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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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@GanjaFarmar
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Okay so my favourite batch of all. This plant smells soo citrusy and fruity! Its got a similar texture and smell to Amnesia.
Ive been flushing these for the past week. Hopefully harvest these this week.
Not bad for no training and topping.
Ill be posting soon this week about the harvest!
One love!
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@AgroCultiveta
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Son fotos y videos de múltiples cultivos debido a que nunca e realizado un seguimiento como tal, espero realizar uno ahora!
Nutrientes Utilizados en general Trybac y Trypack biobizz.
Las criticas siempre serán bien recibidas!😋
Espero les guste el contenido!
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@MrGrowDiarie
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This week marks the 10th and likely final week of my autoflower grow. The buds have really filled out and are covered in a thick layer of trichomes. Most pistils have turned orange/brown, and the plant is giving off a strong, pungent aroma. Under close inspection, the trichomes are mostly cloudy with some beginning to turn amber – a clear sign she’s nearly ready for harvest.
The fan leaves have started fading and curling slightly, especially lower down, which is to be expected at this stage. I stopped feeding nutrients around a week ago and have been flushing with just water to clean out any remaining salts. She’s still drinking well and hasn’t shown any major stress signs.
Overall, I’m really happy with how this run turned out. She stayed compact, didn’t stretch too much, and produced some dense, frosty buds. I’ll probably gave her 2–3 more days before the chop – just to let a few more amber trichomes develop for that nice relaxing effect
So i cutet her 2 days later because of the to high humidity , because i dont want bud
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@Sourpatchkiid
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Week 1. One of the plants was confused. Didn’t know where the light was
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@Growin_it
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Back to low maintenance.
Getting closer to harvest!
Giving it a little longer to fatten those buds up.
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@Kitties_and_Colas
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💡🌱🤘🐱 Week 10 of flower! Amber trichomes are starting to form, we're cloudy in most sections but there's still a bunch of clear a little deeper in. This is probably their last full week..we cut all nutrients nearly a month ago and have been watering heavy (as we typically do during flush) but they have only lightened slightly, we use a soilless media which should be completely flushed out by now but most the leaflets are still super dark, after seeing several other grows of this strain we assume it must be characteristic of B.B..we have 4 grow areas in our grow room and the Bangers can be smelled over everything else.. It smells like Fruit Loops with notes of gasoline 🍓⛽...The SP-3000 by MarsHydro is an absolute beast in a 4x2, this is our 2nd grow under The SP-3000 and we completely filled the 4x2 on both occasions. Each run resulted in massive, compact Buds just covered in resin..its without a doubt the best LED of its size we have in house or have ever been privileged to use honestly...
Full disclosure: we got a little impatient starring at these girls, so we (well I did lol) pulled down a bud 2 days ago (approx. 10grams) and immediately threw it in the oven for decarb..we made a 5oz batch of tincture and this is easily the "speediest" Seedsman strain I've tried to date, its a surprisingly clear headed high, definitely a daytime smoke..however, may have a different opinion after a proper dry and cure..we'll update our smoke report after drying...thanks as always for dropping by and happy harvests everyone!! ❤️💡🌱
⚡Mars Hydro/SP-3000⚡ Specifications ⚙️:
Diodes: Samsung LM301B / Osram 660nm (960 total!)
Driver: Meanwell 300watt 🔌 (300W±5% @AC120V-277V)
PPF: 824umol/S ☢️
PPE: 2.8 µmol/j 〰️〰️
Lifespan: 50k+ hrs ⌛
Weight: 10.1 lbs (4.6kg)
Veg Coverage: 3 x 5 ft 🌱
Flowering Coverage: 2 x 4 ft 🌼
-The SP-3000 uses an aluminum heatsink (no fan) and the driver can be placed outside the tent 🌡️⬇️
-IP65 waterproof ratings, tolerant to high humidity grow environments 💦 ..
-Up to 15 can be daisy-chained together and all controlled from a single light! 💡~💡~💡~💡~💡
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@Ferenc
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Day 64, 22nd of November 2021:
Hi there! Here we go..... so basically pistils are appearing stronger this is the 2nd weeks since they started producing pre flowers.
The plants getting a bit light might be some air circulation problem? However they look good and of course closer to the end the gettin' older so the leaves also die.
Set up and timing is the same since flower season started.
ViparSpectra XS2000 is on full power which is 240W so 100% capacity.
Ventilation: 12 hours period when the lamp is on it switches 1 hour on and after one hour off mostly to keep the temperature and of course because of fresh air flow. When the lamp is off it switches on in every 2 hours for 15 min at the same time with the extraction fan.
The extraction fan is on 12 hours when the lamp is, and then it switches on in every 2 hours for 30 min.
That's all a bit more water for them from today also. Humidity quite the same approx 50%, temperature as well approx 26-27 Celsius.
Fertilization remains the same since last week, the BioBizz family raised up to be 2ml/L each so it is like 2ml/L of BioGrow, 2ml/L of BioBloom, 2ml/L of TopMax... see the ratio above.
The schedule of the fertilization has not changed happnes 2x a week except epsom salt just 1x a week.
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@ElegantBuds
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Hello again’
Misty gorilla i also doing great.
It was a strange plant from the beginning but it keeps up with the rest of the crew.
It wont be my masterplant but i hope the quality will be there.
On the badside, ive had 2 herma’s in my tent, I hope I removed them on time!
Now i will check every 2 days.
See you next week!
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@CrazyHorse
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Hello 👋 👋 👋
As a 29th day arrived inside the tent there are many changes 😇 💪 🙏
Purple and Cinderella start flowering a week before Bruce Banner but all girls have got similar high 😇 💪 🙏
63 cm was taken from B.B 😁
All of my beauties expanding in size, flowers sites start to taking a mass and density.
Some brown spots shows on humidity effected leafs so I removed them to control a healthy conditions 💪 💪 💪
Update:
Day 30
Ladies definitely goes in flowering stage, every day I can observe a massive size and high changes.
It's look like the tent will be full of buds soon. I'm very happy to see a purple colour on my Purple Lemonade.
I'm excited because this is my first purple strain 😇 🙏 😇
Day 32
I have to move a girls a little to adjust them for better space use. I love to look on them 😍
Spec.
Mars-Hydro TSW2000 100% power
RAM mix flow 199m3/h
Humidity 58% - 65%
Have a fantastic day, You Lovely Girls Growers 😇 😇 😇
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@Chubbs
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Weekly update on these beautiful ladies. A little late on the update I was out of town for the weekend and couldn't get to it before I left. They're Growing amazing and wow did I come back to a jungle. They'll definitely be getting a defoliation and lollipop this week as it's needed. All in all Happy Growing.
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@DjDaveAtHome
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The stretch is amazing! This plant is a real sky king! Buds are really stacking well on most of the branches. A major recovery from the massive defoliation from last week! Internodes are Sativa like. Branchy. BHB 1 is a monster! Around 19 viable bud sites. She's taaall. Lollipopped the lower quadrant for airflow and to redirect the growth where it is needed.
BHB 2 is the shorter, slightly younger plant. Shorter and has about 1-12 bud sites. Five branches are taller than the rest (This is a similar trend in #1).
The buds are looking healthy. I do get the occasional burnt leaf from my heater at night. Another week of stretching and another big defoliation and that problem should have sorted itself out. Just found out my res temp is at 62°F. I've started the circulation fan in my insulated box in sync with my exit fan. When it gets too warm, it'll start not only my exit fan, but also the box fan. Should raise the temp gradually back up to 65°. Where I like it. Still, no one has complained. Growth was/is still vigorous and healthy! Keeping the PPMs at around 800-900. Going to do a straight water flush for 24 hours, then start again at 500 PPMs or so. In soil I've always done periodic flushes throughout the cycle of the plant. Usually twice in veg. Once at around 6 weeks and another at transition. The third is at week four of flower and the last is the obligatory final flush. 24-48 hours after the flushes, there is a strong and vigorous spurt from the plant. three days later 'in soil' I go back to nutrients. DWC requires much less time to do the same thing, so 24 hours, it is! I've done two flushes so far and the experience in DWC is the same. Just faster. I highly recommend trying it if you haven't already.
Although the root rot is essentially gone, I continue to brew my microbe tea using Advanced Nutrients Tarantula. I add a litre every forty eight hours to each plants res. This is just prevention at this point. There is so much peat moss and soil left in the root ball when transplanted from their soil, it just seems prudent. Future grows will be done 'sterile. With no organic material or biosphere (microbes)... unless we run into problems again. With the res temps so low, I don't think it'll be an issue.
Blueberry Headband (2) from Humboldt Seeds.
https://www.humboldtseeds.net/en/blueberry-headband/
Lighting
https://www.horticulturelightinggroup.ca/products/260w-qb-v2-led-kit
DWC Nutients
https://generalhydroponics.com/floraseries
FloraGro 5ml/gal
FloraBloom 10ml/gal
FloraMicro 7.5ml/gal
Cal Mag 5ml/gal
https://generalhydroponics.com/calimagic
Epsom salts
Brown Slime Root Rot Organic Microbe Tea
5 ml (1 tsp) organic sulphur free molasses
5 ml Alaskan Organic grow fertilizer (or something comparable)
5 ml Alaskan bloom fertilizer (or something comparable)
5 ml Seaweed or kelp fertilizer
2-4 ml Advanced Nutrients Tarantula
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@UrbanBoer
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Besides her twiggy stature, she’s a good high, very fruity in scent, feed back from a friend, after smoking a joint he felt mellow, he loved that it’s not harsh on the throat, very smooth, and for a person who smokes weed with tobacco, he finds himself smoking clean green when smoking it. I forgot to create a questionnaire, but with the new cycle that will be prioritised. I cannot take his opinion as the gospel truth, I need more feedback.
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@the_big_pink_place
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Plants are doing way better then any grow I've done in the past. Trying something because of what I seen on growboss, I defoliated the blueberry but didn't Defoliate the stone cold diesel he states I will get more dense nuggets on the the plant I don't Defoliate so let's see what happens, so far the blueberry started budding way faster.
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@DUBDOLLASIGN100
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Flowering well with that potent smell this OG will be some fire🔥🔥4 weeks outdoor today from a 5 week indoor veg.
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@Piquillo
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Second week went good. The only issue is humidity goes up quite a bit when lights are off. I'll just add more wind to prevent further issues. What do you guys think? Also, I noticed some top leaves clawing and growing thin, like tacoing upside down. Still long weeks ahead, we'll see how it goes ;) 😅 😄
Thank you and happy growing!
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@Symbiosis_420
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Ok, so it's slowly getting thicker and frostier. At week seven my girl could be ready in anywhere from two weeks to four weeks more.
The light was dropped closer to the top of the canopy. I decided to try 15 cm of distance, as well four 50W LEDs are not as powerful as the 600W HID or LED panels that are usually used in grow tents. I will of course keep an eye for signs of light and heat stress, but I suspect that won't be a problem.
Update Day 89.
Today I decided to turn the plant around to see the back colas and their growth. Then I found some mites under the leaves after examining weird spots in a couple of leaves. It seems to me that there was not enough airflow to deter the mites from making home in the back leaves, when compared to the front leaves of my plant. Lesson learnt, rotate plant often, ensure good and even airflow.
I didn't find any webs beside a really small one seen on the video (most affected leaf). So, I think I found them mites early. I only found this kind of damage on very few leaves, and each leave contained less than 8 mites (at least that I could see) and a couple of eggs. So it seems that paying close attention to my leaves saved me from an out of control infestation.
Anyhow... I removed all of the leaves that had even a single mite, or a single mark of discoloration.
Also, I disinfected the grow tent, top of soil and lower part of the branches by spraying them with a 1/4 tbsp of bleach per liter of water.
After that was completely dry, I mixed one part rubbing alcohol with 9 parts water and misted both sides of the leaves and even the buds directly (ethanol evaporates easily, so there shouldn't be residues left after it dries completely).
I got these remedies from https://www.growweedeasy.com/cannabis-plant-problems/how-to-get-rid-of-spider-mites
I will apply them every 3-4 days and keep a good eye on the leaves.
Prevention is key, and some aspects I could've considered before are:
1. not grow any other plant next to my cannabis
2. Don't come into my indoor growtent after tending my outdoor plants.
3. Ensure even and plenty airflow.
So, I attacked back strongly. I cut more leaves than those that showed damage, to increase airflow. I will be on the watch for pests and will rotate my plant often, as well as spraying a few times every week, just to make sure they don't come back.
I also am going to build a kind of metal wire cage to separate the colas further and make it harder for any pest to spread.
Its only my second grow, but from what I've read online about mites, it's way more costly (time and money) to deal with an infestation than to strike them hard early. I guess that specially now that I noticed them before they even made webs.
Look closely at your girls growbros !
Update day 90.
So this morning I. Becker the trichomes and they seem to have gotten more cloudy. I am not an expert at that, but they are starting to be fewer clear and more milky. I will keep an eye on them, but it think harvest might be here very soon, probably closer to the 9 week mark than to the 12 week one (I'm about to finish the 7th week)...
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@Tropicannibis_Todd
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💩Holy Crap We Are Back At It And Loving It💩
Growmies we are at DAY 21 and she's just killing💀it👌
So Shit , I gave them just a tad to much nutes 👈 But I have since fixed it
So I'm starting to pull her over and do some low stress training 🙃
Lights being readjusted and chart updated .........👍rain water to be used entire growth👈
👉I used NutriNPK for nutrients for my grows and welcome anyone to give them a try .👈
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NutriNPK Cal MAG 14-0-14
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NutriNPK Bloom 8-20-30
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👉THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO GO OVER MY DIARIES 👈