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Grow report week 4: The training and the topping Hello dear growers and groweresses, it’s time for an update on my grow. My plants have completed the fourth week and have grown further. But they have also experienced some measures that I will tell you about. The training This week I continued the low-stress training (LST) and tied the plants further. The LST is a method to gently bend and tie the plants to improve the light distribution and air circulation. The goal is to keep the plants low and wide and promote more side shoots and flower heads. The topping In addition to the LST, I also applied the topping to make the plants even bushier. The topping is a method to cut off the top of the plant to interrupt the apical dominance and produce more main shoots. The goal is to branch the plant and produce more flowers. I performed the topping as follows: I watered the plants well to reduce the stress. I cut off the top of the plant above the third or fourth node to create two new shoots. I observed the plants and looked for signs of stress or shock. The topping also worked well and the plants recovered quickly. They formed two new main shoots that will later become large colas. They also put more energy into the side branches, which will also carry more flowers. The fertilization I also fertilized for the first time this week, although I actually wanted to start late with it. I used the Fish-Mix from BioBizz to give the plants more nitrogen. Fish-Mix is an organic liquid fertilizer that consists of fish parts from the North Sea and organic sugar beet extract. It stimulates the biological activity of the soil and the plant growth. The Fish-Mix did well for the plants and they showed more growth. They formed more leaves and shoots and became greener and healthier. They also absorbed more nitrogen and produced more proteins. The outlook I am very satisfied with the result of the fourth week. My plants have been well trained and topped and have shown great growth. I am very curious about the next week, where I have to activate my setup completely to give the plants their final place and pots. It will be exciting for me to see if my system works as I wished. I will continue to observe the plants and respond to their needs. I will adjust the light intensity, the fertilization and the training to achieve the best results. Thanks for stopping by and see you next week! 😊
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I did a defoilation this week to expose budsites and direct energy towards colas that have more potential for better buds. Everything is actually going much better than expected now she stretched so much. -
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This will be the last week i will Feed. I m keeping TDS at 400PPM and PH at 5.8. This week I took out the Silica Blast, Great White and also stoped the CO2. Also I lowered the water temp to 66 degrees. Lights on temp is between 75 and 80 degrees, lights off between 65 and 72. I’m trying to keep humidity as low as possible around 45% week 10 will be flush week.
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Week 9 of Flower and the Punchberry Cookies Rbx just about ripe at 63 days of flower today (5/12). I've never had to time a DWC bucket flush before, so going purely on instinct. Specifically, Trichomes are mostly milky with amber development. I am hoping a 3-5 day flush with ph'd RO water will bring out any potential color AND that Trichomes will continue to ripen bringing amber to about 15-20%. As for the week in review, I'd say pretty uneventful, which is good. Continued daily water and ppm level drops with stable ph range readings - zero wild swings. She's kicking up some incredibly strong smells of fruit. She's frosty and does smell a bit like Hawaiian Punch as advertised. Looking forward to completing the DWC bucket flush and harvesting the girl. She and I got off to a rocky start. Fortunate that she recovered and produced the way she did. Next couple of posts (i.e., Harvest & Cure) will end this spring 23 run.
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@Pr3m_85
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Restart nutes Day 43 after 4 days watered with clear water at pH 6.0~6.2. No stress ! Peace all 😌
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@GYOweed
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Two Chile Verde clones by HBK genetics 🙌🙏 from Buds N Roses. Will be testing some natural pgrs and BAP to mid flower one one clone and test my DIY K Citrate krebs cycle stimulator. Will also see the difference when using immune triggers like chitosan foliar and harpin vs none. 11/20 ph runoff was 6.5 and 1250ppm
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OG 4Q24 Flower Week 10 Orangegasm (Fem) [ IRIE Genetics ] 12/12 @ Bolt (Day 21) Germination: 20 November 2024 #3A Earliest Harvest Date: 9 February 2025 #3B Latest Harvest Date: 19 February 2025 _________________________________________ Start of Week: [Wed Feb 12, 2024 CR2 4Q24 64:F:9:1] End of Week: [Tue Feb 18, 2024 CR2 4Q24 70:F:9:7] OrangeGasm Fertigation: - MAX: EC: [ 1.6, mS] - LightIntensity MAX: [ 850, µMol/m2/s] ______________________________________ __ Wed Feb 12, 2025 OG 4Q24 64:F:9:1 Refresh Reservoir - Amount: [ 5, gal] - EC: [ 1.6, mS] - Primer A&B: [ 48, ml] - SLF-100: [ 15, ml] Reclaim Dehu - Amount: [ 4, gal] EC: 1.6 Runoff - Amount: [ 1.25, gal ] - EC: [4.3 , mS/cm2] - EC∆: [ 1.6 , mS/cm2] # Danger!!! (I don’t think so - Happy Plants) __ Thu Feb 13, 2025 OG 4Q24 65:F:9:2 Runoff - Amount: [ 2, gal ] - EC: [ 4.6, mS/cm2] EC: 1.5 Refresh Reservoir - Amount: [ 2, gal] - EC: [ 1.5, mS] - Primer A&B: [ 32, ml] - SLF-100: [ 10, ml] Reclaim Dehu - Amount: [ 2, gal] If we see the pistils of the last two plants shrink/collapse in the next 3 days, we may be ready Tuesday/Wednesday . . . I also note we’re about 2 days after from OPTIMAL BUD Structure, Foxtailing is becoming less well formed at largest top and some of the sooner ready buds … __ Fri Feb 14, 2025 OG 4Q24 66:F:9:3 EC: 1.4 1.5 gal dehu 3 gals+ refresh Reduced Fertigation Time 50% as Tank is at refill after 4+ gal yesterday, again. :-{ __ Sat Feb 15, 2025 OG 4Q24 67:F:9:4 Reclaim Dehu - Amount: [ 2.5, gal] Refresh Reservoir - 2 Gal - Primer A&B: [ 17.9, ml] - Resin Bloom: [ 9, ml] EC: 1.3 Runoff - Amount: [ 0.5, gal] - EC: [ 3.0, mS/cm2] - EC∆: [ 1.7, mS/cm2] __ Sun Feb 16, 2025 OG 4Q24 68:F:9:5 Refresh Reservoir - 2 Gal - Primer A&B: [ 16.5, ml] - Resin Bloom: [ 8.3, ml] Runoff - Amount: [ , gal] - EC: [ , mS/cm2] - EC∆: [ , mS/cm2] EC: 1.2 __ Mon Feb 17, 2025 OG 4Q24 69:F:9:6 EC: 1.1 __ Tue Feb 18, 2025 OG 4Q24 70:H:9:7 1000 - Remove Plants from Tent - Remove Drip Tray - Remove Light - found water unseen in bottom tray - the reason for unreasonable humidity - Removed Drip Rings - Dried bottom drip tray - Resealed Tent - Low RH _______________________ Harvest Log Max Min Average Height (in) 40 21.5 29.875 Weight (g) 700 157 385.5 Secondary Stem Count 30 17 21.125 Est Dried Trimmed Wt 140 31.4 616.8
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Scratch what I said at the end of last week pests are still around just had some bug fly at me and bite/sting me on the neck now a got a welt on my neck smh, not sure what the heck it was it was some sort of black bug maybe a thrip but I honestly have no idea, did another neem oil drench on the medium only and tomorrow I'm going to use a hydrogen peroxide mixture again that way I can also use it on the tops and undersides of the leaves as well. Some of the roots started to become exposed on the top soil so I added more an inch or two coco to cover the exposed roots. Another successful week I guess the plants aren't dead so onto week 9, Week 4 of flower
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Letting soil dry before harvest, th strain is underestimated by growers, great buds and smells like cherry cola, they loves cold temperatures.
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@Salgeezi
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All is good in the tent. Should be smooth sailing to harvest. All plants are in full flower now and stretching has stopped. Time to fatten up girls! Still feeding 4x a day. EC at 700. Been turning up the wattage every few days. At 135w now. Two of the Charlotte's are further ahead by weeks then any other plant. Also the smallest out of the bunch. Ended up making a separate reservoir for them. Feed 3x a day. Took out big bud and added overdrive
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Veg: She got a long 5 months 1 weeks of growing and growing so big. Kept the feeds up and she drunk everything she got given to her, kept drinking and drinking them foods. I gave her the growth technology grow for the first 4 months of veg and the last month I gave her both growth technology grow/bloom, hydro Coco grow for the last month of veg stage. Gave her so much HST in month 3-4, just kept topping wherever I could, bending her over wherever I could. Really trying the stress her out to make her stretch and stretch. Started to see some real growth in her in the last month of veg stage, just seeing her doubling in size every week till we got in to some true flowering. Flowering: so we got about 8 1/2 weeks of flowering which was amazing. At the beginning of week one we saw some little flowers and by the end of that week we had some beautiful flowers starting to appear. I start pumping as much bloom feed in as I could I was still giving her the grow feed, but slowly bring them down by the end of week 2. We got some amazing weather other these weeks of flowering were we saw these bud truly start to go bigger and bigger, maybe the weather was a bit to hot for the plant at some points in the early flowering as we got some leafs burn from intends sunlight in the greenhouse. In week 3 we had a weekend of extreme heatwave over the country hitting highs of 34c witch in the greenhouse was getting up to 45-50c too hot!!! The water system failed on this weekend as well, what really hit her hard. I did think we was going to loose her that day when I went to see her. From that day I think we all realized that we have to keep a good check on the watering if the days were going to be so hot. I took all the small stems off the plant and really open up the bottom so we could get some more airflow over these really hot weeks we had, it was amazing to get this weather in the UK. Week 4 we did really start to see them buds coming everywhere, the middle of the plant was stretching. By the end of week 4 I think she did stop stretching and started to fatten up. I cut the growth feed out in the end of week 2 but I think I should of kept it up with the bloom feed till we got in to week 4. We was loosing a lot of leaves all over the plant when we got to the end of the stretch, so I pumped her some growth feed with all the same feeds she was on at the beginning of week 5. We did see a lot of leaf improvement all over the plant, with new growth on all the main clones. This played a big part in getting them buds fatter and fatter. Getting to the end of week 5 I stop the growth feed and just gave her more bloom and pk boost double. We really did see some buds popping up everywhere which was amazing and we had no real popcorn corn buds cause of opening her up. Week 6 she was drinking and drinking up everything we would give her no problem, got to get so much food in to her. She must of drunk over 30l of feed mixture doubled in this week. Started to look a lot bushy all over. When we hit week 7 them buds were fat and starting to lean around everywhere so had to give a bit more support, I tide the main clone to the four main canes and then tide all the side clones to wherever I could. She still drunk 25l of double mixture over this week and the temperature in the nights was getting so low this week it would of been getting to 8-14c, then greenhouse did still get nice and hot during the day up to 18-26c
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Flower stretch and bud sites are setting. Lots of tops from the lst. Fingers crossed.
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esta semana se le realizo lavado de raiz con 22 lt de agua. amarre dos de las plantas a una guia ya que el peso las estaba tirando hacia un costado. quda poco para la tan esperada cosecha
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01/03 These girls are growing fast. I will turn up the lights and stake over the next couple days. I may or may not defoliate. Well see how they look tied up. 01/05 They like the flower nutes and are starting to stretch!
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She's growing strong in her first week. I think she'll be ready for topping in her second week. I'm keeping the humidity high to compensate for the high temperature during this sensitive seedling phase. To give her the best start and prepare her for topping, I'm also balancing her water acidity to about 6.5.