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First week is going great! I was able to receive all the hardware needed to complete all stages. At the same time, the seeds came in the mail and I started the process right away. I'm in a really cold environment so I first had to find a suitable place to install my greenhouse. I found a good spot in the garage and I have been tracking the temperature and humidity with a Govee Indoor Hygrometer. Update- Only 8 seeds moved to the vegetation stage. No taproot generated for one and one generated a taproot but even being in the same environment as the others it just browned up and after comparing it to the progress of the other seeds I decided to remove it. The plan is to only move three seeds to the vegetative stage
I'm currently using a Giixer 1000W LED grow light. The lamp has two switches. One for "blue" light ay 450nm and one for "red" at 600-700nm. I am currently in week one of the vegetative stage. I have both switches on for "full spectrum" lighting. Blue or Red switch alone?
First week of establishing the routine. I am using a KASA smart plug to keep the lighting schedule but it does not appear to be working. I have to re-pair and see if it gets fixed. I am currently only using a blue light for the vegetation stage. I plan to do 1 more week of blue light and then switch to full spectrum (blue and red). The idea is to switch to red lighting for bloom. If you have any ideas on this light schedule let me know. I hope to also start using nutrients next week. Plants are looking healthy! :D
I noticed one of the plants lagging behind in growth. The leaves were bending. I did some research and it looked like I was overwatering. After two days of cutting back, the leaves are picking up. The smell is starting to come out. After a couple of days and more growing, I am starting to think that Blue is a completely different strain from what I bought. The leaves look different. The grooves are different and it even smells different! It has this sweet smell to it.
The plants are really starting to grow. I am convinced the seeds I bought are from different strains. I bought 10 critical purple seeds and it looks like one of them is just something different. The color is different. The smell is different. I am stoked about how it turns out during flowering. I went ahead and FIM'ed Red. If it works out for her, I will stick with FIMing the other plants. I want to use a combination of FIMing and defoliation to grow my plants. I also purchased a net in order to also incorporate a ScrOG. I really want to keep the plants small in order to save space. I am surprised as how symmetrical the plants are. I had a water problem the first two weeks. The leaves were drooping and the plants were not looking healthy. I was watering everyday and through research I discovered that's not ideal. Once I switched to every other day, the plants appreciated it. I welcome all advice of feedback. Happy Easter!
It looks like the grow is at a normal pace. Red was the first plant I FIMed and after one week I can tell there will be more bud spots during the flower stage. I went ahead and FIMed all the other plants with the expectation of similar results. While good looking, the plants today seemed dry. I went ahead and watered appropriately. I think they are demanding more and more water. I will have to keep an eye on that. I went ahead and started to make wholes in the dirt with my fingers to try and get the water to sink in instead of spreading away from the plant. While making wholes seem to solve the water issue, this water challenge will make me explore hydroponics in the future.
A lot of progress this week. All three plants seem to be growing at their own rates even thou they are within the same environment. I did some minor defoliation W6 in order to remove fan leaves that were covering lower bud sites. I switched from "Grow Big" fertilizer to "Tiger Bloom". I added more dirt to each pot. I have been watering from the outside in and the pots were developing this cone of dirt shape around the plant. One of the pants roots was showing so I wanted to cover the ASAP. I have a significant amount of bud sites coming up and I can not wait to see how it progresses through the coming weeks.
44 days since germination/ 46 days total. Currently in week six day one. Not much changed this week. Blue is really starting to develop some sticky buds. White second place in terms of growth. Red is just over powering the other two plants. Plants look healthy and growing.
I have not seen much change in the plants in the last two weeks. No growth. I know I have entered the flowering stage but I don't know what to do next in terms of lighting. Should I go from 18 hours of light a day to 12 hours? I have the option to only turn on the red lights.
Weed are light lovers, they are siling on the Light highway
and its acrucial point when it comes to flower
the growth of your Plant shows me, that you dont have to expect biiig harvests with that light,
she will give you a harvest, that is sure,
but if you want to have faaaaat buds and alot of flowers, think about getting a LED Fullspectrum light ( quamtumboard)
for more Q just get me per DM
Flowering Stage Week 7 Day 3 - Looks like growing has stopped. Buds continue to grow at a slow but increasing rate. The smell is obviously getting stronger. At the beginning, over watering was a problem but now the plants are soaking all the water. I was watering every other day and now I am watering every day. I have been removing the lower bud sites to hopefully increase yield in the top sites.
Update is showing - Day 60 after germination (62 total days). It is currently day 3 of the 8th week of flowering. The current buds are getting bigger and new buds are starting to stack. As mentioned in previous posts, the plant I have tagged as "Blue" is looking like a completely different strain. The trichomes on this plant are staring to brown-up! The pants is overall very sticky to the touch and it looks more mature than the other two plants. The plants are still on the 1 liter a day water schedule.
Day 67 (69 total) Week 9 Day 3 - The smell has become very strong. I had to move the plants to the garage because the smell was overtaking the house. I have been watering everyday and it looks like not enough. I will look to increase watering to twice a day. The trichomes are getting browner and more and more of them are doing so. Wish me luck!
It is now day 79 - Flowering week 10 day 6. The smell is extremely strong. The trichomes are really getting brown! Not much changes to the leaves but I am expecting some yellow to start happening. I am going to say that within the next two weeks I will harvest the plants. I have stopped all nutrients. Right now we are on 1 liter of water every day. I can't wait to harvest but patience will prevail.
Pictures were taken on May 31. Flower week 11 Day 3 the plants were harvested! They are currently drying and I can't wait to see the final results. The smell right now is intense!
This is my first grow and I think everything went as expected. I think there was was great diversity between the seeds I planted. The plants did not grow at the same rate or even smelled the same while growing under the same conditions. I initially ordered 10 seeds and only 8 actually made it through the vegetation stage. I know this is not efficient but this was my first grow and given the currently supply chain challenges I wanted to make sure I had enough seeds to make a serious attempt at growing. Given that I have expanded my knowledge on seed suppliers (Thank you Growdiaries!), I will try other suppliers.
This was a lot of work. While a lot of work, I am already planning my second grow. I learned a lot about growing and plant reactions to temperature, water, and lighting. I hope to grow something of the same size but I hope to improve my yield. I am currently on week three of the curing process. My plan is to do between 1-2 months and store for as long as possible. I have been able to maintain humidity between 74 and 68 percent.
@Daddo, sickkkkk. I just built a drying box for mine, expecting to harvest 1 of the 3 I grew by this time next week. Fingers crossed, nothing bad happens to em before then, lol
Weed needs ahigh DLI... ( daily light integral) and there is no sense to recuce the lighthours for the Autoflower...... go to 22 hours instead
no more defoiliation , you just slow her down
Daddo
