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@DogDoctorOfficial
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Hey Grow Diaries fam,
Welcome back to another update on our PCR adventure! We're at Week 9, which marks Week 4 of the flowering stage, and things are getting exciting!
Overview
The PCRs are flourishing, and the transformation is nothing short of spectacular. The tent is buzzing with energy, and every day brings new developments. The buds are swelling beautifully, and the trichome production is off the charts. This week has been all about maintaining optimal conditions and ensuring our ladies get everything they need to reach their full potential.
Environment and Conditions
Tent: 3x3, cleaned and prepped from top to bottom to ensure a pristine environment.
Lighting: ViparSpectra P2000, delivering a perfect spectrum for this stage of growth. The balanced PAR output and efficient energy use keep our girls happy and thriving.
Watering: TDS at 410, pH 5.8, and water temperature at 21°C. This ensures the nutrients are perfectly balanced and readily available.
Nutrient Regimen
We’ve kept up with our Aptus Holland feeding schedule, and it's paying off big time. Here's the current mix:
Nutritional Spray: Aptus Holland NutriSpray to keep those leaves lush and healthy.
TopBooster: Replaced StartBooster with TopBooster to promote flower development.
P-Boost: Added to the mix for that extra phosphorus kick, crucial for blooming.
K-Boost: a must for them to go fat as we like.
The results speak for themselves – lush green foliage and robust bud formation.
Defoliation
At the end of this week, we performed a mass defoliation. It's always a bit nerve-wracking, but the results are worth it. Removing excess leaves ensures better light penetration and airflow, reducing the risk of mold and pests. Plus, it allows the plant to focus its energy on bud production. And let me tell you, after the defoliation, the PCRs look sexy as ever with their long legs and sculpted structure!
Clones Update
Our clones are thriving, showing the longest and whitest roots I've ever seen. We treated them with a water mix that included K-Boost and Mycor Mix at 1 gram per liter. This combination has worked wonders, promoting vigorous root development and overall plant health.
Reflections
This week has been a testament to the importance of a clean environment and precise nutrient management. The PCRs are responding exceptionally well, and I couldn’t be more thrilled with their progress. We're well on our way to an incredible harvest, and I can't wait to see these beauties in full bloom.
A huge shout out to:
Aptus Holland: For the top-notch nutrients and constant support. You guys rock!
Art Genetix: For creating such an incredible strain. The PCRs are truly something special.
Grow Diaries Community: Your support and feedback are invaluable. Keep the positive vibes coming!
Here’s to another fantastic week of growing! Stay positive, keep pushing forward, and enjoy every moment of this beautiful journey.
Genetics - P.C.R. @Art_Genetix_Team https://artgenetix.world/
Nutricion @aptusholland https://aptus-holland.com/
LED Power @Lumatek and @viparspectra
As always thank you all for stopping by , for the love and for it all, i fell blessed to have you all with me for one more love journey Thank you Thank you Thank you , you guys are great and have been amazing , thank you for everything !
#aptus #aptusplanttech #aptusgang #aptusfamily #aptustrueplantscience #inbalancewithnature #trueplantscience #dogdoctorofficial #growerslove
With true love comes happiness , Always believe in your self and always do things expecting nothing and with an open heart , be a giver and the universe will give back to you in ways you could not even imagine so !
Growers love to you all
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@Slurpy_Terpy
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Day 107 (f45) update:
She is coming along well! Was much in need of the day 42 defoliation as her fat fan leaves were blocking nearly all the light... Now the mid section is clearly under developed and more light green colored however since the defoliation the overall bud production is picking up in the mid section. In hindsight with this strain I should have removed more growth shoots at the start of flower (and more leaves at the week 3 defoliation) because currently most of the volume of the plant's flowers is in her mid/lower section... 😅
Her smells are doing well!! They didn't change much in the past week however the smell became stronger and when I rub the buds and then rub my fingers together I get some nice kushy fuely dank smells very much looking forward to smelling her after a good 2 month cure! 😛😛😎
She was showing slight nutrient burn and deficiencies so did a res change and lowered the nutrient dosage.
Trying Botanicare TEA and SWEET RAW supplements to gain in terpenes... Hopefully it will be noticeable in the end result 😜
By the looks of it, at least 3 weeks left till harvest! Looking forward to it!!! 😀😀😀
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@FlowerBloom09
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Plants are growing so fast , I would say pre flower , next week should be flowering , ran into mini bugs (maybe spiders) but I added more traps so stop them , also ran into mold this week but that may of been due to the humidity so I lowered humidity from 55 down to 45, excited with my first grows!
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@GodZilla_Owner
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Not much to report this week, the trichomes are still milky. My feeling is that it will take another 2-3 weeks until they are ready to harvest.
Until then, I will continue with the fertilizer scheme. The smell of both strains is very pleasantly fruity (citrus) and I continue to monitor the VPD value and temperatures.
This time there are no pictures and only videos they show better the development, in the time lapse you can still see a growth in the flowers, slow but there is still growth.
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@HowtoBubatz
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The transition is officially happening—the plant has now fully entered the flowering phase!🌱
The stretch is kicking in, and it’s growing rapidly, really taking off this week.
It looks incredibly healthy, with vibrant green leaves and strong development.
Thanks to the LST, it has spread out beautifully, allowing for even light distribution and great bud site exposure.
I’m really happy with how things are progressing and excited to see how the buds start forming in the coming weeks! This one is looking very promising.💪😎
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@CanadianFillmore
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Welcome to growfessor theatre, 4x4 edition, under the Mars-Hydro TSW2000. Starring for the next 9 weeks (after about 13-14 weeks in veg) is Do-si-dos, Green Crack, LSD and Mandarin dreams.
I'm adding sensizym to the nutrient line up this grow, still not sure how much of an impact it makes, but hopefully I'll have an answer after this grow.
Thanks for stopping by growfessors 👽🌳💚, tune in next week!
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@CBD_Sweden
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The growing cycle it self worked out as expected, except that the pH-level was way off from where it should be, and I found out a bit too late. Because of this the outcome of the harvest didn't say much about the potential of this strain, but as soon as I got enough time and space, she will get a new chance to shine.
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2018-02-27.
This is my review / smoke report of this lovely cbd flower.
There are rock hard buds and almost no give at all, even in those smaller buds.
When you grind it the scent will appear more than just smelling on the buds.
It smells a little weak of grass, hay, pepper, some spicy and sweet.
The taste is grass, soil, pepper and exceedingly sweet fruit.
The effect is directly, the thc feeling above the eyes and in the forehead.
A little light ringing in the ears and a dry mouth.
After 10 minutes, the cbd kicks in and one feels that the neck and shoulders begin to relax and the feeling continues down over the back and chest down to the stomach.
A calm and well-being is found in the body.
After 15-20 minutes it is down in the legs.
But in a strange way, you also feel like doing something, or meeting some friends and just sitting and talking about fun things.
It is a very well-balanced strain and it fits in all sorts of contexts.
I also think it might be good for someone who needs something that makes you more social and dampens enough anxiety and rushing thoughts effectively.
I think this is a lovely strain and I highly recommend it to everyone but especially for more inexperienced people who want to soften with a pleasant medicine.
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@Hashy
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Most of this week I was away so the tent was on autopilot.
When i got back i was pleased to see all 4 strains where still around the same on development. The strawberry pie is the smaller of the 2 fastbuds autos. She is starting to throw out some nice colours now. I'm confident this one is going to hit my 13 weeks scheduled for it, so not long left.
Notes
Day 64 nothing away
Day 65 autofeed last weeks nutes
Day 66 Got back, everything's fine
Day 67 manually water
Day 68 light strength from 75% to 87%
PPFD was 527 Dli was 34.2 now its 716Ppfd 46.4Dli.
Day 69 autofeed this weeks nutes
Day 70 653Ppfd 42.3Dli
Back in a week
Take it easy.
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@NMGDOC
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I was flushing all the plants since August 9.
You can see in the videos with de microscope ( I really try my best, but it was pretty difficult) the trichomes looks cloudy and some of them looks amber. Maybe in the videos you can't see it because my hand was really shaky.
August 17: all the plants were in dark.
August 18: i cleaned all the plants, buds, leafs, everything..., spraying water to remove the rests of potasic soap.
Today august 18, during the nigth, i'm going to harvest all the ladies.
In the past 3 days i didn't watering the plants and the smell was stronger.
August 19:
Before dry
-Critical Kush: 150g
-Red dwarf: 60g
-Syrup (2 plants): 270g
-Lemon (4 plants): 570g
Processing
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@desijones
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These ladies are really stretching this week. I should see the stretch slow down in the next couple of days. Looks like bud production is just starting. I reduced the amount of nitrogen in my feed and will continue over the next few weeks.
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@Ginger_gnome
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Hope everyone had a great Christmas!!!
We have had some crazy cold weather here the last 4 days and for the first time in 13 years had snow on Christmas day. So with the cold and snow came grow room issues. My grow space is outside and not attached to the house so maintaining a proper temperature and humidity has been a bit on the difficult side. Even with the lights running 24 hours, it's had a few drops down to 19c and the humidity has gone up to 68% a few times. Now luckly I'm still in veg and the humidity isn't a issue yet but the temperature has been making me worried. Going to put togther a heater with its own temperature switch increase it drops below 20c.
Did some training over the last week with some LST and FIMing. With the LST every 3nd day I've been adjusting them and pulling the plants back a bit more and more. Since I don't think I'll be able to set up a SCRog net this go around (spent to much for Christmas and wont be able to affordthe PVC tubing) ive got to figure out something else and fast. Plants are getting big and it's going to get hard to bend then properly without braking stuff.
Because I was showing some issues with 2 of my plants I started adding a bit of Revive to my res to see if they get better and they have. But because of the cold that's been hitting us my tank has had a hard time staying warm. Even with my 50w tank heater it's been fighting a up hill battle because the area outside the main room where the tank is, has been sitting around 14-17c. So with that the air pump I use to circulate the tank, it is pulling in cold air and thats been fighting the tank heater in getting it up to what I like it at. I tried using my water pump instead of the air pump for circulation and the res went up to 25.6c soooo I would much rather have 19c res then water that could kill my plants.
So let's talk about the plants themselves. Both Special Queen plants are doing great but as you can see from the picture, one is doing absolutely amazing. Great growth (understatement) and has bounced back from training like a pro. The other plant is still doing really good when compared to all the other plants in the room but still could be a little bit better. Depending on what I'm going to do for supporting the plants this might be the last week of veg. Well see.
So the plants are finally starting to bounce back from there issues. The one on the left is starring to increase its growth by a lot. It's been growing rapidly over the last week. And the one on the rightbhas stopped yellowing and curling. Idk if the Revive by advanced nutrients is helping or if the plant just grow out of there issues but either way I'm happy. There still not perfect but there better then they were.
Well that's all for now so happy growing everyone!!!
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@Chow_13
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July 15 - Temp(High/Low) 27/15 Rain(mm) 0.0
July 16 - Temp(High/Low) 26/17 Rain(mm) 0.0
July 17 - Temp(High/Low) 25/14 Rain(mm) 3.6
July 18 - Temp(High/Low) 26/19 Rain(mm) 9.5
July 19 - Temp(High/Low) 30/20 Rain(mm) 0.3
July 20 - Temp(High/Low) 25/17 Rain(mm)13.6
July 21 - Temp(High/Low) 23/17 Rain(mm) 0.0
This week was wet and hot and muggy. Got some nice growth going on. She survived the thunderstorms that blew through.
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@OrganikTek
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Good weather is Back.
Gave them some epson salt to bring black cream colours out.
Black Cream is now turning red and fatning buds. Shes yellowing dont now if its light stress(her lst is 27/28 and ppfd about 600 and i event gave her so much CO2 now) colors changing or senescense.
Bomberry think shes reduce grow rate abd dont know why.
Wedding cake Jumped and its taking over the scrog net
Couskush growing good some wilting caused by fan. Shes the smallest and at her hight her LST its on the lower edge.
Chears BrotherHood
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@reirrac1
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This is my first time topping a plant... and it ended up being the tallest I’ve ever grown lol. Tried to clean up the lower half of the plant pretty well. Ended up with a few stretchy stalks, but for the most part they stacked evenly and pretty close. Rubbing the stem smells like pungent clementine and cheese, excited to see what terpenes this one will produce.
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@Stonerandgrower
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This was a really fast grow and I can't wait to do another one of them it grew from October 14th started budding November 12th harvested January 10th
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@OreOhs
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I started to train with a base I purchased from @supherpanda. I didn’t want to put any holes in my bag which is why I went with the base. I also did some fimming. We will see what the outcome is.