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Placed all 4 seeds in separate cups containing water with hydroguard and left for 24hrs to soften the shells.
Then placed them about 2cm deep in spongepots and placed them in my small tent with propergation vent closed on the dome and lights on 24/7.
On 24/12/20 Christmas eve all 4 where above ground this is day 0 for this grow.
Merry Christmas you filthy animals.
Main tent. Lights schedule is 20/4 with lights off at 2pm and back on at 6pm. Its set at 75% power as that's about right for my space, the height is 28 inch above the pots.
The wilma system is set to water for 15 minutes at a time. With 1st feed at 6pm, 2nd feed at midnight, 3rd feed at 7am, 4th feed is at 2pm.
Day 1 (Christmas day). Moved all 4 seedlings into the main tent. I kept some small cups on them to help with humidity as the tents humidity is average 50%.
Day 5. I removed the humidity domes as the seedlings where looking a bit droopy. I had also only been feeding plain water up to this point and started my nutes on the above schedule.
Day 7. I noticed all 4 where very droopy when I checked this morning. I am putting that down to over watering, so the last feed was at 7am, and i won't give them any more water until I check on them tomorrow morning. Should have really checked what the timer was still set at before I started. I have also lowered the light to 24 inch above the plants.
Conditions for the week.
Temp max 23.9 c
Temp avg 22.4 c
Temp low 17.9 c
Humidity max 59.4%
Humidity avg 47.6%
Humidity low 39.1
Happy New year
Well disaster struck. Day 8 New years day. I checked on the plants in the morning and they looked loads better and I decided not to run the watering timer until later on. By dinner time the house was cold and we had no hot water. Boiler had broke. Well my grow tents are in the cupboard with the boiler, its cramped in there, I got my secret jardin dp60 on one side of the boiler and my ds60 on the otherside. So I had to destroy my plants and take my setups down and move everything out of there so I could get someone in to mend the boiler.
Rather then abandon the diary i had 2 of every seed left so I decided to do replacement plants. The 1st 4 started after the boiler was fixed grew lanky very quickly and the lemon pie didn't germinate. So I decided after a few days to germinate the last 4 seeds and pick the best ones for the main tent, out of that batch the gorilla cookies didn't germinate but thankfully the one from before is in good condition. So the pics are from both new lots germination to grow day 14. There are 2 pineapple express, 2 Jack herer, 1 gorilla cookies, 1 lemon pie. The older pineapple and Jack will be the 2 I get rid off some time next week.
Week 3 went ok ish. Transplanted into the main tent at the start of the week. After a few days the gorilla cookies showed some problems, most likely a phosphorus issue from a ph lockout. I had pre soaked the clay rocks in PH5.5 before the transplant. The other 4 are doing just fine. Been letting the Ph drift to about 6.3 6.4 then knock it down to 5.5 and let it rise again, usually takes 24hr before I ph down. The watering is set for 15 mins every 6 hours all way through this week. In a week the EC has risen by 0.1 and the tank is going down, so all is good there. Going change the res when its 10 days old.
Max 25.1 deg
AVG 22.3 deg
Low 17.9 deg
Max 75.5%
AVG 54.9%
Low 40%
During week 4 the res got changed to this weeks schedule. All 4 plants where topped after the 4th set of nodes and the lowest nodes and single fingered leaves removed. The lux reading is between 25000 and 30000. At the end of the week I started training them to expose the 6 nodes on each. The gorilla cookies is the farthest along but that is slightly older then the other 3. The pineapple is looking good. Jack herer is coming on fast. Lemon pie is the runt at the moment, she a little bit smaller then the others but nothing to worry about at this stage. Going to keep the res for about 5 more days before upping the feed a bit more.
Max 26.5
AVG 23.3deg
Low 18.2 deg
Max 66.5%
AVG 51.8%
Low 40%
I was a bit late starting training for me, lemon pie suffered a snapped cola, she only got 5 left, never mind. All 4 are feeding well. They are not the best looking plants i have grown, think that's down to the environmental factors, its been really cold outside for the last few weeks and its effecting the temps in my tent. Got an extra radiator in the grow room to try and raise the temps as one radiator isn't enough. Other then that all is OK.
Max 26.5 deg
Avg 22.3 deg
Low 16.7 deg
Max 65.8%
Avg 57.3%
Low 43.7%
Lux is around 30000
I did some lite defoliation on all 4 plants on day 38 and then a heavy defoliation on day 39 and another on day 42. The pineapple is the farthest behind but not by much, she looks OK. The jack herer has really come on this week, she very bushy and is looking OK. The gorilla cookies is the farthest along out the 4. I am thinking she might be suffering a little from N toxicity. The lemon pie is inbetween the Jack and the gorilla for how far along she is. I'm not sure but she looks like she may be suffering from over watering.
All is looking good for them finishing at the same time.
High 25.1 deg
Avg 22.3 deg
Low 18.1 deg
Max 64.8%
Avg 58.1%
Low 42%
Lux around 35000
Not kept my eye on things recently. My environmental controller was set wrong for most of last week and this week. Not sure why the settings had changed to what they had done. I do remember a power cut about 2 weeks ago that may have reset it.
So with the temps being on the low side it looks like I have been over watering. This has really shown on the lemon pie. I'm going leave it 24hr then see how they respond to a feed. Also changing feed as I have a bit to much N in there.
Max 25.4 deg
Avg 22.2 deg
Low 18.8 deg
Max 67%
Avg 57%
Low 47%
This week has gone good.
The pineapple is 50 days old and is doing fine, it's looking like when I topped her I may have fimmed one of the top colas.
Jack herer is also 50 days old and is looking real nice.
Gorilla cookies is 56 days old and furthest along. She is really throwing out the pistils.
Lemon pie is 51 days old and I can't tell what's wrong, she is very droopy. I have tried 24hr without water and she looked worse. I will just let her run the course but am now not expecting a good outcome.
Max 26.5 deg
Avg 23.1 deg
Min 18.2 deg
Max 60%
Avg 50%
Min 40%
This week has gone fine. The lemon still looks sorry for itself. I am thinking they may all finish at the same time maybe the lemon is a little behind the others. Probably another 20 days and start flushing. I will start keeping an eye on the trichomes from next week.
Max 26.6deg
Avg 22.7deg
Min 17.6deg
Max 61.2%
Avg 49.4%
Min 40.7%
This week was OK again. The pineapple express, Jack herer, and gorilla cookies are doing fine. The lemon pie is still looking sad for itself, really not sure why. Looking like I have a few more weeks before I flush and harvest. They should start bulking up now.
Max 26.6 deg
Avg 23 deg
Min 17.5 deg
Max 67.1%
Avg 50.8%
Min 41.2%
Grow day 77 its end of week 11 and things are ticking along nicely.
Pineapple express had a small defol during the week and is doing her thing. She is 71 days old.
Jack herer also had a small defol and is really packing on some trichomes. She is 71 days.
Gorilla cookies had a tiny defol and her trichomes are starting turning Amber. She is 77 days old.
Lemon pie has started to look a bit better this week, she had the biggest defoliation as there where lots of dead leaves. She is 72 days old.
During the week I realised my PH pen was 0.2 out. Also my boiler is playing up again. I'm to far through this grow to abandon it. It's just the hot water that's playing up this time. Will probably run these nutes for another 5 days then switch to ripen and flush. As soon as its done I'm going have to invest in a new boiler.
Max 27.3 deg
Avg 22.5 deg
Min 17.5 deg
Max 67.8%
Avg 52.8%
Min 46.4%
Grow day 84 its end of week 12 and things are still ticking along nicely.
Pineapple express had a big defol during the week and trichomes getting cloudy. She is 78 days old.
Jack herer also had a big defol and is really packing on some weight. She is 78 days.
Gorilla cookies had a tiny defol and her trichomes are starting turning Amber, she isn't going to have much weight but is looking sticky. She is 84 days old.
Lemon pie is about a week behind the others in her production, She is 79days old.
On grow day 83 I switched over to 3ml/L ripen Ec 1.2 Ph 5.6
I will run this for 7 to 10 days before flushing. All 4 will have to be harvested at the same time.
Max 27. deg
Avg 22. deg
Min 17.9 deg
Max 71%
Avg 53%
Min 43.6%
Day 91 and all 4 plants have been on ripen for 8 days. That has helped speed up the lemon pie so I will get something from her. I spotted a good few what I think may be spring tails swimming in the res, as its near my res change and I'm flushing after that I'm not to worried about them.
Pineapple express has been bulking all week and trichomes are all cloudy, she looks ace.
Jack herer also bulked up a bit more, she has cloudy and a few amber trichomes, she is ready for the flush.
Gorilla cookies has put on a little weight this week, her trichomes are cloudy and Amber and lots of them, she was ready to flush a few days ago really.
Lemon pie the one that's looked poorly all the way through has turned into a Swan. Colours have come out nicely and bud production is coming on nicely, she could do with another 5 to 10 days before flushing but I'm finishing her with the others.
2 more days on ripen then I'm starting to flush. Not long left.
Max 25.8deg
Avg 22.1deg
Min 17.2deg
Max 59.6%
Avg 47.4%
Min 37.5%
Because of the disaster at the beginning and having to take my setup down I ended up germinating 3 seeds and all 3 germinated.
She went from seed to harvest in 91 days and has produced some very nice buds. Had very little fuss from her all the way through this grow.
Pineapple express has always been my favourite strain since I tried it many years ago and I have tried growing it multiple times and have always failed from either seeds that didn't germinate to plants that never took off. Them seeds by the way wasn't from fastbuds. So for me Pineapple express has been my nemesis. So big thanks to @fast_buds for the seeds.
Having to take the setup down and abort the grow in the beginning I ended up germinating all 3 seeds, with 100% germination rate.
This also went from seed to harvest in 91 days. Producing nice decent buds, she also grew with very little fuss, think she handled everything well.
Jack herer is a very good smoke to deal with stress, she doesn't lock you into the couch and does the complete opposite, got plenty of jobs done after a smoke. This is also a strain I have smoked a long time ago and the effects are the same.
I would recommend this for any level of grower. Real stress killer.
Day 98 and its the end of the grow. 1st I'm going say thanks to @fastbuds for the seeds, very much appreciated.
This week I flushed until my EC was close to my waters EC which took 4 days. On day 97 I gave all 4 the chop.
So they been drying for 24hr so far, i haven't done any trimming yet just left them with plenty of leaves on, hopefully they should take a week to dry, I'll prob do some trimming during that period. The only plant that could have done with some more time in tent was the lemon pie, maybe she needed another 5 days or so to finish swelling up.
As far as the grow went it wasn't bad, hit some problems, mainly temps outside being so damn cold near the beginning that I was struggling getting temps up. Also I cut out using hydroguard to early and the roots started to suffer.
I'll put harvests of all 4 plants when they have been dried and cured for a least a week most likely 2. Hopefully by then I'll have got my jobs needed doing on the house and can start all over again, not sure what seeds I'm going to get yet, if anyone has any autoflower recommendations shout them out.
Max 24.2 deg
Avg 21.4 deg
Min 17.1 deg
Max 55%
Avg 47%
Min 37%
After having to abort and restart the grow I ended up germinating all 3 seeds, but one didn't germinate.
Gorilla cookies grew from seed to harvest in 97 days. Her bud form is very much like girl scout cookies but sticky like Gorilla glue. I have done both strains in the past and they are a favourite of mine, this is best of both worlds. One thing I did find was I am pretty sure she was thirsty for P at one point early on.
Top strain.
Because of the start I had I ended up having to use all 3 seeds. Only 2 germinated.
The lemon pie went from seed to harvest in 93 days. This was the only plant that I had any real problems with during the grow. I accidentally broke one of my colas shortly after I topped her, so instead of 6 mains I only had 5. She also looked very sorry for herself for a long time, like she was being over watered. Anyway she went from a duck to a Swan. Turned out with some real nice colour to her, she could have really done with another week in the tent to hit her full potential.