I want to thank all the growers that take the time to post their work and results, these journals were invaluable in my grow. I also want to thank Royal Queen Seeds for making such a resilient plant available to people like me... I really tortured this girl. Site update really ruined the experience of posting for me for the moment ... so Im going to take a break for a bit and perfect my craft on my own while it works out the kinks.... I cant post many pics, the order of which I can organize them is locked out or moves to another position, and it takes forever to fully load the page so I can edit or update. But I 'really' wanted to finish this journal, so here it is. I promise to be back better than ever once the site works it all out. Hopefully not too long. This was my first seed to weed grow and I learned a lot. I hope my notes, pictures, and videos benefit someone else as well. My results were not typical, Im sure I could have done better, and I will continue on my path to learning and becoming an experienced cultivator of cannabis with skills I can be proud of.

Ahh shit, here we go again. After 2 month, I'm ready to grow again. This time it's gonna be Lemon AK, cuz its summer you know, not indica time. I'm using same lamp, same DIY growbox but with different reflective material. Gonna use Air Pot , i think it will be better than smartpot, will see. I have chosen some interesting combinating of nutrients for this plant, some from Advanced Nutrients and GHE, hope it works great. First seed that i started to germinate on 23/6 didnt germinate, i guess it was my fault cuz have put seed in refrigerator, and temperature was bouncing between 7.8c- 14c degrees, i thing it was a problem, so no pretension to fastbuds, you guys are awesome. Bought a new timer, set to 18/6 light. 3/7 Bought and started to germinate new seed, checked 24 hours later and its already opened, will plant after 48 hours, mb earlier. 7/7 Planted seed today. 9/7 After morning watering and turning on the lights, plant finally sprouted. 10/7 is first day, watering 2 times a day, on morning and evening. About 50-70ml under stem using syringe, rest 400+ml around plant. Day 2 - 500ml with RootPlus. Day 3 - 500ml with nutrients. Day 6 - Switched lights from 18 to 20 hours. Fans are now turned on 24/7. Intake fan gives a plant some nice breeze. Had no time so watered at night, 1L water under and near plant, and another 1.5L all over pot so it can last until tomorrow after's morning. Day 7 - Plant is showing great progress. No water today. New set of leaves showed up. Very happy with this week. Peace.

Official entry for the Best Tiny Pot. "Mephy" the Piggy Dank. Custom design/print, so she's Ultra Rare. Her grow volume is also a WHOPPING 220.9 ml / .05835 g / .0002209 m³ 😅 /// Planning to run her like a very small / fast bonsai. Going with a Mephisto "Freebie": Strawberry Nuggets x Forum Stomper. Good luck to everyone else! You all inspired me to jump in. ✌️🌱 Edit: 10/4/22 - Taproot came out 10/6/22 - Soil break

I’ve been LST into a spiral so I defoliated pretty heavily to get more light to the lower buds. CBD Star is well on its way with many buds developing. I’ve been keeping it outside during the day and bringing it in to my new space bucket at night. I outfitted the bucket with an 8 inch fan, DIY carbon filter and a 250W Amazon Commercial PAR38 LED bulb. The filter is doing a great job removing the smell. Link for the bulb at the bottom. Cheese is stretching like crazy with some pistils forming. AmazonCommercial 250 Watt Equivalent, 25000 Hours, Non-Dimmable, 2500 Lumens, E26 Base, High Output PAR30 LED Light Bulb - Pack of 1, Soft White https://a.co/d/gh8qkUj

Active flowering began 😈, I gave fertilizers from the second week of flowering

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Mother Fucker, Had all this typed out and it fucking closed the tab and would not load last edit. Lets try this again. This has been a big week, got a transplant in and ran into some issues with the feed. Transplanted the plants from their 1L to 2Gal/7.5L pots and gave them some LST to keep em low, all went well in transplant process as seen in the video however the Gaia Green burned my plants and this is odd considering I did not use it full strength as per their directions. They recommend amending medium for pots and baskets at a rate of 3tbsp or 45ml per Gal and I used it at a rate of 60ml in 2Gal, not even close to their 90ml recommendation. Seems weird why I would be experiencing this. I reached out to them and have not heard anything back. kinda disappointed about that. I have two batches of Gaia Green 4-4-4 and when I ran a test side by side on them I found the old one I am currently useing has a higher EC value then the new one I got. I dissolved 1/4 teaspoon into 250ml of water and gave it a good stir, I then let it sit for 5 min and measured its PH and EC, I also tested out the Insect Frass from them as well and it was similar numbers to the new 4-4-4 batch. I got readings of 0.98 for new 4-4-4 and 1.43EC for the old batch of 4-4-4. Seems off. I also tested all the other things I added into the soil and they did not spike EC to any significance. I'm hoping they reach back out to let me know whats up. PH was on point and nothing crazy all aorund 7.1 I also tested the PH and EC of the watering solution to confirm it was the 4-4-4, added in some yucca in their as well as other beneficials that I normally do in soil grows. all within range, PH down with Phspohric Acid and EC under 300 A+ In other good news I finalized the PPFD maps for my tent and lights, I use 2x 240w Mini Sun 2's from Medic Grow, They don't normally use the lights in a twin setup in 2x4 tent so thus they had no light maps for me. The grow shop I go to lent me their Quantum Par light meter and I went to town, I demoed this unit last week in a little video and then went onto say how I messed up the readings and needed to redo it all. Well I had to have the meter returned and was working all week so only had time to get one height measurement in at 30" with all the intensities of the light 40-60-80-100% I had a feeling I was over blasting them with light but the amount I was thinking was not even close to how much more I was giving them. I was running my plants before at 80% and maybe 20" hang height. I was nuking them. It shows my ideals are going to be 40% in veg and 60% in flower with altered lighting schedules to accommodate a proper DLI. As of right now I am giving my plants 42 DLI in veg at 18/6 and that's a bit much for me. I would like to see this number closer to 35. So if I edit my schedule down to 16/8 it will give me a DLI of 37, when I got into bloom if I go 11/13 I will also get a DLI of 37. If I kept it at 12/12 at 60% I would have a DLI of 41, and If i did it like last time 12/12 at 80% I would have a DLI of 55... 41 is not the worst but I think it might be to much. we will see based on how the plants are growing. I used a free heatmap web page tool to make the PPFD maps, its not perfect but it works out well for me. I did all the intensities on their own image and also did one main image with all the intensities that shows the strength of 100% vs 40-60-80% in colour. The one light on the right side does not seem to be as strong as the one on the left, Or it could be some weird things with my tent, When I looked at the numbers with the door open they did not fluctuate as much. so who knows, I tested them with the door closed and extractor fan on as that's what the plants will be getting when in the tent, I centred the light as best I could and levelled it out with a bubble leveller. It was funny seeing how the PPF readout numbers changed as the tent sucked in around the sides, It is a good thing I have the mid support bar to prevent it from doing that to much. Once I mapped out all my readings in PPF I then calculated its average and PPFD using the grow space dimensions of 2x4, applied the convention and got my average PPFD :) The pepper are also doing well. I don't think I noticed a difference between soaking the seeds with some peroxide 1% vs plan water. Won't do that again does not seem to help anything. All but one variety as popped, the naga morich, has not been germinated, I was reading online that dehydrated seeds can have as low as 5% germination rate, With this in mind I took a lot of seeds from my older naga morich peppers in the pantry and placed them in a damp paper towel. I have a feeling given their age and treatment previously they will not pop, but that's ok if they don't, I have a large assortment of pepper for this season and they are already well on their way to giving me a good crop. Have not noticed any other fungus gnats in a bit. Happy about that, don't know where they went, unless it was just a few and they died before breeding. One can hope, Big shoutout to Medic Grow for sponsoring the lighting in my tent, They have provided me with 2x Mini Sun 2's in the 240w configuration, They use the v1 growing spectrum that is a all purpose seed to harvest spectrum so their is no hassle of switching it mid grow. If you interested in learning more about Medic Grow products please visit the web link below. https://medicgrow.com/ https://growdiaries.com/grower/MedicGrowLED

Super frosty & rock hard buds💥 Delicious terps🤤 Perfect buds leaf ratio

been really busy.. all is going very well.. got new dairies coming soon from those seedlings🌱 I just started... And 4 Hindu kush will be my first Scrogging... My main plant look unhappy cause he got to settle in New pot

Heya👍🤙👍🌱 Little bit of tip burn. May be light but exactly were I want it. Nutrients... less is more. No feed. 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. 👍🤙👍🌱

This week has gone well. 6 plants in such a small space is playing havoc with the humidity but I feel I'm just about on it enough not to cause any rot. The New York Turbo Diesel auto is looking like she also won't need any HST and I can just leave her to do her thing. She has a few issues but nothing I'm overly concerned about. Notes. Extractor settings. Temp 28c step 2c Humidity 50% steps 2% Max speed 8 Min speed 1 Day 43 Saturday 15/10/22 Feed= autofeed 2hrs Volume= 10L, Ec= 1.51, PH=6.2 Left= 4L, Used= 6L = 1L each Runoff= 0L, Ec= , PH= Lifted light 4cm Day 44 Sunday 16/10/22 #2 H=CM, D=CM, DLI=43.2, PPFD=600 Day 45 Monday 17/10/22 Feed=autofeed 2.5hrs Volume= 10L, Ec= 1.5, PH=6.2 Left= 2.5L, Used= 7.5L =1.25L each Runoff= 0.7L, Ec= 2.3, PH=6.1 Big defol on all 6. Humidity to high really. Day 46 Tuesday 18/10/22 Extractor settings. Temp 26c step 2c Humidity 55% steps 2% Max speed 10 Min speed 1 #2 H=CM, D=CM, DLI=41.5, PPFD=576 Day 47 Wednesday 19/10/22 Feed=autofeed water 3hrs Volume= 10L, Ec= 0.2, PH=6.2 Left= 1L, Used= 9L = 1.5L each Runoff= 1.8L, Ec= 2.2, PH=6.1 Day 48 Thursday 20/10/22 Day 49 Friday 21/10/22 Neutral 0.1ml/L Silicon 0.75ml/L Calmag 0.25ml/L Bloom 3.0ml/L Boost 2.0ml/L Pk boost 1ml/L Ec 1.85 Ph 6.6 Feed=autofeed 3hrs Volume= 10L, Ec= 1.85, PH= 6.6 Left= 1L, Used= 9L = 1.5L each Runoff= 1.8L, Ec= 2.12, PH=6.1 #2 H=57CM, D=43CM, DLI=38.2, PPFD=530 Viparspectra xs2000 75% power 7 days £0.30 /Kwh = £7.56 for the week. Thanks for stopping by. Take it easy.

I notice her Ovules are very large in size. Quite unlike any plant I have seen before. I don't know if this is a 'primative' strain but it's quite unusual. So far: 147g wet Day 77 - Staggered harvest started. When I see a couple of amber trichomes on a bud I will harvest it and leave the rest. Day 84 - The other colas are getting there slowly. I don't know if it is the heat stressing her out 30 c in tent. We have a heatwave here right now.... Day 84 - 2.11g dry ground up Day 89 - 1.72g dry ground up Day 91 - What is left of her. She looks a mess lol. Day 94 - Final harvest trimmed up and drying. Final dry total to follow in a few days. Day 100 - Final weigh up. Well we got 72.46g on the scales today. I never did wet weight after the first harvest so dismiss that. In total I got 74.57g. It is a very small harvest for me but I don't think this plant has the genetics to be a big yielder.000

I choose to go with lollipops technique for the small plant. I did cut a lot of leaves on that small plant, but the bud size is getting huge. For the another one, I will just continue with defoliation until harvest. And I also just bought some terpinator to give the flower more nutrients and boost the smell.

fed 2x still has nitrogen toxicity but otherwise plant is great, seemingly growing bigger buds daily. cant wait to finish her and see how it turns out!

Smell is getting intense which is a good problem I always like having lol got the carbon filter running 24/7. The GroBucket system really keeps the soil at the perfect moisture level. Made a aeroponics system that’s got me intrigued lol but all and all things are coasting by it’s just on me to keep environment stable and the reservoirs filled. Check out the channel I got one video I need to upload then I’ll be uploading daily on YouTube check me out https://youtube.com/@C_More_Budz

Starting week 2 of flower and these girls are Still stretching for a couple more days probably. I will definitely be adding a second layer of trellis this week. Also starting feeding big bud this week. Everything is looking happy and moving along nicely.