Nahmlos's Journal

[Nahmlos]

Plants look good over all except those burnt or fading lookin spots on that one plant...n looks like theres a pest in there sumthins been chompin on some leaves down there... I'd hold off on the spraying...can you not get to the pots n water/feed?

I was also a bit concerned when I saw what looked like a leaf being chewed on, but I did a fairly thorough check and it is only that one leaf that looks like that. Couldn't see any other signs of pests. My best guess is that its related to either some nutrient deficiency, nutrient burn, or quite likely a damaged leaf from my missed fimming attempt (the node checks outs), the leaf looks quite misformed which might mean its issues did start when it started forming?

I'm definately going to take a break from spraying, I went a bit nuts with it (perhaps why the one plant's leaves look burnt) and I'll just focus on soil feeding for a bit when ever I water which is still easy, and the pots can be removed from the grow space quite easily.

EDIT: Another thing to note, winter here has gotten quite chilly. I am now getting an average of 21-22°C in the grow space. I have temporarily sealed off the extra passive inlet and outlet vents to save on heat gain and avoid any light leaks.

 

[Nahmlos]

Today has been an eventful day with some surprises. I made a lot of adjustments to my grow and some lessons were learnt;





#1 Standing Water as Humidity control is not the best solution if your nutrients and run-off can easily run into it.
With so many new leaves and the space rapidly filling up, I wanted to do a thorough check of the grow space today and I quickly realised that I had too much water in the bottom tray with soil water run off entering the tray (I must have over watered a bit too much the blast time). The water has turned murky red, started developing an oder (urine like) and contained what seemed like tiny springtails. This horrified me and I cleared the whole box, disinfected it and dried it out. I gave the two plants a decent flush.

#2 Clones are difficult.
The clone surprised me for lasting till now, but I must have over watered it while in the plastic bottle dome. I noticed the fine new growth from the main cola has starting turning to mush, most of the other leaves still looked alive and fairly healthy. I figured that it must be slowly dying and declared it over. After pulling it out, I saw that it had formed a lot of new roots, much more than I would have thought. I was impressed, but the main cola was screwed up still, so I took it out anyway. The grow space is already very cramped so one pot less would be better.




#3 Cannabis stretches quickly.
I knew it was coming, but not by so much and that quickly. The older plant is rapidly expanding. If it was the only one, the space would have been perfect, but with the other plant, its super tight. I gave both some trimming, took off the lower leaves as my first attempt of minor lollipopping. I then decided to do LST on the older one, by tying down its two main colas. Hopefully this will maintain a more acceptable height once flowering kicks in, if its even a female (the older one hasn't started pre-flowering yet).






And that's it. I know its a bad idea and a bit late for doing additional HST and starting LST during flowering. It's the first week of 12/12, but I really wanted to do these changes before its too late.

May the experiment continue...

 

[Nahmlos]

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[MY OWN DANK]

Today has been an eventful day with some surprises. I made a lot of adjustments to my grow and some lessons were learnt;

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#1 Standing Water as Humidity control is not the best solution if your nutrients and run-off can easily run into it.
With so many new leaves and the space rapidly filling up, I wanted to do a thorough check of the grow space today and I quickly realised that I had too much water in the bottom tray with soil water run off entering the tray (I must have over watered a bit too much the blast time). The water has turned murky red, started developing an oder (urine like) and contained what seemed like tiny springtails. This horrified me and I cleared the whole box, disinfected it and dried it out. I gave the two plants a decent flush.

#2 Clones are difficult.
The clone surprised me for lasting till now, but I must have over watered it while in the plastic bottle dome. I noticed the fine new growth from the main cola has starting turning to mush, most of the other leaves still looked alive and fairly healthy. I figured that it must be slowly dying and declared it over. After pulling it out, I saw that it had formed a lot of new roots, much more than I would have thought. I was impressed, but the main cola was screwed up still, so I took it out anyway. The grow space is already very cramped so one pot less would be better.

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#3 Cannabis stretches quickly.
I knew it was coming, but not by so much and that quickly. The older plant is rapidly expanding. If it was the only one, the space would have been perfect, but with the other plant, its super tight. I gave both some trimming, took off the lower leaves as my first attempt of minor lollipopping. I then decided to do LST on the older one, by tying down its two main colas. Hopefully this will maintain a more acceptable height once flowering kicks in, if its even a female (the older one hasn't started pre-flowering yet).

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And that's it. I know its a bad idea and a bit late for doing additional HST and starting LST during flowering. It's the first week of 12/12, but I really wanted to do these changes before its too late.

May the experiment continue...

Looks like some good genetics...I think you'll be fine on the training they still have some stretching to do

 

[Nahmlos]

On a side note... I discovered this cannabis plant while walking in a park today, what do you think it is?
Have a look at this post: Link

 

[Nahmlos]

I have a new girl, joining the family, harvested her from the park where I spotted her yesterday (link).
I need to decide whether I am going to make her part of the flowering cycle with the other two plants or whether I should switch my whole grow back to veg so that she can gain some weight and health?








It's gonna be tight!

 

[Nahmlos]

There she is, in her new home.

 

[MY OWN DANK]

I'd just let her slide right in on the 12/12 with the others

 

[Nahmlos]

I'd just let her slide right in on the 12/12 with the others

Ok great, Iet's see how she does

 

[Nahmlos]

I have three girls! (I think... ) I'm sure that my younger plant (from) seed is a female, her flowers are starting to take great shape. The foundling from the park is cerainly a female, but she seems to be struggling a bit after the transplant and new environment, hopefully she'll still rebound back into better health within the next couple of days. The oldest plant (from seed) which is now filling the entire box and is only about a hand or two away from reaching the top of the box also appears to be developing flowers, but I'm concerned that she could possibly be a hermy... But still a bit soon to tell? It's getting pretty difficult having a look around without disturbing the bud sites and I'd prefer not to remove the plants from the box at, this stage.



Younger plant (from seed):




Older plant (from seed):

 

[Nahmlos]

I have three girls! (I think... ) I'm sure that my younger plant (from) seed is a female, her flowers are starting to take great shape. The foundling from the park is cerainly a female, but she seems to be struggling a bit after the transplant and new environment, hopefully she'll still rebound back into better health within the next couple of days. The oldest plant (from seed) which is now filling the entire box and is only about a hand or two away from reaching the top of the box also appears to be developing flowers, but I'm concerned that she could possibly be a hermy... But still a bit soon to tell? It's getting pretty difficult having a look around without disturbing the bud sites and I'd prefer not to remove the plants from the box at, this stage.

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Younger plant (from seed):
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Older plant (from seed):
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Okay, I'm about 90% sure that I don't have any hermies yet. Looking forward to my first and possibly decent harvest.

 

[MY OWN DANK]

Are you sure ur 12/12 schedule is strict with no light leaks?...almost looks like a couple of those budsites are tryna reveg

 

[Nahmlos]

Are you sure ur 12/12 schedule is strict with no light leaks?...almost looks like a couple of those budsites are tryna reveg

Heck... Thanks for pointing it out, but would they have started with the whispy hair like pistils if they were? I've got a felt blanket over the box's seams and the closet remains entirely closed throughout the dark cycle. I'll put an extra blanket over it all just to make sure.

 

[MY OWN DANK]

Heck... Thanks for pointing it out, but would they have started with the whispy hair like pistils if they were? I've got a felt blanket over the box's seams and the closet remains entirely closed throughout the dark cycle. I'll put an extra blanket over it all just to make sure.

It looks like they started to flower with the white hairs but are now growing vegetative growth where the white hairs shoulda continued to grow if light cycle was correct...

Couple pics of my current AK which is only couple weeks into flower for reference...where the white hairs start to form budsites thats all they should build n form in those spots urs seems to be producing leaves where the budsites should be

 

[Nahmlos]

It looks like they started to flower with the white hairs but are now growing vegetative growth where the white hairs shoulda continued to grow if light cycle was correct...

Couple pics of my current AK which is only couple weeks into flower for reference...where the white hairs start to form budsites thats all they should build n form in those spots urs seems to be producing leaves where the budsites should beView attachment 4618987View attachment 4618988View attachment 4618989

Could it not be the other way around? Where they started vegetative growth and has since trasitioned to flower growth, hence the appearance of both still? Nothig has changed in my light setup, and those whispy hairs only started appearing a couple of days ago.

 

[MY OWN DANK]

You could be right then...a couple of em just looked unusual to me...theyll tell you for sure within the next week

If both have those white hairs then both are fem

 

[Nahmlos]

You could be right then...a couple of em just looked unusual to me...theyll tell you for sure within the next week

If both have those white hairs then both are fem

Let's hold on till next week then and make a call. I'll just make sure they are really well isolated from any light. I'm still super stoked to have my first plants flowering though, despite my odd and non ideal little cardboard box haha.

 

[MY OWN DANK]

Yeah as long as their getting a good solid dark period they'll flower correctly....n hell yeah its super exciting ur 1st grow thats when i fell in love with it.

 

[Nahmlos]

Stretching to the edge:

Flowering starting to get along nicely after the 2nd week of the flowering cycle:

The Orphan starting to get used to her new home:

 

[MY OWN DANK]

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Flowering starting to get along nicely after the 2nd week of the flowering cycle:
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The Orphan starting to get used to her new home:
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Yeah man she looks happy...I dont think their done stretching yet...how much space is left to the lights?...could prolly use some more light...I started out as a CFL grower...I recommend some of these...

Growing with cfls and bein successful takes some creativity...ha