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Week 8 of flower is in the books and this show is quickly coming to an end. I said last week we had about 7-10 days and I was spot on at the 10 day mark. I was only wrong about the order. The cheese is ready to chop before the rest and the gorilla cookies, cherry Bomb and lemon haze will follow in due course. The cheese is a beast and it’ll take a little time to get it all run through the bowl trimmer. At least the big one goes first. Her tallest colas have foxtailed like mar, despite the late supercrop. You can tell where the sweet spot for the light is at about 10” distance from the canopy. Any closer than that and the tails begin to show prominently. It’s a good example of just how close you can get to these fixtures with a little bit of prior experience. It’s been noted for the next run😎👍😎. The res. is on an h2o2 only flush for the remainder until the rest are ready to come down. Not a moment too soon either - the pollen chucking project has stalled out waiting for these girls to finish and now that we’ll have a little extra room, we can start running our cuts in the aerocloner🤟. Not long at all now folks. Thanks for tagging along through all this. Learned a bunch about this system and we’re back to hardware mode to make some serious improvements for the next run🤙😎. I love hardware mode😉.
Background/Repetitive Nonsense
The strain line up on this grow is look’n quite saucy 😈. We’ve got 2 FB strains this time around - Gorilla Cookies (seems we always have some GSC cross in the works). Mainly because the colours look stellar and remind me of a sugar breathe we did last year that was 🔥. The other FB is their original Cheese strain... because we already smoked all our cheese... and we really like our cheese...😉. Emerald triangle was kind enough to include a freebie of Lemon Haze. Wasn’t really big on the list but we haven’t done a haze strain to write home about yet so worth a go👍. The last is a Cherry auto from Bomb seeds that we’ve been trying to get to for months. Let’s just hope that she’s not a dud like the last bean.
The new digs for this run are courtesy MarsHydro👊. Their 2x4 single grow tent, paired with a shiny new 240w QB courtesy ViparSpectra.
These folks were kind enough to discuss a collaboration and as a result, here we are to test out the gear with an inaugural run of autos. Each week, we’ll try to expand on some of the benefits of each, as well as any limiting factors or considerations that need attention when pondering purchase.
Already I can say that both are high quality products in terms of overall craftsmanship.
MarsHydro 2x4 Grow Tent:
Excellent construction in terms of durability. Reinforced stitching on the zippers and corners ensures zero tearing. Conveniently placed screen vents and intake/exhaust ports. The ceiling exhaust port only exists on the right side. Perfect for me but not great if you’re running exhaust from the top on the left side (left side wall port makes up for this however). The aluminum frame is rigid enough to support the weight of the lights and accessories. Once you have some weight in the tent, she’s go’n nowhere and you can assemble and break it down in record time if moving or stashing the grow op.
Only limiting factors I’ve noticed is that temp. Control will be an issue for a tent. It just doesn’t have the same insulating ability as a wood cabinet or other permanent enclosed space. No worries, this is offset by a small desktop heater and keeps the environment exactly where desired. The other issue was a production problem - the ceiling vent was accidentally stitched into the corner seams on the assembly line. Again, no real issue - just pulled it out with no damage or fraying to the tent or port👍.
Website link here:
https://www.mars-hydro.com/grow-tent/buy-mars-hydro-grow-tent-24x48x70-2-x-4-cabinet-closet-grow-box-upgraded-diamond-1680d-mylar-for-sale
ViparSpectra 240w Quantum Board:
This thing is sleek and slick in terms of design. Closest comparable to it that I’ve seen would be spiderfarmers line of qbs. They feature the same top-o-the-line components and roughly similar spectrums. Where VS takes the advantage is in the convenience of the dimmer nob which is easily accessible and works great at 50% with no strobing👍. The heat sink is also larger which contributes to lower temps. That’s not a good thing in my case but beneficial for most folks.
I can already say that this will be a great fixture through all stages of growth. Where I know this light will excel will be in the veg. Stage for sure. Dimming function gives seedlings a much better chance of success with the ability to use lower lighting levels early on and the coverage area on a 240w is great. The average grower will find this panel suitable and fitting to their needs in a 2x4 grow space although I’d suggest 2 units if going any larger than that. The total output in this space equates to about 30w/sq.ft. Which is a decent amount of coverage based on power vs. Growprint. Ideal for veg. Certainly but, in flower - I tend to run closer to 50-60w/sq.ft to achieve higher yields. Again, similar fixtures have performed admirably in the past and while this wouldn’t be considered an “entry-level” fixture, I’d recommend that any grower new to the game not skimp on lighting and start with one of these. The price points are a great value for quality LED tech. These days, so there’s little reason to even consider a lesser fixture👍.
I have no detail on limiting factors for this light as yet but have heard that stock branded fixtures don’t necessarily incorporate enough red diodes. I’ve seen no issue myself but confess - I’m no lighting guru.
Website link:
https://www.viparspectra.com/collections/xs-series/products/xs-series-xs2000
***8% discount when using code: “ItBudWhisper”***
Happy to have you along for the ride if you made it this far through my opening rant!!😎🤟😎🤟😎
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Start of week 5 today, everything seems to be going great! The Gelato OG is by far the biggest plant of the bunch so far but they all seem to be taking well to LST, HST , Topping & defoliation! Will be going in the flower tent as soon as the other ladies harvest so they will probably have atleast 2 to 3 more weeks of veg!
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Info:
Unfortunately, I had to find out that my account is used for fake pages in social media.
I am only active here on growdiaries.
I am not on facebook instagram twitter etc All accounts except this one are fake.
Have fun with the update.
Hey everyone ☺️.
This week she has developed beautifully 😍👍.
No training was done this week but next week all drives will be topped :-).
It was poured once with 1 l, which is enough at the beginning because the humidity is very high 👍.
I wish you all the best and have fun 🙏🏻
You can buy this Strain at :
https://www.zamnesia.com/de/4532-zamnesia-seeds-gorilla-glue-feminisiert.html
Type:
Gorilla Glue
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Genetics:
Chem's Sister x Chocolate Diesel
50% Sativa/50% Indica
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Vega lamp:
2 x Todogrow Led
Quantum Board 100 W
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Bloom Lamp :
2 x Todogrow Led
Cxb 3590 COB 3500 K 205W
💡💡☝️🏼
Soil :
Canna Coco Professional +
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Fertilizer:
Green House Powder Feeding
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Water:
Osmosis water mixed with normal water (24 hours stale that the chlorine evaporates) to 0.2 EC. Add Cal / Mag to 0.4 Ec Ph with Organic Ph - to 5.5 - 5.8 .
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Hi all the happy people here in GrowDiaries.
This is my second cultivation ever and it will be fun to try a bigger space than my closet grow.
First, I'm just going to say I'm done with the construction of my new growroom.
I put some pictures on the construction here in week one.
The room is 2.14 meters by 1.7 meters and has a ceiling height of 2 meters.
It provides a floor area of 3.6 square meters.
I use a 54 Watt Lightwawe T5 for germination and 2 Pcs 400 Watt HPS lamps.
I have a channel fan that replaces the room air about 40 times an hour to get a comfortable theme in the room, the air enters a fresh air intake from the outside.
The air is purified through a carbon filter to then leave the room to the rest of the basement.
Then I use that heat to heat the rest of the basement.
I will use 8 pcs 15 liter Autopots to grow with and a 100 liter water tank that supplies the pots of water and nutrition.
I will grow completely organically in soil and will watercure my buds to get the best possible medicine for me.
But there are no cultivation rooms to be displayed here, so I continue with what is most important.
Today I have put my seeds in my moisture dome and hope the seeds have germinated within a few days.
I am very excited to see how the new growroom will work and how this Blue cheese Auto from Royal queen seeds will turn out.
Blue Cheese automatic cannabis seeds are a cross of Blueberry Automatic and Cheese Automatic that has been perfected over five years of breeding and careful selection. The result is a feminized, autoflowering strain with superior yield, flavor, and effects to either of its distinguished parent strains.
THC: 16%
CBD: Low
Yield Indoor : 325 - 375 gr/m2
Yield Outdoor: 60 - 110 gr/plant
Height Indoor: 40 - 70 cm
Height Outdoor: 60 - 110 cm
Flowering: 7 - 8 weeks
Harvest month: 9-10 weeks after planting
Genetic Background: Blueberry x Cheese x Ruderalis
Type: Sa 35% In 40% Ru 25%
Effect: Cerebral and uplifting
Climate: Mild
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Update 2017-08-15. All 4 seeds have germinated and planted in small pots inside the humidity dome.
I'm so glad it worked so well and now it's just hoping they'll start growing and become 4 big healthy girls :)
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Update 2017-08-16. I have mixed my own soil today. Its 40% sieved peat harrow H2-H4 0-30 mm, 45% sieved peat harrow H4-H6 0-30 mm. 5% sand and 10% of compost soil. And i use 15% of perilite and mix it all together.
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Update 2017-08.20. Nr1 and 2 grow and thrive.
Number 3 just got rid of the seedpod and is folding out the sheets.
Number 4 is a bit shy and can only be seen if you look carefully into the soil.
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Update 2017-08-21. Nr 1 and 2 is doing well. Nr3 is trying to catch up and Nr4 is still shy.
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2017-08-23. Transplanted 2 girls from humidity dome and the small germinating pots to 15 liter autopots. The other 2 girls have to wait a little more before transplant to the autopots.
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2017-08-27. The girls have settled in to there new home of the 15 liters autopot after a little transplant chock. Now the real week 1 starts for me and the girls.
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2017-08-28. New pic and movies.
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2017-08-28. Nr3 is transplanted in 15 liter autopot.
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2017-08-29. New movie of the girls. Its no water for 3 days now for Nr1 and 2 so the roots develop more and match the plant above the soil. The temp controlled fan is awesome, its easy to set what temp you like to have in the room. Right now its 28 celcius. And humidity is 56%.
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2017-08-29.
Hello to you who read my diary, I just want to say that I am pleased that you have chosen to check in with me and in my diary.
I just want to say that I do this for myself and for a steady flow of my medicine.
Everything you read and see in my diary is 100% honest and I will never distort or beautify anything here.
I document my crops so that I can learn from my mistakes and also to look back at those different crops.
I try to update with pictures every day and with text if something special has happened in the garden.
This is my strainhunt for the best medicine and the beginning of my journey with cannabis and the cultivation of it.
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2017-08-30. Cleaned the room this morning, just vacuuming and cleaning with chlorine solution. Im testing the fan to control temp and humidity, it works great.
Added some pics with measurements and movie. Everything is looking great right now.
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2017-08-31. New pics and videos.
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2017-09-01. New pics and videos. Gave each of the girls with 2 ml Alg-A-Mic, 4ml Bio-Grow, 4ml Bio-Heaven and 10 ml Formulex mixed in 2 liters of water.
I hope they like it :)
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2017-09-02. New pics and the girls liked the water and nutrients yesterday.
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2017-09-03. New videos of the girls this morning. Nr1 and 3 looks great and nr 2 is looking a little funny, maby a little stressed.
Kl. 16.00. Did some defoliation on the girls. Added video.
Kl.. 23.00. New videos, defoliation and leaftucking.
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2017-09-04. Kl. 11.00. Week 3 starts. Trying to LST the girls and defoliate/leaftuck. New picks.
KL 23.00. New video.
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2017-09-05. KL 08.00. Cleaned the room this morning, just vacuuming and cleaning with chlorine solution.
KL 12.00. The girls got 2 liters of water each with nutes in it, added a video.
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2017-09-06. KL 08.00. The girls woke up after their beauty sleep, the leaves are always a bit down after 6 h of darkness, but they will stretch now when the HPS lamp starts.
Everything looks good and I keep trying to tuck the leaves so they get the maximum amount of light where needed. Added pics and video.
The Nr 3 girl is still a little bit behind the other 2 girls and all the 3 girls look like there 3 different pheno of the same plant.
KL 23.30. Did some LST.
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2017-09-07. Day 21 from sprouting, Nr3 is 17 days from sprouting. I have never tested PH in my grows, when growing organic in soil iv learned that it adapt PH by it self. But im curious by nature so i had to test.
Kl 10.00 Tested PH in the soil, it was 6.9 and tested my tap water and it was 6.8. Added a video of the girls, its 10 H after defoliation, LST and leaftucking. I think its looking good.
Kl 22.30. New pics.
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Es geht gegen Ende hin. Bin sehr gespannt auf das Ergebnis. Hoffe sie ist jetzt bald fertig.
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Start of week 6, zkittles is a little behind the smoothie so going to keep zkittles on last week's feed for a few days but smoothie has started week 6 schedule today,.. tied down, defoliated and using a scrog has gave both girls a really wide stance which is what I wanted as I don't have a lot more height to play with,... getting there now, loving fastbuds auto strains so far,... roll on next week 👍
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So we start flowering. I used Remo Nutrients and we gonna see hows going. I'm curious. I hope flowers grow bigger and bigger because for now they are really Small 😪
I have also A regular plant and she also show her flowers. Everything going wel, i think 😊 If I made something wrong please correct me 🙏
Wish You Best 💯💣🍭
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Videos:
10 días despertando , transplante 12 días , algunos sistemas radiculares y despertando post transplante .
🌱Solución de riego a micorrizas :
Mycochum y luego riego completo cuando despierten .
Ocupamos granular y great white en polvo para transplante , mitad y mitad.
Ph: 6,0
Ec: 0,7
🌱Solución riego a foleo 1 hora antes que despierten :
1 litro : proactive 5,0 ml y knactive 2 ml.
Ec : 0,5
Ph: 6,0
🌱Sumamos alfalfa alrededor de los tréboles
👑Actualización Jardin 18-19 días .
⌛️Videos :
🎥18 días , con hambre y sueño.
🎥19 días antes de dormir
🎥19 días despertando post foleo y post preventivo de tierra de diatomeas , listas para transplante en 1 semana .
🌱Solución foleo 2 litros :
knactive + proactive (4,0 ml ) y ( 0,8 de proactive ( melazas , quitina , etc ) Y sumamos preventivo después que se secó el foleo.
Ec : 0,4
Ph: 6,1
🌱metimos amarres al central y full lst .
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Week 11 (10-4 to 16-4)
10-4
Temperature: 24.4 degrees (lights on) 21.1 degrees (lights off)
Humidity: 60% (highest) 52% (lowest)
No pictures.
Added 10L to the reservoir, and turned it on for a couple of minutes.
11-4
Temperature: 24.4 degrees (lights on) 21 degrees (lights off)
Humidity: 61% (highest) 52% (lowest)
12-4
Temperature: 25.5 degrees (lights on) 22 degrees (lights off)
Humidity: 65% (highest) 57% (lowest)
Turned the reservoir on for a couple of minutes.
13-4
Temperature: 26.5 degrees (lights on) 23 degrees (lights off)
Humidity: 65% (highest) 56% (lowest)
14-4
Temperature: 26.4 degrees (lights on) 22.1 degrees (lights off)
Humidity: 64% (highest) 45% (lowest)
Turned the reservoir on for a couple of minutes.
The reservoir is almost empty, there is 850 ml left.
15-4
Temperature: 24.4 degrees (lights on) 20 degrees (lights off)
Humidity: 59% (highest) 49% (lowest)
No pictures.
16-4
Temperature: 23.5 degrees (lights on) 19.5 degrees (lights off)
Humidity: 60% (highest) 53% (lowest)
Today i defoliated both plants heavily for the last time, you can say i did a method called: schwazzing.
Dont know why but while i was defoliating the Chemdog smelled a little bit like soap haha.
Turned on the reservoir for a couple of minutes. (Till the AutoPots are full and the valve closes)
Rised the pots aswell, so the canopy is very even.
I let them recover from the heavy defoliation i did, and next week i will slowly increase the light's strength. (Now still at 50% 50cm)
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Hello. This is the end of week 6 and the beginning of week 7 of veg.
This plant is doing good. Growing well.
Gave a 1/2 tsp of - www.wollammo.com - powder for a Cal-Mag boost, and it got lots of other great minerals in it too... Check it out.
She's a little dry, so when I'm done here she will get a big drink.
She's nice and dark green and liking her food. Hope she's a good one.
OK. Have Fun.
Chuck.
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@902EastCoast
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This week went great. The ladies are still looking happy and healthy. Bud sites everywhere. One plant is monster cropped and looks insane. As far as I can tell they are done stretching out now. Took off some leaves covering bud sites and some of the bottom limbs not getting much light. Happy Growing y’all 🔥💨💚✌️🏼
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Pot of coco PH 6.0
An attentive the pots are little bit soil cause my soil is over.
I make a upgrade of the light to LUMATEK 300 wts using 50 %
I’m waiting for my order arrive of power roots and pure enzymes.
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@Momgrowsthechronic
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Welcome to the Week 10 update for the Sweet Seeds Gorilla Girl XL Auto’s. Not much to report as this grow is on cruise control until harvest. I will be finishing up with the bloom fertilizer and starting to flush as these lovely ladies finish out Week 10 and move into Week 11. Defoliating as necessary and consistently checking trichomes as I’ve already spotted the first few ambers in and among the already cloudy trichs! Thanks for stopping by and checking out my grow! 😎
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Update - 4th July 2021
Just still flushing away. The colours that are coming out are crazy. I have edited some pics but not videos and the videos dont really pick up the colour. Its strange that it started completely green and then went darker and darker until it reached purple buds covered in trichomes.
I am planning on harvesting both this plant and the purple punch today or tomorrow depending on when i can be bothered lol
Tbh, its not hard because i dry trim so it's just a case of plucking off the fan leaves and hanging it in different branches.
