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@Merrymoosefamilyfarms
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Hey hey everybody! We are back here this week at the beginning of week 13 and it is almost that time… time to flip?
….I wish…. No, no…. I am trying to be good but I think I came up with a plan that will give me a rough idea of when I will see that light at the end of the tunnel- or we’ll at least flip that light to 12/12 haha-
No no it is almost Christmas and things have been crazy over here. With the holiday madness upon us, I can’t tell all of you how much I have appreciated the relative silence (you know how it is, there are multiple fans running) time seems to slow down and it just us and the plants. Quite enjoyable.
So as you already know, we are going to be on coast until we fill out the rest of that 3x3 scrog net- however just today on my way into work, I came up with what might be my new definitive plan…
I have had a bit of trouble waiting, no doubt it will be worth the wait, but the wait has been difficult none the less… so here it is..
Here’s what I’m thinking- I have this going and I also have some fastbuds growing in the same area. What I am most likely going to do- is wait until it’s time for the fastbuds to come down to open up some space in the 5x5 and the rock candy cake can have all that space to herself- I will shift the scrog into the center of the tent and then flip the light schedule to 12/12 and let it run wild- it’s at this point I will most likely employ a more hands off approach so it can focus all of its energy on producing buds worthy of such a wait.
The canopy is getting pretty lush and I really need to get in there and defoliate- I really lucked out, today was the last day I had to work until after Christmas so you KNOW I will be in there tomorrow plucking away at leaves (strategically of course) half kidding I’m probably still a whirlwind compared to some, but I’ve noticed- especially when it comes to autos, that my leaf selection has become much more refined when defoliating. PROBABLY gonna see a BIT less of that tomorrow as I have to open up the canopy but I still plan on being careful.
Something else that was super cool who may not be following along with the other journal, happened oddly enough just the other day when I was doing dishes- I was scrubbing away with my phone all propped up so I could watch/listen to dude grows. And I heard the dude mention a contest on their website that I had entered… of course my ears perked up, I leaned in a little closer to take a look and was thinking to myself how cool it would be, even to see my picture in the background and sure enough there it was and they brought it up and commented on the submission and seemed to be genuinely enthused by it and let me tell you I am STILL riding high off that one!
One thing that was cool too was a rep at a nutrient company had seen that and congratulated me as well and it was again just so cool and I’m honored to have been on there! I listen to them practically everyday at work- yeah words are not doing it justice right now but I was stoked!!!
Other than that, the holidays are practically upon us so I’d imagine it’ll be a whole lot of family activity with a side of unintentional neglect that I plan on keeping to an absolute minimum because we are right around the corner from some excitement in that tent- that thing is going to be HUGE! So we have that to look forward to! And on that note, I just want to say that from our home to yours, I truly hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and I can’t wait to come back and get into the garden talk with all my growmies! Growers love everybody and happy holiday!! 💚🤙🌱🎅🏼🎁🎄
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@OGBOBBYBUSH
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Coming into week 4 transplanted into 5gal fabric pots.
3 plants are doing great really starting to hit there spurt. The one that topped over is starting to make a comeback. Only about 3 inches right now.
Started adding 8-5-5 npk from local shop
Started lst the little one just to see what happens
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@JUNGLE_B4RNS
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Every beginning has an end ...
The Jumanji by Cellmax is almost over , last few plants left are finishing the fade.
This will be the last week before putting the plants on Harvest.
Greetings to Cellmax for their nutrients, they really rox 👍
I will put details about it on Harvest 😉
N.B: Looking for a job in the Cannabis industry as a mineralogist, plants keeper, master grower, or quality controler 🐞
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@ItalianDesertBalcony
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There’s microscopic bugs crawling on my buds! Going to post a grow question about them.
No more nutrients, she’s definitely getting close, so let’s use plain water and hope for the best in the next week or two.
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@LokaGass
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I can't chose nutrien as i use natural seeds to give extra nutrients. I add npk mix and now i keep an eye on it i do a video to have a better look.
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@hilfa
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Defoliated bottom parts of plants and lower growth. It's fairly evident now that the CBDiesel isn't going to produce much. The fan leaves and bud sites are tiny in comparison to the other two strains.
Roots have become completely entangled and almost reach the perimeter of reservoir.
Continued to tuck taller growth back under trellis to create even canopy.
Foliar fed 3 times throughout week with half strength solution.
Added pH balanced ice cubes 3 times throughout week to boost oxygenation
Humidity way too high, need to address this fast.
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@Radagast_
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07.07.
Day 36# Day flowering 19#
As for the autos, i'm changing the title to "dwarf" lol
I was not at all satisfied with the vegetation, even less so with the stretching... as far as that is concerned
the stretching is not much different from last week, they are only 5 cm bigger,streching is over,they also branched badly, although they were under heat stress almost the whole week, but let's move on.
Yesterday was the end of their fifth week.
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@GanjaReaper
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Spotted some budrot again. This time I had enough of it and didn't want to risk further rot, so I decided to harvest them and not let them flower for another week.
Forgot to take pictures before the trim, they look silly now without the support from the copperdreads and rubberwires haha.
They had 8 weeks of flowering, I'm glad that 1 out of 2 came out nicely. The other one is just another regular looking outside plant lol.
I always give them a first trim, so the buds can dry better, faster, safer. After some days or maybe at the end of drying, i will trim them again.
You can expect the final update with pictures between 7 to 14 days from now.
ps, Somehow the beautifull colors from the better plant doesn't show properly when filming or taking pictures, neighter am I a professional photographer.
But ill promise to take better ones, once the buds got the final trim and got dried.
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@BigBadLion
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Hey guys! Week 8 for the plant or week 3 of flower! 😍
And holy cow, these girls are growing fast, specially my baby that's on the front. And in fact, since they are so developed I decided to add some PK supplements slightly earlier and see how things go!
On top of that both girls seem to have slightly different phenotypes, one of them is slowly turning purple while the other one is getting purplier leaves and trichomes, which I believe looks beautiful.
I also defoliated and worked on the LST again, I need the lower buds to develop as well!
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the photos and see you all next week! 😊
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@Albargina
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Empiezo la semana 2 muy emocionado, pues las pequeñas ya estan todas fuera y preciosas, hoy despues de 7 dias desde que germinamos vamos a trasplantar las pequeñas a unas macetitas del mismo material que las que teniamos antes pero esta vez son de 1L, muy importante, cunado trasplanto siempre entierro el tallo hasta los cotiledones, de esta ,manera la damos mas fuerza a la planta.
La sorpresa viene cuandro al transplantar me quedo enamorado del sistema radicular de las Blue Elite Indica, pues parece que tengan pelo!😂
Estoy muy contento ya que estan todas muy sanas y con mucha fuerza para seguir adelante.
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@MadeInGermany
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Day 6 since the time change to 12/12 hrs Hey all together 😋.
in the last six days since the changeover, it has already made a nice boost 👌.
She looks beautiful and it is fun to watch her grow 😉.
In the next few days, as soon as the flowers start to appear, I will add GHSC Powder Feeding Bio Bloom to the coconut substrate 😃.
I wish you a lot of fun with the update 👍
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@BedroomGrower
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March 17, Day 76: As written I collected the last three plants. At the moment I got a partial of 224 grams from the first three plants and I think of doubling with the last three. Among the latter is the plant with the largest bud which obviously becomes my favorite. This time I managed to take photographs of the plants before cutting them.
With these last three plants I got the most productive plant, the one with the largest bud and the one with the longest bud 😉
For a final report on this strain: The Gorilla by RQS is an excellent strain for anyone who loves a high THC content and I particularly recommend it to growers who pass for the first time from photoiperiods to autoflowering. You will grow very large and very productive plants very similar to photoperiodic ones. This strain branches out a lot and must be defoliated and de-branched. You can grow it well with the SCROG technique, but if like me you have no space problems you can also use the Sea Of Green technique.
In conclusion I want to thank all the growers who have followed this my first diary to which I have a happy growth! A big thanks also to GrowDiaries and to the whole team for having created the best social network dedicated to the world of growers 👏💪😉
March 24 Final Report: Hi growers, with this last post I'm going to close my first diary. First I have to say that I am very satisfied with the total harvest, from the last three plants I got 369 grams which added to the 224 of the previous harvest make a total of 593 grams. I started this diary with 8 Gorillas and 2 Cheese. 6 Gorillas completed their cycle in the same time frame, the 2 remaining gorillas showed a photoperiodic genetic predominance, one of them is in an advanced flowering phase while the last one after three months still shows only a few pistils. I'll probably kill her, and move on by putting new seeds in the soil. Unfortunately, where I live is illegal to grow marijuana, otherwise I would have simply moved outdoors, but I can't and must be ruthless. Regarding the two cheeses there is not much left at the end of their cycle and I started to give only water to one of the two plants.
Good and happy growth to all! 😜
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@Adam420
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She has finally started some growth that I’m looking for.
Trimmed her up 2 weeks ago and her new leaves/shoots are filling the spots.
Lateral growth as well.
Slight Flowering on the very bottom of plant so next week is the start of week
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@Tezza2
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The purple lemonade is getting some beautiful sticky fat dank buds and the gorilla cookies is flowering nicely the node spacing is super close so i will be looking at some super dence fat sticky buds the smell is amazing i cant wait to have a joint with the two strains combined in it .
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@Uneasy
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I pre-cut a plant. The plant, whose leaves turned yellow, turned yellow due to heat and flushing. Last 3-4 days left. Other 2 pots need at least 10 days
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@NuggetPawn
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I started picking for forbidden fruits the day after last week’s post, checking the colas with the scope and only picking tops that were approx 10-20% amber.
As I snipped colas I also removed a lot of upper fan leaves, this is to allow light to reach lower buds for a final ripening.
Once picked, I placed approx 100g in each brown paper bag, folded the top and sat on a rack. I slowly rolled the bags around once or twice a day just so the buds didn’t stick together. Seems to have worked well, no dreaded hay smell to note and nicely dried.
I think I’ll be taking some more colas tops off in a few days time and I’ll keep the plants alive for another week or two, depending on how fast they come along.
I have 4 Mimosa EVO (no diary) about 7 weeks into veg at the moment and I think it would be nice to give them another 2 weeks as I need big plants to make clones from them, ready for the next diary coming soon... hopefully with successfully taken clones 😊
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@Omisan
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OOOOOH at this time i love all of you, growmie 😍
200gr of pure happiness, never before! 🙌
Buds are compact like rock, shine like diamond...it's unbelivable, looks perfect!
At last, mold take me about 20g of buds 😩
But it is ok, the jar is overfull and i'm so happy XD
Now let's wait for the right taste......for now is greatful! 😜
Thanks to Dutch Passion for this opportunity, i'm really proud!! 🙏
Thanks to all of you growmie, for your support 🙏
to the next adventure!
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@BrediGreeny
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So my new Mars Hydro FC-E1500 is here. Swaped the very old MarsHydro LED in the middle. Gave them a little bit more CalMag and for the 1st Wedding Cake Bio Grow. Very minimal trimming. I noticed that the leafs from the 2nd Wedding Cake are glossy like. I think it could be too much nitrogen. Stoped giving her Bio Grow 1 week ago.
Thanks for all the answers, i will flush both the weddingcakes out and see how they react. Also measuring the run off EC and PH and also soil PH.
1/10/25
I like this community already 😁 you guys gave me such good answers to my grow question. So I measured soil PH roughly between 7 and 7,5 so alkaline. Not good. I flushed with Phed water 5,3 and measured PH of runoff at 6,6 and ppm at 1480 . Repeated, measured runoff PH 6,3 ; ppm 1210. Repeat, but with PHed 5,0 water, runoff PH 5,9 ppm 1010. Stoped. 1st WddngCake took 3 flushes with total of 30 l of water.
2nd Wddncake got a flush with 25 l of water at the end runoff PH aprox 5,9 ppm 990 . Gave them both Nematodes because i saw a reduction in fungus gnats that is good. Almost none flying around. Fingers crossed. 😊
1/11/25
Aprox. 24h from "The Big Flush" 😁 and they seem to be happier. Temp in tent 23 C and RH 44% - 48% . Also added a few photos of them after the flush.
1/12/25
Aprox. 48h after flush. They are doing very good. 1st WddngCake shows off more of her colors with splashes on the calyxes and sugar leafs. 2nd WddngCake stands tall and bulks the buds up. I also noticed that Pheno 1 WddnCake has a fruitty creamy like sweat smell and the 2nd Pheno ,the tall girl, reminds me of a tropical IPA, fruity , fresh and pungent like cousin hops. Also the end of this week, today, looking forward at the week ahead. In the tent 22 C at the moment with 50% RH because i let the mars hydro ventilators off for the day. they are back on now.