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@DrLaggis
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๐ŸŒฑ Day 57 - Start of the Second-to-Last Flowering Week ๐ŸŒฑ Hello, Grow Friends! Today marks the start of the second-to-last flowering weekโ€”Week 9 overall, and Week 5 of flowering. ๐ŸŒฟ Iโ€™m getting more and more excited as my first grow nears its end. As I approach harvest, Iโ€™ve decided, based on my research, to stop feeding nutrients and stick to just pH-adjusted water for the final two weeks. ๐Ÿ’งโš–๏ธ Watering Routine: Iโ€™ll keep the same watering scheduleโ€”1 liter every two days, which is about 10% of the pot volume. ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ’ง This should be enough to flush out the remaining nutrients, ensuring a clean finish for the plant. Temperature & Humidity: The temperature remains stable between 19-23ยฐC, which I believe is ideal for this stage of the grow. ๐ŸŒก๏ธ๐Ÿ‚ No more high temperatures to worry about! The humidity is fluctuating between 45-58%, and Iโ€™m keeping a close eye on it to stay below 60%. ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿ” Everything seems on track for now. ๐ŸŒฟ Plant Health & Growth: The plant still looks very healthy overall. ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ’ช However, Iโ€™ve noticed that in the past three days, there havenโ€™t been any visible changes in the size of the buds. ๐Ÿค” It could just be that Iโ€™m not seeing the growth clearly, but the only noticeable change is the daily opening of new flower calyxes. ๐ŸŒธ Harvest Preparation: Iโ€™m already getting my equipment ready for drying after harvest. ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Once itโ€™s time to cut, Iโ€™ll be hanging the plant to dry for the first 10 days. ๐ŸŒฟโœ‚๏ธ I want to make sure everything is set for a smooth drying process. Stay tuned for more updates, and as always, daily photos of the plant will be posted! ๐Ÿ“ธ๐ŸŒฑ
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This week the girls have been going nuts! These are the largest strawberry bananas I have grown yet! I'm super excited to see what happens after taking these photos I cut one leaf off each plant. My first second time running this strain I did LST and my yield was much lower and it stunted her. So she seems to like to stretch. Check back next week to see just how fast these ladies grow! & remember is 4:20 somewhere!!!!!!!!!!!
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Week 2 of flowering Growing better then my first one now I have learnt abit more about the F1 hybrid Good amount off bud sites growing with steady feed of shogun fertilisers Any advice would be appreciated ๐Ÿ‘
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@Dunk_Junk
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This girl!!! ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜ Look at the bush!! ๐Ÿ˜‚ I may have to hack off a few leaves this coming week, the amount of flower sites that are shaded by leaves is huge. She is VERY bushy. A lot of flower sites and a lot of leaf sites. Maybe it's a kush thing... Either way, she is looking good.
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@Thebush
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Buds are lovely and fat and very sticky. The smell is very strong.
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@Prilyfe13
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December 27, 2023 Day 113 Strawberry Gorilla: Day 3 Curing I just got my grove bags, so there won't be any burping. 2 weeks of curing time should do it. Maybe 3 Gorilla Cookies: This lady is nearly done now. I think I started flushing a little late. As in today. The top half of the plant is just about ready for harvest while the lower half still has white pistils. Lots of trichomes, but still not ready yet. So I removed the wick system and will be top watering Flawless Finish as needed. She my be harvest ready in the next few days. Maybe tomorrow? I don't know. I have the lights coming in tomorrow, so those should help speed the maturing process along quickly. Anyway, I'll be harvesting very soon. I think I'll remove some fan leaves before harvest. Just to make trimming gonna little faster and to give more air flow while drying. It's raining and gross today. Unfortunately, that means the RH in the tent is too high. So I need to keep an eye today. Open the tent up every couple of hours to let any extra moisture out. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.2ยฐ RH: 52.6% VPD: 1.30 kPa December 28, 2023 Strawberry Gorilla: Day 4 Curing The whole yield is in a quarter pound grove bag now. It's sealed so there's nothing to do but let it cure for the next 4 weeks. I can't wait. This stuff is fire! Gorilla Cookies: This lady definitely has a bunch of amber trichomes on the tops, but after further inspection, its more like a quarter of the plant is ready for harvest. Just the tops. So the supplemental lighting may help things move along. I'm not expecting anything of substance, but it will certainly mature faster and I'll be able to harvest sooner. She got about 1.5 liters of Flawless Finish top feed today. She'll be needing a new top feed every couple of days from now on. I only expect her to last another week. Maybe a little less, but still no fade on this lady. However, her leaves are popping off without any pressure. Just touch and some of them pop right off. Some of them won't even take a pulling or bending. So she's definitely not quite ready yet. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.1ยฐ RH: 55.5% VPD: 1.25 kPa It's rainy and humid out here, so the tent is suffering from it. It's not too bad, but it has been hovering over 56% and that's unacceptable. Even with the tent door wide open, it only goes down to around 52%. It shouldn't last more than a few more hours. We just need the temp to drop a bit and everything will level out. At least down to around 51% for now. We have a could front coming in soon, so that'll fix the issue. December 29, 2023 Strawberry Gorilla: Day 5 Curing Gorilla Cookies: She is just about ready. The top seems like it's definitely ready to go, but I want the lower part of the plant to mature up a bit. Hopefully the supplemental lighting will help move that along. She will need another flush tomorrow. I'll give her around 3 to 5 days. I won't be able to do a dark period with this one. The tent will already have a drying plant in it and they won't be able to fit in there at the same time. Unless they are both drying. On the other hand, I may be able to squeeze both in there. We shall see. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.1ยฐ RH: 52.7% VPD: 1.32 kPa December 30, 2023 Strawberry Gorilla: Day 6 Curing Gorilla Cookies: She isn't showing much, but I don't really expect her to with the new lights. She is too far along. I'm just hoping for a faster maturity rate. She definitely needs to be harvested within the next week. She got another flush today with the Flawless finish. I don't know how many flushes she has left before harvest, but I doubt it's much. Maybe 2 or 3? No signs of fading though. It's strange. This plant and the smaller on in the main tent haven't faded at all. While the big one in the main tent looks like she will have a wonderful fade. I wonder what I'm doing wrong with this one. Maybe the soil is just too rich for the short term flushing. Maybe she really needs a full 2 weeks of flush. We shall see. I will check trichomes tomorrow I think. I don't think I'll see much difference from 2 days ago. Not in the lower part of the plant that is. The tops are all ready to go. They could certainly use a tiny bit more time, but they are definitely ready to go now. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.2ยฐ RH: 50.7% VPD: 1.34 kPa December 31, 2023 Strawberry Gorilla: Day 7 Curing Gorilla Cookies: She's taking a bit longer than expected, well, actually I originally expected about a week after another Gorilla Cookies from the main tent. I harvested it today. This lady looks like she may be harvest ready in the next 3 to 5 days. I'm hoping she will take a bit longer so I can clear out the dry tent for her. She got about a liter of Flawless Finish today. I'm not sure if she is still as thirsty as she once was. Honestly, I can't tell. She was using the wick system so efficiently, before, I couldn't say how much she was actually drinking at the time. Maybe a liter a day? So she may have not changed her drinking volume at all. Which also means she isn't ready for harvest. The lower part of the plant is still immature. However, the supplemental lighting seems to be helping to move things along. We shall see. Let's hope for some extra time. Ultimately 10ndays would be perfect. But I'm almost certain that won't be a thing. It's too far away compared to her maturity level, especially with the main tops. Those are all nearly ready to go as it is. They could be harvested anytime. But I can still hold off anyway for more amber trichomes. Her leaves are loaded with them, but I don't see a bunch on the buds yet. I'd like to see 20% amber with this plant and preferably no clear. Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.6ยฐ RH: 47.8% VPD: 1.40 kPa January 1, 2024 Happy New Year! Strawberry Gorilla: Day 8 Curing Gorilla Cookies: I believe the lights are doing the job now. The lower part of the canopy is starting to harden off, pistils are turning orange and trichomes are starting to turn cloudy. At least from what I can see. She got another top watering today with about a liter of Flawless Finish. It looks like she is still drinking at the same rate as before. I wonder if I started flushing a bit too early. It's quite possible. But maybe not. The top of the plant is ready to go as it has been for nearly a week. I'm going to check the trichomes in the next day or 2. I don't think it's absolutely necessary at the moment as I can tell the bottom of the plant is still very immature, but moving along nicely. I wonder if foxtails take less time to finish up than a solid bud. An interesting theory. However, the plant has been about a week behind anyway due to the few stressors she was under. Anyway, I think I can hold off harvesting for the week coming up. Update: I had to turn the main light intensity down from 40% to 30% for the large plant in the main diary. The PPFD is around 750 now. Apparently the light intensity should be dropped around this time anyway, so maybe I'm doing a good thing for this Gorilla Cookies. I'm leaving the supplemental lighting alone for now. I believe it is doing something. Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.9ยฐ RH: 46.3% VPD: 1.45 kPa January 2, 2024 Strawberry Gorilla: Day 9 Curing Gorilla Cookies: Today was another top feed of Flawless Finish. She is cruising through water at a decent rate. I'm pretty sure I was too early with her flushing. The supplemental lighting seems to have perked her right up. The lower part of the plant is showing healthy deep green growth instead of the light green from before. The little budlets are swelling up as well. They aren't tight, dense or anything like that. There are clusters of them all over the lower branches. No real formed buds. But will be great with the trim. At least from what I won't be able to salvage as a bud. Even a loose bud is better than a trim bud. I've also decided to wait to harvest this lady for when the dry tent is cleared out of another Gorilla Cookies that's in there. It should have around 8 days left. Frankly, I'm not worried about it. It'll be a good experiment to see how this strain does with a higher percentage of amber trichomes. Although, at this rate, I don't think 8 days is off the mark by much. I know a lot can happen in 8 days, but I don't think the lower part of the plant will have a problem with it. Lots of clear trichomes. Plenty of cloudy, but definitely too many clear. Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.9ยฐ RH: 45.2% VPD: 1.47 kPa
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Week 3 : Mr.B's Colorado Cookies They've been growing at a vigorous pace, seemed to like a nice top off of light mix, stem is growing thicker and leaves are getting pushed out of the fourth node. Soil is a bit cold right now, temperature and humidity are a bit cold too but at 0.7-0.9 VPD so far these young seedlings are doing well , i'd say. Fed with aloe and my own cal mag , ph'ed a bit much to 5.5 , but i poured it on anyway, that's the ph of rain water so... going to get a spray tomorrow of kelp and calmag at sunset twice this week, still spraying the soil with amino, quite happy with how my room is set up. all i can say, is for now i'm liking the indica leaves and i'm looking forward to some lst ๐Ÿš€ against my better judgement i went with a 90ยฐ bend and some LST on the leaves to get it real low and expose all the in between parts to the light, the plant is oriented parrallel to the wall. ๐Ÿš€
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The stealth bucket seems to have scarred a few of the leaves thatโ€™s been trying to grow out on the sides.
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soo little update : the 2 plants on the right side are probably not Jelly Pie #7 but rather Original Clon from Blimburn... there was a mistake when I got the cuttings. On the other hand the 2 plants on the left, I'm totally sure that they are so strong smelling and so pretty
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Very excited for my first grow! There are so many great resources online, I was encouraged to give this a try even though I was intimidated at first. The Kush Grow Kit put together a lot of the items which made it easy to get started. I added the grow tent and the fans and we're ready to grow. The kit recommended no nutrients for the first 2-3 weeks, so I'm waiting two weeks to add their vegetation nutrients. If anyone has a good reason to add them earlier, please comment! As far as light schedule, I was planning on doing 18 or 20 hours, but my buddy was like "what the heck?" let's just do 24/7. If anyone has a good reason to do less, please comment!
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My first grow has been a great learning experience, and I couldnโ€™t be happier with the results. From the reliable BioBizz soil and nutrients to the impressive performance of the Spider Farmer SF 1000, everything worked well together. Each component contributed to a successful harvest, and Iโ€™m excited to continue experimenting and improving my setup with new gear and techniques.๐Ÿ’š
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ULH2: Still growing buds AH1: Strated branching ^^ Bent the plant a little AH2: Transplant to 25l Tex Pot with Canna Terra Pro
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10/8 - going along steady. I'll take few more glam shots later. 2 MONTHS. It may not look like much but I'm proud of these 3. This is probably the healthiest tent I've had since I started growing inside. I just want them to fill out the net a little better before I flip. 10/10 - trellis training is underway. Between topping and this, I should have a nice, full canopy this time around. I've estimated about 72 squares in my net yet only about 35 or so colas forming. Wondering if I should really I push this one or quit while I'm ahead. One thing is for certain, Moby dick is responding much faster to being topped than GZ. Every stem of Moby I've topped has grown lower shoots aggressively and quickly. Gz has been far slower to respond. Noted. Can't wait to see these things bud. But patience is a virtue here. If the veg stage is any indicator, the buds going to be phenomenal.
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Both seeds came out quick and vigorous, I hade to leave for three days and left the tent closed and the humidity went through the roof, I think this caused the leaves to twist up a little but at this moment I am not very concerned about that, Based on the other strains I did from the Sherbinskis Humboldt line, I am expecting a bit longer vegitation period, so a minimum of 6 weeks, depending on how they develop, The Bilberry Lamp is making a great impression I must say, the special grow spectrum in full effect. Hope they go good, fingers crossed ๐Ÿ‘
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Legend Timestamp: ๐Ÿ“… Measures: ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Water: ๐ŸŒŠ Actions: ๐Ÿ’ผ Thoughts: ๐Ÿง  Events: ๐Ÿš€ ________________________________ ๐Ÿ“… D36/V34 - 28/09/23 ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ ๐ŸŒŠ ๐Ÿ’ผ New LST - Made Timelapse of the grow ๐Ÿง  ๐Ÿš€ ________________________________ ๐Ÿ“… D37/V35 - 29/09/23 - ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ ๐ŸŒŠ ๐Ÿ’ผ LST on the younger lady. ๐Ÿง  ๐Ÿš€ Marlene Senior is pre-flowering ________________________________ ๐Ÿ“… D38/V36 - 30/09/23 ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ EC raised to 1.2 pH is stable to 6 ๐ŸŒŠ Added 5L and nutes ๐Ÿ’ผ ๐Ÿง  ๐Ÿš€ ________________________________ ๐Ÿ“… D39/V37 - 01/10/23 ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ ๐ŸŒŠ ๐Ÿ’ผ LST again on the younger and HST on her main bud ๐Ÿง  The bigger one is ok for now, I'm going to let her grow normally a little bit ๐Ÿš€ ________________________________ ๐Ÿ“… D40/F01 - 02/10/23 ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ ๐ŸŒŠ Added 2L water and nutes ๐Ÿ’ผ LST on Marlene Junior and a little bit on the older as well ๐Ÿง  ๐Ÿš€ ________________________________ ๐Ÿ“… D41/F02 - 03/10/23 ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ EC and pH are both stable ๐ŸŒŠ Added water 2L ๐Ÿ’ผ Made timelapse of the last nights ๐Ÿง  She's drinking a lot, I need to understand how to manage the flowering stage ๐Ÿš€ ________________________________ ๐Ÿ“… D42/F03 - 04/10/23 - ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ ๐ŸŒŠ ๐Ÿ’ผ Big Defolation and strong LST ๐Ÿง  Maybe the last training before full flowering stage ๐Ÿš€