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Germination
4 years ago
Sprouted in root riot and transferred to solo cup media. This is my first indoor grow in ten years having just gotten my medical marijuana card. I made a mistake by not leaving the rooter outside of the media for a while. In the future, I will let the seedling stay in the root riot cube until it has developed more roots.
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Week 1. Vegetation
4 years ago
2.54 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
6
200 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
5.08 cm
Nutrients 1
Pure Blend Pro Grow  - Botanicare
Pure Blend Pro Grow 1 mll
ME BAD...I kept the seedlings too close to my t5s and they developed light burn. Some crispiness of leaves, pale color, stunted growth. Very depressing start. At first I thought I was overwatering until I learned more about Coco, then a very smart fellow clued me in to the light burn. Was keeping the seedlings 2 inches away from T5s, moved to 6 inches away.
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Week 2. Vegetation
4 years ago
5.08 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
6
300 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
12.7 cm
Nutrients 1
Pure Blend Pro Grow  - Botanicare
Pure Blend Pro Grow 1 mll
Wait...why are they in solo cups now you ask? Because the light burning had stunted their growth and I still wasn't sure it was light burn and not overwatering, so in a panic, I transplanted them back into cups...LOL. Omg, yes, I'm an idiot, but I'm hoping my redemption arc starts soon!
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Week 3. Vegetation
4 years ago
7.62 cm
20 hrs
26 °C
6
400 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
1 L
1 L
10.16 cm
Nutrients 2
RapidStart - Terra Aquatica
RapidStart 0.5 mll
Pure Blend Pro Grow  - Botanicare
Pure Blend Pro Grow 1.5 mll
Oh yeah...I had you going there for a second...you thought I was an epic fail, then BOOM....slight improvement! Transplanted back into the 1 gal smart pots. Plants significantly healthier. I had started another Hawaiian Snow seedling when I thought the previous one was done for, I won't be growing it out, rather, I'm going to try my hand at making a bonsai mommy for fun. The Rainbow Cake is an impressive little plant, it just powered through the abuse I doled out and is pretty much on schedule in spite of it. The others were stunted by my poor care, but are making a great comeback, growing each time I check on them! I will start training the Rainbow Cake in a couple of days. Been feeding once per day to runoff, 400 ppm at 6.0 ph, and feeding a smaller amount before lights off, like 80 ml to keep moist. This is a fun group of plants-I was able to try the Lemon Bubble and Purple Strawberry Bliss at Coffeeshop Voyagers in Amsterdam a few years back-a truly awesome place to visit if you are ever in Amsterdam and you can stay there too!! It's also a hotel, and quite affordable. Pheno Finders is the breeder associated with Coffeeshop Voyagers, so they are always on the menu. Please be kind, this is my first indoor grow in ten years!!
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Week 4. Vegetation
4 years ago
12.7 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6
Weak
500 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
1 L
1 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 4
RapidStart - Terra Aquatica
RapidStart 0.5 mll
Pure Blend Pro Grow  - Botanicare
Pure Blend Pro Grow 2 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 0.5 mll
Plants really snapping out of their poor earlier treatment. Topped/cloned the Rainbow Cake and started mainlining training. I'd like to train most of these for 8 colas, but since this plant is further along, I might try for 16 with it, if I have time. I moved the plants from a 2 ft 4 bulb t5 where they were getting about 10k lux to a Mars TS 600 at 18 inches where the tops are getting about 20k. The plants wilted the first couple of days after several hours, so I ended up raising the lights to 26 inches. Two days later and they are down to 18 inches and the plants are loving it. They are showing signs of light saturation about 4 hours prior to lights out, so I've got them on a 18/6 schedule instead of 20/4. Plants seem to LOVE 24/0 or 20/4 under T5s, but they really need the sleep with a higher light output. I've learned a lot about light saturation this week.
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Week 5. Vegetation
4 years ago
15.24 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
6
Weak
450 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
1 L
1 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 5
RapidStart - Terra Aquatica
RapidStart 0.5 mll
Pure Blend Pro Grow  - Botanicare
Pure Blend Pro Grow 1.5 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1 mll
Okay, I messed up pretty bad. I had started mainlining the Rainbow Cake, my prized plant of this grow, and snapped one of it's branches clean off-half the entire plant and it's still bigger than the PSB. I tried to save it but no luck, so I took a cutting off the branch. Now my Rainbow Cake has one branch with 4 bud sites, so it's behind the others but not too bad. I might have to increase the veg period more than I'd like, but hey, that's okay. This was a test grow to get back into the swing of things before I grow out my favorite Serious Seeds strains next time-I love Kali Mist so much, and will also be trying Strawberry AK, and Serious Happiness. My other plants are doing well-I love how the Lemon Bubble and Hawaiian snow is growing. The Purple Strawberry Bliss is SLOW. Since I've started this grow I've ordered more Rainbow Cake seeds though because I think it's a star-such tremendous vigor in the face of poor conditions, I can't wait to see what it does next time, since I've learned so much about coco this round. I've cut the nutes back to 450 as I'm getting some tips curling and the Rainbow Cake seems to have some nitrogen toxicity. I figured not everyone would like the conditions since I've got 4 different strains and heavy sativas vs heavy indicas. Lastly, I've been told not to worry about runoff PH and the new growth looks good so I'm not very worried, but I'm considering switching from citric acid as a PH down to phosphoric acid-which holds ph better. Citric is better for the microflora, but I've noticed my runoff PH is VERY high, like 6.8-7, even though I water to runoff twice per day with 6.0 ph nutrients. My water is pretty alkaline but not too bad at 140 ppm to start, and no, I'm not interested in RO water. For now I've set my nutrients to 5.8 and am watering a little more each time, but I think the phosphoric acid will help. Oh and I've started adding Photosynthesis Plus on a weekly basis, OMG the egg fart smell is strong in this one!! They really tapped into the microbes in Satan's anus.
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Week 6. Vegetation
4 years ago
20.32 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Weak
450 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
1 L
1 L
45.72 cm
Nutrients 3
Pure Blend Pro Grow  - Botanicare
Pure Blend Pro Grow 1.5 mll
Cal-Mag Plus  - Botanicare
Cal-Mag Plus 1.5 mll
Photosynthesis Plus - Microbe Life Hydro
Photosynthesis Plus 2 mll
Plants are growing fast, but I still have persistent mag deficiency and high runoff PH. At least now my runoff ph has come down to 6.9 from a high of 7.4, and I think this high ph issue may have locked out the magnesium, because I have been feeding a pretty high dose of Calmag. Yesterday I began spraying 1/4 teaspoon magnesium sulfate in a foliar spray with fulvic acid and liquid kelp, and will do so once per day for the next week to see if the magnesium issues clear up, while I continue to try to lower my coco PH. I want to solve this soon because tomorrow I will be transplanting these kids into 3 gallon smart pots and starting them under a 630 watt DE CMH bulb. I will raise the fixture as high as I can and watch them carefully for signs of light stress/burn for the first few days, hopefully the transition is smooth. The plan is to give them two more weeks of veg to fill out the new pots and hopefully fill out the tent as well. I'm not sure yet if I will scrog or not but I'll order a net just in case. I think the Hawaiian Snow will grow out of control at flip so I think a net will be impossible. I've been doing lots of supercropping and tying down of branches. Oh, the pictures...The lemon bubble looks great honestly, no issues with her, she's a trooper. The Hawaiian Snow has the worst mag deficiency, probably because it has been growing like crazy. The Rainbow Cake is truly an amazing plant-that's the one that I started mainlining but split the plant in half, so what you see is just half a plant, growing entirely off of one branch-Also, it has the biggest leaves of any cannabis plant I've grown-it's suffering from nitrogen toxicity, nute burn, sagging, claw, and some mag def-but this plant has been looking better since I lowered my nutrient PH to 5.5-5.8. I've lowered the PPMs I feed to 400-450, I went too high too fast this grow and won't make that mistake again. The Purple Strawberry Bliss is a very slow growing plant and I probably won't grow that strain again unless the buds take me on an intergalactic odyssey. Thanks for stopping by!
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Week 7. Vegetation
4 years ago
35.56 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Weak
450 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
3 L
1 L
76.2 cm
Nutrients 4
DryPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
DryPart Bloom 0.977 mll
RapidStart - Terra Aquatica
RapidStart 0.264 mll
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion - Terra Aquatica
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion 0.66 mll
Great news this week!! Okay, so, I transplanted to 3 gallon pots and moved them into my 4x4 tent under a brand new Iluminar 630 DE CMH-loving this light so far. I started at 40 inches, but after a few days I'm down to 30 and in a few more will probably stop at 24 and see how they do. Insane growth from day one. For the past week I've lowered the amount of Calmag and started feeding 1/4 teaspoon Epsom Salt per gallon, along with 5 ml/gal of the pure blend pro grow. That actually fixed my mag problems. I STRONGLY believe that increasing the calmag made it worse. As of yesterday, I changed nutrients to GH Maxibloom because I ordered it when I had a lot of problems thinking a more complete fertilizer would help, but I actually solved my problems before it arrived. I'm going to give the maxibloom a chance on it's own without adding calmag or Epsom salts at first because it has a lot in it. Feeding at around 450, but with the growth I'm seeing, I'll be bumping that up soon. I'm at about 3-3.5 g Maxi per gallon, but the KISS thread on ICMAG says you can go up to 7 g, so I'll use that as my ceiling and increase slowly. I'm thinking I might switch back to organic nutes for the last 2-3 weeks of bloom, instead of flushing or stopping feeding altogether. I'll be taking clones soon and then maybe one more week of veg, then flip to flower. I'll be doing a LOT of LST and supercropping over the next few weeks to contain the Hawaiian Snow for sure. Thanks for stopping by! I'm really happy things have turned around.
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Week 8. Flowering
4 years ago
50.8 cm
18 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Weak
550 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
3 L
3 L
60.96 cm
Nutrients 5
Ful Power 1.321 mll
DryPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
DryPart Bloom 0.977 mll
RapidStart - Terra Aquatica
RapidStart 0.264 mll
Welcome back friends! Things are going well in the garden. I flipped to 12/12 on the 9th of Feb. Lowered the light to 24 inches which is where I'll keep it since the plants will start to stretch now. I'll see how they do at 20 inches, then start moving it up as they grow. I think I'm going to have to do some extreme training to keep the Hawaiian Snow in line and I'll probably have to give the Purple Strawberry Bliss a booster seat. I did some significant defoliation a few days before the flip, they aren't quite lolipopped but close-it's amazing how fast the leaves grow back. I also gave them some aspirin water on the 9th-1 325 mg tablet per gallon, and I'll give that again in 2 weeks-hopefully to induce Systemic Resistance and make these girls as strong as possible against any pathogens. On the same day I sprayed with a mixture of Potassium Bicarbonate-1 tsp per liter, and neem oil-1 tsp per liter and a few drops of Dr Bronner's soap. You can see a few small burn spots from this treatment, not bad at all-I think I added too much soap or maybe the Potassium Bicarbonate was too strong. I'll spray them with this one more time before flowers really start to develop. I'm a big fan of spraying to prevent Powdery Mildew and Botrytis. I've also begun giving them 1 ml Hy-Shield per liter, twice per week-it's a Chitosan product made by Sipco, the guys who make Hygrozyme. I've also been spraying with it once per week. I should have said this earlier in the journal, but I spray something twice per week during veg-Bioag Ful power plus liquid kelp one day, and Southern Ag Biological Fungicide and Hy-Shield Chitosan-2 ml/liter the other day. Then, every two weeks I spray with Potassium Bicarbonate and Neem. This way, I'm hoping to prevent any spores from getting established prior to flower. Chitosan is a powerful preventive treatment for bud rot. For nutrients, I'm loving the switch to Maxibloom. You can see the growth from last week to this week has been good. I can already see tons of roots poking through the 3 gallon bags just a week after transplanting them, so they'll be ready for a higher PPM soon. 700 ppm is the max I'm aiming for, but I'm happy to stay lower if the girls are liking it. Right now I'm only feeding 3 grams Maxi per gallon, but according to the KISS method, you can go up to 7 grams, but honestly I'm not sure if you need to if you are feeding more than once per day in Coco. Right now I'm feeding twice per day, 12 hours apart and I'm getting a lot of runoff, just to help keep the coco PH down in range, and to prevent salt build up. My runoff is always within 100 ppm of my solution, so I think it's good. I'm also feeding 1/4 teaspoon Epsom salt per 3 gallons, in one of the feeds per day. My mag deficiency disappeared as soon as I started feeding them epsom salts and reduced their calmag. Now I'm just feeding calmag once per day, just 2 ml per gallon. I think the high dose of calmag I had been feeding was actually causing my mag deficiencies. MaxiBloom is 5% calcium and 3.5% magnesium-this is a much higher ratio of magnesium to calcium than in Calmag products, and that seems to be the ticket for me. Training: Lots of LST daily, tying branches down to binder clips attached to the bags. I'm shooting for 12-16 colas on each plant. The 630 watt DE CMH is an impressive light, better penetration than the single ended lights I've had, and a perfect footprint for a 4x4 tent. The bulb I'm using is a "red enhanced" bulb from Iluminar made with Japanese arc tubes-I'm impressed with its quality. For airflow I have a AC Infinity 8" exhaust fan dialed down to the 2nd setting-a truly impressive amount of air being pumped out. I have filters over the passive intakes on the tent and they are shaded with cardboard so there is no direct light entering the tent-I also have two 8" duct tubes attached with filters for additional passive intake-there is a TON of air being pumped out of the tent and I need a lot of passive intake to keep the tent from getting sucked in. Inside, I have a lasko tower fan hanging on it's side as my main source of air circulation hanging 1 ft over the plants-this blasts a curtain of air over the tops without too much direct contact. I also have a smaller lasko fan moving air around the pots underneath the canopy. Really good airflow from these, no stagnant areas. Sorry for the long post, I just realized I didn't explain any of this earlier, just in case anyone wants more details. Thanks for coming!!
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Week 9. Flowering
4 years ago
76.2 cm
12 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Weak
550 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
11 L
4 L
50.8 cm
Nutrients 6
Ful Power 1.321 mll
DryPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
DryPart Bloom 0.977 mll
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion - Terra Aquatica
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion 0.66 mll
Lots of new growth this week! The 4x4 footprint is pretty much filled in. I've defoliated most of the undergrowth, but on top, I only take fan leaves that are covering a bud site, trying to leave as many as possible. I've supercropped some of the stubborn branches that didn't want to bend over-I'll be doing another pass at training a week from now once I know which bud sites are outstretching the others-I'll add a few bamboo stakes for future bud support. I'm only feeding Maxibloom at 3.5 g per gallon, which is half of the dose recommended, but I get leaf tip clawing when I try to increase it. I think the Fulvic acid and the microbiome from the Photosynthesis Plus might have increased the absorption rate of my nutrients so I don't need such a high dose. I'm giving Photosynthesis Plus twice per week, and it has become my favorite microbe additive. I'm feeding Floranectar instead of molasses just because it's cleaner, and I like that it has barley extract in it. I added the Florablend because it's cheap, and it's a good source of organic nutrients like alfalfa, and brewers yeast, which hopefully will help feed my microbes and contribute to terpene development. You can still cultivate a microbiome while using synthetic nutrients as long as you keep your phosphorus ppms low enough, they just don't thrive as much as with organics, but they still can do their job.
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Week 10. Flowering
4 years ago
76.2 cm
12 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Weak
600 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
11 L
6 L
50.8 cm
Nutrients 5
DryPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
DryPart Bloom 1.302 mll
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion - Terra Aquatica
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion 0.66 mll
FloraBlend - Terra Aquatica
FloraBlend 0.66 mll
Plants in full stretch mode, especially the Hawaiian Snow. Doing a lot of supercropping to keep the canopy height at the same level. Flowers starting to form on each plant. Did a little more defoliation of fan leaves under the canopy that were getting no light. Did a foliar spray of 1/2 aspirin, 2 ml Chitosan, and 1 ml Southern Ag Biological Fungicide, also a few drops of Dr Bronner soap, per 1 liter of water. I also feed 1 aspirin per gal for the second, and last time. Plants really seem to go nuts the day after an aspirin treatment. I'll probably give them this same foliar a couple of more times before the flowers get too thick-Fugus prevention is essential. Feeding 4.5 grams MaxiBloom per gallon twice per day, with additives it's about 600 ppm. I'm increasing the concentration little by little but I think I'll stop at 700 ppm/1.4 ec. Thanks for stopping by!
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Week 11. Flowering
4 years ago
101.6 cm
12 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Normal
650 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
11 L
6 L
50.8 cm
Nutrients 5
DryPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
DryPart Bloom 1.953 mll
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion - Terra Aquatica
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion 0.66 mll
FloraBlend - Terra Aquatica
FloraBlend 0.66 mll
Flowers really blowing up this week. Notice the brown hairs in the photos-Unfortunately I burned them a bit when I sprayed a preventive Potassium Bicarbonate (1 tsp/liter) foliar on them two days ago. Next time I won't do it this far into flower, but honestly it's not a big deal, they've grown even more since then. I just wanted to give them a K boost 3 weeks into flower and hopefully kill off any spores that are lurking. The Rainbow Cake is really frosty for just 3 weeks in, I'm glad I took a clone of her, she might be a keeper. The PSB is looking good too, biggest buds of all so far but also the fewest main colas, so that might be the reason. Hawaiian Snow is coming on later but that's to be expected with a sativa like her, plus I allowed 30+ bud sites to remain on her just for fun. Things are looking good, can't wait to see them pack on weight! Tent is smelling like sweet flowers now.
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Week 12. Flowering
4 years ago
101.6 cm
12 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Normal
650 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
11 L
6 L
50.8 cm
Nutrients 5
DryPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
DryPart Bloom 1.953 mll
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion - Terra Aquatica
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion 0.66 mll
FloraBlend - Terra Aquatica
FloraBlend 0.66 mll
So, this is technically week 5 of flower, but it's the beginning of week five, these plants are actually 4 weeks into flower. The Hawaiian Snow looks a little odd because I've been relentlessly supercropping it daily to keep the canopy close to even. It's less developed than the other plants due to it's sativa origins, but I like it, it's a beast that wants to totally take over the entire tent. The Purple Strawberry Bliss has the fewest primary colas, but they're also the largest, and the terpenes are really coming through at this point, I can really smell the cheeseberry when I pluck leaves with my fingers. The Rainbow Cake is really the star of the show at this point, very nice frosting for 4 weeks and the buds are already filling out nicely-beautiful smelling plant as well. The Lemon Bubble has the least frosting, but she's not out of the race yet, we'll just have to see how she plumps up in weeks 5-7-not much smell to speak of yet. The Hawaiian Snow really should not have been vegged as long as I did, that was my bad. She has branches reaching completely across each side of the tent. I wish I could give her the care she deserves, but instead I'm just trying to contain her to allow the other 3 plants to be their best. Really cool plant though, and even thought he buds are the smallest, it has an insane number of bud sites. That plant will be in the tent long after the others however, and I really want to get started on my next grow after this one-got some top tier genetics waiting to hatch. Thanks for stopping by!! Oh, and right now I'm feeding about 5 grams of Maxibloom, plus pretty small doses of the other additives I have listed, and 1/4 teaspoon of potassium sulfate per 3 gallons. That's around an extra 100 ppm of Potassium Sulfate, equaling about 700 ppm total. That's the max I will ever go to, though I'm pretty sure 600 ppm would work better-I'll try to keep it at that level for my next grow for comparison. High PPMs aren't needed folks, you aren't "pushing" your plants to yield more, you're pushing them to yield a little less, and also high ppms make for nasty smoke. Good Luck!
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Week 13. Flowering
4 years ago
101.6 cm
12 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Normal
650 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
11 L
6 L
50.8 cm
Nutrients 5
DryPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
DryPart Bloom 1.953 mll
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion - Terra Aquatica
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion 0.66 mll
FloraBlend - Terra Aquatica
FloraBlend 0.66 mll
These Pics are from day 37 from 12/12 flip. The Rainbow Cake and Purple Strawberry bliss are beginning to thicken up nicely and get frostier by the day. The Purple Strawberry Bliss would be a good plant to grow with fewer colas and a short veg time-it's putting most of it's energy into just two colas despite being mainlined, so I think this would be a good plant to grow if you don't like topping-it also has developed the most unique terpene profile at this young age, you can really smell both the cheese and blueberry lineage. The Rainbow Cake is just an awesome plant all around-really excited to see it thicken up over the next few weeks. I'm really glad I have a clone of that one, I'm thinking she'll end up being a long term keeper. The Lemon Bubble is playing catch-up to the other two in terms of cola thickness, but it's also a heavier sativa hybrid, so I think it just needs time. Same with the Hawaiian snow-the other three of my plants have 8-16 ish colas, but this one I just let grow freely and it has something like 40 growth tips-I have no idea what it will look like at the end, but I think it will take a good month to 6 weeks longer to finish-right now it's just a mass of popcorn buds...BUT they are getting nice and frosty and smell fantastic....we'll see. I've been feeding primarily Maxibloom at 650-700ppm, twice daily. I continue supercropping any Hawaiian Snow tips that decide they need to stand up, which might be part of the reason it isn't forming huge colas like it did for me many years ago, on the other hand, a lot can happen to a strain over 15 years, so it could just be totally different at this point. Thanks for stopping by!
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Week 14. Flowering
4 years ago
101.6 cm
12 hrs
27 °C
5.8
Strong
700 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
11 L
6 L
50.8 cm
Nutrients 5
DryPart Bloom - Terra Aquatica
DryPart Bloom 1.953 mll
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion - Terra Aquatica
FloraNectar Fruit-n-Fusion 0.66 mll
FloraBlend - Terra Aquatica
FloraBlend 0.66 mll
I found out my TDS pen was giving readings about 200 ppm too high, due to getting some water inside of it, I think. It makes sense, I like to feed at 600-700 ppm maxibloom and never got tip burn in the past-so I was wondering why I was seeing tip burn and a little nitrogen claw on some leaves. I don't like feeding higher than that because growth seems to slow down. Got a very accurate pen-no more cheap pens for me!-I've had my plants on the correct ppms for the past week and they are much improved. I think the extra nitrogen was making the PSB get really leafy, but it started swelling first and has some nice thick buds that are turning purple, as you can see in the pics. The Rainbow Cake started swelling this week too-the next couple of weeks will be fun with this plant. The Lemon Bubble is still filling out and will take much longer to finish, but I expected that as an 80% sativa. The Hawaiian Snow is just a crazy plant-it's just a mass of golfball sized buds that are foxtailing like crazy-they are getting super frosty now, so I'm still hopeful that the smoke will be good, we'll see. Overall, I'm very pleased with the grow so far, everything is frosty and sticky, and the smell has come on strong this week.
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Week 15. Flowering
4 years ago
101.6 cm
12 hrs
27 °C
5.8
Strong
700 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
11 L
6 L
50.8 cm
Nutrients 3
Pure Blend Pro Bloom - Botanicare
Pure Blend Pro Bloom 3.963 mll
Liquid Seaweed - Blue Planet Nutrients
Liquid Seaweed 1.057 mll
Photosynthesis Plus - Microbe Life Hydro
Photosynthesis Plus 2.642 mll
So, I ran out of Maxi-bloom, my reshipment was delayed, so I used the only bloom formula I have on hand, which is Pure Blend Pro Bloom, at 15 ml per gallon. This creates a 700 ppm solution with my water and adjusted to 5.8 PH with citric acid. Honestly, things have looked fine since the switch two days ago-my tap water is high in calcium, so I'm adding 1/4 teaspoon epsom salts per 3 gallons of solution with every feeding. I'm just going to stick with this and use up my quart of Pure Blend Pro-waste not want not! The swelling has slowed on the Purple Strawberry Bliss and Rainbow Cake, but they are getting heavier every day. The Lemon Bubble is starting to thicken up, as you can see, and the Hawaiian Snow doesn't have big colas, but it has a LOT of buds, light, airy, FROSTY sativa buds. They don't look great but I have high hopes the smoke will be good. Hopefully the Pure Blend will add a little to the flavor as well-I always had great luck with the taste of PBP buds grown in soil. Thanks for stopping by!!
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Week 16. Flowering
4 years ago
101.6 cm
12 hrs
27 °C
5.8
Strong
700 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
11 L
6 L
50.8 cm
Nutrients 3
Pure Blend Pro Bloom - Botanicare
Pure Blend Pro Bloom 3.963 mll
Liquid Seaweed - Blue Planet Nutrients
Liquid Seaweed 1.057 mll
Photosynthesis Plus - Microbe Life Hydro
Photosynthesis Plus 2.642 mll
Today is day 58 from flip to 12/12. Trichomes are becoming milky in both the Purple Strawberry Bliss and Rainbow Cake, but neither has the look of "ripeness" about them yet. I think both of these strains will go to 10 weeks easy, so in a little less than two weeks I may start harvesting! Woo hoo, exciting! The Lemon Bubble is filling out nicely, but the calyxes really haven't started swelling yet. Everything is extremely frosty and is smelling POTENT, I believe the quality of this bud will be premium. The Hawaiian Snow is a crazy mass of foxtails and the trichomes are equally crazy, tons of clear, milky, and amber trichomes-I'm not even going to scope it anymore, I'll just harvest when it "looks" ripe, which should be either alongside the Lemon Bubble or after. I'm thinking both the H.S. and L.B. have one month left, and that's what I'm shooting for because I need to clean out the tent for my next grow. My next journal will be for Serious Seeds Kali Mist and Serious Happiness, alongside Old School Genetics Strawberry Mist and Petrol Skunk-premium breeders and strains, and I will be using a brand new LED-the Medic Grow Fold 8. I'd like to get this grow started ASAP, so I hope these sativas kick into high gear! Thanks for stopping by!
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Week 17. Flowering
4 years ago
101.6 cm
12 hrs
27 °C
5.8
Strong
700 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
11 L
6 L
50.8 cm
Nutrients 3
Pure Blend Pro Bloom - Botanicare
Pure Blend Pro Bloom 3.963 mll
Liquid Seaweed - Blue Planet Nutrients
Liquid Seaweed 1.057 mll
Photosynthesis Plus - Microbe Life Hydro
Photosynthesis Plus 2.642 mll
Day 65. All the strains are looking good. The Rainbow Cake has some leaf claw still from back when I overdosed them with nutrients when my TDS pen broke. The Lemon Bubble never minded it, it seems like a very tough strain. I scoped all of them and there are a few amber trichomes here and there, the PSB and RC have a lot of milky trichomes and they are approaching the harvest window, but not there yet. From here on out I'll just evaluate them once per week for ripeness, not every day. Those will definitely be the first strains to come down, they seem to be on a similar track-both have developed much potent terpenes and have a more complex smell from the past week. The Rainbow Cake always smelled "fruity" but now it has a more specific crisp candy smell, like jolly ranchers. The PSB smells like funky blueberry-it's a cheeseberry plant and it really lives up to that background-I miss the extremely FUNKY skunk plants that used to be everywhere. The Hawaiian Snow smells really nice, sort of a sharp citrus/pine smell just like I remember it having from 10+ years ago-the difference is the last one I grew had huge colas, and this one, as you can see, has a mass of very small, airy, heavily foxtailed buds. The plant is impressive though-it takes up almost exactly half my tent, so I really hope it's good smoke! Lastly, the Lemon Bubble is a disappointment terpene wise-it doesn't have a trace of lemon smell. It's the only plant in the tent that doesn't smell good-it's actually one of the worst smelling plants I've ever grown LOL, sort of a generic garbage odor. I keep hoping it will suddenly change, but we'll see-the LB buds are finally starting to swell up. Thanks for stopping by, hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'll have some nice harvest and bud shots for you to enjoy! Take care.
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Week 18. Flowering
4 years ago
101.6 cm
12 hrs
27 °C
5.8
Strong
700 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
11 L
6 L
50.8 cm
Nutrients 3
Pure Blend Pro Bloom - Botanicare
Pure Blend Pro Bloom 3.963 mll
Liquid Seaweed - Blue Planet Nutrients
Liquid Seaweed 1.057 mll
Photosynthesis Plus - Microbe Life Hydro
Photosynthesis Plus 2.642 mll
71 days, just a quickie update this week. I turned the Purple Strawberry Bliss completely around because I realized the backside of the buds were green while the front were a nice shade of purple, so hopefully I can cook it like a rotisserie chicken. I scoped everything, and the PSB and Rainbow Cake are within their harvest window, pretty much mostly milky trichs and some amber. The Hawaiian Snow has lots of amber on some buds and none on others, pretty typical for a heavy Sativa, esp tropical sativas. The Lemon Bubble has no amber. So, what I'm thinking is, I will let them go for one more week, then I'll scope the PSB and RC again and decide whether to harvest or to wait longer. The terpenes are incredible on those plants, both have POTENT and unique smells and both have plenty of frost, though the RC is the clear winner as you can see from the pics. I was hoping for my Rainbow Cake to turn purple considering it's parentage, but that's the problem with polyhybrid crosses-zero consistency. I'm going to give the Hawaiian Snow and Lemon Bubble two weeks more minimum, though they could easily go longer. Thanks for stopping by! I'll be sure to continue to document my harvest and post harvest. Stay safe friends!
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Week 19. Flowering
4 years ago
101.6 cm
12 hrs
27 °C
5.8
Strong
700 PPM
50 %
21 °C
26 °C
26 °C
11 L
6 L
50.8 cm
Nutrients 3
Pure Blend Pro Bloom - Botanicare
Pure Blend Pro Bloom 3.963 mll
Liquid Seaweed - Blue Planet Nutrients
Liquid Seaweed 1.057 mll
Photosynthesis Plus - Microbe Life Hydro
Photosynthesis Plus 2.642 mll
Well, that's it folk! Harvested all 4 plants at 11 weeks of flower. The only one that I wish I could have let go longer is the Lemon Bubble, but since I needed to harvest 4 and I wanted to dry inside my tent, I took that one too. Lemon bubble had almost all milky trichomes with very few amber-quick test smoke revealed it to be a very strong "up" high. The Hawaiian Snow looked a bit strange under the scope. Some buds had almost 100% amber trichomes, while others has only 5% or so. Most has 30-50% which is PERFECT in a close to pure sativa. Don't listen to the nonsense about amber trichomes make you sleepy...it's the strain that makes you sleepy. Grow a strong sativa with an "up" high and it will still have an UP high even with 50% amber. Purple Straw Bliss ended up just reeking of cheeseberry, and it finished with the densest and biggest buds of the group with 30% amber trichs. The Rainbow Cake was the best of the bunch in terms of appearance, nice dense buds and frosty as hell with a strong candy aroma. Plants are drying now-trying to keep my temps below 70 f with over 50% RH. Left plants mostly in tact to dry, but I did trim off the big fan leaves. I will post the final numbers once they are dry. So far, testing of immature larfy buds have the Hawaiian Snow as my favorite of the group-but this might change once I try the high end buds after a perfect dry. I tried a piece of one of the HS buds with 100% amber trichs and it was a beautiful positive, creative high with zero anxiety. I will experiment with greater numbers of amber trichomes in sativas more in the future. I'm looking forward to trimming these buds in the next few days and then will update with pics of each plus dry numbers. Overall I can say that Pheno Finders is a great source of affordable genetics for a new grower while the Hawaiian Snow is my favorite plant of the group. It's not a good beginner plant, but the sharp, citrusy-pine smell and extreme stickiness of the buds, and the warm, positive high, like you're being wrapped in a warm blanket, has made this the winner of this grow. I did not flush or lower my ppms below 600 ppm in the end.
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Week 19. Harvest
4 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Lemon Bubble - Pheno Finder Seeds
Spent 188 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
7/10
Rated
141.75 g
Bud dry weight per plant
1
Plants
4.88
Grow Room size
Easy
Difficulty
Sleepy
Energy
Indica
Hybrid
Sativa

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PH
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This is an extremely easy to grow plant that reminds me very much of a typical Lemon Haze. I grew it as one of 4 strains under an Illuminar 630 DE CMH light. It yielded 3 oz of buds, 2 oz of larf. This plant was never bothered by increases in PPMs unlike the other plants.
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Week 19. Harvest
4 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Hawaiian Snow - Green House Seed Co.
Spent 188 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
10/10
Rated
255.15 g
Bud dry weight per plant
1
Plants
4.88
Grow Room size
Hard
Difficulty

Height
Day air temperature
Air humidity
PPM
PH
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Difficult to contain in a smaller tent, this plant wants to grow huge. Required extensive training and supercropping to maintain an even canopy of bud sites. Great yielding plant. 9 oz total, 6 buds and 3 larf. Good choice if you want to try a sativa.
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Week 19. Harvest
4 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Rainbow Cake - Pheno Finder Seeds
Spent 188 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
10/10
Rated
170.1 g
Bud dry weight per plant
1
Plants
4.88
Grow Room size
Easy
Difficulty

Height
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Air humidity
PPM
PH
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Solution temperature
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Rainbow Cake is a great choice for dispensary growers-produces a high % of quality bud over larf, nice hard nugs, loaded with frost as you can see from my pics. This strain is packed with fruity terpenes and would be great for people who just make extractions. Pheno Finder is proving to be a great choice for affordable, yet potent strains-I would pick them over the other mid range Dutch brands at this time.
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Week 19. Harvest
4 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Purple Strawberry Bliss - Pheno Finder Seeds
Spent 188 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
10/10
Rated
85.05 g
Bud dry weight per plant
1
Plants
4.88
Grow Room size
Normal
Difficulty

Height
Day air temperature
Air humidity
PPM
PH
Light schedule
Solution temperature
Night air temperature
Substrate temperature
Pot size
Lamp distance
Pretty plant with tasty cheeseberry buds, but small yield. Harvest all plants around 11 weeks, this plant was around 30% amber at that point. It's funky smell is only improving each day of the cure. Another good Pheno Finder strain that I would definitely grow again except for the low yield. 23 oz total grown in a 4x4 tent with an Iluminar 630 DE CMH bulb. My next grow will be with an LED so I will be comparing the quality and yield to determine which light I will stay with. The CMH grew about 1.5 lbs of very nice, frosty buds from 4 plants in a 4x4 tent.
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