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@fromseedtobecoming
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What a journey it has been from seed!
I made a lot of mistakes in the first few weeks of this growing journey. I feel like I had a mini-crash after finishing the first year of grad school, and although I am growing cannabis as part of my research project, I haven't been the greatest at paying attention to it. This is not an excuse. It has actually been a learning opportunity. I realized that my body needs proper schedules to function and grow, just like a plant.
The problems with the plant have really been my own problems. Let's just say that a plant may be the reflection of the grower. First, the light cycles were wrong and inconsistent. I thought that I could manually control the light schedule for the plants and be alright. However, I was wrong. My sleep schedule has been very inconsistent for the past few months. Mainly because we are living through a pandemic, and secondly because I am a graduate student 😂. How naive was it of me to think that a plant could follow my own rhythms? I guess it highlights my 'plant blindness.'
Second, the light intensity was low and PH levels high.
In the last five days, I have learned that plants are living organisms (I knew this, but my plant blindness is quick to dismiss it, I need to stop fighting these "plant voices" (signals)) that require a proper environment to grow, similar to humans. Of course, a plant is not human, but it is alive and living. It needs water, a regular schedule (light (active) /darkness (rest), oxygen, nutrients, and an overall good environment to grow.
Concern about the size of my plant at five weeks, I decided to conduct a few experiments at home.
Here are my notes:
Friday, July 23, 2021, I took the plant out of the tent at 6:00 AM and placed it in front of my backyard window that faces the Eastside, perfect for sunrise. On that day, I had a few errands to run, and when I arrived home, it was 2:30 PM. The sun was now hitting the West side of my house, and I had to move the plant in front of my bedroom window.
At around 7:00 PM, I went to look at the plant and noticed that its leaves were looking plumpy. So, I decided to take a timelapse to see what I would be able to record.
During "magic hour" (sunset), I recorded and witnessed the plant moving with the rhythms of the sun. Plant, like humans, function at their best when they are synchronized with their circadian rhythm. The pandemic has definitely disoriented us to the point that it has disrupted all of our schedules. To this day, I feel tired from everything we have all been through; how could I possibly think that a plant would thrive with such a messed-up schedule?
The time lapse made me realize that the plant needs some structure to thrive, and so do I. So, as much as I like to think that I can be disciplined and follow a plant's schedule, I cannot. So, I went to the store and bought the Globe Suite smart plug to automate and schedule the light cycle to 12hrs of light and 6 hours of darkness.
Saturday, July 24, 2021, the plant woke up to the set schedule of the lights.
I checked on the plant first thing in the morning, around 9:30 AM. The leaves look much greener and thicker than they did the day before.
Sunday, July 25, 2021.
I was away overnight and did not arrive home until 2 PM. The plant looks twice the size it was on Friday! Today, I will water the plant. I got a PH test kit and realized that the way that I measured the PH level, the first few weeks was wrong 🤦♀️🏽. I measured the PH correctly, to 5.9, and added some Reefertilizer grow nutrients to the water. I watered from the top, distributing the water evenly around the stem.
My partner pointed to me that the lights seemed dim for the stage of the plant's life. So I had my lights set at 100 watts running at 20 % 😅. I realized that I had not increased the light intensity since the first few weeks of vegetation 🤦♀️🏽. So I increased the intensity to 100 watts running at 60%.
Monday, July 26, 2021.
First check-in 7:00 AM: The plant looks like it loves all of the new changes that I have made! It is finally growing 🤗
The sun is out, but it is not as intense as it should be because tiny particles of smoke are present in our air due to the wildfires, and they create a filter that makes the human eye see the sun blood red. It is quite apocalyptic.
Regardless, I decided to take the plant out from the tent and record a time-lapse. It is fascinating how much movement plants have despite showing no noticeable signs of movement (to the human eye).
Tuesday, July 27, 2021.
It has been five days since I have made big changes to the plant's schedule and environment. The plant is finally showing good signs of growth, and its leaves colours have changed to a deep green. I am not watering the plant today, but I am spritzing it with water.
I decided to take another time-lapse of the plant, but this time inside the tent. As I was setting up the tripod for my camera, I accidentally increased the humidifier 🤦♀️🏽. Luckily, I noticed within a reasonable timeframe and reduced the humidity and made the environment better.
I increased the light intensity to 100 watts at 100%.
The plant will stay in the tent all day today because it is raining ☔️.
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@Fullmeltalchemist
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5.23 F60
5.27 F65 - Everything has been going well this week. The plants went through a feed cycle that should carry them through flower no problemo. Started with the AACT Tea, then a bokashi drench with Fish Shit from Fishheadfarms and plain water from here on out. They are drinking quite a bit. 1.5-2 gallons a plant every 3ish days. The terps in my tents smell out of this world. The ScrOG and 3x3 are like a candy store. Passion Berry has mango/guava citrus terps while Deadstar v2 has strawberry watermelon terps. The 4x5 is much more varied, but in general the sweet pink dominates with it's grape candy terps and the dread bread cuts through with it stanky gassy lemon while the prayer pupil smells like moth balls and a bit of GMO. Very lucky to get to experience this much variety.
5.29 F67
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Day 35:
growing !!!
Day 34:
more light, more progress
Day 33:
3L Water (mixed EC 4.8) + Nutrien = PH 5.8
Day 32:
expanding !!
Day 31:
temps go down , Pantime feels happy !!!
Day 30:
Okay, it's staying small now, and it's growing at an angle, so something must have happened to the roots. Well, it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Day 29:
all fine . it grows .
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@CBD_Sweden
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@MephistoGenetics,
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.
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 environment 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 10 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 paper towel 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 Illuminauto 21 - Sour Crinkle will turn out.
Illuminauto 21 - Sour Crinkle (Grape Crinkle x Sour Crack)
Two of our fastest and frostiest varieties collide to make a sweet and sour delight!
Expect super frosty, compact nugs that won't be a toke for novices.
Destined to be a great strain for extraction work too!
Plant size - Small - Medium
Cycle time - 60-65 days from sprout
Indica/Sativa - 80/20
Frost level - Extra Ridiculous
https://www.mephistogenetics.com/product-page/illuminauto-21-sour-crinkle
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2017-08-21. Started to germinate the seed.
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2017-08-23. Seed germinated and put in small pot in the humidity dome.
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2017-08-27. Slow and steady she grows.
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2017-08-28. Transplanted in 15 liter autopot. Check the roots on this girl
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2017-08-29. New movie of the girl.
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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 and a movie. Everything is looking great right now.
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2017-08-31. 3 new pics.
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2017-09-01. New pics and a video from the grow room today.
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2017-09-02. New pic.
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2017-09-03. New video from this morning.
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2017-09-04. Week 2 starts now, new pics.
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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 girl got 2 liters of water 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.
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2017-09-07. Day 17 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 video of the girl.
Kl 22.30. New pics.
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2017-09-08 KL 08.00. Good morning, added new video.
2017-09-08. Kl 23.50. Gave every girl 3 liters of water and nutes, added new video.
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2017-09-09. Kl 21.00. Defoliated a lot and added pics.
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2017-09-10. Kl 08.00. Last day of week 2. New video.
2017-09-10. Kl 23.00. 3 new videos.
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@MadeInGermany
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Hi everyone 🤗
This week is very strong growth nothing happens :-)
everything as usual, I think in 2-3 weeks you will move to the flower tent 😍.
I wish you all a nice week, stay healthy 🙏🏻 and let it grow 🌱
You can buy the strain at :
www.Zamnesia.com
Type:
Runtz
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Genetics:
Zkittlez x Gelato
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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 205 W
💡💡☝️🏼
Soil : Canna Bio
☝️🏼
Nutrients : Canna Bio
☝️🏼🌱
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 6.0 - 6.3
💦💧
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@Pechu420
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Things are going well, apart from the high humidity in the air here, creating moss on the surface of the soil, very annoying.
01/02 only pre-flowers have appeared so far, its characteristic scent is already noticeable
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@SkunkyDog
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Hallo zusammen 🤙.
Alle 3 Pflanzen sind geerntet.
Wir sehen uns in 2 Wochen mit dem Erntebericht.
Bis dann 🤙
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@BushDoctor740
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Day 21 and the girls are really starting to take off.I did some LST on 3 of the 5 so far and will get the other 2 bent over in the next few days.
Day 27 I watered with recharge tea and tied down some branches to get some more light into the center of the plants.I have increased the light intensity to 50 percent and slightly lowered the humidity this week.
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@d0cterstrain
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awesome strain. lovely smells and flavors. best weed I've grown and some of the best I've smoked. even under terrible lighting. now on to a good grow light and planting some outdoors
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@Legendaryseedthumb
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Amazing!. The big plant smells so good
Drying day 6: they are still moist! A very good drying session is going on over here. The longer the better!
Trimmed today after 10 days. Ended up with 80grams pure buds! Super nice chunky buds smells amazing and 8grams of sift from the leaves.
I’ll filter the leaves again with my bubble bags
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@SPCKush
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Day 35 End of Week 5 Update:
Had a bad week worrying about humidity. My dehumidifier broke so I was stuck until payday and humidity was out of control, night time into the the high 70's and mid 60s during the day.
But despite that, thankfully there was no issues that came about like PM or funky mold or anything. New Dehumidifier is in and all is looking good
Gorilla Cookies is definitely stretching out more than Strawberry G. The Strawberry Gorilla has more of a bushy tendency. I'm hoping she's just a late stretcher so we'll see 🤞
I started light defoliating and so far so good. I don't take out much and with the little I have trimmed there has been no sign of growth pause or stunting at all, they seem to be going strong so far.
Happy Growing y'all!
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@LokalGrenz
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Jan 13th ordered a Dehumidifier today should be here Monday need to get the humidity down for flower I can only get it down to 57% so Hopefully it will work
One of the amnesia haze plants have some type of deficiency not sure have brown spots on leaves
Got humidity some decent control but I’m sure amnesia haze 1 is dealing with PH issues the PH meter is cheap and I’m sure it’s been off a bit so I’m going to look for new one this week
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@KrazyK
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Plant went hermie. Has some seeds. Really a heart breaker. Still frosted everywhere.
