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@UnorthadoxDude
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Hey! Welcome to week 8! Karen is mid way through her flowering stretch. Please check back to last week as I update daily so the week is now complete. I count about 20 colas now.
Day 51: Have reconfigured the tent, see video. Karen is now 36cm and still stretching. Karen has more light now. Smell is still there hits you when you open the tent. Fertigated 2l.
Day 52: Height: 39cm. Karen's scent is heavenly. I have reconfigured again and installed some upgrades. Better reflector. Much bigger carbon filter. Increased airflow. Better config. More efficient pot layout. Karen is lovely.
I am grateful to her and for her, so I wrote her a little poem, I hope she liked it.
"Karen! Oh Karen! The phoenix of flowers,
Three lowly weeks she struggled in vain,
Shadowed and starved for five hundred hours,
He slowly wept to witness her pain.
Karen! Oh Karen! I P-H'd your showers,
and in the fourth week you started to gain,
Hallowed and hard you survived as you cowered,
I thought you meek, I was wrong once again.
Karen! Oh Karen! Forgave me my howlers.
She set a pace, a pace she maintained,
Now shes a girl at the peak of her powers,
And so I'm a geek, with buds on the brain."
Day 53: Approx 48h into a simulated dry spell.
Alright I think it is time for Karen to get her first MAJOR defoliation. I will update shortly with photos and info. I will also be doing some gentle LST to separate the colas a bit.
Day 53.5: Defoliation and LST. Finally got chance to photograph that bunda. Enjoy!
Day 53.75: Bit of a fail. Messed up the timer and the lights ended up being off for about 3 or 4 hours. Because I was cooling the room (open window) to keep temperature in the tent down, without any light the temperatures absolutely plummeted as it is sub-zero outside. By the time I realised and turned the lights on, the temp in the main tent had dropped to 14 degrees celsius. Whoops! How is that for mistreating your girl? Defoliated about 80% of her leaves, 4 nodes, significant LST, then stuck her in the cold and dark for 1/6 of a day. Not to mention she is now almost 3 days into a "dry spell". There do not seem to be ill effects, and Karen has already begun to respond to the LST; all the colas that had been changed in angle are now upright again.
The dry spell I keep mentioning, there is a method behind my madness, I have spotted one or two small flies and I think they may be fungus gnats. I am starting to suspect that the 2nd seedling in the Purple OG Punch Auto grow was actually beheaded by fungus gnat larvae. So I am drying out the mediums as much as I dare. I am closely monitoring the plants, so far the only one I have had to break the drought for is Enigma; all the girls in big pots haven't even noticed it's dry yet. How far am I going to push it? Well I will judge it on a plant by plant basis, but quite honestly I am hoping to see physical signs of thirst before I breakdrought. Of all the plants the two I think will respond most strongly to this will be Karen and Bertha, because of where they are. Karen here is actually probably 4 weeks into flowering rather than two, so about now is a good time to give her a little hydration stress. I do not think I will push it past 5 days, as RH is 34%. By now all the plants will be compensating for the lack of moisture and the high temperatures and low humidity. They will be taking more and more moisture out of the coco, and as the coco dries further and further down, those plants that have space will start desperately growing roots to find moisture. Mark my words, 24 hours after I end this drought, every plant in the tent will throw out crazy growth.
Day 54: Ended drought and fertigated 6l, no run off, I will re-fertigate tomorrow. Karen is still stretching her height post LST is now 37cm. The two tallest colas seem to have stopped but the other colas are still stretching.
Day 55: Alright so it has been 5 hours since lights on, and Karen is looking in good shape, all her drooping leaves have perked back up and she has added quite a bit of foliar growth. The colas are all still rising, except perhaps the two tallest. This girl is absolutely loaded with pistils, I'm starting to see trichomes on the sugar leaves, but trich production hasn't started in earnest yet. She has a least 20 colas, and 6 of them are thicker/taller than the primary cola at her tip. Every one of her nodes has reinforced itself with a bulbous growth and these cola branches are swelling rapidly. I am increasingly of the opinion that, all being well, this girl is going to surprise us all with her yield. My first grow, which was just mucking about really, I got 60-70g of the two main plants, and they were just bare sticks with 2 colas. Although her height is less than theirs was, 2/3 of their height was bare stick... whereas every mm of her is befoliaged and living. So in terms of the height of the actual cola I think they were about comparable in usable space on a per cola basis. The main difference being that Karen has 20+ colas whereas they had 2 primary and 2 lower. I know that it is probably unrealistic to expect more than 70g from a single auto grown indoors. Nevertheless my gut tells me this baby could achieve at least 100g, perhaps as much as 150g. The next few weeks will determine that, but given where we were in week 3 I will be grateful for any yield of quality bud. I have dropped the lights down to 18/6 from 'tonight' onwards.
I really have no idea how long we have left for Karen. According the the "brochure" she flowers for 7-8 weeks, with a total crop time of 9 weeks. The problem is I don't know what a total crop time is? Does that mean from seed to finish? If so Karen is clearly not going to be anywhere near that timescale.I am going to go ahead an assume that, for my plant anyway, the first 4 weeks were veg weeks. I think it is fair to count week 5 and 6 as flowering because pistils were popping out very early in week 5 if not before. So that makes this week four of flowering. I am going to assume 8 weeks rather than 7, so I think we have another 4 full weeks give or take a week. On that basis I am expect harvest week to be around week 12 or so. I am not fixed on this though, I am determined not to harvest this girl early.
Day 55: Photos taken 00:00 9/3/23 Strong 24h of veg growth as predicted.
Day 56: Existing leaves continue to swell. Stretch appears to be slowing. I've taken so many media this week that I cannot scroll down far enough to select a recent thumbnail. Probably Karen's biggest week in terms of changes. She is looking like she is going to impress. Height 39cm.
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@Happygrowing
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Piante grandi ed in forma mia aspetto molto da loro
NL è indietro di una settimana e mezza in confronto a slh#2
Grandi soddisfazioni 🔥🔥💪💪
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@Theia
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She's in flower bud sites everywhere.
Stealth is gonna be an issue as the cherry trees around my garden have started losing their leaves and this is my neighbour shield .
We will see.
Looking great though. 😍❤️
That's it really nothing to say.
Thanks for stopping by.
Stay safe 😷
Grow well 🌿🌱🌼
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Semana 7 de vida, seguimiento de lunes a lunes.
Lunes 19 agosto 2024, evidencia de una semana transcurrida, en la cual proporcionamos terpinator a todas, purpinator solamente a Purple cherry de Positronics, a las otras 6 alimentamos con Armor Si.
Próximo riego será de Bases PH perfecto de Advance Nutrients a todas.
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@Deepgrower
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Desarrollo espectacular! Se hizo una poda foliar para mejorar la circulación del aire. Esta es la última semana que se aplica abonado y empezaremos con solo agua en pequeñas cantidades. Los cogollos tienen muy buena pinta!
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@Jakobyzone420
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Soddisfatto del mio lavoro? SI ASSOLUTAMENTE SI . Questa è la mia prima esperienza nel campo della coltivazione della cannabis e sono veramente contento del risultato, ma non devo cantare vittoria troppo presto adesso manca la seccatura e la concia speriamo bene ahahah 🤣
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Day 37: The girls are growing fast and strong! They also seems to have turned into flowering state now. Everything seems good. Ive been recommended to just let the girls do their job from now, and I won't touch them for awhile, but I think I soon will give them some more nutrients as they are now in flowering state.
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@Organic473
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My longest vegetative growth to date. This may be her last week in veg, I will keep her outdoor for flowering as of next week….my theory is proven with the solar powered light. I love what she has come…the LST worked for even spacing.
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@CBD_Sweden
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@MephistoGenetics,
Hi all the happy people here in GrowDiaries.
This is my second cultivation ever and it will be fun to try a bigger space than my closet grow.
First, I'm just going to say I'm done with the construction of my new growroom.
The room is 2.14 meters by 1.7 meters and has a ceiling height of 2 meters.
It provides a floor area of 3.6 square meters.
I use a 54 Watt Lightwawe T5 for germination and 2 Pcs 400 Watt HPS lamps.
I have a channel fan that replaces the room air about 40 times an hour to get a comfortable environment in the room, the air enters a fresh air intake from the outside.
The air is purified through a carbon filter to then leave the room to the rest of the basement.
Then I use that heat to heat the rest of the basement.
I will use 10 pcs 15 liter Autopots to grow with and a 100 liter water tank that supplies the pots of water and nutrition.
I will grow completely organically in soil and will watercure my buds to get the best possible medicine for me.
But there are no cultivation rooms to be displayed here, so I continue with what is most important.
Today I have put my seeds in paper towel and hope the seeds have germinated within a few days.
I am very excited to see how the new growroom will work and how this Illuminauto 21 - Sour Crinkle will turn out.
Illuminauto 21 - Sour Crinkle (Grape Crinkle x Sour Crack)
Two of our fastest and frostiest varieties collide to make a sweet and sour delight!
Expect super frosty, compact nugs that won't be a toke for novices.
Destined to be a great strain for extraction work too!
Plant size - Small - Medium
Cycle time - 60-65 days from sprout
Indica/Sativa - 80/20
Frost level - Extra Ridiculous
https://www.mephistogenetics.com/product-page/illuminauto-21-sour-crinkle
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2017-08-21. Started to germinate the seed.
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2017-08-23. Seed germinated and put in small pot in the humidity dome.
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2017-08-27. Slow and steady she grows.
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2017-08-28. Transplanted in 15 liter autopot. Check the roots on this girl
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2017-08-29. New movie of the girl.
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2017-08-29.
Hello to you who read my diary, I just want to say that I am pleased that you have chosen to check in with me and in my diary.
I just want to say that I do this for myself and for a steady flow of my medicine.
Everything you read and see in my diary is 100% honest and I will never distort or beautify anything here.
I document my crops so that I can learn from my mistakes and also to look back at those different crops.
I try to update with pictures every day and with text if something special has happened in the garden.
This is my strainhunt for the best medicine and the beginning of my journey with cannabis and the cultivation of it.
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2017-08-30. Cleaned the room this morning, just vacuuming and cleaning with chlorine solution. Im testing the fan to control temp and humidity, it works great.
Added some pics and a movie. Everything is looking great right now.
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2017-08-31. 3 new pics.
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2017-09-01. New pics and a video from the grow room today.
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2017-09-02. New pic.
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2017-09-03. New video from this morning.
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2017-09-04. Week 2 starts now, new pics.
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2017-09-05. KL 08.00. Cleaned the room this morning, just vacuuming and cleaning with chlorine solution.
KL 12.00. The girl got 2 liters of water with nutes in it, added a video.
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2017-09-06. KL 08.00. The girls woke up after their beauty sleep, the leaves are always a bit down after 6 h of darkness, but they will stretch now when the HPS lamp starts.
Everything looks good and I keep trying to tuck the leaves so they get the maximum amount of light where needed. Added pics and video.
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2017-09-07. Day 17 from sprouting. I have never tested PH in my grows, when growing organic in soil iv learned that it adapt PH by it self. But im curious by nature so i had to test.
Kl 10.00 Tested PH in the soil, it was 6.9 and tested my tap water and it was 6.8. Added video of the girl.
Kl 22.30. New pics.
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2017-09-08 KL 08.00. Good morning, added new video.
2017-09-08. Kl 23.50. Gave every girl 3 liters of water and nutes, added new video.
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2017-09-09. Kl 21.00. Defoliated a lot and added pics.
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2017-09-10. Kl 08.00. Last day of week 2. New video.
2017-09-10. Kl 23.00. 3 new videos.
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@MediciGrade
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Setup the 4x4 tent with the new Gavita 1700e LED, self draining saucers, and the auto pumping drain to waste bucket.
Topped all 5 plants for the first time.
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@Compassionate_Gardener
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This cycle was all along a great pleasure. The plants developed MUCH BETTER THAN EXPECTED, the result under the Q6W-Gen. 2 LED lamps from SANlight is FANTASTIC. I have NEVER harvested more from plants of the same strain under HPS and the quality of the bud (trichomes, taste aroma) is MUCH BETTER when grown under LED, my decision is definitely made, I will continue to solemnly grow with LED-lights in the future. I harvested 2250 gram of Shiva Skunk and 3009 gram of Serious Kush, that a total amount of 5259 gram. In relation to the 3000 Watts (incl. dimmed part!) power of the LED-lights thats an AMAZING 1,753 gram per Watt.
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@StickyScissors
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Well here she is. My first Barney’s auto and I’m very impressed. Grew well, easy, lollipoped, with a great little yield. Expecting 2.5 oz but happy with 2 due to the short timing. Smells like fruity pebbles cereal. Excited to cure and will update with smoke report
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@CanadianFillmore
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Start of week 7, for the Super Lemon Haze, I'm repeating the week 6 feed cycle as she's going for at least one extra week 9, compared to only 8 weeks for the blueberries, before flushing.
Last week was good, but the Super Lemon Haze continues to be a very hungry girl. She is very sticky and has a light lemon smell. The two blueberry plants continue to pack on weight and size, they have a very pungent smell and are starting to get sticky like the SLH.
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@Grow4Releaf
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Just letting them go so far.
Had to pull some limbs down and helpem out a bit. But nothing crazy. Keeping them stout hopefully not trying to make any monsters.
Hoping the keep growing how they have been. Besides having alil issue with my tap water being pretty heavily chlorinated .. but got them straight and looking good again.
But, should start seeing some buds star poking their heads out !! Excited to see the FastBuds do their thing!!
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If ur looking to try the Promix connect mycorrhizal inoculant powder , or CX *coco* or any of their products definitely go give them a look and grab what you need!!
Nutrients.
Botanicare pure blend pro grow and bloom
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Tps calmag complete
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PowerSi original
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Bean from
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Lights
Phlizon pro-series PHX4 240w
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PL4500 450W
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