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2nd time doing Brix levels...some ladies went from a Brix of 4 to a Brix of 10 while 2 only went from a Brix of 4 to 6. I am pleased with their progress upwards. Dam just learned you should take leaves for testing 2 hours after lights on....I took leaves from dark period ๐Ÿ˜ฃ. Will update with new Brix numbers taken with lights on. Chopping is coming very soon. I will tag the Brix of each plant when I hang to dry so I'm able to keep track of how the higher Brix relates to taste, smell and potency๐Ÿ˜Ž ๐Ÿ˜The ladies noticeably got fatter over night!(Nov 11th). Man they really enjoyed that last watering, hope this continues into next week. Just read to take your Brix leaves in a "Z" or "W" pattern as older leaves will contain higher carbs. The refracted light tells us the amount of carbs in the "juice or sap" and minerals too like calcium, proteins and fats (lipids). High Brix enables weed to produce secondary metabolites = greater medicinal value. Sucrose/sugar (Carbs) & mineral levels in the fruit or flower translates or relates to taste. A tasteless 3 Brix tomato from the grocery store or a 14 Brix tomato from OMG you grow delicious tomatoes. Death to covalent bonding! (My goal a 20 Brix๐Ÿ˜€ Won't be happening with this grow but will be the next๐Ÿ˜). Read that most people can detect a half point difference in Brix in the flavour. Lots of smell coming from these Gorilla Girls๐Ÿ˜ต I can only go so far with plant chemistry and then I get a headache and get lost๐Ÿ˜”
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the weather still very hot but it is doing well. Terpene is very strong now. Very sweet and fruity, but have some wood in it. Amazing. Keep growing.
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@PETEROG
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Hey everyone at week 4 know and wow have these girls grown early this week I applied some LST and all took really well to say it was my first time trying this
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finally it reached the size needed to start training. topping done on the 5 knot and lst in the form of a star.
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Week one of flower in the books I watered Monday with grow nutrients !! Then watered late in the week with phd water and molasses now Iโ€™ve switched to my bloom nutes as of this morning I did find that my ph meter is off glad I found the problem early on in flower couldโ€™ve been bad later on Oan in another 5 days Iโ€™ll do one more defoliation after that I wonโ€™t bother them again till harvest !!! Let me know what you guys think
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Week 4 having no problems at all upping my temps by 2 degrees. 24 to 26 degrees.
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I didnโ€™t yield as much as I would like but I did get some quality flower 83 ofgrams worth between the three cardi b plants, and about 74 grams of 2 envy mintz plants I did have a lot of stress in the beginning which got corrected late and also I might have flipped too early , but all in all itโ€™s some tasty beautiful flower definitely running again gonna do 1 plant this time so tune in for that journal
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๐Ÿ“… 09.04-21 (Flower Day 43 since 12/12) ๐Ÿ“œ the ph starts to drop again in the system. โš—๏ธ 2.18 ๐Ÿ’ฆ 5.95 ๐ŸŒŠ 50L ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ÿ“… 10.04-21 ( Flower Day 44 since 12/12) ๐Ÿ“œ Working with the limit of overfeeding situation. Monitoring to keep away the lock out. โš—๏ธ 2.19 ๐Ÿ’ฆ 6 ๐ŸŒŠ 35L ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ÿ“… 11.04-21 (Flower Day 45 since 12/12) ๐Ÿ“œ Monitoring leaf burning. addition 175ml total care. Stop feeding set EC 1.8 on the peridoser nutrient controller. โš—๏ธ 2.16 ๐Ÿ’ฆ 6.00 ๐ŸŒŠ 40L ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ÿ“… 12.04-21 (Flower Day 46 since 12/12) ๐Ÿ“œ Monitoring leaf burning: some leaf are burning but globally, the risk is acceptable. โš—๏ธ 2.13 ๐Ÿ’ฆ 5.99 ๐ŸŒŠ 45L ๐Ÿ“ cm ๐Ÿ“… 13.04-21 (Flower Day 47 since 12/12) ๐Ÿ“œ โš—๏ธ 2.15 ๐Ÿ’ฆ 5.98 ๐ŸŒŠ 45L ๐Ÿ“ cm ๐Ÿ“… 14.04-21 (Flower Day 48 since 12/12) ๐Ÿ“œ โš—๏ธ 2.14 ๐Ÿ’ฆ 6.01 ๐ŸŒŠ 35L ๐Ÿ“ cm ๐Ÿ“… 15.04-21 (Flower Day 49 since 12/12) ๐Ÿ“œ ๐Ÿ‘Œ End of feeding, set peridoser nutrient controller 0 โš—๏ธ 2.09 ๐Ÿ’ฆ 5.99 ๐ŸŒŠ 65L ๐Ÿ“ cm _____________________________________________________ ๐Ÿ“… Day - ๐Ÿ“œ Note - โš—๏ธ EC -๐Ÿ’ฆ PH -๐ŸŒŠ Water -๐Ÿ“ Height Equipment: Idrolab 12 bucks Chiller teco Hy500 weather controler with Co2 : PRO-LEAF BECC-B2 Bavagreen 720w Bavagreen 720w Bavagreen 240w Bavagreen 240w Nutrients and PH controller: PRO-LEAF PHEC-B2 Nutrients: Green House feeding - powder feeding hybrids | Powder feeding boost Extractor: primaklima PK250-1 PK250-L1 x2 System and roots care: Idrolab Total care
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Increased the ppfd to 1000 and increased the light height with higher ec
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Loooking good .. Apple fritter will need another week probably
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26.1.25: I have had a mistake ๐Ÿ˜• i spilt some Fish Mix as I was experimenting with a syphon from some aquarium tubing I have. Unfortunately, I forgot to take the syphon out! Ugh ๐Ÿ˜ฃ However, it is fish emulsion and very thick consistency. Therefore, I was able to scrape it up with 2 of my business cards up off the counter. So added this extra into the next 2 ltr solution I mixed. All plants were watered with at least 1ltr of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.3. Containing the following nutrients;- โ™ก 3ml Seachem Seaweed โ™ก 4ml Biobizz Fish Mix โ™ก 4ml Biobizz Bio-Grow โ™ก 3ml Biobizz Bloom โ™ก 2ml Xpert Nutrients Bloom Booster โ™ก 2ml Xpert Nutrients Cal-Mag โ™ก .25g Ecothrive Biosys. โ™ก 2.5g of Bicarbonate of Soda as PH UP. Unfortunately I have broken my PH pen too. Accidentally submerged it under water, then the readings went crazy. I'm leaving it to dry by standing it up but I'm most likely going to need a new one, which is extremely annoying ๐Ÿ˜‘ I'm going start implementing the Scrog net probably some point next week if I let the plants that are in flower to just grow up now, as I do believe that I stunted Watermelon ๐Ÿ‰ by using too strenuous LST. Hopefully the plants still are able to grow upwards at this stage during flower for all the Purple Punch P1, P2 and P3. We will soon see! 28.1.25: My PH pen has packed up ๐Ÿ˜ฃ I've got to wait to get another. It's super annoying ๐Ÿ˜‘ so I'm just judging by memory how to regulate it. Unfortunately, that's my only choice! I'm also out of the dechlorinator ๐Ÿ˜• things are not going very well this week so far ๐Ÿ˜… I guess we will have to make do, until I can get replenished. 29.1.25: I removed all the plants, hoovered, and disinfected the tent. There were several accidents when watering, causing some debris and splashes. I decided to just go ahead and get a few other things done. It's crazy how quickly things can become neglected! ๐Ÿ˜ฃ So I defoliated moderately on all plants except Gorilla Cookies seedling. I have absolutely dropped the ball on my lighting situation! My light was much further away than I thought! I turned it up to 100% and dropped it down to just under 2 feet away. After I reset the tent, I set up my scrog net. I removed 80% of all LST pegs. I am planning on letting the scrog net take over the training from here. I really want to minimise the risk of mould, so I decided to start using my dehumidifier. It has raised up to 73% RH this week, so it's necessary. Hopefully, I will be able to get my dechlorinator and PH pen soon! That's kind of essential to me. It's been a little bit of a stressful day in the garden, to be honest ๐Ÿ˜… 30.1.25: So I am expecting the arrival of my new PH pen today, as well as my new bottle of Ecothrive neutralise. It is supposed to measure the TDS and EC in addition to the standard TEMP and PH, which I had previously. Obviously, time will tell if it's any good or not. I realise, much too late now, that my lighting is very insufficient for this many plants. I need double the watts at least, and coverage is very poor. I remembered I had an old LED floor lamp, which was in a corner being unused. I decided to take the stand off, and Zip tied the pole onto the tent pole at the back left corner. I have no idea what the wattage is, and it's quite pathetic ๐Ÿ˜… but I mean, I might as well use it, being as I definitely cannot afford more lights! ๐Ÿ˜ฃ Next grow, I will probably only grow 2 plants, max 4, and just use larger 7-10 Gallon pots. Being as I ran out of dechlorinator, I only watered some plants properly because I only had enough to make 6 litres. When my pen arrives, I will get everything properly watered. 31.1.25: The leaves of several plants are showing signs of iron deficiency. This is likely due to my PH pen packing up earlier. I now have a new pen. Due to this, I decided to use my Seachem Prime, which I use for my aquariums. As I wanted to get them watered properly, and my Ecothrive Neutralise hasn't arrived yet. I watered each plant with 1ltr of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.0. I added .25g Ecothrive Biosys to the water. May give them a breather on the nutes and just use the Cal-Mag and Biosys. Being as I've just topped dressed with rich fertilisers, I'm sure that will be OK for the next several waterings. Bubble Kush
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A sad week, I found bud rot and had to take my plants out and do a big check and remove all dense underdeveloped growth. It will be a pretty big hit on the yield I guess but the most important thing is learning and that I did. The bud rot could spread due to my RH being 65/70 at nights and it used to be +80 before, + bad airflow. I got new fans in the tent and my dehumidifier was ordered already but its not in yet. On the other side, the plants are looking pretty damn good, they smell amazing and 3 of the 4 plants is getting a very dense nug structure.
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This week was a very cold week. 13 to 18 degrees during the day and at night like 10 to 13 degrees. Therefore the buds didn't swell properly. Luckly one Critical Kush is still swelling but the other one seems to have slowed down. It's oke, i knew this would happen and the kushes might not finish in time. Might harvest my Shamans at the end of the month. The kushes I will keep until half/end oktober. Since this is only a outside fungrow, I'm not making any effort to heat up the climate by putting heaters arround the plants. Critical Kushes are in their 3th week of flowering. Somehow GD minimalize the videos after putting 10pictures on the diary, Just click on the next picture and click on the right arrow to go to the videos. Have fun looking arround :)
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I defoliated her very heavy, allll fanleaves gone, these pictures are 3 days later and she already bounced back, now the weight will come
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23.08.24: I've done considerable defoliation. Also, FBP1 and FBP3 have grown all over the place. The stems are also relatively weaker as they've grown so much. (Photos above). Being as the plants were looking a bit delicate, I added some string and tied the side branches lightly to keep them a bit more compact. Additionally, FBP2 has a considerable amount of buds on the main cola. So I've added a plant stake, and I just tied string around the stake and the main stalk. The humidity has been able to stay under 53%. That's with 3 dehumidifiers. So I'm pretty sure that's about as good as it will probably be. I've had to lower the watering frequency on FBP3, as I overwatered only this plant. and also added too much Nitrogen in. As a result all the leaves are looking droopy. I'm really not sure how this will pan out, as they all still look like they're weeks away from harvest. Anyway, I'll update throughout the week. 25.8.24: I was tending to the garden a majority of the day, and realised that a branch had broken on FBP2. I acted quickly to insert plant stakes, to provide the heavily laden branches additional support. See photos above. The branch was bent or snapped, but still in one piece. I used duct tape to carefully put it back together. Before making a stake for it. Silica, apparently wasn't quite enough to get the FBP2 through the whole way. The flowers are very heavy and dense. I have also given the plants water yesterday with concentrations of the following nutrients, per plant. โ— 9ltr of dechlorinated tap water with 6ml of cal-mag, 3ml of Ecothrive Flourish, 6ml of Xpert Nutrients Bloom Booster. I have also added cinnamon top dress after watering, as I have noticed some fungus gnats. I checked the trichomes through one of my loupes yesterday too, and nearly all are still glass like in appearance, with some cloudy here and there. I'm definitely going to have some time left on these girls. I did check the PH if my soil on all plants as I was concerned about nutrient lock out on FBP3. All pots tested out at 7.0 Ph exactly, before and after watering. Thanks for reading my diary ๐Ÿ˜Š
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Again another steady week, some additional nutrients given right after some defoliation and LST maintenance. The new PH And TDS meter seem to be helping a lot with give her what she needs! Thanks again for reading! Happy smoking and of course happy growing ๐Ÿ˜ŠโœŒ๏ธ
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Everything is going ok no roots yet on the clones but we got a week b4 we need to worry Temps steady humidity steady will be topping of res with more nutes todau
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