My Return to Growing by BudRanger!

[Eledin]

The colors keep getting prettier
And the wonkys keep getting bigger, those weird leaves happen sometimes or in my experience at least. Happens mostly in old seeds or poorly stored seeds or in strange cases its pheno related. They will grow normally after the first or second node are fully developed.

 

[BudRanger1919]

I can see her knees now

LOL Yep I got rid of a few lower yellow leaves, can see her lowers a lot better now! There were more I could have taken off, but its hard to see in my images that the ones I left are actually not as pale as they look. In person they are much more green, so I didn't feel right removing them. All the damaged and yellow leaves got the chop though. Loving my new clippers .

The colors keep getting prettier

This is my first time with purples, gotta say, I am pretty blown away, I love the colours. I think purple genetic traits are much more common these days, but still, its nice to see them with my own eyes finally.

And the wonkys keep getting bigger, those weird leaves happen sometimes or in my experience at least. Happens mostly in old seeds or poorly stored seeds or in strange cases its pheno related. They will grow normally after the first or second node are fully developed.

Thank you for that, I thought as much! I have seen growth like this many times before, and almost always yeah, they came right in a few nodes like you said. Pretty excited, they've started growing really fast.

 

[BudRanger1919]

Dehumidifier is working really well. I am very happy with it. Its a small unit, and it fits perfect in my closet with plenty of room, and it works perfect.

Some good news. Its been a couple of days, and no signs of light stress at 75% ^_^. No further stretch tallest tops still 20" from light, whilst lower branches 25" from the light.

The babies are starting to drink more. My chart doesn't have anything added until 4 nodes have grown, and last time that was a good place to start. They currently have 2 nodes each, and a top of course. I am probably going to top at node 3 or 4. The Grifters needed to be topped early, but the breeder says Kir Royales needs early topping and secondary topping. I can attest to the Grifter needing to be topped, they did NOT want to branch without it, so I am going to trust the breeder on this one again. Some of the babies looked like they were drinking more than the others, but when I scratched back the top soil the dry pots still had moisture so no water today. I know some of them look bone dry but they aren't, its just the top soil. The last water I gave them was the most water I had given them yet, around 100mls

The Wonky triplets have started "un-Wonking". By that I mean the new growth coming out looks fine.

 

[Sunin]

Wonkies will be front runners. Life
I also don't put nada until four proper sets are grown and until cotyledons turn yellow

they all look more or less even now

how's the Yellow Monster after trimming?

 

[BudRanger1919]

Wonkies will be front runners. Life
I also don't put nada until four proper sets are grown and until cotyledons turn yellow

Under dogs to watch ! For my last grow that was a really good starting point, so I will do it again. I know my girls are exciting, but right now all my excitement is for my babies.

how's the Yellow Monster after trimming?

Shes doing very well! I think a lot of the leaves were in a period where they were better off than on. I could have taken more off her but my exposure settings on my camera don't do the leaves I left on justice. They look a lot more green in person, so I left them on for now. The other 2 plants took it a lot better, they didnt skip a beat because I only removed 3-4 leaves off them. But the Yellow Monster needed a bit more attention. I still cant quite put my finger on what these girls smell like though... All I can tell you is that the smell is extremely pleasant, and the Yellow Monster is especially sweet smelling.

On the lower parts of the plants there are smaller buds that aren't all that special. I maybe broke my rule and I rubbed them just a little bit to get a good whiff, and I STILL cant place what it smells like. But its strong, pungent, and sweet. The left plant though, she smells like sweet apple, shes really ahead in smelling sweet, whereas the other 2 are more gassy I guess you could say.

 

[BudRanger1919]

Week 6, day 40 of flower.

Its been another 4 days, and they got another 5 litres. I added the rhizo and micro/enzyme products to the water to help break down whats left in the soil.

Bud shots.

Babies are doing well, they drank the 100mls and they have dried out after 4 days. Yesterday I gave them 150mls each. This time I totally wet the top soil and watered evenly. But, a bit of an embarrassing mistake.. So a few days ago I plugged in my timer, I closed up my tent vents and duct holes, I ran my new ducting and light proofed it, and I set my timer to 18/6, but in all my tasks I forgot to switch it to timer-mode . So my bad on that, forget my previous mention of switching to veg light-cycle, now I REALLY have switched. It is their first day of veg today.

 

[Sunin]

Week 6, day 40 of flower.
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Its been another 4 days, and they got another 5 litres. I added the rhizo and micro/enzyme products to the water to help break down whats left in the soil.
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Babies are doing well, they drank the 100mls and they have dried out after 4 days. Yesterday I gave them 150mls each. This time I totally wet the top soil and watered evenly. But, a bit of an embarrassing mistake.. So a few days ago I plugged in my timer, I closed up my tent vents and duct holes, I ran my new ducting and light proofed it, and I set my timer to 18/6, but in all my tasks I forgot to switch it to timer-mode . So my bad on that, forget my previous mention of switching to veg light-cycle, now I REALLY have switched. It is their first day of veg today.

they look fantastic
your nute burn is bigger than mine

 

[BudRanger1919]

they look fantastic
your nute burn is bigger than mine

Thank you! The stink is real now, I cant open my tent without my whole room stinking to high heaven for an hour.

Nute Burn? You're being too kind, my plants have nute scorch save me Jesus! Its why I have also felt better about just sticking to rhizo and micro the past week. My hope is these doses of rhizo and micro/enzyme over the past 2 weeks will have made a good meal of what is left in the soil.

My chart is "incorrect". It has Harvest at week-8, and it has Top Dress ending at week 4-5. So, I took a little trip to HeavyDayze discord and had a look at what he had to say on top dressing his seeds late flower. He said if you run his strains and stop top dressing at week 4-5, by week 8 they wont be finished yet AND they will be starving. He said to do 1 last feed at week 6-7 (week-7 in my case). Thought I would let you know! Somebody asked the exact question which is super lucky for us both.

 

[Sunin]

Thank you! The stink is real now, I cant open my tent without my whole room stinking to high heaven for an hour.

Nute Burn? You're being too kind, my plants have nute scorch save me Jesus! Its why I have also felt better about just sticking to rhizo and micro the past week. My hope is these doses of rhizo and micro/enzyme over the past 2 weeks will have made a good meal of what is left in the soil.

My chart is "incorrect". It has Harvest at week-8, and it has Top Dress ending at week 4-5. So, I took a little trip to HeavyDayze discord and had a look at what he had to say on top dressing his seeds late flower. He said if you run his strains and stop top dressing at week 4-5, by week 8 they wont be finished yet AND they will be starving. He said to do 1 last feed at week 6-7 (week-7 in my case). Thought I would let you know! Somebody asked the exact question which is super lucky for us both.

They look stinky enough

Yeah- you're on second stage of tipsing uping so it's still not bad.
Strain is obviously fast finisher, hungry pig and I like it
I mean look how fast they building. Of course they will be eating to the end

Can't wait to grow it

Thanks for the tip. I will surely get back to you for the links while I will be at it. I like my research too

 

[BudRanger1919]

Yeah- you're on second stage of tipsing uping so it's still not bad.
Strain is obviously fast finisher, hungry pig and I like it
I mean look how fast they building. Of course they will be eating to the end

Yeah I think next run I will be a lot better, I am going to be a lot more dutiful on keeping the soil healthy from now on, and now I know to let them dry out. I am glad they are stacking on weight, and might be done a little early, you wont find me complaining there . Next water, in week 7, will be their last top dress and fertilizer feed. If they finish at week 9 I will be very happy.

 

[budsofgeorgia]

i tried to read along but im so confused where to start

 

[BudRanger1919]

i tried to read along but im so confused where to start

Yeah this Grifter run has plenty of user-error. Under and over watering, did both. Under and over feeding, did both. LED too low and LED too high, I did both of those too . You name the mistake I probably made it.

 

[budsofgeorgia]

what pics i saw looked good

 

[BudRanger1919]

what pics i saw looked good

That's very kind of you to say <3 I tried my best and I am loving soil so much. Learning is always a bit rough, but I went out about a week ago and bought 5 more bags of soil so my babies the Kir Royales have all the soil they will need.

 

[Papaseedpoppa22]

Who cares what the leaves look like buds look solid!

 

[Thatoneguyyouknow_]

there's no such thing as a plant outside that makes it to the end unscarred. Beautiful buds lol. If i wasnt so damn stoned and tired id read back a bit more. But hey, this is the best time to show up to a grow journal anyway lol.

 

[BudRanger1919]

Who cares what the leaves look like buds look solid!

Haha thanks man! They smell great too.

there's no such thing as a plant outside that makes it to the end unscarred. Beautiful buds lol. If i wasnt so damn stoned and tired id read back a bit more. But hey, this is the best time to show up to a grow journal anyway lol.

Thank you man I appreciate it! We are in the real fun zone now a great time to pop in.

 

[Eledin]

They keep getting better and better! How many weeks of flower for that strain on average? Also what strain was it? I forgot

 

[BudRanger1919]

They keep getting better and better! How many weeks of flower for that strain on average? Also what strain was it? I forgot

Hey man thank you! They keep getting chunkier and more purple lol fun times ahead. This one is "Grifter" by HeavyDayze, they say its 58-62 days, so I am probably going to chop at week 9 unless the trichs tell me different.

 

[Sunin]

Yellow Monster will finish last that's my bet