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Today is day 23 of flower. So I've been chasing a minor P-K deficiency. The plants are happy and healthy and are just feeding heavy at the moment. Well over and above any recommended servings with respect to the dry amendments and water soluble P-K inputs. As with any grow regardless of what you're using for inputs (organic amendments/salt based bottle feeding/crop salts/etc....) the recommended feed rates are never anything more than a baseline. So to remedy the deficiency I added the Flower 2 at 1.5 times the reccomended dosage (3 grams per liter of water) and a little over twice the dosage of Gaia Green 2-8-4 Power Bloom dry amendments (250ml per 7 gallon pot). I also fed a mung bean/barley seed sprout tea as well as a compost tea (2/3 of a cup of each seed). The feed rates will stay well above recommended servings for the Flower 2 but the 250ml addition of the 2-8-4 would be considered a large addition for a single serving so I will give the plants 5-7 days to see how they react to dry amendments before top amending again at any rate (you cant burn your plants with organic inputs but you can still suffer nutrient lockout so you need to be mindful and patient when feeding heavy.) On day 19 of flower I did a large pruning/defoliation/lollipopping of the plants. Both from the top of the pot to the bottom of the first layer of trellis removing everything. I also cleaned the plants out from above the first layer of trellis netting to the top of the plant. As I waited to clean up the bottom third of the plants until my typical strip day in flower (day 18-21 depending on strain and flowering times, these are 9 week strains which is why the strip falls in the day 18-21 range, if they were 8 week finishers the leaf strip would take place somewhere between days 14-16). When running multiple layers of trellis netting it's best to prune/lollipop everything below the first layer of netting about 7-10 days before the flip. Odds are your lights wont penetrate that far down the plant so these areas of the plant typically only produce what's commonly known as larf. I'm running new lights so I decided I'd wait until the big strip I always do in flower. This was grower error. I know better and wont make this mistake again. Its unnecessary stress added during flower that could've been prevented. As I decided to wait to clean out the bottoms I didnt prune the plants as aggressively as I normally would (I adopted Grand Master Levels leaf strip practices years ago, check him out on IG or YouTube if you want to see what that looks like). The week went smoothly with no major issues to report. The seasons are changing here so were getting rain, damp wet snow, and have very humid conditions outside. As a result this affects the atmosphere in my grow room but not enough to cause concern. A little less than 6 weeks until the chop!
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4/20: I have 3 good clones of the shortie growing, and another FFT6 seedling. 5/1: The seedling is now in a 5 gallon pot outdoors, and 2 of the clones are in my closet getting ready to be transplanted into 5 gallon pots and moved outdoors. One of the FFT6 clones will be grown in my tiny tent. 5/6: I took the last two clones outdoors and fed them really well. I also did some training on the seedling and the clone in my tiny tent. 5/7: I did a foliar application of Axiom Harpin proteins today. 5/9-5/11: Did foliar feeding and lots of training every day. 5/12 - 5/17: Fed the outdoor girls on the 13th, then we had lots of rain all week. The seedling is a beast. Installed a new 200w 3000k waterproof LED over the outdoor plants. The indoor clone looks great. I gave her some water on the 16th. 5/18 - 5/19: The seedling and two clones outdoors are all flowering?!?! I suppose it's because I germ'd and vegged them for a month under 24/0 before taking them outdoors under 14/10 of daylight... I'm really hoping she sees the days getting longer and goes back to vegging. I need time to bush her up really well! I ordered another 200w 3000k waterproof LED to replace the two cool white 60w LED's, so that will be 550w total watts of lighting outdoors in addition to the 5'ish hours of direct sunlight they get at mid-day, and the tree-diffused sunlight they get for the rest of the day. Thinking about trying a product called Bud Bomb...has lots of hormones, cytokinins, and auxins that when applied at the beginning of flowering supposedly causes more lateral branching and less vertical stretch. As it is, I'm spending too much time training her and the other outdoor plants to stay below the eyeline of nosy neighbors, so I'm really considering giving it a shot... 5/20: I went for it and sprayed them with Bud Bomb this morning...hope it works like they claim.. 5/21 - 7/4: The clone i grew in the tiny tent got to move in under the quantum boards for her last 2 weeks and fattened up nicely. I harvested her on 6/28 and washed her buds, then jarred and weighed her on 7/3. She produced 110g of cola and 51g of lower bud...very little of it was larfy.👍 After a few great weeks flowering outdoors, i was invaded by spider mites and grasshoppers. The #6 seed-grown plant didn't make it, but i brought the #6 clone indoors and treated her for spider mites a few times, along with the 2 x #1 clones and the #7 plant. That outdoor clone now in my closet is still flowering as of 7/4, but had her last dose of nutes on 7/3. Flushing in a few days.
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start of week 4: i cut off the fanleaves to give the stems light. a day after that there is still water drooping out of the cuts like it doesnt heal ? weird. it has been a bit cold at night, the humidity also swings a lot but they grow, when the lights go out leaves curl up like they are freezing. the video here is when the lights have been on for 8hours already, when they in the dark they look dead lol
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Day 79: Watered the gorilla cookies with 1.5L with nuts 1481 ppm, 3151 us/cm, 3.1 EC (last week before flush)(same feeding as last week on the diary) 283 ppm, 591 us/cm 0.5 EC (3 strawberry banana, 3 purple punch and 3 wedding Cheesecake) (2L each) Harvested 2 purple punch Day 82: Watered the gorilla cookies with 1.5L with nuts 1605 ppm, 3414 us/cm, 3.4 EC (last week before flush)(last feeding with nuts) 268 ppm, 561 us/cm 0.5 EC (3 strawberry banana, 3 purple punch and 3 wedding Cheesecake) (2L each) Day 84: Watered all the plants with 2L each 259 ppm, 551 us/cm 0.5 EC Day 86: Watered all the plants with 2L each 272 ppm, 578 us/cm 0.5 EC
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Alles im grünen Bereich. Bis auf die Zeit . Langsam sollt ich auf 12/12 stellen. Hat jemand Erfahrung damit die Autos in den letzten 2 bis 4 Wochen -unterschiedlich je nach Genetik- den lichtzyklus zu verkürzen?
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Easy going week. nothing much to report. The EC pen I got is acting weird already. sometimes I'll put it in the feeding liquid and it will display 400ppm something. Then if I move it about or drip it in and out it will jump up to 700ppm something. I doing it over and over till I get a base line and go from that. this weeks EC was aorund 680ppm but the video does not show the other dips I did. PH still kicking aorund 5.9. I find it more annoying to adjust just the waters PH for these plants on the balcony where everything else is "as is" Will try this again indoors in a peat and perlite medium void of any other additives when It can have more of my undivided attention. maybe on the other seeds I got from FB via a friend in the mail. Side note uploading videos into the diaries is great and all, but takes to long to resize and process, can't hit save till its all done... no idea what its doing in the backend. stupid rule on contest must have videos every week,
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Pesei a mão na cobertura orgânica, joguei muito perto dos caules, e ainda inoculei com chorume, queimaram as folhas novas
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otro cultivo pero este auto de unas semillas q ,e regalaron
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Threw big supercroppers on the main stalk and they are happy with their LST. Will probably stake down the sides branches here soon. ALL HAIL MARSHYDRO the best light company!
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Trimmed her up a bit so inner nods will receive some good light.
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Soo, first day of 8th week. Everything is going great so far, no difficulties last week.
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I have cloned these of a previously grown sherb biker showing excellent structure, low leaf ratio and nice beautiful purple rock hard buds. Previously grown this plant in single pot grown among other plants and still reached 432g wet weight. This will be a heavy production plant under my biggest, brightest king bight 800w actual draw. It might even surprise me. Subscribe and stay tuned. The lights switch today. This plant has been topped and has been selected tops for a total of 36 tops. Normally this would be tight, but this plant has proven to be very low leaf count and therefore doesn't overshadow much area. 3 days ago i levelled all the tops to ~16" and removed all but one bud site on each top. They have grown by about 3" and have now been moved directly under the 800w light.
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This strain is awesome. Had good germination rates. Trained well and filled out. Produced some amazing smelling buds. Was only ruined because another strain in the tent hermed. Otherwise it would have been perfect. So frost. Trichomes growing all over the place. Will be growing this strain in the future and still one of my favorites dispite the failure.
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D92/F48 - 01/07/23 - 👉👉👉 First Havest, I cutted the main buds and left the others for one more week. Now I'm going to put only the timelapse video and then all details in the next week D93/F49 - 02/07/23 - Secondary grow with flushing D94/F50 - 03/07/23 - Secondary grow with flushing D95/F51 - 04/07/23 - Secondary grow with flushing D96/F52 - 05/07/23 - Secondary grow with flushing D97/F53 - 06/07/23 - Secondary grow with flushing D98/F54 - 07/07/23 - Secondary grow with flushing
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And we have arrived at the magic moment for our autoflowering plants, the Zamnesia elves are doing their magic and the buds are composing and freezing in the night. A scent of paradise now invades my house. --- Sticky Beast: A non-latest generation plant that behaves like. and often better than the latest generation autoflowering plants. Everyone knows that in recent years research on autoflowering has gone much further and the plants of some time ago are not at all comparable to the autoflowering ones of today. Calm down. The Sticky Beast is comparable indeed, it is a very successful beast since birth and is long-lived in growers throughout Europe. It won the most famous Cannabis Cup in 2018 and I have known it since my first years of experience - Fast, productive and very effective. ---- Fertilization schedule - As for the fertilization schedule, we have two plants of the same variety, same phenotype I think the one I'm showing you today is slightly smaller, they have finished swelling the flowers and are starting to take on color, we go into flush very early and for now we have reduced the power to blend the basic fertilizers leaving the amount of additives intact to pump the flowers to the maximum and unload the plants one of which was a bit loaded with feeding but not much ---- https://plagron.com/it - Alga Bloom - 2 ml/l - Sugar Royal - 1 ml/l - Power Buds - 1 ml/l - Green Sensation - 1 ml/l --- The dehumidifier now works between 50% and 55% --- The 100% Organic package from Plagron can be found on Zamnesia at the link: https://www.zamnesia.io/it/11457-pla gron-easypack-natural.html // Strain Description // What happens when three famous strains come together? Sticky Beast Automatic by Zamnesia Seeds is a pure autoflowering composed of some of the best strains. From this combination, where the delicious flavors of Bubble Gum meet the famous OG Kush and the productivity of Critical Auto, a real autoflowering is born that is extremely easy to grow! // AWARD WINNING STRAIN // First Prize at Autoflowering Highlife CUP 2018 --- Get a seed of this amazing strain --- https://www.zamnesia.io/it/3331-zamnesia-seeds-sticky-beast-automatic-femminizzato.html - Fully organic soil and fertilizers --- https://plagron.com buy at www.zamnesia.io - Growbox and ventilation system --- https://www.secretjardin.com/ - Light — P2000 - https://www.viparspectra.com - Music and sound --- I made my girls listen to 432hz frequencies and black music from www.radionula.com - Z --- You can find these seeds, much more from the world of cannabis, mushrooms and an incredible series of accessories and gadgets on the reference site not only mine but of many growers ---- https://www.zamnesia.com
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Día 29 (10/02) Riego con 400 ml H2O RO Detecto una ligera deficiencia de Magnesio. Aplicación foliar de sales de Epsom a 2 g/L Día 30 (11/02) GG4 Sherbet ya ha mostrado las preflores! 😍 Día 31 (12/02) Riego con 400 ml H2O RO Día 32 (13/02) Riego con 500 ml H2O RO Está teniendo un stretch espectacular! Día 33 (14/02) Riego con 500 ml H2O RO Día 34 (15/02) Riego con 500 ml H2O RO Detecto unas ligeras manchas en las hojas de abanico más antiguas que parecen carencia de CalMag Voy a regar durante unos días con mezcla de H2O RO + H2O del grifo (Tap Water) con una resultante EC 0,45 Día 35 (16/02) Riego con 500 ml H2O EC 0,45 FastBuds 15% DISCOUNT code "NONICK" 2fast4buds.com @fast_buds_official_ @fastbuds.official 💦 BioTabs 15% DISCOUNT code "GDBT420" biotabs.nl/en/shop/ @biotabs_official 🌱Substrate PRO-MIX HP BACILLUS + MYCORRHIZAE @promixmitch @promixgrowers_unfiltered 💡2 x Mars Hydro FC1500 EVO Led Grow Light (2024 NEW FC 1500-EVO Samsung LM301H 150W LED) - https://marshydro.eu/products/fc1500-evo-led-grow-lights/ - https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CSSGN5D8?ref=myi_title_dp
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Added Yara Kristalon Orange, Yara Calcinit and a little bit of Haifa GrowClean to the reservoir. Adjusted PH/ORP, PH- adds P and ORP adjustment adds K. Light intensity is measured at the hottest spot. The stem is swelling, the netcups are 24/7 soaked due to the pipe being full with roots and increased water levels, next grow I'll go for a bigger pipe. The stem is not getting soft it is actually harder at the splitting part. Flowers are beginning to form more and more, no deficiencies, stretch stopped, EC 1800-2000 seems to be a good range for this strain/pheno in my specific setup. Did some defoliation as needed. Can't increase the light distance anymore, kinda hot for the super stretched branches but great for the rest, the super stretched branches don't show any sign of stress so I take that :) Nothing else to report. Values are average of the day. DATE - °C - RH% (Tent Temp/RH) 20241118 23.4 64.6 20241119 22.9 64.9 20241120 24.0 60.7 20241121 23.5 59.9 20241122 23.7 59.5 20241123 23.7 60.3 20241124 23.4 60.9 DATE - PH 20241118 5.90 20241119 5.88 20241120 5.91 20241121 5.91 20241122 5.92 20241123 6.01 20241124 6.02 DATE - ORP (mV) 20241118 70 20241119 101 20241120 97 20241121 80 20241122 88 20241123 87 20241124 91 DATE - EC(us/cm) 20241118 1991 20241119 1740 20241120 1817 20241121 1846 20241122 1847 20241123 1941 20241124 1966 DATE - CF 20241118 19.91 20241119 17.40 20241120 18.17 20241121 18.46 20241122 18.47 20241123 19.41 20241124 19.66 DATE - °C (Reservoir) 20241118 21.8 20241119 21.7 20241120 22.7 20241121 22.1 20241122 21.5 20241123 22.2 20241124 22.3
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