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@Ultraviolet
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Once again she passes my expectations, late to the show with trichome production. I'm surprised there is purple on the bud, maybe Purpinator does work. I thought I could see hints under the grow lights and thought my eyes were deceiving me, I was just being hopeful. But nah 2 of the 3(under the UV) have developed a beautiful tone of purple. I was never going to bother with a deep freeze but maybe the whole bud will change given conditions, that would be something, fingers crossed. 🤔 was a little skeptical that reducing temps humidity would change density, but it does, buds are solid something I've not been able to achieve before.
Rule of thumb is never to surpass 60% RH in the flowering phase and try to progressively reduce it down to 40% in the last 2–3 weeks before harvest. The plant will react as it seeks to protect its flowers, responding by producing denser buds and a higher concentration of resin. Cannabis plants are sensitive to sudden temperature changes, especially in the flowering stage. Extreme heat or cold can impact bud density and overall yields. In nature as a defense mechanism from cold, the plant sensing sudden dips in temperature will attempt to remove the pockets of air within the bud, it achieves this by compacting itself in doing so to better protect itself from cold snaps which are normally indicators in nature that worse weather is on the way.
Terpene levels are the highest just before the sun comes out. Ideally, you want as many terpenes present in your plants as possible when you harvest. Cannabis plants soak up the sun during the day and produce resin and other goodies at night. The plant is at its emptiest from "harvest undesirables," so to speak,k right before the lights come on.
Freshly cut buds are greener than dried buds because they still contain loads of chlorophyll. However, when rushed through the drying process, the buds dry but retain some chlorophyll, and when you smoke it, you will taste it. Chlorophyll-filled buds are smokable, but they aren’t clean. Slow drying gives the buds enough time and favorable conditions to lose the chlorophyll and sugars, giving you a smoother smoke. How the plant disposes of the chlorophyll and sugars by a process of chemically breaking them down and attaching the decomposed matter once small enough to water molecules, which then evaporate back into the ether. Time must be given to the process to break down the chlorophyll and sugars. Think of it like optimizing the environment for decay.
Plant growth and geographic distribution (where the plant can grow) are greatly affected by the environment. If any environmental factor is less than ideal, it limits a plant's growth and/or distribution. For example, only plants adapted to limited amounts of water can live in deserts. Either directly or indirectly, most plant problems are caused by environmental stress. In some cases, poor environmental conditions (e.g., too little water) damage a plant directly. In other cases, environmental stress weakens a plant and makes it more susceptible to disease or insect attack. Environmental factors that affect plant growth include light, temperature, water, humidity, and nutrition. It's important to understand how these factors affect plant growth and development. With a basic understanding of these factors, you may be able to manipulate plants to meet your needs, whether for increased leaf, flower, or fruit production. By recognizing the roles of these factors, you'll also be better able to diagnose plant problems caused by environmental stress.
Water and humidity
*Most growing plants contain about 90 percent water. Water plays many roles in plants. It is:*
A primary component in photosynthesis and respiration
Responsible for turgor pressure in cells (Like the air in an inflated balloon, water is responsible for the fullness and firmness of plant tissue. Turgor is needed to maintain cell shape and ensure cell growth.)
A solvent for minerals and carbohydrates moving through the plant
Responsible for cooling leaves as it evaporates from leaf tissue during transpiration
A regulator of stomatal opening and closing, thus controlling transpiration and, to some degree, photosynthesis
The source of pressure to move roots through the soil
The medium in which most biochemical reactions take place
Relative humidity is the ratio of water vapor in the air to the amount of water the air could hold at the current temperature and pressure. Warm air can hold more water vapor than cold air. Relative humidity (RH) is expressed by the following equation:
RH = water in air ÷ water air could hold (at constant temperature and pressure)
The relative humidity is given as a percent. For example, if a pound of air at 75°F could hold 4 grams of water vapor, and there are only 3 grams of water in the air, then the relative humidity (RH) is:
3 ÷ 4 = 0.75 = 75%
Water vapor moves from an area of high relative humidity to one of low relative humidity. The greater the difference in humidity, the faster water moves. This factor is important because the rate of water movement directly affects a plant's transpiration rate.
The relative humidity in the air spaces between leaf cells approaches 100 percent. When a stoma opens, water vapor inside the leaf rushes out into the surrounding air (Figure 2), and a bubble of high humidity forms around the stoma. By saturating this small area of air, the bubble reduces the difference in relative humidity between the air spaces within the leaf and the air adjacent to the leaf. As a result, transpiration slows down.
If the wind blows the humidity bubble away, however, transpiration increases. Thus, transpiration usually is at its peak on hot, dry, windy days. On the other hand, transpiration generally is quite slow when temperatures are cool, humidity is high, and there is no wind.
Hot, dry conditions generally occur during the summer, which partially explains why plants wilt quickly in the summer. If a constant supply of water is not available to be absorbed by the roots and moved to the leaves, turgor pressure is lost and leaves go limp.
Plant Nutrition
Plant nutrition often is confused with fertilization. Plant nutrition refers to a plant's need for and use of basic chemical elements. Fertilization is the term used when these materials are added to the environment around a plant. A lot must happen before a chemical element in a fertilizer can be used by a plant.
Plants need 17 elements for normal growth. Three of them--carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen--are found in air and water. The rest are found in the soil.
Six soil elements are called macronutrients because they are used in relatively large amounts by plants. They are nitrogen, potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, and sulfur.
Eight other soil elements are used in much smaller amounts and are called micronutrients or trace elements. They are iron, zinc, molybdenum, manganese, boron, copper, cobalt, and chlorine. They make up less than 1% of total but are none the less vital.
Most of the nutrients a plant needs are dissolved in water and then absorbed by its roots. In fact, 98 percent are absorbed from the soil-water solution, and only about 2 percent are actually extracted from soil particles.
Fertilizers
Fertilizers are materials containing plant nutrients that are added to the environment around a plant. Generally, they are added to the water or soil, but some can be sprayed on leaves. This method is called foliar fertilization. It should be done carefully with a dilute solution because a high fertilizer concentration can injure leaf cells. The nutrient, however, does need to pass through the thin layer of wax (cutin) on the leaf surface.
It is to be noted applying a immobile nutrient via foliar application it will remain immobile within the leaf it was absorbed through.
Fertilizers are not plant food! Plants produce their own food from water, carbon dioxide, and solar energy through photosynthesis. This food (sugars and carbohydrates) is combined with plant nutrients to produce proteins, enzymes, vitamins, and other elements essential to growth.
Nutrient absorption
Anything that reduces or stops sugar production in leaves can lower nutrient absorption. Thus, if a plant is under stress because of low light or extreme temperatures, nutrient deficiency may develop.
A plant's developmental stage or rate of growth also may affect the amount of nutrients absorbed. Many plants have a rest (dormant) period during part of the year. During this time, few nutrients are absorbed. Plants also may absorb different nutrients as flower buds begin to develop than they do during periods of rapid vegetative growth.
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@CBD_Sweden
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Hi all the happy people here in GrowDiaries.
This is my second cultivation ever and it will be fun to try a bigger space than my closet grows
First, I'm just going to say I'm done with the construction of my new growroom.
I put some pictures on the construction here in week one.
The room is 2.14 meters by 1.7 meters and has a ceiling height of 2 meters.
It provides a floor area of 3.6 square meters.
I use a 54 Watt Lightwawe T5 for germination and 2 Pcs 400 Watt HPS lamps.
I have a channel fan that replaces the room air about 40 times an hour to get a comfortable theme in the room, the air enters a fresh air intake from the outside.
The air is purified through a carbon filter to then leave the room to the rest of the basement.
Then I use that heat to heat the rest of the basement.
I will use 8 pcs 15 liter Autopots to grow with and a 100 liter water tank that supplies the pots of water and nutrition.
I will grow completely organically in soil and will watercure my buds to get the best possible medicine for me.
But there are no cultivation rooms to be displayed here, so I continue with what is most important.
Today I have put my seeds in my moisture dome and hope the seeds have germinated within a few days.
I am very excited to see how the new growroom will work and how this CBD Fast Eddy plant from Royal queen seeds will turn out.
CBD Fast Eddy Automatic is combining Cheese x Juanita la Lagrimosa x Ruderalis, Fast Eddy is a rapid growing, flavourful, and CBD-rich auto strain that goes from seed to harvest in 8-9 weeks, produce generous yields, and induce a clear, mellow, and most importantly, functional high.
THC: 9%
CBD: High
Yield Indoor : 400 - 450 gr/m2
Yield Outdoor: 80 - 130 gr/plant
Height Indoor: 60 - 100 cm
Height Outdoor: 80 - 120 cm
Flowering: 6 - 7 weeks
Harvest month: 8-9 weeks after sprouting
Genetic Background: Cheese x Juanita la Lagrimosa x Ruderalis
Type: Sa 50% In 40% Ru 10%
Effect: Clear, Painrelief
Climate: Mild
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Update 2017-08-15. Both seeds have germinated and planted in small pots inside the humidity dome.
I'm so glad it worked so well and now it's just hoping they'll start growing and become 2 big healthy girls :)
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Update 2017-08-16. I have mixed my own soil today. Its 40% sieved peat harrow H2-H4 0-30 mm, 45% sieved peat harrow H4-H6 0-30 mm. 5% sand and 10% of compost soil. And i use 15% of perlite and mix it all together.
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Update 2017-08-20. These girls are much slower to germinate and to start growing than the other 6 girls I started at the same time.
One of the germinated seeds split in half, so I had to take a new seed and germinate it. It took 2 days.
It was just a smal taproots after germination with this strain as opposed to my Fastbuds cbd.
But I hope everything goes well from now and that they live up to their name, Fast Eddy.
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Update 2017-08-21. New pics.
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2017-08-22. Nr1 dident make it and died. Started germinate a new seed to get another Nr1.
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2017-08-27. Nr 1 is in a small pot in humidity dome and i hope shes going to break the surface soon. Nr 2 is slow but doing fine.
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2017-08-28. Nr2 is transplanted in 15 liter autopot.
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2017-08-29. New movie of the girls Nr2. Its no water for 3 days now so the roots develop more and match the plant above the soil. The temp controlled fan is awesome, its easy to set what temp you like to have in the room. Right now its 28 celcius. And humidity is 56%.
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2017-08-29.
Hello to you who read my diary, I just want to say that I am pleased that you have chosen to check in with me and in my diary.
I just want to say that I do this for myself and for a steady flow of my medicine.
Everything you read and see in my diary is 100% honest and I will never distort or beautify anything here.
I document my crops so that I can learn from my mistakes and also to look back at those different crops.
I try to update with pictures every day and with text if something special has happened in the garden.
This is my strainhunt for the best medicine and the beginning of my journey with cannabis and the cultivation of it.
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2017-08-30. Cleaned the room this morning, just vacuuming and cleaning with chlorine solution. Im testing the fan to control temp and humidity, it works great.
Added a movie. Everything is looking great right now.
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2017-08-31. 3 New pics.
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2017-09-01. New pics and a video of the grow room from today.
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2017-09-04. Week 2 starts now, new pics.
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2017-09-05. KL 08.00. Cleaned the room this morning, just vacuuming and cleaning with chlorine solution.
KL 12.00. The girl got 2 liters of water with nutes in it, added a video.
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2017-09-06. KL 08.00. The girls woke up after their beauty sleep, the leaves are always a bit down after 6 h of darkness, but they will stretch now when the HPS lamp starts.
Everything looks good and I keep trying to tuck the leaves so they get the maximum amount of light where needed. Added pics and video.
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2017-09-07. Day 17 from sprouting. I have never tested PH in my grows, when growing organic in soil iv learned that it adapt PH by it self. But im curious by nature so i had to test.
Kl 10.00 Tested PH in the soil, it was 6.9 and tested my tap water and it was 6.8. Added video of the girl.
Kl 22.30. New pics.
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2017-09-08 KL 08.00. Good morning, added new video.
2017-09-08. Kl 23.50. Gave every girl 3 liters of water and nutes, added new video.
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2017-09-09. Kl 21.00. Defoliated a lot and added pics.
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2017-09-10. Kl 08.00. Last day of week 2. New video.
2017-09-10. Kl 23.00. 3 new videos.
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@GrowingABushWithButch
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It's Week 01 Flower. For My 2 Kombucha Cream by atlasseed . And For My Snow White & SpliffStrawberry by Spliff Seeds Amsterdam . Today was Feeding Day and I also did a small Defoliation and LST all 4 Plants . My Kombucha Cream 3-Part And Snow White Received 4ml Of Emerald Harvest Nutrients Grow, Micro, Bloom, 6ml Of Emerald Goddess, 4ml Of King Kola, 4ml Honey Chome and 4ml Of Quad.AG Products Fulonic. Ph at 6.0 Ppm at 686. On Runoff My Kombucha Cream 3-Part Ph is at 6.3 and the Ppm is at 1004 I will keep a eye on the ppm on this one for the next few feeds. My Snow White Ppm Runoff is at 696 and Ph is at 6.2. My Kombucha Cream 2-Part & SpliffStrawberry Received 5ml Of Emerald Harvest Nutrient Cali Pro Grow A&B, 6ml Emerald Goddess, 4ml King Kola, 4ml Honey Chome And 4ml Of Quad Ah Fulonic Ph at 6.0 Ppm at 553. On Runoff My Kombucha Cream 2-Part Ph is at 6.5 Ppm is at 657. My SpliffStrawberry had a Ph of 6.1 Ppm is at 756. On my next feed I will ph at 6.2. All 4 Plants had there last transition feed. Next feed I will feed the Roots and give them a nice Flower Feed 😁
Happy Growing Growmies 🤘🏻
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@Listening2thestatic
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Welcome to Flower Week 1 of my Tiny Pot Journey! Pistols are shooting out of all nodes.
I started the week off by adding a pinch of Gaia Green's All Purpose & Power Bloom to the top layer. After that, topped up Herbie with a couple finger fulls of living soil. 😉
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Today mark day 37 flower. Last week I notice nute burn, I didn’t do anything different with the nutrient. Still using the same ratio. Today I started noticing the tips getting lime yellow again. I don’t suspect anything is off or wrong. Do you have experience with this slow nute burn at this stage already?
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@FreakyGip5y
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2nd week of flushing, no time to yield and dont kind letting it rest a bit more . As expected this royal cheese auto is not giving much, the terp Profile is there but you really gotta smell the bud to get the terp profile. Will upload the yielding too as soon as i get to do it.
Happy growing, good people 💚
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@UnitedStrainsGermany
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Heute beginnt die Reise !!! Ich wünsche jedem 🏆 Teilnehmer viel Glück!!!
Danke nochmal an Zamnesia and Plagron!!🏆🤞🏼🏆🤞🏼🏆
🌱 Die Papiertuch-Keimmethode 🌱
1️⃣ Material:
Feuchtes Papiertuch
Samen 🌰
Zip-Beutel 🛍️
2️⃣ Anleitung:
Samen zwischen feuchtes Papier legen (nicht zu nass!) 💧
In einen Zip-Beutel geben, luftdicht verschließen 🛍️.
An einem warmen, dunklen Ort lagern 🌡️🌑.
3️⃣ Warten:
Nach 2–7 Tagen: Erste Wurzel sichtbar! 🤩
💡 Tipp:
Kontrolliere täglich die Feuchtigkeit, damit nichts austrocknet!
#Keimung #GrowTip #GreenLife 🌿
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@PalmaGrow
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Hermosa floración mucha resina
Defoliación para permitir mejor ingreso de luz
25 - 31 agosto
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@Chrisandweed
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Bueno, cortada 😁. Sin duda esta era la mayor candidata a ser la primera en cortar, y además a ser de una gran cosecha.
De momento está puesta a secar dentro del armario encima de las luces, a ver si llegamos a los 10/15 dias que me viene operación y así puedo disfrutarla en el periodo de recuperación ❤️
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@Mr_nugs_lover_David
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She's responding super good to lst method she looks absolutely gorgeous I would have loved to be able to grow her since march however It was not posible but I keep this wonderful indica in my list. This wonderful pheno of Alien gorilla has started flower the 3rd of August.
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@Ganjaman19
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Week 7 over and I'm entering the final week of flower it's super hot round here atm so I've had some high temps in the tent as yous can probably see.
The plants all look promising some look top notch the feed is doing its thing you can't wrong with Ton o Bud 😉 highly recommended 👍.
See yous next week for the week 8 update then time for the flush and get these dried out.
Thanks to my followers and sponsors really appreciate all your help 🙏👍❤️.
@Anesiaseeds
@divineseeds
@HydroproWashington
Peace out and happy growing.
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@MicroHidroGrow
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Día 32. Esta semana corté los esquejes. El dia 30 de crecimiento. Saqué 8 y los puse a enraizar en lana de roca, dentro de media botella de 6lt tapada con otra mitad. Mantengo la solución de la semana anterior. Hasta ahora la planta se ve muy bien. Ya dentro de una semana espero tener raíces y pasarlas al indoor de arriba con la madre.
La configuración del espacio va a ser un desafío dado que la madre tiene las ramas muy abiertas. A primera idea, supongo que haré que los costados sean ocupados por la madre y guiaré los 4 esquejes para que ocupen el centro del indoor. De todos modos seguro aplique tecnicas de guiado y/o cortes en los esquejes.
Una vez arriba pienso darles una semana de crecimiento y ver, en base al tamaño que tengan, si ya los paso a floración. Quiero aprovechar el primer cultivo para tener una referencia de espacio y tamaño.
El tiempo va pasando más rápido de lo que imaginé y ver los cambios tan rápidos ha ayudado. Debo admitir que soy un poco obsesivo y eso me hace más fanático de la hidroponia, ya que el cultivo es más limpio y mucho más rápido para crecer. Ahora tengo que esperar ver. Subo un video con la configuración terminada, y de esa forma, se puede entender la idea. Sorry for those who don't speak spanish, but I've made the video in spanish. Anyways you can see and understand the configuration.
Estoy orgulloso de lo que pude armar usando maderas de palets y otras que también encontré en la calle. La mayoría de los artefactos los tenía de otros indoors que he tenido. Ya prontl habrá actualizaciones sobre el avance. Pero seguramente para cuando estén enraizados los esquejes, esté en la 6ta semana de crecimiento y llegaré a las 7 sumando lo que haga crecer las plantas arriba. Ya anticipo que el próximo cultivo será con la Black Jack de Sweet Seeds, aunque me queda sólo una, y espero poderla germinar con éxito. Sino habrá que salir a comprar otra variedad y en Argentina no hay variedad. No quisera volver a caer en BSF.
Saludos!
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@sirstickyfingers
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Good week, seeing alot of growth sites but they are all still short af. IM not sure if i should worry how short these girls are or not since they seem healthy??? They look healthy and seem to be liking what I been doin. Watering 1.5 liters per plant every 3rd day at 6.5 ph. IM still torn about transplanting to a 5gal a week before flower or just keep amending my soil with top dressing, I am open to opinions and or thought from anyone reading this on tips, what you would do or recommend
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@Ryno1990
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My smallest photo in the back hanging out is Strawberry Banana from canuk seeds she has been moving rite along in flower growing some nice size buds do far she has deffinetly picked up some pace in the growing department can't wait to sew her in a couple weeks
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@buzbun
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Its good growing plant,good cloning its all from 1 freebie seed!On flowering they stretching 2x maybe more im not expect it but all good.think need more Silica for plant like that for more strong stems
