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@Budz_Bunny
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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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@gottagrowsometime
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Week 9 D66. Mad how far she is behind. She only started first signs of stigma, (flowering, pistons, white hairs) 14-18 days ago. So by right you should give any auto up to 55 days of flowering. I know some say 70days from seed-harvest but you start counting once you see signs of flowering, no auto will be done under 40 days, has to have at the very very least 40days and even then she still more than likely could still happily bake for 14days and not bend a leaf in unhappiness. You always wanna go by the trichomes either way. Am pushing the PPM up by a couple 100, she can take it. Am going to give her another 20days on this mix 3 weeks and then change it up by dropping nutes and cutting the PPM at least by half a week before the 2 week flush, (when I say flush, I just mean just flawless finish with no run-off and let the plant finish up on that. This being the course if nothing comes up. But you never know with autos. RH is steady at 65% in the tent and 55-58% in the room temp is 21 with lights off and on its 26c.
15/3/22 Taking a lovely overall shape. Going to have some nice long colas hopefully.
Thanks for reading
gottagrowsometime
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@TiRobotProds
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Bud grossis bien odeur de fruits rouges dégage de cette magnifique spécimen.
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@Luke_Lee
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WEEK 9 / DAY 58-64
Mars Hydro FC-E3000
Floragard Professional GrowMix
11L Plant bag made of fleece
Light: 40cm
Schedule: 18/6;
PPFD: 1050-1150umol/m2/s
19° C - 45 RH
1L per Plant
PH 6,5-7
4ml BioGrow; 4ml TopMax ; 4ml BioBloom
1ml CalMag
#1 Blueberry Automatic
#2 Blueberry Automatic
Fan, extractor and pump ON 24/0.
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-17.03.2025
The fourth week of flowering begins.
Everything is going great, so far there have been no complications apart from the defects on one of the Blueberrys.
From this week onwards, the quantity of BioGrow, BioBloom and TopMax is increased to 4ml/1L.
The lamp is also turned up, the measured value with the PhotoneApp is 1050-1150.
-19.03.2025
Both plants were watered with 1.5 liters of water with fertilizer each.
In addition, an extra fan is now running for better air circulation.
-23.03.2025
The next week is coming to an end.
The plants look good, the buds are growing and getting nice and frosty.
I think the week after next will be the time to harvest the ladies.
Both plants were watered the last time with 1.5 liters of water and fertilizer mix.
From next week only clear water.
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@Australianbuds
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In start week 4 flowering! Doing well! Starting to fatten out now! The 2 smaller ones are Bruce banner and are 2 weeks behind the rest in flower!
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@CANNASIM
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The flower tent is almost up and ready to go.
Girls are responding well to the training and the new cob. Got a reverse osmosis filter running! Ec gets filtered and reads 0.0/0.01, its crazy, water gets normally out at .28 - .3 ec tap.
I’m suplementig with calmag but woul like to run some tests with the new water.
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@DeepRootsGrowTrees
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MATARO BLUE by KANNABIA
Week #8 Overall
Week #7 Veg
This week she's doing good no issues it got hot but she didn't falter stayed growing. She not that bushy but she's a sturdy looking plant. Stay Growing!!
Kannabia.com. MATARO BLUE
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@DocChronic420
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Having some major heat problems in the group room due to the summer heat raising up a temperature of the addict which is where I’ve been through. However the planter you’re looking fine above but we have some drying out leaves on the bottom
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@NoLimitQ
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Advanced Seeds Auto Strawberry Gum. Автоцветущая версия нашей Strawberry Gum. Она сохранила прекрасный клубничный аромат, а также высокую урожайность соцветий и смолы. С ее помощью вы достигнете церебрального и эйфорического эффекта, настолько приятного, что вы влюбитесь в нее. Это энергичное и неприхотливое растение с высоким содержанием терпенов.
Бокс собран, немного переоборудован. В общем, что имеем: боксик размером где-то 50*60*120 см (Д*Ш*В). Сверху - технический отсек: таймер, блок питания от компа для вентиляторов на 12В (2 шт - на обдув, 1 - на вдув воздуха в бокс и 1 - на выдув через бипараболу), розетки, таймер, вентилятор канальник 100 мм на выдув. Терморегулятор и регулятор влажности - заказал на AliExpress - STC-3028. Для обогрева бокса в ночное время использую инфракрасный обогреватель Ballu BIH APL-0,6. Дроссель+ИЗУ+конденсатор от ДНаТа расположил вне тех отсека, чтобы не перегревать внутри. Освещение на вегу: 1 лампа ЭСЛ 105Вт 6500К. Освещение на цветение: ЭСЛ 105Вт+ лампа ДНаТ400. Гроу-румчик обклеен пенофолом, двери проклеены уплотнителем: горшок мешок на 20л, увлажнитель на 2,5 л. Земля - BioBizz All Mix 20 л, разбавил вермикулитом 2 л. Удобрения GHE: Flora Series Tripart (взял по 60 мл) + ProRoots + ProBloom + Fulvic + Rirpen тоже от GHE. Для регулировки pH воды: pH Down и pH Up от E-Mode. Пока на улице есть снег - топлю его и процеживаю. Полив - талой водой.
12.01 Закинул 2 семки в стакан с водой
13.01 Замачивание во влажном ватном диске. Вода - талый снег. Убрал в тумбочку в темное место. Ватный диск лежит на блюдце, блюдце в пакете.
14.01 Ждем пока семки прорастут на 0.5 - 1 см.
15.01 Посадка проросших семян в грунт. Предварительно пролил примерно 1.5 литра воды+0,3 мл Pro Roots от GHE, увлажнив сухую почву. Накрыл стаканчиками, опрыскиваю их внутри с пульвика талой водой. Температура - 21 градус. Свет в боксе первое время горит круглосуточно 24/0.
16.01 Утром первое семя проросло примерно на 1 см, я помог снять каску. Опрыскал с пульвика. Вечером проросло и 2е семечко. Расстояние от лапмпы до растения - 12 см
17.01 С утра снял защитные саканчики. Вечером пришел терморегулятор и регулятор влажности, установил.
18.01 Установил обогреватель напротив бокса. Он работает по датчику - установил температуру - 22-23 градуса. Опрыскиваю из пульверизатора талой водой. Завтра придет увлажнитель. Установил датчик на 50-60%.
19.01 С сегодняшнего дня начинаю отсчет веги и устанавлю таймер на 20/4.
20.01 Полив талой водой 0.5 л + pro roots 0,1 мл
21.01 Опрыскиваю с пульвика талой водой.
22.01 Опрыскиваю с пульвика талой водой.
23.01 Полив талой водой 0.5 л + pro roots 0,1 мл
24.01 Развел 0,5 л талой воды с pro roots 0.1 мл и дал по листу
25.01 Дал по листу pro roots
Первая неделя завершена. Растем и развиваемся =)
С завтрашнего дня перевожу таймер на 18/6
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@CampaCavallo
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Benvenuti amici in questa nuova avventura Outdoor della CampaCavallo 💚
Le temperature esterne sono ancora un po troppo variabili e con minime sotto i 15ºC.
Iniziamo a far germinare un seme utilizzando Easy Start di Zamnesia 💙🗿👍🏻, inumidito da acqua e Voodoo Juice di Advanced Nutrients 🔝
TENT-X 🤖 controlla la situazione visto che le temperature minime outdoor, sono ancora troppo rigide.
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@Robeeriegenetics
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Well, I had a speed bump nothing major but I forgot to refill my mothers reservoirs no big deal I did it one of them got a really droopy, but that’s OK. She should recover well soon I’m gonna be throwing the
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@Thanas_Garden
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Partway through last week I noticed that there was no runoff after feedings. I increased the time the fertigation pump runs to 2 mins twice a day. It seems like either the root system is drinking up more or the added aeration has changed how much runoff comes out.
Plant 1 has fallen behind in growth. The inter-nodal spacing was so tight that the new growth was being strangled by the older fan leaves and other growth. I adjusted the LST to help and pruned a very small amount of leaves. It seems to be doing better, but is several inches shorter than Zkittlez 2 which has had some really explosive growth.
I started the scrog today, bending many of Zkittlez 2’s branches down to fill out the tent.
I bent a few branches on Zkittlez 1, but it’s still a little short.
This week I upped the nutrients, almost doubling the Cocos A & B, Multizen and Cal Mag. I still tried to keep EC down though, only allowing it to rise by about 300mS/cm.
This could actually be the first week of flower, but think I’ve started to spot some pistils, but I’m not sure. I can’t find the breeder’s info, but think it’s supposed to have a 4 week veg time and 10 week flowering period.
Update: lots of pistils being thrown out especially from Zkittlez 2. It’s definitely the first week of flower.
There has been a lot of growth since the start of the week. I continued to bend branches down and tuck them under the net, but now that buds are really starting to take shape I'm going to lay of any further stressing.
I noticed that there was little runoff over the past couple days. Yesterday (Monday) I had to refill the reservoir and mix up new nutrients because there was only an inch of water left. These girls have gotten a lot thirstier over the past 2 weeks. I've upped the feeding times to 3 minutes twice a day.
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@adam_pawloski87
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This week has been great ,today is day 78 and the girls are just doin their thang , 1 looks ready for flush already and the rest look about another longer then flush for them aswell,, can’t wait to see how these girls finish out over the next couple of weeks 😍!! Y’all keep them eyes peeled an stay tuned for next week! Peace love an positive vibes to y’all Cheers.💨💨💨
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@Fat_Olsh_Farms
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Day 70. Gorgeous plant. Leaves are changing color exactly how the advertisement looks. Fastbuds is dope.
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@Richard_Harrow
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The last week of flowering is very hard, amazing aromathe here, I recommend to increase🐲👌💚 )))
