This is my first hydro grow and first time with clones. I have a few semi successful outdoor grows under my belt but the weather (hot AF) and caterpillar apocalypse (lost a beast of a plant and the tops of most others) last year are forcing me inside. Reservoir is an hdx 27 gallon tote with 15 gallons of actual water capacity about 1/4” under net pots. Attached to 1/4 hp active aqua chiller (overkill but got a deal and am in so cal; last years consistent 100+ temps ravaged my outdoor grow and can even make indoor temp regulation difficult) with two 5” and one 4” air stones in main res and one 4” in a 5 gallon top off res (not part of the system until/if I need it) attached to two 15L/minute active aqua air pumps. I wanted to have a bit of a barrier between the ambient temps inside the tent (rest of the room is a/c controlled) and the actual reservoir so I built a base to set the tent sans bottom putting the top of the res at the floor of the tent. This also raises the reservoir off the ground and hoping it will save some back aches once scrog comes into play. This also frees up 16” of vertical space inside tent and although I intend to scrog it should help as a buffer with temps and I won’t have to worry about light distance since plants are at floor level. To keep as much unnecessary heat out of the 4x2 tent the spider farmer light ballast was removed and relocated to outside the tent which I’m glad because during testing the ballast and light are each producing 120 degrees. Half of that is outside the tent allowing the temps inside the tent to stay about around when room temp is about 78 (a/c off but weather is fluctuating) with a small fan at base level and a 6” clip on fan for higher up. Reservoir will be 66-68 at all times thanks to the chiller. For ph management I am going to be using a torus hydro perfect ph (35 gallon). I’m hoping their claims aren’t just hype because they say it removes H+ and OH- ions to allow the ph to maintain 5.8 - 6.2 ph (without any additional buffers). This small fluctuation allows all nutrients to be taken in while a stagnant ph will prevent certain nutrient uptake hence a more complete usage. These are claims among others they made, let’s see if the science is legit. Unfortunately this being my first hydro grow I have no standard to base this off, but if I don’t have to worry about my ph that’s one less worry. Nutrients will be GH flora trio and cal-mag plus hydroguard. Not sure about additional additives, want to keep it pretty basic but suggestions for this nute/strain combo would be appreciated. I was intending on growing wedding cake or venom og but cake was sold out and venom didn’t look great so I ended up coming home with two gelato clones from universal nurseries. I’ve always liked this strain but wanted the cake because I’ve read it’s highly resilient. What I was not expecting was that these would be rooted in neoprene. I’m new to hydro and aside from the research and reading throughout my grows I usually overlooked neoprene. I guess it could be better than the rock wool as it shouldn’t leach and mess with ph? They are surrounded by hydroton and will be hand watered until roots make it to water. Update day 6: I went against my better judgment and initially painted my lid for light leakage. Ended up dumping my entire reservoir two days in because it was full of paint chips (even though it was formulated for plastic it still chipped off in high volume). Used a drill pump from HD, worked well as the intake is a 1/4” pvc tube I could suck up the paint chips and the water, but DO NOT USE to transfer anything but waste water as the output contained grease from the pump! Got a new lid and will just be using panda film for light blockage. Added a small humidifier because rh was in the 30-40 range, now temps and rh are consistently 70 degrees and about 65%. Nutes are 1/4 strength except calimag due likely to stoned math... Plants don’t seem to be minding so I’m not trying to sweat it much. Slight upward drift in ppm and ec as water is taken in or evaporates and ph is slowly swinging in the range torus hydro said it would so that is a success as I have not used any buffers. They claim it is more effective when it can directly interact with a root mass so it seems promising. New growth sprouting all over but no roots have made it out of the net pots. I went with 6” hoping roots will branch laterally exposing move root mass to the air gap once developed. Started noticing slight yellowing of leaves day 4 and some drooping (due to low rh as they perked up after adding humidifier) so I went from 50ml top feed daily to 100ml, also turned light down to 15% and everyone is happy.

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So far nothing to complain about buds sites are putting on some size....clone piece is holding up pretty good....hoping she get some roots this upcoming week...never really clone before

they are taking nicely to 12/12 and they love the new pots- hoping nothing but good things for these girls! i have the other two GBs switched to 12/12 to show their sex. jan 12 looking good

Starting week 7 of flower. Continuing with current General Organics feed schedule for the final week then start the last 10 to 14 day flush. Buds are really starting to pack on weight now. Thanks for looking everyone ✌️🏼

4/22/24 - 4/28/24 ----------------------------------- 4/2 - Seed popped ----------------------------------- 3 Gallon Fabric Pot 50% Cana-Coco 25% Vermiculite 25% Perlite ------------------------- Tent: 2’x4’x5’ GA Tent 600D 1 Gal Humidifier 1x 6” Clip Fan 1x 28” Oscillating Fan 1x 4” Carbon Filter with 2x 200 CFM ------------------------------------------- 3 Gallon Tall Fabric Pots Spider Farmer SF1000 LED - Spider-Farmer Optic 1 54W 3500k - opticledgrowlights Optic 1 XL 100W 3500k – opticledgrowlights Optic 1 XL 100W 3500k (Dimming) – opticledgrowlights Cana COCO - Coco Brick Perlite - Sta-Green Vermiculite – Sta-Green Filtered Water – Everest Machine Botanicare Cal-MAG Plus General Hydroponic – Flora Series General Hydroponic – pH Up, pH Down Great White - Root Magic Mycorrhizae+ Real Growers – Recharge Fish Head Farms – Fish Shit Brer Rabbit – Blackstrap Molasses

Hello! Northern Lights from Sensi Seeds is a great strain to grow. It is easy and resistant to most things except my stupidity (*) . I grew them in Central Europe, in pots of 17L on a basic windows growth, with decent soil with additional mycorrhizas. Generic multi fertilizer like Nitrophoska was added in beginning as granules + I added some poo from rabbits. Plants grew nicely also with the light from the large windows, but I felt they preferred a warmer and sunnier climate. (next time you can try cool or continental climate strains). After 25 weeks, I harvested 2 of them (one was harvested couple weeks before, read below for details) and I got 573g of material before drying. I will try to update the value when it is dried. Now they are drying like in the video I uploaded. Thanks for reading my diary. *) Once I opened the windows and I bent the central stem of the third plant, the smallest since beginning. I put a stick to keep it up and it still survived until flowering. I had to harvest it couple weeks before the others 2 plants, because after this "injury" the plant started to have some mites that were spreading in the plant. In this country, you cannot buy BIO products against parasites, so I preferred to harvest sooner. For the numbers of this last harvest report, I counted only the 2 that I harvested together and 573g is the wet weight of these other 2.

Venga familia que ya viene la cosecha de estas Gelato 44 de RoyalQueenSeeds, que ganas que tenia ya de pasarles la tijera. Que locura de variedad , me encantó cultivarla, que aromas y que flores aparte de piedras, se ven resinosas y muy apetecibles a sido una genética con la que disfruté bastante todo el proceso, crece bastante vigorosa y al final saca unos tonos bastante llamativos. No supuso ningún problema todo el ciclo fue perfecto. Agrobeta: https://www.agrobeta.com/agrobetatiendaonline/36-abonos-canamo Mars hydro: Code discount: Eldruida https://www.mars-hydro.com/ Hasta aquí es todo , espero que lo disfrutéis, buenos humos 💨💨.

Finishing up... she is amazing... HUGE buds... amazing haze fruity smell... She is in flushing so only water for the last days... hope she goes good till the end ... fingers crossed.. 🙏

flowering process has been slow due to mistakes during vegetation, anyway im trying to help the plant recover. Its flowering week number two, i am very excited.

No issues all week steady away I might have underwatered slightly this week partly because it's been so hot! Only noticed when I hand my hands in the media for a check. Had a nice rinse with some bioenhancer. Measured the plant at its highest point 30cm but its measuring at 60cm wide and its now just a waiting game till we achieve a little height. Still not defoliated anything at all yet but looking at it if I'm to keep an even ish canopy I might want to look at it. Tho it grows very strangely. It's like it will grow a little bit here and then the next day a little bit there so it's forever looking abit lobsided middle is due for its turn tomorrow tho. I've tried to control it by spinning the plant thinking it might be down to the air circulation but it appears it's not that.

SUMMARY: She's starting to take a little less now, down to about 1.6L per day now with her giving around 30% runoff. She smells really strong and her buds are fattening up. DAY 72 ----------- Sunday 14th March 11:00 I made 15L of late bloom nutes with rainwater and molasses. 5L at 5.8, 5L at 6.0, and 5L at 6.2. Sunday 14th March 18:30 I fed the NL 2.4L of late bloom nutes which produced 900ml runoff (38%). [26°C/48%] DAY 73 ----------- Monday 15th March 11:00 I made 5L of late bloom nutes with rainwater and molasses at a pH of 6.3. Monday 15th March 18:00 I fed the NL 2.2L of late bloom nutes which produced 840ml runoff (38%). [26°C/51%] DAY 74 ----------- Tuesday 16th March 18:00 I fed the NL 2L of late bloom nutes which produced 720ml runoff (36%). [26°C/51%] DAY 75 ----------- Wednesday 17th March 18:00 I made 15L of late bloom nutes with molasses and rainwater. 5L at 5.6, 5L at 5.8, and 5L at 6.0. I fed the NL 1.8L of late bloom nutes which produced 580ml runoff (32%). [26°C/50%] DAY 76 ----------- Thursday 18th March 18:00 I fed the NL 1.6L of late bloom nutes which produced 460ml runoff (29%). [26°C/50%] DAY 77 ----------- Friday 19th March 11:15 I made 10L of late bloom nutes with molasses and rainwater. 5L at 5.8 and 5L at 6.0. Friday 19th March 18:00 I fed the NL 1.6L of late bloom nutes which produced 500ml runoff (31%). DAY 78 ----------- Saturday 20th March 20:20 I fed the NL 1.6L of late bloom nutes which produced 305ml runoff (19%). [26°C/49%]

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Last straight before flushing this run was very pleasant and relatively easy I feasted on this session On these different tests I learned a lot about cars Among other things that the LST is essential and that the different apical or other sizes are to be avoided because their predefined life cycles do not allow them and this generates a loss in performance To return to my five damsels The northen light auto at @RQS was the fastest the first amber trichomes appeared at day 56 I did not expect taken from court I start rinsing The bubblegum from 00seeds still has not bloomed I plunged into the dark 20h .... The blueberry auto # 1 of pevseeds is simply gorgeous rugged and will surely give me a nice harvest it has suffered pinch of Apex and LST The gorilla glue from @fast_buds is not left smaller than the bonsai style but very well trimmed she suffered LST Apex pinch and size of the main apex ... Et en français Dernière ligne droite avant le rinçage ce run à étais très plaisant et relativement facile Je me suis régalé sur cette session Sur ces différents test j'ai beaucoup appris sur les autos Entre autre que le LST est primordial et que les différentes tailles apicale ou autre sont à proscrire car leur cycles de vie prédéfinie ne leur permettent pas et cela génère une perte au niveau du rendement Pour revenir à mes 5 demoiselles La northen light auto de chez @RQS à étais la plus rapide les premiers trichomes ambrés sont apparus au jour 56 je ne m'y attendais pas pris de cour je commence son rinçage La bubblegum de chez 00seeds n'a toujours pas fleuri je l'ai plongé dans le noir 20h .... La blueberry auto#1 de pevseeds est tout simplement magnifique robuste et va surrement m'offrir une belle récolte elle a subis pincage d'Apex et LST La gorilla glue de chez @fast_buds est pas en reste plus petite du style bonsaï mais très bien garnie elle a subis LST pincage d'Apex et taille de l'apex principal La blueberry auto#2 de @pevseeds Est pas mal mais on voit nettement que le main lining subis la stréssée et par l'occasion perdre de sons rendement final je souligne la robustesse de cette variété Merci à tous d'être passé pas ici Que la force soit avec vous !

tried grizzlycannabis.co.uk for the first time cracked critical orange punch and planted them i am unsure how this will turn out but lets give it a try!

Flushed with flawless finish on Monday. Ran through 26L. Ppm was initially 3300 and at the end was down to 1750ppm Tuesday flushed with 16L of just 6.5pH tap water that was dechlorinated. Initial run off was 1200ppm and got it down to 767ppm. Let her dry out for 3 days Flushed again but this time with RO water, 20L at 12ppm. My tap water is anywhere from 285-360ppm. Letting her dry again for 3 days. After will return to the normal 3L watering every 2-3days until harvest.

Tag 23: sieht supi aus . Tag 24: die spitzen sind etwas gelb , scheint das ich doch zuviel Urgesteinsmehl genommen hab . Tag 25: + Dünger + + 2.0 Flaschenwasser + + + Rhizotonic + + + Terra Vega + + + Cannazym + + + BioEnhancer + final PH 6.1 Tag 27: Luftfeuchte ist so bei 68% und Temp so bei 24°C . Auf das der Topf durchwurzelt wird . Wachstum ist gut . Wird aber noch besser , die Pflanze hat sich an den Dünger gewöhnt .

End of week 4 and all is going well, had a slight calcium issue on a couple of leaves, but it was corrected and all is good again. This girl is responding well to the nutes, but my run-off is getting a little high, that should change when I cut out the Flora Micro and just feed calmag, Dnectar and KoolBoom for the next couple of weeks. Any comments or suggestions? Wish me luck.... just a few weeks to harvest now.

Se realizo podas de bajo y comienza segunda semana de LSD 25. Gran estirón al final de la semana. Temperatura se comienza a elevar hasta valores de 31 grados.

Hi growmies Everything is fine here Sweet zenzation is showing how much XL it is these days I'm going to do some lollipoping and defoliation so as to make her concentrate high Runtz will be defoiled for the last time and then we'll see what she can do Bruce bunner pheno 2 will be watered with only water and for the last time in his life it was wonderful to see his development next week will be cut Pheno 1 bruce banner I have doubts about what to do it seems to me that the flowers grow a little but I don't know whether to follow the pre-established dates or wait since the stress has lengthened the times Thanks for likes and comments Never stop grow✅