Leweed's - Soil - NYC Diesel Grow - 600W HPS - 2016

[leweed]

Hello dear growers,

First post ever for me on a forum, so first grow journal also. Kind of excited

Not my first grow tho! Here are couple pics from my first grow, pretty happy from it

Pulled 8oz of dry buds from 4 plants in a 2x4 tent, was feeling like jungle in there at the end lol

I hope to do a little better for this second grow, really happy to grow again

That said, let's get to serious shit

STRAIN: NYC Diesel (same strain than last time)
NUMBER OF PLANTS: 4 plants
STAGE: Veg
HOW OLD: 6 weeks
GROW SPACE: Indoor, 2'x4' grow tent
MEDIUM: Soil
SOIL MIX: Basic soil + 30% perlite + 5-10% dolomite lime
NUTES: FoxFram trio (BigBloom, GrowBig, TigerBoom), went for the easy way
SIZE OF POT: Red solo cup -> currently 1gal -> eventually 3 or 5 gal
SIZE OF LIGHTS: 150w CFL -> currently 250w MH -> eventually 600w HPS
COOLING: Cooltube
FAN: 6" Vortex S-Line, pretty quiet I love it
AVERGAE TEMP: 21-25°C
AVERAGE HUMIDITY About 50%
PH: Between 6 and 7, not too sure, got no good pHmeter
WATERING: Every 3-4days, when soil is dry

Hoping to yield 8-10oz

NOTE: : The plant pictured alone is always the same, and it is the biggest of the 4

Here they are at week 1, had 6 at that time, but selectionned the 4 elites

Week 2

Week 3, hop in 1gal pots

Week 4, starting nutes!

Week 4-5, new home!

Week 6, after topping 2 and pinching the 2 others during week 5, that's why 2 look damaged on the leaves
Feeling like Foxfarm as really kicked in, there is 12 days between those pictures and last ones

I'm planning to throw them in flowering in 2 or 3 weeks, depending on their growht!

So that's where I am for right now, I will try to keep it updated at least weekly.

Hope you enjoy it and ask if you have any questions

 

[leweed]

Update time!

Little babies are in week 7 from seed now and growing good!

So here thay are as of right now, 4 days from last pics

The biggest one
This is the biggest since the begining, topped him about 10 days ago

The pinched ones
So those are the two I pinched, starting to grow normal leaves again

Family pics

Bonus
Have you ever seen this, 2-3 silly grass pieces of grass appearing in your garden?
Cause this plant has them since week 2 I think, but now they are taller than the plant itself
Do you think there is any problem with letting it chill there?

Will be cloning them soon, if you guys have any advices, never done that yet.

So that's it for now, feel free to reply if you have any advice/questions/comments

Till next time, keep blazing

 

[leweed]

Sup guys!

Been 10 days since last update, pretty busy with school these days

They are now finishing week 8, entering week 9 tomorrow

Still looking pretty good

Planning to transplant them in 5 gal grow bags probably this weekend.
Not sure tho, cause I lollipopped them and cutted some clones yesterday...
Do you think it's too much of a stress if I transplant them 3-4 days after lollipopping them?

Also planning to throw them in flowering next week!!

Here are the pics!

Usual family pic
Getting bushy

Lollipopping
You can see the lollipopping i done, mostly on the biggest one on the left

The clones
First time doing clones! Used Rootech gel as rooting hormones and planted them in Jiffy pellets. They are currently under a dome and a CFL at 22-23°C and arround 90% humidity, I hope everything will work

So that's it for now!

If you want more info, photos or have any questions don't hesitate!!

Enjoy

 

[ChronicPurps]

Subbed my man looking great

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[ChronicPurps]

When did you start feeding them? How much did you use? I started on my 2nd week with grow big and big bloom but i was using cal mag because i use ro water

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[leweed]

Started feeding them in week 4 from seeds with 2tsp/gal Bigbloom and 1tsp/gal Grow big. Last grow I started earlier, after only 2weeks from seeds, but I started with less nutes.. Idk why I waited so much this time

I'm feeding them full nutes since week 5, following foxfarm schedule. I use Big bloom every watering and Grow big every other watering. Plants seems to like it, never had any real defiencies

Never used cal/mag, but i'm using tap water that I let sit at least one day so the chlore can evaporate (at least that's what I heard)

What are the benefits of ro water? never heard of that before. Is it hard to do?

 

[leweed]

Bump

Do you guys it's too much of a stress to transplant them only 3 or 4 days after cutting them? (lollipopping and cutting clones)
And then switch to flowering during next week, let's say 5 days after transplanting them into 5 gals?

Advices would be appreciated!

 

[ChronicPurps]

For the transplant i mean if the growth rate is back to the usual after the cutting i would and the flowering idk anything but i feel like youd want to veg it a little bit longer so its roots could settle in its new home id say the shortest would be a week IMO but im a newb so idk lol

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[leweed]

Week 9-10

So I transplanted them 2 days ago in 5gal grow bags and they've been doing pretty good since. Could have transplanted a bit earlier, roots were growing all over the place in there.

Planning to throw them in flowering next weekend!

The 2 plants I topped seem to have a little deficiency, some older leaves are yellowing a littlte bit, not sure what it is but i'm not really worried about that

A little more worried about those spots I found today tho, not sur what it is, if you can tell it would surely help!
Pretty small for the moment, and it's only on one plant. I would tell by the look it a calcium defficiency, but there's a lot dolomite lime (granular) in my soil, about 2.5%-5%, and I heard it's a source of cal and mag, so not sure what causes these spots...

No sign of roots on the clone yet, 9 days have passed since i cut them.
Added them a 2nd 42w CFL
4/6 are looking good and 2 are looking really droopy... they ave been in the dome with vents closed for the first 2 days and with vents opened since day 3 with about 1 day of aeration without the dome.
The dome is now back on with humidity at about 90% humidity and temp arround 22-23°C.
If I dont see any roots yet, so I should let them in the dome, right?

Anyway, ladies are still growing good and can't wait to see some budzzzz on there

 

[leweed]

Ok so the nutrient deficiency is getting worst on two babies. It only affects the 2 i topped.
Might go at the store get some cal-mag, I think the first 2 pictures look like a mag deficiency an the last picture a cal deficiency..
What do you guys think? And can cal-mag be found in a store like homedepot?

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[ChronicPurps]

Are they older leaves and how are the ladys man?

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[leweed]

Leweed's Soil NYC Diesel Grow - 600W HPS - 2016

Yeah been pretty busy these days..but they're doing fine!

The yellowing was on older leaves, but calcium spots were on about 2 weeks old leaves I would say.
Anyway I got some calmag at the hydro store and I think they are ok now! Hard to tell if new spots appear, but doesnt seem and growth rate seems back to normal. (for a couple days I wasnt seing much new growth, maybe due to transplant and cal-mag def.. but transplant went pretty smooth, so not sure ) and maybe i'm just crazy and they grew just fine

Also, I just changed to flowering yesterday and swiched the 250w mh to the 600w hps.
Here's the only photo i have of the ladies for rightnow, they're sleeping

Let's go for a 9-10weeks of flowering!!

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[leweed]

Leweed's Soil NYC Diesel Grow - 600W HPS - 2016

Here's a couple more pics.
Starting to smell realllllll good in there

Pistils showing off

Getting strong (even if leaning on one side lol, will probably need a string sometimes soon to support all those future nugs)

Each plant individually

Last family pic

May defoliate/lollipop a bit at the end of stretch perdiod, do you think it's ok or should i not touch them since they are now in flowering?



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[leweed]

1 week into flowering update.

They are growing FAST!!

Temp with the 600w HPS is average 27C

Just to show you the growth:
Day 1 flowering

Day 6

Day 8 (today)

These are pictures from the plant in the right up corner:
Day 1 flowering

Day 8 (today)

So that's it for now! Like i said on last post, might defoliate/lollipop a little bit in 1week to aerate and have a better light penetration, do you think it's ok to remove a couple leaves in early bloom? It seems controversial to remove leaves in flowering period..

enjoy


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[leweed]

it's smelling sooooo good in the tent! i'd sleep in there if i had enough space.

so it's day 15 of flowering and ladies are still doing great!

Stretch should be almost over now, but holy F they grew a lot during the last 2 days

One of them (the same that had cal-mag problems earlier in veg) seems to have a little deficiency, remarked this on a 3-4 leaves today:

Not looked much into it yet, but does anyone have an idea of what it could be?

Also might look into defoliating a little bit tomorrow if I find some time (damn finals )


that's it for now, enjoy!

 

[leweed]

Merry christmas folks!

Little update as week 5 of flowering is
beginning

I remarked my hps was flickering a little bit since 1 day or 2, wasnt sure if it was normal or not. Turns out it wasnt, 2 days ago my hps burned out. Idk for how long they have been in the dark, maximum 3h i think.

I went dirrectly to the store to grab a new bulb. I think they are doing fine now.

Here's the familly pics

And a couple more pics:

I have a plant turning purple, one turning a little bit purple and yellow, one turning mostly yellow and one staying green ...
Leaves turning yellow are mostly old leaves so I don't worry much about it.
Purple is probably due to low temps diring night, it's arround 18°C at night and 26-30°C during day. pH is arround 6.5 so that shouldnt be the prob.
Remarked a little heat stress too on one plant only ( the biggest one), but that's weird because temps rarely get over 30°C.

Overall i'm pretty happy with the grow, I still expect to pull out 8oz even if they have some minor deficiencies, they should get trough




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[ChronicPurps]

Dude ur ladies are beautiful man keep it up! its always a pleasure seeing new pictures on your journal.

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[Pennywise]

Keep that shít up, what youre doing is working. .

 

[leweed]

Thanks guys, appreciated.

So it's update time, better late than never

Ladies should be ready in a little more than 2 weeks, gave them their last nutes this weekend. Next watering will be plenty of fresh water for the flush.

The tent is getting really colorful, there is a lot of purp n yellow. Plus the dank smell. I love it

Here are the pics, cant wait to harvest those babies!


Family pics

Each plant individually:

#1: The pretty Flacko
The most beautiful colorfully

#2: The monster
4 heads, 4 huge nugzzzz

#3: Young Thug
The smallest one

#4: The weak-ass big yielder
I had to attach this one with 3 strings beause he was leaning wayyy to much lol. He has always been leaning but now it couldnt stand the weight of the nugs.
This one has been topped like #2, but has smaller top nugz and a lot more nugz all around the plant.
Before:

After:

So that's it, enjoy!

See ya in a week or so for a pre-harvest update


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[Pennywise]

Looking good Leweed


Keep em frosty ya'll