Biggest Bud + AK-77V Grow

100% germination rate and all of them came up as well. Very impressed.

They are growing very well, all at the same rate as well. I lost 2 seeds whose stems were very weak and fell over. Not sure what the cause was, but I think it is some kind of fungi

Realised that my light might have been too intense last week and thus turned it down to 250W and also raised it up a bit. This is supposedly the cause for the white lower leaves

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This week I topped the two larger plants. They seem to have recovered quite well.

The plants are growing very well, much better than my first grow. Slight yellowing of leaves, I think this is due to too much light, so I toned it down to 250w again, at a lower setting

Started with low stress training, maybe a little too late, but the plants werent growing as quick as I thought they would. Also transplanted them to bigger 15l pots

Applied some neem oil for some thrips that was eating away at the plants. After the first dosage I can no longer see any of them on the leaves. Luckily they were still in larva form so they should be gone soon.

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Flowers are coming along nicely, I have the thrip problem sorta under control, I just squish a few of them every day and it seems to keep their numbers in check (Dont want to use neem oil in flower stage since it might affect taste and safeness of the product) Used some molasses for extra bio-organism growth in the soil, seemed to work well for the plants

Managed to nutrient burn my plants the previous week, in the photo's the leaves are slightly shriveled, indicating the start of it, but a quick flush of the soil restored the plants to a healthy condition again. They are truly starting to make some big flowers.

Defoliated the lower parts a little (lolipopping) which seemed to help the growth quite a bit.

Realised the temps might be way too high for flowering stage. SOmetimes hovered at around 35 degrees Celcius... Got myself a cool tube reflector for the HPS lamp and now it is chilling at 28

Keeping temps below 26 degrees Celcius until harvest

Budz getting real thicc. Especially now that I have an AC regulating the temp to 24 degrees Celcius

It seems that the Biggest Bud plant is getting very yellow, although the buds dont look ready for harvest. Im thinking it might have had a Nitrogen deficiency before entering flower. Might need to harvest it early if it shows signs of dying

First week of flushing done. Think I might have started flushing too early, but the trichomes are getting more cloudy by the day. Would say about 50% cloudy 50% clear at the moment

I struggled growing in general since my temps were through the roof. As soon as my temps were sorted out they really started thriving

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