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End of the run. I'll update the smoke report when its ready. Thanks for following, and check out my next grow with Autopots!
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Got environment mostly dialed in thanks to an additional cool air intake fan, can get 450w mh nice and close for good penetration. Beginning the process of Lst, I’ve wrapped some plant straps around the base of each plant to anchor them, and straps at the top of their stems, giving them a slight bend. I’ll slowly increase the bend over time in order to avoid possible damage. The Gelato OG seems quite vigorous compared to the Widow so far. Starting to bump up nutes, runoff @400ppm -10/28
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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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Se riega con 0.25L dias lunes miercoles y viernes. Se realiza transplante a macetas definitivas en el caso de las que estaban en macetas de 1L. La altura promedio es de 10cm desde el tope de la maceta.
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I think I need to top it the men at the grow shop told me last week to wait for this week because the plant is very dense so every advice is welcome I also got the pH water tester last week but haven't use it yet i only use the pH down and soil tester so now I will use it and get the pH to go back to 6.5 again
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3 Days after lollipopping we saw that both runtz are hermaphrodite maybe too much stress but genetics seem to be bad… Now on we check them daily to see if there are any „eggs“ and remove them asap Unfortunately, the brucebanner 3 had a magnesium and calcium deficiency caused by a nutrient blockage. We Head an incorrect PH test. When we checked with another pH test, we found that the pH value was clearly too high at7.5+. Hopefully there will still be something with the harvest… We ordered some calmag and got some ph down by a friend…
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Aquí seguimos con las pequeñas que siguen avanzando en la floración ya llevan sobre 19 días floreciendo! Estoy en duda si cortarlas o dejarlas rebrotar de nuevo.. llegan RUNTZ,PAPAYA ZOAP Y PURPLE PUNCH. El huerto va a estar muy competitivo solo queda el aporte de MIMOSA EVO
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The plants are growing at a good rate now and drinking a litre each per day. I feed them by hand and each plant gets 2litres every other day. Didn't do anything else this week other than install the trellis on the last day. This plant is on the laft in the timelapse video.
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11/12 start of week 3 of flower hoping she is done stretching cus I'm out of room when it comes to height. Gave all the goodies plus added Fulpower and molasses 11/14 stretching seems to have stopped. Dropped humidity and raised vpd to stay around 1.5 and raised light intensity so it's 1000 ppfd at top of plant
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This girl is looking gorgeous she's trained nicely bushy as not much to report will be stripping inside and bottom sometime this week thanks for reading happy growing guys
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Licht habe ich gestern auf 70% hochgedimmt. Habe begonnen alle, außer der Amnesia, mit Hesi TNT zu füttern. Taste mich dabei langsam am die an die optimale Menge ran. Aktuell bekommt Lemon Orange die halbe empfohlene Dosis. KISS und Grapefuel Gelato bekommen etwas 20%. Bei der KISS werde ich die Dosis beim nächsten Mal noch mal erhöhen. Lemon Orange wird außerdem heute ihr erstes LST bekommen. Bei der Grapefuel Gelato gehe ich aktuell von einem Schaden durch die Hitze aus. Diese werde ich heute Abend wahrscheinlich Toppen. Die Hauptnodie wächst langsamer als manche Internodien. Die neuesten Blätter an der Hauptnodie sehen auch verkrüppelt aus und auch die der obersten Internodien. Die Blätter der unteren Internodien sehen soweit gesund aus, deshalb hoffe ich das Topping die Probleme löst.
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Die Pflanze wächst richtig super. Anhand der Blattfarbe und der Blatthaltung erkennt man dass es der Pflanze richtig gut geht. Tag 38: - Einleitung Blüte - Erste Blütedüngung
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Che pianta ha avuto qualche carenza in passato ma si è ripresa subito . Ha un bellissimo mega fiore centrale. Continua così bella mia , cresci bene !