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My Russian growing mates advised just to place a seed in substrate and it will raise a sprout in 5 days. Next time I will not use any germ media. Got just one vital WCOG seed out of two. Let the grow begin and be as unique as the domes of st. Basil's cathedral in Moscow!
I thnk your growmates are correct. But, you will find many that use the paper towel method - or anything similar. Aeroponics / hydroponics an option too.
my arguement for planting directing into substrate that you will use in grow -- less adaptation required. Roots form differently depending on the substrate. Light is bad for roots. It messes with them like light impacts hormonal balance of vege/flower. You end up touching a germinated seed.. wash your hands, disinfect area... 1 more risk you shouldn't take without good reason.
keep it simple. plant in whatever you'll grow it... if that's hydro, make a hydro germination setup. If soilless, i would plant into the soilless substrate.
A smaller initial pot is a good idea except for maybe autoflowers. Otherwise if the pot is huge relative to a seedling, it can potentially delay above ground growth. Not absolutely necessary though. I think it provides more consistent results / easier to water properly with well-paced wet/dry cycle.
day 3. WCOG began to grow in 7l airpot, rock machine stuck almost forever.
day 4. RM stuck and I was supposed to throw it away but hold it yet. I'm waiting SUPER LEMON HAZE AUTOMATIK to arrive from Rastishki shop. It was germinated for 1 day in an napkin and then moved into 5 l textile pot.
day 5. Newbies!
day 6. New hardware comes. RM moved in to the paper cup.
day 8. SLHA sprouted up! Also RM began to show signs of life. Substrate monitor shows everything is fine. Have not fed yet.
day 11. RM is alive and I'm glad to see those first leafs. SLHA had perfect start. From here I can not raise humidity since germination 50-60 levels.
day 12. Everything is smooth as soma fm waves. RM get placed into a plastic 2l pot. It got haydite in the bottom for drainage.
So far so good. I got all my three babies alive. I noticed that previous 30 Celsius degrees is too much for us, so I increased airflow by opening a back window fully. The temp dropped, so dropped humidity. Tried to pour the bottom pan... I don't want to bring humidifier. Began to feed half the advised dose.
I was aware of feeding full dose, but whatever. Don't know if it's better with this fertilizer - regular water (150 ppm) or 20 ppm osmosis to dissolve. It is first grow, and I was warned about soil salinity. Don't want to bring extra cal-mag.
Hey friend, Reverse osmosis water always brings the best for me.I was using regular tap water of 200ppm and got some pH problems.RO water of 20ppm will make you easy to handle with your nutrient.Happy growing... ✌️
day 15. WCOG might need some humidity... I'm now feeding first week full advised dose of 1 ml/l of my complex. Solution is 500 ppm. I't is fine, but looks like it is a bit hot to WCOG on the top. It's leafs edges are sharpen up... I elevated lights a bit.
day 20. I brought a humidifier, cuz plants really needed it. Now leafs edges are flat. Three weeks passed for WCOG and RM, SLHA is a week younger. Waiting for prebloom signs next week. I added some co2 from the can, generated manually. Feeding dose reached recommended 2 ml/l. I noticed that leaf leaves some flow on fingers after touchin'
Heya Dreembomber!
30% is low for the vegetative state however would help out a lot if you could place a dome over top or a large zip lock bag with holes for air. I try to keep 50-70% RH for veg and 35-50% for flower. Other options include adding wet towels in the tent or a pot of water in front of a fan.
Good luck!
I'm about to increase branches development. I'm interested in squeezing stem near top technique. Is it exactly super cropping? How often should stem be squeezed? Should I just let plants grow through SCROG? I'm afraid of overgrowing of WCOG and SLHA in my larger 7 and 5 l pots.
Hey Mate,
the Idea of a SCROG is to bring every blossom on the same Level with a screen you place at a certain height. So that every Budsite will get the same amount of light. You have to integrate the plant into the net/screen and if your screen is full with plants about 70% you change to bloom.. works well on Photos, but I'm afraid the Autos will have too less lifespan to fill up a decent scrog-net.
HST as you describe it, is a good way to keep the canopy on a Level. Autos maybe don't have the time to recover if you apply more HST on them.
Hope this helps a bit, good luck and happy trails for the rest of the way 🤞
Servus
OimRausch
day 22. Plants gave some smell into the warm humid tent air. I brought compressed co2 tank and open it for several seconds time after time. Now we get 9-12 cm height, and smaller one is elder WCOG. I hope to see prebloom soon.
day 23. Leafs are uplifted to about 80 degrees to light. It means they like co2 much.
day 26. SLHA reached prebloom! It is 17 days old.
day 27. Just look at those glorious bushes! Thees nutrients are superior! And there will be Big Bud®️ for dessert.
I have compressed co2 in the tank, but I have no measurement tool except of bubble counter. Can anybody help me to count the amount of co2 I need to provide for my tent? It is 40x40x160 cm, 256 liters.
Hi!
Best way to be sure is to buy CO2 meter and controller to automatically keep it in desired levels. If you don't want to spend more money you can use math to calculate approx levels.
So the optimal PPM for CO2 in veg is something like 800PPM and in flowering it's 1500PPM and normal levels in atmosphere is ~300ppm. You need to add 1200PPM more to the atmosphere in flowering to achieve 1500PPM and here comes the "tricky part". How powerful is your extractor fan? You need to add 0.12% of total volume of the tent to acheve 1500PPM. So 256l*0.12%=0.31l of CO2 but your extractor fan changes the air constantly so if the air gets changed once in a minute you need to have atleast 0.3l/minute airflow for CO2 to achieve that constant 1500PPM levels.
Might not be totally accurate calculations but atleast you should get the idea from this
This is a old trick when you had bad weed on the black market, or when you were growing for the black market, and grew bad weed. I wouldn't put anything that contains moisture in as Shagrath said, it leaves the issue open to molds/mildews/rot etc.
Your herb shouldn't need any help, cure it till it tastes good.
Hey guys!
I let my babies grow untrained so they grow and bloom as fast as autos do, Tall boss colas expected and I only care about the overgrow. How do you guys think, will my WCOG reach it's max described 80cm-1m height in 7 l air pot?
day 28. Well, I hope that plants will not stretch tooooo much during blooming. Don't really know which is the highest yet, but all they're around 20 cm tall.
day 29. Our humidifier is almost dead cause of water hardness, it was osmosis 30 ppm water. Rock Machine don't like that heat much. Now all three plants are preblooming.
day 30. Doctor's Choice Rock Machine in 2l pot dries out fast and I have found her leafs sagging. Gonna feed her a bit more than 100 ml every 48 h.
day 31. The color is so juicy and deep. Take a close look on everyone. Their height is around 27-30 cm.
day 32. Upper leafy tips of SLHA became burnt. I looked through similar burn questions and majority of cases were explained by overfeeding. I suspect that it is led burn, and there were +34° in my tent for several hours. Heat again.
day 34. Flushed pants with 15 l of tap water and there were 1600 ppm in first SLHA drainage. Let it breath easier now. And they seems like blooming.
day 35. They are definitely blooming now. Feeding volume and dose increased. Watch scrog in action!
day 37. Humidity is 70-75% even without humidifier, t=29°.
day 40. Internal fan set blowing on buds from the under to prevent mold. SLHA has one, WCOG and RM have two main colas under the scrog. Now I add 1 ml/l of AN Big Bud stimulator.
day 41. Everyone is flowering, almost.
day 42. Guys, today you can see those still young buds. Hope another buds will appear on Doc's Machine. Actually Machine germinated slowly too. Some say that the quieter you go, the further you'll get. Let's see ✊
day 45. t=29, 55% humidity.
day 47. Super Lemon Haze smells like ginger, grapefruit and tar. West coast o.g. does not smell yet! Amazing!
day 50. RM significantly stretched and her colas were placed under the net. I flushed all of them two days ago. Hope it helps. 😻
day 52. I've noticed that RM leaves smells clearly lemony. Others have mixed aroma. Now I know it will be ready a couple weeks later then others.
day 53. I decided to bring Cannabiogen Delta nouveau 9. Brothers told me it is worth it. Alright, comrades, most interesting is up ahead.💪
day 54. Some darkness shots added. Well, that's very exciting time for me and my first buds. Though it is ninth week from seed, I wand bigger buds and will wait for a while.
Almost all substrat can be re-use it really depends on what you used to know what to do to re-use it.
Coco coir degrades over time and rurns into coco peat. Coco peat is too dense, holds too much water and not enough oxygen. However, you can get rid of the peat by rinsing it with a strainer and keep the remaining coir and perlite.
Some medium like clay pebble or hydroton are more simple to re-use.
Soil and living soil should be conditioned with extra amendments, compost and other good stuff.
Promix (peat moss) and rockwool cubes would fall under the non reusable for me.
hope this help
day 57. Now I know how it smells! SLHA emits citrus and ginger bouquet, WCOG is much humble compared to it. RM is still preparing to swell.
day 62. Everything is fine. I sprayed them with Delta 9 last week.
day 65. Amber trichoes can be seen now. Thinking about soon crop.
day 69. I was mistaken telling you there are brown trichomas. There is not yet, and looks like crop will be moved accordingly to 7 weeks of flowering. I guess 9 weeks from seed is a little lie. I think I will flush pots once more, around several days before crop. I give them Kushi kush since I ran out of Big bud.
day 72. New pistils continue to appear. Considering flushing soil in several days before crop. I've seen people here, who harvest plants after just 9 weeks. I don't think it worth it. Let us get max crop with all brown pistils and max buds volume! I guess one more week for WCOG and SLHA would be enough. For DCRM, well, I don't know. I'm germinating three more seeds for the next cycle already. Check my channel to see it!
It is only 8 days left till complete 8 weeks of flowering. I did flush them twice. After 3 weeks of flowering, and 3 days ago. Both times spill soil for a long time, until it became fully flooded and after it drained I applied fertilizer. Is it the right way to flush?
Flushing is a technique used to wash out of the medium nutrients that have been accumulating during previous weeks of feeding. It is used when too many nutrients have been added to the medium, affecting the plant in negative ways. If you feed your plant the correct amounts of nutrients, there is no need to flush.
My plants leaf tips are burnt by fertilizer what could affect buds taste, so my plants might need flushing. Do you really think flushing for 8 days will be beneficial or I could feed them several times more and then flush for 5 days?
If you're sure that you're going to harvest in the next week, you can flush. Right now, the science basically says that it won't change your end result, but it will save you some money on nutes. On your final week, they shouldn't really be taking in much for nutes, so if you want to feed, just do half strength. Flushing too early will starve her when she's fattening up the most.
day 77. I'll start to flush plants for this l last week in order them to cure fast. This thing dominates in growers minds, so I will not be an exclusion. Though I fertilized them all last time yesterday. As we see buds continue to inflate with new pimples. Amazing!
day 79. I now want to fade those two mature plants on the back, so I water them with slightly acidic water. I used lemon acid to make it good for plants, so they can still get some fertilizer from soil. Chop chop in less than a week gonna come! 😹 Thanks for your support and attention, guys! Note to site crew - my germination method in this diary changes randomly!
day 81. What is up, folks! Since I water them clean, SLHA aroma became clearly lemony, cool! WCOG doe's not smell that much. As far as I see, amber trichomes are mostly situated on sugar-leafs. The overall trichoes statement can bee seen by a naked eye. SLHA is not so milky as WCOG yet. RM gonna make this cycle last much longer, dunno, may be 3-4 weeks. 👏
I want to dry buds in cardboard boxes. I have winter cold balcony, where it's -5-+5C, and 60%RH, living room is +21-24C and 30-40%RH, and bedroom with AC and humidifier, +24-27C and 50-65% RH. Neither is perfect, but I rather pick balcony. Should I be afraid of mildue there?
Yes, balcony will not work, far too cold. This would lead to many problems, with the flowers more or less turning into compost rather than drying. And unless you want all your clothes to smell like cannabis, the living room is your best option. Remember, you will need good air circulation for proper drying to occur and putting your flowers in a cardboard box may not be ideal. I don't know how much you have to dry, but I find hanging the branches on wire clothes hangers works well, allowing for excellent air circulation. It is also relatively simple to construct some poles or ropes across the room to hang your wire coat hangers on. Another good option is an indoor clothes drying rack, either to hang the coat hangers on or the branches themselves. Also, try to dry your flowers in dark conditions or away from direct light, as direct light on your flowers when drying or even after they have dried, will cause massive breakdown of the THC.
Hope this helps,... Organoman.
It is the day I tried my first homemade hash, can't describe this feeling 😢
Nice aroma, other is lemon either.✋
So what about WCOG? Totally satisfied with its size（XL） frostiness and branch amount. Leaf/bud ratio is perfect! There were about 15 branches and that's about twice more than SLHA. Buds are resinous and solid.The airpot is much, much beneficial than textile one. WCOG got almost twice bigger root ball in it. I can be proud of myself! I even could let her stretch higher next time. Got another seed of it for next after next cycle. Also I can notice that WCOG accepted all doses of nutrients fine. I hadn't ever seen him stressed. Well, I'l return with smoke report then. Stay high, brothers! See you all around. 👊💪👊
Update after 12 days of drying. Buds are tight and smell nothing but the lemon grass. Gonna try it later.
I can definitely notice Indica ascent, couple takes put a helmet on your head. It might be a bit heavy, but it is funny! Also I could say, that compared with SLHA, WCOG's aroma is much pungent. And really have small notes of pine.
Ok, what's about Super Lemon Haze Auto. Buds are also very dense, but a bit different from WCOG. Dunno how bug it could be without training at all. Most of leafs were crispy. I wish there were also 15 branches as WCOG has. Smell is clearly lemony! Gonna check the smoke and add some inspired feedback then. See you all around, brothers! Happy growing, happy watching. Stay up, stay high! 👽✋
Though it is not a heavy yielder, buds are dense enough and very frosty. Smell is clearly lemony! This is the thing I hunted in every shop and I think it worth 9 euros. Now I know exactly what sativa-dominant is. I like it's uplifted and lightly relaxed effect. Not even a bit of heaviness in your head. Very clear and positive high. That's what I wanted for so long! 😻
Update after 12 days of drying. Buds are tight and smell nothing but the lemon grass. Gonna try it later.😻
After two weeks in glass smells creamy and fruity. It kicks strong and fast. Makes me happy and uplifted! I love it so much cause my head stays light and stoner is not so strong, as my indica-dominant stuff. Will definitely grow more of these! Thank you, Green House! ✊
day 86. Well, a plant has beautifully stretchy appearance since 5th week. I guess it could give fine yield still. But it has almost no smell. Anyway, I like her 😥 She drinks twice a day now in this little pot.
day 91. Our long beautiful Rock machine continues to prepare to make buds. No calyxes so far, but stigmas are all bud long, and if there will be calyxes all bud long it would be great yield. Hope it will blow monster buds someday.
day 106. Decided to defoliate it first, but then decided to chop completely. There are many leafs, and they are half or tip burned cause nutrient overdose. 1200 ppm till blooming was too much for her.
dreambomber
