BillMonroe 5 WW auto seeds for my first grow. Trying to get informed and learn as much as I can.
~10-12hrs pre-soak in water cup -> seeds in peat pellets in a propagator
LED: Mars reflector 96 in a 70*70 space
Light feed in soil; "enough utrients for 1 week"
day 4: transfer to 11L pots (filled maybe 9L)
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Week 2. Vegetation
8y ago
1/2
24 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
55 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
23 °C
Substrate Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
60 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 1
Power Roots
1 mll
BillMonroe thinking about adding root stimulator. Still have not needed to water the pots. The plants love 24/0.
Going to need fan and filter relatively soon...
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Week 3. Vegetation
8y ago
1/10
24 hrs
Light Schedule
29 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
50 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
20 °C
Substrate Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
50 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 2
Power Roots
0.35 mll
Terra Grow
0.2 mll
BillMonroe giving a little root stimulator
It's a shame there is not enough soil! But the plants will deal with it.
Stems are growing beautiful and thick.
Temps were a little high. All are growing very fast.
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Week 4. Vegetation
8y ago
1/7
40 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
Weak
Smell
50 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
20 °C
Substrate Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
50 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 4
Vita Race
3.5 mll
Terra Grow
2 mll
Terra Bloom
2 mll
BillMonroe Slight chlorosis at the tips of the new growth
Nothing to complain about anyway, they are 99% healthy and looking great
Done some foliar feeding and regular feeding... Intense growth but the new growth still looks funky
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Week 5. Flowering
8y ago
1/8
65 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.5
pH
Normal
Smell
600 PPM
TDS
50 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
20 °C
Substrate Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
40 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 2
Terra Bloom
2.5 mll
Terra Grow
1 mll
BillMonroe 4 Girls and a fresh smell. (Plant height measured from the top of soil)
Vigorous growth. Very thirsty. Yellow-tipped new growth remains, but it seems insignificant. As leaves mature, only small tips remains yellow. Corkscrewing has stopped, so that is a good sign. Hairs and buds are appearing everywhere. No signs of N toxicity... (clawing)
The small re-potted one is living somewhere else. It has grown some pollen sacks!
Rootbound → repot → way different light schedule → 2x topping
Learning every day.
Documenting the "flower stretch":
Day 1: 65cm
Day 6: 80cm
Day 7: 90cm
Truly insane growth in the last ~36hrs
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Week 6. Flowering
8y ago
1/9
90 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.5
pH
Normal
Smell
300 PPM
TDS
50 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
24 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 1
Green Sensation
0.65 mll
BillMonroe They grew rapidly in the last week. The problem of the yellow tipped new growth is still there. So I decided to give them a load of water with just a drop of nutrient (+75ppm).
It has been happening since before I've really started feeding them. The soil is a light mix with ~1 week of nutrient. Maybe it is a nutrient burn anyway. It's kind of hard to tell.
Buds are growing bigger :)
* Spots (pic 4), on only 3 leaves of the plant at the top.
Last week, before lights out, I misted. By lights-on time, some parts of the plant were still wet. Is this some water burn?
Tap water is PHd and ~215 ppm (plenty ca/mg)
* Any insight on those yellow tips is welcome! :)
Nootz burn, definitely, looking your growth since beginning you shouldn’t have nuke them with nootz in week 4 when the soil was brand new. Here’s a tip , in soil everything happens 3 weeks after approximately. No need to use Ca, there’s plenty enough in your soil + your tap water , those brown spots are Cal excess and the tips burns is because the EC in the media is/or/has been to high.
BillMonroe Pics from day 4 of this week.
Now we see some purpling. I think it's due to temps. Purpling is closer to LED, where the "on/off" difference in temperatures s bigger
Gave plain water last week; some deficiencies are now apparent at the bottom leaves so I feed them again.
550 ppm in 220 ppm tap water @ 6.7 PH
Buds are beginning to look nice though :)
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Week 8. Flowering
7y ago
1/14
110 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.8
pH
Normal
Smell
820 PPM
TDS
40 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
23 °C
Night Air Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
20 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 2
Green Sensation
1 mll
Terra Bloom
3.5 mll
BillMonroe This week, the buds are getting fatter
The purpling has gotten rather extreme on one cola. It's not happening on other ones which are at an equal distance from the lights. Oh well
I noticed a lot of general yellowing of the plants so I gave them a good dose of nutrients.
Let's hope they get fat 👽
Later I will post some pictures with the LED off
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Week 9. Flowering
7y ago
1/9
110 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.8
pH
Normal
Smell
50 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
23 °C
Night Air Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
20 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 2
Green Sensation
1 mll
Terra Bloom
5 mll
BillMonroe Purpling on one plant, lots of light-colored fan leaves on the others. The buds keep growing and maturing. The seed source says 9 weeks but I am aware they often take longer. I wonder if the top buds will eventually grow to the size of the preflower buds.
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Week 10. Flowering
7y ago
1/11
110 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.8
pH
Normal
Smell
400 PPM
TDS
40 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
23 °C
Night Air Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
15 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 3
Green Sensation
0.2 mll
Terra Bloom
1.5 mll
Ph Min
0.25 mll
BillMonroe No complaints here... looks like some good bud.
Picked a seed from one of those huge calyxes. Hope there's not too many in the plants. 😊
I think they are pretty close to ready. Should examine the trichomes later,
Right click -> Open picture in new tab to get a better view
Seems like the pinched top actually got fatter than other tops. Might try this technique in another grow
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Week 11. Flowering
7y ago
120 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
7.8
pH
Normal
Smell
200 PPM
TDS
40 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
23 °C
Night Air Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
15 cm
Lamp Distance
BillMonroe Just plain tap water this week. At the end of w10 I gave less nutrients.
4 plants are wildly different. Not the best genetics, I guess.
Totally different buds, colors and THC (front left plant seems to produce the least THC).
Also, slightly different stages of maturity. Looks like it will be a great smoke! There is hardly any smell.
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Week 12. Flowering
7y ago
1/7
120 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
28 °C
Day Air Temp
7.8
pH
Normal
Smell
200 PPM
TDS
53 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
23 °C
Night Air Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
15 cm
Lamp Distance
BillMonroe Overall there are a lot of "fall colors". The plants look ready for chopping but the trichomes are still clear/white mixed (mostly white) so I think I'm leaving them as long as I can until I see a few ambers.
day 3: 10-20% amber trichomes on one plant. Chopped
day 4: chopped another. The other plants' trichomes are still white
Will update when harvest is complete :)
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Week 13. Flowering
7y ago
1/2
120 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
28 °C
Day Air Temp
7.8
pH
Normal
Smell
200 PPM
TDS
53 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
23 °C
Night Air Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
15 cm
Lamp Distance
BillMonroe Waiting for the last 2 plants to finish. One will be ready any day, the shorter one might take until the end of the week.
This strain barely smells at all. Hopefully some curing will bring out a little flavor.
The buds on big colas are super sticky and very dense. The tops are not very fat but slim and compact. I am pretty pleased and learned a lot.
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Week 14. Flowering
7y ago
1/2
120 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
28 °C
Day Air Temp
7.8
pH
Normal
Smell
200 PPM
TDS
53 %
Air Humidity
21 °C
Solution Temp
23 °C
Night Air Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
15 cm
Lamp Distance
BillMonroe Well, the last 2 plants were chopped yesterday.
It has been a very educative and fun experience. Thanks to the kind strangers here for the help and interest.
Some bud is already curing in jars. When everything else is dry and trimmed I will come back with the harvest update and pictures.
You can check out my next plant, Critical XXL, here: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/12361-critical-xxl-zambeza
Shoutouts to jazz, slugface, mr banana fort, AJ and jonko killer 👍
Overall the genetics seem not so pleasing. There is quite some variety in the quality of bud produced by each plant. One plant (~30g) produced rather fluffy and thin buds of a lower quality than the rest. Another finished very early, The best plant produced absolutely amazing smelling, dense bud of great quality.
1 Amazing, 2 good, 1 mediocre
The good: They grew insanely fast and vigorous. With better treatment from myself, I'm sure they could have done even better!
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BillMonroe Everything has been curing for 1.5-3 weeks now, so I think it is time to do some weighing and bring the conclusion to this diary.
The weight currently is 135 grams. I have only weighed the quality buds, not included is a jar full of fluffy low-quality stuff. I'm sure the weight will decrease a bit over time as the buds cure further. I have trimmed most of the stems and leaves so that there is as little excess weight as possible.
Super sticky. A very sugary smell has started to develop in the jars. I sampled some of the dried fluffy schwag but have not smoked any of the good stuff. I think the bud will develop a very sweet taste.
I learned a lot. Thanks everyone for checking out my first grow. :)
Hey man I'm about to start my first grow I hope it goes half as good as yours, I got some autos off seedsman should be here in a couple days, after u get it all dry let us know what your yeild was
@Raamastak,Thanks for the nice comment! I am sure you will do well, or even better, especially if you have done some reading and sight-seeing here. I will definitely weigh the yield once the last 2 plants are ready for jarring. The bud that is curing right now is starting to get a nice smell, and is very sticky.
if you will use LED lights- I often read that LED causes less transpiration (evaporation of water from the leaves) than HPS. A lot of the information available online is suited for HPS lamps. I expect that the soil dries out a lot quicker in HPS.
Some growers state that this causes plants to need slightly less nutrients than under HPS (75%), but uptake of some elements like calcium is hindered by low transpiration.
Well, I think I have learned that this is something to take into account when dealing with all this anecdotal information.
these 4 plants of mine were quite different. There were 2 big ones, a lanky thin one and a short one with not so much THC production as the others. The LST plant did the best (although LST was minimal), I would never grow without LST again.
Hopefully your Seedsman seeds will be a bit better or more stable genetics :) Good luck!
@Raamastak, I put the harvest update. With a surprising yield! (to me)
(I estimate another 30 grams of fluffy buds - the stuff people often lollipop, and now I know why)
