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Welcome back to Colorado Gnome Grown. This week the gnomeโ€™s have been busy with the irrigation system. The water is stored in a 5g container and I mix the feed in it and it gets feed every time I water, which is twice a day for 1 minute, or until the plants drip. The plants are setting on a rack so that the water can drain away from the plant and into a tray. The plan is to buy Big Buds the first of the month to keep on hand to finish up in 4 weeks. Cookie Monster is 4in today and Noel is 2in, and both are starting to grow their bud site. Next week I will Top and defoliate for the first time. Well thatโ€™s all this time, tune next week for more information on; Colorado Gnome Grown!!!๐Ÿ˜Ž
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๐ŸŒฑ Week 2 โ€“ Vegetative Growth 09/27: Started the day noticing chlorosis on some leaves. The pattern matches an iron deficiency: interveinal chlorosis mainly on the newer leaves. After checking, this seems to be caused by a nutrient lockout, consistent with the high substrate pH since the beginning of the grow. Lesson learned for next time. Performed a heavy flush with 20 L of water per plant. Runoff dropped from EC 1200 โ†’ 500 and pH 7.1 โ†’ 6.7. From now on, Iโ€™ll water with enough solution to get ~20% runoff each time instead of just ~250 ml. Will also lower input pH to 5.6โ€“5.7 to gradually bring substrate pH down into range. Noticed that some plants have started to give off a light smell ๐ŸŒฟ. 09/28: Each plant watered with 1 L at pH 5.6, EC 950. Solution included 3 ml/L CalMag + 0.8 ml/L Coco A + 0.8 ml/L Coco B + 1 ml/L Deeper Underground. Runoff EC not measured (since heavy flush was done yesterday). Runoff pH still unchanged, same as yesterday (~6.7). Yesterday I lowered the light, today increased it back to 13.5k lux. Chlorosis is still advancing, hoping successive irrigations will help bring substrate pH down. 09/29: Watered again but with 500ml this time. Solution (same recipe as yesterday) at pH 5.6. Surprisingly, runoff pH rose higher than yesterday, now at 7.0, with EC 700. Light intensity increased to 14.5k lux. 09/30: Watered with 500 ml at pH 5.6, EC 1050. Solution included 3 ml/L CalMag (new bottle โ€” seems to add more EC than the old one) + 1 ml/L Coco A + 1 ml/L Coco B + 1 ml/L Deeper Underground. Runoff measured EC 700โ€“800, pH 7.0. Since the flush, stems have thickened significantly ๐Ÿ’ช. 10/01: Watered with 1 L at pH 5.6, EC 1200. Solution included 2.5 ml/L CalMag + 1 ml/L Coco A + 1 ml/L Coco B + 1 ml/L Deeper Underground. Runoff measured EC 650, pH 7.0. Substrate pH still not dropping, but plants are growing at a good pace. Only two plants continue to show chlorosis, while all show a noticeable thickening of stems this week. 10/02: Significant vertical growth observed โ€” most plants stretched about 8 cm in the last 3 days. Watered again with the same solution as yesterday, but only 500 ml per plant. Input pH 5.6, runoff pH still at 7.0, EC 600โ€“700. Chlorosis persists, and on one plant with symptoms, small brown spots appeared, suggesting a possible manganese deficiency. Also noticed what look like early pre-flowers (tiny pistils) on two plants, though it feels early for day 20. 10/03: Watered with the same solution as previous days (pH 5.6, EC 1200). Runoff remained stable at pH 7.0, EC ~600โ€“700. Based on uptake, I plan to progressively raise input EC until EC in โ‰ˆ EC out. Gradually increasing VPD range, target for Week 3 is 1.0โ€“1.2 kPa. --- ๐Ÿ“ Week 2 Summary ๐Ÿšฉ Main challenge: persistent high runoff pH (~7.0) causing chlorosis, initially resembling iron deficiency but later showing signs closer to manganese deficiency (brown spotting). Heavy flush reduced EC, but pH correction is progressing slowly. Plants responded with strong stem thickening and rapid vertical growth (+8 cm in 3 days). Aroma starting to appear on some plants ๐ŸŒฟ. โšก Light stabilized around 14โ€“15k lux, with adjustments to avoid stress. ๐ŸŒฑ Despite issues, most plants are vigorous, only 2 showing stronger deficiency symptoms. โžก๏ธ Plan for Week 3 Irrigation: Increase input EC gradually until it balances with runoff (~EC in = EC out). Maintain runoff at ~20% each watering. pH management: Keep input pH at 5.6โ€“5.7 to push substrate down from current ~7.0. VPD: Raise target range to 1.0โ€“1.2 kPa for optimal transpiration. Light: Hold intensity ~14.5k lux, slight increases only if no stress observed. Monitoring: Track chlorosis spots closely โ€” see if new growth improves once substrate stabilizes. Pre-flowers: Keep observing possible pistils.
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I am pretty excited. ๐Ÿ™‚. They are coming along nicely. The ladies arms are getting more and more swollen every day. The stretch has stopped. I have done some more defoliation (can't keep my hands away from the damn scissors. Lol). I will update throughout the week. ๐Ÿ˜Ž
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Thanks to you guys I sorted over watering problem. This growing has been great and I cannot wait to taste Purple Buds. I will update on the smoke report when girls are ready :). Peace0
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Hey everyone ๐Ÿ‘‹ Back again for a week 2 update. Still not much to report really. The clones all seem to be rooting nicely. A few are yellowing on the leaves. But that's to be expected with very little nutes given to them. (very very small amount to avoid stress or nute burn) Other than the few yellow leaves they are all still very perky looking so that's a definite positive. All in all things are looking on track ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿป If any pros ever see me doing dumb shit with my grow feel free to point it out and give any advice. Any feedback is great. Always room to learn right!? Oh, and the music over the vid is me. I was bored last week and recorded for the first time in yrs. Figured my vids could use some original music over them ๐Ÿ˜‚. Sorry if it's painful to listen to ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ As always, I'll see U all next week โœŒ๏ธ๐Ÿป&๐Ÿ’š From the CannaChat team. SenseChats NO.1 cannabis channel Double_oh
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Hey GROWERS, hope find you all well ๐Ÿ˜Ž DAY 1 of week 5 , 3 girls with same growth report 1 of them showing development but as you see smaller then others, could be something related with strain sensitive, since all ones have the same enviroment and conditions. As you can see one of them seens to be purple since the firts calyx are purple ๐Ÿ˜. When you have a mix pack you are allways dreaming about ahahahaha, the really funny thing is that my friend that give me the seeds knows the strains ๐Ÿ˜‡ and will be a very good challenge try to discover the strains. Thank you all, have a really nice WEEK. _GrF_
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8 week We have 12 strong plants and one skinny one. They start drinking more then 1.5 l with one application of water. Smells really sweetly and fruity. I really love it!
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My first ever grow Iโ€™ve learnt from you tube basic knowledge etc but I donโ€™t feel like I need a warm welcome as weed smokers are probably the nicest people you can meet, sheโ€™s coming a long so well, no low stress training as my first grow the nutrients definitely work compare to not using them so thatโ€™s a massive difference ๐Ÿ‘Š๐Ÿป
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Alright Then REMINDER I DO 2 UPDATES PER WEEK ๐Ÿ‘‰WEEKLYROUNDUP๐Ÿ‘ˆ๐Ÿ‘‰MIDWEEKLY UPDATE๐Ÿ‘ˆ We just hit week 3 and all is well , have to admit she been a little bit of a let down ,still she keeps on going in just 21 days๐Ÿ˜ƒ ....... So this little sprout is tuff but I did screwed up and placed her in a bad spot and it got HEAT STRESSED last week๐Ÿ˜ญ Fixed the problem and shes bounce back within a few days.......๐Ÿ‘ Still very little vertical growth , but I'm working g on it ๐Ÿ˜ Very little water given ,so far and rain water to be used entire growth Lights being readjusted and chart updated .........๐Ÿ‘ I GOT MULTIPLE DIARIES ON THE GO ๐Ÿ˜ฑ please check them out ๐Ÿ˜Ž ๐Ÿ‘‰I WISH GD HAD DISCORD SERVER SO GROWMIES COULD HAVE A PLACE TO HELP AND TALK THINGS RELATED TO GROWING IN REAL TIME .....๐Ÿ‘ˆ ๐Ÿ‘‰SO I CREATED ONE ALL YOU NEED IS TO JOIN THE GROWDIARIES DISCORD SERVER !!!!!!!!!!!๐Ÿ‘ˆ LINK IS ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://discord.gg/zQmTHkbejs AND SEE HOW IT PLAYS OUT !!!!!!!
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Wow! I thought it took off last week but this week has set a new record. This plant is bushy as hell. I've done a lot of LST this week, but it seems like every day there's a new tallest branch that needs to be roped up and tied down to the sides. My hetero life partner says I am being mean to the poor P.Sprout, but it is tough love and sprout will grow up stronger this way. Each day I've taken a branch that has grown about an inch above the rest and tied it with masons twine in a loop to the edge of the Ebb and Flow container and attached it with a binder clip. The next day there's some new growth that's taken its new light and shot up past the canopy and the process repeats. Interestingly the primary two shoots that came from topping are growing very slowly after being pulled off to the sides-- kind of falling behind the shoots coming out of their nodes. I've now tied off 7 shoots to the edges of the container and I'll probably have two more committed to light bondage tomorrow. I'm still struggling with the plant wilting in the evenings. By 6 or 7pm everything is looking a little sad and droopy. I've tried changing flooding schedules 2x, 3x, and 4x a day during the 18 hour lights on but it always seems to happen around the same time now. Temperature is not an issue as the temps at the plant are around 27C and the tent has been below 25C. I'm going to try upping the number of waterings to 5x 6x 7x and 8x this week. The webcam running the timelapse also flaked out a bunch this week but that has been resolved.
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Plants are getting big enough to train through the fence. Im thinking a vertical scrog, but its gonna be a bitch to harvest . We will see, still dunno if they are even female
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Nice big plant, lots of dense buds. It smells a little bit citrus, but not strong smell.
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Hello everyone week 2 has passed for this Vanilla Latte auto by humboldt seed๐Ÿ˜Ž this plant is doing very well growing at fast pace and with a beautiful green colour on the leaves. wish you all happy growing!๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿป