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Germination: Soaked for 4 hours in Humic & Fulvic Acid Solution, as soon as the seed sank planted in the peat pellet saturated with Humic and Fulvic Acid Solution.
first photos in the Diary are 3 days after the seed first sank. Been on the window in darkness for 3 days kept at between 22 degrees c and 25 degrees, did reach 27 one day but didn't seem to effect the growth at all
Day 1 : Seed broke ground today so placed under a single CFL light until the seed casing shakes loose, once the seed has shaked loose I'll transplant the pellet directly into the final pot.
Soil has also been treated with 100ml of Humic acid solution but this has dried out quite quickly so going to double this up and give the soil another 200ml of solution so that it's completely ready by tomorrow when I expect to put the seedling into the cabinet
Already loving the way the tap root is fuzzing up around the top of the soil, wish I could see what she looked like under the peat pellet!
First grow in over 5 years at least so basically a beginner all over again, excited for it!
Update on day 1: Sprayed more fulvic and humic acid solution at the same concentrations listed above, in total around 300ml of F&H acid solution has been added to the soil, this will be the last application of these acids until next week at the earliest, currently watering with distilled water with a small amount of tap water to benefit from the salts that are in the hard water that comes from the tap
Day 2: The capsule inside the seed didn't fully break, out of newbie concerns I cut this loose with a small pair of nail scissors that had been fully sterilised, woke up this morning to see the first sign of true leaves and the taproot escaping from the bottom of the peat plug, boy this lady is growing fast!
Gently tore off the wrapper of the peat plug, dug a small hole in my growing medium, the peat plug was mostly dry so I sprayed water into the hole (This will draw water up into the pellet but will help convince the tap root to grow even deeper into the soil)
Currently under 2 100W LED full spectrum lights that are 60 cm away from the seedling, I have 3 of these 100W lamps but I intend to turn the third one on later in veg to not shock the girl so early, the lights have a limited range of IR and UV light so better safe than sorry
Growers note: Can't believe how fast this girl is progressing, only 4 days ago today she sank to the bottom of a shot glass as a seed, I was expecting to be waiting a week before I got to this point, could be a Christmas day harvest if she keeps growing at this rate. Unsure if it's the strain or if Humic and Fulvic acid are responsible for this explosive growth! Already looking forward to seeing how she grows by tomorrow now she's getting full spectrum of light!
Day 3: Last night I noticed a little bit of stretch starting, lowered the lights to 50cm away from the leaves, true leaves seem to be opening up, feel there's a lot going on under the soil that I can't see.
Lighting is currently on 18/6, 200W comes on with the timer, then when I wake up I switch on the 3rd lamp just to increase the light all round. giving 300W at 50cm distance Soil is very dry I'm currently spraying a little maybe twice a day to avoid drowning the girl
Noticed what I expect will become a fungus gnat problem yesterday, allowed the soil to fully dry and have begun watering down small holes to keep the topsoil dry, I'll be picking up peroxide as a preventative
Stopped using Humic and Fulvic acid solution for now, only water with distilled water for a few days, will reapply the acids after the first week/10 days
Day 5: After asking my grow question, i gave the full medium a water, you could hear the water being dragged from the very outside of the pot to the inside, it was incredibly dry, The growing medium has been provided under 50ml of water each day, but it has been a decent distance away from the peat plug the plant was started in and osmosis happens in all directions so I'm hoping I've kept the peat plug the right conditions for root growth, from what I understand plants grow every day, If nothings happened up top everything must have happened underneath? Humic Acid is a growth stimulant that makes nutrients in the soil more readily available, it's possible that this means the plant has entirely focused on growing roots for 2 days, and initial growth was very fast, I guess we'll find out in the next couple of days!
Because I did give the full substrate a water yesterday, I'm in approximately 15 L Pot so it's a huge space for a small plant, and i've a good mix of perlite in the soil because it is peat based, around 30% of the substrate is perlite for good drainage
Leaving the photos for possibly the evening or tomorrow morning, I don't need to open the cabinet at all today there's nothing to do except let her grow, this evening I'll check the progress
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
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 it’s such a small plant and can be over watered easily. You can always add more but can’t take away.
Hope this helps👍
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 😎
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
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 😄
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
Day 13: Bit of a panic the past few days which is why there was no daily update, two main problems;
SunBurn:
Noticed the tips of some of the leaves were going lighter green, this has turned white overnight, at first I thought Potassium lockout because I watered with tap water and my tap water is quite high in calcium minerals, watered with distilled water to see if this rectified the problem
But I also know my lights had been quite close for this stage, so I lifted them up about 10cm they're now 20inches away from the canopy and the discolouration has stopped, not 100% sure what the problem was but i've stopped it
Plant Fell over 😪
I'd been worried about the girl getting top heavy for a few days, lots of leaves and a very thin stem. This morning the plant just toppled, I'm HOPING it hasn't caused any damage underneath, to rectify this I've propped up the plant with multiple skewers and also topped up my soil so she's now short and bushy, I guess we'll see in the next 48 hours or so if this fall has caused any problems
This morning I watered till run off, may have been a bad move if she's damping off but I have been cautious with water and regularly treat the soil with H2O2 so can't see that being possible, I suspect she got top heavy because I'm not finding many examples of a 14 day old seedling with this much growth going on, provided around 500ml of water I won't be watering for another 2 days now
PH at runoff was 6.
Tonight to give her more incentive to grow I'm going to foliar feed with a Humic and Fulvic acid solution, this stimulates photosynthesis as well as encourages cells to grow, but it's beneficial to help a plant deal with stress, hoping the fall hasn't stressed her too much but if it has I'm hoping that the Humic and Fulvic acids will help her bounce back quickly
Day 14: The fall doesn't seem to have caused too much of a problem, the new leaf growth is continuing and now we're starting to get leaves forming on the nodes, I sprayed last night with Humus solution just after the lights went out
Seriously debating installing more lights just to ramp up the light for when she flips to flower, but that's 2 weeks away yet
Day 15: Watered again today, with very diluted H2O2 and Humic solution, we're talking a few drops of each in Distilled water, added the grow question to confirm I'm correct my lights were too strong, PH at run off was just under 7, lots of growth going on at the nodes that have fully formed, hoping by the end of this week I'll have around 5 nodes ready to start LST
Day 16, growth seems to have slowed a little but this did happen last time I fed the roots with H2O2 previously, I think using a diluted mix of H2O2 Gives the roots a big hit of oxygen and the plant focuses on root growth (fairly essential part of the plant after all) Got loads of new growth going on at the nodes, I've lifted the lights higher (not measured yet) just to convince her to stretch a little bit to catch up from when I had to put more soil in the pot.
Today is a drought day for the girl but the soil is still damp, seems to be every other day she needs watering, she's 100% growing I leave the fan blowing just above the canopy to get a little bit of movement come back and she's grown into the wind and the fan needs re adjusting,
Nothing much more to report, 5 days until week 3 and if she has another growth spurt tonight (which I expect, at this stage applications seem to take about 24 hours to take effect, so I figure today she's using up all that heavily oxygenated soil from the H2O2 to get her root growth on then tomorrow that root growth will turn into leaf growth)
Tomorrow will be a simple clean water day just to offset whatever is burning her tips, need to order some bloom ferts but I think i've another week until she goes into flower
Day 17, I was expecting to water today but the soil is still pretty damp, perhaps I over watered the other day, she'll have another drought day today to make sure she's not being over watered before giving a clean water "flush" to clear out any excess nutrients from the feeding that might be causing the tips to burn, this hasn't progressed so I feel like I've fixed the problem for the time being
From Grow Question about stem wall (can't find how to directly thank people on the question section) reassurance given, I was fairly certain that was the case that this was a natural thing it just came a few days after she'd gotten too top heavy and fell over 😂 Over protective of this little girly
Day 17 update: 2 hours before the lights are due to go out, the top soil is now completely dry, Going to let her go without water tonight to convince those roots to grow more then give her a good old water tomorrow, I lowered the lights today now that the burning seems to have stopped, I think this was a touch of overfeeding because of the Humic and Fulvic acids making the nutes much more available to the plant - Over the course of today there's been some real growth going on, as always I'm excited to go to bed and wake up to view her progress tomorrow morning for watering time :D
She's started to pick up a slight aroma, which I'm taking to be a good sign :D
I'm so excited to start LST, he bud sites are already growing out and I want to get them exposed to the light to maximise this girls yield
Day 19: As much as I wanted to choose the answer to my grow question that gave me the answer I was looking for, I'm concerned the girl is short, if very bushy, My PH of water is about 6 (distilled water) but the runoff can vary heavily between 6 & 7, I see other Easy bud grows where at this point they're about this short and then they stretch, hoping that's the case here, I guess we'll see really soon
Today I did some light LST on her, the stalk is really firm so I settled with a bend at soil level and Hopefully I've not broken anything, she used to fall over a lot and continue growing so I feel like it went okay, either tomorrow or the day after I get a bulb splitter and I'm gonna install 3 32W 2700K CFL lights to ramp up the wattage for flower, as well as providing some bloom nutes, next feed might get a mixture of bloom and growth because it's been pointed out a few times she's looking pale, this is mostly on pictures but it is starting to show on the leaves a little in person, so I guess she's starting to get a tad deficient, it's a water day tomorrow so i'll give her a small amount of feed, because of the LST I was considering giving her Humic and Fulvic acid foliar feed, but I put a LOT of this into the soil yesterday when I watered
Tomorrows Water I'm gonna go around the outside of the pot as someone suggested to convince the roots to grow more might help her do some more growing and avoid nute burn
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
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!
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
Bro it’s healing you’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!
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
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. :)
After weeks of being uncertain about my lights, I decided to bite the bullet now she's flipping to flower soon.
Upgraded to 3 extra lights so another 70 watts the new lights are CFL 2700 K, should be the perfect time to do this
Tonight when lights are out I'll be spraying her with Humic and Fulvic acid as she's not had this on the leaves for a while, I fed a TINY amount the other day and the tips started burning again, I fed, then flushed a little and had the correct PH at input and runoff and she still got burned, makes me a bit worried for when I start giving her bloom nutes
Day 20
The new growth is starting to be a little bit pale, I think it's very early signs of a deficiency but feeding through the roots just isn't working she keeps getting nute burn, it's been commented a few times she might be low on nitrogen, especially after a day under an extra 70W of drawn light, I've decided to Foliar feed a little
Diluted it down 1 drop of 1:1:1 and 1 drop of Bio Bloom in 20 ml of water (a whole 0.1ml) then that 20 ml of water was added to a 100ml of water and 5 drops of Humic and Fulvic acid solution, this was then sprayed all over the leaves which she drank through them in about 15 minutes after lights out, last time she got a foliar feed of Humic and fulvic acid the night time growth was crazy, but the next day was insane with the extra light and the Humic and Fulvic, I reckon day 21 is going to be such an amazing day for this little girl
I can't LST her properly, the stem is so rigid, I basically pulled her over in the soil, there's another node coming through now so I might be able to pull this down and one of the bud sights is starting to grow up and out, might get a couple of Colas off her if they start growing and I can keep the main on under control
Day 21: Humic and Fulvic acid worked it's magic once again, loads of new growth and the lights really seem to be ramping up her growth aswell, I've managed to LST her a bit better today to pull the top of the plant down to the same level as the rest of the growth, no Apical dominance anymore and the side growth is really exploding, there's a bud site that I can't get good pictures of that's stretched out of the shadow to reach light in the space of 24 hours it's gained about an inch in length!
The foliar feed of Nutes seems to have not caused much of a nute burn, but it's levelled out her colour a little bit, I think tomorrow I'll need to water again as we're getting dry but still damp today, in the morning I'll give plane old Distilled water just to keep that nute burn away and probably start feeding her through the leaves it seems to be having a much better effect, I reckon another week until she starts to flower there's no sign of pistils yet she seems quite content to be focusing on growing new budsites nodes and grow a lot more apexs which I'm happy to let her do should get a decent number of Colas, if she keeps up this growth for another week before flower we're onto a winner here, can't wait!
Day 22: Growth is continuing very well, this morning I woke up late and by the time I was awake the soil was bone dry, watered around the outside of the pot to really get those roots stretching out, PH at runoff was just below 7, gave about a Litre today her needs are certainly increasing, I also added generous helping of H2O2 to really oxygenate the roots following the drought, adding hydrogen peroxide always triggers a huge growth spurt in a couple of days, the roots must love it go nuts and grow then the above ground growth has the capabilities of growing a lot more!
Dropped the lights even closer today because I'm conscious how bushy she's getting , CFLs aren't the greatest at penetration and my LEDs aren't the best lights in the world, but since introducing the new lights the growth has gone insane, thinking the short stature is due to genetics of the particular seed, there's a LOT of nodes now by week 3 we're looking at 6/7, and if I'm right we're looking at at least 3 possibly 5 unique colas, especially now I'm going heavy on the LST it's triggering her to grow all over, but the top needs tying down every day
Really excited for this girl to flower!
Today I mixed Citric acid and Bicarb of soda and added a shot glass of tap water in a small dish and sat that next to the plant, this creates CO2 (eventually) ramping up the CO2, light and adding water + H2O2 should give her everything she needs for another growth spurt in the next few days ;)
Day 23: Seeing a lot of people suggesting to stop using H2O2, important to point out I'm mixing the Hydrogen Peroxide with water about 1 teaspoon for every 500ml then leaving it to sit and break down, h2o + oxygen are exactly what the plants roots needs
Her stem has really thickened up over the past few days, I put this down to the new lights + she's probably getting ready to flower, LST has been quite successful in creating a very bushy plant , it's become pretty impossible to check how many unique nodes she's got on the main stem all I know is she's still growing really well, it's proving quite hard to feed her through the soil without almost guaranteed nute burn, Autos are obliviously very sensitive to burning , this + the Humic solution is making it hard to get the balance right through the soil, I've decided to start foliar feeding for the time being instead
Few people said last night that she was looking over watered, I think they've looked at the picture and not the grow diary details, I'm giving 500ml every 2 days at the moment, in the past day the soil has dried out completely, I've been reassured that the droop 90 minutes before lights out is just the plant resting before the night growth begins
no sign of pre flowers yet, we've probably still got another 5 days to a week of veg then I think flower will begin, she's starting to give a lovely smell already , the growth in 3 days has been crazy, she's become a decent sized bush
Thinking I'm going to need to install a SCROG net, to help spread out the bud sites but also to support her, when the buds start coming through, looking like 4 decent colas might form when flower starts, which would be excellent
Day 24: This girl is thiiirrssttyyy, I think she's getting ready to flip to flower, first few white hairs are coming through on the stalks, I had hoped we had another week of growth before this happened but I'm still happy with the size, over the past few days her main stem has grown really thick and the side growth is about as thick as the main stem was last week, yesterday I gave a second water because the soil is drying out very quickly, it's currently dry up to the first knuckle of my finger, but I'm going to wait until tomorrow to water and probably feed as well
It's pretty much impossible to count how many nodes she's got on the main stem because the growth is so thick! Hoping that she will stretch out quite a bit during the next few weeks to open up some of the bud sites otherwise I might have to consider defoliation, there's a lot of bud sites that are completely shaded by the top canopy
I'm quite lucky that distilled water is cheap where I am, but tap water is really hard, Set aside 2 litres today ahead of tomorrows water, last time I used tap water there was a few issues, so I'm going to mix tap and distilled water to reduce the salt content quite a way,
Day 24 update, we've 100% hit flower, she's starting to grow pistils on pretty much every single node, there's 2 hours until lights out and I could probably water her, but I've read that letting a pot get dry is what's needed for the roots to focus on growing out into the pot to find moisture, the soil is damp about 1.5 inches below the surface, I've noticed some surface fuzz growing on the soil, I know this isn't detrimental to the plant if anything it's a sign of healthy soil (H2O2 will do that to soil if it's used properly) but letting the soil dry out over night isn't going to cause too much harm to the plant I'm sure there's still moisture to be had, I'm tempted to give the leaves a misting tonight with humus solution, but she'll get a good water with Humic, fulvic and a single drop of bio-bloom tomorrow, 1 drop of nute in 750 ml of water, tomorrow I'm watering with 50% distilled water and 50% tap water, I need to be up early to do this at lights on instead of later in the day to maximise the benefits
over the course of today what will be the nodes have started opening themselves up a little, what was once a very bushy plant is now already starting to stretch out, excited to see what happens next week! 😆
Day 25: lot an awful lot to report today, growth is still on going, the side stems are starting to thicken up and stretch out, this morning the soil was bone dry and it was able to take 1 litre of water no problems with very little runoff, runoff did eventually come though which was at ph of 6
that was the driest she's ever been and seemed to be thriving this morning, today's picture is post watering and she was visibly sucking up water into her leaves for a hard day of photosynthesis!
Watering this girl this morning has set off some serious growth! Giving her so much water was nerve wracking but she's suddenly exploded up top! Doesn't seem to be showing any signs of nute burn which is excellent and the Humic and Fulvic acids seem to have really done their thing!
Exciting times ahead! 3 days until week 4! Looks like she's focusing on leaf growth for the time being, excited to see how much she explodes going into flower
Day 26: I couldn't help myself, I had to open the grow room to have a look this morning even though I told myself I wouldn't but boy did yesterdays water send her crazy! She's really stepped up the leaf growth over the past week, and it's looking like 5 main colas, asking todays grow question to see if I can expose more bud sites early and will this make a difference, todays pictures look a little yellow, they're not in person but I'm thinking we're looking at a spot of nitrogen deficiency, she was fed minimal bloom nutes yesterday (1 drop in 1 litre lol) and doesn't seem to be showing any signs of burn which I'm happy to report, but I'm thinking I'll foliar feed her some 1:1:1 just to balance out those slightly yellow leaves
Day 27: Today I watered again, after spraying with Humic and Fulvic acid solution last night, the soil was dry an inch down again (so water intake is increasing) just gave plain water 50% distilled 50% tap, I think there's some kind of deficiency starting but I can only see it under the grow lights now when she comes out of the cupboard so it's hard to say what it is, spraying with Humus solution triggered another growth spurt this normally takes 24-48 hours to take effect so maybe tomorrow she'll shoot up again, noticed some slight curling on the leaves which can't be heat but I think light stress, lifted the lights to counteract this
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?
Hi there, Maximizing yield is the goal of all growers.As you are growing Auto, they’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 don’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... ✌️
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?
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.
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?
Your not in the flowering stage yet and that plant is gonna change it’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!💨
Day 28: Last night I had a real scare, I watered and by the end of the day she was drooping and looking very sick, there was no runoff at water so I feel I overwatered the little thing, thankfully this morning she has bounced back with great strength and this morning is looking healthier than ever!
I'm noticing a few holes in leaves, a few spots on the leaves and a few very fine silk trails on the leaves, so I'm thinking she's got thrips 😣 next to impossible to get any pictures of the damage I'm talking about because I think I've caught the infection incredibly early, so today I'm picking up some Neem oil and I'll spray her completely at lights out , hopefully it is thrips and not spider mites because thrips this late in the grow wouldn't be too bad! If it's spidermites I'll be in a bit more trouble, thankfully flower has only JUST begun so I'm not so worried about a neem oil application at this time
I'm going to let the soil dry out completely before watering again, I was dubious whether it was needed yesterday but the top inch was dry, I think I'll just wait until it's a couple of inches moving forwards
Day 29: last night I drenched the leaves in diluted neem oil, I'm not seeing a lot of pest activity but there is some level, so since we're just starting to flower I decided now was the time just to blast anything that might be floating around, In ten days I'll do it again, maybe sooner if the buds are really getting going in that time
Because of my overwatering scare the other day, I'm giving her another 24 hours to dry out deep into the pot, there's still a level of moisture in there and as of this morning the plant looks really healthy, really happy with how shes looking today, got 5 exposed tops which I believe will become the colas, 2 are the apex and on the same level and 3 lower ones are all on the same level. There are other potential Colas but they're hidden under the plant, I'll probable defoliate that side once the times right, unless they can break through in the next couple of days, which would be nice
Day 29 update: (7 hours after lights on) opened the cabinet to find temps of 29 degrees c wasn't running extraction, soil is dry, but most importantly I noticed the top leaves praying for rain, I gave the soil a small amount (300ml) of distilled water and tap water , just to wet the soil enough to give another reason for the roots to spread through the pot, tomorrow I'll give another small water with feed and Humic acid just to top up her nutes and give her one last big hit of growth before she starts flowering properly, if we can trigger another growth spurt whilst she's still inbetween veg and flower, this is looking like a good first harvest!
Day 29 Update (6 hours until lights off) following the water the plant has done her best to expose every inch of her leaves in light, she's bushier than ever and presumably getting ready to have a serious growth spurt, I watered around the far edge of the pot and let this pull through the soil, no run off because it was so little but, possibly a small feed of 1:1:1 tomorrow to top up nitrogen for any growth spurts planned ;)
Day 29 Update (lights out) Today was an exceptional day for this girl, over the course of the day there's been some real developments! This evening she was foliar fed a mixture of 1:1:1 nutes and fulvic acid, a single drop in around 400ml of water, she should bounce back with an extra growth spurt with the extra nitrogen, on day 31 I will most likely be watering again with the same mixture to help push one last growth spurt before a flip to flower occurs and we move onto bloom nutes for the rest of the grow
In 24 hours the fulvic acid should kick in and give one last growth spurt hopefully adding another node or two to the plant at the vest last moment, next photos i'm hoping will be a significant growth period if todays behaviour was anything to go by
Day 31: Yesterday I squeezed in one last round of LST, the main stem cola was rising quite high above the rest of the canopy, I pulled that down out of the way and by the end of the day It had sorted itself out, I also spread out some of the other new cola sites to expose deeper into the plant to more light
Yesterday I also watered with NPK 1:1:1 and Humic acid solution, as well as foliar fed with Bloom nutes and Humic acid again, this should help the plant through it's last growth spurt whilst allowing it to start creating flowers, today the soil will be left without water, possibly the next day too but I think it is ready for flowering to begin so I'm looking forwards to watering her with Bloom Nutes to get that process started well! Now that she's turning to flower i'm noticing the stems of each top are quite thin, I have a small fan on them constantly keeping them moving but I'm expecting to have to SCROG to provide all the support she needs, even if the stems thicken up in flower like I'm expecting, this will support the big buds I'm hoping for!
Lot's a vertical growth starting the insides of the plant are starting to open up and there's very little leaf growth below the main canopy
Day 31 - Whilst I watered yesterday with Nutes and Humic Acid, I'm spotting some very early signs of some flowering deficiencies, this isn't really a surprise as there has been hardly any nutrients added to the soil over the whole grow, so I've sprayed with the nutrient solution listed a move, the top of the soil was getting dry but not ready for a full water yet, just wet the topsoil through to help her transition to a higher quality nutrient, should start seeing some fairly decent growth from here on out!
Day 32 - Today the soil was getting pretty dry, I diluted down my foliar feed mix a little and watered around 400ml of water with Humic, Fulvic, Bio Bloom and a few drops of 1:1:1, may have been a little too early but she's slightly showing some signs of deficiencies, foliar feeding has helped a little to keep these back but today I gave her the first feeding of specific bloom nutrients, should see her return to a healthy colour soon! She's starting to get quite tall as well, I think next few days we'll have some serious growth ongoing (as has become tradition)
You can see from the images how her colour has gotten a bit lighter over the past few days, Foliar feeding has definitely slowed this and hopefully prepared her for a bigger dose of Nutrients, in 48 hours I'll be ready to water again this time with a heavier balance of nutes to really get things started for a healthy harvest
Today or tomorrow she needs respraying with insecticides just to make sure nothing survived the early infestations and do ensure a pest free grow until the very end!
Day 32 update: Today the flowers on what I expect will be the main 2 Colas have started forming, There's around 7 potential colas but 2 will be substantial if they're left long enough, hopefully tonight the nutrients kick in, but I'm considering another decent hit of nitrogen and bloom fert together, then water till flush, I think that will be 2-3 days off though,
day 33: today she's looking all round healthier, the colours were good yesterday but today she's a much healthier shade of green for sure :D giving a decent feeding regime of flower nutes seems to have balanced her out nicely, I'm gonna leave watering today and let her dry out to give the roots another big push to grow, the other day I was digging down into the soil on the opposite side of the pot to the plant and found roots there, I'm really excited to see this girls root ball! Flowering is well on the way, HOPING for a Christmas harvest but I think it's going to be more new year when she's fully ready to be chopped, can't wait!
I have pulled off 2 leaves today, they were starting to turn brown, I think the plant has cannibalised them, not because of a nutrient issue, because of a light issue, these leaves were completely shaded by the whole plant
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?
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.
Day 34: As is tradition started the new week a day early ;) I woke up at 6am to feed her this morning (yes I went back to bed after lol) last night the soil was as dry as a bone, I wanted to give her another drought just to push her roots to grow that last bit before a big flower feed, she was starting to show some early defs. over the past few days, foliar feeding did seem to hold this back but giving her a good feed this morning and after 3 hours her colour has gone back to being incredibly health, gave her about half a litre of water today and got zero runoff (seeming to be quite hard to get runoff at the moment, I'm conscious that giving her too much water just to get runoff might be a bad move)
Flowering seems to be going well, I'm hoping now she's had a proper concentration of bloom feed it might amp up flowering a little, but we shall soon see!
Day 35: No real need for pictures today she's not done too much except stretch a bit, I'm noticing a little bit of nute burn forming after the feed but it's very minor, I feel that if you've fed enough to slightly burn the tips you've given a plant just more than enough was needed, her colour is very health today except those slight tip burns, Expecting a decent growth spurt today so by tonight pictures will be uploaded
Day 36: She's really starting to flower now, I'm noticing Calyx all over the plant, lots of bud sites deep in the plant that aren't getting much light but are on the stems of what will be the Colas, the main cola is of course starting to stretch out higher than the others but I guess that's natural, last night I spotted some very small fungus gnats flying around the cabinet, I gave a good dose of Neem oil to the leaves, tried to avoid the buds but then after the leaves have dried I soaked the whole plant with a good dose of Humic and fulvic solution again
Struggling to keep temps up at the moment, we're having a cold snap and it's had to keep it above 20 degrees, it's getting very low at night which I'm hoping won't last but I've got a small heater on standby if needed
The spraying seems to have sent some of the little white hairs brown, but I can't see any boy parts anywhere so I'm confident she's not hermied and self pollinated 🙏 I also sprayed the soil with a mixture of water and H2O2 again today to upset any fungus gnat eggs that might be in the soil, she was due a water tomorrow but I'm going away for the night tonight so gave her a light water earlier than I would have liked, just incase something comes up and I'm late back
Currently watering with a 50/50 mix of distilled water and our quite hard tap water, there's tons of salts in our tap water including calcium and magnesium (so no cal mag suggestions ;))
The nute burn I mentioned yesterday hasn't progressed any further than the tips, I didn't use any nutes at all today just water and the natural salts in the water, definitely going to be a January Harvest, makes me feel better though because all those colas will have some serious time to grow!
Exciting times!
Day 37 - Seeing zero signs of pests after the treatments, but i'm spotting lots of the pistils on the Calyx deep within the plant have turned brown, they're not swollen at all so I presume this is damage from the Neem oil? There's lots of Calyx forming everywhere now and they're starting to develop that sugary appearance we all look and dream for, soil is drying out quite quickly but it's getting hard to actually check without finding roots! The Root ball on this girl must be huge by now, they say as above the same below so if that's true, well I'm excited to rip her out of the ground to take a look!
The smell is getting stronger (I'm smell blind so can't smell it but the GF says so anyway) I've got a jar full of Ona Gel by the front door to stop the smells escaping as she grows
I'm thinking today she can dry out a bit more, conscious of over watering at this very crucial time, every single day the main cola is getting taller, some of the other colas aren't getting so big but it's early days of course. As much as I had hoped for a Christmas harvest this is looking very unlikely
Day 37 update: I relented and gave her a good water, still really struggling to get any run off. Today was another water with just distilled water, in another 2/3 days I'll feed again and up the nutes a little bit more see how hard I can push her
Day 38: PESTS! ARGH! This morning I spotted some little bratty fungus Gnats jumping around in the soil! How did the neem oil soak and spray not kill the little blighters?! Gave the top soil a good dose of Hydrogen Peroxide watered down into a 1:3 H2O2:Water ratio (3% H2O2 at bottle) and this definitely killed off the adults I just hope it killed off the larvae as well! I'll be giving that another damned good soaking of Peroxide in 3-4 days to kill any remaining critters!
Other than this minor problem (From what I understand Fungus Gnats won't be more than a nuisance at this point in the grow, they're not going to get deep enough to do any real damage to the main roots) things seem to be going really well. Flower growth is going well. There was one top that I was worried about because it only had one fan leaf but it seems to be catching up quite nicely, nothing is as tall as the main cola but that's to be expected!
Today should have been a drought day, I don't think a small spraying of the top soil will set that back too much. I think I'll give her another 24 hours without watering now, so the next real update should be on day 40! But I can't help myself most days, I love checking on the little girl! She's getting so much bigger than I had hoped and dreamed of for a first grow!
I'm so lucking forward to getting this girl chopped, but patience is essential I know. Christmas is a little over 3 weeks away, by Christmas Day I expect this girl will be showing exactly what she's capable of producing ;)
Day 39 - My night time temps are getting far too low 😩 dropping to 15 degrees at night and naturally because of this the leaves are starting to take a purple tinge, looks like it's time to rock the heater at night time today is a drought day she's drying quite nicely, I've been keeping my water warm to offset the cold temps
Day 40 - Night temps are back up nearer a happier temperature (18 ish according to the hydrometer) but the plant is still growing purple leaves, I'm thinking this could have been a combination of cold temps and a phosphorus def. Today she got a GOOD feed of 1.5ml Bio Bloom in about 500ml of water, followed behind with another 300ml of water with 1ml of humic and fulvic acid solution to really help her beat the stress, monitoring closely to make sure nothing goes to wrong. I also noticed a few more little pests jumping around in the soil after the watering, even though the top soil was dry, they got blasted again with H2O2 + distilled water to try and keep them at bay no signs of other pests just yet, hoping the colder weather is keeping them back in general
Day 41 - Night temps are really struggling to keep happy, I'm installing a heater tonight on a timer to fight this, but I'm noticing today the buds are starting to thicken up and become buds instead of little balls of white hairs! She also needed more water today! Bone dry almost overnight, think I need to up my watering a little bit, today was just a plane water day but I mixed Distilled water with tap water and balanced the PH, did this to get some mg and cal into the soil, PH of the soil is about 6, really starting to smell now :D Purple leaves addressed in the grow question I don't think this is from over feeding I really think the cold temps are doing it 😖 week 6 starts tomorrow! Count down really is on!
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
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.
Week 6 starts tomorrow technically this went up at day 41. But I've started every week a day early so far so keeping with tradition we can do this again 😜 Slight purpling of the leaves I'm confident this is due to the cold night temps, I'm getting a heater today to warm her up a bit to try and kick start the growth again, buds are really thickening up, won't be long until they look like buds and not little balls of white hairs! The main Cola looks like she's going to be a big one! Exciting times!
Day 42: Week 6 is here! Finally the buildings heating got turned up to a more acceptable level! Night time temps are up (18c), day time temps are up (26c) and I might be imagining it but the plant really responded to not being on the border of whats acceptable! Buds are very visibly forming day by day at the moment, really looking forward to what next week brings! I'm seeing more and more bud sites appearing all over the place, the Main Cola is becoming a decent size, all the secondary colas are growing in but I think she's gonna be heavy on popcorn buds too 😁 I'm wishing I was more experienced because I'd probably be a lot more excited about what she's doing, I assume she's going well but I have no idea how much buds will swell over the next few weeks, I'm just assuming they're going to fill out where the pistils are growing out to if that's the case oooowwweeee I've broken even at least!
Loads of pictures gone up today, tried to get a picture of every cola/top that's forming and a decent number of the lower bud sites, that main cola though 😍 One of my main sun leaves has been shaded for about a week and the plant has only just decided to start cannibalising it, going pretty completely yellow and the edges are starting to go brown. I'm now 100% convinced this is because it's not getting light and isn't adding any benefit to the plant. I'll be taking that off in a few days I'm sure. I also have one sun leaf that got burned fairly early on in the grow and is now starting to get pretty seriously burned with each feeding, debating just taking it off too. It's the only leaf looking sick
Day 43: Now I've raised the temps it seems a lot more of the nutes in the soil have suddenly become available and there's a bit of Nute burn showing on the plant in various locations, the first few fan leaves that were already burnt are now starting to die off anyway. I think we're getting to that stage where the plant starts cannibalising it'self by nature because those partially burned leaves are starting to look very sick whilst the rest of the plant looks healthy and green. New growth is still a bit purple I'm not sure what to do tomorrow, to feed or not to feed that is the question!
Every day the buds are visibly swelling and growing taller, I'm getting more and more excited by the day! I'm uncertain about defoliating this girl, certainly the lower leaves that are dying off need to come off soon, one is completely yellow so I could do that almost any day now, but the burned leaves look like the plant is still taking nutrients out of them so I don't want to take away that valuable source! Top canopy is very bushy so I'm not sure she'd even notice, opening a grow question about this!
Day 43: Updated - Tonight I trimmed the dead leaves ONLY (2 total, got nervous after this) there was the yellow leaf that had completely died and would have started to rot soon and one of the very burned leaves had also gone a very sick shade of yellow/green I went around the plant an tucked all the fan leaves covering the bud sites to try and get more light, except by the end of the day the plant had moved those leaves back into place, guess I need to let nature take her course!
Tomorrow is a feeding day, she's started showing some early signs of def. in the topmost leaves, looking forward to feeding her and giving her a big boost of growth again 😁 I think we've about 4/5 weeks to go on this girl being ready!
Day 44 - Feeding day, 1ml of Bio Bloom in 1 litre of water (750 ml with the mix in then followed behind with another 250 ml clean distilled water to help dilute it down further) this was the first time in a long time I actually got run off! Happy to report the PH at Run off was 6.5 which is pretty darn good! and the PH of the water provided was also 6.5 after nutes and PH balancing. Buds have thickened up again overnight!
Day 45 - No pics this morning as I'm in a bit of a rush, will upload tonight, Humidity very high (65%) this morning but she did get a litre of water yesterday, seems to be drinking so much more water than ever before probably ready for a water tomorrow morning already! I think now is the time to stop droughting, the roots should be fairly well established and I want bud production to be the biggest focused, buds have swollen overnight again, the leaf mass is starting to spread out more and airflow is better, mould is a concern but looking to reduce humidity with a humidity pack very soon
Day 46- Pistils are now starting to go brown, watering around 1 Litre every 48 hours today was a plain water day and the leaves are starting to turn yellow at the bottom, I understand this is normal for flowing but wonder if it's too early, started grow question regarding this
Day 47 - The bud growth is incredibly noticeable! The top cola is starting to take a very nice shape, I've moved the lights around to get the lights closer to the other colas without burning the top one, a feat of engineering in itself! Each day the flowers get bigger and thicker!
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?
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.
Week 7! As we head into the final stretch having some slight issues with nutes, the girls going yellow from the bottom up which has me worried, she should have another 2 weeks left to go at least! I was expecting this to happen maybe next week but not now, I'm picking up some nutes with CalMag to balance this, they're not dedicated canna nutes but they're better than what I vegged on.
The buds are starting to look sugary and I'm so desperate to snip a little bud to dry and smoke, but I have to be patient. I'm hopeful maybe I'll be able to sample some next week for Christmas. a large number of the pistils are turning orange already! The main cola is really fattening up now and the other colas are coming into their own as well, next week should be even bigger!
I'm mindful of not defoliating at the moment because she's obviously running a def and pulling lots of nutes out of her bigger fan leaves, but soon I'll start trimming them back. I cut some fingers of a fan leaf that feeds the main cola today to expose another bud site ;) Almost every day the buds are getting thicker and taller. The Pistils are going brown all over and I'm seeing more and more trics every single day Can't wait
Day 50: Today I fed to try and balance out the N def that's ongoing, I also pulled of about 4 mini leaves that were dead and 1 of the big fan leaves the plant had finally cannibalised, just a gentle tug was all that was needed to take these leaves off so they had certainly died. I'm still leaving the other leaves on until I see that the plant isn't running a def any more then I'll start defoliating the dying leaves. My PH at run off today was a little high at 7, hoping this doesn't cause too much of an issue I understand it's at the top of what is tolerable, next water I'll flush with distilled water to bring that back down but my focus the past few days has been balancing out the N levels ready to start the 2 week flush probably next week?
Day 50 (Update): So I was a little bit confused, pretty much all the pistils on the main cola were going orange, but there was no way she was ready for harvest so early. Feeding her today with a mixture of balanced veg nutes and a smaller amount of flower nutes + humic and fulvic acids has caused her to throw out a lot more white hairs and now I'm less confused, I really don't think there's too long to wait now :D
Day 51: The yellowing has slowed and the colour is coming back, there's been some leaves that I've lost, another 3 what were big and good leaves have been almost cannibalised by the plant, even some of them have taken a slightly greener tinge to them which must be a good sign. I'm going to give her another day just to finish them off, then tomorrow I'll flush, or maybe Tuesday if it's not dry Monday, PH at run off was higher than needed, so Distilled water will help bring it down from 7 to nearer 6.5/6.8 in a couple of days I'll know for sure that she's out of the deficiency then I'll trim the lower leaves that aren't getting much light, as well as trimming off the lower buds that aren't going to become anything, there's a lot of bud sites lower down the plant not getting any light with very little I can do. Im curious about an answer to a question I received saying to tie her down to expose more to the light, I think this is a good idea but I will defoliate first to make the task easier
Think we're looking about 4 weeks left!
Day 51 (update): Over the course of today I've monitored her quite closely, there was no further yellowing seen at all, and the soil has dried out nicely, tomorrow I will flush with a litre of water and Humic acids, just to promote cell division a little more as we head into this last month. I've defoliated all the dead leaves on the plant and pulled the flowers out slightly to help the light penetrate deeper into the plant to stimulate bud growth lower down the stems, tomorrows water with Humic Acid should boost photosynthesis as well as more leaves getting light!
Day 52: Watered this morning before work so no pictures today unfortunatly, I watered with a 1ml in 1ltr solution of the Veg nute listed here, and 1 ml of Humic and Fulvic acids, the runoff was a lot healthier and it was a good amount, the plant seems to have responded well over today, I think tonight will be a fairly substantial growth spurt, the lights have just gone out this second. I guess we'll see what tomorrow brings
Day 53: Looks like there's a potassium deficiency building. This has come on quickly over the course of the day, I decided to feed before lights out to try and balance the def out. This makes sense because I cut right back on flower nutes to fix the N def the other day, today I'll water with Bio Bizz - Bloom, I've also begun preparing a banana tea just to give a real kick of K to balance her out a little bit as we head into the final stretch
Day 54: K def isn't getting any worse, but it isn't getting any better either, I think there's a need for another water, very possibly tomorrow depending on how she looks, If she can go another day I feel this would be better for the roots. But if I need to feed to balance out the def that's fine too. I think I could possibly do a small water tomorrow with Banana tea just to give a decent dose of K to get through to the morning feed if there's any signs of the K def getting worse
Day 55: Soil had completely dried this morning, I decided to give another feed of 1ml Bloom nutes and I also used 4ml of Banana tea into 1litre of water to give a slightly higher k to try and balance the def. without overloading the leaves and burning her at this very crucial stage, PH at run off was just under 7, hopefully today she will balance herself and have another growth spurt, the buds are thickening day by day still, I think once she's balanced she's ready to be defoliated and the smaller flowers underneath can be trimmed away. I also gave 1ml of Humic acid solution to increase the uptake of nutes and step up cell division one last time before the flush, I might flush with Humic Solution to really push the girl to her limits in the last week
As can be seen from todays closeups, lots of brown hairs are going orange, but each day new white hairs are sprouting. This is what makes me think there's still some waiting to do, in 2/3 weeks the main cola looks like it's going to swell significantly and put on a good amount of weight
Day 56: Merry Christmas everyone.
Today It seems the K deficency symptoms aren't getting any worse and a few of the smaller and less effected leaves are returning to green already! I guess the other leaves will take time IF they go green at all by the end of the grow. The flowers have swollen again so even though there was a deficiency she doesn't seem to have slowed down too much. Score one for having loads of leaf mass I guess! I'm going to monitor her closely today and tomorrow, he pot is still very wet and humic acid helps soil hold onto water so it may be another 24 hours before she needs watering at least! But I think a water with no nutes will be fine this time. The overall plant has taken on a healthy shade of green, it's just the parts that had gone pale from the k def that are still the wrong colour, hopefully these will gain a healthier green over the day / tomorrow, I think 1 more week and she'll be ready to defoliate and head into the flush stage.
Looks like it might be a satisfying first harvest!
Day 57: It doesn't look it so much from the pictures, but today the plant is looking a much healthier shade of green, in the leaves in the central mass we still have some leaves that aren't fully green because they were hidden in the depths of the plant. Today I did some very light LST just to pull the flowers out slightly further, I noticed there's a lot of buds on some of the stems and I've tried to expose the light as deep into the light as possible, in about 1/2 weeks I'll defoliate again and try and expose more of the lower down flowers to the light, today I simply tidied up the base of the plant and exposed the main stem base to more airflow, I think the stalk is looking healthy, I've never seen a healthy stalk before but there's a white film that I recognise from being the skin earlier on, raised the grow question to be sure
I also trimmed off some tiny flowers near the base of the plant, they were never going to reach anything significant and I understand taking these smaller flowers can stress the plant in the right way to grow the rest bigger, So today I took 3 flowers that weren't even going to be larf by the end. As well as exposing more of each tops stem to more light I hope to stimulate growth along some of the stems that look like they'll produce a good amount of popcorn buds
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 :)
Day 63: Been a bit of an intense week personally so haven't had much time to update the diary
General bud growth in the Colas seems to have slowed a little, but every day there are new white hairs being created which I understand means there is new calyxs being created every day, the main colas seem to be swelling nicely and along each of the branches there's a decent amount of bud that should bump this up to a decent harvest!
I did some very light LST, mostly to allow more light to penetrate into the plant itself for the final two weeks, it's helped me be able to lower the light board a little as well to really step up the final push to maximise the yield of my first grow! Increasingly more excited as days go by!
Day 70: Not been updating daily because I've started working again so I'm not sat around watching the plant which really helps, over the past week the buds have swelled loads, they're feeling nice and dense to squeeze (I know I shouldn't but I couldn't help it!)
She seems to be getting a deficiency all over and I can't work out why because I've been feeding her every other water, I wonder if she's starting to die because it's coming to end of life?
I'm noticing a slight sign of bleaching on the sugar leaves of the main cola but unfortunately I can't get it out of the way without sacrificing light to the rest of the buds! I've been doing some LST, nothing major just pulling the buds down and out to expose more light to the larf/popcorn buds on the stems, she seems to have responded really well to this!
Hopefully there's only a week to go!
Day 73- the main cola Looks huge but there is a level of fluffiness to the base of it, there's more white hairs coming in daily but it is certainly slowing down, I'm holding out for more mature buds, she's very short but very bushy, at the very start she fell over and when I did LST I basically pulled her over, I wondered back then if it would have damaged the tap root so I do feel she was stunted quite a lot by this, but we recovered well, next time I will plant my seedling deeper to avoid this, I'm also going to start LST much sooner to get a similar effect, but without damage to the tap root
She's looking delicious I can't wait, I don't have a loupe, but I have pulled a few samples off 😂 and she gives a very nice high even quick dried in 24 hours, I just too larf that was nice and crystally brown hairs but were never going to become anything worth talking about, the Main Colas haven't been touched
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? 😍
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 🌲🌲🌲👊
The wait is getting harder and harder but every day new hairs, I'm noticing she's starting to look REALLY tired all over and feeding doesn't really balance the defs. any more, I think she's getting old and ready to call it a day, I'm certainly ready to call it a day 😂
A few other people I've spoken to have recommended giving her another week or so to really ripen, but I really think she's done, I've not flushed but I'm thinking maybe I'll flush and let her completely dry out one more time then we'll chop her and put things to dry!
Today I should be able to pick up the required equipment to start over again 😆 Going to do the exact same strain, but I'm adding an additional 23w CFL to increase the light levels a bit more (my cheap LED blurples were as predicted not great)
Can't wait to smoke her, really happy with the results for a first grow with minimal lighting :D
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