vyserage
Well-Known Member
Hey guys whats up, ive been meaning to get this added. Its already finished and im already 3 weeks into my new third grow which is RDWC! I had some hiccups with soil in this grow as you will see. I also discarded 2 plants of the strain CriticalKush that ended up males (those seeds were given to me for free). So here it is!
Strains:
Plant 1: Sour Diesel (i think humboldt)
Plant 2: SD
Plant 3: SD
Plant 6: GG #4 (unknown breeder)
Lights:
Viparspectra 600 (2 of them to cover a 4x4 tent, not nearly enough lol)
Tent size: 48x48x96
Soil: Some sort of stick heavy soil that wasn't really very much soil lol. I think it was organic too which was a mistake since i didn't want organic. In fact, this soil seemed very mulch heavy. Was like some sort of stick heavy, low potting mix, bag of shit lol.
Here's the kicker, i used the last of the good soil i had to fill 1 gallon pots to all plants. Then i used the last of what remained during the transplant to 3 gallon pots for all plants, but only had enough to finish plant #1. Plants 2/3/6 used the shitty soil i described.
This poor choice in soil unfortunately lead to a HUGE decrease in yield due to crazy high pH to the point of locking out nutrients to my roots. This issue didnt occur until flowering as you will see.
Pots: 3 gallon fabric pots.
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12/12/17: Started germinating seeds at 5:30am. 3x Sour Diesel (SD) and 3x Critical Kush (CK).
12/13/17: some of the seeds show small taproots, leaving in for a bit over 24 hrs and then transferring to paper towel. Added in the remainder 2 CK seeds to attempt germination since it isn't looking good for the CK's.
12/16/17: I let the taproots grow about an inch for the 3 SD, half inch for the 2 CK, the rest (CK) didn't take soaking even for a few days. Germinated 1 GG #4 until it cracked open. Moved to paper towel and awaiting it to grow atleast a bit of a taproot before placeing it into the 1 gallon pots where i have now planted all the 5 seeds that had taproots.
Light hung 35' from top of soil, watered seedlings down entire middle of pot until small amount of runoff. will continue to water in this fashion daily or every other day.
Light schedule changed to 18/6 as 5pm ON, 11am OFF.
12/19/17: All 6 plants now have seedlings with #6 being the youngest by a few days. Will be starting day 1 of grow shortly.
12/22/17 Day 1: Lowered light to 24' from top of sprouts. Watered nutrients based on paper schedule.
12/23/17 Day 2: Pic:
12/25/17 Day 4: Watered plants plain water.
12/28/17 Day 7: Fed plants
12/31/17 Day 10: Watered plants plain water.
1/04/18 Day 14: Fed plants. Measured ppm's, 1 was over 4k, a couple over 2500 and the rest either 1900 or 2500 range. Pics taken:
1/8/18 Day 18: Watered plants. Measured ppm's ranges were 1900's to 3000's. Topped plant #2. Pics taken:
1/9/18 Day 19: Topped plants 1/3/4/5/6 down to 5th node (6th node was starting). Plant #2 has only been topped once and i did NOT remove the lower growth, this is my experimental plant to see how the yields are without removing any growth aside from topping once.
1/13/18 Day 23: Watered plants plain water.
1/16/18 Day 26: Topped plants 1/3/4/5/6 (7 days since last topping). Pics taken.
1/18/18 Day 28: Fed plants.
1/23/18 Day 33: Transplanted all plants to 3 gallon, Fed plants. Trimmed plants to let light in. Pics taken (Transplant was actually yesterday to give at least a day of shock relief from transplant since trim was today). Am not happy with the new soil as its very stick like and water seems to pass through pretty easily. Takes 4 1/2 gallons of water to water all 6 plants. outsides are dry while middle where its the other soil shows to clearly still be damp.
1/28/18 Day 38: Ran 8+ gallons of water through 4 of the plants due to 8.0 or above ph runoff, thinking this was due to the soil i used, the other 2 plants were fine. Fed the plants afterwards. I did use tap water for the flushing and it was pH'd around 6.0 range. Hopefully the chlorine in the tap doesn't trip it up too much but either way i did follow up with regular feeding/water.
Plant 1 is in the 2k ppm range, all the others are roughly 800 - 1100. Will feed again next watering.
1/29/18 Day 39: Defoliated heavily. Pics taken.
2/3/18 Day 44: Light defoliation done to let light through canopy to lower nodes. I have been doing this every couple of days or so and taking 2-3 leaves off each plant, usually only the ones blocking light.
Fed plants, pH of 5 of them was at or above 7.0 with majority being 7.6. Unsure as to why this is happening but assuming its due to the soil mix i used. Water runoff is always very dirty looking and even has a weird layer of grime that settles on top of water as it sits in water tray.
2/4/18 Day 45: After a bit of research, learned more about removing fan leafs and fear i may have removed a bit too many. Also learned taking off top canopy leafs is not good, from now on ill try to tie them/bend under. Saw for myself that the node connected to a fan leaf below it shows more growth vs its direct opposite side counterpart. Pics taken to show. Also worth noting is i noticed some nodes were fine and of equal size even with its fan leaf missing. Not very many at all of those tho. Maybe 1-3 a plant. This could easily be because it had a chance to develop its own little leaf's enough to self sustain before i chopped its fan leaf. This requires more testing! Pics Taken
2/8/18 Day 49: Added Dolomite 3Tbs to plant 1 and 3 in soil and mixed into first inch or 2, then watered all plants. Previously the PH for 5 plants was in the 7.0 to 7.6 range and are all now coming down. Water in was 6.0 to help lower pH runoff. Results
P1=6.76, P2=7.12, P3=6.87, P4=6.81, P5=7.15, P6=6.93
Last feeding was P1=6.5, P2=7.6, P3=7.6, P4=7.0, P5=7.6, P6=7.6
Next watering i will feed a couple and water the rest while keeping an eye on the pH for plant 3 in comparison to p2 (because of the dolomite added to p3, am hoping it helps lower ph).
Regarding the 'tests' of leaf node stunt, so far i have yet to notice a size difference in the sour diesel plants where i chopped and marked the nodes to watch. Giving it a bit longer. I must still test this on a very top shoot fan leaf and see if the resulting super baby nodes grow at the same pace or chopped side = stunted, this is to prove weather clipping a fan leaf while its connected node is too small to self supply VS clipping when its got little fan leafs developed so it can self supply.
Pics:
Strains:
Plant 1: Sour Diesel (i think humboldt)
Plant 2: SD
Plant 3: SD
Plant 6: GG #4 (unknown breeder)
Lights:
Viparspectra 600 (2 of them to cover a 4x4 tent, not nearly enough lol)
Tent size: 48x48x96
Soil: Some sort of stick heavy soil that wasn't really very much soil lol. I think it was organic too which was a mistake since i didn't want organic. In fact, this soil seemed very mulch heavy. Was like some sort of stick heavy, low potting mix, bag of shit lol.
Here's the kicker, i used the last of the good soil i had to fill 1 gallon pots to all plants. Then i used the last of what remained during the transplant to 3 gallon pots for all plants, but only had enough to finish plant #1. Plants 2/3/6 used the shitty soil i described.
This poor choice in soil unfortunately lead to a HUGE decrease in yield due to crazy high pH to the point of locking out nutrients to my roots. This issue didnt occur until flowering as you will see.
Pots: 3 gallon fabric pots.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
12/12/17: Started germinating seeds at 5:30am. 3x Sour Diesel (SD) and 3x Critical Kush (CK).
12/13/17: some of the seeds show small taproots, leaving in for a bit over 24 hrs and then transferring to paper towel. Added in the remainder 2 CK seeds to attempt germination since it isn't looking good for the CK's.
12/16/17: I let the taproots grow about an inch for the 3 SD, half inch for the 2 CK, the rest (CK) didn't take soaking even for a few days. Germinated 1 GG #4 until it cracked open. Moved to paper towel and awaiting it to grow atleast a bit of a taproot before placeing it into the 1 gallon pots where i have now planted all the 5 seeds that had taproots.
Light hung 35' from top of soil, watered seedlings down entire middle of pot until small amount of runoff. will continue to water in this fashion daily or every other day.
Light schedule changed to 18/6 as 5pm ON, 11am OFF.
12/19/17: All 6 plants now have seedlings with #6 being the youngest by a few days. Will be starting day 1 of grow shortly.
12/22/17 Day 1: Lowered light to 24' from top of sprouts. Watered nutrients based on paper schedule.
12/23/17 Day 2: Pic:
12/25/17 Day 4: Watered plants plain water.
12/28/17 Day 7: Fed plants
12/31/17 Day 10: Watered plants plain water.
1/04/18 Day 14: Fed plants. Measured ppm's, 1 was over 4k, a couple over 2500 and the rest either 1900 or 2500 range. Pics taken:
1/8/18 Day 18: Watered plants. Measured ppm's ranges were 1900's to 3000's. Topped plant #2. Pics taken:
1/9/18 Day 19: Topped plants 1/3/4/5/6 down to 5th node (6th node was starting). Plant #2 has only been topped once and i did NOT remove the lower growth, this is my experimental plant to see how the yields are without removing any growth aside from topping once.
1/13/18 Day 23: Watered plants plain water.
1/16/18 Day 26: Topped plants 1/3/4/5/6 (7 days since last topping). Pics taken.
1/18/18 Day 28: Fed plants.
1/23/18 Day 33: Transplanted all plants to 3 gallon, Fed plants. Trimmed plants to let light in. Pics taken (Transplant was actually yesterday to give at least a day of shock relief from transplant since trim was today). Am not happy with the new soil as its very stick like and water seems to pass through pretty easily. Takes 4 1/2 gallons of water to water all 6 plants. outsides are dry while middle where its the other soil shows to clearly still be damp.
1/28/18 Day 38: Ran 8+ gallons of water through 4 of the plants due to 8.0 or above ph runoff, thinking this was due to the soil i used, the other 2 plants were fine. Fed the plants afterwards. I did use tap water for the flushing and it was pH'd around 6.0 range. Hopefully the chlorine in the tap doesn't trip it up too much but either way i did follow up with regular feeding/water.
Plant 1 is in the 2k ppm range, all the others are roughly 800 - 1100. Will feed again next watering.
1/29/18 Day 39: Defoliated heavily. Pics taken.
2/3/18 Day 44: Light defoliation done to let light through canopy to lower nodes. I have been doing this every couple of days or so and taking 2-3 leaves off each plant, usually only the ones blocking light.
Fed plants, pH of 5 of them was at or above 7.0 with majority being 7.6. Unsure as to why this is happening but assuming its due to the soil mix i used. Water runoff is always very dirty looking and even has a weird layer of grime that settles on top of water as it sits in water tray.
2/4/18 Day 45: After a bit of research, learned more about removing fan leafs and fear i may have removed a bit too many. Also learned taking off top canopy leafs is not good, from now on ill try to tie them/bend under. Saw for myself that the node connected to a fan leaf below it shows more growth vs its direct opposite side counterpart. Pics taken to show. Also worth noting is i noticed some nodes were fine and of equal size even with its fan leaf missing. Not very many at all of those tho. Maybe 1-3 a plant. This could easily be because it had a chance to develop its own little leaf's enough to self sustain before i chopped its fan leaf. This requires more testing! Pics Taken
2/8/18 Day 49: Added Dolomite 3Tbs to plant 1 and 3 in soil and mixed into first inch or 2, then watered all plants. Previously the PH for 5 plants was in the 7.0 to 7.6 range and are all now coming down. Water in was 6.0 to help lower pH runoff. Results
P1=6.76, P2=7.12, P3=6.87, P4=6.81, P5=7.15, P6=6.93
Last feeding was P1=6.5, P2=7.6, P3=7.6, P4=7.0, P5=7.6, P6=7.6
Next watering i will feed a couple and water the rest while keeping an eye on the pH for plant 3 in comparison to p2 (because of the dolomite added to p3, am hoping it helps lower ph).
Regarding the 'tests' of leaf node stunt, so far i have yet to notice a size difference in the sour diesel plants where i chopped and marked the nodes to watch. Giving it a bit longer. I must still test this on a very top shoot fan leaf and see if the resulting super baby nodes grow at the same pace or chopped side = stunted, this is to prove weather clipping a fan leaf while its connected node is too small to self supply VS clipping when its got little fan leafs developed so it can self supply.
Pics:
