@Hempel420
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Stretch Surges, Transition to Flores and Pre-Flower Progress
Another week in the books and things are humming along nicely in the tent. Operationally speaking, life has been pretty quiet on the maintenance front with only minimal pH corrections required throughout the week.
With the vertical growth kicking into a solid stretch, the canopy started getting a bit too close for comfort to the light fixture. Since I was already running at 50% power, I raised the light higher up and bumped the intensity to 75% to keep everything happy and well lit.
Friday brought another routine reservoir change, marking a major milestone as I made the official switch over to Canna Aqua Flores for the bloom phase. The EC is locked in right at 2.1 mS and I'm keeping the pH hovering nicely between 5.6 and 5.8.
The stretch has been properly respectable so far. The plants are now sitting at 60 cm height, which translates to about 23.6 inches, standing 25 cm or roughly 9.8 inches above the ScrOG net. Including the buckets down below, the total height reaches a solid 100 cm, or about 39.4 inches for my imperial friends.
As I mentioned back in the seedling phase, I expected my HOMEBox with its 180 cm height to be too small for the exhaust fan plus filter space wise inside the tent, and it turns out I was right. At this point, and I fully expect the flowers to stack even higher, there are just a couple of centimeters between the grow light and the exhaust fan.
The plants used the switch to 12|12 nicely for their stretch and showed the very first signs of flowering last Friday. Today on Sunday, the sites are looking healthy and vigorous as captured in the photos, while one of the other photos shows just how nicely bushed out the structure is underneath, even if it turned out slightly less dense than I initially anticipated.
Looking forward, I plan to do a heavy defoliation session this coming Wednesday or Thursday. Once that is out of the way, the plan for the remainder of the grow is to lean back, relax, and just watch ‘em do their thing. That way, I can fully focus on letting my hand heal up properly and finally tackling some of those other lingering aches and pains.
@Tazard
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She’s looking much much happier in flowering! I’m not sure how but I’ve grown her bigger than she is rated for maximum height. The end of this week she was 60” or 152cm tall, her rated maximum height was 39” or 100cm so I’m a good 50% taller than rated!!
@XperencdGmanXG
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Well I love this Ya Hemi hits very strong. Shit is dank and stinky and WILL put you on your ass! Trying out a totally new way of growing for me. Also to help with costs I decided to make a 5 gal tea reactor, to grow out the EM1 which will save me about 75% on all microbe products, and also save on feralization when used in conjunction with foliar sprays. Using grassroots LivingSocial pots and a new full organic mix. Fingers crossed as we get on the ya hemi organic express!
@BioGrowBayer
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Die Pflanzen entwickeln sich gut, Buds werden dichter und zeigen erste Harzentwicklung. Stickstoffmangel erkennbar aber ich habe die Düngung leicht angepasst
@GoldenWeedGrower
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Legend
Timestamp: 📅
Measures: 🛠️
Water: 🌊
Actions: 💼
Thoughts: 🧠
Events: 🚀
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📅 D36/V34 - 28/09/23
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💼 New LST - Made Timelapse of the grow
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📅 D37/V35 - 29/09/23 -
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💼 LST on the younger lady.
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🚀 Marlene Senior is pre-flowering
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📅 D38/V36 - 30/09/23
🛠️ EC raised to 1.2 pH is stable to 6
🌊 Added 5L and nutes
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📅 D39/V37 - 01/10/23
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💼 LST again on the younger and HST on her main bud
🧠 The bigger one is ok for now, I'm going to let her grow normally a little bit
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📅 D40/F01 - 02/10/23
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🌊 Added 2L water and nutes
💼 LST on Marlene Junior and a little bit on the older as well
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📅 D41/F02 - 03/10/23
🛠️ EC and pH are both stable
🌊 Added water 2L
💼 Made timelapse of the last nights
🧠 She's drinking a lot, I need to understand how to manage the flowering stage
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📅 D42/F03 - 04/10/23 -
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💼 Big Defolation and strong LST
🧠 Maybe the last training before full flowering stage
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@Wicked_Stix
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Day 35 is here. We are a week into flower and most the plants are just starting to hit that flowering stretch. I have been bending them down a little every couple days, but I need to focus on cleaning up some of the bottom branches so we can keep good air flow through the plants. Will work on that through this next week. I haven't done a water change, just been topping off the reservoir with fresh nutrients as they drink it up. Feeding half and half maxigro and maxibloom. Will cut out the maxigro in a couple weeks when I notice their stretch slowing down. I had a plant overflow this week because the drain line is getting full of roots. I noticed a couple roots have made their way into the reservoir already. I set a pump timer to 1 minute on and 20 minutes off so they can drain properly. I would like to make it through the grow without having to mess with the drains, but we will see what happens. I will make some modifications if needed. Other than that everything is running smooth and I hope we have some little pistils to show by next week. Thanks for stopping by ✌️
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@LockDownGrow
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Been a tuff week as my ph pen failed so had signs of defiantly
But that’s now corrected so hope it didn’t set them all back too much
@LoganatorDude
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I am feeding with tps one and CalMag oac one time, then it’s back to regular tap water (well water) that comes at 8.5 pH with 156ppm of tds. The feed was approx a pH of 6.5. More importantly is the consistent soil pH which appears fixed at 6.8
I know it’s lazy! However…. I have noticed doing this to reveal to me that the soil pH is very stubborn and not easily changed by the pH of the water alone. Stuff in the water can definitely have an impact. But still, most feed waters I use don’t change the soil ph. I do make sure the pH is within a healthy range for soil, something between 6 and 7 I figure is ideal. I’ve found if there is enough lime in the mix, and as long as I don’t over feed soluble nutes, then the soil pH appears stable and fixed. With enough lime in the mix, I can ultimately arrest the soil pH at 7. It’s really cool. I thought adding too much lime would give me something potentially alkaline, and maybe it will. But I’ve added lots of lime before and still haven’t gotten past 7 pH. Maybe I didn’t add enough to go further? Nevertheless I’m not interested in going past 7.
I haven’t seen any issues with the speed of growth watering with 8.5 tap water, surprisingly. As I’ve said the soil pH would read 6.8 before and immediately after watering with the 8.5 tap. So….. I’m thinking the stability of the soil pH is a positive indication that the microbes are not being subjected to pH shifts, or at least nothing substantial.
I mean, at the end of the day when things are looking good, I feel like I must have something right.
@Ninjabuds
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It’s the 1st week of flower I flipped the plants to 12/12 a few days ago. There is a lot going on and a lot of cool and amazing things coming in the near future. Make sure to check out my YouTube page. I bought me a DJI gimbal this week. Might be my new favorite toy. The temps are starting to break for the summer. I don’t see it being very long until winter is here and it’s time to use a heater and not an ac unit. All of the plants are healthy. The plants have all grown so well I turned down the light intensity a bit today the plants didn’t seem like they was starting to strech very much. Hopefully the lower light intensity will make them strech out just a bit
@M420_GROWS
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D3: switched to flowering mix
Out: 6.1ph 1.0ec
In: 5.6ph 1.7ec
Lamps dimmed to 75% makes 180W
First tiny stigmas
D7: highest colas 110cm - HST - 95cm
50k lx
She is big, beautiful and strong. Yet no buds.
@BlackHatGenetics
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395g from 2 autoflowers and boy is it the FUNK. My house smells like the strongest OG kush imaginable from p2 and p1 is already starting to get extremely citrus smelling in its jars. Great job mephisto.
@Mission420
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Not much to show this week on the timelapse as we had a cold snap and power went out momentarily, and as such, the camera stopped recording, without me realizing this. So I have also added a little video of the rooms progress. Even with the small bit of footage, I can see that my feeding schedule twice a day seems to keep the leaves from drooping at any time in the video, so I will be keeping this going as is, checking the PH every couple of days and topping up the nutes bucket as needed.
I am noticing some leaves dying, but they seem to be mostly ones that are not getting enough light and I am removing them as I go. The upper leaves and buds are looking strong so far, and just a touch of smell in the room. The colas are also starting to thicken and my fingers are getting sticky and stinky when working around them. Looking at the plants from a normal distance, they don't look very crystally, but the close up shots really are making them shine. After taking the pics, I like to zoom in on them and see all the crystals.
@BeanCrop420
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During week 7 I accidentally snapped one of the branches while defoliating. It was a clean break but nearly snapped clean off. I have managed to prop and strap it up so hopefully with a bit of care she can hold on. It's now been 5 days since it snapped and seems to still look healthy so keeping my fingers crossed 🤞 Other than that this girl seems to be coming along really well. She has a lot of bud sites and seems to be taking nicely to my DIY Aero/Hydroponic system. I'm really pleased with how she is turning out for my first ever grow and I'm looking forward to seeing her at harvest!
Happy growing 🌱
