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@GrownwithLED
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During week 7 the 3 plants continue to grow outstandingly well! The BADAZZ-CHEESE and ZHEETOS from BIG BUDDHA SEEDDS have a healthy green color and grow so much foliage that I have to defoliate on a regular basis. On day 43 (=flowering day 19) I take off all bigger fan leaves in order to ensure a better airflow thru the closet. The humidity is unfortunately still on the high side and sometimes exceeds 80% in the daily maximum, that is MUCH too high during flowering. I increased the dose of BIO NOVA nutrients according to their feeding scheme and all plants LOVE IT! The ZHEETOS #1 plant grows much taller than her sister ZHEETOS #2, therefore I decide to SUPER-CROP her on Day 48 (=FD 23). This technique developed by SOMA from SOMA-SEEDS is one of my favorites and I use it since years in order to bush out plants, which grow to high. Appr. 15-20 cm from the top of the plant, right above an internode, I take the main stem between two fingers and press very hard until I can feel the fibres inside the stem brake. By slowly pressing all around the diameter of the stem I create a weak spot at which I bend over the stem, so it looks 90-180 degrees downward. I do this very carefully to NOT BRAKE the outer skin of the stem while I bend the stem downwards. Even if some fibres brake, the stem will repair itself within a few days to a week and then start to point upwards again...👍😃 During the time the main stem needs to repair itself, all other side-stems will grow more upwards and this makes the plant bush out more. At the same time a super-cropped plant will produce bigger buds at harvest time, than a plant where you did not do that. Somehow the plant reacts to being hurt by getting stronger and producing more! CHECK OUT THE VIDEO ABOVE TO SEE ME SUPER-CROP! 😎 I also took a video ONE DAY after the procedure (on DAY 49), in order to show how resilient the plant is and how much she immediately repairs herself. Already then the main top has turned and points upwards to the light again, ITS FANTASTIC TO SEE! Simply a miracle plant...
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@Rckeh
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This week will arrive Bug Bud and Carboload by Advanced nutrients, let´s see how she responds :). Next week will rain a lot, so i will prepare myself and start giving her Botryprot by Prot Eco to prevent mold.
Day 50 - She´s healthy. today is the first foliar day. I used 2,5ml/L of Botryprot. Overall she looks very happy, maybe needing some PK. She´s starting to have some fresh blueberry aroma. Fingers get sticky
Day 52 - Feeding day. I added 1ml/L Alga Bloom making a total of 3ml/L. Sprayed her today again.
Day 55 - Has been hot these days, feeding day today again. Today i added 1ml/L Bid Bud, 2ml/L Carboload and 1ml/L Alga Bloom. As she´s healthy i didn´t feel i needed to slowly introduce. Let´s see how she responds, but my experiments are going well :) I´m confident.
Day 57 - Foliar spray today again. The storm will come in strong.
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@Bruno_The_Stoner
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Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to proudly present to you my diary in which, for the next winter time outside the window, I begin a magical adventure with the famous gorillas in a rather exotic climate - and here I want to point out that the seeds were a gift from RQS. Once again I want to thank for the grinder that I use every day, the Vertafort fertilizer which will land in the soil, the posters that decorate the walls in my room (you chose my favorite varieties btw) and the 10 seeds of the Royal Haze which will surely be in the next project. So today I feel like I'm in a position to share with an adventure that starts here and now. I feel obliged to post new updates every day. Please also comment and give advice by colleagues in the field.
Here is a list of things I will use:
Soil:
Biobizz ALL-MIX
Fertilizers:
All Biobizz
Bio-Grow
Bio-bloom
Bio-heaven
Top-Max
Leaf-Coat
Acti-Vera
ALG-A-MIC
Veg setup:
Growbox 70x45x150
MH 150W GIB Lighting GROWTH SPECTRUM Advanced
Humidifier 5L AERI
Advanced Star 13W Fan
Carbon filter ORIGINAL 75 - 100 M3 per H
Axial Flo Fan 100
Peat pots: 7x 10X8cm and 3x 11X10cm
And much much love
Flo setup:
Growbox Secret Jardin 120x120x185 Dark Street
LED 2x200W ADVANCED STAR DUAL
HPS 150W GIB Lighting FLOWER SPECTRUM Pro
Secret Jardin Monkey Fan 20
Secret Jardin Monkey Fan 30
Fan PK125 MES 420m
Coal Filter Prima Klima ECO 360 - 480 m3
I will soon describe more details. Regards
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@fubar_1337
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This week was mostly about maintenance, balancing the canopy, and keeping the rhythm steady. The lighter green pheno keeps drinking well and is building buds consistently. Growth in biomass seems to have slowed, which is fine — she’s clearly channeling her energy into flower production now. No new leaf mass, but steady bud development.
The darker green pheno, on the other hand, required real work this week. She had become very dense and bushy, so I carefully defoliated her, opening the canopy and removing shaded bud sites that would never reach proper light. I was mindful not to overdo it, giving her just enough space and air without stressing her further. The result is a much more open structure with better airflow and a cleaner look.
The PPFD increase to 1000–1050 µmol/m²/s from the week before shows no negative effects — both plants are handling the light intensity well. They’re responding steady and healthy, which gives me confidence to keep them at this level.
Overall, the tent is vibing steady right now. The darker pheno got a fresh haircut and is breathing again, while the lighter one keeps cruising, stacking buds even if she’s not pumping out more leaves. Light levels are up, the girls are chill, and I’m just letting the ride flow. It feels like the darker pheno might even catch up and outshine her bright sister.
For now, I’m keeping my hands off as much as possible, letting them finish strong so I can roll into the next project. 🚀
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@UKBUDDOCTOR
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I’m happy with this auto tbh It’s been really easy to grow it did start to show a slight bit of calmag deficiency but sorted it right away and it’s starting to get the bud smell already a really sweet scent going to start slowly getting it on flower a+b by doing a small ratio of both till full recommended is what I found what works best for me and that’s what it’s all about finding (WHAT WORKS BEST FOR YOU) happy growing peeps
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@NuttyYeti
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She has been having some leaf discoloration ss I tested her pH. It was a little high Soni gave her some pH Down. Went from 7.3 to 5.8. Hopefully that fixed the problem. Gave her a good dose of nutes hoping to get her back on track. Tune in next week to find out how it goes. Lol
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@DeepRootsGrowTrees
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SHERBERT QUEEN AUTO / RQS
WEEK #9 OVERALL
WEEK #4 FLOWER
This has been another good week for this lady she's doing buds are getting dense and getting a little aroma to them. Stay Growing!!
Thank you for asking by and taking a look it's much appreciated!!
Thank you v ROYAL QUEEN SEEDS!!
SHERBERT QUEEN AUTO / RQS
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@NuggetPawn
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I started picking for forbidden fruits the day after last week’s post, checking the colas with the scope and only picking tops that were approx 10-20% amber.
As I snipped colas I also removed a lot of upper fan leaves, this is to allow light to reach lower buds for a final ripening.
Once picked, I placed approx 100g in each brown paper bag, folded the top and sat on a rack. I slowly rolled the bags around once or twice a day just so the buds didn’t stick together. Seems to have worked well, no dreaded hay smell to note and nicely dried.
I think I’ll be taking some more colas tops off in a few days time and I’ll keep the plants alive for another week or two, depending on how fast they come along.
I have 4 Mimosa EVO (no diary) about 7 weeks into veg at the moment and I think it would be nice to give them another 2 weeks as I need big plants to make clones from them, ready for the next diary coming soon... hopefully with successfully taken clones 😊
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@Cr4zyElite
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🌱 First week of my cannabis growing adventure with autoflowers! 🌟
As a newbie, I'm diving into the art of low stress training early on because autos have a shorter grow period and I'm curious to see how far I can push the limits. Just experimenting and gathering valuable experience in this rapid growing phase! 📚
✨ Planted in light mix soil with added worm castings in fabric and plastic pots to compare outcomes. Exciting times ahead! 🚀
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@ChiTaN
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It's been another successful week.It's another successful week. The girls will soon get mineral food because the deficits are definitely too large despite the increase in food doses.💪
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@m0use
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So missed a lot of weeks in between here and now as life got busy, its ok, shit happens. Gotta focus on the real world and no so much diaries on a site for free...
Plants are doing well. had a bit of a issue with some PH in the medium, it got out of wack, or something in the fertilizer reacting with something in the sprayer chamber, noticed before when adding the nutrient solution into the sprayer there was some steam/mist/vapour coming off of it. During this I accidentally over used PH down and then used some PH up to fix it, but I think it did not like this. The result was some leaf burning on all the plants, it did not like that. So now I know to toss it out and start again if I can. I also bleached out the sprayer at beginning but thought I rinsed out all the remaining bleach, even ran a Vit C through it as it will neutralize bleach but I might have missed the lip of the sprayer or part of its manual air pump handle mechanism.
Also noticed I was underfeeding them a fair bit in veg weeks, was so scared of stressing them out into early flower it happened anyway. I increase feeding to aorund 700ppm on my pen or aorund 1.4EC, ideally I'll stay at 1.2-1.4 EC for the rest of the grow unless they showing they really want more.
The runoff has been stable on PH and about 200PPM different from whats going in, meaning they are eating when I am giving them and they may want more. at least some of them. I have a feeling a small amount of burn will happen on the smaller ones at 1.4EC. Well see how it goes.
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@peterfly98
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Day28: sign of flowering, BB3 still small but growing. Slowly increasing water and fertilizers.
This week it’s time for some early flower defoliation/lollipopping.
Day30: bouncing back from defoliation.
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@Ctrellis90
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So here we go!
Another start to something special and another grow off! Always fun.
Anyways we have two Pablo's that both popped up through the soil and are on their way. I'm very Interested in seeing how well these genetics perform. They definitely came a long way from overseas so let's see how well the foreign competition is 😉. If their on GD I'm sure they're fire.
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@The_Chef_420
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The cold weather is coming and I'm hoping these girls will finish up soon. One has such dense pre-flowers, another has your typical indica characteristics and the last has many similarities compared to her ancestor, Dark Devil like her leaves and sativa like structure. I increased the amount of Nirvana used to the manufacturer's recommended dose once I saw that they handled close to a tsp with no negative effects on their roots. This is the first time I've used Bio-cozyme, I assume to cut its use in a week or so when I begin supplementing with Overdrive. Also I learned that from pruning the inside leaves and small branch growth prior to flowering has increased the size of each branch, increasing yield. I make a lot of concentrate so I usually leave some of the smaller lowers and inside buds but I experimented with these girls by clear cutting their lowers or "lollipopping" them 🍭. The middle girl is going to have a massive cola. Been spraying with neem, geraniol, thyme, cinnamon and peppermint oils daily diluted in distilled water with the forecast of the next few days of cold and wet weather, hopefully protecting them. I bought some aquarium heaters today for the cold weather for each bucket, wasn't fun, kinda expensive and they didn't have enough of one wattage so I used another store too and they vary in wattage but should all have some sort of improvement in temperature.🌡️❄️
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@GrowSmith
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Starting strong, need to and alternative way of watering as I was using a jug and some of the soil sunk which made the stem bend down a little. This was quickly corrected
A few changes on 27th
I removed the oil heater that was really to big for the size of the tent.
By doing this alone I could bring the light closer which is the reason for the slow growth.
I also bought a humidifier as I was manually spraying the tent and now I can keep the levels up all the time
I could now either use a smaller fan heater in or outside blowing through intake vents (without drying the plant up now I have the humidifier) or……
I could put the oil heater on outside the heat and insulate it
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@DisTentAint4Campin
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Well its been a busy 11 days I totally revised my flower tent moved things around made it more efficient cleaned my trays from tray2grows from autopot took cuts of each pheno which is 2 infected minds testers and the other 3 donut shops trained them out a bit and flipping too flower tonight well basically tomorrow
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@Jointjourney
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This week, the plant continued to develop with no major issues. However, signs of a magnesium and calcium deficiency have started to appear, which may require adjustments in the nutrient schedule with Calmag. The plant was watered once with clear, pH-adjusted water to maintain a stable environment. A mild yet distinct aroma has also begun to emerge, hinting at the plant’s unique character as it matures. Overall, growth is progressing well despite the minor nutrient deficiencies.
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@RageTdavis
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Im enjoying this autoflower run so far its showing me a little nutrients can go a long ways. Not just 10ml or plus every feed out of the bottle. I've been feeding 1ml or less. Ph is simple easy I barely have to go no more then .4 each feed to up my ph. I hope I she stretch well before flowering 💐
best of growing