Well here we go into Week One of Veg! 👏😎 With a week of initial growth behind her now, the Dutch Passion Auto Glueberry OG is doing great and sprouting her 3rd sets of leaves which is such a beautiful sight to see!
Thank you for following along this journey with me! Growing these beautiful cultivars is always better with someone to share the experience with....come along and enjoy! 😎🙏
~Grown 100% organic in a 10g fabric pot with Mother Earth 70/30 Coco/Perlite medium amended with 2tbs/g Down To Earth 4-4-4 / 2 cups/g Earthworm Castings / 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Flower Girl 2-8-4 and 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Bat Guano.
~24hr light cycle during germination / 19/5 light cycle for Veg & Flower
~Straight water ph'd @ 6.2-6.8 when needed, top dressed every 3-4 weeks and weekly Compost Tea's.
3/1- I'm watering her twice daily with de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 @ 74-76deg. 200ppm. Today I added 2.5ml/g of Botanicare CalMag+ to her watering. I'm using a pump sprayer with a hose and wand attached that has a fine spray head on it now. When I water I am just giving enough right now to keep the soil moist, not wet, in the upper half of her pot as her roots haven't developed and penetrated to that point yet. As she matures and her root system develops into the monster I'm hoping for, I'll increase the amount of water she receives to ensure that the microbial colony thrives. Tent temp's are maintaining 78-80deg during the light cycle and 72-74deg for their 5 hour dark period. RH in the 4x4 range from 47-55% and the co2 level from 460-530ppm. I've got the HLG 650R's hung all the way up @ 42" now and have them set to 200w at the wall each. I'll be slowly dropping the light as she gets bigger and can tolerate the additional intensity without getting stressed. Later, in pre-flower, I'll switch the supplemental UVA Bar on to really boost trichome production and terpenes during flowering!
3/3- Day 10 and she's every bit of 3" tall now and looking like she's going to be a fairly large phenotype! Wait till her roots break out of the starter medium (no amendments) she's in and into the 10 gallons of amended/microbe rich medium. I watered her today with 1/4 gallon of de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 with 1tbsp/g of Wild Alaskan Fish liquid added to give a little nutrition to the microbes. I'll follow up this weekend with some added unsulfured molasses to give the microbial colonies some more goodies to feast on. Gotta keep the microbes happy as they are responsible for providing nutrition for the plants, take care of your microbes and they'll take care of the plants! The tent temp's are maintaining 78-80 degrees during the light cycle and 72-74 degrees for their 5 hour dark period. RH in the Gorilla 4x8 range from 47-55% and the co2 level from 460-530ppm. The Auto Glueberry OG is healthy and she's getting taller by the day. She is at 3" now and I anticipate her taking off really soon. We'll have to wait and see how long her 'legs' turn out to be! 😎🙏
3/5- Day 12 and she's giving all the signs of being a large specimen!
She's in the process of sprouting her third 'true' set of leaves which will have five 'fingers' on them.
I went ahead and added 5ml/g of Alaskan Fish Extract 5-1-1 to her water which was de-chlorinated and ph'd to 6.4 @ 76deg. 400ppm.
I'm using the pump sprayer with the spray head set to a fairly fine cone. I'm giving her .25g twice a day keeping the medium moist all the way through to the bottom of the medium.
I've found that if the roots encounter 'dry' medium it rapidly pisses off cannabis cultivars, ESPECIALLY autoflowers, so we're not going to explore that scenario....we're staying moist, not wet! 😁
I anticipate, based on her current rate of growth, that she'll really be taking off going into the latter part of week two going into week three and has the makings of a giant!.
I'd really like to see this girl veg for at least 30-40 days before starting to flower, which will result in a huge cultivar....we'll have to see what happens won't we?😎🙏
3/7- Week One of veg is here and gone and the Dutch Passion Auto Glueberry OG is loving life! This girl has great color and her structure is perfect, with fairly well spaced internodes, and I feel she's going to be a tall one!
I've added nightly foliar feeding to her schedule and she's loving it! Her water intake continues @ 0.5g of de-chlorinated well water daily which is ph'd to 6.4-6.5 @ 74deg. after any additives (Fox Farm Wholly Mackerel, Botanicare CalMag+) are mixed in using either Alchemist PH Down or General Hydroponics PH Up which are diluted in 2 cups of water before being added to the remaining water.
This dilution before addition prevents any chemical reaction that might occur from adding the PH Up/PH Down straight into the water that has nutrients in it, which would possibly have negative affects on the plant.
If her growth continues through next week, as I'm anticipating, I will most likely begin LST on her to get a jump on her before she gets too tall and stiff.
😎🙏 Thank you for tagging along so far! Things should be getting more interesting as the coming weeks approach! I'm excited...are you? See you next week! 😎👍
@Rock_n_Roll_Randy, IKR! This is what happens when you have a 'Auto' that decides it would rather be a Photoperiod! I'm flipping her today after 95+ days of veg...Look out! 😜
i see all your lights are HLG. I love mine. Are they a presence on this site or is that all Instagram?
I figure u have to be doing something with them if you are all HLG!?
Was gonna rock a diablo but Viparspectra is hooking it up instead.... and u cant argue with free....
I just would like to promote HLG some tooooooo!
@TheCannaProphet, yeah i literally have a stack of free "beginner" lights i've recieved from this site, Vipar is hooking it up with a big boy light too b/c i told them i simply couldnt use another small light... but you def had me curious!
Both my germination and veg light are bought by me from HLG tho.
Did HLG hit u up on instagram or growdiaries?
They did give me a free shit at CannaCon lol I was in fanboy mode
Hello there! Your lady is looking beautiful and healthy, and only in a 10liter container?
Lovely big buds in the process, going to be cool to see those develops, all the best for this week 🌟👍