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Critical Purple hit a big piece of perlite I missed and pushed the root all the way out. Almost lost it.
Seed hull needed help being removed but now it's fully recovered.
All look healthy.
No extra nutes but the kangaroots at the 7th of Jan and the 9th of Jan. Germinated in Happy frog and mother earth coco +perlite 50/50 mix.
Roots went crazy in 2 days, I wanted to leave them in in the cups for another week.
Both white widows and the amnesia are the strongest rooted with Dark Devil right behind them.
My have to make some adjustments with the GG #4 and Critical purple here in a week or 2.
Critical purple has a weak stem due to the germination issue but it is rooting like crazy too.
Stems were all placed 3 inches under soil during transplant, that should help.
Soil mix 50%happy frog 25% ocean forest 25% mother earth coco+perlite, 5lbs Nature's living soil supper soil concentrate 4 lbs bone meal.
Will add topsoil dressing or organic mixes as needed through veg.
Week was good recovery for me and the plants. Word of advice, keep the Mrs. Out of the watering process.
I dropped the light's to 20 inches and cranked them up a little. She seen the top was dry and flooded the plants.
Had to totally keep the room venting and crank the heat up to 85F. Tent was at 75% without the humidifier on.
It's now dropped down to 60% by the time the pots dry out it will be ready for its next feed.
Had one white widow get a little yellow, not sure if it was the shock from transplant or trying to find Noahs arch. It's bounced back.
CO2 tank should be in in a couple days. No more using ventless heater YEA!
YOU ALL BE SAFE OUT THERE! This case of Corona has no limes and no one wants it at the party. Be safe brothers and sisters.
Great week, was trying to decide whether to let it all just go because there autos or defoliate and train or top and train.
So defoliate and some lst and a little chiropractic care.
Girls are about to go through puberty, little hairs starting to pop up.
I'll hit them with some nuts mid week with some carbs and phosphates after that huge soil feed settles down. Quite a bit of nutes for soil that already has supper soil concentrate mixed in.
I also mix all my nutes in the first gallon and spread 600ml over each plant. It's right at 1400 ppm with RO water that's PH to 6.5. The rest of the watter added is RO until pot is saturated and draining.
The first two waterings were 600ml a piece and centered around the stock. 3rdwater they got flooded. 4th after dry out flooded with Nutes.
Kicked the lights up to 45000lum. Raised them up a little to get a little more stretch.
All 5 strains have their own journal book so I can see what works and what doesn't.
Good luck with your grows Sisters and Brothers
Hit with a good dose of nutes up to 1400 ppm. A little high for what's already in the soil.
Got a little tip burn on the amnesia, GG 4, dark devil.
Let dry out a little and then flooded RO water with 2 Tsp per gallon sledge hammer just until watter was flowing out the pots.
Soil pH is 6.9 and 900 ppm on run off. All looks good on bounce back.
Letting dry out a little in the start of week 7.
Week 6 was a little hectic. Little to much nutrients and did a light flush. Looks like there recovering. Everything is starting to flower.
Between Dr visits and out of town work, I'm surprised I haven't killed them all.
Looking like a couple were stunted due to soil and nutrient mix. Others look like they liked it. But lessons learned when trying to grow 5 different strains.
Trimmed a bit out of them going into flower.
Will update week 7 which is complete. For some reason this didn't post last week.
Recovery ,recovery, recovery. Drowned them with nuts @1400 ppm. Hot for a hot soil mix. Soil mix was missing something different that 3 of the strains were needing.
I dropped the bomb on them, defoliated the hell out of them and lst . Dark Devil no lst.
Let the nutrients set 2 days and flushed with RO testing run off and ph. The plants that weren't showing to much signs of nutrient burn flushed with sledge hammer back to around 1200 ppm 6.5 ph. Plants with burn flushed back to 600 ppm wattered with dechlorinated tap at 7.0 ph.
Finally the seeds man white widow and the gg#4 started into flower.
The kera white widow
and the critcle purp are loving the environment and nutes.
May have to flush the Dark Devil a little more or full flush it. Still showing signs of nute burn.
Over all happy with the grow. I definitely know what each strain likes and what they dont.
I'm keeping a physical journal on each for future grows.
Lessons learned:
For a first indoor grow and a first auto grow, it would have been easier to select hybrids that were close in their sativa/indica ratio.
Sativas are sensitive temperamental little girls.
Get a dehumidifier so the room or tent can be contained with less co2 loss for summer.
Ventless blue flame wall heaters work great in the winter for heating the room and creating plenty of co2.
Running a test grow with 6 plants when your home only 40 hours then gone for 3 days is fun insanity.
As seeing some deficiency pop up after flush. Also some stress from light. Added dome Cal mag, Alaska fish fertilizer and it started cleaning up.
Added another king Brite 240 raised the lights and set them at 45000 lux evenly accross the tent. Everything looks like it's doing better.
Defoliated a massive amount on most of the plants which you'll see in week 9.
After I did it the 2 smallest plants started taking off. Dropped off c02 till the recovered. Only getting co2 @1100 ppm for 6 hours, 2 hours after they wake up to start. Still around 600ppm when lights go out and then down to 380 during dark.
All looks good, little potassium def. on dark devil. Will be looking at trichromes this week on dark devil. All plants are going to finish at different times.
All going as good as can be. Might be flushing Dark Devil this week. They were all showing signs of being hungry and need of water.
Was late posting week 9. Go check out some of the dark photos in week 9.
Couple of the plants are needing to be flushed due to pH of soil. Will see if tricromes are finishing up on dark devil and let it finish up.
Gg4 and seeds man white widow were late bloomers probably looking 1st week of April to finish.
I didn't get the yield i should have out of this but it wasn't the genetics. I had too much going on and gone three days at a time then home for two days. Considering what I did to this entire grow, surprising I didn't kill the entire crop.
What I learned about this strain;
Not many fan leaves so be careful if you defoliate.
Fast finisher so make sure you hit it good with your P&k nutrients hard and fast in flower.
Calmag and nitrogen it hard in veg. Not much veg time.
Lst early and keep the lights a little high in veg and give it some stretch.
Once it flowers keep your lights as close as you can. I would really suggest week 2 or 3 to even over power your lights for 2-3 days to stunt the flower stretch a little to keep your bud tops tight.
Definitely drop your Temps the last 2 weeks.
This plant is an awesome plant, ill definitely be growing it again.
Smell ike lavender candy. Real sweet smell
If you abuse your girls it will show in the end results. Even though I abused them I got more than expected. It was great to learn how to recover them, what they liked, what they didn't like. Can't wait to grow it again. Tough as hell to make it through the abuse I gave it. Smell when growing smells so good, I'm willing to grow it in the house and make the entire house smell like lavender.
Real tough plant. Its what you would expect from good genetics. I actually lolipoped it, lst, supper cropped some branches and put it through hell for an auto. Closed it down a little early only about 5% amber but it was sticky sugar coated.
I kind of left this plant alone. It got the stress put to it like the Kerry seeds white widow. 5 strains and six plants being gone for 3 days and then home for 1 put a stress on them. Considering every thing that went wrong everything turned out fine.
Took a little break with the grow. Had an unexpected death in the family.
This was a fun and stressful grow. Next grow I'm not going to use the tent and there will be a bluemat water system.
This plant requirement for calmag and nitrogen was unbelievable. I grew it in the same media and same nutrients as the other white widow. This one was the one I thought wouldn't survive.
In the end, the volume of trichomes was unbelievable. The weight of it at 58% cured made me double check my scales.
Well son, we're done! Getting stuff ready for next grow. Got some9 year old seeds that were original genetics.
They were a once cross of Blue cheese and Star Dawg. The original breeder called it Cheese Gawd. I'll be running it at least 3-4 times to stabilize it and pick the best males and females.
@deFharo, Thank you,
Was kind of a pain how I did it. But lessons of education take a little pain. Next diary I'm going to try to pop some beans that are over 7 years old.
It's a strain that an old grower started and ended up having to stop growing on its 2nd cross. If they pop up, I'm going to try to run at least 4 runs of it.
They named it Cheese Gawd.
Heyo. For your Critical Purple grow, did you harvest in week 11? It looks like the strain goes anywhere from 9-12 weeks, and I'm trying to figure out my feeding schedule during flower. Right now, plan is to use fish bone meal in weeks 5 and 7, worm castings in 8, flush in weeks 9 and 10. Cheers, and the nugs you got looked awesome!
@@Cannabis_Chris,
Sorry for the late reply, week 10 from seed it was done. I did stunt it too much. Autos the tend to be lengthy with colas spread out, I tend to give them some intense light at the 2nd week of flower to slow down the stretch. Well they got forgot about for almost a week. But they were 1 big continued bud from base to top.
@MarsHydroLED,
Why doesn't Mars hydro secure the female diver plugs to the shroud? Everything i have ever bought with a jack plug was succured by a nut and the solder joints were not relied upon for structure.
2 grows with this light in a year and a failure each grow.
1st was the power supply cord wasn't making a good connection to the light and the light was going off intermittent.
Now less than a year old, the solder joint on one of the QB for the drive plug is loose so I have one full QB board out.
Don't get me wrong, I love the light it gives out when it works, but dropping my lights out in veg forcing everything to flower before your ready is hell on someone who people with medical cards relies on under grows the crop.
Thanks for all the comments, been having some health issues of my own. Took an ambulance ride and a little stay at the Hospital. No Covid.
I'll try to keep the diary updated.
Kicked the Hydro light to 50% and turned on the kingbrite 240. There offset 15 min morning and night.
Don't have a par meter but went from 15000lum to 22000 lum. Slowed down the stretch and they bushed out. They are all chasing the kingbrite any which way I turn them.
They like the spectrum.
Woodcutter
