST training this week especially with DD reaching the pot edge! Day 20 - Believe I may have had an issue with the pH as these brown spots have now appeared on all plants so I’ve flushed them all with pH 5.6 nute solution until each of their runoff came out at 5.8-5.9. PRAYING this solves the problem as I have no idea what else it could be. Originally had ph at 6.0-6.5 consistently more or less so this HAS to be the issue and I found out the optimum pH for coco is 5.8 🤦‍♂️ I’ve sorted it now hopefully, guess we’ll find out over the next week or so if more of my leaves keep dying Looked more into other people’s grow diaries with soilless mediums and it definitely looks like mine was way off! When flushing my pH was coming out way too high initially around 6.6 in DD. Now that I’ve adjusted all of them to a more suitable level they should perk up and I’ll keep close eye on the brown spots over next few days. This may also be the reason for the lack of chlorophyll on the leaves (all the random pale green patches) that have been there for weeks. Plants seem to be growing fairly well regardless but I’m really hoping this stops the spread of spots and boosts growth before so I can train!

Day 22 - Signs of preflowering appearing on DD and just appeared on CC! My pH is being brought down to 5.6-5.8 each watering, the brown spots on DD have stopped forming and on CC they’ve nearly stopped. SAH (middle one) is still a lil cripple, but I’m praying I’ve fixed the issue I’ve been having and she’s grown quite a bit in the last week regardless! Starting to get a decent smell in grow room too. - Cut a couple dead leaves off of CC at the bottom which hopefully will help. Tried LST so I’ve got direct light on the bud sites, will try bend the plants more over the coming days. Will wait for recovery of SAH before attempting anything else - Got very tight nodes on each plant so assuming that means my light distance is on point 🤞 - Upped the bloom nutes to be inline with Nebula Haze nute schedule and since a couple are preflowering they could use the extra PK Day 23 - LST recovery looking good. SAH still getting brown spots and slowed growth. Starting a 20/4 light cycle today in the hope that the darkness gives them all time to rest. This is the last shot I can take. Water is pH and calibrated and runoff is close to inflow. Literally nothing else I can do I’ve mini flushed all the plants and SAH still a lil cripple - Brought light down 2 inches to continually allow 40 moles of light Day 24 - Continued LST on all plants. DD looking good! Tested runoff yesterday, been watering daily with nutes solution, and found runoff had fallen to 5.2 🤷‍♂️ So gave each of the plants a full flush and will now leaves the training for a couple days to ensure full recovery. Gave nutes after flush (using coco coir). Runoff was testing at 5.8 once flushed. Will start a flush every week or so I think to minimise the build up of salts. Thought watering thoroughly each day would have been enough but maybe not - Got a new pH pen. It doesn’t match the value my old one shows even after calibration. Maybe I’ve been using a dodgy pen hence my plant problems 😢 Day 25 - Ordered a TDS meter. VERY last think I can possibly do 😂 will update on that aspect mid next week! - Realised when I changed nutrients last week I’ve developed a nitrogen toxicity. Dark green tips and “the claw”. Glad I noticed this one fairly early. Found a GHE nute schedule so I’ll be keeping to that. It’s one with proper values not overestimated ones. Correct ratios etc is what I’m mainly after. - DD and CC have started preflowering which I didn’t think of as the official flowering stage yet so they must have started using less nitrogen. SAH is not in preflowering so the nutes I was giving her before were according to the schedule so I’m going back to that for this one seen and reducing them slightly as she’s fairly slow growing. So applying proper schedule for stage of growth for the other two and hoping they will pick up growth in the coming days with happier leaves! Day 26 - Just watered DD and CC with a 4,1,5 mix of micro gro and bloom. Keeping to the GHE feeding schedule on their website. Put 1.6ml per litre of calmag in each too hoping to give them a boost. Will water SAH with a calmag only mix soon - Pistols on DD are getting bigger and beginning of proper bud formation on the main stem 😍 and CC is slightly further behind. SAH has no preflowering signs yet so I’m hoping there’s time to fix this pain in the ass issue without severely affecting yield 🤞 - LST on DD has worked out brilliantly so far, the other two are just smaller for now but with the adjustments I’m making over the next few days I’m sure they’ll pull through Day 27 - Bit too early to tell but I think I’ve sorted the N issue. Reduced nutes now appear to have helped as the leaves are not clawing like they were yesterday but will keep a close eye out - TDS pen will arrive over next couple days so can properly track that soon - Brwon spots appear to have stopped forming?? They stopped on CC and DD but SAH is still stunted I think. Nitrogen toxicity probably caused that - DD has EXPLODED this week. LST went down very well! Day 28 - Got a tdm meter and the nute mix I’m giving DD and CC is 650 ppm which is acceptable for early bloom. SAH has a ppm of 725 which is in the acceptable range for late growth with a runoff of around 825. Hopefully I can fully monitor my plants now and get SAH and CC back in check! - Runoff ppm is 50 - 100 more than I put on each plant, pH is around 5.5 so will have to flush soon. Will use a calmag only mix I think to hopefully buffer the coco a bit - New growth is looking much healthier than a few days ago. SAH and CC are still stunted I think but DD has an incredible resistance to my newbie skills!

Day 29 - Week 5 is off to a good start with new growth on CC and SAH!! Finally... Pretty sure CCs yield will be much lower but SAH still has hope as it’s not flowered yet - LST throughout the week has worked well. I’ve tried to fold the leaves under branches to avoid defoliating them but have cut a couple more dead leaves from the bottom of the plants - I have raised the pH slowly to 6.2 for DD and CC and maintaining 5.8 for SAH until she flowers - ppm looking good, pH runoff is close to 5.5 but I’m not too worried about that as I didn’t buffer the coco so it’s lowering the pH without building up salts - Still maintaining feeding according to GHE feedchart at slightly reduced nutes to allow recovery from the N toxicity and appears to be working well - Reviewed photos and SAH and CC have both improved in speed and quality of growth over the last few days so very happy to see that and THANK YOU for everyone’s advice!! 🙏 - Done a lil research and coco pH sounds to be less important than soil as long as TDS is acceptable then it sounds like I shouldn’t worry too much?? Correct me if I’m wrong! Day 30 - SAH and CC are finally growing again I could actually cry it’s been such a struggle the past couple weeks but I’m so proud of DD’s LST job I’ve done! My next grow will be far better for so many mistakes to learn from - ppm runoff is nice and close to inflow. Sticking at the same nutes for a while so I don’t have to worry about overdoing it! - DD is getting close to the light but no signs of burning so keeping it at the same level with the main cola on the perimeter of the tent to get similar ppfd to the lower regions - Hoping for more branching of CC and SAH soon! Growth is increasing and the fan leaves are such a pain in my ass but I don’t want to cut them Day 31 - All are growing very well! SAH still hasn’t preflowered yet which is rather strange. Sweet seeds say up to 36 days and it’s getting pretty close! - Planning to up the bloom notes when I get more flowering going on in CC and DD, probably by next week - There’s a lot of newer twisted growth but I’m confident it’s just due to lack of light. So I’ve bent fan leaves under bud sites as much as possible - DD is just a monster and won’t stop growing 😍 I can’t bend the stems any more as they’re getting very stiff so I’m just gonna leave him to grow some dank budz - Have performed very minor defoliation to lower dying fan leaves (literally 1 leave every few days) in the hope it promotes growth to other areas - High frequency fertigation, watering before and after lights go off. Plants using around 3-4 litres of water a day each. Coco is a great medium you essentially cannot overwater 😍 Day 32 - All growing great and DD is stretching quite a bit! Ideally this tent should be used for 2 plants not 3 but hey ho. LST would have been easier in a bigger tent - Can see quite a decent bit of growth between pics from Day 29 and 32. Unsure exactly what I did wrong as I changed several things in a desperate attempt to save my plants. But the main thing I have noticed is I was overfeeding, and mixing cal mag FIRST definitely helps, especially in coco - Nutes listed are used for CC and DD. SAH is getting 4.5ml micro and grow and 2.25 of bloom in every 5L of water with 8ml cal mag too Day 33 - Still no preflowering on SAH - DD budlets are forming nicely with plenty of pistols, still stretching! She’s gonna be a big plant! - More LST on SAH as her branches are getting longer so hoping I can make her bushy over the next week, managed to get her main stem down properly as she’s actually grown! - Everything good otherwise, continued growth is apparent Day 34 - All good again, SAH responded well to LST and I’ve further bent CC main stem to allow the side branches to get through all the bushiness 😝 - Will know for next grow to wait until plants are taller before starting LST... That’s why CC and SAH are so bushy. And I stunted them at beginning of training 🤦‍♂️ So all the side branches got no light and got a bit mangled, but not to worry as I can see they’re growing so maybe this second round of LST will turn out better? 😂 - Top of DD is around 12” close to the light and the other plants are 18” away so I’ll be keeping a close eye out for light stress but over the past few days she’s loved all that light! Around 1000 ppfd at that distance! But as long as I see the buds growing I’ll leave her be and slowly adjust the light over the next couple weeks Day 35 - Last day of week 5! Sad to see how small those two are 😢 but let’s just pray that DD gives at least 2 ounces! That would make me more than happy for my first time 😂 - All looking good otherwise and budlets on DD looking glorious - Noticed Sweet Seeds say SAH should take 28 - 42 days to flower so it’s still in that window, no idea how she’s going to turn out yet but I’ll keep doing my best!

Day 36 - Beginning of week 6 going strong for Dark Devil, less can be said for the other two but they’ve grown a fair bit in just over the past week after the N toxicity and other nute problems 🤷‍♂️ - CC and SAH new growth still coming through but I’m concerned about how slow CC is to show full flowering signs and not even preflowering signs on SAH yet. Going to reduce the Nitrogen even further, most likely by lowering the calmag to 1ml/L and maybe lower the other nutes slightly, see if things speed up for them as they’re very far behind at this point! - I have halved the calmag for each plant as the leaves are still looking kinda dark so my calmag has 1.8 Nitrogen, so hopefully they’ll look a little more lush over the next few days as there’s the chance it could be magnesium as there’s no clawing leaves - DD budlets are really starting to come through up and down the stems 😍 - Going to leave the LST for a while now and give the small ones a chance to grow without any aid, could do with these two being taller instead of bushy if they’re gonna fit in my tent lol Day 37 - My light is now at its max height so I’m damn praying this bad boy plant doesn’t stretch too much longer 😂 love how she’s grown Day 38 - They’re getting so big I might have to get rid of SAH!! She’s still not showing preflowering so might not even make full maturity but is looking good and growing well - Roots are coming through the bottom of each pot and way more on DD, glad to see the roots are all healthy! - Further slight defoliation to expose budsites and get rid of dying lower leaves, they’re responding well! Took several away this time to promote airflow as the tent is getting pretty full. Accidentally cut off a small side branch on CC 🤦‍♂️ Luckily only a small one - SAH and CC have both gained around a couple inches in height over the last few days which is pretty good considering it’s mostly sideways growth and they’ve been very slow prior - Also, they only look droopy after I water them, couple hours after they look very healthy! - Reduced calmag is showing more fresh colour in the new growth so I think they definitely don’t need the calmag I was giving them! Less is more as all the growers say - SAH has FINALLY preflowered about 2 weeks behind the other two 😂😍 so still a hell of a potential with her, just hope she’s not gonna take like 10 weeks to grow! - Bud formation on CC has yet to come but there’s plenty of pistols visible, just waiting for the top buds now! - Pruned some of the lower leaves to promote airflow as it’s getting pretty bushy in the tent and the last thing I need is mould or something Day 39 - Took very well to the defoliation yesterday and have shot up overnight. I told you guys they don’t always look like they’re drowning 😛 - Growth is very much alive now and the colour in the plants is wayyy better with less calmag. Can’t believe I was using that much for so long! You can clearly see all the tops now and I’ve also stopped LST on them as I want more height to match DD. Not fussed on a massive yield, I’d even be happy with 3 ounce for my first ever grow! That would be awesome. Any less and I’ll be a bit sad 😂 - Now SAH is preflowering I’ve switched nutes to the bloom blend I’ve been giving the other two. Upped the bloom mix for DD and will slowly increase With GHE feedchart -Can’t wait for the next few weeks but DD is getting worryingly talk for my light. Gonna have to find a way to lift it more! Some strong string maybe 🤷‍♂️The hanging kit is just too long for this monster. The tops are still looking pretty happy in all fairness so I’ll keep an eye on them and their growth closely while I figure something out Day 40 - DD and CC started flowering on day 22, SAH on day 38. SAH veg 28-42 days, flower 28-36. DD veg 28-36, flower 32-42. CC veg 21-36, flower 32-42. - Going off these times, CC flowered at the beginning, SAH at the end and DD before the window opened. DD is over 2 weeks into growth so I’ve upped the bloom nutes. DD should finish in around 2-4 weeks (I know the breeder guidelines are inaccurate most of the time). Doubt it will be two weeks to be honest definitely closer to 4 but she’s a fast grower so you never know! - Hoping to have them all chopped by Christmas time but no idea if that’s possible with just under 6 weeks to go! Hopefully the small ones start their stretch soon! Their height is gaining so I’m happy so far - My prediction for harvest, DD around the 14th December (4 weeks away), CC will probably be slightly later and SAH too, both around Christmas day I reckon maybe after but definitely before NY! But I really hope it’s not that late, want some dried bud to taste for then so DD looking like my best shot 😂 - Managed to raise the light a good few inches more and then raises CC and SAH up on boxes to maintain as much of an even canopy as possible. DD should stop growing taller soon and has more or less stopped growing already, main stretch definitely over thank god! - Input ppm is 530 ish for DD and 480 for the other two. Seems they like not too strong nutes which is good. Runoff is coming out very close as I’m still watering twice a day and they’re loving it. No build up whatsoever. Read a lot into coco pH too and I’ve stopped caring about runoff pH for the last couple weeks and my plants have been growing more than ever, so glad I’ve figured that out! - SAH pH has now been raised to 6.2 with the others and I’ll maintain that for the rest of the grow - Getting more excited for harvest by the day! Day 41 - Gutted, my fan fell from the tent and snapped the main cola off CC. Luckily happened in front of me so I taped the branch as it was still attached by skin on the plant so I really hope it can pull through. Feel a bit heartbroken with all the work I’ve been putting in and these shit times. Not what I needed - Seeing trichomes starting to develop on DD Day 42 - Last day of week 6 already, damn. Loving the growth and stretch has started on the smaller two but unfortunately the main cola on CC didn’t recover over night so I just took it off completely. It luckily wasn’t very big yet and the side branches are bigger as I had ties the main cola down anyway and CC was looking good regardless! -After stunting SAH has really picked up and is gaining a good amount of height. In a week I wouldn’t be surprised if she was as big as DD, supposed to be an XL strain too so will be interesting to see how much she stretches

Day 43 - They’re looking good and SAH is starting to produce budlets 😍 worried about CC, the main cola came off last week and she didn’t show any real signs of stress from it 🤷‍♂️ but she’s been in the preflower stage for a few weeks after the stunting and is growing height wise well now, they’re both stretching too so I think she might be okay but very unsure - Really can only grow 2 plants in this tent lol I’ll know for next time it’s getting hard to water them! - All good otherwise! Day 44 - Worried to see that the top bud may slightly be getting too much light. It’s getting difficult to move the light higher in the tent I really don’t wanna have to supercrop her - SAH is stretching nicely tho and the buds will be coming through in the next few days! - CC still no pistols, kinda wanna chuck this one now 😂 just taking up so much room man like damn where the bud at 🤷‍♂️ Day 45 - They’ve stretched quite a bit in the last couple days, DD fattening up nicely with lots of trichomes all over the bud sites 😍 - Light burn on the pistols of main cola of DD I believe, she’s been getting slowly taller and it’s hard to adjust my light now, will absolutely only grow 2 plants next time so I can LST the whole way through the stretch! - I’ve realised that they kept looking droopy, but it’s always before lights out. Was panicking for a while 😂 - CC appears to have buds starting to form, guess she was just waiting to stretch too! Day 46 - All good today, stretching going well! Day 47 - Switched to next stage of nutes with a boost to bloom nutes for DD as the second calyx are showing pistils and there’s loads of trichomes now! Height has basically stopped - SAH is a cripple no more, loads of strong growth over the last few days, CC is now the cripple 😢 she’s just slow after I snapped the main stem fs but colour and texture of leaves is good - Clear bud formation on both small plants 😍 think these two are gonna take a while to finish lol Day 48 - All good again today, DD has some yellowing on the lowest bud sites and leaves but I’m putting that down to lack of light 💡 so not worried - Loving the growth of SAH after the struggles she’s had right from the start I’m very happy she pulled through - Buds are forming well in multiple parts of DD stem now, starting to look like proper colas! - If both the other plants get as tall as DD I might have to get rid of the smallest one because I honestly don’t think I will be able to take them out and water them without tearing them apart! I’ll just have to see how it goes and hope they stay small lol I can’t believe the plants grow this big I thought they were tiny hahaha Day 49 - Loving the cola growth on DD, new calyx bursting with pistols 😍 - Very exciting watching these grow, especially after the small ones pulling through in the end! Now hopefully I can keep my feedings etc consistent and I’m hoping it’ll be easy until harvest - CC & SAH are gonna be around 8 weeks from now but I’m hoping no more than 4 for DD, hard to judge for my first grow! - Lower leaves have been yellowing more and falling off on DD as is expected in this stage. She has so many bud sites, kinda wish I grew her on her own. I could have had a monster 😂 - Still keeping close eye on the main cola top for light stress, it has not progressed over the last few days but is dangerously close to the light! Only around 8 inches away but off to the side and not directly under the light - Great smell coming from the tent but not too strong yet. Just looked back at pics from a few days ago and DD really has got strong bud formation coming through! Glad I upped the bloom notes now! I also upped calmag to 5ml/5L as they need a bit more as they get closer to the end, so will keep close eyes on the plant for signs of problems! But I think she’ll be fine, she’s powered through so far with nearly no issues at all!

Day 50 - Beginning of week 8, how the time flys and my plants are all doing great! - Buds are looking great on DD with a real pink colour coming through right now, still keeping an eye out for light burn! - Bud formation is great on the other two, mainly on SAH as CC isn’t getting enough light but I can’t help that with the size of DD! Once I harvest DD the other two will get plenty space and light so I’m holding out for that in about 4 weeks! - Wondering if the leaves are too dark but I’m only giving them around 65 ppm of nitrogen so I’m not sure, feel like they’ve looked this dark ever since the toxicity and they’re still growing well! 🤷‍♂️ - The nutes listed are for DD only and the other two are getting the nutes from week 7 Day 51 - I found a way to lift my light by another couple inches! Thank god, now DD won’t get quite so toasted! CC getting more like now too - Looking good otherwise! Day 52 - I’m a little worried about the darkness of the leaves and I calculated the individual ppm to find I’m using big amounts of calmag compared to everything else, so will bring the calmag for all plants down to 3ml/5L also reducing nitrogen by a small amount - I’ve lowered the plants onto the floor again except CC as she’s smaller. Light is more even across plants and better ppfd values at this distance too - Plants on the other hand are growing well regardless, buds on DD fattening nicely and the other two are nearly showing the budlets, just a bunch of pistols right now! - DD buds are speeding up growth I think and I noticed a few amber trichomes on some of the sugar leaves. She probably only has a couple weeks left, I’m gonna guess 3 max at this rate, I’m hoping anyway! Will continue putting main cola pics up for comparison. She’s looking hella frosty though! ❄️ - Think some leaves on plants had slight windburn so I reduced the fan speed - Believe DD had heat stress with cupping sugar leaves so I played around with things and increased ventilation and temps stabilised in the room slightly lower at around 20.5C - Grow tent temp at DD canopy is now stable at about 23.5C - Will be more careful with temps from now on Day 54 - DD has pistols on top of some colas turned completely brown and curled in? Definitely not ready for harvest I thought it was light burn but maybe not... will keep an eye on it - Overall looking good, still worried about the darkness of the leaves! Day 55 - Starting to see some small brown spots on one or two leaves on CC and DD. Don’t think it’s anything to worry about though - CC is a slow grower compared to the other two, probably due to the main stem snap incident a week or two ago! But she’s got loads of bud sites, and is also a smaller plant genetically compared to the other two - The stretch should be finished completely within a week. I’m glad the heights of them has slowed tbh, really wanted to keep good distances to lights! - There’s literally no way I’m using too much Nitrogen, like it’s just not possible with the nutes I’m using and low ppm - Lovely smell in the tent, can wait to see buds on all three plants 😍 - Its hard to move the plants around to water them with this tent but I decided to keep all three as DD is way further ahead and so I’m hoping she will finish at some point and give the other two loads of space in the end - Water takes longest to drain on DD. All three must have extensive roots because the coco is solid! With these roots all the way through a 5 gallon pot, I’m praying for some decent buds!! The bud size on DD is getting glorious, I’ll try get some better pics tomorrow - Recalibrated my pH pen a few days ago, found I was pHing my solution to pH 6 and the were pretty happy with it before I changed to pH 6.2, so with the dark leaves and brown spots I’m gonna move the pH to 6.1 for now as I’ve seen a few growers with coco keeping at 5.8-6.0 the whole grow Day 56 - CC leaves are still quite dark with some shine to them, but buds are forming at a steady pace so I’m unsure on this one especially with the ppm I am using. Runoff ppm and pH are both fine - It seems CC has the most colas of the three which is interesting to see with her size - The stretch has definitely substantially slowed and this is going to be close to their final heights. Doubt CC will yield more than an ounce, SAH maybe if I’m lucky an ounce and a half being a haze genetic and an XL strain 🤷‍♂️ - DD is just looking glistening, trichomes everywhere, can’t wait for all three to look like this and I’m counting the days until my first harvest. I’m estimating around 4 weeks from here. Not getting solid colas but getting good sized buds and lots of them and they’ve not ripened yet of course so plenty to look forward to! - Will up the bloom nutes once I see proper budlets on CC and SAH, DD is going to remain the same for the next while

Day 57 - Week 9 already 😍 DD looking great and SAH is nearly as tall as DD! She better be planning on stopping very soon or I’m going to have another problem on my hands... - Still keeping constant nutes, don’t see why I should change them if they’re doing alright. CC has reacted better to lower calmag I think as new growth is slightly lighter than before - Plenty yellowing continued on lower DD leaves and I’m not cutting any more leaves at all even if they’re yellow. After some research I think I’ll leave them to grow as naturally as possible. Haven’t seen many autos that have done well with defoliation at all - Still waiting for the ripening phase to start with DD, it shouldn’t be more than a week away from this point but maybe up to two if she decided to get there slowly but she did preflower in week 4 and shot off from there so I don’t see why it should be longer than 1 week max before they start getting plump 🤤 Day 58 - Just found trichomes on CC today! Love to see that my poor damaged plants have all pulled through in the end 😂 None on SAH yet but she will likely take slightly longer to flower anyway, yet they are surprisingly close but CC did not stretch as much so must just be slightly ahead still - Love growing weed lol the excitement builds by day. I’m gonna need to order more nutes soon I’m running low, guess you get that from watering twice a day thoroughly 🤷‍♂️ I’ll deal with it to avoid any problems like in veg! Day 59 - SAH is still slowly stretching so I may have to move her onto the left hand side soon as she’s nearly as big as DD, still no trichomes! - Looking lovely all around, DD is showing blemishes on her fan leaves so it’s nearing the end of growth. trichomes are all clear and buds are not fat yet but definitely getting bigger! I’m prepared for curing and harvest already, just counting the days! - Trichomes on DD are everywhere, up and down fan leaf stems and all over the surrounding leaves. Glistening all over! Day 60 - All good today nothing much to say, only watered once but that’s fine. Runoff ppm and pH are still nearly the input so that’s good - DD has further blemishes, some yellowing of the top sugar leaves on one cola. Maybe 2 weeks from here until harvest and the buds are looking quite big and I bet she’s gonna start plumping them up very soon! Day 61 - Just compared the last few days photos of DD and her buds have gained significant weight in that time! Definitely looking like a good harvest in about 2 to 3 weeks. Doubt I’ll get any right before Christmas. But should be drying by that point at least and have some uncured for New Year! I seem to have thought it would be 2 to 3 weeks for ages now clearly I’m useless at predicting this yet 😂 - Raised CC onto another box to maintain an even canopy. She’s a much shorter plant but I’m okay with that as that’s her genetics, I should have thought about it more 😅 - SAH has a few dead leaves today at the bottom of the plant most likely from lack of light. They had either fallen off or could be easily pulled off. Nice colour on her but she’s still growing and nearly the height of DD!! Will move her to the left soon probably - DD has a few deficiency signs on upper leaves indicating the time for harvest is near. Hope they put on more weight before ripening up! Day 62 - So the deficiencies I’ve been seeing are most likely phosphorus and not harvest deficiencies. Glad I looked into it so I’ve upped the bloom notes today and mixed 11ml in the nute mix. Will continue with 10ml from now on, 25% increase should be suffice. Might draw back on the calmag further to reduce Nitrogen - The thing that got me thinking was the sugar leaves, I didn’t think those would show deficiency which got me thinking. This deficiency must be a result of the buds fattening and using more PK and as the sugar leaves are closest to the buds this makes the most sense as to why they’re showing symptoms. I’ll be more prepared for the other two plants - Can see the beginning of trichomes on SAH! She’s very tall now and her colas look like they will be wonderful! - May reduce calmag on all plants for CC too actually as her leaves are still very dark, yet she’s growing well! Day 63 - Changed up the nites today, all plants nutes have changed to 2ml calmag and 3ml micro in an attempt to reduce any nitrogen excesses in CC and DD. SAH I’m just being preemptive as I can see how DD has gone. Bloom nutes for DD upped to 10ml now. I hope that’s enough to stop the deficiencies. Seeing Calcium deficiency as a result of the Phosphorus deficiency so not worried about that - If I had only grown 2 plants, DD would be an absolute monster. She has so many small buds lower on the plant, just a shame they can’t get the light! - Trichomes haven’t popped on SAH yet, thought they were going to but haven’t yet. Some slight irregularities on some leaves near buds on SAH, just slightly twisted. Hoping that’ll change soon! She’s stopped stretching too I think thankfully! She’s got some very tight nodes on the colas so I think she’s gonna get a good yield! Love how she was a cripple for so long 😂 - Buds on DD are getting pretty big! Some over an inch long which is awesome but they’ve still got plenty fattening to do! Don’t think there’s any cloudy trachomes yet, the loupe I got isn’t the best but it’ll do - This marks the end of week 9! Time is flying. Praying that a boost to bloom nutes will send DD flying to the finish line, but we’ll just have to wait and see! Will increase the bloom nutes again towards the weekend. Really should just get a PK booster but I’ll make do with what I’ve got - I’ve got Gorilla Cookies Auto and Lemon Pie Auto to grow next from FastBuds! Those strains look awesome and seriously strong! So hopefully my adjusted and improved growing techniques will send them flying from seed

Day 64 - DD starting to get cloudy trichomes now. Buds slowed in growth I believe as deficiencies showed unfortunately, believe the deficiency has progressed slightly but it’s not been long since I changed the nutes to what’s detailed above, it should stop around a day or two from now maximum. Maybe sooner with coco and frequent fertigation - SAH trichomes not popped yet, looking good otherwise - CC got some slightly lighter newer growth in areas with more trichomes coming by the day - Got rid of grow nutes for both CC and SAH and boosted bloom to 8ml/5L of tap water ppm 50 and reduced calmag to 2ml/5L. This should decrease Nitrogen much further and bloom notes have plenty magnesium in them to sustain the loss. Micro has 6% Ca so I’ve been wondering if I even need the calmag? Just use it because everyone does - DD is also heavier than the other two when I water them, so she is now drinking less. Saw a couple of amber trichomes dotted about on top but maybe 10% cloudy. At least a week or two left, lower buds need some time, maybe a split harvest?? Day 66 - I’m positive the deficiency has stopped now, will up bloom soon to make sure plenty is given! - SAH leaves have started to become darker with a blue tint like the other two, maybe due to some bloom deficiency but it’s been happening for a while so the change of notes I’ve given it should help her out! Day 67 - Small brown spots appeared on CC upper leaves, I’m wondering if it’s too much P or K? Reduced CC nutes to 2.5ml micro, 5ml bloom and 3ml calmag. ppm is around 350 now and I could see some tip burn so this should sort it! Might just need barely any due to her height! - DD deficiencies have definitely stopped progressing, just gotta keep her right till harvest! Some foxtailing going on on on the buds I think, will get close ups soon. Maybe from high temps, tent canopy has been hot last few days but that’s sorted now - SAH got trichomes coming in slowly. Still worried about the twisted growth. It’s pretty smooth and rubbery feeling but buds are growing fine so I don’t know, no other signs. Some lower leaves have yellowed from what I assume is lack of light Day 68 - Still watching CC, the nute change should be coming into effect now. Her buds have started popping through the pistols as they swell and they have pretty colours of purple and orange. Won’t get much bud from her bud they’re looking tasty! Should be around 20g yield I guess - SAH growing well, buds are growing quickly with more pistols by the day - DD buds are fairly dense feeling but not huge. Not dense colas either but nothing to complain about for what will be my first harvest! The heats have been higher than I want in the tent which could be what’s inducing slight foxtailing on buds now. Nothing to worry about too much, can’t do much about it as the growth in the tent is quite dense. Got a 5 inch exhaust and fan but there’s just too many plants Day 70 - All good today, nothing to say

Day 71 - Beginning of week 11, crazy. Some amber in areas on DD but she’s not ready based off of the amount of cloudy and pistols - SAH has some large dense colas, very proud of the way she’s going! Should yield well, hoping dearly that DD finishes soon so I can spread her branches out and get better light! - CC has what looks like similar damage to what DD got on sugar leaves so I’ve upped the bloom nutes to 1.6ml/L. Should be fine I think. Keeping micro low as leaves are still dark Day 75 - Last few days I’ve been trying to figure out my nute problem and I’m sure it’s calmag which is blocking others, so rinsed all with 5L calmag only solution to buffer the medium slightly and a normal feed with 4ml calmag from now on, maybe up to 5. Just worried about the increased nitrogen unless I decrease micro - SAH showing symptoms too. Need this fixed ASAP as she’s looking great with loads of dense buds! - Might have to start a calmag watering more often to compensate. Hopefully the increase will be enough! - DD has lots of nicely coloured popcorn buds! Colour is starting to show on some leaves

Day 78 - Changed notes to the listed values. I’ve been careful about the amount of N and it’s the lowest of the main macro elements in my mix - With all my focus being on the bigger plants I didn’t realise at all but CC is just about ready for harvest!! About 50% milky trichs right now so will be about a week I think. Can’t believe I didn’t notice, she’s just smaller than the other two so I didn’t look at her as much and she must’ve finished much faster! I’m hoping for about 20g from her and I’ll know in a couple weeks! Gorgeous colour on some buds - Reduced the light by an hour over the last week to allow more recovery from any stress. 19 is still plenty light - DD is getting closer but her buds aren’t looking the best. Not dense and quite airy but it’s okay for my first plant as there looks to be plenty of smokable bud - Buds on CC and SAH are very dense. SAH’s biggest cola is very dense and about 6 inches! Honestly I’m very happy with my plants for my first grow! - Absolute for next grow is only 2 plants. The lower buds on my trees could have been far bigger if they weren’t so packed in the tent. My next grow is going to be far better than how this one has gone! - Merry Christmas folks! Day 82 - Plants looking good overall after coming back after holidays. Lowest temp of 14C at night while I was away but that’s not so bad - Deficiency signs progressed mainly on DD and CC. DD very close to harvest and CC not far behind! Leaf colour chang dis prominent on DD with more purple hues - Been getting lazy with the watering so will make sure I keep up twice a day and will flush DD soon for a few days

Day 90 - Been busy recently so couldn’t update. I’ve chopped CC and DD and will update the harvest soon - SAH growing nicely, but leaves have been changing at the top for some reason. No idea what is going on 🤷‍♂️ Just hope she will finish soon - Buds are the most dense on this one out of the three plants so she should have a pretty good yield, at least a couple ounces

For my first harvest this plant was a beauty. 80g in total is brilliant for how she was treated. Dried on a rack in 4 days after trimming and now curing. Harvested on day 1 of week 13 so 85 days in total! Smells fruity and tastes great so far but slightly rough on the throat. I’m curing and will test in a couple weeks to see how she differs and plan to cure for 2 months total to really bring out the flavour! Need to see what all the fuss is about 😅 very impressed by this plant. Could have been a much larger harvest with better skill involved but better luck next time. Lots of Larry buds collected too well over an ounce worth. Will investigate lollipop if next time I think 🤔 they’ll make good smoke regardless to me!

Lovely plant this was and it pushed through all the abuse I through at it (including snapping off the main cola 😬) so I’m very happy with the outcome, some great buds from it too brilliant bag appeal after a second trim. Will update in a few weeks after a cure. Smell not super appealling but getting better as cure progresses!

Lovely plant in the end but had lots of problems due to my inexperience! Don’t know what was happening to her in veg though but she got the best colas out of the three plants! So much learnt in this grow, thank you to all who helped me along the way, got gorilla cookies and lemon pie coming up next! 😝