Ethos Cherry Gar See Ya: Grow Journal 2020

[ROGER BALL]

Hello everyone! I'm Rodger Ball and this is My Grow Journal, 2020.

THE STRAIN
CHERRY GAR-SEE-YA R1
Black Cherry Soda x Cherry Maduro x Mandarin Sunset

• Total Cannabinoids: 25%

• Flowering Time:

Indoor: 8-9 Weeks

Outdoor: Early/mid Season

• Terpene Spectrum: Cherry, citrus, smoky, earthy, hints of gas and propane.

Cherry Gar-see-ya R1 has a high calyx-to-leaf ratio and medium internodes then can stretch a little bit. She's not compact or leafy like most cherry varieties. She stacks chunky, baseball-sized nugs from top to bottom, is easy to train in any system and she loves growing outdoors!

THE ROOM
The room features a 4'×5'×7' Vivusion grow tent. In a 8'x12' bedroom.
The 1' seperator for the tent's seedling room has been removed and is now a utility access panel. The closet in the bedroom has been modified for seedlings and veg.

THE EQUIPMENT:
-Modified 5G Alfred DWC SYSTEM into RDWC.
-Humidifier
-Air Conditioner / intake fan
-Space Heater
-6" charcoal filter and fan
-Ducting
-Two 600 watt full spectrum LED with veg and bloom switches and daisy chain
-Oscelating fan
-Yoyo's
-Holland Secret 3 part forumlia
-Calnesium
-PH Up & Down
-Ice Packs
-Distilled water
-10 mil syringes
-1 mil droppers
-R/O water
-75G submersible water pump
-Rockool cubes
-Ph meter
-PPM meter
-Green head lamp (LED)
-Green light bulb (LED)
-Hand heled water pump
-Tin foil
-Clay medium

 

[ROGER BALL]

July 2nd.

THE SET UP
*RDWC system is maintained at a 5.5 PH R/O water
*Soaked four rockwool at 5.5. PH R/O water for fifteen seconds & inserted seeds
*RDWC system ready to recieve seedlings
*Covered the holes of the rockwool
*Dripped 5.5 PH R/O water on top.

Left for 48 more hours.

 

[ROGER BALL]

July 5th
Have monitored PH and climate last 2 days.
Seedling have sprouted.

Adjusting PH back down to 5.5. And gave the reseviour nutrients.

PPM is 170

 

[Stormblessed]

Baseball size nugs sounds good, I’m in lol

 

[Stormblessed]

Nice setup u got there

 

[ROGER BALL]

Nice setup u got there

Thanks bruv!

 

[ROGER BALL]

July 6

Woke up to PH 6.2, dropped it back down to 5.5

Noticed my rockwool is too went and the sprouts can't move down through.

I split some new R/W in halF, soaked them in root grow and 5.5.PH R/O water, put the stem downward and closed the rockwool. No more top feeding. The tops are dry while the bottom half of the rockwool is damp squeezing the excess water out.
Repositioned the rockwool properly in the nets and filled the medium back up.

20 min later the three are happy and have shed their shells, standing proud.

Don't veg in blue light. It slows them down. Turn lights out until leaves are upright IMO.

 

[ROGER BALL]

Pics

 

[ROGER BALL]

Well... here we are. July 19th.

One of my seedlings didnt make it. Luckily I was germinating others and had two to put in. I gave one to my friend as well.

So now I'm at, two, SUNSHINE SHERBERT and two, CHERRY GAR-SEE-YA (bottom to top).

From my last post I've only transplanted the two SS into the buckets (same method for germinating), and now the roots are touching the water.
The first one closest to the right, I was checking to make sure the rockwool wasn't soaked and when I pulled it up, I broke 1cm of root that was already in the medium! Wasn't even 24 hours. These girls wanna grow!

DUTIES:
Maintaining a 5.8 PH all day. Keeping res temps down with ice packs every 6-7 hours, exhausting
(I've ordered a $600 chiller and am currently waiting on it).

Yesterday, I changed the water and added nutrients. I started with 700ppm (early veg), and that was way too much.
They stiffened up noticeably and tpis started to lighten up. I immediately drained out 10L and brought PPM down to 600, still too much.

I ended up taking out 2/5 of res water, replacing it with fresh R/O and adding 10ml (around 2/5 a bit less), of CALMAG.

Instantly I noticed they relaxed and stopped burning.
That was all within an hour. That's how fast your plants respond in this system.
Went to sleep worry free and woke up to some new growth and healthy girls.

ADDITIONAL LEARNING:
There seems to been some conflicting information regarding sleep. Some say do, some say don't. Some say it doesnt matter.

My experience and personal knowledge has led me to this conclusion: life needs sleep.

My baby boy grows noticeably when he sleeps. Again, I'm 6'7" and my wife is almost 6'. Our 5.5 month old is in 12 month clothing and average 9 month height.
Babies do the most growing in their sleep. When I applied this to my plants I noticed savage growth for such young plants.
This I will now swear by.
This theory cold also be taken one step further -
When you reach late veg the plant reaches what would be, "college party years" and leave lights on 24 hours until it's time to flip. That's just a theory and I'm definitely going there.

 

[Stormblessed]

Nice man, how old is that little one?

 

[Canadadoes]

Made it over, you should attach your journal to your signature. So it’s easy for people to find. I do notice significant growth during dark hours, I like to roll with 24 hour light for 2 weeks then 18-6 until flip. Seems to work well for me.

 

[ROGER BALL]

Made it over, you should attach your journal to your signature. So it’s easy for people to find. I do notice significant growth during dark hours, I like to roll with 24 hour light for 2 weeks then 18-6 until flip. Seems to work well for me.

Yes! Good idea.
That's how I started in this case too
When they accept late veg PPM I'll keep em on and let them party!

 

[Canadadoes]

Interesting, I’m curious on how that’ll turn out. I’ll be watching.

 

[Stormblessed]

I like to let them get 4 hours of sleep, I feel like it gives them a little recharge to do some good growing when the lights come back on, that could just b my personification lol

 

[ROGER BALL]

Nice man, how old is that little one?

Same age as the rest. He's upset with me for breaking his lil root ):

 

[ROGER BALL]

I like to let them get 4 hours of sleep, I feel like it gives them a little recharge to do some good growing when the lights come back on, that could just b my personification lol

Indeed!
I strongly believe plants need sleep.

 

[Stormblessed]

Yeah they r finicky at that age lol

 

[oldsmokey]

Looking good Rodger! I used to run a very similar setup when I grew in RDWC.

 

[ROGER BALL]

Looking good Rodger! I used to run a very similar setup when I grew in RDWC.

Thanks, bruv.

What you using now?

 

[oldsmokey]

Mega crop and promix hp