FERMAKOR BARREL MIX – BASE IN USE (Testing on the Fantasy Feast girl we pulled out of another diary https://growdiaries.com/diaries/274722-grow-journal-by-yan402 ) (FERMAKOR BASE SYSTEM KOH VERSION diary https://growdiaries.com/diaries/278391-grow-journal-by-yan402) (Urea & Micros on the way — first week running without them) 🍶💧🍶💧🍶💧🍶💧🍶 💧 30 L Barrel – Current Working Mix 🍶💧🍶💧🍶💧🍶💧🍶 Step 1 – Calcium Nitrate (Part A) 7 L warm water (~35–40 °C) → added 45 g Calcinit, stirred until fully clear. That’s the calcium + nitrogen backbone for the feed. Step 2 – FERMAKOR PK Base (Part B) 15 L water in the main barrel → added 30 ml FERMAKOR PK Concentrate, mixed well. This forms the main P + K part of the formula. Step 3 – Combine Solutions Slowly poured the Calcinit mix into the barrel while stirring — no reaction, still crystal clear. That confirms the mix is stable and precipitation-free. 🌿 Step 4 – FPJ / FFJ Batch Added 30 ml homemade FPJ (fish + veg batch) ≈ 1 ml/L. Color shifted to a light-amber tone — looks alive and active. 🍋 Step 5 – Citric Acid Balance Added 1 tsp citric acid after everything was blended to fine-tune pH and help chelate micros later on. 📦 Step 6 – Top Up & Check Filled to the 30 L mark with plain water → pH tested with drops, showing yellow-green — roughly 5.8 – 6.0 range. Nice clean look, stable smell, no residue. 💧 Current Base Ingredients (Active Mix) Warm Water ≈ 22 L total Calcinit 45 g → N + Ca foundation FERMAKOR PK Base 30 ml → P + K support Citric Acid 1 tsp → Chelation + pH balance FPJ / Fish Emulsion 30 ml → Organic enzyme booster Result: clean amber mix, mild and balanced. I’ll let this version run for a week before adding anything. 👀👀👀👀👀👀 Observations and changes 👀👀👀👀👀👀 27.10.25 VW27 noticed some min burnt tips so I decreased Calcium Nitrate 45 to → 40g, decided to add two more elements micros and Epsom salts just to make sure they got everything, Fetrilon Combi 1 (Micros): 0.5 g, Epsom salts: 8 g 28.10.25 VW27 she seems devoid of any deficiencies, seems ready for the flip to 12/12 02.11.25 VW27 girl is looking good so I decided to stop making daily videos and do a standard once a week update. 09.11.25 aVW28 7 days since flip,stretch in full swing, first pistils showing, leaf color deep and healthy. Slight tip burn early week → gone after pH stabilized. Feed stayed clear, no residue, roots clean and sweet-smelling, did what I hope is a last cleanup and pruning🎥 10.11.25 VW29 added Phosphoric acid pH down to the schedule for flowering stage. 14.11.25 FW1 FERMAKOR PK Micros 40 → 50 ml 23.11.25 FW2 got some burnt tips, observe and act accordingly in case it worsens, diluted by 25% for this week. 05.12.25 FW3 about 2 weeks ago Calcium Nitrate 35 g → 25 g, FERMAKOR PK Micros 50 ml → 60 ml 🌱💦🌱💦🌱💦🌱💦🌱💦🌱 🌿Day to day tasks & actions 🌿 🌱💦🌱💦🌱💦🌱💦🌱💦🌱 07.12.25 FW3 – Fed 5l of #1 → 2l runoff 08.12.25 FW4 – Fed 5l of #1 → 2l runoff 09.12.25 FW4 – Fed 5l of #1 → 2l runoff 10.12.25 FW4 – Fed 5l of #1 → 2l runoff 11.12.25 FW4 – Fed 5l of #1 → 2l runoff 12.12.25 FW4 – Fed 5l of #1 → 2l runoff 13.12.25 FW4 – Fed 5l of #1 → 2l runoff 14.12.25 FW4 – Fed 5l of #1 → 2l runoff 💧💦💧💦💧💦💧💦 🌱 Nutrients in 30 L #1 Veg – FERMAKOR 💧💦💧💦💧💦💧💦 Calcium Nitrate (Calcinit / Nitcal): 45 → 40 g → 35 g → 25 g = 1.50 g/L → 1.33 g/L → 1.17 g/L → 0.83 g/L = 207 ppm N / 253 ppm Ca → 184 / 225 → 161 / 197 → 115 / 141 PK Concentrate (FERMAKOR Base): 30 → 40 ml → 50 ml → 60 ml = 1.00 → 1.33 ml/L → 1.67 ml/L → 2.00 ml/L → balanced 1:1 P:K + light micros (from extract) Home-made FFJ/FPJ (Fish + Veg): 30 ml = 1.00 ml/L Epsom Salt (MgSO₄·7H₂O): 8 g = 0.27 g/L → ~26 ppm Mg + ~35 ppm S Fetrilon Combi 1 (Micros): 0.5 g = 0.017 g/L → Fe 0.7 ppm · Mn 0.7 ppm · Zn 0.3 ppm · Cu 0.3 ppm · B 0.1 ppm · Mo 0.02 ppm Phosphoric Acid (pH down) + Citric Acid (chelation): as needed → First set pH with phosphoric acid, then add a little citric only if you want extra chelation Target pH: 5.8 – 6.0 (drop test yellow-green) 📦 TOTAL: Liquids: 60 → 70 → 80 → 90 ml per 30 L = 2.00 → 2.33 → 2.67 → 3.00 ml/L Solids (CaNO₃ + Epsom + Fetrilon): 53.5 → 48.5 → 43.5 → 33.5 g per 30 L = 1.78 → 1.62 → 1.45 → 1.12 g/L 💧💦💧💦💧💦💧💦 YouTube Link: https://youtube.com/-m8h?si=A7x4Zlr2kj-_ga31

Day 39 Light Cycle 18/06 Air Humidity 52~57% Temp 20~26ºC The plants are stretching up very fast and getting bushier. I moved the light cycle back to 18/06 and dimmed the TS 100 to 100%. The plant nº 3 is drinking more water so it was watered with 1 litter today. Day 41 Light Cycle 18/06 Air Humidity 65 ~70% Temp 20~28ºC Yesterday, the plants were top dressed with 10g of EcoThrive Charge mix with soil and watered with 200ml plain water. and today I gave the regular dose of nutrients (1L on each) The plants were defoliated, and I try to spread the maximum I could on the scrog. Overall, they are looking very healthy and vigorous. All the secondary branches are stretching up rapidly. I can wait to see the results

week 3 flower is going great. I increased my UVA lights to 8 hrs on. Gsc and Blueberry have decent bud-lets already on day 17. OG kush has preflowers. waiting on Blueberry muffin to show pre fowers should be soon. At the end of week 3 GSC and Blueberry are doing the best and starting to get more trichomes. Im waiting on OG kush And Blueberry Muffin to really get going!

Well post tropical storm Ophilia report. Made it through with only minor damage. Thank goodness! I had to laeve town for a wedding in NC over the weekend and realized i might not be able to get back in time to protect the girls. They did ok. Drinking a lot less water now that it has cooled down. From 4 gals/ day back to 2 gal / day! Ill update with some better pics later, happy growing all!

24/07/22 bonjour pa eu trop de temp hier donc aujourd'hui 2 e jours de la 5eme semaine j'ai fais un peu de défoliation enfin du moins j'ai essayé en bon débutant ! 25/07/22 je n'aurais jamais imaginé que cela pouvais etre aussi jolie pour ma 1 er je m'estime vraiment chanceux chanceux ras tout va bien pour le meilleurs du monde 29/07/22 derniers jour de la 5 eme semaine un vrai bonheur de les regardé tous les jours les fruits grossisses a vu d'oeil pourvu que ca dure!.j'ai mis un petit coup de fraicheur ,enlever quelques branche et du couper la branche réparer elle était repartis mais un peu frele.

Divine Seeds - Opium After 122 days of growth and 74 days of flowering, it's time to say goodbye to this stunning beauty and bring in the harvest! The buds are massive, dripping with resin, and have an incredibly strong, alluring aroma. We are absolutely thrilled with how she turned out! We decided not to weigh the buds while they’re wet; we’ll wait until they’re dried to get the final weight. But from the looks of it, we expect a very satisfying yield. A huge shoutout to Xpert Nutrients for their exceptional support, reliable service, and, most importantly, their outstanding fertilizers that have consistently helped us grow such powerful, high-quality plants. Year after year, your products prove to be a key element in our success. We also want to express our deepest gratitude to Divine Seeds for providing such superior genetics. We’re beyond impressed with Opium and are excited to grow even more from your incredible lineup in the near future. And yes, we’ve already sampled her, and the smoke is nothing short of premium quality. The strength and flavor are exceptional, leaving no doubt that this is top-shelf cannabis. It’s a true connoisseur’s dream! Thank you again to Xpert Nutrients and Divine Seeds for making this grow so successful and enjoyable! We can’t wait for our next adventure with your products and genetics!

Happy New Year guys! Unfortunately, the heat has arrived completely for January and I guess that both the plant and I are gonna suffer this. Pistils are getting brown and curly, and I see extensive trichome production on certain buds but not all of them. Also I see the buds in general keep on fox-tailing. Day 4 Week 16 ( 03-01-2019) she looks good, surviving the hell temperatures in there but enduring. Fertigation is about 600 ppm inflow, run-off 700 pom, I', giving her 0.55 g/L Bloom fertilizer. I see buds are getting thicker. The tent is a jungle. My God, I've never had such a mess., and never grew a sativa like this. I've had a specimen of Nirvana Sky "superauto"; indeed she was a real monster, but even she was autoflowering, I remember topping her early because I was fearing the big size. But this one is "uitstekend"! Last pics of the week (this plant's weeks start on Tuesdays). I returned home after a short leave and found her the same as I had left her.

2/10: I watered today with about 3/4 gallon each, plus cal-mag, signal, bembe, armor si, a little open sesame, and their final dose of endoboost. The shorter one is budding up quickly now. 2/11: Wife home sick today....postponing construction project to raise the lights. 2/12: Today, I tackled the project to raise my ceiling another foot. In addition to that project, I installed and hooked up my new AC Infinity 6" intake fan. It's pulling in fresh air from the soffit vent on the eave of the attic, and currently feeding the garden with 46f fresh air. I'm able to easily maintain daytime temps in the lower 70f's now. I am able to drive the nighttime temps as low as I want. The only issue is that the outdoor RH varies quite a bit, so I ordered a 30-pint dehumidifier to put in the top of the closet. I sprayed everybody with boomboom spray to try and mitigate the light burn damage that is likely to ensue. 2/13: The taller one is still stretching a little bit, but the 2-footer is just budding up. 2/14: I fed them today with about 3/4 gallon each including grow big, big bloom, tiger bloom, cal-mag, signal, bembe, humic acid, and I switched over from Open Sesame to Beastie Bloomz. Raised the lights another couple of inches. I did some training on them and defo'd a little bit. 2/15: Installed the new dehumidifier and rigged the continuous drain on it...works great. 2/16: I rotated the edge plants and removed some old leaves. I added another 22w 3000k 4' bar light under the canopy. 2/17: I rearranged the garden and defoliated a little bit. That's it for week 8-

Week 3 of my soon-to-be purple ladies! 😻 Everything was going well but I noticed these issues: - The girl on the back is stretching waaaaay more and is less "leafy" than her sister. Perhaps she has more sativa in her DNA? - Leaves on both girls love to twirl around, specially on the girl on the front. - The stem on both girls is still weak and the girl on the front no longer needs the extra help she needed! Weather where I live is getting colder for some odd reason (it should be the opposite, damn!) and the "purple" is... perhaps starting to show a little? Which is good!? 😮 Anyway, that's all for this week. See you all next one and I hope you'll all enjoy the photos and the timelapse! 😁

They look fat i hope but will be heavy 😀

Well, the photo period plants are looking great now, but the 2 older BlackBerry's still look like they are struggling. The newer BlackBerry seedling looks fine. We'll see what happens over the next few weeks. The Seedsman Cream & Cheese CBD and DinaFem Critical+ are looking the best overall IMO. I'll be topping and cutting clones in another week or two. I plan on getting the 2nd of 3 tents set up this weekend.👍

So, the nutrient lock is fixed, the humidity is under control, and these ladies are looking super vigorous. We will flip very soon as the stretch will fill out any holes in the SCROG net. We will also clear the bottom of these plants in the next day or 2, taking lots of clones and making sure we have that SOG. We have introduced some workers, 10 praying mantis to keep an eye on any pests.. the video of the mantis is from another grow, not the OG kush Light is about 70% ATM and i will turn up to 80% today, Spiderfarmer have kindly sponsored us with a Light controller, that arrives imminently and as soon as it does, it's week 1 of flowering and the light will go to 80% - then 90, then 100.... We have had serious rain here, the relative humidity outside is 90% and the temp is 31 degrees. We continue to feed with our own nutrient schedule. Slightly increasing the nitrogen for the last week or som of pure Veg. Thoughts? Lets Gromore,

Her buds are all purple by now. Just lovely. Can't wait to try her... Hope she tastes just as she smells... awesome. I love all the diffenrent colors.

Sie wächst 😁 Die Drähte hab ich auch noch mal angezogen damit sie schön in die Breite geht. Jetzt bin ich am überlegen ob ich mir noch ein Netzt spanne. Aber da hab ich mich noch nicht entschieden mal sehen.

The buds continue to grow and there are more and more trichomes :) I'm now watering with 4 ml/l of Bio-Bloom which is the maximum dosage recommended by the data sheet. The plants look well and the yellowing of the leaves almost stopped. There are yellow leaves appearing on the O.G. Kush. I think they are too close from the light but since most of the plant looks healthy, I will not move it away from the light. Harvest period is slowly coming. I think they will need around 4 more weeks to be ripe.

Blue Zushi - Dutch Passion Day 74 - Watered with 3 litres of RO tap water, with defined nutrients, pH'd to 6.3. She had a massive growth spurt this week and was stretching so fast, I had began plan's to bend her main stem, but thankfully she finished that and is now focusing on developing her bud sites 💪 This week, I removed a few leaves, but other than that, I've just let her do her thing.🙏

Transplanted into a 5 gal pot added some support for lst to force main stem to grow evenly as when transplanting one of the plants tilted and was placed on angle. Didn’t want to disturb the roots and mess with digging it back up. Plant number two looks a bit stunted from the previous stress but looks like it will recover. Looks like it was running out of room in the 1.5 gal but both plants look happy now . Will treat with some more fert in a few days and will be flipping to 12/12 shortly

Hung to dry in 15-18c and 58% humidity aiming for 10-14days drying time 😇