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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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@dfgh95
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I watered them with 250ml and 400uS/cm each. I use the photone app to meassure the luminosity and they are receiving 7000lux aprox.
They are all doing well. Although Juana has grown more than de others, they all look pretty happy so far.
I plan to increase the light intensity at the end of this week since they won´t be babies anymore sooner than later.
Today 22 is second week last day and they are starting to grow noticeably each day.
This week I raised the EC to 400uS/cm and watered the plants with 250ml, so I just had to water them again with plain ph balanced water one more time during the week and that was practically it with watering.
I also raised luminosity by switching 2 more LED bulbs and getting them all closer to the canopi, about 50cm. that is about 10000 lux in the meter
I still spray them all day with ph balanced water, maybe next week I'll spray them with a little bit of Algafort, that can be used in foliar spraying.
Humidity stayed at +-58% the last 2 days even with the little humidifier and me spraying them all day. I'm trying to raise RHs so next week I'm planning to lower de temp to 22-23 °C hoping humidity raises more naturally.
Next week we also will start with a little of CO2 that is always well recieved.
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@Manic
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The budlets have fully developed and are now starting to fatten up. There hasn't been any deformed leafs or signs of nutes burn so the flush of distilled water from last week seemed to work so I'll b using 1/4 the the recommended dosage for there first feeding this week. Ap is really showing her purple color with the budlets and her sugar leafs. Blueberry is more potent smell so we will see what this week has in store.
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@BudHaks
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She is now putting on weight - and still going tall! She looks like she has a while to go before harvest but she is doing magnificently. Little to no deficiencies!
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@Hashy
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Week 10 mid flower (week 4 flower)
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Light cycle=12/12
Light Power=180w 75%
Extractor controller settings (during lights on).
High temp= 26c
Temp step=0c
High Rh= 54%
Rh step=0%
Speed max=10
Speed min=3
Extractor controller settings (during lights off).
High temp= 21c
Temp step=0c
High Rh= 58%
Rh step=0%
Speed max=10
Speed min=3
Smart controller settings (during lights on).
Lights on=9.00am
Radiator on= -22.5c
Radiator off=+23.0c
Top fan on=
Smart controller settings (during lights off).
Lights off=9.00pm
Radiator on=-18.5c
Radiator off=+19.0c
Top fan on
VPD aim=0.9-1.4
DLI aim=30-35
EC aim=0.8-1.5
PH aim=6.0-6.5
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NPK= 8-17-26
Method= Automatic
Feed=Flower nutes
Neutralise=0.1ml/L
Plagron bloom=4ml/L
Plagron Power buds=1ml/L
Green Sensation=1ml/L
Easy Ph Up=0.021ml/L
(1ml=23 drops, each drop is 0.043ml)
Ec=1.55 PH=6.2/6.0
Runs=18
Run times=4mins (L/L each)
Gap times=16 mins
Total runtime=72mins(L/L each)
Total flowrate= ml/min(ml/min each)
Auto start time=10.00am
Auto stop time=15.44pm
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📅8/12/24 Sunday (Day 64)(flower day 24)
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Automatic mid bloom nutes
Ec=1.5 PH=6.2/6.0
Volume=10L
Volume left=1.25L
Volume used=8.75L(ml/min)
Volume each=4.37L(ml/min)
Runoff.
Total runoff=1.1L
Ec=3.5 PH=/6.1
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📅9/12/24 Monday (Day 65)(flower day 25)
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📅10/12/24 Tuesday (Day 66)(flower day 26)
📋 Raised scrog net slightly and adjusted cola positions. Lowered light power to 160w as the other strain is getting a bit of light bleaching from stretching way more then this one.
📅11/12/24 Wednesday (Day 67)(flower day 27)
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📅12/12/24 Thursday (Day 68)(flower day 28)
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Automatic mid bloom nutes
Ph up=0.231ml, 6 drops
Ec=1.55 PH=6.2/6.0
Volume=11L
Volume left=2L
Volume used=9L(ml/min)
Volume each=4.5L(ml/min)
Runoff.
Total runoff=0.4L
Ec=3.25 PH=/6.3
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📅13/12/24 Friday (Day 69)(flower day 29)
📋H=80cm D=26cm Dli=46.8 ppfd=1080
Raised light
H=80cm D=33cm Dli=40.3 ppfd=932
📅1/12/24 Saturday (Day 70)(flower day 30)
📋H=80cm D=33cm Dli=40.3 ppfd=932
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Weekly roundup.
📋 I'd say the stretch has now finished, this is a great size for my tent. Looks nice and healthy, I may need to do a little defoliation soon to help air flow.
Temps were a bit better this week so the radiator only used 22.4 kw £5.60
Take it easy.
Back soon.
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@IamCy
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Week 2. Just the normal stretch. Nothing eventful. After this week, I'll be giving random weekly updates due to my busy schedule.
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@TaterheadJohnson
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She was pretty much on AutoPilot all week. Growing and drinking like crazy.Running out of head room and i hope she gets the point here soon lmbo… More below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
8/16: Trimmed down dead/half dead leaves from bottom of plant. Feels good to see just all green without the couple of eye sores. She still a sexy girl!
Topped of rez with the rest of her nutes in half gallon jug. I’m n to half gal jug of water before next nutrient batch mix.
8/17: Just been topping off the rez all day! She has been drinking heavy!
Will need to mix another batch of nutes tomorrow.
8/18: Mixed new batch of nutes today. Mixed in gallon jug. Split into half gallon jug. Topped off rez with full half gallon jug then some plaint water from half gallon jug.
8/20: Mixed another batch of nutes for the week.
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@Big-Daddy
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In der letzten Woche hat die Pflanze sich sehr gut entwickelt. Wenn man couch-look nicht mag, reichen 9 Wochen Blütephase.
Der Besitzer der Pflanze konnte in seinem ersten Indoor Durchgang sehr viel lernen, an Erfahrung sammeln und sich den ein oder anderen Fehler gleich abgewöhnen. Auch muss man dazu sagen, das die Pflanze sehr heftig unter den Temperaturen gelitten hat. Teileweise waren es zwischen 13 und 30 °C.
Auch war eine lange Durststrecke dabei.
Alles in allem, für die erste Pflanze doch recht in Ordnung.
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@Barbagrows
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Day 99 - Cleaned all of the underside below the second net. Watered with 4 litres of water with nutrients listed above.
Day 104 - Watered with 6 litres of water with nutrients listed above.
Day 105 - All flower sites are shooting out lots of Pistils, plant still shows signs of stretch and I think she still has a bit more to go before she settles into her finishing height.
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@gottagrowsometime
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Growth is just going amazing. Both phenos are doing just astounding. I'm overall delighted with these genetics.
Days 35-37
Growth is going amazing as you can see. When preflower stops. I'll move it under a 300w light from mars-hydro. Hopefully within the next 2 weeks. I have moved over to giving bloom now. She is showing light mag issue so I added Xpert Nutrients Calmag and have been feeding the 20L pot without it fully drying up. I love soil growing.
Day 38-39
She's pushing on at an alarming rate. I did not plan for it to be these big. They're going to get 50-100% bigger. So, it's not necessarily their size now. But in 3 weeks. I need to start using IR in my flower tent to push my fems into high gear. Adding 2hrs of extra light should easily cut days to a week depending where they are. Got to also becareful as if I add IR to anything in preflower it'll stretch like crazy. So, im at least 5 days or so before my flower tent will have no preflowering plants just all girls into heavy flower. This plant will STAY away from any IR 730nm for at least another 2-3 weeks. So, she'll do all her preflower under the p1000, which will be an issue in itself.
Day 40-42
Took her down to separate her as they're far to close, to big and too many shoots not to do anything will only set the mid-lower parts back weeks during the flower process. I did do some very very light lollipopping at the very ends. The shoots were the smallest. And removed their fans obviously. That's the only defol I've done more or less over this ENTIRE grow. Which is very rare for me not to remove some leaves. With autos, you really shouldn't. Some can take it & still do well. But left alone. And good lighting/airflow throughout the plants. Has really made a huge difference. I separated them as best I could with as minimal stress as possible. It'll take a few hours to look all pretty again when she settles. She'll look really good. No HST/Defols done in any major way. Left it all. And just let them do their thing. Working with it, the smell is LOVELY like a black berry smell. Is absolutely lovely scent she's giving off. But, she is a good candidate for stealth growing. Only when she's worked on does she pong. And you have to be close to smell it. Day 42 and she's doing AMAZING. Really happy to see both phenos looking beautiful & separated really well. Hoping she'll push through pre flower in the next 10-12 days.
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@Soskar69
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This week was very rainy and it happend what I was afraid the most: botrytis. I was worried since the begging because the plant is very compact and small, the air don't flow very good in it, so when the humidity went up to 90% and the temperature was 13°C, the fungi attacked my girl. I cut down two big colas because of it :( but you know sh*t happens, I was at work and hadn't got the opportunity to take in my girls. Friday I will cut her down and wah the buds, we'll see how much she can give me.
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@tony_kiffton
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Habe nochmals kleine Triebe und Popcorn entfernt ... wächst trotz kalter Temperaturen munter weiter - umgetopft in den 6 Liter Endtopf aus Stoff mit Floragard Rosenerde aus Deutschland !
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@bigsmoke42069
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Week 4 of flower 8/30/24
Defoliated a little for all the tops to get maximum light exposure.
Some strange marking started to appear on some of the leaves.
The problem was a very high salts buildup in the coco because I watered with almost no drainage for a couple of days.
EC 3, in the drainage.
PH was a little high but still at normal range.
Watered with a diluted nutrient solution with H2O2 (2.5ml a gallon).
Waited a couple of hours and watered with nutrients again same day without the H2O2 (usually I water once daily at the start of the 12 light cycle).
EC got lower to 1.6 and on the following days it got lower even more to 1.3.
The plant seems happy and there is damage only on some parts of the leaves/branches. (seems like the salt buildup was only in some areas of the roots because only specific ares of the plant got damaged.)
I like to see the daily progress in mass and trichome production :)
Noticed the plant mass increasing daily.
The smell intensified a bit
I grabbed the leaves I defoliated, rubbed the trichomes to release the oils and the smell was just incredible, It is not fully developed yet so I cannot put my finger on the most dominant terpenes, but I can surely tell the smell of tropical fruits mixed with sweet candy notes are something mega pleasant.
Watering with nutrients daily (mama likes to drink a lot).
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@nerdz
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57 to 63 Thursday
The last week. I am dropping the feed down low, might even just flush them entirely for the next week which I don't normally do but I want them to start dying naturally
These things are going to be very nice. Very tight and frosty buds in here!
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@TheBulldozerSicily
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Oggi ho scoperto una bruttissima cosa, le piante sono ermafrodita, peccato, questa doveva essere la seconda settimana di fioritura. Invece non continuerà, butto tutto e ricomincio un altra volta.
Non sono né felice né arrabbiato, questo fa parte del gioco... la prossima volta staró ancora più attento.
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@GabbaGandalf
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I started to scrog The Church (left side of the closet). I topped the plants after the fourth node. Of the 4 Churches, I didn't properly top two of them. These two are looking like they are developing the main cola as well as the two side colas equally, so it seems there are three of them.
Serious 6 is growing slowly. Two of the plants are staying small and scrawny. I'm wondering if that is the phenotype or if I messed up.
And to top it all of, there was an accident with the Autopots :-(( This is the second time it happened in my AP system: The float gauges in one of the trays got stuck and the water kept flowing. The tray overflowed and the water ran all over my wooden floor. This also happened at night and I only discovered it the next morning. Luckily, the float became unstock at one point of time and the waterflow stopped. If it hadn't, 30 Liters of water in my tank would have caused serious issues.
I was going to start the 12/12 flowering cycle next week, but looking at the Serious 6s I will postpone it by at least another week. That way the Church can scrog longer and I assume won't fill up the net as quickly as Serious 6 anyway, since it more bushy compared to the Serious 6 sativas.
