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Hello friends and readers.
Before another grow starts I wanted to share a memory...
Roughly 20 years ago, a very good friend and I sat down in his garden for a midday joint. He was an amateur grower and he had just completed growing Ice cool X Shiva and it opened my eyes. Both of us were supposed to work that day.. We didn't 😎. He opened my eyes that day to growing. He showed me the real potential of what a plant can actually give vs the quality I was used buying commercially.
By having the opportunity to grow this strain, I'm closing this big circle by growing this amazing plant. It's giving me an opportunity to relive an amazing day with an amazing friend.
Thank you old and dear friend!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-Start Diary=-=-=-==-
18/12 germinated 1 seed
20/20 seed pops up and moved to 1l pot with 20w T5 lights
28/12 - 3/1
Welcome to this week. She is getting fed every 3 days with nutes. happy plant all and all.
she stopped stretching which is really good for me.
4/1 - 10/1
Another week is in the books for this lovely plant. I didn't like the 1l pot and also I wanted to stop the streach. On Friday I transplanted her to the bigger pot.
11/1 - 17/1
The plant tripled in size, she loves the new pot. Her growth is very dense and shows very big span leafs. Her radius is larger than the pot
I feed her once max twice a week.
Week 18/1 - 24/1
The girl is fed twice a week, and i have decided due to her size and vigorous growth to LST, TOP and Main-Line her. (all my plants follow the same regiment)
She doesnt show any issues and after looking @ some other diaries, i took to the pipe cleaners and used them for the LST
@Mrs_Larimar did it with success on some tiny plants.
25/1 - 31/1
She is developing fast and seems super happy. The growth from previous week is staggering.
I love shaping her, topping her and I'm trying to stretch her abit
1/2 - 7/2
This plant is a powerhouse!
The growth is fast and vigorous. She now has 8 main colas 6 of them are tied down and i'm waiting for the other 2 to stretch.
This will be her final shape and roughly in 4 weeks time she will be moved into the tent for flowering.
I'm quite worried about the plant, she started to show off black leafs. I took the off and trimmed her down. I have zero clues to this and every time I'm checking I'm getting more confused about this issue...
I have removed all the dead leafs from the plant and I can see new growth and it looks quite good. Same as with my other diaries, I will give her less N and maintain steady growth untill the tent clears up from the current growth.
Hope you like the training and shaping of the plant
@MackMurder told me I had extra nitrogen, based on that I have lowered the food to 1/4 quantity and kept her on water regiment. Guess what? @MackMurder was right. Look at her now! Thanks bro.
Here were are, wrapping up another week for this plant. Since the tent Is getting freed up tomorrow she will get replanted into fabric pot of 15L and moved into the tent for roughly 2 weeks of veg followed by flowering period.
She is getting bushier and thicker. Loves the tent and looking good after only one week
It's a 15l fabric pot. I can see 9 leaf shapes she is just happy plant
Vita race wasn't good for her. I can see spot burns of nutrients. No more of this stuff the rest of the plagron line looks very promising.
The plant is vigorous green and lush
another week is in the books , not much to report here besides that the strech is quite big and she looks healthier than before.
i think the new food helped her out.
This closes the last week of veg
As I write this message the 12/12 cycle is on!
The countdown is starting today.
This is really exciting news, 16 weeks of veg was way to long and I really need to rethink my rotation plans with the plants.
She requires maximum of 12 weeks from seed using 15L pots. If I switch to 11L I think 8 weeks will suffice.
The scrog net is from yesterday.
Concluding the first week of flowering!
She started to show flower formation and looks healthy. I'm trying to control the growth of the plant. She should stop in two weeks
The feeding schedule has stabilized and the plants are getting fed every 48 hours with 5L solution.
The scrog net stops her from getting taller (95cm) and the flowers started to develop.
The smell also started to be noticeable.
I had to defoliate her several times and I'm looking to see the bus formation though next week.
26/4 - 2/5
This has been a very eventful week, as I was wrapping up last weeks entries I started to see white larve on my fan leafs and then I spotted like thrips. I took a biological pesteside and they seem to have died after spraying them twice.
On Thursday,the smart switch didn't turn off the light and this made me readjust my 12/12 cycle. Running it now from 9 to 9.
I also feel the plagron food is quite weak and dosen't really make big flowers
The plants are growing and getting fatter and thicker by the day. I can see shoots of red pistins on the flowers and they are very sticky.
The smell starts to be noticeable but I have a carbon filter so I'm sorted for now
I do consider to bring ac unit
Wrapped up another week for the plants. She looks very green and the flowers are quite yellow with red notes. The back plant overshadows her but hey thats the space I got.
Pretty standard week for the plants. One more week and it's chopping time. Well maybe 2 weeks 😂😂.
Feeding is getting a bit more intense now I fed every 24 hrz rather than 48 hrz
This plant is not ready yet all the tricomes are white and milky there is a chance she will run 2 more weeks which will complicate my life with the other plants. I really want to maximise the quality and quantity as this plant has a special meaning to me. Its what got me into growing and understanding the full potential of self sustainable smokes.
Now that I have removed the other plant (el patron) she will have the tent for another week.
In this week she didn't do much besides fatten up. I don't think she is really ready so one more week will assure that.
This concludes 66 days of flowering. I have chopped the plant down and setup a small tent to dry it.
the temp is monitored and the RH is roughly 65 and temp around 24.
She is a beast. the smoke report will happen later on when the plant dried up and cured for a while.
thanks @sweet_seeds
To surmise the grow: This has been a great plant to grow. She has responded to all my trainings well, and ended up with a great shape which created some Excellent juicy buds. She drank all the nutrients like a champ and this was evident in her growth. I kept her in a vegetative state for 16 weeks, which is a bit longer than I had intended to, but this has resulted in some very fat colas. This longer vegetative state was down to some spatial limitations in my house. I look forward to seeing how developed her root system was although I have not yet investigated the pot.
Overall I'm very pleased with this grow. It was a run of the mill grow. Sweet seeds have provided some excellent seeds and I enjoyed growing some strains that sent me down memory lane again. It gave me a chance to remember a friend.
timbarin
