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Start of first ever grow!
Hope for 5/5 germination. Will update the status of each seed as they pop up.
15/02: Seeds were put in a glass of water for 24 hours.
16/02: Seeds moved directly to their final home in 2 gallon pots with a mix of BioBizz lightmix soil and perlite, which was drenched the day before with a little bit of Root-Juice.
19/02: All 5 seeds have germinated and are above ground.
20/02: The seedlings are looking good! Currently struggling to find the right balance between light intensity and light height as this is my first grow.
21/02: Gave each 150ml of water with 2ml/1l Root-Juice and 1ml/l Acti-Vera at 6.5ph
23/02: First proper watering since pots were soaked on 15/02. 1 Litre per plant with 2ml/1l Root-Juice, 1ml/l Acti-Vera at 6.6ph
26/02: Pretty slow going at this stage. Not sure if I water too early and stunted, or that's just how it is and they will pick up in the coming days.
28/02: Plants look great, really starting to grow much faster on a daily basis..
Starting the Veg week, I will keep the count on the pictures from Sprout.
01/03: Noticed the new grown leaves looking a bit yellow, and pot feels light. Watered 1 Litre per plant with Root-Juice (2ml/1l), Fish-Mix (1ml/1l), Acti-Vera (0.25ml/1l), Bio-Heaven (0.25ml/1l), Alg-A-Mix (0.25ml/1l)
02/03: Seems like the enjoyed their feed yesterday, new leaves are looking healthier today.
05/03: All in all, amazing growth in a space of few days. I certainly over watered/over fed early on, so that's a lesson learned for the second grow.
One of the Strawberry pies and Gelato got stunted, I think they got Potassium excess, which is causing some other issues.
Going to wait until the pots are sufficiently dried out and give a light feed.
The girls are starting to fill out this week, looking forward to seeing at the end of the week!
I certainly over watered and overfed early on, while 3 girls didn't seem to mind, the other 2 didn't enjoy it so much. 1 of the strawberry pies is really stunted and behind the others, but she is recovering well.
I also gave them too much light trying to combat the lower temperatures. They grew short, and have slightly yellowing tips, so I upped the height of the light a bit.
09/03: Waited 8 days since last water/feed and gave the 1L of water per plant today, with Root-Juice (2ml/1l), Fish-Mix (1ml/1l), Acti-Vera (0.5ml/1l)
10/03: Got rid of the badly nute burned first leaves on the Gelato and Strawberry Pies.
14/03: The ladies look good. Going to give my hand at LST in a day or two.
Some signs of damage here and there, I think mainly cause it's been hard dealing with low temperatures, so my light has been at higher intensity to.compensate. they still seem to be growing at a good pace.
Will give LST a shot later in the week. They are short and stalk is already thicc af, near impossible to bend over.
16/03: feed 1L each at approx. Half strength of recommended biobizz schedule nutes. Some light defoliation to remove older leaves with damage.
1ml/l Bio-grow
0.5ml/l Activera
0.5ml/l Bioheaven
0.5ml/l Algamic
19/03: Removed a few more dead leaves and gave my hand at LST.
20/03: Watered 800ml each. Some more LST where possible. Added some calmag to the feed.
1ml/l Bio-grow
1ml/l Activera
1ml/l Bioheaven
1ml/l Algamic
0.5ml/l CalMag
Yellow tips started appearing on new growth on this plant few days ago, slight clawing downwards. Some brown spots. I thought it was CalMag deficiency and fed them yesterday with CalMag+light nutes.
Seems like rootproblems. Lack of drainage might be causing it or if you let the plants sit in their runoff water it could be that. I hope this helps you to find a solution or someone with better understanding will answer you soon. Good luck!
First grow woes continue.
Struggling with drainage. The medium isn't drying quick enough, probably because I did not add enough perlite, plus battling cold temperatures which isn't helping. Unable to turn on extraction fan as it get's way too cold in the tent.
One of the strawberry pies is wilting away, doesn't seem to want to recover. Will probably get rid of her early next week.
22/03: LST and some defoliation
25/03: LST and some defoliation
27/03: First feed in 7 days, 600ml each. I let the plants completely dry out again, gonna see if less water amount will make a difference. This time there was basically no run off.
The first grow fun continues. After chronic over-watering, which led to underfeeding while letting them completely dry out... I'm pretty sure I've now managed to give slightly too much nutes when I started to water again last week. Generally the girls have bounced back nicely, with new growth being much nicer green colour, but I'm seeing some tips claw down and slight burn.
03/29: Gave them 700ml each with same schedule nutes as last week.
04/01: Flushed the Strawberry Pie with 2l of PHed water... this one is the worst looking and most likely suffering from nute lockout. Remaining girls got 800ML each at nute strength as defined in this weeks diary.
04/04: 600ml watering for each girl. Nutes as listed with some minor changes: Bio-Grow 0.5m/l and Bio-Bloom 1.5m/l. Starting next week I'm going to try plain PHed water/feed/plain PHed water/feed schedule and see if that helps.
They seem to be bouncing back a bit after last weeks adjustment of nutrients. Going to try somewhat alternating feedings starting this week. What's listed in the Nutrients section, is the total that will be given per L, alternating the nutes on different days. Will be described more per day.
06/04: They look better today. Unfortunately we got hit with a frost and cold temperatures, so I have to turn off the extraction fan during the night otherwise it would go below 15 degrees Celsius.
Removed a bunch of dead and damaged leaves, probably the last time I'll do that unless it gets bushy.
Removed all LST to allow them do their thing from now on.
08/04: Cold weather meant they haven't been drinking as much, so last watering was 4 days ago. They all got 800ml each, with 2ml/l Bio-bloom, 2m/l Acti-Vera, 1ml/l Top-Max. Hope temps will go back up a bit so I can keep the extraction fan on all night.
11/04: 1L water for each girl with 1ml/l Bio-Grow, 2ml/l Bio-Heaven, 2m/l Alg-a-mic. Forgot to add calmag this week.
Overall the new growth looks much healthier, and all the girls are starting to fill out their bud sides. Purple Lemonade is by far ahead bloom wise, but will also be the shortest.
At the end of this week I figured out I have a fungus gnat infestation. Got.some yellow sticky tape and within 5 hours there were 20 fly's stuck to them... That's another issue with the first grow. Gonna try covering the top layer with perlite to prevent further population spread.
14/04: Fed 900 ML each with 3ml/l Bio-grow, 1ml/l Top-Max, 2ml/l Acti-Vera and 1ml/l CalMag at 6.3 PH.
18/04: 1.2L each with 1ml/l biogrow, 1ml/l bioheaven, 2ml/l alg-a-mic at 6.6 PH.
22/04: 1.2L each with: 3ml/l Bio-Bloom, 2ml/l Top-Max and 2ml/l Acti-Vera at 6.4PH
25/04 - Day 65 since sprout
1.6L each with 0.5ml/l Bio-Grow, 1ml/l Bio-Heaven, 2ml/l Alg-a-mic and 1ml/l CalMag at 6.5 ph. I also cut-off a lot of leaves that have gone yellow and started to die off or had a lot of damage, this opened up some room for light to get to lower bud sites with some additional LST.
Feels like it's getting close, with maybe 2 to 3 weeks left until all the girls get the chop. The smells are lovely when I open the tent, with a mixture of black pepper, vanilla, lavendery/tropically undertones.
Probably last week of feeding before a flush.
28/04 - Day 68 since sprout
1L feed each, 2ml/l Bio-bloom, 3ml/l Top-max and 2ml/l Acti-vera
Looking good. Buds are fattening up and smell is pretty amazing when opening the tent.
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02/05 - Day 72 since sprout
1.4L each with 0.5ml/l Bio-Grow, 1ml/l Bio-Heaven, 2ml/l Alg-a-mic.
Decided to give another small dose of bio-grow as they seemed to enjoy it last week. This is probably the last time I will feed them, but going to gauge by how they look next week. All of them are fading at this stage, and buds are getting fatter so I do think I'm getting close to the finish line.
06/05 - Day 76 since sprout
1.2L feed each, 2.2ml/l Bio-bloom, 3ml/l Top-max, 2ml/l Acti-vera and 0.5ml/l Cal-MAg
Good week so far. Buds are still fattening up so I decided to give her one last feed before switching to just plain water until the chop (maybe GSC will get another feed as she seems to be a week or so behind the others.
Last week for some of the girls! GSC and one of the Strawberry Pies might need another week to fully bulk up, but others are nearly ready with cloudy tricomes and even some amber coming appearing.
10/05 - Day 80 since sprout
2L water each with no nutes at 6.6PH. Each one had about 400ml run-off.
16/05 - Day 86 since sprout
1.4L water each at 6.3PH
The buds came out a bit larfy and leafy, not dense like the other plants. The color is pretty amazing, it was dark purple during late flowering and turned a bit darker, like black/burgundy mix, during drying and curing.
The smell is somewhat musky with dirty berries. Smoke itself is not bad, but nothing to write home about. Would try growing again and see if bud structure is different, but smoke quality is not the best when compared to other plants grown in this cycle.
Amazing strain, smells of faint strawberries with other dankness. Certainly the strongest THC content of the lot, and extremely Indica leaning. Eyes droop after a few tokes, amazing smoke for evening/night time.
This is one of me favourites of the whole grow. It has an amazing sweet, creamy, flowery and berry smell to it, amazing flavour as well.
The high is uplifting yet relaxing, would grow again!
@Green_Island_Mad_Scientist, I get ya. I just ordered it but have Mars to compare to when it comes. Array is supposed to be top of the range so you started out well!
@GuerrillaNo_4, I certainly can't complain about it, modern and solid looking light that's working well so far. But I also have nothing to compare it to since it's my first grow :D
Nice mate, and that Purple lemonade sure is purple.
Doing both these strains myself, ill be checking back on the Gelato.
Oh and your leaf spot question helped me out too. I had the same issue on the FB Smoothie seedling. Thought it was fungus so I binned it.
@Grandad_Mac, Cheers mate, pretty stoked with the first harvest, all the smoke turned out pretty awesome.
Gonna start up next grow in August, this time picked up a whole lot of different Mephisto Genetics strains, so will be choosing from those. Good luck with your grows mate!
Green_Island_Mad_Scientist
