Well here we go into Week Four of Veg! 👏😎 With Four weeks of initial growth behind her now, the Dutch Passion Auto Glueberry OG is doing great and she's sprouting new growth everyday, and talk about some HUGE shade leaves!. What an exceptional specimen of this strain she is shaping up to be! It'll be exciting to see her development as the coming weeks progress! Thank you for following along this journey with me because 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.
3/22- Well Week Four of veg is here and the Auto Glueberry OG just keeps chugging along. She's not showing any signs of pre-flower yet which means she's going to get big. I'm thankful that I decided to top dress her yesterday as the dry amendments are slow release which will start providing nutrients right at the time when she'll need them the most!
Her color and vigor remain on point and she's got the biggest...shade leaves I've seen in awhile on a 4 week old, and she'll need them to absorb all that HLG 650R love from above! I've been checking leaf temp's with a laser and they're running around 74-76 degrees F.
After the heavy watering in of her top dress yesterday her pot was still HEAVY so I'm not watering today to give her pot an opportunity to dry out some as the last thing I want is her to have 'wet feet' which will lead to root rot and an anaerobic condition in the medium...no bueno!
The Gorilla 4x8 temp's are running in the mid 70's during the light cycle and drop to the upper 60's when the HLG 650R (which is pulling 400w at the wall now) is off. RH is currently at 50-55% to try and keep the VPD numbers in a decent range.
3/24- I'm spending most of my time with her now gently training her branches using Engineering Essentials Training Clips (which work FANTASTIC!), stressing her a little as possible, removing a leaf here and there that's blocking light penetration into the canopy and watering, as she's almost into pre-flower and more or less on auto-pilot.
I checked the moisture level of her pot this morning, it was moist in the upper 2/3 but dry in the bottom. I watered her from the bottom giving her 0.5g of de-chlorinated water with 0.25ml/g of Fox Farms Microbe Brew which was ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 degrees F with a 0.4 EC 200ppm pouring it into her drip tray letting the pot draw in the water it needs, which it did in about 5 minutes. I'm not supplying a ton of nutrients via the water as I just top-dressed her and she'll be getting everything she needs from that and what the microbial colony provides. I'll add some Wiggle Worm castings to her medium at the end of the week to give her a organic boost in the butt!
I still can't get over how big her shade leaves are and how thick her growth has become! I'm hoping to see her get to stretching any time now and then going into flower! 😎🙏
3/26- My girl continues to impress me by the day with new growth and really good looking color overall. I've plucked a few leaves here and there that were blocking light penetration and continue to gently coax her branches down twice daily to keep her as spread out as possible.
She hasn't entered pre-flower yet but I'll bet she'll be stretching her ass off now when she does so I'll be staying on top of everything, making sure water/nutrients/environment are all on point and remain there to assure she encounters ZERO stress.
Daily watering continues with 0.75g straight de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 degrees 200ppm 0.4 EC given to her in the morning. Foliar feeding before lights out continues every other night with Fox Farms Flower Kiss @ 3ml/g.
3/28- So long Week 4! OMG...This Dutch Passion Auto Glueberry OG has turned into an absolutely phenomenal specimen with gorgeous color, structure and growth rate... this girl will be hard to beat!
Daily watering continues with 0.75g straight de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 degrees 200ppm 0.4 EC given to her first thing in the morning after the light comes on. Foliar feeding before lights out continues every other night.
Her water intake has increased slightly and I've been dividing her watering up to twice daily, with the second watering 10 hours into the light cycle, to keep up with her needs.
I spend the majority of my time 'tucking & plucking' leaves and making sure the environment stays as close to on point as possible for her.
As I've said, I'm so impressed by how this cultivar has turned out that I will always have a spot in my future runs for Dutch Passion genetics, both autoflower AND photo's! 😍👍
~Thank you so much for following along so far! I hope you'll continue to follow my journey as things will be getting more exciting as the next weeks approach with the girls starting pre-flower... Grow Strong! 😎🙏~
@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 🌟👍