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Hey yall! Another week down. A lot has happened. To start, we up-potted from the red solos into my living soil blend that I have been working on for almost a year. It's so full on living creatures and beneficials. I used to have fungus gnats a lot when working with living soil, it's almost impossible to avoid. .. Then enters beneficials; we have black soldier Flys, persimillis predatory mites, definitely earth worms, most likely a mix of night crawlers. No more fungus gnats, I highly recommend using beneficial nematodes, cucumeris and persimillis predatory mites are excellent (swirski predatory mites are expensive). Just look at the Soil Food Web and identify what pest you have, then purchase their predators from a trusted insectary. Anyways I added another 200watt LED and spread out the plants in a 2' X 4' tent. It's extremely dry in my location and having the heat on makes the air even drier. So getting my VPD stable has been an immense challenge. Right now Also we need to be able to add VPD or at least GD needs a built in calculator to help folks with VPD, Vapor Pressure Deficite. As of right now I am sitting at 0.85 VPD, so pretty good for today. I have 4 humidifiers and have had to hang moistened towels on the doors of the room I am growing in. It literally has been a huge challenge to keep the humidity high enough for my VPD to be in range for the young plants I have now. Good thing is my current humidity without running any humidifiers is perfect for the flowering stage, so I can't wait to move this along. As for topping and training; like I said I really want to move these ladies into flowering sooner than later. I have several reasons to do limited training so I can limit my veg time, also getting this crop done as fast as possible is best for my set up. Until I can get a larger house 🏠 😩 because we got a baby on the way 👶 so need to make space. I have made compost tea twice this past week, wetting the soil and also spraying the leaves. My sprayer broke so I ended up pouring the tea on the plants gently, I got worm castings on the leaves lol. Gently rubbing that off once they dried. Also I applied the tea at night. My tea recipe: Reverse Osmosis water, 2 to 4 gallons I bubble that with added minerals for a day Add 2-3 cups of Activated worm castings (To activate the castings I added about 3 gallons of high quality castings with what I consider to be nutrient amendments, SO I add = kelp meal, neem cake, organic coconut flour, organic corn meal, organic wheat flour, and organic cold milled flax seeds and let that sit for a week then add about 2 to 3 cups of that mix to the tea) I also add biology from about a cup of 2 different soil mixes I have around my compost bin, just trying to get a more diverse biology by adding those two different soil sources. And mind you the grow beds I took the soil from has been organic for many years and has a large amount of beneficials and tons of excellent biology. Other than that I bubble that for 12 to 24 hours, with as much air as I can get. I use air stones but you really need to clean them off once you are done brewing. I also have an Air Lift with a large air pump that really works great, K.I.S. Organics sells one that works great or you can build one easily with with PVC pipe and a few adapters from any Home Depot or Lowes. Also I do add DynoMyco to my roots when up-potting. They are an amazing brand that has backed up research, I think they have more propagules per gram of two strains they identified to work great with cannabis. Now having said that, each individual phenotype out of each individual and specific strain/cultivar is going to have different bacteria/fungal strains that it prefers and by growing the same strain, hopefully the same exact cut, and grow 3 to 4 cycles before you truly have the mycelium networks built and fully functional. What I am saying is stop throwing out "used" soil and go over 7 gallons, bigger the better for biodiversity. Stop buying "new" soil, amend your previous beds and pots. You will see a huge difference. Hopefully I can show you all of this with my Grow. Anyways please feel free to ask away any questions! This grow is about saving money 💰 🤑 and growing the best clean medicine as possible.
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Trying to get 70% RH but they are so small and don´t transpire so much, plus the indoor is quite large for this babies and I don´t have a humidifier. Just have to spray them a bit all the time to make them feel humid enough. RH is actually 60% but that´s OK, it will increase eventually when this babies grow. Today May 16 I got a little humidifier and that mantains humidity around 60% without spraying water. I still spray a little water during the day to make them feel more comfy. I also decided to switch some light bulbs off because it was too much light for this babies. Just let 3 white bulbs and the 2 full spectrum bulbs on, 60 cm above the babies. That was it for the first week of this 3 gums. Gum 3 has already a name if you noticed, I'll be thinking of the names for the other girls.
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All plants growing well , buds developing well. Fat banana much stronger against the feeding then the Bubble Kush Auto, but still both growing well and dense buds .
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I'd like to say a big hello to all and thanks for taking a look at my first grow! all feedback is appreciated and I am happy to experience growing this plant even if I do not succeed this time. Apologies for the bad picture quality, I will improve this! without further ado lets give this Dwarf a happy life! Pre soaked the canna pro plus coco with plant start at 2ml/1ltr No activity from the plant in the first three days. using a big baggie as a humidity dome which has helped keep humidity high for the 🌱 Noticed on day 5 that the root has made its way through the soil bigtime and was desperately reaching for the light... immediately placed under the phlizon 3000w (630w true power draw) COB LED using only the LED supplemental lights (270w)and started a 2ml/ltr dose of plant start Day 6 - Plant has started to recover from being in the dark too long, starting rhizotonic today also at 2ml/l alongside 2ml/l vitalink plantstart. Regularly misting the humidity dome to keep humidity as near 70% as possible (sometimes with rhizotonic spray) Temperature is between 23c and 27c throughout the day. Day 7 - Nothing much to report other than healthy looking seedling, I've been alternating between the COB (330w) and LED (270w) lights throughout the day, have not to wanted to put them both on together incase I fry her :D Tomorrow I'm starting my week 2 and im seriously considering transplanting to my final pot (smart pot) which is a 5gallon/19liter pot... (will seek advice below) and switching from 2ml/ltr vitalink plantstart 2ml rhizotonic schedule to canna A +B 2ml/ltr canna rhizotonic 2ml/ltr.
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Hi GD! Welcome to week 8 above soil! The above feed applies to most mature plant only, the other 3 are on last weeks feed till they catch up. Busy week! Invested in a new 1200w LED to try and replace my 600 w setup. I've thought about temp issue's and bought a 120w tubular heater which you can see in the pics. Works great keeping root zone warm, floor dry and gives off a nice but not intense warm to warm the plants. I've used it for 24 hours and can see the plants have stopped slumping when its gets too cold outside. The led is set up! Gunna review the flower period l. Oh and I flushed the runt. 20l of phed water. Has tips burnt and is a runt so it makes me think lockout. So she's been drowned and now back next to the tube to recover lol. Oh and we supercropped a 2nd plant Thanks for watching! UPDATE! !!! Found about 6 banana's on the early flowers! I'm very shocked! I'm also concerned about the fact that the one that's hermed, is the only one out the four that's started flowering. All same age. I think a 8 week veg period is long for any auto. So I'm worried about these three now. Are they photo periods?? That's what they look like! My excitement for these girls (well 3.5 girls) has gone, and rained on my parade over the new LED.... Will update with progress.
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She was trimmed and topped this week with an increase in nutes. Introduced some LST as well.
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Albinius 🌱 GROW LOG: Gorilla Cookies Auto (x3) ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ MONDAY 01/09/25 -💧WATERING- DAY 40 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed → Defoliated some leaves 🌡️Temp (Day/Night): 27°C / 25°C 💦 Humidity (RH): 60% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.2 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 1.4 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 20% 💡 Light: 90% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 900 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 480 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ TUESDAY 02/09/25 - 💧WATERING - DAY 41 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed → Defoliated some leaves, took off too much from 1 plant → Still some signs of Calmag deficiency, already added 1,5 the amount 🌡️Temp (Day/Night): 28°C / 26°C 💦 Humidity (RH): 58% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.3 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 1.4 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 19% 💡 Light: 90% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 900 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 480 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ WEDNESDAY 03/09/25 - DAY 42 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed, LIGHT WATERING → Defoliated some leaves 🌡️Temp (Day/Night): 28°C / 26°C 💦 Humidity (RH): 63% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.3 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 1.4 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 22% 💡 Light: 90% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 900 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 500 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ THURSDAY 04/09/25 - DAY 43 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed, LIGHT WATERING → Defoliated some leaves, took off too much from 1 plant 🌡️Temp (Day/Night): 28°C / 26°C 💦 Humidity (RH): 63% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.3 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 1.4 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 22% 💡 Light: 100% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 900 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 500 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ FRIDAY 05/09/25 - DAY 44 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed → Watching the heavily defoliated plant and CalMag def. → No worsening CalMag 💦 Humidity (RH): 63% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.2 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 1.4 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 22% 💡 Light: 90% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 900 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 500 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ SATURDAY 06/09/25 - DAY 45 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed 🌡️Temp (Day/Night): 28°C / 26°C 💦 Humidity (RH): 63% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.3 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 1.3 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 20% 💡 Light: 90% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 900 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 500 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🗓️ SUNDAY 07/09/25 - DAY 46 ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ → All stats in range, no attention needed → Installed drip irrigation system 🌡️Temp (Day/Night): 28°C / 26°C 💦 Humidity (RH): 63% 🔁 VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit):1.3 ⚡ Soil EC mS/cm: 1.3 💧 Soil Water Content (WC): 20% 💡 Light: 90% @ 25cm from canopy 🔆 PPFD (μmol/m²/s): 900 🌬️ CO₂ (ppm): 500 ╭────────────────────────────────────╮ 🌿 OVERVIEW ╰────────────────────────────────────╯ The Gorilla Cookies Auto trio had a solid week with mostly stable conditions! 🌱 From Monday to Sunday (Days 40–46), stats remained in range, with watering on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and light defoliation on several days. A drip irrigation system was installed on Sunday for improved efficiency. Temps held steady at 27–28°C (day) and 25–26°C (night), humidity ranged from 58–63%, and VPD stayed between 1.2–1.3. Soil EC was consistent at 1.3–1.4 mS/cm, and soil water content hovered around 19–22%. Lights were mostly at 90% @ 25cm (briefly 100% on Thursday), delivering a steady 900 μmol/m²/s PPFD, with CO₂ at 480–500 ppm. Some CalMag deficiency persisted, with 1.5x the usual dose applied, and one plant was over-defoliated but is being monitored with no worsening issues. Lessons: Consistency Pays Off: Stable environmental stats and regular watering kept plants thriving. 🌿 Defoliation Caution: Over-defoliation on one plant was a misstep; monitor its recovery closely. ✂️ CalMag Needs Attention: Persistent deficiency suggests further tweaks may be needed. Irrigation Upgrade: The new drip system should streamline watering—watch its impact. 💧 Takeaway: A mostly smooth week with stable conditions and proactive care. Keep an eye on the over-defoliated plant and CalMag levels while fine-tuning the new irrigation system. Steady progress with room for vigilance! 🚀
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Durante esta semana hemos notado un buen crecimiento en la SS Y un enraizamiento correcto en las pequeñas. Quiero destacar que esta semana hemos empezado con el plan de nutrición con deeper Underground y micro vita de Top Crop. Quiero recordar a todos los amigos que estoy utilizando un sustrato tipo All Mix Y que durante esta semana voy a ir haciendo pruebas con las Servet a ver qué tal le sienta el producto Top Veg para crecimiento, solo va a ser una prueba con dosis muy pequeñas para que vaya acostumbrando. También quiero destacar que estoy muy contento con la evolución de la raíces de las Servet porque ya están en el fondo de la maceta
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PURPLE KUSH / KANNABIA SEEDS WEEK #8 OVERALL WEEK #7 VEG This week this lady is doing good she's fully recovered from transplant and growing strong she's been topped and has the bud clips for LST here's another great week of growing!! Stay Growing!! Thank you for stopping by and taking a look it's much appreciated!! Thank you KANNABIA!!! BUDTRAINER.COM / BUD CLIPS PURPLE KUSH / KANNABIA SEEDS
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Compre humidificares por aliexpress a bajo costo y mejoro la humedad del indoor.
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1/10 - Day 56 / Day 28 Flower The nutrient deficiency appears to be getting worse. After some reading, I suspect I may have a pH issue which is causing a nutrient lockout. I gave each of my plants enough water to get some runoff that I could test. When I first tested the runoff, I was getting pH readings of around 5.6-5.8 for my 5 gallons....not good. Way too acidic. I decide to do a flush out of an abundance of caution. I ran about 8 gallons of water that ranged between a pH of 6.5 and 7.2. At a certain point, I ran out of distilled and dechlorinated tap and decided to stop flushing at that point rather than introduce chlorinated tap water. At the end of the flush, I was getting pH readings of around 6.1 and 6.2 for my 5 gallons. Not ideal but should at least mitigate any further damage. Remarkably, some of the leaves that were starting to yellow began to bounce back shortly after the flush. **************************************************** 1/11 - Day 57 / Day 29 Flower The conditions haven't dramatically improved but also haven't appear to get dramatically worse. The leaves that were already yellowing seemed to yellow a bit further but I didn't notice any new leaves yellowing. After still more reading, I think I narrowed the issue down to a magnesium issue. My leaf symptoms seem to match all of the tell tale signs - leaves were turning pale green before fading to yellow, the yellowing was showing up first around the edges but all the veins were still green. Combined with the fact that magnesium lockouts typically occur when the soil is too acidic - I think I found my culprit. Even though the soil was still wet on my 5 gallons, I decided to go ahead and provide a half gallon of distilled water with 5mg of Cal-Mag to each plant. Of course, this was before I read some of the responses to my grow question and this was the exact opposite advice suggested by @BluntZilla who I think has the correct diagnosis of my problem (calcium toxicity causing other nutrient lockouts)... :facepalm: **************************************************** 1/12 - Day 58 / Day 30 Flower Based on the symptoms I'm having, it looks like the biggest nutrient deficiency I'm having is magnesium. In an attempt to mitigate that deficiency, I made a solution combining a gallon of distilled water with two tablespoons of epsom salts and applied as a foliar spray. Started applying this today - once in the morning and once in the evening. **************************************************** 1/14 - Day 60 / Day 32 Flower Watered my plants using spring water until I could produce runoff. The runoff readings were as follows: Z51: - pH = 6.4 - TDS = 1080ppm - EC: 2.2 Z52: - pH = 6.3 - TDS = 1040ppm - EC: 2.1 While it appears my pH is back in a healthy range, my EC readings are a bit higher than I'd like. Ideally, I'm aiming for 1.8 but didn't want to continue shocking my plants with a flush. **************************************************** 1/16 - Day 62 / Day 34 Flower My plants still haven't really turned a corner with the nutrient lockout issues as new leaves continue to succumb to the same symptoms of slow yellowing. Despite these issues, my buds are continuing to develop and becoming more full and dense.
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MrJones Cream Mandeiran Auto XL - ViparSpectra XS2000 240W Infrared Full Spectrum LED Grow Light ´🍪⊱╮🍪╰⊰🍪 WEEKLY GOALS 🍪╰⊰´🍪⊱╮🍪 🏡Indoor - 3"x4"x8" Custom Built Grow Closet 🌞Environment - 80F and 60%Humidity - using Humidfyer as needed. 🌾LST and Defoliation - this strain likes to stretch! 🗓️Week 6 Flower ⚱️5-Gallon 📊6.2 PH 💧 Feeding / Using Dr. Earth Dry Organic Amendments - Home Grown & Bud / Bloom Booster 🌞ViparSpectra XS2000 240W x2 Infrared Full Spectrum LED Grow Light 🕷️ IPM - Will be using Green Cleaner" 1 OZ per Gallon, and CannControl from Mammoth alternating between products each month for Integrated Pest Management. ´🍪⊱╮🍪╰⊰🍪 PLANT UPDATES 🍪╰⊰´🍪⊱╮🍪 📝 Notes - Started the week off with a Treatment of Mammoth CannaControl - Looks like the ladies are done with their stretch, time to focus on VPD and Bud Growth, with the ViparSpectra XS-2000's should no problem supplying the light needed, these girls have just blown up! ╰⊰🍪╰⊰´🍪⊱╮🍪╰⊰🍪╰⊰🍪╰⊰´🍪⊱╮🍪╰⊰🍪╰⊰🍪╰⊰🍪⊱╮ 🔶Sunday 07.18.21/ Just watering with H20 PH-6.2 🔶Monday 07.19.21/ This run continues to be easy peasie! Just add water! 🔶Tuesday 07.20.21/ Using H20 PH 6.2 / 6.6 🔶Wednesday 07.21.21/ Buds are starting to fatten up starting to get SATINKT! Using H20 PH 6.2 / 6.6 🔶Thursday 07.22.21/ Dr. Earth and Water - Did not think it would come out so nice 🔶Friday 07.23.21/ Just using H20 PH to 5.8/6.2 🔶Saturday 07.24.21/ Just using H20 PH to 5.8/6.2 ╰⊰🍪╰⊰´🍪⊱╮🍪╰⊰🍪╰⊰🍪╰⊰´🍪⊱╮🍪╰⊰🍪╰⊰🍪╰⊰🍪⊱╮ Cream Mandarine XL Auto®️ Information Tall-stemmed auto-flowering strain. This high-yielding 4th generation auto-flowering strain is the resulting hybrid from the cross between selected specimens of our Cream Mandarine Auto®️ (SWS29)) and a Super Tai’98 elite clone. The genetic coming from the Super Tai’98 elite clone contributes with interesting Sativa characteristics to this hybrid, such as bigger size, but also subtle aromatic and spicy tones with hints of wood and nuts. The so much appreciated Cream Mandarine Auto®️ genetic contributes with traits from the Indica side, such as high flower and resin production, but also sweet and fresh aromas with tones of citric fruits of the mandarin orange type. DATA SHEET Variety SWS55 Indica: 35% / Sativa: 63,4% / Ruderalis: 1,6% THC: 18-23% · CBD: 0,6% Indoor Yield: 450-650 g/m2 Outdoor Yield: 50-300 g/plant Indoor/Outdoor Harvest: 9 weeks from germination Height: 110-150 cm
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Hey y'all - this is the exciting one for me, this year - I'm submitting the buds from these plants to the 4Plants Cannabis Cup in November, wish me luck! I'm in the amateur medical category, growing one of my favourite strains, it's exciting! Hope you enjoy the video, I'm just a doofy guy growing some dope, hoping it's, um, dope! Thanks for looking, let me know if you have any questions or comments 🙏