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@GrimbolTheDruid
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*If anyone read through my GDP diary, this is going to be mostly the same stuff.
So, sad day friends. I got spider mites and had to throw all my plants out. This is what I think happened:
About 2-3 weeks ago I noticed some freckling on the lower leaves. I looked at it and thought it might be a cal/mag issue so I added cal/mag that week and went about my business. I saw it about a week later and it wasn't getting any better so I added more cal/mag. This continued for about 2-3 weeks until I finally took off a leaf and examined it under my microscope. I saw little bugs crawling everywhere and my stomach just dropped. My fiance did some quick research while I was panic ripping leaves off (see pictures) and she correctly diagnosed it as spider mites.
I debated with myself and my close friend and ultimately I decided to throw all the plants in my tent away. I know that there are a lot of people who will say that there are things I could have done to make it to harvest but what it came down to is the people I take care of and personal pride. I consider myself a caregiver and I give away product for free that I am not going to use to my family and close friends. I thought to myself "Would you smoke this?" and when my answer was "ehhh, I don't know", I thought about how it would feel giving it away and immediately made the decision to destroy them. I take an immense amount of pride in my product and this hobby and if I am not going to stand behind it I would rather just start over. I grow from my heart (shout out to the Grow From Your Heart Podcast!) to help people and make sure my family is not getting unsafe product from sketchy people. To spray pesticides in flower that may hurt people and have little bug carcasses in there just goes against that in every way and is just wrong in my opinion if you are giving it away to others. If you are the only one smoking it then it is one thing to take that risk but not with your patients. I want my medicine to help people, not create or exacerbate health issues.
It is also important to note that the mites had moved from my flower tent into my veg space and took over my auto berry as well. Damn things are crafty and fast.
So that is why I made the decision to destroy them all after 3+ months of res changes, pruning, and manifolding on a slow vegging strain. Feel free to chime in with your opinion but I do not regret my decision. I threw out my new clones, mother plant, and auto berry I had on my veg side as well. Shout out to all the other growers out there that do the right thing by their patients. Caregivers > Cash croppers.
For anyone curious, I removed everything from my tent and scrubbed it all with a 20% bleach/water solution. All equipment has been wiped down and stored in the garage away from any organic materials. I will give them until tomorrow (2 days) to air out and dry and then I will wipe it down again with bleach and wait another 2 days. Hopefully that will make sure everything is dead and will not come back next grow. That next grow should start in about a week.
It sucks but sometimes it happens and you gotta be ready for it. Lesson learned. Never bring outdoor plants into your indoor garden even if it is after just a day or two. A bunch of people on here and Reddit warned me and I did not listen. Now I have learned the hard way and it feels like when your parents "told you so" haha.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by along the way. Stay tuned for a new grow coming soon. It is going to be some cool new limited edition Mephisto Illuminautos. I am pretty excited.
Good luck out there and always grow from your heart folks.
-Grim
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@coyote2thick
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Week 8 of flower... swelling up great... smelling beautifully... trichomes are getting cloudier. Will check again next Monday and see if she needs to go another week.
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@Bncgrower
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Another week is over, one of these girls is in the final stretch and very close to harvest, but Xingu and Volta ao Mundo are now showing signs of maturation, Moranguinho do Nordeste has some very dense, resinous and fragrant buds, and soon it will be time for ✂️, otherwise everything is as expected, I noticed some yellowing of some leaves in Xingu, but I believe it is because of the last few weeks.
Thank you for following and happy growing! 🍁🌱🌱
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@Basementganja
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Compared to her sister, this Pineapple Express auto flowered very early!
I LST'd her while I could, and defoliated what was necessary.
She turned out great! Although the yield for this phenotype is at my lower limit for acceptable.
I'm happy that I'm growing a second one, that vegged out longer, making for a much larger Pineapple Express!
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@420DeepGrow
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Gracias al equipo de Seedsman Marshydro XpertNutrients y Trolmaster sin ellos esto no sería posible.
💐🍁 Tangerine Snow F1 Fast:
Esta gran cepa es un cruce de cuatro vías 75% sativa de (Boost x Tangelo) con (Lavender x Power Plant). Este híbrido Fast F1 proviene de la genética Cali y cuenta con excelentes terpenos cítricos, alta producción de resina para extractos, altos niveles de THC, muy buenos rendimientos y excelente resistencia al moho. Tangerine Snow F1 Fast se puede cultivar tanto en interior como en exterior. Los tiempos de floración en interiores son de entre 8 y 10 semanas, mientras que el tiempo de cosecha en las latitudes del norte es en septiembre, mientras que en el hemisferio sur los productores cosecharán durante marzo. Las regiones climáticas recomendadas son cálidas, secas, húmedas y cálidas. Se trata de plantas altas, semiramificadas, que superan los 200cm y que presentan un alto vigor con muy buena uniformidad. Al igual que muchas otras variedades con fuerte dominancia sativa, Tangerine Snow F1 Fast ofrece una excelente resistencia al moho, así como a las plagas y enfermedades de las plantas. La combinación de terpenos cítricos y mucha resina la convierten en una cepa de muy buen extracto, cuyo método de "lavado" produce muy buenos rendimientos de hachís. El perfil de terpenos cítricos recuerda a las mandarinas y mandarinas y también tiene notas dulces. La producción de THC ha sido verificada en laboratorio en un fuerte 24%, mientras que el CBD es bajo. El efecto es edificante y energizante, perfecto para usar durante el día y las primeras horas de la noche.
🌻🚀 Consigue aqui tus semillas:
💡TS-3000 + TS-1000: se usaran dos de las lámparas de la serie TS de Marshydro, para cubrir todas las necesidades de las plantas durante el ciclo de cultivo, uso las dos lámparas en floracion para llegar a toda la carpa de 1.50 x 1.50 x 1.80.
https://marshydro.eu/products/mars-hydro-ts-3000-led-grow-light/
🏠 : Marshydro 1.50 x 1.50 x 1.80, carpa 100% estanca con ventanas laterales para llegar a todos los lugares durante el grow
https://marshydro.eu/products/diy-150x150x200cm-grow-tent-kit
🌬️💨 Marshydro 6inch + filtro carbon para evitar olores indeseables.
https://marshydro.eu/products/ifresh-smart-6inch-filter-kits/
💻 Trolmaster Tent-X TCS-1 como controlador de luz, optimiza tu cultivo con la última tecnología del mercado, desde donde puedes controlar todos los parametros.
https://www.trolmaster.com/Products/Details/TCS-1
🍣🍦🌴 Xpert Nutrients es una empresa especializada en la producción y comercialización de fertilizantes líquidos y tierras, que garantizan excelentes cosechas y un crecimiento activo para sus plantas durante todas las fases de cultivo.
Consigue aqui tus Nutrientes:
https://xpertnutrients.com/es/shop/
📆 Semana 8:
Se aprecian unas lindas preflores hembra, comienza a estirar de forma acelerada.
Todo sigue su ritmo y ella come bien todos los nutrientes que se le aplican.
Agrego sugarshot, silica force y enzimas.
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@LoganatorDude
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Training methods include the several weeks I missed. As of this week no training.
Morning Glory- 35.5” Tall
Mexican Haze (in-ground)-40” Tall
Mexican Haze- 33” Tall
Love Drunk- 25” Tall
Ackbar OG- 26.5” Tall
Crazy Glue- 38” Tall
The nutrients used are from a once a week ordeal. Normally it’s just tap water.
I still need to update the info on the other two Love Drunks as well as the Fruity Pebbles.
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@LokaGass
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Keep on lolly popping every 2 days feed, now i change the light to 100% and feeding daily as she drink a lot more actually.
She tells by the picture how good i keep her.
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@Silverback_Guerilla
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2/4:
Photo session day!
These are the fastest, most vigorously growing plants in the garden, but also the slowest to flower.😕
I had a total infestation of Cattus (felis) which I documented in my photos. Eradication seems impossible, so I'm opting to allow a degree of predation, but hoping trichome production will, at least, deter them soon.😁
2/5:
I fed everybody today with about 3/4 gallon and sprayed them down with Axiom harpin proteins for the last time this run.
I made a DIY CO2 generator today using a 5 gallon cat litter bucket, a small aquarium pump, some air line tubing, and a bubble stone, plus
6 cups of sugar and 30 grams of wine yeast in 2 gallons of warm water. I put the tube where the CO2 is exhausted up against the back of the oscillating fan that aims down over the plants so they are being constantly forcefully bombarded with high levels of CO2(1300+ppm) from above.
I set the ac infinity controller to allow the temps to climb up to 89f before the fan turns on.
2/6:
These girls are taller than anybody else in the garden, and still stretching (unfortunately). Surprisingly, they're also the slowest to pop pistils. They are flowering, but slow as hell for an indica dominant strain. I probably should have left them all in the dark for a full day when I switched to flower to encourage them to flip faster.
I bought some Gro-Pro pot risers to elevate the pots so that they will dry out faster..seem pretty effective.
2/7:
I foliar fed with big bloom and tiger bloom today.
2/8:
I ordered a second 6" AC Infinity fan to connect to my controller, some ducting, and a diffuser which I'll mount to the wall, down near the floor. The fan unit will be in another closet, adjacent to the garden closet, and I'll run ducting up through that closet ceiling into the attic, with a filter on the end to keep bugs and particulates out.
For the next 6 weeks or so, it will provide a supply of colder fresh air. I did the math, and it will now only take about 1 minute and 40 seconds to completely exchange the air in the closet. Depending on the outside air temp at the time, it should take anywhere between 8 and 20 minutes for the closet to heat back up to 80f and the fans to kick back on again. This Spring, on days when it's not cooler than 72f, I'll disconnect the duct in the closet and stretch it into that bedroom, clipped to the window unit air conditioner output, cranked down as low as it will go. This Summer, I'm gonna just run a pair of the quantum boards and grow 4 or 5 autos in there, but this should help keep the temps cooler in summer as well, without dedicating an air conditioner to the grow op.🙏
2/9:
I foliar fed them with grow big, big bloom, and tiger bloom and checked moisture in their pots. They're due for a good watering tomorrow.
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@RandomStreetMerchant
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So this week has been hot for these girls but they didn’t mind too much. Really need to get some new equipment but will take a long time. We all make do with what we got amiright hahaha.
This upcoming week will be interesting to see how the girls are and grow. Can’t wait to show you all.
Till then wish you all the best growing may your buds be dank as fuck /6/5/23/
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@Comfrey
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Dutch Passion Shaman
Pünktlich zum Erntedankfest am 5.10. war für mich der kritische Punkt erreicht. Shamanin No. 2, die im kleineren Topf, hat ihren Headbud und drei weitere Blüten genommen bekommen. Ich habe die beiden Pflanzen in der letzten Zeit täglich mit einer Taschenlampe abgesucht und nun war es soweit, leichte Faulstellen an den Stielen in mehreren Bereichen der Pflanze. Es waren nur kleine Teile der Blüten, bzw. schlaffe Zuckerblätter betroffen, ich erkenne das mit der Taschenlampe mittlerweile relativ früh. Der Verlust liegt bei zwei bis drei Gramm trocken.
Die Stielfäule hatte sich bei der dunklen Dame an fünf Stellen gebildet und die angrenzende Blüte befallen.
Am Sonntag gab es zum Erntedank Space Tee für zwei und der war sehr lecker, mit starker aber angenehmer Wirkung. Ich lasse den frischen Trimm und Blütenmaterial bei 90 Grad mit einem guten Schuss Olivenöl (zwei Esslöffel ca. eine Stunde ziehen. Die Kräuterreste aus dem Teesieb schmecken mit bissl Salz wie Spinat, lecker, und wenn man sich die zusätzlich zum Tee reinzieht, dann wird‘s richtig witzig, mit Lachflashs. 🤤 😅
Jetzt bin ich entspannt, was den Erntezeitpunkt und die zu erwartende Wirkung betrifft.
Shamanin No. 1 musste dursten, hat recht weit oben eine weitere Blüte verloren, wobei ich die Stelle an einem dünneren Stiel auch hier vor der eigentlichen Blütenfäule entdeckt habe. Hier saß auch ein kleiner Käfer in der Nähe, wahrscheinlich hatte der es mitgebracht. Ihre Blätter beginnen sich zu verfärben.
Es geht weiter, bis nächste Woche! Danke für‘s vorbeischauen. 💚
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@Adam420
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April 20 2021
Getting them ready for transplanting to the ground. 2 weeks or so til they move.
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@Tetiana_Riz
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Hello everyone. Another week has come to an end, and for two weeks, we have been watering our girl with plain water pH 6.2 TDS 120 ppm. I think next week we will finish our journey. I want to experiment - 2-3 days without light and with reduced temperature. Share your opinion on my experiment.
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@Growstopher
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Fastbuds seeds
Gorilla zkittles auto
Only using spring water for first week and spraying with foop mist. Going to use foop nutrients with Humboldts secret cal/mag and nectar for the gods ph up and down!
Planted right into substrate. I’m using Mother Earth coco coir/perlite mix with hydroton at bottom of pot
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@DrGanj
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Another round of topping. Tied her all back to spread out for LST. Going to flip to flower next week. Used the Kushman technique and Supercropped all her stems every inch on the way up, without bending. Gives her muscles to flex <3
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@Newbie5648
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Love this 1st grow. Even though its small.
Hope I got good weight out of this.
Smells great whenever I open my cupboard.
Cant wait for my next grow green gelato auto. 😁
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@Mr_nugs_lover_David
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She has become a beautiful little bush full of fat dense nuggets completely covered in fruity and sweet resin glands with some purple no tones in the buds. Love It!
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@RastaRick
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Full on flowering. Gave first 10ml dose of bio pk 5-8 on day 37 with 1tsp bactrex in 1L water. Triton Biscotto Lime Auto is a bit behind but looks ok. All got massive defoliation and still tons of leaves... Natural form maybe was a mistake hahahah
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@Belverde
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Welcome
We are at the final conclusions for this premium Kush strain 💯
Breeding by Microgenetica Seed
bank
Italian made since 2015, based in the beautiful city of Amsterdam
This variety has won already three cannabis cups, both in Ams and both in Barcellona 🏆🏆🏆
So, maybe isn't a mainstremm seed bank, but they works very well 👌
Especially the breeder/owner wich is call Stefano Lillo, a great person and super disponible
But anyway
Almost two months are passed from the final cut and now the flowers are in their best moment
Especially the Kush varietyes, probably the strain with a good amount of myrcene, in my opinion take the best and complete taste after this amount of time..
The "Sativa" ones , in the other hands, can be very tasty after only a months ,or less...to be precis the cultivars with mostly fruity tone !
That's my experience..
Coming back to this Mature woman 😎
The taste is obviously very kushy , intense and persistent in smoke session 🔥🔥
I personally prefere to vape it 🙌
Best temperature for a complete taste and effect around 182° and then up to 192°
Dipends always from a wich types of vaporizer you use !
With all the famous seriese from the "Vulcano company" , for any their vaporizer, you can follow the temperature up here..
But for example with the Ghost MV1, the best for me is around 190° to 200°
Anyway
For test at the best if the quality can be ok, i always roll up a spliff...no tobacco or other things..
I do that for see how it burns...slow or fast and especially white ash or contamineted
My way for having that is pretty simple..
Only water for the last 20 or more days, no flush like a shower 🚿
I cut the plant in one time and leave it hanging upside down inside a wooden cabinet with always a slight change of air (for example an oscillating fan a few meters away)
I leave almost all the leaves still attached (these will give a good indicator of where we are in drying)
The whole process must last a maximum of ten days !
Temperature and humidity must always be equally balanced ... even if there were 25 ° there is no problem ... the important thing is that in this case the humidity is not too low, risking to dry the flowers (in this case can be good around 60/62%)
The meaning is to always try to stay within the ten days ... + or -
So, after a little more than a week the flowers will be crunchy on the outside .... but the stem must not break cleanly, only bend almost reaching the crack..
If the popcorn buds peel off nicely, then it's time to take out all the blooms..
Cleaned the branches from the inflorescences, I usually place them for another two days in a brown paper bag..
Then I put everything back in the jars..
I don't open for 24h !
After this time I start to open and close every about four hours..
I continue like this for about two and a half weeks and every five days, about, I reduce the openings and closings until I get to feel the aroma in its true form.
Ah and i do not leave too much air in the jars when the flowers are ready...terpenes oxidize faster...air and light are our enemies ☝️
{ But not during the cultivation 😂 }
And that's it
For more info on this grow cycle you can search in the several weeks where I tried to bring everything back to the best 😉
Thanks so much for the support 🙏🙏
Thanks to Microgenetica for the trust 🙏🙏
And thanks as always to Growdiaries for this space 👍👍👍
Ciao ✌️
🇮🇹🌏🌎🌍
