still waiting for the cure

The warm weather has returned! (This has been such an odd year weather wise.) Also so has the humidity. There was a few days in between the end of last week and the middle of this one that were perfect, temps in the 60's and low humidity of like 40% RH. Looks like a lot of rain in the next coming week so just glad the girls get to soak up all this sun! An increase in nutes should also help with growth, slow and steady wins the race. Almost to peak level of nutrients, probably next week.

Buds gettin frosty!

Harvest is imminent! I'm basically just waiting for her to drink her last watering. So 1-3 days I guess - my last few "finished" plants basically stopped drinking much at the end, and she seems to be the same. But my last post was about a week ago so one more flowering week report! A few days ago I took off some of the brittle taco-ified fan leafs. My guess is they don't do much for photosynthesis anymore and just prevent lower growth from getting light. Upper leafs by now have turned a pretty violet/plum color! I put a leaf from another plant in the picture for comparison.😊 Structurally there is little change since last week. Smell is still incredible too! She is significantly heavier than three weeks ago so the stems are losing the battle against gravity.. but as she's coming down in a few I'm not gonna go wild with jojos or garden wire. 🤷

Harvest day was 89. Short: Frosty plant, density is lacking, lots of leafs, some mutation, slow growing but big in the end, smells good skunky fruity for now, will update after cure. I have to compare this one to my other plant the Ultra G13 and Brain Freeze lacks a lot. It grows kinda slow, buds are not nearly as dense, trimming was horrible, overall I would say 50/50 fluffy/dense compared to the Ultra G13 85% dense and 15% kinda but not really fluffy in the same system under the same conditions. Total wet yield is just fine, can't say anything bad about that, this is limited by my tent, would have gotten more with this plant as a solo one in the 2x4. Managed to get the Net Cup out of the tube compared to the Ultra G13 which I had to saw of. Overall I would say a plant one can do but nothing to chase for, might update that after cure who knows. Update: dried weight is 280g total, 50/50 dense and fluffy buds but all are frosty, smells like sweet candy, overall a great yield that I did not expect, was kinda stressed with this one since it only came to its potential in the last few weeks but it did came. Will not grow it again in the near future but maybe some time later. Did bake some brownies with it but didn't count how much so I did not add that to the total yield.

Aroma is extremely strong, pistols are maturing, bud sites are becoming more dense, anthocyanins doing their job on this pheno, fan leaves began yellowing due to slight heat stress. Approaching Harvest

Start to getting frosty! I am very happy so far!

420Fastbuds FBT2314/Week2 Weekly update for these 2. I started seeing some rust spots so I decided to add a little General Hydroponics Calimagic at 0.25tsp/gal to my feed. So far seems to stop. I also decided to start a very light dose of nutes General Hydroponics 3 part flora series at the same 0.25tsp/gal to every other feed to see how they'll respond. All in all Happy Growing.

Legend Timestamp: 📅 EC - pH: ⚗️ Temp - Hum: 🌡️ Water: 🌊 Food: 🍗 pH Correction: 💧 Actions: 💼 Thoughts: 🧠 Events: 🚀 Media: 🎬 D: DAY, G: GERMINATION, V: VEGETATIVE, B: BLOOMING, R: RIPENING, D: DRYING, C: CURING ________________________________ 📅 D77/B15 - 31/01/24 ⚗️ EC: 1.2 pH: 6 🌡️ T: 19-22 °C H: 40-60% (Min-Max values taken from the app.) 🌊 2L 🍗 CalMag - Bloom A-B - Bud Candy - Big Bud - B52 💧 💼 Thanks to the TM+ Pro app and the use of the Humidifier now the T-H of the enviroment is correct and i got quite good VPD (Vapor Pressure Deficit) rate 🧠 🚀 🎬 Added Timelapse video ________________________________ 📅 D78/B16 - 01/02/24 ⚗️ EC: 1 pH: 5.9 🌡️ T: 19-25 °C H: 45-70 % 🌊 2L 🍗 💧 💼 🧠 Quite time to change res 🚀 🎬 Added Timelapse video, 3 pics and "TM+ Pro" App screenshots of T-H values daily graph, and quite perfect VPD daily rate ________________________________ 📅 D79/B17 - 02/02/24 ⚗️ EC: 1 pH: 6.2 🌡️ T: 19-25 °C H: 40-60% 🌊 🍗 💧 Added few drops of pH- 💼 🧠 The res was for many time on the upper side of pH range, so now I would like it to goes down to a more acidic solution. I'll do it on the next res change, maybe tomorrow 🚀 🎬 Added Timelapse video but today it was trunked because of a problem on the camera, but I posted it anyway ________________________________ 📅 D80/B18 - 03/02/24 ⚗️ EC: 0.15 pH: 6.6 🌡️ T: 19-25 °C H: 40-60% 🌊 RES Changed 💦💦💦. Flushing until tomorrow 🍗 💧 💼 🧠 🚀 🎬 Added Timelapse video and VPD, T-H graphs screenshots ________________________________ 📅 D81/B19 - 04/02/24 ⚗️ EC: 1 pH: 5.7 🌡️ T: 19-25 °C H: 45-65 % 🌊 15L 🍗 CalMag - Grow A-B - Bud candy - B52 - Big Bud 💧 💼 Some defolation and sistemation of buds 🧠 🚀 🎬 Added Timelapse video and VPD, T-H graphs screenshots ________________________________ 📅 D82/B20 - 05/02/24 ⚗️ EC: 1 pH: 5.4 🌡️ T: 20-25 °C H: 52-84 % 🌊 🍗 💧 💼 Little defolation and raised up the lamp 🧠 🚀 I forgot the humidifier on manual mode, so H increased until 80%and VPD went out of control 🎬 Added 4 pics, one is from timelapse set. Added Timelapse video and screenshots ________________________________ 📅 D83/B21 - 06/02/24 ⚗️ EC: 1 pH: 5.0 🌡️ T: 19-25 °C H: 45-70% 🌊 🍗 💧 💼 🧠 pH decreased a lot and it's a good thing it stay on the acidic side for a while 🚀 🎬 Added Tmelapse video and screenshots of VPD and T-H

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So my 5 plants have been split up. My first two chopped are now curing up. Preparing to chop the rest. Smells like nothing or gassy. Don’t overshock your plants people! 7 days of drying and stems were snapping. 3 in the pink isn’t quite ready yet.

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Watering with plain water. Just waiting for milky trichomes. 💪

Week 6 flower, half way there! Buds are starting to fill in now and getting some decent frost. A couple of tops are getting more light than others, and fattening a bit more and looking real nice. It looks like there is some purple starting to come out at the tops. Also spotted some discolouration on a few leaves closest to the light, so I turned the one light down to 60-75%, no need to push it at this point and burn her up! She will go as fast as the soil and environmental conditions will allow her to. Hand watered in Gaia Green Soluble Seaweed Extract 0-0-17, otherwise water drip is running on same schedule. Just using straight tap water that sits in a 30 gallon reservoir with a submergible water pump running 24/7 breaking surface and aerating water. Water comes out the tap @ 7ph and less than 15ppm. So I don’t do nothing to it, I drink it:) Thanks for the view 🤜 Have a great week!

End of Week 7 CO2 is definitely increasing growth rates but also changes the game with controlling your environment now that it has to be sealed in order to not waste CO2 unnecessarily. You change one thing and it adds many other variables to keep everything in check. I am learning everyday and that's why I grow. The trellis net is doing its job and the canopy is looking nice and even. I also added a soil top-up and top dress of some BioBloom and Mycorhizae so it can start breaking down before I flip to flower next week (Slow release dry organic amendments). And the ladies are using up nutrients in the soil much faster because of the added CO2 (another variable to take into consideration - faster growth = faster nutrient consumption) In detail: -Carefully removed trellis netting -Ammended each plant individually with my soil mixture and nutrients -Placed them back in the tent -Reinstalled trellis netting and trained the ladies to shape Pest Report: Thrips VS Ladybugs... I decided to fight fire with fire - I purchased Swirski-Mites from Koppert (They are beneficial insects that feed on the eggs and larvae of thrips and other unwanted pests). As for the adult thrips - I got very lucky and found about 10 Ladybugs in my garden and decided to introduce them into my grow room as they will feed on adult thrips and any other unwanted pests. I did not spray any insecticide this week and it really seems like the ladies are happy with my new method of bio-warfare and are wilting less and less often

Apr 09: Things are chuggin along, i think light may have been a factor in the brown spots, seeing similar symptoms on one of the other plants but very very minor in comparison.... I think it was too little calmag, i may have locked them out mid veg by using high concentration of nutes without watering till runoff (i now know, that is a no-go), and light stress. i have had them under 850-1050 ppfd when flipped to flower... one of them is loving the light, one is big and bushy (had to defoliate later than i wanted), and one has good bud structure but pistils seem thin, and growth seems slower (the one with the brown polkadot party on its body) so thinking it may be stunted. either way, im seeing denser buds, and im learning the ropes, thats enough for me :) Apr 12: Last feed day... Trichomes look just about ready, will do 2 runoff waterings 48hrs apart, then 24-36 hr darkness... Will try to post trichome pics.... Super excited to see the improvements from this run vs last run...!

Week 2 Light cycle=18/6 Light Power=120w 50% Extractor controller settings High temp= 24c Low temp= c Temp step=0c High Rh= 65% Low Rh= % Rh step=0% Speed max=5 Speed min=1 Smart controller settings (during lights on). Lights on=06.00am Radiator on= below 19c Radiator off= above 20c Humidifier on= brlow 60% above 23c Humidifier off= above 63% Dehumidifier on= not in use Dehumidifier off= not in use Smart controller settings (during lights off). Lights off=00.00am Radiator on= below 17c Radiator off= above 18c Humidifier on= not in use Humidifier off= not in use Dehumidifier on= not in use Dehumidifier off= not in use VPD aim=0.6-1.0 DLI aim=18-22 EC aim=0.8 PH aim=6.2 Thur 4/1/24 #2 (Day 8) 📋 Was H=9cm D=69cm DLI=16.9 Now H=9cm D=69cm DLI=19.7 Fri 5/1/24 #2 (Day 9) 📋 was in need of watering. Starting it's 3rd set of true leaves. 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧 Method= manual Neutralise=0.1ml/L Roots=5ml/L Feed=nutes Volume=200ml Easy Ph down=0 drops/L Ec=0.27 PH=5.9/6.2 Time=2.30pm Runoff. Total runoff=55ml Ec=2.08 PH=5.7/6.0 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧 Sat 6/1/24 #2 (Day 10) 📋 Looks good. Sun 7/1/24 #2 (Day 11) 📋 Potted up to 8L pot with biobizz light-mix. 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧 Method= manual Neutralise=0.1ml/L Roots=5ml/L Feed=nutes Volume=3L Easy Ph down=0 drops/L Ec=0.27 PH=6.0/6.3 Time=1.30pm Runoff. Total runoff=400ml Ec=5.1 PH=5.2 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧 Removed humidifier. Adjusted light height. Light Power=100w 42% H=10cm D=62cm DLI=18.9 Mon 8/1/24 #2 (Day 12) 📋 Looks ok, foliar sprayed (cal-mag 5ml/L) Tue 9/1/24 #2 (Day 13) 📋 Having a cold spell at the moment so I'm adjusting the smart settings to compensate. Smart controller settings (during lights on). Lights on=06.00am Radiator on= below 20c Radiator off= above 21c Humidifier on= not in use Humidifier off= not in use Dehumidifier on= not in use Dehumidifier off= not in use Smart controller settings (during lights off). Lights off=00.00am Radiator on= below 18c Radiator off= above 19c Humidifier on= not in use Humidifier off= not in use Dehumidifier on= not in use Dehumidifier off= not in use Wed 10/1/24 #2 (Day 14) 📋 H=12cm D=60cm DLI=20.1 ✂️ Topped after the 3rd set of true leaves and left the lowers for now. Considering this one was started nearly a week behind the others she soon caught them up. Back soon. Take it easy.