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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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@BlumenBot
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2/28 - she got a feeding and I removed the shoots starting at each bottom node on every top. 6.0ph
3/3 - I took off the leaves that were at the nodes where I removed the shoots earlier this week. Now onto gaining height. Looking tight!
3/5 - Flush feeding
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Start of week 3 for the girls @fastbuds 🙌🏻🙌🏻 Growing and looking strong 💪🏻 !
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@sacredgeometry
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calyxes are swelling.
pistils are starting to ripen curling inwards and turning orange. Trichome production is getting higher.
I committed a mortal sin and squeezed a bud with my hands. It was pretty dense. I was pruning a few fan leaves on the main cola that were blocking a lot of light and accidentally cut a bud off. I dried it and concluded that I lost about a gram 🙁 The nug was pretty dense for being only 5 1/2 weeks at the time.I hope they are rock hard when ready.
There are some of the most unique terpenes I've ever smelled. They smell like sweetened condensed milk with a sour earthy smell with a hint of skunk.
My cat loves cannabis leaves....
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@QuantumB
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Mad stretch this week!
A little bit of nute burn where I overfed but other than that, things are looking good.
Once the stretch has slowed down I will do some heavy defoliation to get things under control a tad but at the moment I'm just letting them do their thing.
Peace!
QB
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@MaxGrowCanada
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First time grower, criticism will be well recieved😀
Two plant ebb and flow setup in a 3x3 as a test run
Top feeding until I can afford the rest of my setup🙄
Started seed in water balanced to 6.0
Sat. Feb. 29th
Tap roots within 12 hours, directly into pre soaked rockwool cubes.
Broke the surface march 3rd.
Began 1/4 strength micro, grow, bloom and stress relief
Using very hard water for the next couple days, roughly 450 PM out of the tap.
Ro system to be installed march 6th
Ro system now installed.
Start of week 1 will be Saturday the 7th of March.
Day 2:
Turned the light down to roughly 50%, instead of raising it, due to the fear of light burn. Will look into it soon.
Plants seem to have recovered after I decreased the light intensity.
Fan and filter purchased.
Alternating flush and feed cycles 12 hours apart to keep salt sats down.
Day 3:
Bumped light intensity back up to roughly 75% of the ts1000's capability or 700 "light units" from a cheapy 3way meter.
Adding as much co2 as I can through baking soda and dilute phosphoric acid.
Day 4:
Exhaust fan with climate control installed March 10th
Day 5:
Girls exploded now that I have my salt build up figured out .
Day 6:
Light back up to 100%
Day 7:little droopy on the one plant, gonna let them dry out a day
Setup should be complete for start of week 2.(actually sick right now and having trouble getting supplies)
Still need a flood table setup.
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@Magic_frequency
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Hoping for 30gs on this bad girls :) and some qua
Till next grow!💚 its gonna be massive 😍 thank you all see you in 2-3 months quality hits!
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@RDWCGrowing
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12/25/2023-Germination Day 1
Merry X-mas 2023 I decided to start a run of SolFIre Gardens Hoodz Candyz S1. I am going to do a cup filled with RO water a touch of Hydrogen peroxide and let it sit for 24-48 hours until I see tap root then I am going to put it into a rapid rooter.. Tap root Down and put it about 1/4 of the say down the Rapid rooter.
I made some modifications to my basket on this run.. I have taken a few Pods that I use for my cloning machine and decided that I am going to try and use them as sure plants, so that I can take my water right up to the bottom of the basket this time and see if these can make my planting more consistent.
12/26/2023-Germination Day 2
Tap root achieved Planting Commencing
12/27/2023-Germination Day 3
Misted the dome lightly misted the rapid rooter and added a little water to the bottom of the pan to encourage root growth to the pan.
12/28/2023-Germination Day 4
Ground Hogs day
12/29/2023- Germination Day 5
She is up, she has broken surface, I misted the root riot, and around the bottom of the tray to try and entice root growth down rapidly.
12/31/2023- Germination Day 6
Ground Hogs Day
1/1/2024-Germination Day 7
HAPPY NEW YEARS!!.. I did it I planned it out so my planting day would fall on New Years and it worked.. Yay!!!
1/2/2024- Germination Day 8
Since the roots are not to the water yet, I am pouring one cup of water lightly on the hydroton around the lady to try and encourage root growth down to the water..
1/3/2024- Germination Day 9
Ground Hogs day, will continue until roots hit the water.
1/4/2024- Germination Day 10
Ground Hogs day, will continue until roots hit the water. I will just continue to top feed until roots are in the water.. Shouldn't be more than a few more days.
1/5/2024- Germination Day 11
Ground Hogs day, will continue until roots hit the water. I am going to change the water Sunday and kick off Week 1, I will just continue to top feed until roots are in the water.. Shouldn't be more than a few more days.
1/6/2024- Germination Day 12
Ground Hogs day, will continue until roots hit the water. I will just continue to top feed until roots are in the water.. Shouldn't be more than a few more days.
1/6/2024- Germination Day 13
Ground Hogs day, will continue until roots hit the water.
1/7/2024- Germination Day 14
Ground Hogs day, will continue until roots hit the water.
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@tresplantes
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Its Day 31 the last day of flower all plants are more than ready for 12/12
I will increase the light on the First flower Day to 100% to minimize stretch
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@Seabass
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4.7.
every 3 days 4liters for 5 plants
Ph 6 with fertilizer
Slug repellent
Ants repelent
Yellow stickers
Neem oil
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@Inhomerhizome
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All looking frosty around day 42 of flower!
Just been on water for the whole of flower! Watered with aact as well every other week but real happy with this run!
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@nonick123
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Día 34 (19/02) Pasamos a 12/12 😁
Riego 1,25 Litro H20 + Wholly Base 2 ml/l + Solid Green 1,5 ml/l + Rise Up 1 ml/l de Gen1:11
TDS 875 PPMs - pH 6,28
Día 36 (21/02). Las plantas están explotando en crecimiento vertical! 2,5 cm al día 😍💥
Dia 38 (23/02).
Riego 1,25 Litro H20 + Wholly Base 2 ml/l + Solid Green 1,5 ml/l + Rise Up 1 ml/l de Gen1:11
TDS 875 PPMs - pH 6,28
He decidido subir el riego a 1,25 litros porque se muestran sedientas!
Día 39 (24/02) Muestra las preflores y no para de estirarse! 😍😍😍🐎
💦Nutrients by Gen1:11 - www.genoneeleven.com
🌱Substrate PRO-MIX HP BACILLUS + MYCORRHIZAE - www.pthorticulture.com/en/products/pro-mix-hp-biostimulant-plus-mycorrhizae
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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 Stilton Special will turn out.
Strain Name: Stilton Special F1
Genetic heritage - Sour Livers F3 x Northern Cheese Haze F3
Strain behaviour - Stilton grows well from the off, and develops into a stout but branchy specimine that leads to a fine yield of awesome flowers. She's not too stretchy but also is sizeable enough with good growth, to train and shape to your liking. Flowers develop pretty fast and grow to a good size, it may to advised to clear out some undergrowth and if needs be a very gentle defoliation mid-way through the grow, although leaf tucking may suffice well enough.The end product is of top shelf quality and she doesn't lack in yield either.Give your garden, nose, and body a treat and be sure to indulge in a slice of Stilton this year, You won't regret it.
Size - 50 - 70 cm
Structure - Medium height but bushy
Flower Density - 9/10
Indica/Sativa - 65/35
Cycle Time - 65 to 70 days from sprout
Yield - 90 to 140 grams as a single plant
Best Method for overall high yield - 9-12 per 1,2m x 1,2m sq in 10-15 Liter pots (Soil)
Aroma - Very strong, Cheesey/fruity/sour/spicey/ with a dash of coffee.
Taste - Dank berries
Effect - Good hybrid powerful but balanced effect
Medicinal Benefits - TBA
Best Grown - Indoor/Greenhouse
Cannabinoids - TBA
Extract information - Ideal extract candidate - High in resin, oil and terps.
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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 to the 15 liter autopot.
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2017-08-29. New movie of the girl and a new pic of the grow room from now.
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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 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 of the room from today.
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2017-09-02. New pic
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2017-09-03. Video of the girl this morning.
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2017-09-04. Week 2 starts, 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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@Salokin
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The High intensity was to strong (clearly my fault) in the beginning which stunted her overall stretch, she however still delivered super dense, terpene and trichome loaded buds.
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Info:
Unfortunately, I had to find out that my account is used for fake pages in social media.
I am only active here on growdiaries.
I am not on facebook instagram twitter etc All accounts except this one are fake.
Hello, everyone .
The lady is developing beautifully.
She also responds very well to training.
You feel extremely comfortable with GreenBuzzLiquids 👍😊.
This week the water was poured twice with 0.8 l each time (see table above for nutrient administration).
Topping has been applied once this week and I'll do it a few more times before it goes into bloom.
I sprayed them 2 times with GreenBuzzLiquids Spray this week.
Otherwise, as always, everyone was checked for their health, the tent was cleaned and observed for half an hour 😂.
I wish you all a lot of fun with the update.
Stay healthy 🙏🏻
You can buy this Nutrients at :
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With the discount code: Made_in_Germany you get a discount of 15% on all products from an order value of 100 euros.
You can buy This Strain at :
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Gelato clone from mother (Zamnesia )
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Genetics: Wedding Cake x Gelato x Gelato 33
Vega lamp:
2 x Todogrow Led
Quantum Board 100 W
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Bloom Lamp :
2 x Todogrow Led
Cxb 3590 COB 3500 K 205W
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Soil :
Canna Coco Professional +
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Nutrients :
Green Buzz Liquids :
Organic Grow Liquid
Organic Bloom Liquid
Organic more PK
More Roots
Fast Buds
Humic Acid Plus
Growzyme Big Fruits
Clean Fruits
Cal / Mag
Organic Ph - Pulver
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Water: Osmosis water mixed with normal water (24 hours stale that the chlorine evaporates) to 0.2 EC. Add Cal / Mag to 0.4 Ec Ph with Organic Ph - to 5.8
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@BigDaddyK
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Had some dramas this week with root rot , I managed to save the sugar daddy but this one really suffered .. 😢
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@Boomdrawfyah
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Dia 95 de vida , hay dos fotos que son del dia 91 de vida antes de amarrar las plantas, las demás fotos son actuales.
Hay una ola de calor esta haciendo mas de 35 grados celcius y hace mal tiempo de un momento a otro puede hacer alguna tormenta así que decidimos coger las plantas para ayudarlas a resistir en caso de temporal.
Siguen creciendo y estan monstruosas aunque las indicas ya van marcando pistilo yo creo que aún tardarán en florecer por el momento todo va genial esperemos que no nos arruine el cultivo ninguna tempesta.
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@RzDreams
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24/10/2022 Todo va muy bien el crecimiento acelerado me preocupa por el poco espacio, 0.5m2
25/10/2022 Se baja a 15hrs de luz para aclimatar cambio a floración se empieza a descontrolar un poco el tamaño
Fl26/10/2022 Día de riego, se nota poca actividad en time lapse, este día comienza ciclo 12/12 se añade un poco de Triple 17 como abono
27/10/2022 Continúan creciendo se notan nuevos brotes en la parte baja y aceleración de crecimiento se adiciona nuevamente tierra diatomea para continuar con el tratamiento.
28/10/2022 Crecimiento acelerado, preparándose para comenzar a florar, se notan brotes nuevos en ramas bajas. Se hace amarre en 02 para que aprovechen más la luz las hojas que le quedan y se acomodan plantas a nivel de plástico reflectante para aprovechar más la luz
30/10/2022 Se hace poda de bajos para fomentar el desarrollo de las ramas superiores, El crecimiento ceso, al parecer comenzara a florecer...
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Week 3 begins for LSD and Green Crack. Both ladies are looking good, but had some small signs of deficiency. Added big bud coco and upped feeding another liter (split feed day 1 & day 5 of each week), hopefully this will help resolve the deficiencies.
Thanks for stopping by growfessors 👽🌳💚
