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Planted in fox farm and perlight on 1/5/21 popped 1/8/21.
Skywalker og didnt pop with multiple methods, water, soil, baby wipe warmer. The creme de la chem didnt germ in baby wipe warmer method but a 2nd seed did put directly in soil. 1/9 planted Alien Technology in solo Skywalker og was in and it germinated in two days.
Just watered and kept in 70 to 80% humidity, 78 degrees, ROI-E680 at 60% around 20 inches away.
FF soil, distilled water spray on top of soil. Humidity 65 to 70%. King Tut looks good, the rest seem a bit shorter. 78 degrees, oscillating fan added closer to end of week.
Day 9 for most day 6 for the alien Technology. Just watering when dried out. Installing ro this week and will switch from distilled water thats 5.7ph or so. Well water has been tested for bacteria ect everything is good but hard water with ph of 7.2 So will ph down what needs to be to get closer to 6.5ish. Going to do some soil ph testing as well.
Struggling with the acidity of Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil. Multiple ph tests coming out to 5.0ph in the soil add that to 5.8ph of the distilled water = multiple problems besides the soil being too hot for these babies. So we have stunting, lockout, burn, calmag def of various degrees depending on the plant. Transplanted a little too late from the cups which i know autos hate at day 15, day 13 for the alien tech since its a little younger. The roots looked pretty good on everything and they all started growing as soon as transplanted. I topped with dolamite lime (2 tbs for autos, 3 for photos) and some great white 1/2 teaspoon in two gallons of phed ro mixed with well water. The ph in the soil shot up to 8.5ph for three or four days. Had me freaking out that they sent me the wrong lime. I pulled one of the autos out, remixed the soil and realized that the fox farm is draining like crap even with added perlight so i added even more and repotted. The lime was sitting top mid and mid to bottom was dry. Once i remixed the soil the ph then started to level out to around 6.6. Instead of repotting the rest i flushed with unsulfered organic blackstrap molasses 2 teaspoons a gallon of ro mixed with well water that is around 200 ppms that ends up around 120 pmms mixed before the molasses was added. Phed it to 6.5 and watered until a good run off. The autos were put in fox farms i flushed before initial transplant to get the nutes down however run off was saying they were still in 1200 ish ppms. They all have issues and the alien tech and acid are growing bushy but not taller. All the autos and the fast fem started growing up again. The ph is coming around, the spread of deficiencies has stopped. So after a few days i fimmed and topped the photos, and lst everything day 25, 23. Definitely have some autos going early which caused a phosphorous issue in the creme de la chem but that seems to have stopped as well. Will probably do another water til a good runoff again. Topping was harder than i thought on the photos. Lst went well i think. They seem to be bouncing back and today when lsting the pure photos i see they were getting a little more height. These are gonna be short short short but ill just be happy if they survive lol.
Sooo this is the week that I gave up on Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil. No matter what I did I could not get the ph into a good range. Dolamite lime seemed to only work in one plant bringing to ph down within a workable time frame after i pulled an already transplanted auto out of its pot and hand remix the soil to evenly spread the lime. I didnt want to do that with rest so did a heavy water hoping to help push the lime to deeper into the container. However overnight the plants had extreme calmag and other issues. The acidic soil was taking too long to balance out and all plants were showing deficiencies from top to bottom. Basically too much nutes from the soil being hot and the ph way out of wack making the environment toxic. So i decided to transplant all of them out of ffof into coco coir. So basically nothing has gone right from day 1 and waiting for microbes to fix the problem wasnt going to work with how rapid the issues was moving up the plants. I got some Cocodelphia and general hydroponics flora series and started flushing the crap out of them with 1/4 nutes and calmag. Its been super bumpy and all have had issues with stunted growth from the acidic soil and calmag problems, nute burn, nute lockout had a mix of it all. Crash course week lol
Transplanting into Cocodelphia and being able to really flush the root ball and get the ph into the right range took a few days, learning about ec and how coco works has been really interesting and after about a week the plants are finally in a good range for coco with added perlight of 5.8ph and after a bit of flushing the ec is 1.1 to 1.3. They seemed to improve as soon as the ec and ph began to get in the right range. So the deficiencies have stopped on most of them. The skywalker auto took the transplant well, the squanch queen and quarter Pounder did not. The acid strain might be culled. King tut has been looking a little sad but it is starting to look better after another flush with 1/2 nutes. Will see what happens. Unexpectedly the well water turned dark yellow and ph went way up in it so will be getting it tested. Mixing it with ro water 70/30 to replace the calmag and pmms of 150 to 175 before it went funky. Fingers crossed there is enough calcium in it until i can test it more deeply. I am looking into autowater and drain system for this Lucas (heads) formula drain to waste system next as hand watering is super time consuming. Got a plumber coming out to check the well and pump soon too. All deficiencies in the photos happened before transplant but are able to directly address them in the Cocodelphia.
Was feeding 2.5 2.5 1.2 per gal flora series with 2.5 calmag ph quickly dropped in run off to 4.7. Im guessing the florakleen had something to do with messing with the buffer. I thought the king tut looked droppy a few days after flush of couse i thought issue was maybe overwater. I skipped one water and over night all plants were much worse. Half the leaves on tut dried out and some on the alien tech. Read up and finally found someone mention to feed 1.3 to 1.5 gal per 5 gal in coco coir per event. I was feeding 1 gallon of water twice a day so went to 1.5 to 2 gal per event twice a day. Underwatering was the issue, cal mag in some, nutrient burn and ph. Ph going in at 6.0 coming out 4.7.
I chopped the chem de la creme and the acid as they were not doing well or just stunted badly. Squanch Queen had a lot of calmag issues so added more. Eventually i ended up doing a 1/4 nute 2.5 calmag ro flush to get the ph of run off out of 4.7 range and eventually it has risen to 5.2 to 5.4 in time with .2 ec adjustments. Lots of problems. Have an ro buddy but am going to get a better system. Working on installing diy drain system.
Recovery week. Last week everything went to hell this week everything is looking up. Squanch Queen is turning into my favorite one of the bunch. She is super resilient and bounced back quickly, the Skywalker and Quarter Pounder are both going to finish early due to all the stresses and stunting early on in the grow. Squanch Queen looks to be going 9 to 10 weeks inspite of all the issues. Definitely a good strain from Night Owl to pick up if your a beginner, much more forgiving. I definitely want to try the Skywalker again with a better setup. Ph runoff is looking much much better.
Quarter Pounder and Skywalker are probably over due for final flushing. Squanch Queen is doing very well and looking to go 9 to 10 weeks. King tut and Alien Technology doing well. However, i did a spray of insecticidal soap due to seeing a couple small holes in a few king tut leaves. Next day plant was shocked and lost tons of leaves to burn. This plant did this once before with the same spray, the others no problem and didnt connect the two til now. Will let her veg back to health and flip to flower once shes healthy again and the autos are done.
Alien tech, squanch queen and king tut left. Letting at and kt veg a while. Fed 4 times daily for 4 mins each 650ppms at 6.0 ph. Squanch is being flushed.
Squanch Queen flush for week and 2 days darkness, chopped. King tut and alien tech vegging still, 650ppm 6.0 ph will defoliate and grab clones soon for experience.
Took clones from both girls let them recover and flipped to 12/12 on 4/12. Have had a couple power issues so had to wait to flip a little longer than i wanted. Defoliated on and off but they just keep filling out quickly. Will defoliate again in a week or so.
Defoliated week two of flower. King tut showed preflower within three days, alien tech has taken about a week longer. Because I had autos in the tent I let these two photos veg about a month longer plus I took clones from both plants so let them recover a few weeks from that as well. Three alien tech rooted and one king tut clone have now rooted. I've never cloned before so think I will do better next time. We installed a second mars hydro tent with two fc3000 lights so we have a 4 by 8 dedicated veg/auto tent. This five by five gorilla tent is now the flower tent for photos. I could probably fill the tent with a single king tut plant easy. The king Tut has gotten huge! Alien tech put a bit of stretch on but is staying more compact and bushy. These plants have been through multiple toppings at a time and lst mainly through my own ignorance but they have pulled through like champs with all the stress. In Cocodelphia which I highly recommend, auto water with hydrolock system 4 times a day for 4 minutes at 550 ppm 6.0 to 6.1 ph dtw. King tut is a little nutrient sensitive which i think is the auto genetics. I could push more ppms but she has a tiny tip of nutrient burn so not pushing it for another week then will up ppms according to general hydroponics schedule from cocoforcannabis. If your new at dtw coco follow their schedule it will get you to the end of your first grow easily.
King tut is foxtailing, I had two hours where the temps got to 90 in the tent three days in a row. I've seen some others mention foxtailing on king tut in general.
With the ROI-E680 a few people complained about foxtailing on the first couple grows. I turned the light down to 60% from 80 and the dehumidifier set on low so it would stop spiking the tent temp and keep the humidity in the 50s as best I can.
Fingers crossed!
Pulled at 25 weeks. Plant is a crazy huge monster lol. Lots of stuff to make hash and some decent colas for smoking. This thing got a small spot of bud rot in a large cola so had to cut that one but got it early and didnt spread. Kept it going for two more weeks and flushed it for the chop. This strain is super susceptible to foxtailing. Will get weight later. Cloned easy.
Great one to grow for first timers. Easy to clone and nice high. Small and bushy but lots and lots of bud sites. Clones got taller than mother did. Smells great. Got about 6 oz of smoke and 2 oz of stuff fit for hash.
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