Second Grow diary

[Newbieleaf]

This is my second Grow as the first one was quite a disaster and yeiled under a Oz, I was using an LED light that came with a kit after researching it it was poor Chinese garbage so decided to build my own growdrobe. The seed I'll be using are feminised hulkBerry in coco with about 30% perlite

I started this one in a 50x50x60 tent under 150w CFL

This is from week 1
I then refurbished the wardrobe to a growdrobe a couple pictures below

After that was finished and light proofed I moved the her in.
I've missed pictures from week 2 & 3 but it was topped and tied down during them weeks.

Below is around week 4, it's been through a stressful period an has been topped twice and had abit of an accident. I accidently amputated a branch and couldn't save it. Its under a 250w hps now

You can just about see the towel hanging on the side as the humidity was quite low around 25% - 35% this raised it by about 20% during lights on as there on 18/6

Into week 5 below starting to grow now looking abit healthier

The marks on the leaves are water as I couldn't get under it properly to water it.

This is from today 4th December halfway through week 5. The white square you can see is a Dht22 so I can monitor temperature and humidity remotely so I don't have to go into the drobe often. There's not much lateral growth and the distance between nodes is quite short.

 

[Newbieleaf]

Week 6 of my second attempt at growing looking alright I think & now there in flower. I got 2 additions to the growdrobe, some strawberry kush when I acquired these they were already rooted and have been put straight into flower due to lack of space

 

[Newbieleaf]

Onto day 10 of flower looking good so far still hopefully stays this way bigger than the 1st grow already all of it down to these forums alot of good tips floating around so thanks.

One nearest in corner looking a little battered but was not in much good shape when received the clones and I guess the funky grow thing is with rotating them and them reach for light

 

[Newbieleaf]

Day 18 flower.
Everythings looking good, not much changed since start of the grow there was a slight sign of potassium deficiency I think, so I started adding pk 13/14 now at 0.5ml per litre with no further leaves bending

As of now they're on per litre
1.5ml a&b
0.5ml rhizotonic
1ml canazyme
0.5ml pk 13/14

A couple of the leaves have a shiney glaze like reflection on the edges under white light not sure what's causing this or if its normal

I defoliated before flower and took quite a few of the leaves off, but left everything else. I'm almost at week 3 flower as of today I'm unsure if to risk chopping the undergrowth off as it stalls for around 3ish days I've noticed when causing stress .

The 2 clones I adopted seem good also there on the same feed as the hulkBerry

I'll try get some shots with lights off at some point as the colours don't show under the glow off the hps

 

[Beachwalker]

Nice! Digging the drobe!

 

[Newbieleaf]

Thanks, I Needed it to be hidden and the drobe gave the most space & the tent i was using is pretty small too but couldn't go with a larger tent.
Just not much room now and humiditys going quite high, but no room for dehumidifier. Ordered an upgrade for extractor fan hopefully will lower it as outside RH is lower than inside the drobe.

 

[Newbieleaf]

Managed to get a couple shots with lights of,

The one at the back in the last picture is the clone, I had to remove one of them as just didn't have the space and wasn't growing aswell as this one that's around 18 days flower and the other at day 25.

 

[Newbieleaf]

Onto day 30 flower
Stopped adding pk 13/14 day 28 and started using mammoth P bloom enhancer at 0.5ml per litre all other nutrients remain the same and phing between 5.9 - 6.1 PH

Some of the leaves look like its reverting back to veg no serration on some of them and odd growth on old blades? So removed the plants to see if any light leaks but couldn't see any coming through

 

[Newbieleaf]

Day 39 since flip
Not much has changed over the past week growth has really slowed down for some reason, judging from the top leaves this could be due to heat stress.

feeds been upped too to 1500 TDS with a base of 75 TDS
2.25ml canna A & B
0.3ml rhizotonic
1.5ml cannazym
Per ltr
TDS in run off is around 1100 & and there drinking about 200ml/hr judging from run off

Purpling seems to be fading on the fan leaves stems with revised feeds also.

The coco has some new friends springtails, found these little kangaroos in the run off yesterday and from what I've read on the Internet there harmless pests that are difficult to get rid of so rather than nuking them I'll leave them be for the time being and keep up with regular irrigation 3x 750ml watering per day to keep them under control.

Not very clear picture they look like larvae lol but they alive and jump

A few pictures from day 34 since flip will try get some more tonight as these aren't very clear

I've got a 6" extractor fan for upgrade to combat the heat and create some negative pressure just waiting on a VFD to come as it hums with the variable plugs and drives me crazy

 

[Newbieleaf]

Some pictures for day 39
HulkBerry day 39 since flip & the last picture is HulkBerry but not showing up in edit

Strawberry kush day 32 since flip

 

[Newbieleaf]

Not much changed this time around buds have got slightly bigger, but can't figure out why the leafs are curling inward

Feeding PPM is around 700
Run off is usally around 450PPM
Temps 24.4 - 25.6 at canvas level
RH 50-60%

5ml A & B
5ml canazyme
0.6ml rhizotonic
To 3 ltrs water
Dropped mammoth p bloom booster

Some snaps hulk Berry day 47 since 12/12

Strawberry kush day 40

 

[stanknugzz77]

That growdrobe is dope! You are killing it for your second time around! I love the chapstick for scale lol. That Hulkberry responded beautifully to LST. Good luck with your grow! Positive vibes...

~nugzz

 

[Newbieleaf]

Thanks, these forums have helped me a lot. Just struggling to find a reason for tacoing.
Temps seem OK & Run off ppm seems OK. I can't really find any pictures with top fan leaves intact in flower to see if it's genetics.its just shown slight tip burn for atleast 3 weeks hasn't got any worse as i dialed back on the nutes, seems since I added bloom booster the leaves started to taco but I've dropped that from feeding and seems to be progressing around the top fan leaves slowly.

 

[Newbieleaf]

Well I think the leaves tacoing was heat stress I moved the probe around a bit and had Temps upto 30c. I've moved the big one away from the intake side to try create some more air flow around the drobe Temps have come down to around 26c at the min at canvass level hopefully this was the problem. But the clone to flower is going alright some nice nugs forming

The twisting leaves in leaves due to where it was and pushed up against the side so wasn't touch each other.

Theres multiple pistils per calyx more than 2 not sure if this is normal or anything to be concerned about

 

[Newbieleaf]

Got the 6" fan installed now a little overkill but could serve incase of change grow location or back to back drobes. Purchased a cool tube too Temps down to 24c atop of canopy. Other than that in last 2 weeks of flowering according to the flower period so knocked daylight hours down to 11 and gradually decreased feeds over the week
Now
1ml a&b & 2ml of canazyme per litre

leaves have stopped tacoing

Removed prefilter as pushing instead of pulling and a little jelly mould full of smelly stuff smells. Quite nice

 

[Newbieleaf]

Disaster the extractor fan stopped working last night it was really hot. When touched good job I was around to unplug it now its cooled down it doesn't run at full power and makes a horrendous buzzing noise like its on a cheap variable plug the 4" isn't powerful enough to keep Temps down so I switched lights off

Germinated 2 more yesterday, but autos this time in the small tent hopefully get things sorted in the drobe when theses are ready to move

 

[Newbieleaf]

Here's she is before the chop, kinda disappointing as still a couple weeks left of flower and everything was going quite OK I think.

The jack & gorilla autos starting to sprout now couple weeks to sort an extractor out as there under 150w cfl blue light.

 

[HiDaze]

Ah man! Those were looking wonderful. Sorry to hear you ran into a major road block. Round 3 will be YOUR round!

P.s. looking forward to seeing that girl after cure!

 

[Newbieleaf]

Let's hope round 3 will be the one lol, but still learning so it's good. looks like it's yielded a lot more than the 1st though so still a win in a way.

just the waiting game now to see how it smokes with it being pulled down so early.

 

[Newbieleaf]

So it's been nearly a month. The smokes good the Berry shoots straight through a little harsh at times, I presume that's because she didn't get flushed at all and just had the 24hrs of darkness.
Pulled just over 5oz off of it almost 8-9x my 1st grow
A couple of the nugs still a little leafy

Into week 3 on the autogrow and purchase some back up equipment for this grow