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First sign of seeds popping up on January 5th-6th. Sat in windows for the first few days and nights with night temps around 40 degrees and day temps around 67 degrees.
All plants are Original Northern Lights Auto except #4 is a Blue Dream'Matic. #5 is a Northern Lights auto freebie (uncertain of breeder).
All are grown in coco coir with 1" Miracle Gro seed starter soil on the bottom except 3 and 5 which have a small amount of seedling soil mixed throughout.
Started lowering the amount of fertilizer by 3/4 for #4, the Blue Dream'Matic. She now gets a little over 1/4 amount of fertilizer as the other five plants.
In need of more than a 30 watt light. Probably will just get regular led flood bulbs or may move them outdoors? They're already root bound. Uncertain as to if they should be transplanted to larger pots. Hoping they'd start budding, but haven't. I chose these strains because they were supposed to be low smell, but unfortunately the odor is leaking into the public hallway. May get some Ona gel to keep the smell down. I was thinking about bending them over so they'd fit better in total of 5 1/2 feet grow closet from floor to ceiling, but they are super woody and heard cracking sounds when trying to bend. It felt as if they were going to snap after a few inches bending. Maybe I should keep them root bound instead to keep them short? Maybe needs sulfur to make stems softer?
Finally received a new, much larger light- a Mars Hydro TSW 2000W panel just as at least two plants began flowering towards the end of week 5! I was hoping to transfer them to larger pots but they started getting yellow leaves , some with brown spots starting from the lower leaves, working up. So, I flushed them with water only. I went and bought some cal mag and started using it and started using the Tiger Bloom and Open Sesame. I also purchased a PH water meter and soil tester and realized the water I was using was at 7.5 and the soil was at 5.5. The PH of the runoff at 5.2. Whatever I did the leaves stopped yellowing and drying up.
The tallest plant, #2, Silky, seems an almost all Ruderalis pheno and is almost three feet tall and the shortest, #3, Gladiolus, mostly Indica, is one foot tall and about the size and shape of a bowling ball. I didn't bend anything and took off only the dried up leaves and moved some of the big leaves to the side of the shoots, so they both get light.
Plant #2, silky was growing into the lights and transplanted her sideways into a 1.7 gallon pot, trying not to disturb the roots and tied the shoots so they point up to the light. She didn't seem to be too stressed from it the next day and was adjusting her leaves towards the lights. I put an aspirin in the water to help with any shock.
Another is getting inches from the lights but will be filling up the grow room if I sideways transplant her.
Everything's overgrowing the space. It'll be a tight fit, but will figure it out. Having trouble getting the temperature down.
I have two small fans blowing so possibly the leaf surface may be near an ideal 81 degrees. Humidity is low, but got it up to about 40% from 10% by putting several cups and bowls of water in any available floor space.
Getting pretty sticky and smelling like candy necklaces. They're probably harvestable already, though thinking I'll give them a few more weeks to try out my new Agromax UV bulbs and see if that boosts resin production.
I let this flower way too long!!! It was a very strong tranquilizer and lost it's stoney feeling. It definitely relaxed my muscles. I took about a week and a half until I had the ambition to take pictures and finish this diary and do much of anything.
I included the one Blue Dream'Matic into this listing as well which tasted like a blue Sweet Tart candy. It was slightly more potent than the Northern Lights at finish and smelled stronger and was denser. I transplanted everything from solo cups into two gallon pots weeks after flowering and at harvest only one of them showed any root progression. That one was the one I sort of LST'd by transplanting it laying on it's side since it grew too tall for the space. The smoke I dried and sampled about a month before harvest was really strong and felt like I was on cloud nine. Unfortunately, I left it grow way too long and don't feel much effects except couch lock and a tranquilizer effect. My boisterous, wide awake friends quickly quieted and passed out ten minutes after smoking and didn't want to wake up and then I passed out and we all woke up up several hours later and my eyelids stuck together and it took until the next day to be able to do anything except yawn and drift off.
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