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First week of flower is in the books. I posted my feeding schedule in the pics above. If you find yourself looking at it wondering why you're seeing back to back feeds with mycos or teas its because with organics you never want to let your pots dry out. You obviously dont want to waterlog the pots but you need to find that balance with watering so as to keep your ecosystem happy and active. It's not a feed/water/water system where you're watering every other day as you do with salt based bottled nutrients. Always remember you're feeding the microboes/fungi/bactria and they are feeding your plants. If you dry your pots out with organics those elements become dormant and or die off which will lead to deficiencies and a weakened immune system. The week was going smoothly until last night. The timer for whatever reason didnt kill the lights after 12 hrs had past so they got a little over an hr of extra light. To help maintain consistency with the plants I just altered on/off times to make sure they still recieved 12 hrs of darkness. So I was running 6pm-6am now with the overage last night I'm running 730pm-730am. I have heard some horror stories about how something like this has affected people's plants but they are few and far between. I'm not overly worried about it as a plant thats growing outdoors never gets a true 12/12 lighting period. I caught it early, adjusted my lighting schedule to accommodate a 12 hr off period, and being so early in the flowering stage I should be ok. Obviously it goes without saying but this is taboo and not something you want to be making a habit of with photoperiod plants. My dehumidifier also decided to do it's own thing last night and didn't shut off as per the settings (set to 45%) and as a result it pulled my humidty down to 39% down from the 45%-47% that the room usually runs at. As a result my temps rose into the 28-29 Celsius range overnight up from the 25-26 Celcius (my preferred flowering temps) that the room usually sees. So she was quite the party downstairs while I was sleeping. To my surprise when I turned the lights on the plants looked very happy and healthy and immediately started praying to the sun gods. I got lucky here with respect to what I was speaking about above with watering practices and organics. As I keep my pots in the sweet spot with daily waterings this didnt negatively affect the plants. I've prepped and am bubbling a compost tea (posted a video) which will be fed tomorrow. I also through some organic popcorn seeds and organic mung bean seeds in the seed sprouter (pic posted above) to make a popcorn/mung bean SST for the plants that's loaded with all kinds of enzymes and goodness. It's also pretty sweet to be able to say you feed your plants popcorn. Like I mean really though ๐Ÿ˜. I'll talk a little more about SSTs next week but if your curious about it there are many websites about this topic, homesteadandchill.com would be a great place to start. They lightly touch on topic without diving to deep into the science behind it so it's easy reading to help introduce you.
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I'm happy with the harvest but I'll do better next time. This has been a great experience and I can't wait for my next run. 191 grams and I turned most of it into bubble hash. The positive out of it all is I don't have to spend on meds for a little bit. For all my fellow growers that followed thank you for the positive energy and help. The community here is awesome and I'll be back in no time to give it another go. Peace and Happy Growing โœŒ๏ธ
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Hello gardeners! This is my second grow ever, using an slightly improved setup. In my first attempt I was able to harvest 40 + 20 + 20 = 80 grams under not optimal conditions (limited time mostly). Now, with proper time and with a new LED panel for flowering, my goal is to reach 3x40g = 120g total. SET UP -------------------------------- Grow tent 2 x 3 x 6" hidden on a closet LED Panel VIPARSPECTRA 450w (200w real) Extra LED Panel VIPARSPECTRA 450w (200w real) after 3rd week of flowering. Air filtration VivoSun 4" exhausting outside the closet Air circulation: 120mm 5v desk fan GROWING PROTOCOL --------------------------------------------------------------- 1st Stage: Week 1-2 ------------------------------------------------ Container: Red Solo cups Medium: 75% Pro Mix Organic Seedling Starter Mix + 25% Perlite Water: Mostly sprayed every day. Nuts: No Ph: 6.5 Temp(day/night): 24/17 Humidity: ~60 Light distance: 20" 2nd Stage: Week 3-5 ------------------------------------------------ Container: Smart Pot VivoSun 1 G Medium: 75% Pro Mix Organic Vegetable & Herbs Moisture + 25% Perlite Water: Roughly every 5 days with a little runoff Nuts: CalMag + Flora Trio + Floralicious plus following 'Simple Drain to Waste' schedule. Frequency: roughly 1 time per week, with a little runoff Ph: 6.0 Temp(day/night): 24/17 Humidity: ~55 Light distance: 20" 3rd Stage: Week 6-9 (Early Flowering) ------------------------------------------------ Container: Smart Pot VivoSun 3 G Medium: 75% Pro Mix Organic Vegetable & Herbs Moisture + 25% Perlite Water: Roughly every 4 feedings Nuts: Nuts: 5 ml CalMag + Flora Trio + Floralicious plus following 'Simple Drain to Waste' schedule. Frequency: roughly every 4 days, with a little runoff Ph: 6.0 Temp(day/night): 26/17 Humidity: ~40 Light distance: 18" 4th Stage: Week 10-12 (Mid Flowering) ------------------------------------------------ Container: Smart Pot VivoSun 3 G Medium: 75% Pro Mix Organic Vegetable & Herbs Moisture + 25% Perlite Water: Roughly every 4 feedings Nuts: Nuts: 4ml CalMag + Flora Trio + Floralicious plus following 'Simple Drain to Waste' schedule + extra 2ml Flora Bloom. Frequency: roughly every 3 days, with a little runoff Ph: 6.0 Temp(day/night): 26/17 Humidity: ~40 Light distance: 16" 5th Stage: Week 13-14 (Late Flowering) ------------------------------------------------ Container: Smart Pot VivoSun 3 G Medium: 75% Pro Mix Organic Vegetable & Herbs Moisture + 25% Perlite Water: Roughly every 3 days with small runoff Flush: 1 Flush when entering the last 2 weeks + 1 Flush in the very last end (~3 days before harvesting) Nuts: Floralicious plus with watering Ph: 5.8 Temp(day/night): 26/17 Humidity: ~40 Light distance: 16"
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Week 6 for this beautiful girl was flush week an she was ready to harvest she has some amazing plump nugs covered in trichromes this medic grow led is no joke as it helped produce some top of the line plants
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All I can say is the tops... they're everywhere! It's been a good week tbh I forgot to feed her so she's looking abit pail but gave her some nice scran for the week so she should perk up a little, overall I'm happy ๐Ÿ˜Š so remember happy growing and stay green โœŒ๏ธ ๐Ÿ’š ๐Ÿ‘Œ
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Update Tag 5 von Woche 6 16.05.2012 19.00 Uhr. Belichtung umgestellt auf 12/12. Gezรคhlt hab ich รผber 50 Kรถpfchen. Ich bin wirklich gespannt. Der 8 Liter Stofftopf ist wirklich super. Keine Ahnung warum viele damit nicht klar kommen. Beim nรคchsten Grow werden nur noch Stofftรถpfe verwendet. Die White Widows x Big Bud sind wirklich robust und Anfรคngerfreundlich. Alles in allem sieht es doch ganz gut aus.
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Day 22: re-trained new branches with LST. Trying to train a clone is proving to be kind of annoying. Whatever. Did a meal of 1250 and it seems a bit too low. Will try and do about 1400 next time. Watered today with the 1250 again. No PM showing up again yet. Sprayed with H2O2 in case. Day 26: re-training daily now. Reacting very well to about 1500 EC. Run off is still low, but higher than before. Going to raise it a little bit more to get it going before flower. Been spraying every other day with H2O2/H2O. Still no signs of PM. Sprayed with second treatment of neem oil. Growing faster now. Started having to loop around the main stem with LST. Going to be about a 6 week veg time for this guy because of the PM. Probably would have switched by now if it wasn't for the PM. Gives my other non-clones time to catch up. Day 27: first day of 12/12. Plants will only receive 12hrs of light today. Removed any red lst trainers in anticipation for stretch. Left the wire tied ones alone. Fed at about 1700. With R/O water my pH has actually been staying "perfect". I was using the system with tap before and would always have to adjust it a bit with ph up/down. The company recommends r/o water for a reason. Still no signs of PM and it's been over a week. Did a second spray of neem oil yesterday regardless. Looks great. Already did a heavy defol. a week ago so I think I'll be straight going into flower. I'll defol in a few weeks once the colas are noticeable.
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First time feeding her some bloom nutes (C4), Mills nutes having been great so far so it will be good to see what their bloom nutes are capable of as I think mills is very underrated and Iโ€™m anticipating a great harvest. I have also put the OG onto a 20litre air pot to raise up and try and level the canopy and also defoliated the bottom 1/4 of the plant.
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Hey Growmies, hope everyone is keeping well a nose around the garden all looking good for the moment the stardawg is looking deficient as hell because of all the rain recently I'll be mixing some nutrients for her tomorrow but everything else is loving life hope everyone is staying happy healthy and as high as humanly possible ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ’ช
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6/9 I can't believe it but I had faith. The transplant yesterday LOOKED like it was fucked. I cleaned it up though and left it outside. This morning it was standing straight up. Both transplants were! I put tarps up to block the wind tunnel between buildings. It's still overcast and rainy. Sun isn't supposed to come out for a couple poke days. Chance of thubder storms tomorrow but I'm going to try to get everyone in their forever homes today. Or at least most of them. I plan to light dep a few right in the 3 gallon. I'm sure I'll be updating this after I get some work done. UPDATE: I WENT OVER AND GOT THREE MORE TRANSPLANTED. THAT MEANS FIVE ARE OUTSIDE IN THE CAGE. TWO 10TH PLANET, 2 BLUEBERRY CHEESE AND A LITTLE PURPLE PUNCH. THE 3 GALLON POTS WERE RELATIVELY HEAVY SO I PICKED THE LIGHTER ONES TO TRANSPLANT. I LEFT THE ORHER TWO 10TH'S IN THE GARAGE WITH THE DOOR OPEN WITH THE REMAINING PLANTS. I ALSO ADDED WIND BREAKS AND SUPPORTS TO EVERYTHING. I WANTED TO GET EVERUTHING DONE TODAY BUT THERE MAY BE A THUNDER STORM SO IF I DONT GET IT DONE ITS NOT A BIG DEAL AND ILL FINISH TOMORROW. TRANSPLANTS WENT SMOOTH. I THINK THEY'LL GO EVEN SMOOTHER IF THEY DRY OUT A BIT. STILL HAVE THE 50 AND 40'S TO FILL. Took a bunch of videos but the don't want to load. I'll have to try tomorrow or later tonight. UPDATE: I TOOK TONS OF PICTURES AND VIDEOS BUT THEY DONT WANT TO SEEM TO UPLOAD. IVE GOT SIX IN THERE FINAL HOMES OUTDOORS 20s and 30 gallon smart pots. Still have massive plants but I'm going to out those in the 50 and the 40. I'll finish this shit up tomorrow and get all the girls in their forever homes and if I don't have room for some I was planning on doing a light dep anyway so that will work out good. I learned a lot and transplanting went a lot smoother todsy than before. I feel really proud of myself. The last Transplant I did break a few leaves off that I didn't notice but whatever. I used tomato cages for suppirt on two and bamboo poles and string on the others. I'll add the vertical trellis as they grow. I'm proud of myself. 6/10 I got a lot done yesterday. Six are outside already. Two are in 20s in the garage. I'm planning on transplanting the rest today or tomorrow. I'll update later. Accidently uploaded lots of stuff on the wrong week. UPDATE: I TRANSPLANTED THAT SUPER TALL PURPLE PUNCH THAT I DIDNT TOP OR HST AT ALL INTO A 40 GALLON TUB. ROOTS WERE DRY AND THIS TIME IT ACTUALLY LOOKED LIKE THEY FELL AWAY. THE PLANT HOWEVER STAYED STANDINGVUP FINE. I THINK THIS PHENO IS GOING TO BE A TOUGH ONE. LOOKS GOOD LIKE AN HOUR LATER. I HAD THE 50 READY TO TRANSPLANT THIS MONSTER BLUEBERRY CHEESE I FIMed BUT THE POTS WERE SUPER HEAVY AND I FIGURED I NEEDED TO SLOW DOWN AND THINK. WE HAVE THUNDER STORMS COMING TONIGHT. TOMORROW IS GOOD. I MAY TRY TO FINISH UP TONIGHT BUT WE SHALL SEE. THE GOOD THING WITH DOING IT A FEW AT A TIME IS THAT IF SOMETHING HAPPENS OUTSIDE IVE STILL GOT A CROP INSIDE LOL. WHAT IM PLANNING TO DO IS EITHER LIGHT DEP THAT BIG BLUEBERRY CHEESE OR PUT IT IN THE FIFTY BUT IM PLANNING TO LIGHT 3 RIGHT IN THEIR 3 GALLON CONTAINERS. HAVENT DECUDED FOR SURE BUT IM THINKING THATS WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN.......of course videos won't upload and the ones that do are old videos. Damn. I need to sharpen my computer skills....and my growing skills. Especially transplanting. I suck at transplanting. I decided not to out all my eggs in one basket and left the 10th planet amd Blue berry cheese in the 20s in the garage. I pulled them out for light further but I'm ousting them back a little tonight. That way I'll have a back up if something catastrophic happens. I doubt it but better safe than sorry. I'm proud of what I've accomplished thus far. I've successfully uploaded my 1 minute plus video several times but it won't appear. Oh well. I'll try to load the videos tomorrow I guess. Just started raining. Just a light rain. Probably what fresh transplants like. 6/11 BEAUTIFUL outside. Today is the day. Most is done and I'll add the supports as trellis as they grow. This new grow space gets about twice as much sun as my old spot. The tar stops the burrowing insects. I'm getting everything out today. I just need to decide if I'm going to light dep that MASSIVE blueberry cheese or bite the bullet and put it in the fifty. Maybe I'll try to get some help from my cousin. Plants withstood the thunderstorm like Champs. I'll update as the day goes on. I planned better this year so I SHOULDN'T have an unmanageable jungle. UPDATE: WATERED THE 3 PLANTS LEFT IN THE 3 GALLONS (1 10th PLANET WITH GREAT BRANCH STRUCTURE AND TWO PURPLE PUNCH THAT WERE THE SMALLER ONES. IM GOING TO LIGHT DEP THEM. EVERYTHING IS OUTSIDE NOW IN A MIX OF 1/3 FOX FARM OCEAN FOREST, HAPPY FROG AND ROOTS ORGANIC 707 IN EQUAL PARTS. TRANSPLANTED WITH MYKOS. EVERYTHING IS OUTSIDE NOW. FINALLY DECIDED TO GET The MONSTER BLUE CHEESE I FIMed INTO ITS FOREVER HOME A 50 FALLON POT. IT WAS TGE EASIEST BEST TRANSPLANT OF THEM ALL. JUST LIKE AETTING A POT IN THE WHOLE. I DONT EVEN THINK THE PLANT NOTICED. ONE OF THE PURPLE PUNCHES HAD ROOTS OB ONE OF ITS LEAVES WHEN I LOOKED BUTVIT WAS STILL STANDING UO STEAIGHT. I KNOW SOME OF THE PLANTS LOOK DROOPY BUT WEVE HAD SEVERAL DAYS OF RAIN AND A MASDIVE THUNDER STORM. I BROUGHT OUT THE EARLIER TRANSPLANTS AS WELL. THEY ARE OUT OF THE SHOCK. WIND IS PRETTY HIGH BUT I DONT WANT TO ADD MORE TARPS. I THINK THINGS ARE SECURED GOOD ENOUGH FOR NOW. IM SUPER STOKED THAT TRANSPLANT WENT SO GOOD! Went back at 7:30pm. Some plants have a little bit of transplant shock and a little bit of burn but it's negligible considering they've been through a thunderstorm with pouring rain and extremely high winds. That blueberry cheese in the 50 transplanted so easy and still looks like it didn't even know the difference. I'll start light dep once I get a plan. Plants are recovering nicely but should something happen to one I could replace it. I'm interested in the light dep though and I've got a pretty good idea how to start. 6/12 The plants that had a little transplant shock are coming out of it. We had a thunderstorm and pouring rain the day of some of the transplants. Wasn't forecasted. High winds moved the plants around a bunch bit they are tough as hell. Everything is out now. Suppisedcto have showers the next few days. I'm putting together a feeding schedule abd setting up a spit to start light dep on the three plants I decided to flower early. The cage now gets twice as much sun as before. This is going to be a good year. Went back over and plants are perking up and doing even better everytime I see them. I took a video but it might not upload until tomorrow. I may start a new diary for the light dep. I have a few places I'm thinking to use for light dep. I need to make a solid plan before I start so maybe a day or two. Trying to upload again but I doubt it. 6/13 Had a rushed morning but I watered the plants in the 3 gallons as they were dry. I had added more soil to a couple of the bags. The top soil is startingvtj dry out but the plants look good and we are supposed to get rain so I don't really want to water if it's going to be raining. I think I've found my light dep spot and schedule. I'll update after I do something. WENT BACK OVER AND SPRAYED A LITTLE BIT OF WATER ON THE EXTREMELY DRY TOPSOIL THAT I HAD TOPPED SOME OF THE PLANTS OFF WITH. SHITTY THING IS THAT WAS ADDED AFTER THE THUNDER STORM SO IT MAKES IT HARDER TO JUSTE THE PLANTS WATERING NEEDS. I CAN TELL THAT ONE OFCTHE FIRST TEANSPLANTS IS STILL HOLDING WATER. I MEAN WE GOT A DOWNPOUR AND I DONT WABT TO WATER IF WE'RE GOING TO BE GETTING RAIN ANYWAY. IM GOING TO LOOK BACK OVER THE DIARY. THATS ONE GREAT THING ABOUT THESE. YOU CAN GO BACK AND CHECK YOUR WORK. 6/14 Glad I held off watering. It's raining today. Just showers. We haven't gotten any of that extreme wind we usually do. I have the plants supported but I still worry. Definitely more than I should. Plants are still doing good and acclimating to there homes. I have not started the light dep with the 3 gallons but I think I've found my spot. Once I start it will just be staying consistent putt8ng them in and out. I need to train them anyway. I have some research to do and a joint to smoke so I'll update later.
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They eat but dont drink a lot, so pots stay heavy but every 2-3 days i pour a full bucket trough the soil with 950ppm so the EC stays in good range, the flowers are way smaller then what im used to with my other blue dreams, because these here stand in soil and in colder conditions, no problem we just give them 2 weeks longer to fatten up
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Still struggling with humidity but the plant seems to be doing ok! Itโ€™s gotten lots more bushy and is starting to grow up the way a bit more which is promising. I dropped the root juice as of yesterday and trimmed down the nutrient dosage as I looked at the bio bizz feeding schedule for my soil (which is all in one) and I was slightly over doing it with the nutes. Iโ€™ve raised the lamp up on the bucket as I was afraid of lamp burn on the leaves and this has dropped the temperature inside the bucket to about 22 degrees. Iโ€™m always open for feedback since this is my first grow. Thanks guys
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I think that in around 1 week this girl is ready, nice plant to grow, i like the bud structure, the calyxes vs leave proportion is great, a very nice and sweet smell and an easy to grow plant! ๐Ÿ˜‹ ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿฐ
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Day 57 the plant continues to grow without a problem I can see there are continue to stretch I used painters tape around the branches that I supercrop in order to give them a little bit support and allow nutrients to continue to flow through the branch the plant has been recovering very well from high stress training and I'm looking forward to see how this girl is going to turn out . I know that most of the growers in this platform and elsewhere do defoliate and trim down all the lower branches of the plant so that the plant can concentrate all its energy into the higher bigger and better buds .and I do not do this because I drive the plants very hard with nutrients and those lower branches with small buds always give me the first sign of anything going wrong with her and that's why I leave them as a buffer zone to protect the bigger buds and that way I can push her as hard as I want. thank you for reading I will continue to update have a happy grow
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Happy New to everyone sad to say Iโ€™m going through a tough time with the girls grow has seems to slow down since I began training week 3. FBTF 1 is showing preflower The new growth on a the girl looks smaller and shriveled on FBTF 1 also Gummy bears , where as cheetah the hut is a (photo period) her leaves are drooping and wrinkled. Which Iโ€™ve been seeing for a few days including new more drooping I did top Cheetah the hut would the effect her in this way? Iโ€™m stressing to figure this out I have added be light which is 230 true watts which I believe cause some heat/light stress also watered with 1 tbsp of molasses per gallon and gave each pant a qtr about 5 days ago. Recently watered Dec 30 with advanced nutrients 3 part micro grow and bloom a qtr each ph was 6.1 will letting pots dry to figure this out problem
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Day 2: Fed with Epsom salt, beetroot powder, shilajit and aloe powder solution. Day 3: Soil is too dry. Began adding extra water with a sprayer. About 1.5L between 5 pots in the morning and another 0.5L in the evening. Day 4: Applied another 100-200ml plain water per pot using the sprayer in the morning. In the evening I fed with a solution of corn steep liquor, seaweed powder and soapnut powder. Day 5: Top dressed with roughly 2tbsp sprouted seed blend per pot and watered in with roughly 500ml water per pot. Soil still isn't wet enough. Day 6: Fed with roughly 400ml plain water per pot. Will use the sprayer later to feed more plain water in bursts, until each pot is as heavy as I want it to be. Im going to begin sprouting one more batch of seeds, which will be toasted before top dressing. Then I'll probably just stick to feeding plain water or sugars until harvest.
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๐Ÿ“… D78 - 31/10 ๐Ÿ“œ Last week of grow. I added Ripen (aka Final Part) and the harvest is scheduled for the next Saturday. Ripen is very acid, so I added a lot of pH+. โœ๏ธ 1,5 EC โ™’ 6.1 pH ๐ŸŒŠ 10 L ๐Ÿ“ 110 cm ๐Ÿ“… D79 - 01/11 ๐Ÿ“œ I'm only waiting to harvest. I'm really looking forward for it, but is not still the time. I need to wait some days more or maybe also a week. Maybe Ripen can help ? Just added 1 L of water with a little of Ripen. All is stable. โœ๏ธ 1,5 EC โ™’ 6.1 pH ๐ŸŒŠ 10 L ๐Ÿ“ 110 cm ๐Ÿ“… D80 - 02/11 ๐Ÿ“œ Waiting-Waiting-Waiting โœ๏ธ 1,5 EC โ™’ 6.1 pH ๐ŸŒŠ 10 L ๐Ÿ“ 110 cm ๐Ÿ“… D81 - 03/11 ๐Ÿ“œ I'm really uncertain about if she is ready or not...Well, I will ask to the mates and I hope someone can answer to me. The conditions are very stable and I added some Ripen today. I will see day by day what to do. I don't want the hurry pushes me to harvest too soon... โœ๏ธ 1,5 EC โ™’ 6.1 pH ๐ŸŒŠ 10 L ๐Ÿ“ 110 cm ๐Ÿ“… D82 - 04/11 ๐Ÿ“œ She's almost ready, but is not yet the time. Maybe I will flush tommorow. โœ๏ธ 1,5 EC โ™’ 6 pH ๐ŸŒŠ 9 L ๐Ÿ“ 110 cm ๐Ÿ“… D83 - 05/11 ๐Ÿ“œ She ripened tonight and now I'm positive she's absolutely ready. I started the flush and I will harvest on Sunday. ๐Ÿ‘ โœ๏ธ 1,5 EC โ™’ 5.9 pH ๐ŸŒŠ 11 L ๐Ÿ“ 110 cm ๐Ÿ“… D84 - 06/11 ๐Ÿ“œ Florakleen and darkness today. Tomorrow I will harvest โœ๏ธ 1,8 EC โ™’ 4,2 pH ๐ŸŒŠ 11 L ๐Ÿ“ 110 cm
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This week I topped plant , so we can traine it later on. Each plant hat now 4 main nodes. I also noticed some Mg deficiency on the leaves not sure what result from likely some strain related issues. I added two times 1g Epsom Salt per liter water.