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It was a nice experience, It helped me with some things that I didn't know before. It was hard at the beginning because the plant was on a bad situation. But thanks to some fertilizers everything changed, also with love and patience. Good production but it could have been more. Next times will be better, now we have to be thankful and ready to continue😜
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Transplanted to 40l container on week 4 day 1. Container has approx 30l in it. Also added a photo of the setup for size reference. Let me explain my thinking behind the repotting strategy. Firstly I should say that I am quite an old school kind of grower, although I've never grown cannabis before I have grown hundreds of other plants. Due to my experience with other plants, I understand the value of well planned and executed transplants, they can have an absolutely transformative effect upon root systems when done properly, as far as I know it's the main reason why they are done at all. It is fair to say I have never grown any auto-flowering plant indoors before, and I have read all about how you should not transplant autos, and all the good reasons why not. Ultimately though, as I am not called UnorthadoxDude for nothing, I believe that I can make it work with an auto, and get the benefit of improved root growth pattern, without delaying or interrupting the growth. I want to have my cake and eat it, as it were. So the strategy is to avoid transplant shock, which admittedly I have already failed in the first unplanned transplant, but in my hopeful naivety I still believe I can make the second one work! I'm using coco, and I have had the larger pot prepared and have been watering and feeding them as well as the plant. If I am careful not to disturb the plant at all, and move the entire contents of the pot gently into the larger pot (which is exactly the same medium in broadly the same state), then I may be able to avoid shocking the plant and just let it crack on. We will find out in a few days! If it stops growing or slows at all then I failed, otherwise it worked! A note about my use of organic nutes with coco. I have read a lot about coco and nutes and microbes and PH and TDS and what have you, and I know that the overwhelming majority of people believe that you can't or at least shouldn't use organic nutes with coco. The thing is, I like organic gardening, I prefer to cultivate a beneficial microbiota and keep it healthy. I recycle, and reuse all my compost except where a plant is diseased and this has worked well for me for a long time. I've never grown with coco before though, I always used soil. I wanted to gain the benefits of coco (better drainage, more air to roots, lighter, less inviting to pests, etc) - but I wanted to use a method of nutrition that I was already familiar with. I think I've mentioned that I am not called UnorthadoxDude for nothing, so I am using BioBizz and coco. By adding bacterial, mycorrhizal, and trichoderma inoculants and having the unplanted coco in the tent being fed and watered I hope to have cultivated a nice microbiota which will feed my plant. That's the theory. However just in case, I have a trick up my sleeve. Now, I do not know if you are aware of this, but there is a fiery debate raging on the internet about using BioBizz organic nutes with coco for cannabis. Some people try it, most people shout it down, and I have not found much in the way of solid evidence of it being a good idea. Except one! I found a commercial grower that has used biobizz nutes, and he said that as long as you are using "Acti-Vera" you can use anything from the BioBizz organic range. Apparently the enzymes in the mix break down nutes chemically in a similar way to what the theoretically missing microbes do. So I have ordered a bottle of that, and if my microbial cultivation attempts don't work out, I at least know I have a fallback that should work. Those are my thoughts on it, let's see how it pans out. Oh I should also probably point out that I am growing some companion plants, specifically alfalfa (nitrogen fixing), basil (improved flavour), and German Chamomile (increased essential oil production). Update week 4 day 2 dropped PH to 5.8 after advice from a grow question. Look! It's carried on growing... maybe there was no transplant shock? Update week 4 day 3: Growth continues, interveinal chlorosis lessening. Plant is pushing out node five at the moment. Update week 4 day 4: Growth continues, interveinal chlorosis further lessening. Apologies for the poor quality photos for the last few days, I was lazy and didn't want to move everything out to photograph. Today I have done that and the pic is better. I am declaring the second transplant a complete success. I do not believe that plant was in any way shocked. Update week 4 say 5: I think I've finally managed to overwater. Going to skip watering today. Update week 4 day 6: Photo taken just before lights on hence wilting. Growth continues to accelerate. I believe the alfalfa has been raising the PH so I've removed it. Today I will flush through with PH lowered water and then fertigate. The colour is still too pale but the growth and overall look and feel of the plant screams to me that it's happy and about to explode. Day 27.5 flushed with 30l of PH lowered water then fertigated with 5l. Day 28: Height 12cm Width: 28cm Nodes: 6 Weekly growth data: From 5cm Height to 12cm +140% From 12cm Width to 28cm +133% From 4 primary nodes to 6 +50% Summary: Wow, wow. Wow. What else can I say. What a crazy week, amazing and unexpected given the problems. I am really excited to see what happens over the next seven days!! It looks like it has quite severe chlorosis, but otherwise seems robust and is seriously stretching. Almost unbelievable growth. Pre-flowers appeared a few days ago, so I guess this was the final week of veg. Let's see how the first week of flowering stretch goes! Update 7/2/23: My instincts about this plant on week 4 day 6 were absolutely correct, she was happy and, she was about to explode. Since my early attempts at transplanting, I practiced multiple times with Citronella (a photoperiod plant) and then I did it again with an auto (Polly) - this one went flawlessly and further demonstrates that you can transplant an auto without shocking it. Time will tell, because I can compare Polly to both Misty and Nesia both of whom were sown directly in their final pots.
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Waiting. Values are average of the day. DATE - EC(us/cm) 20250517 1802 20250518 1848 20250519 1883 20250520 1953 20250521 1967 20250522 1903 20250523 1895 DATE - PH 20250517 6.02 20250518 5.90 20250519 5.87 20250520 5.88 20250521 5.92 20250522 6.03 20250523 6.01 DATE - ORP (mV) 20250517 203 20250518 244 20250519 232 20250520 238 20250521 232 20250522 231 20250523 228 DATE - °C - RH% (Tent Temp/RH) 20250517 25.1 40 20250518 24.5 41 20250519 24.3 40 20250520 25.6 40 20250521 25.4 47 20250522 25.5 42 20250523 24.3 38 DATE - °C (Reservoir) 20250517 20.2 20250518 19.9 20250519 19.8 20250520 20.7 20250521 21.1 20250522 20.9 20250523 19.7 DATE - CF 20250517 18.02 20250518 18.48 20250519 18.83 20250520 19.53 20250521 19.67 20250522 19.03 20250523 18.95
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Welcome to week 6 with four tall ladies of Critical Orange Punch. They grew a bit and I removed some of the lower branches that did not get enough light and were too small and thin. The plants look healthy and seem to like their 1.5 EC nutrients mix. Day 37: I only measured ph and EC which were both ok (5.8 & 1.6) Day 38: I added 20l water to the tank and added some nutrients including Calcium and Mag. I hope to prevent them from getting these rust spots with the CalMag. EC is set to 1.7, ph 5.5 Day 39: Ph down to 5.7 (before it was 6.0), EC is at 1.8. Gonna get the EC down a bit when the tank is getting empty. And I removed some smaller branches again because I don't wanna get exclusive popcorn buds. And I measured the height again which is 50cm in average. I hope they stop growing soon and start producing flowers because the space above is getting smaller and smaller. And I cleaned the bio-pump completely. Day 40: I cut down some smaller branches to get more airflow between the leafes and because I don't want popcorn buds. And I stopped giving them water. The plan is to keep it stopped for 2-3 days to dry them out. I am wondering when the flowers will appear. Day 41: nothing Day 42: Some more stretching, the highest branch is 74cm in average they have approx 64cm. Added some Bloombastic to the tank and put the watering system on again. The pots were really light and empty but the plants looked pretty smooth. Also I added Gen200 again.
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All girls were 6-7 nodes high I clipped them at the nearest nodes that were close together and healthiest. I’ve heard it’s all ab the fee and I felt like that was the best choice! I’m super excited to be doing this and I’ll be doing them both differently strain specific. Glad to have the tent up and running again it was nice to take a week off during the holiday season. Can’t wait to get these girls off to a great start only thing I wasn’t excited ab was the fact I know they came from a tent that had a small infestation so I’ll be treating them as soon as they bounce back for preventative measures for a few weeks. Once again super excited and a good trial run before I get some seeds in the soil since these are clones once again. Happy growing y’all and I’ll take more pics here in the next few days to see how they react to the major haircut. Update: All reacting very well to topping! First time doing this so very exciting!!! The dosi I’d have to say is reacting better than the Maui which I thought was going to be the other way around since it’s sativa vs indica. I’ll be doing nebula and nugbucket mailing/manifold of each strain and recording everything pretty well. I’m more excited about getting this spider farm 2000 light instead of using the bestva 1000 either way it’s going to produce more and I like the white light instead of the blurple. Super excited ab this run!!!!
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Week 16 (16-6 t/m 22-6) 16-6 Temperatuur: 31 graden (licht aan) 23.4 graden (licht uit) Luchtvochtigheid: 50% (hoogste) 35% (laagste) De toppen zien er echt super goed uit, ze worden steeds wat vetter en ze zijn echt goed compact. Het ruikt ook echt heerlijk, als ik de top aanraak dan ruikt het echt super lekker zoet en mijn vingers plakken gelijk! Ik krijg gewoon water in mijn mond hahaha. Deze week geef ik haar al wat minder voeding, vanaf volgende week alleen afgezuurd water voor de flush. Watergift: 1100 ml, met 0.2 ml Silica Power per liter, 0.3 ml CalMag per liter en 0.8 gr Calcium en 0.25 gr PK+ PowderFeeding per liter. EC: 0.8 PH: 6.4 17-6 Temperatuur: 31.5 graden (licht aan) 23.8 graden (licht uit) Luchtvochtigheid: 52% (hoogste) 40% (laagste) Vandaag de lamp op 100% sterkte gezet. Watergift: 1100 ml, met 0.2 ml Silica Power per liter, 0.3 ml CalMag per liter en 0.8 gr Calcium PowderFeeding per liter. EC: 0.5 PH: 6.4 18-6 Temperatuur: 32.9 graden (licht aan) 23.8 graden (licht uit) Luchtvochtigheid: 62% (hoogste) 40% (laagste) Watergift: 1100 ml, met 0.2 ml Silica Power per liter, 0.3 ml CalMag per liter en 0.8 gr Calcium, 0.4 gr Hybrids en 0.5 gr PK+ PowderFeeding per liter. EC: 1.6 PH: 6.4 19-6 Temperatuur: 32.8 graden (licht aan) 24.5 graden (licht uit) Luchtvochtigheid: 59% (hoogste) 42% (laagste) Watergift: 1100 ml, met 0.2 ml Silica Power per liter, 0.3 ml CalMag per liter en 0.8 gr Calcium PowderFeeding per liter. EC: 0.6 PH: 6.5 20-6 Temperatuur: 32.4 graden (licht aan) 24.9 graden (licht uit) Luchtvochtigheid: 66% (hoogste) 42% (laagste) Ik weet het niet zeker maar ik denk dat ik een stuifmeel zakje zag en heb dat voor de zekerheid maar weggehaald. Watergift: 1100 ml, met 0.2 ml Silica Power per liter, 0.3 ml CalMag per liter en 0.8 gr Calcium en 0.25 gr PK+ PowderFeeding per liter. EC: 0.8 PH: 6.4 21-6 Temperatuur: 32.9 graden (licht aan) 24.7 graden (licht uit) Luchtvochtigheid: 71% (hoogste) 53% (laagste) Vandaag nog een stuifmeel zakje weggehaald. Watergift: 1100 ml, met 0.2 ml Silica Power per liter, 0.3 ml CalMag per liter en 0.8 gr Calcium PowderFeeding per liter. EC: 0.6 PH: 6.4 22-6 Temperatuur: 32 graden (licht aan) 23.1 graden (licht uit) Luchtvochtigheid: 76% (hoogste) 51% (laagste) Volgens het schema moet ze nu nog 1 weekje en dan kan ze geoogst worden, ik ben benieuwd! Watergift: 1100 ml, met 0.2 ml Silica Power per liter, 0.3 ml CalMag per liter en 0.8 gr Calcium en 0.25 gr PK+ PowderFeeding per liter. EC: 0.8 PH: 6.4
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4ème semaine tout se passe bien. 1 des plante a été croisé avec la NYC Diesel j'ai obtenu une graine.
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Growing nicely. Clipped it down and used the FF feeding schedule.
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Watering only every 3 days or so has become the norm. I am very curious to see how this strain will turn out!
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Great growth this week with almost all the plants touching the scrog net , I altered the photo period today and put them onto a bloom formula , next week will be LST training to fill the scrog canop. Weather is cooling off so I can start using the co2 burner again .
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Smooth week. This is a beast of a strain, wile o have two on the pot, since i germinated two seeds, i have planted both, but the two are beautiful i cannot kill one and choose… i have always wanted to plant this strain, I’m very happy i did! It is growing beautifully. I’m using velokelp from Remo and Nature’s candy i had laying around. That is compatible with living soil, and Moringa extract once a week. And have planted some companion plants as a soil cover. The Fastberry is in a super soil, next time all will be in a super soil… So easy, top up with some good bacterial / fungae , humic fulvic, seaweed and it is all good. Or straight water! Very minimal.
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day 15 flowers are forming day 18 shes really looking majestic!
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Day 89 - Harvest day has finally came for this lady & I beyond impressed, to only be in a 2 gallon pot she has put off some massive rock solid buds that smell amazing! Very strong stable genetics that’s can handle really anything you throw at it, would highly recommend especially to first time growers because this strain is so forgiving! Stay tuned for the harvest update & another run from spliff seeds because I will definitely be getting some of their strains🔥💪🏻 Thanks for following & happy growing friends!✌️🏼🙏🏼🌱
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Those experimental weaklings managed to survive in a hand size plastic pot)) The 2 biggest are the auto white widow, the average one - is purple lemonade, and the smallest is auto crystal meth. and 2 side seeds ( were to be a Plan B) in a plastic pot and size of my hand and shot size plastic pot
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This cultivar was an absolute dream to grow it was so easy so beautiful smelt so good. It was definitely the star of the show on this run
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Not sure what to expect of dry weight as this is my first grow, but seems like it should be pretty good for 2 square feet of grow space and my 150w light set at just over 100 watts.