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4 years ago
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Indoor
Room Type
Topping
weeks 1
Main-Lining
weeks 1-3
LST
weeks 1-8
Defoliation
weeks 1, 3, 5, 8
Soil
Grow medium
Perlite
Grow medium
Coco Coir
Grow medium
Peat moss
Grow medium
Vermicompost
Grow medium
11 L
Pot Size
4 L
Watering
1
Week 1. Flowering
4 years ago
45.72 cm
12 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Weak
48 %
21 °C
21 °C
24 °C
11 L
4 L
38.1 cm
Nutrients 5
Worm cast tea 30 mll
Banana compost tea 30 mll
pH Perfect Bloom - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Bloom 4 mll
Good start to flower
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Week 2. Flowering
4 years ago
45.72 cm
12 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Weak
48 %
21 °C
21 °C
22 °C
3 L
3 L
38.1 cm
Nutrients 5
Worm cast tea 30 mll
Banana compost tea 30 mll
pH Perfect Bloom - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Bloom 4 mll
Solid growth. No ph issues. Stretch has been brief which is preferable in my case. I’ll defoliate next week.
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Week 3. Flowering
4 years ago
43.18 cm
12 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Weak
48 %
21 °C
21 °C
22 °C
3 L
3 L
38.1 cm
Nutrients 5
Worm cast tea 10 mll
Banana compost tea 10 mll
 Big Bud Powder - Advanced Nutrients
Big Bud Powder 0.5 mll
Day 15-defoliated her probably for the last time after a few weeks of growth, she was very bushy. Added another fan to get more air moving as well. Also, I decided to try out the AN Sensi Bloom set. I didn’t mean to get the coco version but a little extra cal-mag won’t hurt in this case, I only fed at 75% strength and added big Bud powder at 0.5 grams/liter. I’m hoping her stretch finishes soon or I’ll run out of space, although she’s starting to really stack.
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Week 4. Flowering
4 years ago
43.18 cm
12 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Weak
48 %
21 °C
21 °C
22 °C
3 L
3 L
38.1 cm
Nutrients 3
 Big Bud Powder - Advanced Nutrients
Big Bud Powder 0.5 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A 2.5 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B 2.5 mll
So far she’s growing great, I noticed she was a bit finicky with the nutrients at 75% strength, I noticed a couple claws here and there so I only fed big bud and sensi bloom and a little lower strength and she reacted great to it.
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Week 5. Flowering
4 years ago
43.18 cm
12 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Weak
48 %
21 °C
21 °C
22 °C
3 L
4 L
38.1 cm
Nutrients 3
 Big Bud Powder - Advanced Nutrients
Big Bud Powder 0.5 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A 3 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B 3 mll
Solid start to the week. Stretch has for sure stopped and she’s now starting to fatten up the buds. I increased the amount of water because she’s starting to swallow it all up quickly. I hope she makes giant buds.
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Week 6. Flowering
4 years ago
45.72 cm
12 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Weak
48 %
21 °C
21 °C
22 °C
1 L
4 L
38.1 cm
Nutrients 3
 Big Bud Powder - Advanced Nutrients
Big Bud Powder 0.5 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A 2 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B 4 mll
It’s going well, I think it could be better though. I decided to decrease the part A nutes a bit because she didn’t like the extra nitrogen and increased part b to full strength. Her lower leaves are fading, although I’m not sure if this might be a bit of a magnesium deficiency. I hope she fattens up some more and produces more trichomes. Any advice is welcome!
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Week 7. Flowering
4 years ago
45.72 cm
12 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Normal
48 %
21 °C
21 °C
22 °C
1 L
4 L
38.1 cm
Nutrients 3
 Big Bud Powder - Advanced Nutrients
Big Bud Powder 0.5 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom A 2 mll
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B - Advanced Nutrients
pH Perfect Sensi Coco Bloom B 4 mll
This week I can already tell she’s starting to swell, I’m excited to see how much! I think this might be her last week or so until I start flushing, we’ll see about that. Humidity has been great and temperatures also are under control.
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Week 8. Flowering
4 years ago
45.72 cm
12 hrs
26 °C
5.8
Normal
48 %
21 °C
21 °C
22 °C
1 L
4 L
38.1 cm
Nutrients 1
Water 1 mll
I started flushing her on day 51, the buds already look like they’re swelling more aggressively. She is also expressing some dark purple tones on the buds up top. I had an issue with her almost falling over on herself so I gave her some resistance towards the opposite side. A few more flushes and I’ll cut her down. Day 60- her purple tones have really been showing up, today they were very noticeable, still no sign of amber trichomes, the majority are cloudy though.
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Grow Questions
Homegrown93
Homegrown93started grow question 4 years ago
Does anyone recommend I defoliate the lower leaves at this point? Some leaves just seem redundant and even get in the way of some bud sites. Will there be any benefit to my yield? My diary has other pictures to show the amount of leaves.
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Mr_Weeds_Autosanswered grow question 4 years ago
At this point, if they're getting in the way of bud sites I would get rid of a few, I looked at your diary and she is pretty bushy, she also looks like she's had a bit too much nitrogen, you can tell from the dark green colored leaves.
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Week 8. Harvest
4 years ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Gelato #33 - Cookies Seed Bank
Spent 57 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
8/10
Rated
541 g
Bud wet weight per plant
85 g
Bud dry weight per plant
1
Plants
0.37
Grow Room size
Normal
Difficulty
Sleepy
Energy
Indica
Hybrid
Sativa

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160 days of life harvested on day 63 of flower. I don’t have photos of her vegging but she started off great. About two weeks in, she started having some major issues. Her leaves started atrophying, curling up at the borders, growing 3 finger leaves, all new growth was deformed and twisted and growth in general almost stopped completely, to what I suspect was from broad mites. These fuckers are nasty! I dm’d my local grow shop and tried out some Neem Oil. I diluted it in water like they recommended and sprayed that baby every day for one week, then every other day the following week, then down to once a week. I sprayed her leaves stem and surface of the soil. I also cleaned the entire grow space with some bleach solution. Doing this allowed her to really bounce back, growth started to take off again! So I vegged for a few more weeks and trained her as much as I could to keep her uniform but short, she responded well to this. During flower, she was very happy. I had two main issues during this time, one was being too hot in Nitrogen and a week of very hot temperatures which burned her a slight bit, although she didn’t seem to mind much. I also could’ve continued a once a week spray of Neem oil because I think they might’ve started to come back on the lower and younger leaves that weren’t getting much light. Overall it was a dope grow and hope to do better on the next one!
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