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Soaked in paper towel for 3 days and planted in solo cups. Using Sungro Pro Mix #4 (basically peat, perlite, dolomite lime). They couldn't wait to find the light and came up in just a few days.
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The stuff I use
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👉Nutrients👈
Medium - Sungro Mix#4 (black and green bag)
Gaia Green - All Purpose 4/4/4
Gaia Green - Power Bloom 2/8/4
Gaia Green - Fossilized Carbon Complex
Gaia Green - Alfalfa Meal
Gaia Green - Glacial Rock Dust
Gaia Green - Soluble Seaweed
Gaia Green - Mineralized Phosphate
Neptune's Harvest Fish Hydrolysate
Microbial Mass
TM-7 - Humic/Fulvic acid
Raw Fulvic Acid
ALGA Liquid Seaweed
Six Row Malted Barley
Mung Beans
Grow 4 Organics - Worm Castings
WoW Mychorrizae
Fox Farm - Kelp Me, Kelp You
WAVE Sea Minerals
Crosby's Fancy Organic Molasses
Thirsty Buddha Organic Coconut Water
Organic Agave syrup
Aloe Vera gel
Root Farm PH Up
Root Farm PH Down
👉Grow Gear👈
MARS Hydro TSW 2000W LED
VIVOSUN 48"x48"x80"
VIVOSUN 6 Inch Carbon Filter
VIVOSUN 195 CFM 4" Inline Duct Fan
AC Infinity Cloudline S6 6" Inline Duct Fan
AC Infinity Flexible 6-inch Aluminum Ducting
VIVOSUN 3 Gallon Grow Bags
VIVOSUN 164ft Twist Tie Roll Cable Ties
TaoTronics Cool Mist 4L Humidifier
Afloia Electric Home Dehumidifier
Apera Instruments PH60 PH Pocket Tester
VIVOSUN 7-Day Dual Outlet Timer
VIVOSUN TDS Meter
ThermoPro TP50 Digital Hygrometer
Commercial One air pump
Penn-Plax Standard Airline Tubing 8ft
Honeywell HTF210B Quiet Set Table Fan
Vornado CR1 3 Speed fan
Mastercraft power bar
10ml Oral Syringes
Quest Soft Touch Twist Ties
Fiskars Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning snips
Fiskars Pro Pruning shears
Chapin 2gallon SureSpray pump sprayer
Obligatory Canadian Tire 5gallon buckets
👉Harvest Gear👈
Shear Perfection Bonsai 2" Scissors
Kingmas 40X 25mm Jeweller Loop
Carson Micro Brite Plus 60x-120x Pocket Microscope
Boveda 58% Humidity packs
Bernardin 1L jars
Happy Hydro Kief Collector
Veanic 4-pack mini Digital Temp/Humid meters2
Nitrile Gloves
👉Random Gear👈
Ye olde red Solo cups
Pliers
Basic screwdriver set
Gardening gloves
Plant elevators
12" plant trays
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
3x Extension cords
Measuring tape
Hook hangers
Duct Tape
Distilled water for soil PH testing
PH Calibration solutions
Various 1 gallon jugs for measuring
😽Cat😽
Nimbus the blue-point Siamese
Little mycorrhizae in the holes where the seeds were planted. These are currently in my little grow closet while my first ever grow finishes up (currently on it's 48 hour dark cycle before the chop). Nursing them under a BESTVA 600W LED until they get moved to the main tent in a few weeks.
Dailies
Day 1 - Towel
Day 2 - Towel
- Watered medium till small overflow
Day 3 - Planted Strawbg, Gelat OG, Bubba - Bags as domes - with WoW -planted 1/2 inch
Day 4 - Planted WhiteW - With WoW - Planted 1/2 inch
Day 5 - All seeds up and showing Cotyldons
Day 6 - Nothing
Day 7 - Nothing
All 4 plants seem to be coming along nicely. The Strawberry Banana Grape seems to have had a random calcium deficiency (brown spots on the 1 pointed leaves). Made no changes
to see how things went with new growth. All the new growth is looking fine so no changes needed. All 4 plants are 3.5-4 inches high and seem to be growing at almost the same rate which is nice to see.
My first grow had 4 plants, all of varying sizes with one clearly stunted. I used synthetic nutes on my first run. Going organic on this one to see which one I prefer.
You'll notice one of the cups says Jack H. I had one, but I think it drowned, so I replaced it with a Bubba Kush.
Dailies
Day 8 - Nothing
Day 9 - Nothing - removed bags
Day 10- Nothing
Day 11 - Nothing
Day 12 - Nothing
Day 13 - Nothing Turned on fan, low | watered 3g pots
Day 14 - Nothing
Moved the plants to their final homes in 3 gallon pots. Now under the main Mars Hydro LED at 24 inches. Soil in 3g pots was watered with roughly 0.75 gallons a week in advance to get the microbes moving along. Added mycorrhizae to the roots and hole where the root ball was planted. The SBG has been looking a little droopy due to the transplant, but the rest of them seem pretty happy so far. Plants are all relatively the same size.
Dailies
Day 15 - Nothing
Day 16 - Nothing
Day 17 - Nothing
Day 18 - Nothing
Day 19 - Watered till overflow in solo cups
Day 20 - Moved to 3g pots
Day 21 - Nothing - No growth
All plants took a few days to adjust to the new pots but then showed some explosive growth after the Kelp feeding. The SBG is a bit lopsided from some accidental bending during transplant, but otherwise looking healthy.
Going to start topping and training after I see node six which should be later this week or the weekend.
Dailies
Day 22 - Nothing - no growth
Day 23 - 2 cups water/marphyl no growth
Day 24 - Nothing - Growth started up again
Day 25 - Nothing
Day 26 - Full watering with Kelp Extract.
Day 27 - Mild nute burn on White Widow
| explosive growth on all plants
Day 28 - Nothing
Topped the main cola on all plants and started on some low stress training a few days later. I have the leaves tied down a bit to let the other colas get some light and catch up.
Plants are thirsty as hell and want water roughly every 4 -5 days. I like to soak the medium slowly with a 2 gallon pump sprayer until the pots are quite heavy but not causing run off, then check the weight distribution is towards the bottom and not in the middle when I'm done. Next week I will likely water till slight run off.
All the plants are looking very healthy and green (the light makes them look a bit yellowish, but they're all a nice lime, added new pics)
**Addendum** I ended up removing the top 2 massive fan leaves on each plant, as they were covering all the new colas. Each plant now has 8 colas, not including the new ones growing off of 6 of those. Stalks are getting super thick so I was able to remove the ties on the SBG, which still looks grumpy compared to the others.
*Added daily notes to all weeks from my personal grow diary*
Day 29 - Water ph 6.22
Day 30 - Topped all plants
Day 31 - Nothing
Day 32 - Low stress leaves
Day 33 - Cut top leaves
Day 34 - Watered with Marphyl 200ml 6.45 / removed garden ties from leaves
Day 35 - Nothing
The girls are moving along well and growing colas nicely. Gave them some training and fed the microbes with molasses and coconut water. I also cut off some of the massive early leaves getting in the way, along with early foliage like the 1 pointed leaves. Watering roughly 1g per plant.
I noticed a little light burn on the White Widow new growth so I raised by light up to 24 inches (was 22)
If I see enough growth I might kick them into flower next week.
**My tap water comes out at around 7.2, the coconut water and molasses bring to a nice 6.45, so I didn't need to PH my water.
Day 36 - Nothing
Day 37 - Nothing
Day 38 - Nothing
Day 39 - Watered with 2tbsp/Gal Molasses, 60ml/Gal Coconut water / Low stress training / PH6.5
Day 40 - Retrained/defoliated
Day 41 - Nothing
Day 42 - Nothing - Defoliation:selectively removed leaves covering new growth
Plants are coming along well, except for the Bubba Kush who is a bit slower at producing new colas. Spend the first part of the week retraining and defoliating any leaves I couldn't tuck to get new growth in view of the light. This is my first organic grow so I'm learning the numbers, but I ended up using 2 to 1 of Power Bloom instead of All Purpose since I only plan on leaving them in veg for roughly 1.5 more weeks, before swapping to flower.
Watered at 6.5.
So far the clear winner in 'knuckle beefiness' is the Bubba Kush. It's super thick but seems to be growing stems a lot slower than the other strains. The White Widow is winning in vigor,just about tied with the SBG in stem/cola growth, and the Gelat.OG is just holding it's own.
Day 43 - Fed Gaia All purpose 1tbsp/Power bloom 2tbsp | watered 1g per plant 1tsp/g Kelp Me
Day 44 - Nothing
Day 45 - Nothing
Day 46 - Skirted all plants/ watered PH 6.6
Day 47 - Nothing
Day 48 - Nothing
Day 49 - Nothing
The plants were getting really bushy by the weekend so they got a big trim. I removed a lot of the smaller growth that wasn't able to catch up to the stronger colas so the plants can focus more on stronger growth. Gave them their natural super foods, coconut water, molasses (for the microbes) and got them a new aloe vera plant for the gel. I cut the gel out from the skin and put it in a blender with some aerated water so I can add everything to my sprayer without any clogging. Also found a new Gaia Green product I'm going to try called Fossilized Carbon Complex which is supposed to help the plants uptake micro-nutrients better.
The SBG is a lot more sensitive to nitrogen than the other plants and has mild clawing on some of the leaves. I think I'm going to take the Marphyl out of my nutrient rotation because it's adding too much nitrogen, and I have that covered with the Gaia Green all purpose. The White Widow is just exploding every week , the Bubba Kush continues to be the beefy boss, and you could use the Gelat.OG as a table it's so flat.
Day 50 - Watered with marphyl 200ml,PH6.5 | defoliation
Day 51 - Nothing
Day 52 - Nothing
Day 53 - Watered with Coconut water/Aloe Gel/Molasses| fed Fossilized Carbon Complex |Trimmed all plants
Day 54 - Nothing - Dec 20
Day 55 - Nothing
Day 56 - Nothing
No nutes for the girls this week, just plain PH'ed de-chlorinated water. I added some supplemental CO2 in the form of do-it-yourself sugar+water+yeast, to see how they react. Stretching out, overall looking very healthy outside of some mild nitrogen toxicity that may impact flowering; wait and see I guess.
Last Gaia Green feeding was heavy on bloom nutrients 3 weeks ago, so they should have plenty P.K to munch on now that it's flower. I may wait a few more weeks before I feed them again, and probably use all Power Bloom since they seem to have more than enough nitro.
3 inches gain in height since last week and hoping to at least hit 20" by end of the growth spurt.
Flower 12/12
Day 57 - Nothing
Day 58 - Watered at 6.3
Day 59 - Nothing
Day 60 - Nothing
Day 61 - Trimmed Bubba
Day 62 - Watered at 6.2
Day 63 - Added CO2
Fed the microbes they're biweekly natural goodness watering at 6.1PH, although I might run out of Aloe before the end of my grow. It's hard to find a large one this time of year and it grows at a snail's pace or is currently hibernating for the winter. I also added a cover crop of Winter Rye to soak up some of the extra nitrogen in the soil since my leaves are still going quite dark (under regular light).
The girls got their final skirt trims, removed the garden wire and put up the Scrog net. Flower development seems okay, but I don't really have enough experience to say it's 'on track' for nearing the end of week 2.
Weird thing I've noticed is no matter what PH I water at, the run off is always 7.0 and never seems to change. Is this an organic thing? Or is the microbiology holding the medium where it likes it?
Plants seem pretty happy otherwise ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Day 64 - Nothing
Day 65 - Nothing
Day 66 - Jan 1st Watered at 6.1|Coconut Water 60ml/G|1tbsp Aloe Gel| 1tbsp Molasses| Put up scrog net|Planted Winter Rye
Day 67 - Final trim on all plants
Day 68 - Nothing
Day 69 - Nothing
Day 70 - Watered at 6.3
Plants haven't stretched as much as I hoped they would, but the week isn't over yet and week 4 to come. I gave the plants what will likely be their last dry amendments, and a super-tea heavy on the P K, enzymes, cytokines, micro-nutrients, and acids. 4 hours after watering the top leaves were praying🙏. Flowers are spreading/growing nicely, with the exception of the Bubba Kush which look a little behind on size.
The Six Row Malted Barley tea is made with 58g of the stuff in a 5 gallon bucket, ground in an electric spice grinder until it's a powder. It's then steeped in a 300 micron bag for 3 hours, with the rest of the wet nutrients and the fulvic acid mixed in for 1 more hour. Barley is sourced from one of the local home brew stores.
I've started using lemon juice as a PH down.
Day 71 - Nothing
Day 72 - Nothing
Day 73 - Replaced CO2 with 2L bottle
Day 74 - Nothing
Day 75 - Watered at 6.3 with Barley Enzyme tea 58g|15ml Sea Minerals|15ml Seaweed|2 tsp Fulvic Acid|1/2 cup Worm castings|1tbsp Mineralized Phosphate
Day 76 - Nothing
Day 77 - Nothing
Watered the plants with the natural good stuff at 6.7, and I added a few new items to the nutrient lineup; Microbial Mass and TM-7. I wanted a better source of humic acid since the fossilized carbon complex is a bit weak. You would not believe the smell of the TM-7, it's what you would imagine deep ancient forest earth smelled like.
I added a microscope to get ready for my next grow using compost teas for the soil, and charging bio-char. I can track the microbial activity to ensure my teas have brewed long enough and examine the bio-char pores.
Bubba Kush is still a little behind on bud growth but it's coming along.
Trichomes have started to develop on all plants and the trunks are getting thicker( I think the White Widow will hit 1inch by harvest).
Day 78 - Changed fans/Water bubbler
Day 79 - Nothing
Day 80 -Jan 15th Watered at 6.7|Coconut Water 60ml/G|1tbsp Aloe Gel| 1tbsp Molasses|2g TM 7 Humic/Fulvic /Microbial Mass 5ml
Day 81 - Nothing
Day 82 - Leaves yellowing on White Widow and Bubba Kush
Day 83 - Nothing
Day 84 - Watered at 6.6 |1.5litres of compost tea (2 tbsp Alfalfa,2 tbsp molasses, 1tsp Soluable Seaweed, 2tsp Kelp Me, 2 cups worm castings, 1tbsp Batshit)|1/4 cup tea goop| 1tbsp Power Bloom |
Made a compost tea this week, consisting of:
2 tbsp Alfalfa
2 tbsp Molasses
5ml Microbial Mass
2 tsp Kelp Me, Kelp You
2 cups worm castings
1 Tbsp Mineralized Phosphate
Brewed 24 hours (microbe activity was pretty decent) and fed 1.5l, 1/4 cup of the goop left over as top dress with the Power Bloom, per plant.
The White Widow; less so the other plants, is starving for Nitrogen so I added fish emulsion/hydrolisate to get a quicker fix, with the Power Bloom that should start to become available throughout the rest of the grow. Bubba Kush looks a week behind the others. I ended up taking them out of SCROG due to limited space, and just put them back in LST.
I started a corn+mung bean seed grow to make some SST for the next watering.
Day 78 - Changed fans/Water bubbler
Day 79 - Nothing
Day 80 -Jan 15th Watered at 6.7|Coconut Water 60ml/G|1tbsp Aloe Gel| 1tbsp Molasses|2g TM 7 Humic/Fulvic /Microbial Mass 5ml
Day 81 - Nothing
Day 82 - Leaves yellowing on White Widow and Bubba Kush
Day 83 - Nothing
Day 84 - Watered at 6.6 |1.5litres of compost tea (2 tbsp Alfalfa,2 tbsp molasses, 1tsp Soluable Seaweed, 2tsp Kelp Me, 2 cups worm castings, 1tbsp Batshit)|1/4 cup tea goop| 1tbsp Power Bloom |
It's funny how you hardly notice the buds growing since you look at them every day. Clear fattening and Xmas tree growth on the buds for all the plants, with the Bubba Kush showing the most improvement over last week. Bubba is the only plant that hasn't sucked out any nitrogen through it's leaves, and while it is yellowing, it's very mild. I think I've picked off around 10 or 12 from the White Widow.
I yanked and trimmed a lot of the rye at the start of the week and left it to decompose in the soil.
Buds are showing more frost and I expect the trichs grow out a lot more in the coming weeks as the plants slow down on bud growth and move into the ripening phase.
Added some organic Agave Syrup to the mix to get more diverse sugar sources for the microbes.
Made a Mung Bean SST to get some plant hormones and other good stuff.
If you see a cat hair or two in the pics, blame Mr Faceplant. Fucking cat hair gets everywhere.
Trichomes and buds continue to mature, and branches on the SBG are starting to buckle under the bud weight.
I remove any yellowed leaves only if they come off with a light bend, otherwise I'm leaving the foliage to see how how the buds grow with no real defoliation. I'm curious to see how much yield I get compared to my next grow, where I'm going to actively defoliate for light penetration.
Letting the temperatures drop now to let the cool air tell the plants their lifecycle is coming to an end.
All the girls are swelling pretty well with frosty hard buds, and the Bubba Kush and Gelat.OG have started turning a nice purple.
SGB has friggin' monster buds that just keep getting fatter. It's also draining roughly 4 leaves a day but still has plenty left over.
I'm done feeding the plants hard nutrients. They will only get Coconut Water, Aloe Vera flakes (I ran out of natural Aloe and had to source some in a different form) and molasses until the chop.
The smells are getting strong:
Gelat.OG has a mild chocolate aroma
Bubba Kush smells spicy
White Widow smells like bananas
SBG smells like a fruit salad
Only feeding the girls dechlorinated water now. I can't figure out if the trichomes are cloudy or not so I put out a question to the community.
Not much to report aside from watering the plants when dry.
Lots of leaves on the plant needed to be removed before trim, so I'm definitely going to do a lot more trimming around bud sites next grow. Really nice purple-pink fade. Harvested on flower day 61.
Harvested on flower day 61
Happy and loving life, the White Widow had praying leaves for it's entire bloom period. Faded nicely and produced some nice, big buds.