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Week 4: Growth Spurts and New Challenges Continued Growth and Health As we move into the fourth week, the plants are showing impressive growth. Their leaves are a lush, vibrant green, and the stems are becoming stronger. The transition to the larger 11-liter fabric pots has clearly paid off, providing the roots with ample space and better aeration. Adjusting Nutrient Levels Given their positive response to the nutrients, I decided to continue with 2/3 of Terra Aquatica Tripart feeding schedule, adjusting slightly to meet their increasing demands. Here's the updated feeding plan for this week: CalMag: 2.5 ml/l (Starting EC before adding nutrients: 0.50 mS/cm) Grow: 1.5 ml/l Bloom: 1.0 ml/l Micro: 0.5 ml/l EC: 1.2 mS/cm (600 ppm PPM-500/TDS) pH: 6.0 Each plant is watered with approximately 20% runoff to ensure there's no nutrient buildup in the coco mix. I will maintain this nutrient level until the pre-flowering stage to avoid the risk of nutrient burn due to over-fertilization. Weather Improvements and Adjustments The weather has been steadily improving, with temperatures expected to rise to around 25°C starting Wednesday, accompanied by abundant sunshine. This upcoming forecast is excellent news for my plants, as I anticipate a final growth spurt before flowering begins. Every centimeter of growth counts at this stage, and I'm optimistic about maximizing their potential under these favorable conditions. Strengthening with Wind Exposure On days with good weather, I move the plants out of the greenhouse to expose them to natural wind. This practice helps strengthen their stems, improving overall stability. Additionally, the wind creates a more challenging environment for pests, helping to keep them at bay. Smart Watering Strategy I only water the plants when the pots feel noticeably lighter. This encourages the roots to search for water, promoting the development of a stronger and more extensive root system. This method helps ensure the plants remain healthy and resilient. Pest Management: Observations and Actions At the beginning of the third week, I noticed dark discolorations on the undersides of some leaves. A few days later, these spots turned into yellow patches. I am still unsure about the cause of these spots. To prevent a potential insect infestation, I sprayed all the leaf surfaces, both top and bottom, with a mildly dosed neem oil mixture. Since then, the spots have not spread further. Because these discolorations are only affecting the lower leaves, they are not causing me significant concern at the moment. Regular inspections and preventive measures are crucial to maintaining the health of the plants and ensuring that any issues are caught early. Decision Against LST At first I have decided against using LST. But some of your comments made me try some LST on two of my plants. I choose Tangie and Gorilla cookies to try out and learn some stuff. Blue dream and Banana purple punch stay without any training. Thanks guys for your advice 👍 Monitoring and Care My daily routine involves checking the plants every morning and evening. This includes: Monitoring the moisture level of the coco mix. Inspecting the plants for any signs of pests or nutrient deficiencies. Growth Observations The plants are responding well to the controlled environment and balanced nutrition. They are growing rapidly, with new leaves appearing almost daily. The stems are thickening, and the overall structure of the plants is robust and healthy. Looking Ahead As we head into week 4, I am optimistic about the continued growth and health of my plants. The combination of a stable environment, appropriate nutrient levels, and diligent care is proving successful. I’m excited to see how they progress and adapt as they move closer to the flowering stage. Seeking Feedback and Tips Your feedback and tips are valuable to me! If you have any suggestions on how I can improve my growing techniques or insights based on your own experiences, please feel free to share them in the comments below. Let's grow together!
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@Stifler
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The seed came to me as automatic, but it wasn't presenting the sex ....
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@Stifler
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Hello Growers! Another week of cultivation, we are approaching the final stage! As the week goes by and they grow, they become more difficult to take pictures, due to the luminous flux inside the greenhouse, however, I made a video to better demonstrate how this progress is! Hope you like it! 😁
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10-1 Day 2 of week 3 flower. Ztrawberriez starting to dry after flush, looks ok. Kosher started to show signs of burn, so I figured I over fed her too. Turns out ppm was 8900. Flushed to 1600 ppm. Shoulda did 2 more liters, but we'll see. Run off ph 7.1 Balance her out I hope. 😁🤘 Oh removed couple messed up leafs. 10-2 Ztrawberriez water 500 ml. ph 6.3 10-3 Water Z 500ml ish again. brought from 22% to 36% (ecowitt). made a gallon of water with recharge, kelp 10 ml, yucca. cal/mag 5ml ph 6.4. also recalibrated my PH pen, never hurts! Kosher should be water time tomorrow. 10-4 Watered K with the same goods Z got yesterday! Regular cal/mag water for Z 10-5 Watered both .2 mg epson per liter water. Cal/mag, yucca 1k ml each approx. Maybe closer to 900. Both growing great and smell great! Z is a bit tall and head long. K is more compact but fatish? Anyways, doing great! Tea next day or 2 or 3. 🤣 10-6 1/4 cup poo, 3 tbs buildaflower, scoop of connect. Both! . .
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@BobRoss
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Looks healthy to me, idk why my buds grow so slowly
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@Stork
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Day 97 Mon PH 5.8 EC 0.6 DLI 12h PPFD Water 24c Day 98 Tue PH 5.4 - 5.8 EC 0.6 DLI 12h PPFD Water 18-24c Day 99 Wed Add water PH 5.3 - 5.8 EC 0.6 - 0.5 DLI 12h PPFD Water 18-24c Day 100 Thu PH 5.5 - 5.8 EC 0.5 - DLI 12h PPFD Water 18-24c Day 102 Sat PH 5.5 - 6.0 EC 0.5 DLI 12h PPFD Water 18-24c Day 103 Sun PH 0.6 EC 5.8 DLI 12h PPFD Water 16-24c
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I changed my tent this week, the lamp and the Mars Hydro extractor convinced me that it was good gear so I took the tent in + 😀 Pulling all the branches with ropes is way too much work... I think I'll just pull the 2 main branches down and add a scrog net next week ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Water: tap water (280ppm). I add 0.7g/L of Grow mineral powder and 0.2g/L of Calcium to reach 820ppm and I adjust the ph to 5.8 -Daytime temperature: 29°C -Night temperature: 25°C -Humidity: 45-65% -Lamp: Mars Hydro FC3000. intensity 60% at 40cm from the top leaves -Room: Mars Hydro 100x100x180cm -Extractor: Mars hydro 402 CFM Max. power 2/10 -Substrate : 70% coco, 25% perlite, 5% vermiculite.
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The white widow is a few days into flowering and the Northern Lights looks to be in preflower. I'm adding 5ml of sensi bloom part A and B per gallon of water, and 3ml of big bud
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Great week. Everything is going well. Fat stocky plants, buds starting. Lst and tucking the leaves. Should be nice plants. Still growing daily
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@Twizz
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The weather was way better this week then last week. Days are getting shorter and i'll noticed she's getting ready to bloom because she's streching a lot! i'll guess she will show the first blooming signs at the end of this week.
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@BigDaddyK
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Crazy growing going on , looking we’ll see for yourselves, I don’t want to say anything as pictures speak louder than words 💪 Also we now have conclusive proof that soil plants ripen faster , the soil ones look at least 1 week ahead with flowers forming Adding biobizz nutrients to Soil plants , watered 3l each Friday Changed solutions Saturday Reduced daytime to 1130 Watered 3.5 l monday soil ones definitely ahead - why ? They all exactly the same plants
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26.02.2024 Clean tanks and filters with h2o2+vinegar acid +bleach Mix fresh nutrient solution with 1.7ml AN connoisseur AB + Silica @ 1% H2o2 - total 30l Donne one pass off long misting 2m with diluted nutrient solution 0.7EC. Flush buckets with diluted solution PAR 350 PPFD, VPD 0,8, RH 60-62%, Temp Night-21c, Day-24/25c, Leaf temperature 22c, Light distance 75cm, CO2 650+ppm 340w@75cm distance 45s ON time 15min OFF time PT-Pressurized tank - PH- 5.9 , EC -1.05, Temp-21c NT-Nutrient Tank - PH -5.85, EC -1.0, Temp-19c 27.02.2024 Topping on all girls, 4 cut par plant Detailly clean grow room floor, benches and main room floor, From this week start feeding more, runoff is lower than input Lower humidity to 58-60% Girls looking great so far PAR 380 PPFD, VPD 0.9, RH 58-60%, Temp Night-21c, Day-25c, Leaf temperature 22c, Light distance 75cm, CO2 650+ ppm 360w@75cm distance NT-Nutrient Tank - PH -5.95, EC -0.9, Temp-19c 28.02.2024 Have timer malfunction, watering didn't work for some time, not affected by roots, still wet when realize defect Replace all filters, great condition so far, no need for changing After topping girls looking healthy, PAR 360 PPFD, VPD 0.9, RH 58-60%, Temp Night-21c, Day-25c, Leaf temperature 22c, Light distance 75cm, CO2 650+ ppm 380w@75cm distance NT-Nutrient Tank - PH -6.02, EC -0.84, Temp-19c Nutrient strength still drooping, next top-up will be a higher strength, around 1.1EC 29.02.2024 PAR 410 PPFD, VPD 0.9, RH 58-60%, Temp Night-21c, Day-25c, Leaf temperature 22c, Light distance 75cm, CO2 650+ ppm Nutrient Tank - PH -6.04, EC -0.81, Temp-20c 400w@70cm distance Increasing light intensity slowly every day, Tropicana in center love it, still at the end off day have leaves point up One Weeding Cheesecake is not so light hangry, it drip every day before light out, but stay up one hour after light is on Humidifier running less and less time, girls make humidity in room 01.03.2024 Again have issue with watering timers (DH48S-S), stop working again, noticed that early so no damage Will need to invest in better timer for misting, this one is start to malfunction😡 Girls growing fast this week, no problem at all😇 Every day their progress can be seen 😀 Like that girls are almost same height and structure, very uniform growth by any mean👏 Hope differences will be marginal between cultivars, Weeding Cheesecake is taller so far but not much Tropicana Cookies still have most byshy and tight internodal spacing from all three cultivars Replace all filters and clean UV-c bulb PAR 460 PPFD, VPD 0.9, RH 58-60%, Temp Night-21c, Day-25/26c, Leaf temperature 22c, Light distance 70cm, CO2 650+ ppm Nutrient Tank - PH -6.05, EC -0.86, Temp-22c 414w@70cm 02.03.2021 Girls start to drink noticeable more water and nutrients, EC drop in tanks by 0.2 in last two days, PH is stabile, going on base side by little Replace all filters , set Diablo to 440w without changing light height, let it shine 😀 Start to manipulate branches and tucking big fan leaves, recovery from topping is apparent, two new shoots are larger and larger every day If growth continue with this speed, flowering probably in middle off next week, probably don't want to wait more than that All girls from same strain looking very similar, really great genetic , very uniform growth and structure Tropicana still most bushy, Weeding Cheesecake is taller , minor deferences so far Hot and humid outside condition, thin this year we hit several HIGH Temp Record! PAR 490 PPFD, VPD 0.9, RH 58-61%, Temp Night-21c, Day-25/26c, Leaf temperature 22c, Light distance 70cm, CO2 650+ ppm Nutrient Tank - PH -6.07, EC -0.80, Temp-22c
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AK-47 Goxuak Autoflower by Genehtik is a truly awesome plant and really really fun to grow! My 1st thought was I wish I had know more when I ordered the seeds. I only bought 1 from the single seed centre .com 🤦‍♂️ Of all the plants our house sitters watched for us back in week 7, this is the only one they regularly ask about and want to know when its finished. Even they loved growing it! And they only spent a week with her and aren't gardeners 😄 Ashoka started in a Jiffy tomato pod and was transplanted almost as an afterthought. In fact we ran out of containers and had to improvise with the water pitcher. (We didn't have high hopes) Oops. The pitcher turned out to be a big benefit in that I could see the roots and diagnose and potential issues. She has been in the same Fox Farms; Happy Frog soil ever since planting the pod into the pitcher. The soil held up good too. Ashoka didn't start showing any deficiencies until the end of week 6, around the middle of her stretch. Correcting this was very easy, we added the recharge at first but it didn't quite do it. We had to feed her Advanced Nutrients Bloom and Grow for about 2.5 weeks. But this Goxuak really never complained : 1:😎 Low Stress Training (LST) for Ashoka was a breeze! At 14 days she was 4" tall and too short to train. She doubled in height in a week and we started training around day 24. Just in the nick of time too! She entered flower about a week after that and stretched like crazy!🤪 the AK-47 gave us about 3 full weeks of nice flexible branches to train before hardening up. We ended up with a pretty even canopy and some solid colas too I wanted to touch on the lighting as there isn't a lot of options on this platform. Ashoka spent her life under 2 different lights. 1st, she sprouted and spent the first 4 weeks vegging under 2x Viparspectra 600w(250 true watts) LEDs at an 18/6 light cycle. She finished her flower and fade under A Optic 8 (500 true watts) LED. At 18/6 At around day 60 I started flushing her.(well my house sitter Sam did the first time) We used Cyco Kleanse and flushed 5 Gallons thru her until the ppm was down to 350ish, I did the next 2 flushes. The 2nd I used Kleanse again getting the runoff ppm to ~120. Her final week I stopped ph-ing the water and just watered tap. I also gave her the 3rd and final flush with straight Ice cold tap water. She really showed a great fade!! Some buds definitely colored up too!! Finally the Harevst: I put her in a 5Gal bucket of ice in complete darkness for 4 days.😈 This was done with the intent to help her produce more resin and frost up. I can't say if it truly worked. She absolutely doubled the trichome production in those 4 days, but idk if it was the time or the darkness and ice. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ I kept her in a sealed closet with a oscillating fan and humidifier at 75°and 63%RH. On the 3rd day I lowered the RH to 50%. She got trimmed and put into jars on the 5th day after harvest. I am monitoring the humidity and burping regularly (8-10x a day) Smoke Report: Creamy pepper with a cherry syrup aftertaste.🤣🤪 I've only smoked a bowl so haven't tested the ashes. But she is curing nice. A bit harsh yet I expect will go away after a couple more days. The high is perfect tho! Just what we wanted. It creeps up on u. But you will be confused by the time you finish the bowl. A very cerebral high(I chopped her whole trichomes were only 10% amber) that was great with good company. My girl andI are both veteran smokers, but this bud still made us both giggly(a rarity). It's a good social smoke and was fun to be on around others. The only downsides were it caused a mild confusion and paranoia. Like I would forget what I was talking about then worry ppl were laughing at me for it(they were though) 🤣🤣 I plan to report more feedback after it had cured a couple weeks. I'll invite others people's opinions as well. Right now I can definitely say the AK-47 Goxuak from Genehtik it an autoflower I would recommend to anyone, but especially new auto growers. I will be ordering more next season if they ate available. Genehtik has won me over. They genetics were extremely stable and safe. No herms no deficiencies nothing but greatness! 🌱🌱🌱 I had to share! I was looking on the breeder Instagram page( @Genehtik_chile) and they used a few of my pictures of Ashoka to represent their AK-47 Goxuak auto. I really feel honored by this. I have only been growing for 5 months and know I'm not good, but it's inspiring and motivating when the breeder of the strain give you an attaboy like this. Thanks Genehtik! Stay tuned for my next autoflower run!!
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7.4. - Watered 💧 9.4. - I'm so dumb...wires were too tight for the main stems and it got cut in. I've carefully removed them, but I did not give enough time to recover and continued bending. Result - 2 half-broken stems (thankfully healthy and growing further) and 1 completely broken off main stem. Watered 💧 10.4. - I guess I must be very lucky this run or the genetics are really good. All plants are thriving and gaining new growth each day, leaves are so big that I am quickly loosing any free space. First buds sites are slowly starting to form, so I will defoliate a bit. I've also manged to bend the main stem on Jack once again as it is definitely the biggest of my plants. Thankfully, without any injuries. 😎 11.4. - Watered 💧 6.4. - 12.4.2024
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I changed the water and raised the nutrients this week, I'm going to start 12/12 today. Not much to report but they're growing fast, power plants are already out pacing the rest like last time.
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Day 23, been QCing the buds and lots defoliation the past 2 days. Getting caked in Trich and some nice bright orange hair poping out. Added trimmed buds to mulch layer. No fan leaves in mulch
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Not much to say just growing like crazy through wind and rain! Keep getting dry they drink so much. One has copper defiency and has fraggled leaves but the rain keeps washing my nutrients away and I've ran out of Activera 🙈 so I'll have to find another fix