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A big hello to all the cannabis growing gardeners...and all the other visitors that came across my grow journal. I'm a little bit late with starting this grow because the plants will finish around end of december or so, so i'm basically counting on a warm december :) This grow was supposed to start earlier, and I did germinate 11 seeds last month but only three of the lot sprouted out, it was totally my fault and i did abort that grow so we could start with a clean slate and at least four plants....so here we are ;) All three seeds popped after 36 hours in a glass of water, but thanks to my thick awkward fingers only two seedlings came out after planting in rockwool...my fingers are killers to most of my little sprouts :/ We were gifted Moby Dick seeds by Romy from Seeds Mafia to take part in the competition they are running. Thank you Seeds Mafia, for giving me the opportunity try out your stock. It's the first time we get to grow Seeds Mafia cultivar. https://seedsmafia.com/en/feminized-cannabis-seeds/moby-dick-feminized.html This whole grow's main sponsor is Spider Farmer and as such I added a video of unpacking one of the parcels I got from SF. Here are the links for people interested in the Spider Farmer products that are presented in the videos: https://www.spider-farmer.com/products/spider-farmer-30w-uv-led-grow-light-bar/ https://www.spider-farmer.com/products/spider-farmer-30x-60x-jewelers-loupe-magnifier-for-led-light/ A big thank you to Jessie and the whole Spider Farmer crew for supporting my effort to grow the best cannabis I can. Let's get this started already! Thank you for your visit, please leave a like and hope to see you beck here in about a week.
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Segunda semana. Transplanté a 25 litros maseta mad rocket, mismo sustrato, sembré trébol blanco, intercalé riego de agua con riego de enraizador
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Lacewings seemed to have mostly killed themselves by flying into hot light fixtures. I may have left the UV on which was smart of me :) Done very little to combat if anything but make a sea of carcasses, on the bright side its good nutrition for the soil. Made a concoction of ethanol 70%, equal parts water, and cayenne pepper with a couple of squirts of dish soap. Took around an hour of good scrubbing the entire canopy. Worked a lot more effectively and way cheaper. Scorched earth right now, but it seems to have wiped them out almost entirely very pleased. Attempted a "Fudge I Missed" for the topping. So just time to wait and see how it goes. Question? If I attached a plant to two separate pots but it was connected by rootzone, one has a pH of 7.5 ish the other has 4.5. Would the Intelligence of the plant able to dictate each pot separately to uptake the nutrients best suited to pH or would it still try to draw nitrogen from a pot with a pH where nitrogen struggles to uptake? Food for stoner thought experiments! Another was on my mind. What happens when a plant gets too much light? Well, it burns and curls up leaves. That's the heat radiation, let's remove excess heat, now what? I've always read it's just bad, or not good, but when I look for an explanation on a deeper level it's just bad and you shouldn't do it. So I did. How much can a cannabis plant absorb, 40 moles in a day, ok I'll give it 60 moles. 80 nothing bad ever happened. The answer, finally. Oh great........more questions........ Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are molecules capable of independent existence, containing at least one oxygen atom and one or more unpaired electrons. "Sunlight is the essential source of energy for most photosynthetic organisms, yet sunlight in excess of the organism’s photosynthetic capacity can generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) that lead to cellular damage. To avoid damage, plants respond to high light (HL) by activating photophysical pathways that safely convert excess energy to heat, which is known as nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) (Rochaix, 2014). While NPQ allows for healthy growth, it also limits the overall photosynthetic efficiency under many conditions. If NPQ were optimized for biomass, yields would improve dramatically, potentially by up to 30% (Kromdijk et al., 2016; Zhu et al., 2010). However, critical information to guide optimization is still lacking, including the molecular origin of NPQ and the mechanism of regulation." What I found most interesting was research pointing out that pH is linked to this defense mechanism. The organism can better facilitate "quenching" when oversaturated with light in a low pH. Now I Know during photosynthesis plants naturally produce exudates (chemicals that are secreted through their roots). Do they have the ability to alter pH themselves using these excretions? Or is that done by the beneficial bacteria? If I can prevent reactive oxygen species from causing damage by "too much light". The extra water needed to keep this level of burn cooled though, I must learn to crawl before I can run. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are key signaling molecules that enable cells to rapidly respond to different stimuli. In plants, ROS plays a crucial role in abiotic and biotic stress sensing, integration of different environmental signals, and activation of stress-response networks, thus contributing to the establishment of defense mechanisms and plant resilience. Recent advances in the study of ROS signaling in plants include the identification of ROS receptors and key regulatory hubs that connect ROS signaling with other important stress-response signal transduction pathways and hormones, as well as new roles for ROS in organelle-to-organelle and cell-to-cell signaling. Our understanding of how ROS are regulated in cells by balancing production, scavenging, and transport has also increased. In this Review, we discuss these promising developments and how they might be used to increase plant resilience to environmental stress. Temperature stress is one of the major abiotic stresses that adversely affect agricultural productivity worldwide. Temperatures beyond a plant's physiological optimum can trigger significant physiological and biochemical perturbations, reducing plant growth and tolerance to stress. Improving a plant's tolerance to these temperature fluctuations requires a deep understanding of its responses to environmental change. To adapt to temperature fluctuations, plants tailor their acclimatory signal transduction events, specifically, cellular redox state, that are governed by plant hormones, reactive oxygen species (ROS) regulatory systems, and other molecular components. The role of ROS in plants as important signaling molecules during stress acclimation has recently been established. Here, hormone-triggered ROS produced by NADPH oxidases, feedback regulation, and integrated signaling events during temperature stress activate stress-response pathways and induce acclimation or defense mechanisms. At the other extreme, excess ROS accumulation, following temperature-induced oxidative stress, can have negative consequences on plant growth and stress acclimation. The excessive ROS is regulated by the ROS scavenging system, which subsequently promotes plant tolerance. All these signaling events, including crosstalk between hormones and ROS, modify the plant's transcriptomic, metabolomic, and biochemical states and promote plant acclimation, tolerance, and survival. Here, we provide a comprehensive review of the ROS, hormones, and their joint role in shaping a plant's responses to high and low temperatures, and we conclude by outlining hormone/ROS-regulated plant-responsive strategies for developing stress-tolerant crops to combat temperature changes. Onward upward for now. Next! Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is an energy-carrying molecule known as "the energy currency of life" or "the fuel of life," because it's the universal energy source for all living cells.1 Every living organism consists of cells that rely on ATP for their energy needs. ATP is made by converting the food we eat into energy. It's an essential building block for all life forms. Without ATP, cells wouldn't have the fuel or power to perform functions necessary to stay alive, and they would eventually die. All forms of life rely on ATP to do the things they must do to survive.2 ATP is made of a nitrogen base (adenine) and a sugar molecule (ribose), which create adenosine, plus three phosphate molecules. If adenosine only has one phosphate molecule, it’s called adenosine monophosphate (AMP). If it has two phosphates, it’s called adenosine diphosphate (ADP). Although adenosine is a fundamental part of ATP, when it comes to providing energy to a cell and fueling cellular processes, the phosphate molecules are what really matter. The most energy-loaded composition for adenosine is ATP, which has three phosphates.3 ATP was first discovered in the 1920s. In 1929, Karl Lohmann—a German chemist studying muscle contractions—isolated what we now call adenosine triphosphate in a laboratory. At the time, Lohmann called ATP by a different name. It wasn't until a decade later, in 1939, that Nobel Prize–-winner Fritz Lipmann established that ATP is the universal carrier of energy in all living cells and coined the term "energy-rich phosphate bonds."45 Lipmann focused on phosphate bonds as the key to ATP being the universal energy source for all living cells, because adenosine triphosphate releases energy when one of its three phosphate bonds breaks off to form ADP. ATP is a high-energy molecule with three phosphate bonds; ADP is low-energy with only two phosphate bonds. The Twos and Threes of ATP and ADP Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) becomes adenosine diphosphate (ADP) when one of its three phosphate molecules breaks free and releases energy (“tri” means “three,” while “di” means “two”). Conversely, ADP becomes ATP when a phosphate molecule is added. As part of an ongoing energy cycle, ADP is constantly recycled back into ATP.3 Much like a rechargeable battery with a fluctuating state of charge, ATP represents a fully charged battery, and ADP represents a "low-power mode." Every time a fully charged ATP molecule loses a phosphate bond, it becomes ADP; energy is released via the process of ATP becoming ADP. On the flip side, when a phosphate bond is added, ADP becomes ATP. When ADP becomes ATP, what was previously a low-charged energy adenosine molecule (ADP) becomes fully charged ATP. This energy-creation and energy-depletion cycle happens time and time again, much like your smartphone battery can be recharged countless times during its lifespan. The human body uses molecules held in the fats, proteins, and carbohydrates we eat or drink as sources of energy to make ATP. This happens through a process called hydrolysis . After food is digested, it's synthesized into glucose, which is a form of sugar. Glucose is the main source of fuel that our cells' mitochondria use to convert caloric energy from food into ATP, which is an energy form that can be used by cells. ATP is made via a process called cellular respiration that occurs in the mitochondria of a cell. Mitochondria are tiny subunits within a cell that specialize in extracting energy from the foods we eat and converting it into ATP. Mitochondria can convert glucose into ATP via two different types of cellular respiration: Aerobic (with oxygen) Anaerobic (without oxygen) Aerobic cellular respiration transforms glucose into ATP in a three-step process, as follows: Step 1: Glycolysis Step 2: The Krebs cycle (also called the citric acid cycle) Step 3: Electron transport chain During glycolysis, glucose (i.e., sugar) from food sources is broken down into pyruvate molecules. This is followed by the Krebs cycle, which is an aerobic process that uses oxygen to finish breaking down sugar and harnesses energy into electron carriers that fuel the synthesis of ATP. Lastly, the electron transport chain (ETC) pumps positively charged protons that drive ATP production throughout the mitochondria’s inner membrane.2 ATP can also be produced without oxygen (i.e., anaerobic), which is something plants, algae, and some bacteria do by converting the energy held in sunlight into energy that can be used by a cell via photosynthesis. Anaerobic exercise means that your body is working out "without oxygen." Anaerobic glycolysis occurs in human cells when there isn't enough oxygen available during an anaerobic workout. If no oxygen is present during cellular respiration, pyruvate can't enter the Krebs cycle and is oxidized into lactic acid. In the absence of oxygen, lactic acid fermentation makes ATP anaerobically. The burning sensation you feel in your muscles when you're huffing and puffing during anaerobic high-intensity interval training (HIIT) that maxes out your aerobic capacity or during a strenuous weight-lifting workout is lactic acid, which is used to make ATP via anaerobic glycolysis. During aerobic exercise, mitochondria have enough oxygen to make ATP aerobically. However, when you're out of breath and your cells don’t have enough oxygen to perform cellular respiration aerobically, the process can still happen anaerobically, but it creates a temporary burning sensation in your skeletal muscles. Why ATP Is So Important? ATP is essential for life and makes it possible for us to do the things we do. Without ATP, cells wouldn't be able to use the energy held in food to fuel cellular processes, and an organism couldn't stay alive. As a real-world example, when a car runs out of gas and is parked on the side of the road, the only thing that will make the car drivable again is putting some gasoline back in the tank. For all living cells, ATP is like the gas in a car's fuel tank. Without ATP, cells wouldn't have a source of usable energy, and the organism would die. Eating a well-balanced diet and staying hydrated should give your body all the resources it needs to produce plenty of ATP. Although some athletes may slightly improve their performance by taking supplements or ergonomic aids designed to increase ATP production, it's debatable that oral adenosine triphosphate supplementation actually increases energy. An average cell in the human body uses about 10 million ATP molecules per second and can recycle all of its ATP in less than a minute. Over 24 hours, the human body turns over its weight in ATP. You can last weeks without food. You can last days without water. You can last minutes without oxygen. You can last 16 seconds at most without ATP. Food amounts to one-third of ATP production within the human body.
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Nada, otra semana más engordando un poco más y cambiando poco a poco los tricomas a color ámbar.
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During this week, I have only occasionally defoliated to get better light on the inflorescences. I don't know when to put it into flower yet, as the smallest bush (Fruit Diesel) is looking quite pitiful, having just turned a month old. Other bushes are a couple weeks ahead of Fruit Diesel. What do you think, should I give it another week of vegetation or should I switch it to flowering at the end of the week?
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Hey everyone at week 4 know and wow have these girls grown early this week I applied some LST and all took really well to say it was my first time trying this
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From now on, only Reverse Osmosis watter for the ladies, no nutrients applied.
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So week 2 was a bit of a fuck up, I think. The scrog went into flower and by the end of week 1, it was looking far to busy and leafy, zero light was getting through so I decided to thin down a little. Also I wasn't happy with how the scrog was over developing, so I took away the net and allowed them some free growth and little more spread across the canopy. I think this work stressed them a little, who knows?? Ideally I should have given them a far more comprehensive prune a week before flower, alas I didn't so here I am. This weekend will mark 3 weeks of flower, and apart from the prune I've seriously left alone and will have for a couple weeks, so this weekend they will get some serious defoliation and probably a few straggler tops will be removed to thin down a little. After this weekend, again, just feed and monitor. So looks like I was just being a bit of a drama queen, the plants are doing superbly as I near wk 3, lots and lots of colas. I will be thinning these as needed whilst I prune by taking out any stragglers. I've also added back in some boost nutes just to help overcome any stress I may have caused. I've also raised the lights slightly to reduce stress at this important stage. Last one for this week, all plants fully defoliated which I'm stoked about, no problems, I think I'll need the odd support cane since a binned the scrog, but apart from that not much else left to do other that monitor all aspects to make sure of no silly mistakes.
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This week was a very cold week. 13 to 18 degrees during the day and at night like 10 to 13 degrees. Therefore the buds didn't swell properly. Luckly one Critical Kush is still swelling but the other one seems to have slowed down. It's oke, i knew this would happen and the kushes might not finish in time. Might harvest my Shamans at the end of the month. The kushes I will keep until half/end oktober. Since this is only a outside fungrow, I'm not making any effort to heat up the climate by putting heaters arround the plants. Critical Kushes are in their 3th week of flowering. Somehow GD minimalize the videos after putting 10pictures on the diary, Just click on the next picture and click on the right arrow to go to the videos. Have fun looking arround :)
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Day 58, 11th of November 2020: I set the lamp 15 minutes shorter to switch off earlier so she receives 11:45 of darkness. I would like to imitate the nature when longer nights come with time till the 4th week (when she will receive 13 hours darkness a day 15 minutes minus 4 times = 1hour) so every week 15 min longer darkness for 4 weeks and then back to 12/12 to have bigger buds from the 4th week.... Tropicanna poison... Nice plant well done Sweet Seeds.... Little beauty sex appears by the pistils are coming out so I assume strech is ending soon :) All good look at her fertilization happnes every 2nd day by the mix above and the ratio. Let's see.... She is promising haha :)
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Mild defoliation throughout this week. Flush imminent so will leave the remaining fans as nute banks. Next run with these genetics I'll be running a monstercropped clone under this scrog and will go heavier with the defoliation earlier on. I was advised this on here this grow and did a bit but have learned I need more! Forever learning. Looks like it's gonna be an epic harvest. These girls smell absolutely dank. Testament to the quality of these Madame Grow Fertilisers. Harvest just get better every time! Also big shout out to my bro at NatureDelight.co.uk providing some awesome organics to add into the grow schedule. Used The Active Sugar Boost all through flower at 3ml per litre this run and I think the results speak for themselves. I cannot implore you guys enough to go check this stuff out. It's unique and you wont find better customer service. Lots of vids and content this week as we all love bud shots <3
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This was my best experience yet with growing and am quite proud of myself! Training went almost perfect and the plants handled the resistance strengthened up and sprouted so many buds! All we’re dense and frosty by the end time! I dried in brown paper bags in 17.5-18.5c temps with a humidity of 40-50% and took 7 days to dry! I have them curing in 3L glass jars with 62% Boveda pack inside! I’ll be able to really taste the flavour then but it’s already strong and tastes great! Royal queen seeds are definitely worth a top place on seeds! Added a few photos after cure! The smell is like sweet pungent and flowery and the high is full body and u get itchy eyes and dry mouth!
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Week 6 of flower for the Fastbuds banana purple punch and gorilla cookies. The gorilla cookies has a real strong hazy smell to it and the banana purple punch has a real fruity smell to it. The strawberry banana from Fastbuds is flowering nicely a couple weeks behind.
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😍 And here we are. 😍 👻 Every explanations about the moovie and what I did are written at the end of the video. 10 minutes of your life to watch 57hours and 54 minutes of my Quickgreen's life. ♥️Shot in 2k ♥️Watch it fulll screen ! 👻 ♫♪ Music : Act I Year 1 of Akhnaten's Reign (Thebes) - Scene 1 Funeral of Amenhotep III ♥️♫ by Philip Glass ♪♫ End credits : Act I Year 1 of Akhnaten's Reign (Thebes) - Prelude - Refrain, Verse 1, Verse 2 ♥️♫ by Philip Glass ♪♫ 😻It was a lot of work while I was feeding them at the same time, I got a small place for the grow area and the camera (who isn't small at all). 💪Thank you to my dwarves who accompany me during this creative process 💪 Enjoy the moovie ! 👻 👉 12th of october 2021 / DAY 6 👉 Shooting the film from day 10 late at night, this feed was not too hard (I bumped the tripod of my camera on day 5) 👽Calmag 1.6 ml/2L + 👽 Acti-Vera 0.8ml/2L 👽Bio-Grow 0.6ml/2L 👽Bio-Heaven 0.8ml/2L 👽Terra Aquatica Root booster (GHE) 10 ml/2L /// p.h. 6.3 EC : 07 I mooved a bit while feeding Quickgreen, the big star of the movie, during the shot... I will take some pictures of the 2 others on the following days when the moovie will be over. 👉 13th of october 2021 / DAY 7 👉 Finish and uploaded the moovie. First time my lovely quick have a light break !!! Lights where on for 3 days. 12h00 to 18h00, lights are off. 18h00 : 👽Calmag 2 ml/2L + 👽 Acti-Vera 2 ml/2L 👽Bio-Grow 0.6ml/2L 👽Bio-Heaven 1 ml/2L 👽Terra Aquatica Root booster (GHE) 10 ml/2L /// 😇 p.h. 6.0 EC : 07 degree 22° 😇 Run-off : The smart pot are in direct contact with "fresh" wood, naked wood so I don't know if the run-off is accurate despite the plastic plant cup i've put under them to retrieve the water and to test it : 😰 Quigreen (moovie star) : E.C. 1, ph. probably 7 degree 19° ... 😰 QuickPink : E.C. 1.2 ph 7.2 degree 19° 😰 QuickBlue : E.C. : 1.1 ph 7.3 degree 19° Tent : Temp 24.2°- 19.5° // 61-81 % (light on - light off) 👉 14th of october 2021 / DAY 8 👉 👽Calmag 1 ml/1L + 👽 Acti-Vera 1 ml/1L 👽Bio-Grow 0.3333 ml/1L 👽Bio-Heaven 1 ml/1L 👽Terra Aquatica Root booster (GHE) 5 ml/1L /// 😇3 L. p.h. 5.9 EC : 08 degree 22° 😇 Run-off : from 0.8 to 1.2, quick blue seems to have troubles, ph seems decreasing, 6.9 about. 👻👻👻 New video : x3 speed with new music ! I keep shooting so I am adding materials, I will keep shooting until I have to close the tent in flow (smell reason)... Let's do it !👻👻👻 Edit : I've left a black frame (you will see shortly a fast cut) to show when the light turn off. So 6 hours in real life are not showned anymore since today. 👻💪😍Dwarves POWER 😍💪👻 👉 15th of october 2021 / DAY 9 👉 12:00 : took dailies back and added in editing timeline. Mooved the light from 100cm to ☼ 79cm (31inch) MAX 24.4°//92% MIN 20.4°//45% : average : 23°//61% Fan is on since yesterday (not the extractor but tent is a bit open on top so... we are good. /autoflower power 18h00: 👽Calmag 2 ml/3L + 👽 Acti-Vera 2 ml/3L 👽Bio-Grow 1 ml/3L 👽Bio-Heaven 2 ml/3L 👽Terra Aquatica Root booster (GHE) 15 ml/3L /// 😇3 L. p.h. 6.0 EC : 07 degree 23,8° 👉 16th of october 2021 / DAY 10 👉 12:00 : took dailies back and added in editing timeline. 👻👻👻 New video : x5 speed ! ... Let's do it !👻👻👻 18h00 : 👽Calmag 2 ml/3L + 👽 Acti-Vera 2 ml/3L 👽Bio-Grow 1 ml/3L 👽Bio-Heaven 2 ml/3L 👽Terra Aquatica Root booster (GHE) 15 ml/3L /// 😇3 L. p.h. 5.9 EC : 07 degree 22,4° 👉 17th of october 2021 / DAY 11 👉 12:00 : took dailies back and added in editing timeline. 18h00 : 👽Calmag 2 ml/3L + 👽 Acti-Vera 2 ml/3L 👽Bio-Grow 1.2 ml/3L 👽Bio-Heaven 2 ml/3L 👽Terra Aquatica Root booster (GHE) 15 ml/3L /// 😇3 L. p.h. 5.9 EC : 08 degree 21,4° /// Run-off pretty much the same for quickblue quickgreen and quickpurple. E.C. around 0.9 and p.h from 6.9 to 7.0, I don't know why my p.h is so high.... 👉 18th of october 2021 / DAY 12 👉 12:00 : took dailies back and added in editing timeline. 👽Calmag 2 ml/3L + 👽 Acti-Vera 2 ml/3L 👽Bio-Grow 1.2 ml/3L 👽Bio-Heaven 2 ml/3L 👽Terra Aquatica Root booster (GHE) 15 ml/3L /// 😇3 L. p.h. 6.0 EC : 08 degree 21,5° /// Changed light hours : 13h00 - 19h00 dark 👉 19th of october 2021 / DAY 13 👉 19:00 : took dailies back and added in editing timeline. 👽Calmag 2 ml/3L + 👽 Acti-Vera 2 ml/3L 👽Bio-Grow 1.8 ml/3L 👽Bio-Heaven 2 ml/3L 👽Terra Aquatica Root booster (GHE) 15 ml/3L /// 😇3 L. p.h. 6.0 EC : 09 degree 23,3° 👻👻👻👻 /// The moovie (quick green) star IS UNFORTUNATLY NOT the QUICKEST Quick one I have, completly the opposite, she is definitly the slowest to grow (so I will take more time to shoot to have something more "spectacular" to show)👻👻👻👻 👉 20th of october 2021 / DAY 14 👉 13:00 : took dailies back and added in editing timeline. 19h00 : 👽Calmag 2 ml/3L + 👽 Acti-Vera 3 ml/3L 👽Bio-Grow 1.8/2.0 ml/3L 👽Bio-Heaven 2 ml/3L 👽Terra Aquatica Root booster (GHE) 15 ml/3L /// 😇3 L. p.h. 6.0 EC : 1.0 degree 24.2°