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Since I'm playing catch up with documenting my first grow cycle, I'm going to combine weeks and just give updates. I mentioned in the last weekly comment about adding the wicking bases and how that can be potentially problematic. Well here's where I noticed the issue but mostly with the Orange Sherbet sativa. I started noticing changes in color and leaves that didn't look good to me. Fortunately, I have a couple of great friends who also grow and have been able to take advantage of their knowledge and experience along the way. I highly recommend doing this if you have friends who also grow. Anyway, I had one of my friends come over and it was determined that the issue was due mainly to overwatering. We decided that with the wicking bases in addition to the humidity level in the tent, that the plant was staying too wet. Catching this quickly and addressing it is huge with autos since they tend to be more delicate that regular plants (as I understand things anyway). To address the overwatering issue, I immediately stopped using the wicking bases and let the plants dry out for about a week. I did no watering at all for the week but kept the humidifier going. That really helped correct what was going on. I then decided that I was no longer going to use the wicking bases at all and only do top watering. You'll see as I move forward with documenting this grow cycle, that I changed my mind again on this once the plants went into flower. But hey, what do you expect, this was my first ever grow.
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Week 9 plant - vertical growth slowed down, packing on the buds quite nice. smelling great, quick counted 11 colas Week 8 plant - stretched quite a bit this past week. hairs everywhere, bud growth is starting to come in. quick counted 12 colas. Just added water to the res, ph went up a bit so dropped in 1ml of ph down to bring it back to 5.6, around 790-800 ppm. Did a light defoliation on the bottom of the plants, pulling off weak/dying older fan leaves mostly. Minor tucking of fan leaves on the top to expose more colas to the light. Adjusted the light to 18" from the tallest cola.
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These are clones that I managed to take from my summer garden that became a disaster due to a heat wave that we had breaking 100 year records. I expect everything to be 48” in height at maturity.
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GELATO-K By KANNABIA Week #17 Mar. 1st-8th Week #6 Flower This week she is starting to stack and put on some weigh buds are getting dense and covered in trichomes!!
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Una experiencia realmente buena toda una gozada os la recomiendo Farmers!🍯🌈🍨🍓🍌
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Yoo, what’s crackin’ y’all? It’s Zuppler checkin’ back in with the week 4 veg report, comin’ to you from the land of dirt and sadness. Yo, we’re hittin’ the home stretch of veg, and these girls look like they’ve been pumpin’ iron or somethin’. Stalks thick as a palm trunk, leaves lookin’ like they tryin' to catch all the rays. Ain’t no stuntin’ goin’ on here – these ladies in full-on beast mode. Still feedin’ that Advanced Nutrients on RO water, You know, that extra sauce to keep ‘em strong, gettin' rid of them lower leaves that ain’t doin’ much. Gotta make sure all the energy goes where it counts. The roots gotta be massive by now – these girls takin' up water like a sponge in the swamp, but no signs of droop or deficiencies. The stretch is slowin’ down, but that’s all good. They’re lookin' sturdy, like they ready to handle whatever comes next. Just about time to flip the switch and let ‘em show us what they really got. Zuppler out, peace!
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Partially harvested to Test the ripening of the remaining Buds. Awesome looking and crazy strong smell. The purple with light Green Looks awesome
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Finally Last week growmies !!❤️😎😎 Still flushing until the last 3 days, and then im going to let it rest for 3 day in the dark and star the cut✌️✌️scrog net is off ! Thank's all for the support and the help ❤️❤️😎 New diarie coming soon with this spettacular Led 😎✌️ Keep it lit bros✌️😎🇮🇹
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1 week done! Really impressed with how strong she is! Let’s gooo we will keep on pushing forward Time to start the plagron sauce
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She looking good very resistant dogs damage her while playing guess they wanna be farmers too😂🤣...did more good than bad tho👍.....gonna introduce more bloom food up coming week...roots should have full out or at least close to full out the extra space I gave them last week
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LJ4Q23 Bolt II SOP LJ4Q23 - 8-Plant SOG from Cuts Objective: - 8 Plants - Single Colas - No Branches - Harvest Lemon Jeffery (Narrow Leaf Phenos): 70±5 days - Light Intensity - Ramp up from 200 - > 40 DLI, at 13 hour ScotoPeriod, will need MAX Light to Achieve - Ramp Light Intensity to MAX ASAP (3 Weeks?) Notes: - Lemon Jeffery handles HIGH LIGHT Well, even within 6” of Light @ ~1800 µMol/m2/ - The challenge will be achieving minimum 40 Mol/day, which in this setup requires 1000 µMol/m2/s @ 13 hour Scotoperiod ______________________________________ Start of Week: [ 2023-12-06, LJ4Q 8:B:1:1] End of Week: [ 2023-12-12, LJ4Q 14:B:1:7] Flower Week 2 _______________________________ Environment Targets (Bolt II): - Scotoperiod: [ 13, h] # Contiguous dark hours daily - DayPeriod: [ 1900, 0600 +24h] - TemperatureMax: [ 82, °F] - RH: [ 70, %] - VPD: [ 0.91, mS] - LightIntensity: [ 850, µMol/m2/s] - LightDistance: [ 16.5, “] Bolt II Fertigation - RLA Medium Chart, Week 2, EC: [ 1.7, mS] - Primer A: [ 6.2, ml, gal] - Primer B: [ 6.2, ml, gal] - CalMag Fuel: [ 2.5, ml, gal] - Silica Skin: [ 2.5, ml, gal] - Lush Green: [ 2.5, ml, gal] - Root Anchor: [ 2.5, ml, gal] - Peak Bloom: [ 2.5, ml, gal] Bolt II Fertigation - RLA HYDRO Chart, Week 4, EC: [ 1.7, mS] - Primer A: [ 8.5, ml, gal] - Primer B: [ 8.5, ml, gal] - Silica Skin: [ 4.25, ml, gal] All Fertigation Add - Plant Success: - Microbelife Photosynthesis Plus: [ 0.5, ml/gal] - Build-a-Soil: - Quillaja20 Powder: [ 0.5, tsp/gal] - South Cascade Organics: - SLF-100 _______________________________________________ Wed Dec 6, 2023 LJ4Q 8:B:1:1 __ Thu Dec 7, 2023 LJ4Q 9:B:1:2 FOLIAR Application: Bolt - CalMag Fuel: [ 20, ml/gal] - Lush Green: [ 5, ml/gal] Install Drain Tray - [x] Install Irrigation Manifold - [ ] Install Drain pump Irrigation Install (When Drip Rings Obtained) - [x] Connect manifold lines to each of 8 drip lines - [ ] Calibrate Drip Ring delivery __ Fri Dec 8, 2023 LJ4Q 10:B:1:3 - We had 500 ml Runoff from 360 X 8: 2880 total: 17% Runoff, which is a good number. - Therefore - if we want to duplicate Initial watering: - Let’s start at nominal 110 ml/ event - 4x a day. 1.8 ml/sec, 110 ml: 61 Seconds, + 5 Sec -> Make it an EVEN MINUTE of irrigation. - [x] Bring Reservoir Operational - [x] Power Chiller - [x] Install irrigation pump - [x] Install circulation pump Irrigation Approach - We’ll use 1.7 ml/sec/line as the Baseline feed. - If we water no more than the Saturation Volume daily . . . - 440 ml/day, Max/Plant Estimates - AirPot Size: [ 4400, ml] - AirPot Saturation: [ 440, ml] - @ 3.2 ml/sec: [ 137, sec] # Max Per Day - Assume 10 Sec ‘Fill’ overhead Per Irrigation HF Fertigation - 4 Events/day - 11 hour Irrigation 4x/day Frequency: 2.75 hrs - First Irrigation 15 Minutes BEFORE Lights On - @ 1.7 ml/sec, 60 sec/event, 100 ml/plant, 4 times a day - 60 Seconds/event, 4X/day EC 3.2 1.7 6.0 ml ml ml Primer A 16.00 8.50 EC 3.2 1.7 6.0 gal total Primer B 16.00 8.50 Primer A 16.00 8.50 51.00 Silica Skin 8.00 4.25 Primer B 16.00 8.50 51.00 Quillaja20 0.5 tsp/gal Silica Skin 8.00 4.25 25.50 King Crab 0.5 ml/gal 0.5 - Loaded ~ 6 Gallons, added another 1 to 1-1/2 to EC: 1.7 Program Irrigation Timer ( Start 15 minutes before Lights On - Time based on ~3ml/sec per line ADJUST When we have ACTUALS). Delivery Max per Plant/day: [ 440, ml] Delivery Frequency/Day: 4 Delivery Period: 2h, 45min Delivery/Plant: [ 102, ml] DeliveryDuration: 60s Usage Expectations - 800 ml/day W 6 Gallons in the res, we’ve enough feed for 28 Days - probably need to mix less. ;-} Fertigation Schedule Initiate Irrigation Irrigation Complete Event 0 18:45:00 18:46:00 Event 1 21:30:00 21:31:00 Event 2 00:15:00 00:16:00 Event 3 03:00:00 03:01:00  Foliar - [x] Resin Bloom: [ 20, ml, gal], [ 1.25, ml, 240, ml] - [x] CalMag Fuel: [ 20, ml, gal], [ 1.25, ml, 240, ml] - [x] Connect manifold feed line to Little Giant Irrigation Pump FOLIAR Application: Bolt - Solar Rain: [ 20, ml/gal] Per Line Delivery, 2 Data Points: 1.87 ± 0.125 ml/sec Let’s go with 1.8 and see . . . Following the rules of Halves - the Pre-Drip ring flow rate was 3.2 per line. With the rings - it’s about HALF, maybe a little more. SO - Ferti9gat __ Sat Dec 9, 2023 LJ4Q 11:B:1:4 GROWER ERROR - Left Irrigation pump connected to POWER instead of TIMER and drained 6 Gal of feed across 8 plants. - I think they’re sufficiently watered . . . ;-} - Gorilla Grow Tent HELD all the water until I could shop vac it out this morning during the grows scotoperiod. - Will report on results after lights on @1900 Lessons Learned (SOP) - ALWAYS ENABLE DRAIN PUMPS BEFORE INITIATING AUTOMATED IRRIGATION - Some might call this common sense, not an SOP… _______________ Saturday Tasks - [x] Refill Res, RLA Hydro Chart @ EC: 1.7 mS, 3 Gal (11.4 Litres) - [x] Primer A: [ 25.5, ml] - [x] Primer B: [ 25.5, ml] - [x] Silica Skin: [ 12.8, ml] - [x] Quillaja20 Powder: [ 1.5, tsp] - [x] SLF-100: [ 15, ml] - [x] Photosynthesis Plus: [ 18, ml]  - [x] Tidy Grow Room Install Irrigation Drain system - [x] Obtain 10’ of 1/4” - 3/8” red tubing for runoff drain - [x] Install sump and catch bucket - [x] Externalize power cord - power up - verify operation - [x] Externalize waste hose output in 2-1/2 Gal Dark plastic reservoir _______________ __ Sun Dec 10, 2023 LJ4Q 12:B:1:5 LightIntensity: [ TBD, µMol/m2/s] DLI13: [ TBD, Mol/m2/d] Need to get to 40 DLI baseline, which at 11 hours of light is 1037 µMol/m2/s @ 11 hours/day __ Mon Dec 11, 2023 LJ4Q 13:B:1:6   Lighting Plan - Increase PPFD 10% until we’ve achieved [ 1000+, µMol/m2/s] - Increasing light intensity will increase nutrient needs and runoff. - STAY ON POINT. FOLIAR Application: Bolt - Solar Rain: [ 20, ml/gal] - Silica Skin: [ 20, ml/gal] Still looking for vigor. The girls still look like they’re enjoying a slumber party. ;-| Evaluate Runoff - After doubling irrigation time ( 1 min -> 2 min), we should have some runoff to evaluate. - IFF NOT: Double Irrigation Time to 4 min - ELSE: evaluate - estimate 10%/min, ~320 ml LightIntensity: [ 850, µMol/m2/s] # The sooner we get to full light, the better. ;-} - 440 ml/day - 44 ml, runoff/day - [x] Actual: [ 500 , ml] We also had an extra 5 or so minutes of feed verifying pump yesterday. Will measure again Tuesday. height range: [ 10, 6, 9.5 avg] - [x] Increased Irrigation Interval to 3 minutes. __ Tue Dec 12, 2023 LJ4Q 14:B:1:7 Irrigation Interval: [ 3, min] Irrigation Delivery per Event: [ 100, ml] Events per Day: 4 Total per day per plant: [ 400, ml] Total per day delivered: [ 3200, ml] # < 1 Gal - We target 10-15% runoff, so we’re looking for 380 - 440 ml runoff per day. - IFF we have MORE than 380 - 440 ml’s - [x] Reduce Irrigation Time to 2:30 (from 3:00) - IFF we have LESS than 380 ml runoff - [ ] Increase Irrigation Time time to 3:30, Re-evaluaute WEDNESDAY - [x] Measure Runoff - [x] Amt: 600, ml - Total Run was 14 minutes. We’re using 100ml/min as the guideline, but believe it’s closer to 30-50 ml/min. ***TUESDAY NIGHT - LAST PICTURE FOR WEEK (Hopefully DRY and Praying)!*** Changed Irrigation from 3 min to 2:30.
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The 2 cuttings of my Tiny pot bubba cheesecake on there second topping. these girls look good and im super cropping for strong stems to hold all the main tops.
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I topped and trained them two more times. I also lolipopped them, that is cut the bottom 2 sets of leaves and branches.
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It's week three of Vegi, and all three Lemon Ladies are developing very nicely. They should be ready to flower in about 14 days. 💚💚💚☀️☀️☀️
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today Day 22 and Hilde still goes well 🙏 Speedrun video 21 Days 😉 Day23 was cloudy an alot of rain 😩 Day24 was cloudy and alot of rain 😳 Day25 there was sun and not too hot 🙏 Day26 in the afternoon a really sunny day but it started cloudy and rainy oh lord 😯 Day27 full of cloudy rainy weather and low temp 😕 Day28 no sun and cloudy 😒
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2nd Week of Veg decided to start low stress training and see how it affects the plant opposed to waiting until it’s a little older. Giving it water only every other day when soil is dry or pot is light.
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Que maravillosa planta. He cambiado su nutrición hace 7 días dando puro organico y natural. Se siente un exquisito aroma a bubble gum, berries y un poco de caramelo. Sus cogollos son muy densos y duros. Esta semana he rociado con un poco de infusion de cola de caballo en reducción para evitar posibles hongos y quitar un poco los restos de diatomeas que había en sus hojas. Crece y crece preciosa. Una semana mas y estará lista para su corte final! Saludos a todos amigos y gracias por compartir aquí.
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Hello Diary. The second week of flowering is behind us and the plants are progressing nicely. Purple Punch has reached 66 cm, which means it hasn’t grown anything since last week, all the plants are now about the same height which is great considering the light setting. It is nicely branched and wide, it is full of leaves so I will need to do a little cleaning soon. The flowers develop beautifully and take on a round shape. All in all, there is already a real jungle on the "Farm", two Purple Punch, there is also one Watermelon Auto, so each of them is fighting for as much light as possible. The humidity in the Box is still lower than I would like, the temperature is good. Let's see what the week looked like: 24/02/2021 - Day 29. Watering. I regulated, that is, lowered the p.H. at 6.4 and put 1 Easy Bloom Tablet, on 7 liters of water. Temp / Humidity on the farm - 24.8 degrees and 42% humidity. 27/02/2021 - Day 32. Watering. I adjusted the p.H to 6.4 and added BioBizz as scheduled for the second week of flowering. Temp / Humidity on the farm - 24.9 degrees and 35% humidity. 02/03/2021 - Day 35. Watering and height measurement. This time I did not add any nutrients but only regulated p.H at 6.3. Temp / Humidity on the farm - 25.2 degrees and 39% humidity. Purple Punch Auto # 1 - 66 cm. Purple Punch Auto # 2 - 62 cm. That’s it for this week, thanks to everyone who follows the diary, the support and advice I get means a lot to me. See you soon.