Grow Journal

[Bluey]

As the plants grow you will be trying your hardest to lower humidity, and temps as lowering himidity pushes up temps, and the lower in late flower the better the quality of your buds.

This will likely be your biggest challenge

[LadyK]

Yes I need to be better at taking, recording and tracking everything for sure. Valuable information. They fluctuate so much, may get a different heater that one is YEARS old and pulled it out from the back of my other closet. have a very small humidifier showing up today, I literally have been either just distilled water in there or a wet towel draped over the small curtain rod (not in photos) I was hoping it would kind of just wick up but didn't work. I got the AC Infinity one and sent it back only because this is a small closet I got carried away lol , I will get it and automate everything when I change my grow site.

[LadyK]

Appreciate that! She looked better when I got her compared to what I did to her. Hoping she will be ok in the end.

[Bluey]

Note your temps (night and day) RH EC pH PPFD suppliments amount of water. This will give you a baseline for future changes or improvements.

Try and stay conservative with all of them. It makes for less problems

[Bluey]

Your clone/s look 10 times better than mine....but I tend to neglect mine re pH and blocked nozzles for weeks at a time

[LadyK]

Ok is all of them to finish getting grow journal up, again sorry to long!

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10/10 Clone took lst off, she looks terrible, I had not watered for 5 days leaves clawing and took lst ties off. Day 5 for Autos true leaves looking a bit curled (not as much on Gelato) not sure if water PH issue or lights still? got PH meter, I was using my filtered water and when tested it was bout 5PH! Tap ruGH ph down. So prob locking out pretty much ALL nuits? Now boiling water first night before then watering with 6.5ish clone about 3 cups water (some run off I think bc soil was so dry even though I tried to mist soild surface to break water tension? And watered extremely slow to soak in and not find easy way to run out)autos like 2 tablespoons, dont ask me why lol

10/13 Poor clone girl not looking great with older bottom leaves but tops are more green! so what do I do to her? Bend her over of course! Easy bc she was so dehydrated? Lol used same ties. clone is taller so I think the ppfd on clone was about 500ish before? Now all about the same height autos round 300ish? Temps 75-79/80 RH 50-60% days and nights 45-50RH and temps around 65. Should I keep heater on at night at least around 70-75?? Water – clone about 700 ml, autos about 350 mls (rin off)

10/15 they are all greening up, getting water now lol, Clone took off ties and put on some small tent stakes. I have other 9gauge wire coming may make some of my own and 12 in garden stakes to look at. I still want to cut all those yellowed older fan leaves off, but not sure there is enough green on the new tops to sustain her? Day 10 Autos more true leaves and liking the watering of course! Moved light at around 22 inch per mfg and 50% ish now all about same height and 350-400ppfd? Still using the photone app but also a Lux reading (converting to ppfd I know not same thing or exact but with conversion it was with in about 50+- ppfd so I think it helped me dial in lighting? and trying to go between using both. I have a the VIVOSUN 6 Mil Mylar Diamond Film Roll but had trouble putting it up in one sheet as I didn't want it tight in the corners and tried to make it rounded and had trouble. Walls are not flat white more a warm color, so I know it would give better reflection, I think? May put it up or just paint flat white

10/16 Clone old leaves are terrible, I am tucking to give tops best light, but they are also touching soil which I dont want, still just want to clip them. New growth enough to sustain clone? Do it all at once or just take a few at a time? Day 11 autos, they are looking good I think? Node spacing good I think? First got the APERA AI209 then got the APERA AI316 Premium Series PC60 5-in-1 Waterproof pH/EC (Conductivity) /TDS (ppm) /Salinity (ppt) /Temp still learning it, didnt calibrate it just started using it, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed at this point. but first set of results didnt even take all measurements I could so these may not be the best numbers but will grab all of them next time: Tap water ph around 8.2 down to 6.5, tds/PPM 210, Sal .13 Run off from auto if I did this right as the tds I just have pushed something so reading was ppt in lieu of ppm but seems WAY high? - cond 2.3, tds ppt 170, Sal ppt 1.18 and ph 6.58 from what I read FF soils come adjusted at about 6.3-6.8ph, but does it buffer? Still confused if it buffers ph but still learning!

Still have all those questions and not sure what nuits I want. I do have Gaia Green 4-4-4 and 2-8-4 a I think both are a slow the 4-4-4 esp and also depend on soil microbes which I have no idea how mine are. And also have FF Big Bloom and Grow Big (from summer veg garden seedlings) I do have Recharge use it? I wanted to start additional nuits around week 3-4 for autos to give more but I also think they are SO small they ave not tapped into any of the nuits in soil but I want to top dress? Gaia? Worm castings? Liquid fert watering? I do want to keep this organic.

[LadyK]

9/28 Was gifted a clone of Mendo Breath was under 2 extra lights I had 30w ea 2ft led T8 led shop light 6500k 18/6 checked roots

9/30 getting closet ready and looking at environmental readings with clone now under my outdoor vegetable garden seedling light VIPARSPECTRA 2024 XS1500 Pro for a few days tried to keep at about 400 ppfd 18/6, using Photone app with homemade 22lb paper difuser as suggested. Trying to dial in temps/RH around 75-78 and 45-55RH etc watered maybe 2x using 3 gal fabric pots (will move clone 5 gal eventually) Clone transplanted sprinkled roots with Mycorrhizal Inoculant, dont remember which I used as I have both DYNOMYCO and Myco Bliss Powder I think it was the Bliss

– Got seeds at local hydro store and soils. Soil mix is bottom 50% FFOF (higher Phosphate for roots later?) (fox farms ocean forest I know it can be hot) and top half is 50/50 mix of FFOF and FFHF (fox farms ocean forest and happy frog) Was trying to not make it too hot for the Auto seeds with and then about a 2in x2in center for the seeds in only seed starter no nuits.

10/1 6am dropped auto seeds in water Dutch passion Orange Bud and Fast Buds Gelato then at 8pm put in paper towel

10/2 8am starting to open Orange Bud ahead of Gelato, Clone starting to show yellowing on lower leaf, other leaves showing lighter color around edges ( looks like interveinal chlorosis?) tops curling and taco/canoe? And didnt notice “clawing”? Also thought light was ok but was around 8 inches from top, not sure how that happened so im sure WAY more exposure even though I thought I was at 400 ppfd moved to 22 inches away LOL not sure I was watering oops gave like 1 cup So with all my concerns what did I do? F'd with her. Added insult to injury and topped it. I wanted to at 5 nodes and she had 6. tried to leave a bit of a nub could have left more was trying to avoid it splitting as it grew


10/3 Orange Bud tap root out and Gelato still behind but now out a bit and put into 3 gal pots with cut off water bottle for humidity dome, wont keep them on maybe few days? I know some dont even bother to use

10/5 Put up new Spider Farmer SF2000 tried again to keep at 250-300 ppfd even for clone until seedlings pop. Water clone about 1-2 cups? 8pm Orange Bud popped up yellow adjusted light now Day 1

10/6 5am Clone worse on bottom leaves, Orange Bud Day 2 greening up looking good, and Gelato Day 1 decided to join the party looking a bit rough and cotyledon leaves bent but both came up with no shell attached. Trying to keep light on 24 hrs then back to 18/6

10/7 Clone spacing between nodes looked at im sure its stretching as 300ish ppfd not enough for it

10/8 Going to use same day count for both autos Day 3 as Gelato is only about 12 hrs behind autos both looking good. Clone still not looking great, clawing I thought was over watering, but im sure I was under, tops still curling I think she was dry and I didnt know. So what I do I do? Tried some LST and didnt know what I was doing LOL

[LadyK]

Ok so I think I put my notes together best I could. Sorry this is so long, I got carried away. This would probably have been about 50 posts Updates and changes will be shorter and more under control lol I couldn't even remember what some of my own notes meant. I feel unsure about everything! The closet is 40”L and I made the shelf 14”W to hold larger pots. I stressed them the hell out with getting environment dialed in, few times temps were 85-90 the heater didn't auto turn off, and RH 35%, to almost killing them from not watering because I'm a watering person, so I went to the complete opposite end with these poor girls. Was gifted a clone, so that started this ride for me lol. Of course open to any help and suggestions as I have never had a little grow like this before. I do garden though. Still not sure about so many things I put questions and thoughts in the notes on photos as I went along. I am sure I missed things, or got some timelines mixed up. Yes its a bit mixed up with a photo and autos together, but for now its fine, if I flip the photo over I will put in a different tent but I would like to keep it short. So lights now are 18/6. I am a flower girl from way back and would really love to grow my own smoke. I could only upload 15 photos per post and I wanted to get them all up, so sorry for how long it will be to get the first part up will make a note when its the last one! So appreciate any help!