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Hi guys, just a quick info for whoever read this diary: I started this run with two plants but during Week 9 (57 days: 49 vegetative + 8 flowering) I had to remove the one on the right due slow growth (issue started after I topped her). Enjoy the reading. 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 Third run begins. 🍪🍦Cookies Gelato by RQS, my first time with photoperiods. I created this diary at the end of January but due some problem with the new drip system (too ph oscillations), I decided to go back to my first love: the DWC. This time, however, I decided to build my own DWC, taking into account the negative aspects that I find in the expensive DWC of various brands. This tank has about 50 liters capacity and on the bottom I have inserted a metal tap that will help me with the solution changes. The lid is made up of two parts, the upper one on which I made a hole in which I inserted a 2 liter planter full of expanded clay and the two root riot; the front part of the lid is magnificent because it opens and allows me to do a quick check of PH and EC. This time I'm going to count the days from the germination date. I'm going to VEG for about 40 days, then switch to 12/12 for about 70 days. I plan on topping the plants during week 4, then defoliation + SCROG during week 5, switch 12/12 during week 6. Then lollipopping at the end of the stretch. In this run I will use my new MARS HYDRO TS1000 2022 (already have one with 2021 MOSO driver), bought a few days ago to test the latest model with the proprietary Mars Hydro driver. I'm sure there will be further improvement in my performance 💪. No sponsor for me yet, what I have is what I bought but I hope someone can help me to bring my crops to the next level. I'm planning to buy a new 90x90 tent and a nice 300/480 watt lamp would be very nice. Crossed fingers! 🤞 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱GERMINATION STAGE🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 - 20/2/23: seeds in a glass of demineralized water, 2 drops of rootbastic and 3 drops of hydrogen peroxide for 24 hours, then in root riot; - 21/2/23: seeds under TS1000: 100 cm distance / 33% dimmer = 50 watt; - 22/2/23: first Cookies Gelato sprouted; - 23/2/23: second Cookies Gelato sprouted. - Got some gift from RQS, really appreciated. I'll consider tomorrow as 1° day of veg for all 2 seedlings. I'll switch 'em to 12/12 after 40/45 days of veg.
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Harvested the haze and cookies.. poor outcome.. lessons learned. PW going good but not ready for harvest i reckon.
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Legend Timestamp: 📅 EC - pH: ⚗️ Temp - Hum: 🌡️ Water: 🌊 Food: 🍗 pH Correction: 💧 Actions: 💼 Thoughts: 🧠 Events: 🚀 Media: 🎬 D: DAY, G: GERMINATION, V: VEGETATIVE, B: BLOOMING, R: RIPENING, D: DRYING, C: CURING ________________________________ 📅 D70/B08 - 24/01/24 ⚗️ 🌡️ 🌊 🍗 💼 🧠 pH is finally stable on the lower side (hopefully) 🚀 The Tent-X is on its way, I can't wait to get it.. 🎬 Added Timelapse video ________________________________ 📅 D71/B09 - 25/01/24 ⚗️ EC: 1.2 pH: 5.6 🌡️ T: 23 °C H: 45% 🌊 🍗 💧 💼 I put T-H Sensor of TrolMaster on the SCroG net 🧠 🚀Tent-X from TrolMaster received, I'm going to set it up tomorrow 🎬 Added Timelapse video ________________________________ 📅 D72/B10 - 26/01/24 ⚗️ EC: 1.2 pH: 6 🌡️ T: 23 °C H: 40% 🌊 Added 6L 🍗 Added Bloom A-B - CalMag - Big Bud - Bud Candy - B52 💼 Tent-X set up done ! 🧠 It works perfectly and as I just see so far, from now on, I'm going to experiment a new way to grow ! 🚀 🎬 Added Timelapse video and Set-Up videos and pics ________________________________ 📅 D73/B11 - 27/01/24 ⚗️ EC: 1 pH: 5.5 🌡️ T: 23 °C H: 40% 🌊 🍗 💧 Added a little of pH- 💼 🧠 🚀 🎬 Added Timelapse video ________________________________ 📅 D74/B12 - 28/01/24 ⚗️ EC: 1 pH: 5.5 🌡️ T: 23 °C H: 35% 🌊 Added 4L 🍗 Added CalMag - Bloom A-B - B52 - Bud Candy - Big Bud 💧 Added some pH- 💼 🧠 🚀 🎬 Added Timelapse video and 4 pics ________________________________ 📅 D75/B13 - 29/01/24 ⚗️ EC: 1 pH: 6.0 🌡️ T: 23 °C H: 50% 🌊 🍗 💧 💼 🧠 🚀 🎬 Added Timelapse video and "TM+ Pro" App screenshots. This is the app used to monotoring the Tent-X controller ________________________________ 📅 D76/B14 - 30/01/24 ⚗️ EC: 1.2 pH 6.1 🌡️ T: 18-26 °C H: 30-55% (from now on, I'll put the Min-Max values of T-H as I can easily read them from the app.) 🌊 4L 🍗 CalMag - Bloom A-B - Bud Candy - Big Bud - B52 💧 💼 I added a Humidifier as the H falls down to 30% 🧠 With the help of Humidifier, according with "TM+ Pro" app, I got the perfect VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit) rate !! (see screenshots) 🚀 I have to face a very low rate humidity of the external enviroment 🎬 Added Timelapse video and T-H values daily graph, and perfect VPD from the Tent-X controller ________________________________
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Thrips infection might prevent these lovely flowers from showing their full potential... Will start flushing passively the coming week. Will switch to 11/13 the coming week. There are two distinct phenotypes in terms of flowering time visible as the pics show.
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@buddha61
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7/29 - Week 9 of veg is starting. At this point, it is just let them grow up a few inches, and also fill out the pots some more with roots before transplanting to 5 gallon fabric pots (their final homes). I also plan on mixing a 'flower blend' soil to fill up the 5g pot around the rootball that is transplanted. This recipe for the soil is taken from MaximumYield: Enhanced fruit/flower potting soil recipe This soil recipe is designed for plants that are ready to fruit or flower. In particular, this recipe works great for ornamentals that are already in bloom and for fast-growing annuals that are entering their fruiting or flowering stage. Parenthesis indicate small changes or products I'm using. 1/2 cu. ft. (60 cups) sphagnum peat moss (Promix BX) 1/4 cu. ft. (30 cups) coco coir (Mother Earth Coco Peat) 1/4 cu. ft. (30 cups) compost (either compost or manure) 1/4 cu. ft. (30 cups) perlite 10 cups pumice (likely to just use perlite here) 5 cups worm castings 3 cups bat guano (high phosphorus) 1 cup fish bone meal (using regular bone meal, got Jobe's Bone Meal) 1 cup oyster shell 1/2 cup seabird guano (likely to just add as the high phosporous guano) 1/4 cup alfalfa meal 1/4 cup fish meal (Down to Earth Fish Meal) 2 tbsp. langbeinite (Down to Earth Langeinite) 1 tbsp. glacier rock dust (Azomite ordered from Amazon) 7/30 - While technically the morning of 7/31, lights haven't gone out yet, so it is still the 30th ;) It almost hurts posting pictures today, because they were really thirsty, but I honestly hadn't looked at them for a couple days. Anywho, the plants were watered with ~1.25 liters of water each, about 90 minutes before lights out. Will be interesting to post the 7/31 photos after a couple hours of lights on, and see the difference in appearance. I also mixed the soil for flowering, and it will now have a couple weeks to 'cook' and become ready for the plants. I did make a mistake and accidentally added 1 cup of fish meal instead of 1/4 cup (oops), and the alfalfa meal just smelled too good, so I added 1/2 cup instead of 1/4. Hopefully those 2 'changes' don't add too much nitrogen for flower, but I imagine it won't. I also instead of adding perlite (didn't want to buy a 4 cu ft bag when I needed at most 2.5 gallons (1/3 cu ft), so I opted to add 1 gallon of pumice. Since the coco peat and promix both have perlite in them, I didn't want too much added. There were also some worms from the compost that made it into the tote that is now storing the mix, so life has already started in the soil. 7/31 - It wasn't just after lights on, as I didn't have time to photo earlier, but this is just about 24 hours after watering, and praying/looking good. I had noticed that it looked like the fan had slipped down the pole a bit, and was causing some wind burn/clawing of the leaves yesterday, which probably attributed to poor looks, but looking better today! While I am not that versed in checking preflowers, from what I can tell, if I had to guess, CH#1 could be either (maybe slightly leaning towards female, thought I might have saw a couple hairs), and the #2 actually looked male to me. 8/4 - After getting home from work, and realizing I hadn't checked on the plants in a couple days and I knew they were due for water either yesterday or today, I saw some THIRSTY plants. They each got ~1.2L of water, and also a quick trim back. After checking preflowers again, I am afraid that both Chinook plants may end up male :(
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13cm vertical growth this week. She's now 24cm tall. She seems to be growing... but very slow. She's still in veg, no sign of any flowers yet..
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☘️19/07 - A la semilla la hidrate por 24hs, utilicé el método que BSF recomienda. ☘️20/07 - Puse la semilla en papel húmedo para que brote. ☘️21/07 - Ya brotó, creció 2cm aprox y la mandé directo a una maceta de 3L. En una o dos semanas ya la voy a estar trasplantando a una maceta Root House de 10L. ☘️Ahora tengo que esperar que brote así ya empiezo a darle el estimulador de raíz. ☘️Voy a dejarla dos semanas en etapa de enraizamiento para que se preparen bien las raíces, tres semanas en crecimiento ya que es una semilla Faster y BSF me recomendó que tenga esas semanas y seis semanas en etapa de flora. ☘️24/07 - Ya brotó la plantula. ☘️26/07 - Le agregue 0.5ml de Deeper Underground y el 02/08 le voy agregar 0.5ml más, para ya finalizar con la etapa de enraizamiento y ya poder transplantarla. ☘️30/07 - Cumple 10 días de vida. ☘️02/08 - Le agregue 0,5ml de Deeper Underground. ☘️07/08 - Voy a transplantarla a una maceta de 10L y ya el día 9 entra en etapa de crecimiento. ☘️En estos dias seguire subiendo mas imegenes de como viene. 🍀😶‍🌫️🇦🇷Podes seguirme en Instagram como @bruweed_arg 🍀😶‍🌫️🇦🇷
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Day 30 Kush: + can't find any new hermaphrodite flowers + Continues to grow steadily Happiness: + Lovely sweet smell of candy + Beautiful flower structure +A sea of flowers - Shows lack of appearance in the form of yellow leaf spikes. But only a few leaves. Could also have been too much watering.
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The blueberry gelato was great, cured up lovely, got me nice and high. The cannacotta was decent, not my favorite, got me very high but the flavor wasn't there. The slurricane was kind of bland to start with but cures up lovely, wasnt my first choice of smoke though. The blue cheese was classic blue cheese, might have let it go too long though, didn't find any herms in there but 2 plants went to seed. The zookies was amazing, definitely my favorite from the crop, buds nice and dense and after a short cure it was a stinky one.
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Well, another week has passed and they are growing very well, now it's a matter of two to three weeks for me to change them to flora, this week I did a little defoliation on the plants and watered them again with top crop top veg fertilizer and I also did some bindings known as low stress training. =D
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Mal schauen wie hoch die noch in der Blüte gehen werden😎 Kollege kümmert sich gut
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I'm 90% sure this one is in her finishing week here. More amber trichromes are coming in daily. I don't wanna push her too far like last time because this strain turned pure amber and kinda lost some crystaly luster during the curing process. My light timer, grow tent, and light upgrades really made a big difference in bud development compared to my last run with Runtz basically leading to bigger more frostier buds. I'm dropping temps lower at night. I give it a couple liters a day to keep the top soil moist. Flushed water comes out 6.8 ish. My CO2 exhale bag was the biggest flop as it was expired and did not activate. I plan on 48 hours darkness before harvest starting today: the day of the eclipse. With the new moon we have a high pressure system that is peaking at night around 1028 dB. Water should be pushed up into the plant from roots. Coupled with lights out....all theoretical witch craft. I have a small 2x2 dark tent pictured which needs to have AC bring in cold fresh air from outside. If no fresh air added the tent gets humid and stagnant after a while. The darkness period is bringing out that strong and sweet 'medicinal' smell. If you ever tried weed labeled medicinal youd have an idea of what I mean. I guess thats the orange bud/chemo lineage traits. Before lights off the smell was more towards yeast fermentation smell and not soo sweet.
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She is shaping up nicely. Buds are coming in really good. I pulled a few of her branches down to let a little more light thru. Tricomes are coming in good as well. I think she is going to be a good one 👍!!!! Her buds have doubled in the last few days and the tricomes really started kicking in. She is taking shape very well. Super happy with 420 Fast Buds!! Will definitely be growing again
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She got the chop and is now in the process of drying out stoked to see how she yield and ends this journey. She smells so good and is sOo sticky. Amazing.
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@Raizativa
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Riego: 1ml Bio grow 1ml Top max 1ml top bloom 1ml calmag 1ml Bio Heaven 0.5 Micorrizas colectivo científico Se han ido ajustando los amarres de LST cada día por medio aprox.
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3 weeks down and into the fourth! This girl has started exploding in the last few days. I've now started to tuck the bigger leaves under the new growth as much as I can. The Gorilla Cookies definitely is the healthiest girl in the tent. As for environment, today I've turned the ventilation fan on 24hrs with no breaks. I started getting paranoid that hour on hour off is not doing them any favors and I'm just gonna have to suck it up and bare the brunt of the power bill. This will also drastically reduce the RH, which I'm not totally sure of the effects it will have on the girls. Low RH has got to be better than RH too high, right? 🤷‍♂️
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77 days, for some reason, the girl is growing without me :( the vacation was unexpectedly long, I only managed to get these photos, I'll be back to see them next week on Tuesday, I think it might be harvest day :).
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@Joah420
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So that's my first ever grow completed! And something tells me i don't think it will be the last 😁🤔 overall I am proud as punch with the end result. Overall from 7 plants I ended up with 5 1/2 oz dry, top buds seem to be more compact and built up, apart from that the majority 70-80% are very airy, however absolutely packed with thc shining! Being my first grow its all for personal use so i dont mind 😁😊 any suggestions moving forward for future increase in fatter/denser nugs would be appreicated. I ran 2 x 600 watt cheap led lights, which im 100% certain dimmed towards the last 3 weeks (the brightness dramatically reduced) making me think that a few leds burnt out throughout - I think moving forward i would look into better spec grow light. Found these girls very easy to grow, very forgiving for anything i done wrong being my first experience. The plants grew all different shapes and sizes I done some lst rather late into the grow which I think give some funky growth shapes, in the end all grew out with loads of bud locations all over. Really wish I had given more space for light penetration. I ran 6 fabric pots and 1 plastic, I felt the ladie in the plastic pot took off much quicker than the rest and on cutting down seemed to have the best root setup, anyone else have an opinion on what they find best? The smells and taste are very very fruity and cirtusy/lemon, smoke nice head high still curing will update with full smoke report in a week or so! Towards the last 3 weeks or so the smell from the plants was strong and very fruity, would reccomend a carbon filter if trying to stay down low. Used all my trim and alot of of the pop corn nugs for butter so nothing went to waste currently making a huge batch for some tastey treats. Would love another blast at growing these ladies, learnt alot throughout and will take the knowledge to future grows! Thanks for all the love and support on my first grow, and keeping me right throughout, Until next time 😊😛🙏
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These fast bud genetics have given me a new hope for autos. For 53 days I have some nice sized colas and buds with beautiful color and the most amazing smells. I can’t believe these things just get better by the day. Can’t wait to grow my next set of fastbuds genetics
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Happy to see big bud , and to see the crossing of this both concours winner ,I can’t wait to test it…