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This is my first diary. I have a very small environment to work with and am trying to keep things as simple as possible.
Update 9/12: All 4 seeds are showing signs of life.
Been trying to stabalise the temp of the propagator, tricky during winter when using the window ledge. -currently sitting at 23C
Using "Jiffy Pellets" to Germinate the seeds in with plain tap water. Soaked the seeds for 1hr~ in water before transplanting into the pellet.
Meanwhile working on recycling coco from the previous grow and re-buffering - this is where TNT Complex was used at 2.5ml/l
14/12 - Moved plants from the prop into pots. Coco is still damp from the buffer. Will water using only plain PH'd water. Pots marked with silver duct tape are the Blue Rhino (for my own future reference)
14/12 - Looks like the seedling in the bottom left of pic 3 is Stunted. This was the first of the 4 seeds to germinate. Possibly due to short light cycle on the window ledge? Or just a bad seed maybe. We may never know. I'm going to give it some time to see if it recovers.
11/12 - Moved the prop into the tent under the light (at max distance) to ensure the plants are getting the 18 hour light cycle.
The seedlings are a little stretchy, and show no roots as of yet.
Coco is a mix of re-cycled from the previous grow and freshly prepared. Buffered with 2.5ml/l Hesi TNT Complex and 2ml/l Hesi Power Zyme.
20th to 22nd - Added 2.5ml/l TNT Complex and 2ml/l PowerZyme - Still look a bit light in colour I feel, will increase the amount of TNT tomorrow.
18th to 20th - Given plain PH'ed water
18/12 - The stunted plant never recovered and was removed. Down to 3, but more space for the girls.
Supervit is 1 drop per 4.5l of water, this works out as 0.015ml/l
04/01: Blue Rhino#2 is looking a bit droopy a sad. Not sure what is wrong with her, but keeping a close eye. Its becoming tricky to keep the humidity high enough. I am spraying the tent often with a very fine mist sprayer, that has a 2ml/l liquid seaweed solution in trying to keep the humidity up.
Considering buying a pond mister/fogger to help combat this.
I will begin to shape/cut the plants a bit this week.
05/01: Trimmed off all the suckers, pinched with fingers.
13/01 - I will flip these girls into Flowering tomorrow. Tallest girl currently 30cm tall and the shortest at about 28cm. Moved the light down to 60cm. This will be there last 18 hour light cycle.
10/01 - I have stopped adding the Root Complex to the nutrient mix now. Lowered the light from the max height in the tent, to 70cm from the canopy. The ideal height for the light in flowering is 36cm. I will continue to lower the light in chunks to try and make sure I do not cause any kind of light stress. More updates later in the week.
I plan to flip these into flowering when they are 30cm tall, so not too much longer now.
16/2 - Pinched off a bunch of lower budsites on all the side branches. They are starting to look a lot more perky since the flowering was kicked in. Switched to Hesi Coco Bloom from TNT Complex. I have still been using PowerZyme with every water, but will start to cut back to 2/3 times per week or so. Humidity, temp and environment looking all good.
25/01 - I did a bit of defoliation, was a bit nervous about taking too much, but I think it looks ok.
22/01 - Looking healthy to me. Continuing to remove unwanted bud sites that I believe will amount to nothing. I am propping up the pots of the 2 slightly smaller plants, to make sure that I have an even canopy.
29/01 - Everything seems to be looking ok. I might be done at this point pinching undesirable bud sites. I think the defoliation done last week will help. They are really starting to stink strong, the Rhino especially.
Current heights:
Blue Rhino #1 - 50cm
Crit 47 - 64cm
Blue Rhino #2 - 70cm
Humidity in the tent has raised from 45~ to 50~ % - Not sure if I can do much about this, or when it becomes a problem? 60+ ?
05/01: I was wrong about the PK being next week, it starts this week, so it has been given from today on going forward - 2.5ml per 10L
04/02:
Still taking plenty of leaves off, trying to get better light penetration. Think it looks ok for a noob so far.
These girls have been having a good old stretch. I have been having trouble maintaining the 36cm gap to the light, had to make a bodge job to raise it a bit higher than the pully's would allow.
Current heights:
Blue Rhino #1 - 58cm - Is this what they call a Runt?
Blue Rhino #2 - 80cm
Crit47 - 89cm
I feel like the Crit47 is really starting to show the Sativa in its linage, with pretty thin looking leaves and such. Also over took Blue Rhino #2 in height.
I hope the stretch has stopped at this point.
One more week until adding PK into the mix.
Also feel like I should have taken 1 more internode away, too late now but I think these bottom side branches will amount to pretty much nothing. Or possibly flowered them a week earlier?
13/02:
Increased the amount of PK to 0.5 per ml as per Hesi Chart.
Tied up some of the side branches that were falling over on Blue Rhino #2 after the pic was taken.
Its become a jungle in there, I feel slightly overgrown. When I remove the plants from the tent, its pretty hard to get them back in again nicely.
Had the tent go down as low as 15c over the last few days as the nights have been very cold. Temp is back in normal ranges again today.
24/02 - Bit late on the update this week, this is the end of this flowering week, new week starts tomorrow.
I have stopped moving the plants around and rotating them as its starting to get very impractical to do so, so no more pics of individual plants now until the end.
Starting to see some orange hairs appearing, more so on the Blue Rhino than on the Crit47.
The smell is very strong now. The 2 different strains have very different/distinctive smells, which I am happy about.
Heading into the final stretch. The Crit is starting to yellow up but the Blue Rhino is still very green and healthy looking. I will probably be flowering these for at least 9 weeks.
Had to make a little support for the side branches, did what I could with what was available...
The Crit has lots of "Fluff" on the lower side branches, all stuff that I should have pinched off weeks ago. It also has some Rust coloured spots developing on a couple of the bigger older leaves towards the top of the plant. This is probably some kind of problem, but its so late in the day I am not even going to bother trying to diagnose this.
11/03 - Its the end of 8 weeks of flowering. I will give them a bit more time based on what I can see from the Trich's, but may not give the full 9 weeks, we will see.
The Cirt47 has gone very yellow with a lot of rust coloured areas developing, the thing really looks like its dieing.
The Blue Rhinos are looking super strong and healthy still. Very rigorous plants.
Harvest time coming soon!! The smell in there is amazing.
delarid
