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This week I have changed the 400w HPS lights for a 240w Leds, and I have seen great improvements for the rust burn that used to plague me for quite some times seems to have stopped and repair to the parts still viable started, now I know it was due to hight intensity and heat for 12h on those fan leaves that turned them dry and eventually burned them... I still have to watch out because those Leds are powerful and loaded with Deep red, IR and UV! They are at 45 cm the closest and 70cm the furthest no bleaching is seen so far, I am keeping a close eye on those leaves tip and if I see bleaching to those I higher up the lights for a while... I feel like I am dancing around those marvelous plants, sometimes pulling the lights or dimming them, tucking those fan leaves shadowing lower growth whenever I feel they need a break or a hand! Trying to be a cannabis whisperer lol Added 2 tablespoons of fish blood and bones to top layer with worm castings and bat guano a handful. Lots of spiky hair on one and the other those are curly. They look almost the same, lots of trichomes, at least 16% covered and smell kushy and flowery, very nice. Let's hope the leaves do not get worse and the repair continues, not to forget to offer a prayer to Marie Jane so all goes well! ☺️🌹❤️
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week 2 veg official lol we have arrived here safely and the babies are looking real good. No topping or any kind of defoliation will take place, we will only be taking off lower branches and leaves as the plants grow skywards trying to keep branching as close to the stem as possible. It's getting exciting lol
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The cannabis strain Grape Guava can be a purple strain, depending on its specific phenotype and genetic makeup. While not all phenotypes of Grape Guava are purple, some variations, such as the Zatix Grape Guava, are noted for their striking purple appearance due to the genetic expression of anthocyanin pigments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKdVmdoKJ5k In a garden of green, Grape Guava gleams, With its fruity aroma, enchanting dreams. Clusters of grapes, guava's sweetness ignite, A strain so divine, in purple and white. Euphoria whispers, a lush fruity haze, Grape Guava's embrace, a tranquil daze. Off and away.@1400ppm. The increased CO2 allows plants to thrive at higher temperatures, which in turn necessitates higher humidity to maintain the ideal VPD for healthy growth and transpiration. 80F -5F = 75F LST with 70% RH = 0.72 kPa. Higher temperatures and humidity promote rapid growth, nutrient uptake, and photosynthesis while maintaining a lower stress level. Temperature influences the rate of enzymatic reactions involved in aerobic respiration. Enzymes, such as those involved in glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain, work most efficiently at an optimal temperature range. In low temperatures, enzymatic activity will slow down, thus reducing the rate of aerobic respiration. In high temperatures, enzymes can become denatured, thus impairing their function and stopping the process of aerobic respiration. Glucose is the primary fuel for aerobic respiration. The rate of aerobic respiration increases with the availability of glucose, as it is the starting point for glycolysis. If glucose levels are low, cells may rely on alternative energy sources such as fatty acids or amino acids , but these processes may yield less ATP or be less efficient. To determine this effect, carbon dioxide volume was measured (as carbon dioxide is an output of aerobic respiration) 18/6 with the 6 being IR. The near infrared (IR-a) borders around 700nm up to 1400nm @ photon par flux density of 1.8 instead of darkness, keeping temps overnight a neat 77F-80F. Think of my tent as a lung. What goes in must come out. When the rate of air going out exceeds the amount of air coming in, it creates a negative pressure. Tent concaves (bends in). If set up correctly, your RH will begin to drop slowly to the desired level you set, and the extraction turns off when it reaches desired% RH. The plant, as it performs cellular respiration, will always be releasing more water into the air, so the RH% of the tent overnight will always increase, so long as oxidative phosphorylation is occurring. As soon as the RH% creeps back up to 55%, the extraction turns back on, over and over. This creates a strong pressure differential which will work wonders on your grow. Replicating high and low-pressure fronts in nature. Critical for oxygen diffusion at the critical time of peak cellular respiratory function.. Moisture will not transfer from a saturated atmosphere to another if that air is already at or above its saturation point, meaning the air can't hold any more water vapor. Once I understood that water is produced as a by product during cellular respiration, specifically at the very end of the electron transport chain (ETC) where electrons are finally transferred to molecular oxygen, the higher the RH of the air, the more resistance there is for more moisture to be added to that environment, and effects the ease with which it does so. But none of that water comes from the pot; it's pulled from the air. If you run high daytime RH, your medium/pot is 100% reliant on transpirational root pull to move water. ZERO evaporation happens across the atmosphere if the tent air has high RH%, the medium cannot release its water through evaporation. Once a canopy develops, light no longer slowly wicks and evaporates from the topsoil. The Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum (SPAC) describes the continuous pathway and process of water movement, driven by a gradient in water potential, from the soil, through the plant's roots, stem, and leaves, and finally evaporating into the atmosphere through transpiration. There is evaporation, there is transpiration, and then there is evapotranspiration; Evapotranspiration (ET) is the combined total of two processes: evaporation (water lost directly from soil and surface water into the atmosphere) and transpiration (water released from plants to the atmosphere through their leaves). Evapotranspiration represents the total amount of water that moves from the medium into the air. There is no such thing as a medium with too much water, only a medium that retains too much for too long. The water must always flow efficiently from one atmosphere(Medium) to another(Air) in a timely manner. Moisture is a critical factor for bacterial growth and decay. Dictating how long it's allowed to sit in any one location for any given period is a key preferred control. To ensure a net reduction in a bacterial population, the rate of removal (ET) must exceed the rate of bacterial growth (decay rate), which is often modeled as a growth rate for the specific bacterium under the given conditions. By optimizing daytime VPD, we also optimize conditions for bacterial growth to explode exponentially above 77°F.. If water is allowed to sit in a medium without an escape within a timeframe, nothing good will happen. IF High RH is maintained overnight as well as during the day, placing 100% of water movement at the behest of daytime transpiration, roots can only pull where they can reach, and if soil is compressed above a certain point, moisture will become trapped in a medium with no way of moving day or night. This will begin the countdown for decay to take hold. When water stagnates in a medium, it loses oxygen, creating anaerobic conditions that foster the growth of harmful microorganisms like bacteria and fungi, which can produce toxins and disease vectors. Thigmomorphogenesis, the process by which plants respond to mechanical stimuli like touch by altering their growth and development, results in significant morphological changes to improve survival against mechanical perturbations. This complex response involves sensing touch and initiating physiological and genetic responses, leading to changes in form and structure over days or weeks. The process is triggered by physical forces such as wind, rain, or touch. Plants adapt to these stimuli by changing their shape and structure, which may include slower growth, thickened stems, or altered leaf development. Plants possess sophisticated mechanisms to detect even subtle mechanical stimuli and initiate responses. A variety of molecules, including calcium ions, jasmonates, ethylene, and nitric oxide, are involved in signaling these mechanical inputs. Touch can induce the expression of genes that encode proteins for calcium sensing, cell wall modification, and defense mechanisms. A plant exposed to constant wind may become shorter and sturdier. A plant that is touched frequently might grow more slowly to conserve energy and develop thicker cell walls. These changes increase a plant's resilience and ability to survive in harsh environments. Let's get Thiggy with it.
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12 days after the switch Tropicanna Banana shows her sex and officially begins flowering. On day 28 I started with the Bio Heaven and Acti Vera stimulators, although the soil is prefertilized for only 2 weeks, the girls are in perfect shape and for now they don't need fertilizers. I inserted wooden supports in the grow to reduce the effect of negative pressure, it took away important space for growing. This week i've stopped using the humidifier.
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i cant remowe weeek 3 is wrong ,veg beggins ,tanks ... @Coast grower...
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So this week has really absolutely crawled by from my perspective, I imagine it is common with growing that the closer you get to harvest the further away it seems. Anyway I am a bit worried about the middle sized plant - she has a lot more yellowing of fan leaves from the inside out. My reaction to this was to flush her with clean water, my thinking is that everything was fine before I started feeding, and perhaps I didn't mix properly and the soluble stuff was unevenly distributed. That was yesterday (week 6 day 4) It's too soon to tell if this has helped, fingers crossed it doesn't begin to affect other leaves. Despite this being only 5 days into week 6, there have already been fairly drastic changes. Some of the buds are starting to fatten more, and I'd say we're at about 15% pistils amber now, the smell has noticeably increased day by day. It's really beautiful to look the plants in the dark with a flashlight or phone light, the way the light bounces off the frosting of trichomes, as if someone had sneaked in the middle of the night and misted my plants with a million tiny diamonds. I think I will stop feeding the middle plant now and water only (unless it gets worse). The other two I will continue to feed until the end of this week. At the rate of accelerated change I suspect harvest time may not be too long past the end of next week. It's a shame they don't have much more time to grow but at least what small quantity does come from them, I am determined it is harvested at the right time. At the end of week six I have watered only as I now think these plants are maybe 7-12 days away from harvest.
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Flowering W4 D1 Girls need defoliation and pruning, after NY as soon as possible Light intensity - 800-950 MAX PPFD , Light distance - 50/55cm, DLI - 40, Light Interval 12/12, SCL - 45% Midea 28c1% day/night, TM 68/58%RH, AC Infinity AUTO - 4/3 Day RH - 67/70%, Night RH - 57/60%, Day Temperature - 26.5/28c, Night Temperature - 22c/23c Leaf temperature 24/25, VPD Day - 1.0/1.1 , VPD Night 1.0/1.1 CO2 - 400+PPM Nutrient Tank - 2.80EC, PH-5.88 Temperature - 19/20c, ORP-500/600mV Day Misting - 30sON/20minOFF + 1 x 4min shot Night Misting - 45sON/45min OFF Runoff - 10.00h r3110/6.12PH, 19.00 r2900, Flowering W4 D2 Canopy @ 115cm , highest top is around 120cm, mauby less than 3cm from last two days, stretch slowing down! Start Bulking this girls, new irrigation program - cascading solenoid valves @ 10 minute Keeping nutrient strength and composition untouched for this week Light intensity - 800-980 MAX PPFD , Light distance - 50/55cm, DLI - 40, Light Interval 12/12, SCL - 50% Midea 28c1% day/night, TM 68/58%RH, AC Infinity AUTO - 4/3 Day RH - 67/70%, Night RH - 57/60%, Day Temperature - 26.5/28c, Night Temperature - 22c/23c Leaf temperature 24/25, VPD Day - 1.0/1.1 , VPD Night 1.0/1.1 CO2 - 400+PPM Nutrient Tank - 2.80EC, PH-5.88 Temperature - 19/20c, ORP-500/600mV Day Misting - 30sON/20minOFF-cascading's selenoid valves + 3 x (3+4+6min) shot Night Misting - 30sON/45min OFF Runoff 10.00 r3210ec, 14.00h-3030ec/6.20ph, 19.00h-r2840EC, Flowering W4 D3 Clean nutrient tank, all filters and return line. Mix fresh nutrient solution Athena Balance + Bloom + Core + H4SiO2 Defoliation and pruning on all girls. Lovely job so far on this grow. Tons of good bud sites! Light intensity - 850-980 MAX PPFD , Light distance - 50/55cm, DLI - 42, Light Interval 12/12, SCL @ 50% - DeepRed @ 60%, FarRed @ 25% Midea 27c10% day/night, TM 67/56%RH, AC Infinity AUTO - 4/3 Day RH - 66/70%, Night RH - 55/59%, Day Temperature - 26.5/28c, Night Temperature - 22c/23c Leaf temperature 24/25, VPD Day - 1.1/1.2 , VPD Night 1.0/1.2 CO2 - 400+PPM Nutrient Tank - 2.60EC, PH-5.79, Temperature - 18/19c, ORP-700/800mV Day Misting - 30sON/20minOFF + 3 x (3+4+6min) shot Night Misting - 45sON/45min OFF Runoff - 10.00h-r3080ec/6.20PH, 16.00h-r2840ec, 19.00h-r2740ec, 21.00h-r2640ec/5.95ph Flowering W4 D4 Light intensity - 800-1080 PPFD , Light distance - 50/55cm, DLI - 42, Light Interval 12/12, SCL @ 50% - DeepRed @ 70%, FarRed @ 25% Midea 27c5% day/night, TM 67/56%RH, AC Infinity AUTO - 4/3 Day RH - 66/70%, Night RH - 55/59%, Day Temperature - 26.5/28c, Night Temperature - 22c/23c Leaf temperature 24/25, VPD Day - 1.1/1.2 , VPD Night 1.0/1.2 CO2 - 400+PPM Nutrient Tank - 2.65EC, PH-5.80, Temperature - 17/19c, ORP-700/800mV Day Misting - 35sON/20minOFF + 3 x (3+4+6min) shot Night Misting - 30sON/40min OFF Runoff - 10.00h-r2740ec/6.00PH...20.00h-r2780ec.. Flowering W4 D5 Light intensity - 800-1080 PPFD , Light distance - 50/55cm, DLI - 42, Light Interval 12/12, SCL @ 50% - DeepRed @ 70%, FarRed @ 25% Midea 27c5% day/night, TM 67/56%RH, AC Infinity AUTO - 4/3 Day RH - 66/70%, Night RH - 55/59%, Day Temperature - 26.5/28c, Night Temperature - 22c/23c Leaf temperature 24/25, VPD Day - 1.1/1.2 , VPD Night 1.0/1.2 CO2 - 400+PPM Nutrient Tank - 2.65EC, PH-5.81, Temperature - 17/18c, ORP-700/800mV Day Misting - 35sON/20minOFF + 3 x (3+4+6min) shot Night Misting - 30sON/40min OFF Runoff - 10.00h-r2830ec/6.02PH, 21.00h-2650ec/5.92ph Flowering W4 D6 Add DIY under canopy light - 2 x 80w bars , curious to see results on lower buds Light intensity - 800-1080 PPFD , Light distance - 50/55cm, DLI - 42, Light Interval 12/12, SCL @ 50% - DeepRed @ 100%, FarRed @ 30%, UCL-50% Midea 27c5% day/night, TM 67/56%RH, AC Infinity AUTO - 4/3 Day RH - 66/70%, Night RH - 55/59%, Day Temperature - 26.5/28c, Night Temperature - 22c/23c Leaf temperature 25/26, VPD Day - 1.1/1.2 , VPD Night 1.0/1.2 CO2 - 400+PPM Nutrient Tank - 2.55EC, PH-6.00, Temperature - 17/18c, ORP-600/800mV Day Misting - 45sON/20minOFF + 1 x (8min) shot Night Misting - 45sON/45min OFF Runoff - 10.00h-r2800ec/6.00PH, 22.00h-r2810ec,
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They are all putting on weight quickly and taking shape very impressed with all of them and they prob have another week or so before flush/harvest. REMEMBER , IF YOUR SHOPPING FOR GEAR YOU CAN USE THE CODE “BANGDANG” FOR 10% OFF YOUR ENTIRE PURCHASE FROM ANY OF THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES. @greenbuzzliquids @rainscience_growbags @gorilla_grow_tent @growlightscience.led NEW* @Rocbudinc Seeds on his website * *****Gorilla grow tent discounts extend to all companies affiliated with grow strong industries which include..***** @super.closet Lotus Nutrients Kind LED grow lights
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The end of the fourth week. Only 2,5 to 3 weeks to go, since this is the FAST version of Gelato 33 by Advanced seeds. Last week temps were better, so that was a lot better to manage. The smell is a different story. We are trying to combat it as we speak with a double filter which my friend still had from a previous grow. The ladies are performing, however, because this is a monstercrop with many budsites, none of them will be very big. We anticipate a lot of cutting come harvest time. The stickieness and smell (cookies, dough, herbs, spices, gingerbread, vanilla) promise a lot to make up for that hopefully!! The middle plant that seemed to go fastest, now looks like to have the hardest time flowering. Her more advanced stage of flowering as a bigger clone, made it harder for her to return to veg, which she never really did. This seems to make her want to rush to the finish, as she is already browning the pistils. Also these buds seem more flakey, popcorny. As if the many flowers and grapelike bundled growth was too much for her. I put the light a little closer, to help her fatten up in the time she is given. I never expected the two 'runts' to outperform the mighty middle clone, but hey seem to fatten up and age much more nicely. So for now, prelimenary tip: make sure all your plants are completely revegged before flowering and consider that faster flowering species might have some ruderalis ancestry that might siderail all your lighting intentions and remains in flower what ever the growers lighting schedule. So with at least two more weeks for the two outer plants, and well see how many for the middle one, we are going to make them as comfortable as possible the final push of this flowering. Thank you for following and see you next week!!
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420Fastbuds-Week 10 TrainWreck Auto What up grow fam weekly update for these two stinky girls. Did a defoliation taking off almost all the fan leafs and let them swell up and rippen before giving them the chop this week. Seeing 70/30 clear to amber trichs. They smell super super pungent and sticky as all get out. Excited to get the trimmed,hung to dry and start this curing process. All in all Happy Growing
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This week went well no real problems besides underestimating the amount of water I would need to prepare following the transplant. I’m noticing some older leaves showing some curling at the tips especially on the second pheno, I’m going to let it ride for the next week as it could be attributed to the transplant although the signs point to n tox I’m using slow release dry amendments as directed I don’t think this is the case. I may add the trellis net next week if the second pheno can catch up in heigh.
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Very satisfied with this week girls looking strong and healthy going into Bloom also ethos genetics get back at me I need to know if you ever had a problem with one of your seeds just won’t to know no fussing it’s all lov
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Trainwreck is doing amazing, super nice shape, defoliation worked the way it should. This one will make a super nice shape, the lower branches caught up with the top and we are ready for flower. Living soil, no feeding, happy plant !
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looks pretty good, fertilizer is only once a week. Appear something sensitive to me
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@Doofy
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They look good, the gurl in the back her flowers are gettin very nice!! 😍🤩🙏 I turn them 180° every 2 days 🙏 The one in front looks allmost ready... She´s lookin sharp, rocket to be launched... ❤️❤️ very thin plant, small harvest, small plant Sexy ladies!! ❤️❤️ she smells like berries and cream 😋😍 Gettin frosty...
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The Mandarine Cream is entering its third week of flowering, and the aroma is becoming increasingly potent. The plant is looking beautiful and vigorous, with the buds showing significant daily growth. The smell is evolving into a strong, citrusy scent, reminiscent of grapefruit. Environment: This week began with a cold front, bringing temperatures down to a minimum of 5°C and a maximum of 15°C. A light rain has helped increase the humidity, which could boost resin production, although the cooler temperatures may also slow down the flowering process, just as they did during the vegetative stage. Fertilizing: I've stopped fertilizing as the plant now has everything it needs from the substrate. Watering: Sparse, around once a week, to maintain the right moisture levels without over-saturating. Pest Control: Beauveria applications have been reduced to once weekly, and the garden remains completely free of pests, which is a pleasant surprise. Training: The main cola top remains tied down. I haven't done any further defoliation or additional training. The focus is now on letting the plant continue its natural growth as it transitions deeper into flowering.
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Not much to update guys, harvesting the ladies 1 by 1 when they are ready, hopefully I can take the rest down at the same time. Can't wait to do the smoke and bud review for you guys. 👍🏾