Good evening my fellow growers!
So, another Thursday night comes, meaning another week starts in this diary😎
As a balance from last week, I'd like to underline the beginning of LST and defoliation applied in the plant, so far with success. Had a little struggle with RH and temps, by getting the lights a little too close from the plants. Lesson learnt and problem solved!
Day 29
4/6 - #1 - Love to push her around! Not sure who's enjoying it more, if me or the plant. Looks happy with all the twists, and I believe this will be the last week of veg. 10 day tops I'd say.
She's a heavy drinker for the size, and loves some good misting before turning the lights on.
Moving the light even upper, brought me lower temps and higher RH: Temps from 24c to 20c, and RH from 40% to 50%. Much better.
Here's also a video from the grow, how everything looks today during lights off period.
Enjoy!
Day 30
5/6 - #1 today was just another day of growth. Actually apart from observing it during the day, haven't done really anything to it. Looks like has enough water still, looks like the branches are coming out nice and evenly, covering for now the surface of the pot.
Today also started to feel her stink. Finally! This only indicates me she's getting ready to flower very, very soon.
In the tent, today was the best 'weather' ever, I'm super happy with that 😅
Temps were between 18 off and 25 on, RH between 73% off and 40% on.
Day 31
6/6 - #1 today's her first month, since dropped in the water. Wohoo! 😎
Had another look to her, make sure all branches are looking good, with proper exposure and re-tied it again here and there to adjust her and make her even on top.
Removed a few more leaves on the way and it's looking great!
Had a big time watering (with nutrients), a little over a liter and was also mist in all foliage before lights going on.
Temps were very good again! Rh with 79% max and 52% min and temps from 25 to 17. Nice uh? 😎
Day 32
7/6 - #1 So, after the 1st month anniversary celebrations (ahah), today was training and defoliation day. Between today and tomorrow will do quite a defoliation as she's giving signs of starting flowering stage very soon. When it comes to the plant, I rearranged her first a bit to optimize the light exposure in all budsites, then leaves down.
For the first time in this plant, I fed her plain tap water, with a 6.4 ph. Tried to simulate a rainy day as much as possible by misting her and the medium. I like to give her a flush in between stages, when changing to flowering nutrients.
Temps as stable inside with 16 min and 26 max. RH from 52% to 76%
Day 33
8/6 - #1 What a nice reaction she had from last night training and defoliation! She went upwards and looks so much better. You can tell she's stretching now and showing some little pistils. After having a look around, just took the rest of the leaves I'd planned to and she's finally ready to flower.
Even her scent is getting stronger, a very nice tropical/mango/passion fruit kick when the tent is opened. What a delight!😎
Today I'll give her a light feed again, to get this lady back on track and will wait for another day to come. It's very nice to observe the strecthing phase, as you can see them growing almost by the hour eheh
Temps today were 29 max, 21 min and RH from 71% to 39% (values are higher today as I let the humidifier empty for a couple hours)
Day 34
9/6 - #1 She's full on stretching, in 48h grew more than 10cm, which I find incredible. I did a few more touches on the branches, now is the time to make them ready and give all the light they need in every bit of them.
Today she didn't smell so much, like yesterday, but I'm sure she's focusing on growing delicious bud right now. Can't wait to have a taste of it 😄
No watering today, going to save that for the morning. I'll just give her a light mist to keep things fresh and humid in the grow.
Tomorrow is the last day of this week, and I'm planning to start with flowering schedule and nutrients from tomorrow.
Temps and RH recorded today:
26c - 18c
76% - 41%
Day 35
10/6 - General:
This lady continues growing at a very nice rhythm. She's opening all her arms to light and I foresee a good flowering stage.
Techniques:
After observing her under the lights, decided to remove some more leaves to maximise exposure. All light is needed right now.
Feeding:
Good watering, almost 1.5l with balanced ph water, and started introducing flowering nutrients, at a very small scale, and went up 0.5ml on the grow nutrients. let's see what happens, but as I write, lights went up again for 4 hours and they look great, showing no signs of stress on anything like it.
Smell:
Still getting there, it's more intense inside the tent under the lights, a light breeze comes from her, but nothing compared to the power of her younger sister #3 from the other grow diary I'm writing.
Temps and RH recorded today:
28c - 18c
60% - 37%
And that's it!
This week is done, tomorrow we start a new one, which I'll consider the first of the flowering period.
This was a very exciting week where the results of the LST started to show a little more and better, did a heavy defoliation during the week, and saw her growing a lot. I'm impressed with that and curious to see the next coming days and weeks until she stops growing to produce more of the fat buds we love.
That's all, see you tomorrow!