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GreenFingeredLT GreenFingeredLT
4 years ago
Day six: Gave the plant more water and took it out for a photoshoot today so thought I'd update the week get a new day by day diary going. Second true leaves are coming through at the top at the moment, the canopy is looking quite nice for a seedling I think. Really hoping I'm right about the roots having grown well Picking up an inroom fan for air circulation today I lowered the lights by 10 cm today, I'm still quite confused about LED lighting, everyone talks about pull from the wall when it comes to lights, so my lighting setup is pulling 75 watts from the wall, but things do seem to be going well the lighting paperwork says 100W each full spectrum output, guess we'll see at the end of this grow if they're a suitable product Day 7: Plant seems to have responded well to the lights being brought down 10cm, two new leaves have really begun to sprout out the top, the little seedling seems to be really healthy, and the canopy does keep growning. Today she had no water, and this even the soil is starting to feel a little dry at the surface, but deep in the soil I imagine is still quite moist. There's now about 5 hours left on the light cycle, so I think by tomorrow morning she'll be ready for another good drink I'm going to do a very diluted mixture of Humic and Fulvic Acids with distilled water for the main water, but I'm going to spray the top soil with a diluted Hydrogen peroxide mixture as well, this will prevent any infections or pests as well as adding extra Oxygen down into the soil for the roots. Should give her a good boost when watered in. Because I understand that Easy bud doesn't grow much more than 60 cm, I have a ,mylar backed camping mat surrounding the plant, now the lights are within this reflective area entirely so this will allow for less light to be lost to the white paint Things are looking good and I included an image of my full setup today Day 8: After 24 hours of carefully monitored drought, the soil became dry to the touch for a full finger length. This morning I sprayed the toil soil with a very week dilution of 3% Hydrogen Peroxide to add some oxygen to the soil and act as a preventative for pests, I also gave the full pot around 200 ml of water, including about 50 ml of Humic and fulvic acid solution around the roots. The seedling went from what looked like a healthy green that is a little pale in yesterdays pictures. to an extremely vibrant green that can be seen well in todays pictures. So I assume this is a great sign my little project is happy I lowered the lights very slightly to give more intensity for the plant to increase photosynthesis with, with the addition of Humic and Fulvic acids to the root zone and hydrogen peroxide in the rest of the soil, I would expect to see a decent growth spurt over the course of today and tomorrow The stem is very thin and still supporting a large canopy for it's size, I've introduced a small USB fan to blow above the seedling, without sitting and studying the plant you can barely see the effects of the fan, just a slight dance in the wind to help build up that stem early. Day 8 Growers Note: Boy this girl was thirsty, gave her another water with distilled water in the afternoon as the soil around the plant had sucked up all the water and was already going dry. Seems as though this mornings water has triggered a growth spurt already which was what I was hoping for with the Humic acid and hydrogen peroxide. Gave another 150ml of water 8 hours before the lights were due to go out, this should be enough to get the plant through till tomorrow morning, hoping to be able to start LST in 10 days but with the current growth I'm thinking this might be possible before the second week starts. LST will be supplemented with Foliar feeding of Fulvic acid to boost photosynthesis and stress tolerance. the sooner I can get this lady bent over the sooner she can get sprayed with a known photosynthesis stimulant. Day 9: Wow, quite a growth spurt over night, Spraying lightly with Hydrogen Peroxide and re-feeding the root area with the same dilution Humic and Fulvic acid seems to have done the trick! She's started stretching above those first true leaves slightly over night, I'm a little concerned about how thin that stem is but she's still holding tall, I've started to blow a small fan across her canopy just to get some movement and toughen up that stem a little bit The soil is still quite damp, although not at the surface, By tonight she may need another water but we'll check that as we go along I'm tempted to add a small amount of Nutes but I think I'll wait until week 2/3 as is tradition with Autoflowers, Humic acid supposedly makes more nutrients in the soil available, carefully monitoring for any signs of deficiencies because I've interpreted this to mean a plant can use more of the nutrients in the soil ๐Ÿ˜Ž Things are going very well :D Day 9 (four hours later): Update, she's a thirsty girl! Woke up this morning to damp soil 5 hours after the lights had come on by 9 hours after the light had some on the soil had gone dry, gave her another 200ml of distilled water with a few drops of H2O2 because that seemed to trigger a decent growth spurt last night, debating starting a very light feed at the next water just to provide a nutrient boost to the root zone Day 10: Another growth spurt overnight, the concerns about slow growth have very much been forgotten, the latest pictures don't show it well but the second set of true leaves should have their 3 fingers exposed to the light by tomorrow morning :D Today I fed, a very small amount of Liquid nutes 0.25 ml in 200 litres of 1:1:1 ratio, that was this morning and the plant seems to have responded well without any signs of nute burn yet, I fed the soil and then sprayed the root zone with pure distilled water, she's taking about 250ml of water each day atm before the top couple of inches gets very dry and ready for another feed Think I'll be ready to start watering to Runoff soon, I'm conscious that there's no CalMag in my soil, So I've set aside a litre of tap water to de-chlorinate I live in a hard water area with a tap water PH of 7, which is pretty good I understand 7 hours until lights out and she seems to be incredibly healthy and growing well. She was a little bent over this morning (stretching towards the light?) I propped her up and reposition so she was directly under the lights and she recovered incredibly quickly 4 days until 2 weeks old, she could very much have 3 nodes by this time :D looking forward to LST starting ;) The Cotyledons are starting to die now, but that was to be expected they're entirely covered by true leaves so get next to no light at all GROW QUESTION: 2 excellent answers very quickly, loving Growdaries for the support you can get! I'd been worried she was getting top heavy I'll find a way of supporting her :) Day 11: propped up the girl today a little bit because of the lean + worried about her becoming top heavy, no water today as the soil was still a bit damp and she was still looking very green and healthy, she'll 100% need water tomorrow Update, by the end of the day she'd gone bone dry up to about the second knuckle, I'm conscious that many people say wait until the topsoil is dry to your first knuckle but I'm in a very big pot and I water down holes in the soil to help convince the roots to stretch down that bit further So I gave the topsoil around the main stem a spray with tap water that had been left to sit for 24 hours my tap water comes out at ~ PH7 so I brought this back down to six by adding 2 tablespoons of Hydrogen Peroxide to about 2 cups of water, of which I used very little just damped the top soil enough to get her through the night I expect tomorrow morning she will need a decent water
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Grow Questions
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLTstarted grow question 4 years ago
I'm not giving her too much water at the moment, she's definitely growing and I'm conscious it's only been 3 days since she was put under grow lights but thought by now we would have had more growth
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Plant. Too short
Setup. Seedling
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Esoteric_growing
Esoteric_growinganswered grow question 4 years ago
I think that growth is normal for such a early stage. In future i strongly recommend starting in a small pot and then proceeding to a larger one once it has rooted out. Be careful with the watering as itโ€™s such a small plant and can be over watered easily. You can always add more but canโ€™t take away. Hope this helps๐Ÿ‘
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLTstarted grow question 4 years ago
I've been slowly lowering them as the plant grows, now I'm starting to get nodes but they're pretty close together (see grow question image) Wondering if I should lift the lights to encourage stretching or leave them alone General health check would be awesome too ๐Ÿ˜„
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Plant. Spaces between nodes
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MaxGrowCanada
MaxGrowCanadaanswered grow question 4 years ago
That little girl is looking great! I'd say, your lighting should be fine at that height. She doesnt seem stressed at all. Some plants start out with tight internodes like that, even different phenotypes, under the same lighting, can produce vastly different spacing. I have 2 criticals from dinamed growing that show this off very well. Cheers and happy growing
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLTstarted grow question 4 years ago
I've not fed in 5 days and this discolouration only started 2 days ago, I'm really thinking it's light stress, I've already turned off one of the lights instead of lifting the lights, more looking for reassurance I've DX'd the problem correctly :D
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Leaves. Tips - Burnt
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Shagrath
Shagrathanswered grow question 4 years ago
Hi! In my experience light stress looks a little different. The leaves might start to droop and the green healthy color starts to fade to lighter green in the top parts where the light intensity is the strongest but I don't think it will make the tiof of the leaves yellow only. So i'd say it is something else but you should not be worried 'cos she's still young and fragile but I'm sure she will grow out of it if you just give her time and keep growing her like you used to!
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLTstarted grow question 4 years ago
It seems like my girls stem has burst out of it's outer layer, is this something to be worried about? I feel like it's because she's just had another growth spurt and in a few days this will heal over, new grower so naturally paranoid about everything, uploading todays pics next
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Plant. Stem - Weak
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MrGreenMan
MrGreenMananswered grow question 4 years ago
Bro itโ€™s healing youโ€™re doing good. This is natural happens to us all. The stem is just growth thicker and thicker and the other layers are dying off. Got nothing to worry about and happy growing!
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLTstarted grow question 4 years ago
So I know auto-flowers grow short, but she's still about 10cm tall and smashing lateral growth Do any auto-flower growers know when the height starts to come? I'd be worried she was stunted if it wasn't for the new node forming quickly once again looking for reassurance
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Plant. Too short
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Ferenc
Ferencanswered grow question 4 years ago
Let's say she could be taller..... What about your PH? Sometimes the nature of the seed is like this but most of the time it is on us. In this case I see the light colour of the leaves that means nitrogen deficiency. Nitrogen needed to grow properly and in this case I think the problem is the nitrogen. She will flower soon. I highly recommend higher dosage of bat guano or whatever that can provide good amount of nitrogen. PH imbalance also causes this that's why I asked because the plant roots can not absorb nutriteint when the PH is improper. Hope helps. :)
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLTstarted grow question 4 years ago
Stepping up the lights and LSTing has made a huge difference, as well as a healthy application of Humic acids Anything I can be doing at this point to help her on the way to a bountiful harvest?
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Buds. Other
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Burmese
Burmeseanswered grow question 4 years ago
Hi there, Maximizing yield is the goal of all growers.As you are growing Auto, theyโ€™ve very limited amount of time to maximize.LST for an auto is all I would do to make her bigger.The less stress the better for an auto.If you donโ€™t have any plan to use better equipments, you can maximize your yield by nutrient.Proper feeding and use of booster can make you big difference.For now, stay on your LST track and spread the branches as many as you can before it shows any pre flower.When she goes into flowering circle, use flowering booster like P/K booster, big bud, bud candy, etc... to boost.At the end of flowering period, use nute like overdrive will make your plant,the biggest one.Happy growing... โœŒ๏ธ
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLTstarted grow question 4 years ago
images in the diary show how she looked this morning Today I gave a good water with a weak dilution of H2O2 to balance PH + add oxygen , I also brought the lights a bit closer Am I correct in thinking shes had a hard day building food for tonight growth?
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Leaves. Curl down
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 4 years ago
After looking at your diary, I would stop with the hydrogen peroxide(!) and I would suggest never giving your plants distilled water. Distilled water has nothing in it, such as dissolved salts, calcium etc. and when applying it to your plants can actually "suck" these dissolved salts out of your plants cells via osmosis. If you are concerned with chlorine etc. in your tap water, just fill a bucket or three with tap water and let them stand for a couple of days before using the water. Leaving the buckets of water to stand will cause most of the chlorine and any other chemicals to evaporate, leaving you with well balanced and clean/chemical free water. Your babies will pick up in a few days and continue growing normally. If you are really keen, you could give them some sort of seaweed extract/tonic, as this will really pick them up quickly and is also good to use periodically as a soil stimulant. If you live where you get pretty warm in summer or quite cold in winter, using the seaweed tonic a day or two before the extreme weather hits, will help your plants battle through those temperature nightmares. Hope this helps... Organoman.
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLTstarted grow question 4 years ago
I've got 2 bud sites that are covered by 1 leaf, I'm itching to take that one leaf away to expose those budsites as I can't bend it out of the way because the stem is still too short, will this shock the plan at a critical stage? Am I better waiting a few days?
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Leaves. Too many
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russrahl
russrahlanswered grow question 4 years ago
Your not in the flowering stage yet and that plant is gonna change itโ€™s structure drastically between now and when those bud sites are gonna need light, that leaf is not gonna be there come bud time as the plant will stretch out. best to let her grow and do the pruning of leaves like this just before flowering flip or just after, but be very selective on what to remove, because these leaves do feed the bud sites there connected too later on in flowering. Cheers!๐Ÿ’จ
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLTstarted grow question 4 years ago
More a question out of Idol curiosity, I've managed to train an even canopy with what will hopefully be 7 main colas, and there's a few sites that aren't in the top canopy that look like they could do well Will the stems continue to thicken with a fan on them when flower starts?
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Buds. Other
Plant. Stem - Weak
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 4 years ago
Your plants know what to do, they will be fine. More of a problem with stretched plants growing without not enough light. Yours seems quite stocky, so should cope with flower weight.
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLTstarted grow question 4 years ago
Is a night time temp of 15degrees the cause? I can't keep it up without making it too hot, or could this just be a phosphorus def.? I fed her well yesterday and yet to see any difference, as far as I can see this isn't typical for the strain
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Leaves. Color - Dark-purple
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Frigault
Frigaultanswered grow question 4 years ago
Many strain that don't have purple trains in them, actual have a little purple hue when expise to cool temps. Some nutrient becimes les available at lower temperature. A plant with temps below 20 degrees can express color change at the tips of theire growth going from cool to hot during night and light exposure.. has long has night don't get below yiur 15 i would nit worry esoecialy if day time is warmer. Since it can start affect growth eventually. Try to get something to raise nightbtemos in there 20 if you can. I tiny space heater on a control timer wirks great. You make it turn in when temps are below a certain temp and turn if when it reach a proper level.. you can get the heater for around 20$ on amazon. The temp controler will be a few more bux but well worth the $ in my opinion and can even be use with a cooler djring hit summer.
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLTstarted grow question 4 years ago
Uploaded a full photoshoot of everything going on with the plant. Based on the images from my grow I'd love some feedback/input about how she's looking. Is the Yellowing of the leaves the normal yellowing? (except the nute burn) Should the Pistils be going brown already?
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Buds. Not fattening
Buds. Other
Other. General questions
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Troy_Farms
Troy_Farmsanswered grow question 4 years ago
She is small, but only 3rd week of flower and an auto so no worries! I would recommend Defoliate some of the undergrowth, definitely the yellow leaves, and remove some other choice leaves that are blocking lower bud sites to allow light to access deeper and allow for buds to fill in more. To help with the same idea of letting more light into deeper parts of the plant, I would also use some ties to space the branches out as much and even as possible. Combination of those two should help make the most of this girl. Leaves should not be turning yellow as she is still early flowering. However your plant is pretty bushy so the bigger lower leaf might go, nothing to worry about as long as the other leaves are healthy. 8 weeks of flower is average. Hairs will go from white to orange depends on the strain, but it happens near the end of flowering, as that is the last stage for the pistils, but usually after 4 or 5 weeks of flower they will have a few, sometimes more and sometimes none at all, sometimes it takes 7 or 8 weeks. Depends on strain and growing conditions. For your girls here, I would guess pistils will start to orange over in another 3 weeks or so.
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLTstarted grow question 4 years ago
I've just defoliated and noticed a white/brown film on my stem, I think this is normal?
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Plant. Other
Roots. Color - Brown
Feeding. Other
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Stonerd
Stonerdanswered grow question 4 years ago
Totally normal! nothing to worry about its just residue from the stem's development. Plant looks great!! I'd suggest just increasing the amount of water you're giving her to reduce the salt buildup you have in the medium (make sure there's at least 20-30% runoff) Besides a little Phosphorous and Potassium buildups, which are probably due to the banana tea, your plant looks very healthy!! try not to defoliate any more at this stage of flowering since you need those leaves to produce energy which produces buds!! Hope this helps! Good luck and happy growing :)
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLTstarted grow question 4 years ago
I think we've made it! It's been a long slog and a serious learning curve but by golly she's looking delicious and she's swollen loads in the past week or so, her lowest leaves are going yellow despite being fed every other day, is she getting ready to go lights out? ๐Ÿ˜
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Buds. Other
Plant. Other
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Roberts
Robertsanswered grow question 4 years ago
If you want more couch lock then wait another week, maybe a little longer then do flush and 2 weeks ph appropriate water while it fades. If not start flush now and 2 weeks. Looks delicious and enjoy the harvest. Great job happy growing ๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒฒ๐Ÿ‘Š
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Ferenc
Ferencweek 0
First like and good luck! @GreenFingeredLT
Ferenc
Ferenc
@GreenFingeredLT, Well, no worries if you update your diary i always look back so if I see smthg or you might have a question I am here to help if I can mate. Happy Growing :) Feel free to contact me in case. Cheers.
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLT
@Ferenc, Thanks man :D would appreciate any input and advice you might have as we go along :D
MasterKushOG
MasterKushOGweek 4
Looks amazing ๐Ÿ˜ Keep going in same way ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ’ฃ
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLT
@MasterKushOG, Hey man thanks for the kind words! Yeah I'm getting really excited, four weeks today until Christmas I'm hopeful for a Christmas Harvest but expecting a new year one
DreamIT
DreamITweek 3
Enjoy Growth ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ‘ฝ๐ŸคŸ๐Ÿ€
giggi
giggiweek 7
Congrats! She looks very nice! how many weeks left?
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLT
@giggi, yeah I'd say it's about 50/50 now on average all over the plant, but every day new white hairs on the main cola so I think she's still going strong
giggi
giggi
@GreenFingeredLT, Yes I mean pistils, I noticed they are longer and get brown earlier than mine. The plant will continue to produce constantly white hairs, you have to trim when 75% of pistils are brown. In last 2 weeks I noticed that buds gets thicker, good luck!
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLT
@giggi, You mean the pistils? (the white hairs?) if so I was a bit confused they were going brown from very early in flower but she keeps producing white hairs daily so I think she's still in active flower maybe 2 more weeks? I'm just balancing a K deficiency at the moment so hopefully there's enough time for a good growth spurt, seemed like yours put on a fair amount of weight towards the end?
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heizen
heizenweek 6
Nice grow mate, plants are looking good, keep it up, imma follow this one upclose.
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLT
@heizen, Hey man thanks :D Not long to go now! any criticisms or advice would be welcomed :D
PurpleWorship
PurpleWorshipweek 7
Nice one for a first grow mate :) Especially since you performed LST for the first time too... Great. "I'm mindful of not defoliating at the moment because she's obviously running a def" Definitly a good decision ^^
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLT
@PurpleWorship, hey man thanks for the kind words :D I've made some very rookie mistakes this time around but I've learned a lot :D
homerjgangia
homerjgangiaweek 5
Good luck with your grow mate!๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ’ช
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLT
@homerjgangia, Hey man thanks for the kind words! Really getting excited now ;)
Taito
Taitoweek 2
Se ve genial!๐Ÿ˜ƒ Suerte con el crecimiento ๐Ÿ˜‰
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLT
๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ @Taito, I put the entirety of the blame for the growth on two things (and they're sure not talent and experience!); 1. Humic solution (Humic and Fulvic acid) - She gets her first foliar feed of Fulvic acid tonight should be a serious stretch session tomorrow ;) 2. "Feeding" the roots oxygen with highly diluted hydrogen peroxide every 3rd water or so
DrMunchies
DrMunchiesweek 1
Good job on the first two weeks! She's looking nice and healthy, I love the daily updates. Good luck!
GreenFingeredLT
GreenFingeredLT
@DrMunchies, hey man thanks for the kind words ๐Ÿ˜ the daily updates are the only thing keeping me sane on lock-down haha ๐Ÿ˜‚ Been going to bed each night hella excited to wake up the next day it's like Christmas morning every single morning ๐Ÿ˜‚
homerjgangia
homerjgangiaweek 5
Good luck with your grow mate!๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ’ช
DreamOn
DreamOnweek 4
Nice job, looks great! Good luck with the rest of the flowering and have fun! ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ˜Ž
Stoner_INDICA
Stoner_INDICAweek 4
It looks beautiful๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ˜
The_Bearded_Grower
The_Bearded_Growerweek 11
looking good ๐Ÿ’ช
Smokwiri
Smokwiriweek 11
Plant looks sweet, keep up the good worx๐Ÿ‘Œ