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Beginning of week 4 so far so good. The girls are reacting well to there training. Vita race from plagron is a game changer. They are super green and healthy everytime I feed them you see the difference.Did some defoliation. Nothing major just removed any leaf overlapping or blocking light to lower parts of the plant.
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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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This was a brilliant week for plant growth, with some side branches over doubling their height. I added the ScrOG net at the beginning of the week and began some more intensive training. The broken mainled blue has fully recovered from last week's damage, and is quickly catching up the my other mainled experiment. The LST only plants I pretty much just continued to bend. The topped & LST'd plants I removed some of the lower bud sites that were not getting any light. I also removed a few awkward fan leaves that could not be tucked away. The addition of the net has helped with this though, as keeping the canopy even is much easier with the support it gives. I also decided not to try any further cuts on the (half) mainlined auto's. My reasoning is that they have developed strong, independent colas already, so cutting for more would not see much gain. The plants had also begun to flower on the night I went to perform the second cut, and my growing experience tells me not to mess with flowering plants too much so here we are. I gave the plants one regular watering of 10L pH'd water, and a 20L nutrient mix using the ratios stated above. All volumes were split equally between the plants. The scrawny looking blue critical has perked up a heck of a lot, but is still the weakest of the 3. The strongest plants by far are the ones that have been topped and LST'd, closely followed by the mainlined ones. LST only is definitely great, but it is clearly lagging behind the other two techniques.
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Absolutely Love these genetics one of my favorite grows so far cannot wait till harvest. The smells are immaculate.🌿💨💯
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11/5 -- They now have 2 weeks of 12/12 under their belts and it's truly been a tale of 3 plants for the past week and a half. GZ2- This one has the opportunity to meet its full potential. It has stretched to give me this beautiful canopy and very few signs of over feed or stress in it. Hopefully she stays this way. Moby- look like it may have been developing some deficiencies. I fed it a few days ago and it seemed to respond well. Some leaves have gotten yellow but the plant is do thick and dense I'm not worried about a few falling off. All in all, it's been steady eddy for Moby Dick that I now believe is also a Barney's Farm Freebie(the seed is now listed where I buy mine from) I'm not going to change it but if you're keeping track, this is most likely a tent full of Barney's Farm. Gz1- and now the music gets a little more serious. I really started recognizing problems with her right at flip. She has lost a lot of fan leaves due to yellowing,, dark stems and I can tell her branching has suffered because of it. Growth at the bottom looks weak and even wrinkled in some spots. She has burn spots and signs of deficiency galore. But also VERY dark fan leaves. I've just come to the conclusion that flushing was probably my best move. She can still have a week of solid growing. If I can get it corrected now, this plant will still be respectable but the trend is disturbing and alarming to someone who knows how fast they can decline. So in conclusion, things are getting a little hairy. Flowering always brings on a new set of challenges and I'm still learning every single time. Wish me luck this week, I'll need it. 11/6 Updated pic on old friend banana daddy that they shared the veg tent with.
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Had a small issue this week where temp dropped a bit, I was on vacation for a few days and a window got left open to the room the tent is in. The room got down to 62f with the lights on. lights off temp wasn't much cooler. I noticed some canoeing on leaves near the center of the room, I am hoping this was just caused by the temperature stress that happened by the sudden drop. I fixed the temp and issue and it should be back to normal. Trichome's look great under microscope. Getting tightly packed and very cloudy, very little amber color at this point. Cheese #1 Has swelled up quite a bit over the last 5 days, The buds on it are noticeably larger than the ones on Cheese #2 I have moved the led light to cast more on cheese #2 in hopes to get the buds on it to catch up to #1 Still dealing with small calcium deficiencies, I will do a light flush this week of 1/2 strength nutrients and Cal at 6.5 Mid Weekupdate: Flushed plants with 1/3rd nutrient dose and full strength cal mag. Adjusted ph. to 6.5 to allow for better uptake of calcium. The calcium issue isnt bad just some small spotting but I am trying to get ahead of it as there is supposed to be 4 weeks left on the strain. The buds have started to tighten and get more dense. Hairs are about 40% red, some are receding into the bud. Smells like citrus.
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🌱 Runtz - Week 4 of Flowering 🌱 This week, Runtz has finally started frosting up nicely, which is an exciting sight!❄️ Seeing the trichomes develop gives me a lot of confidence that we're heading in the right direction. Overall, everything went smoothly this week, with no major issues. The plant is strong, healthy, and ready to enter the best phase of flowering – the second half! From now on, it's all about stacking those buds and pushing for maximum resin production. Grow Conditions (FLO Week 4): 🌞 Light schedule: 12/12 🌱 PPFD: 800 µmol/m²/s 💧 VPD: ~1.4 kPa Now, let’s enjoy the real show! 🚀🔥
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D64/F12 - 11.18 - Been a really incredible week for these ladies. All of them are thriving with lovely prebuds <3 D67/F15 - 11.21 - Lovely progress. Even the least beautiful plant in the garden is reaching above the peony rings :) D70/F18 - 11.24 - Pretty aggressive defoliation on these ladies today. They responded great last round, so I expect to see the start to put a lot of weight on soon. The black sugars (second column of three from the left) we way more leafy than the fast white widows
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Bin schon richtig gespannt wann das Ende naht. Momentan schauen pineapple und papaya schon gut aus. Trichome sind aber alle noch milchig bis klar Der Platz wird auch langsam eng, Muss jetzt wahrscheinlich den lichtzyklus auf 12/12 ändern da die Photos schon ne gute Größe haben
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05.10.21 итак, друзья, 5 недель позади. Бана показала женский пол и активно готовится к цветению, тренировки дали большое количество веток и равномерную крону. Продолжаю опрыскивать максифолом, но реже. В скором времени ожидается перевод на 12/12.следите за новостями, друзья, всем спасибо🙏 06.10.21 потренили слегка🌱😊
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Well week 12 and week 2 of flower started yesterday 8/22. Other than the clones everything is looking good. But to be fair I haven't really done much with them. They're like a bastard step child, I only kept em around out of moral obligation. Lol. J/k...sort of. Nah, just some weird bumps on a couple leaves and from what I can tell it's a copper and or zinc thing so I'm gonna get some Proactive, lol. So the mothers have definitely stretched, lol. Bruce has been shorter than Sky the whole time but whatever. That's pretty much it. Happy growing everyone ✌️🍀✌️ UPDATE: 8/24 AND WE HAVE BUD STARTING ON THE CLONES!!!!!!! UPDATE: 8/25 Just uploading a few pics. Happy growing ✌️🍀😎
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Day 35 - few pics and vids..... everything going along nicely 👍 This is a pretty big update, so i'll add to it over the next few days, as i finish building it all.... i'm building these 2 x SS haze, the full tent, just finishing up the setup..... trimming them, changing solutions to 12/12 and flower..... changed the exhaust fan and filter setup to the better outside the tent method.... and installed 12v CPU computer fan, lol ("alta9" fits in 4in ducting perfectly), drops wattage on extractor fan.... 10w tops... got a few kg of active carbon and making/replacing the carbon filter .... i'll add afew vids of the new setup in afew days... Day 36 - few pics/vid of new tent setup...... "alta 9" fan :) post tomorrow after i finish trimmin and settin up night mode etc...... and into tomorrow we go, lol ... Day 37.... slowly getting there..... little bit more to go... this should make things abit more interesting..... right tank (short babie) has : 19 lts of tap water @18oC + 150 ml -dutch master one gold FLOWER.... 6.4 PH - 1400 PPM left tank has : 19 lts of tap water @18oC + 50 ml of elements a and 50ml of b and 10 ml of nitro and 20ml of Crystalic (molasses/pot) .... 6.5 PH - 1200 PPM more pics / vids of the finished tent setup.... roots, transfer, etc... Day 37 is alot of vids of the clean and change to flower..... edit - day after build noticed left tank (nutrifield) not enough bubbles..... pulled out the 4 air pump and swapped to the 2 x original oxipumps... much better, also to fix the problem with ph goin high, and bubbles not stirin the mix, was to add another 10ml of crystallic and another 5ml of nitro... then pumped both tanks with ph down and set em to 5.8-6.2 - both plants have fully recovered from the big trim, and bounced back within 12-24hrs, post pics/vid in abit..... Day 39 - made a freaky video... was curious about what the plants would see looking up at the lights... the lights and buzzing of air compressors and bubbling tank water, and dazzling lights turned out pretty cool in vid editor, was in selfie mode.... and final vid of the bounceback from trim :) 👍😎
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April 6, 2021 (Day 92, Flower 43): Everything looks great. Trying to get humidity down another 5% this week. Averaging 30% rH and 72℉. April 7, 2021 (Day 93, Flower 44): Plants are looking and smelling amazing. No complaints. Looks like Unknown 2 may finish up a bit before the others - guessing due to the genetics. Unknown 2 is incredibly frosty and smells very rich and dank. Very excited for the dry and cure! Gelato 1 and Unknown 1 seem to be about in line with each other development-wise. Averaging 30% rH and 72℉. April 8, 2021 (Day 94, Flower 45): Pots were light. Watered with 4l per plant with 4ml/l pH Perfect Bloom + 1ml/l pH Perfect Grow + 2ml/l Sweet Raw + 1ml/l Cal-Mag Plus + 1tsp/gal Humboldt Nutrients Big Up Finishing Powder at 6.4 pH. This waiting game is so difficult! Love opening my tent each day and being punched in the face by this smell! Just overall amazing experience so far. Averaging 30% rH and 72℉. April 9, 2021 (Day 95, Flower 46): Plants look amazing. Took my microscope to Unknown 2 today and the crystal development is insane. Averaging 30% rH and 72℉. April 10, 2021 (Day 96, Flower 47): Can't. Wait. For. HARVEST! Getting close! I think I will start flushing Unknown 2 but continue the feeding schedule for the other two plants. It is looking like Unknown 2 has a couple week shorter flower time than the others. Perfectly a-ok with me - then I can smoke it sooner! Averaging 30% rH and 74℉. April 11, 2021 (Day 97, Flower 48): Pots were light. Watered with 4l per plant with 4ml/l pH Perfect Bloom + 1ml/l pH Perfect Grow + 2ml/l Sweet Raw + 1ml/l Cal-Mag Plus at 6.1 pH. Starting to flush Unknown 2 from this watering onward. April 12, 2021 (Day 98, Flower 49): No report.
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Day 40. 8 day of flowering. My plant is flowering. There is a wonderful smell of marijuana. I have a filter to control the smell. The plant is growing great. Flowering stage! Day 42. It is growing up. Almost reached the light. I need to cut it or bend the tops down. I will decide later.
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SUNDAY 5/5: Rearranged the gardens..have 17 plants in the 4 x 5 now...yowsa! MONDAY: Plucked some dead leaves and did a trichrome check on her. She's getting close now! Prolly about 80% cloudy and 5% amber! I'll start flushing her tomorrow or the next day if she's not dried out yet. TUESDAY: I observed some white spots on a few leaves here and there, so I sprayed her today with Trifecta Crop Cure, a concoction of a bunch of natural plant oils. I already decreased the humidity in the room to 45% with my new 70L dehumidifier, so I think she'll be fine. I'll spray her again tomorrow and the next day, then I'll have to hope that did the trick, because she is already in the harvest window. WEDNESDAY: I flushed her today with about 4 gallons of ph'd spring water and bembe. It was her last dose of any nutes...flushing with only spring water from here on out. THURSDAY: Took a couple of photos and tried installing my new Solacure FlowerPower UVB light, but it was dead on arrival.😢..back to the 15.0 reptile UVB lights for now I guess...
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Another good week ticked off... No sign of fungus gnats since the daily neem oil and diac...’ earth. Seems to have done the trick but I stay vigilant! All the girls starting to fill out a bit. And getting covered in trichomes. Pics don’t do justice even the stems are covered. The other 2 plants in the grow stretched crazy and a bit later than these. Happily I think they’ve stopped. Nothing exciting planned from here other than a top dress later this week and just watering and an odd compost tea till the finish. Thanks for reading, have a great week 😊
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Heya👍🤙👍🌱 I started a growers Tips videos. Check out my Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/H6PnoahTHrEzm63U/?mibextid=oFDknk Big BIG BIG thank you to Sebastien, Heather from Fastbuds420. You guys are the best. Can't wait for the next live. Even Bigger shout out to Hydroponic.co.za. My local Hydro Shop and Sponsor. Thank you Sir. 👍🤙👍🌱
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Week 3 Light settings 18/6 on at 6.00am off 0.00am Light power= 46% 109w Radiator settings LIghts on Turn on if temp drops below 21.4c Turn off if temp goes above 21.5c Lights off Turn on if temp drops below 19c Turn off if temp goes above 19.1c Humidifier settings LIghts on Turn on if humidity drops below 59.9% Turn off if humidity goes above 60% LIghts off Turn on if humidity drops below 49.9% Turn off if humidity goes above 50% Extractor settings temperature 24c with 1c steps Humidity 62% with 2% steps Max speed 8 Min speed 1 VPD aim 0.5-0.9 Wednesday 8/2/23 Day 15 5.00pm Turn pots 90 deg Thursday 9/2/23 Day 16 8.30pm #1 Feed 1.5L Ec=1.06 Ph=6.4 Run 0.2L Ec=5.24 Ph=5.5 Moved #1 to right #1 Height= 10CM Dist= 60CM DLI=19.0 Friday 10/2/23 Day 17 Did nothing #1 not quite kicked into gear yet Saturday 11/2/23 Day 18 8.00pm #1 moved to centre #1 Height= 11CM Dist= 59CM DLI= 19.6 Extractor settings temperature 25c with 1c steps Humidity 62% with 2% steps Max speed 8 Min speed 1 Sunday 12/2/23 Day 19 4.30pm Leaf tuck all 3 #1 still small but managed to expose a few nodes. 8.30pm removed humidifier and moved pots nearer centre of the tent. A bit more leaf tucking. Monday 13/2/23 Day 20 7.30pm #1 Feed 2L Ec=1.04 Ph=6.5 Run 0.4L Ec=3.02 Ph=5.7 Tuesday 14/2/23 Day 21 #1 Height= 14CM Dist= 55CM DLI= 19.1 Round up for the week. Again it's been a fairly productive week with the grow. Didn't quite hit my VPD target but I wasn't far from it. There is enough foliage that I managed to remove the humidifier from the tent. #1 Wedding Cheesecake FF is where I'm expecting her to be at, she is smaller then the others but I'm sure they are just rapid in growth. I didn't top/fim this one when I did the others as I wanted her to catch up a bit in height 1st. Probably veg for 1 more week and switch to flower. Power used for week Light (1.96+1.96+1.96+1.96+1.96+1.95+1.95)=13.7Kw Extractor (0.05+0.05+0.05+0.06+0.06+0.06+0.07)=0.4Kw Fans (0.31+0.30+0.30+0.30+0.3+0.31+0.39)=2.21Kw Humid (0.05+0.02+0.0+0.0+++)=0.07Kw Radiator (1.44+0.9+1.04+0.68+0.6+0.92+2.61)=8.19Kw Total for the week=24.57Kw Back in a week. Thanks for stopping by.