Aurora Indica by Nirvana, 100% organic grow with BioBizz nutes

[D.A.A.S.69]

Morning Cocho, yeah, I've had a bunch of young plants have odd looking leaves ,I noticed yours in your first picture, i don't know what causes that, but it ain't nothing to worry about, especially since you know how to tell if a problem arises, it's really hard to mess up in soil, as long as your water is phed right. She is fixing to start growing good in a few days, Good Luck.

 

[starramus]

Genetic error. Nature is not perfect in its replication. Subsequent leaves will most likely be perfect.

I had my test subject (my wife) sample the dissimilar Aurora Indica this last evening. She reported that it is full blown sativa dominant. She could not get to sleep which is not her normal reaction to AI. So if your little tyke turns out with light green foliage it is sure to be the sativa dominant phenotype. The odds are not in favor of that though. Out of 15 plants this is the first to surface. The seed came out of a Nirvana five seed package. Good luck with that little girl.

It is hard to believe that this sativa dominant plant popped out of a 90% indica strain. I suppose it is possibly a packaging error on Nirvana's part. I dunno. Your guess is as good as mine. You could almost say it is a new strain Aurora Sativa.

http://www.growmedical420.com/strain...aurora-indica/

http://www.rollitup.org/t/quick-ques...st-did.506191/

 

[Cocho]

I ended up watering her today. When I checked in on her earlier today, I found it to be a good idea to inspect the soil. And I found that it was dry till over a knuckle deep. So I mixed up 1 liter of water with 0,6 ml of BioGrow. I want to see if she'll turn darker green on such a small dosage. She does look healthy, and I'll post a picture later.

Now it's Christmas shopping with my girlfriend

Peace!

 

[Cocho]

Hello everyone!

Quick update for you today.

When I woke up this morning, I topped her. Clipped of the tiny top, and hopefully she will not get too stressed out because of this.
The plan is to grow more "canopies", before I do some light LST before I install the ScroG net into the tent.

This is my first ever attempt on topping. I've never done this before, only LST.
So I hope I did it right. And FYI I did use the LBH's Famous ScrOG Tutorial, so I guess I'll be alright (thoughts?).

She's looking healthy and strong. And I think the small amount of nutrients I added last watering, only did her good. So I'll be adding nutrients to the next watering too.

The conditions inside the tent as of right now are; 26C/79F and 43% RH.

Anything to add?


Peace!

 

[Locrian99]

Of course the pic on Nirvana’s website shows this beautiful blue color, have you found this to be a common pheno?

 

[Cocho]

I was once told that different colors can be achieved by introducing the plant to a planned and controlled change in temperature. I've never seen it done, and I've yet to do any research on this myself, but I thought I should mention it, since you asked

 

[Locrian99]

Yea I know the temperature drop truck but I think you still have to have the right pheno with certain strains like I believe bubblicious not all turn pink. I think it’s the same with the AI.

 

[Cocho]

Yeah, I guess. The one I've got had some purple color when it was on its second pair of leaves. So maybe this one changes color after a while?
I'll be sure to keep this thread updated, so you'll be able to see for yourselves. I sure hope this one gets some purple in it. Would be awesome!

 

[Locrian99]

Looking forward to the updates. Hoping to see some color as well.

 

[Cocho]

Alright! Here's a quick new update.

Late last night I decided to do some light LST, so that the little girl could use the first hours of the day with light to stretch.
And I think it worked as planned, because she looked a lot different this morning than she did last night.

As you can see, the two, now top canopies, have started reaching for the light.

And since I've left her without water for a few days I watered her today, with a solution of 1,6ml BioGrow added to 1,5 liters of water.
This was still not enough to get any drainage through the bottom of the pot. So the soil hold on to the water pretty well.

Here's another picture, a little closer to the "action", and you can clearly see some new growth sprouting out in between the branches, and I'm not sure how to address that, since this little thing is getting kind of bushy already.

My solution this far has been bending the branches away from the new growth, trying to give way for the light. Hopefully this will be enough, and I don't have to cut off of her this early in the cycle.
But time will show, and I appreciate all the help I can get.

Here's the last picture. This one shows you how she's been reacting to the topping, compared to the picture from yesterday.

Been a few years since I last did some LST, so I can really tell that I'm rusty. You all know the feeling you have when you're new, and you believe that the tiniest pressure on any of the branches will break the plant in seconds. I know this is not the case, but still.. I can feel the "fear" in my fingers as I bend her around. Hehe! But this will come back to me, eventually... so, what do you think? Any input?

The conditions inside the tent as of right now, are; 27C/81F and 48% RH.

I'm thinking about adding nutrients for "real" from now on. And I don't think that would be a problem, since she looks fresh and light green now, even after a good dosage of BioGrow.
What do you think about that? I've got BioGrow, BioBloom and Top Max.

And that's all for today, I think..

Peace!

 

[Locrian99]

She looks good to me, being new I know the feeling on the fear when messing with the girls. Now matter how much I hear how resilient they are I try to handle them like they are fine china.

 

[Cocho]

Yeah! I know that they can handle it, but my mind tells me to stop. Guess I will "shake" that off during the next few days. It has just been too long since I last did this.

 

[Canyon Grower]

Agree with DAAS69, nothing to worry about. Also agree regarding soil, although I would add that it needs to be a quality mix that contains enough nutrients to last, or you will need to use nutrients.

 

[Cocho]

This soil mix does contain some nutrients, but only enough to sustain the plant for a week or two. So I've started to add nutrients to the water before every watering.
And from the next time I water her, I will be adding more nutrients, since the feeding schedule tells me to add both BioGorow and BioBloom from an early stage, and after 1-2 weeks I'll start adding TopMax into the mix as well.

I'm using Biobizz, so it's kind of hard to burn the plant. Still.. I'm taking every precaution I can think of. I want this plant to grow fat and sticky. So I will keep the conditions inside the tent at its best as often as I can, during this grow. Been a few years since last time, but it's all starting to come back to me.

 

[Cocho]

Quick update!

Things are happening really fast, so today I had to tie her down in a different way.
I'm kind of "struggling" to decide which branch to tie down because she's getting so bushy that it's really hard to tell which one would be the best.
And since she's so small, I don't really have a lot of options when it comes to placing the wires.

Here she is, looking good so far

What do you think?

 

[Canyon Grower]

Cocho, you are giving her the right kind of attention. Good job. Watch those nutes though. Its not very hard to give too much. I know, I've just about killed plants before. Its easy to think that if a little is good then a lot could be even better. So go easy ! BTW she is lookin good.

 

[Cocho]

Thanks! I've been holding back on the nutes this far. Been giving her half of the recommended ratio. So time will show as she progresses throughout the veg cycle. Keep checking in here. Always nice with some constructive feedback. Cheers!

 

[GreenDragonRon]

Well it depends on what you're trying to do.

Are you trying to follow Nebula's Manifold? If so, I'd get rid of the growth tips and fan leaves below the top node.

She looks like she's hungry, have you started nutes?

 

[Cocho]

Hello, and thanks for the feed back!

Lets see...

I started giving her nutrients the 8th of December, and so far I've given her nutrients 2 times since then.
I started of with 1/2 the dosage with the first try (0,6ml BioGrow in 1liter of tap water).
The second time, was yesterday, and that time I added 1,6ml to 1,5 liters of tap water.
The plan is to start giving her 100% of the amount "recommended" by Biobizz, and also start giving her BioBloom and TopMax, since I'm almost at week 2 in the schedule.

I wanted to start slow, since I'm using a new soil mix, and I don't really know much about it, and wanted to see how the plant reacted to the soil before I started heavy on the nutrients.

Plus I've yet to figure out how much is too much water and so on, since this is a new soil mix I've never used before.
The pot I'm using holds around 15 liters (4 gallons) of soil, mixed with Perlite and Vermiculite.

In what way does she look hungry? I can't really tell what you're referring too.

And no.. I'm not following Nebula's Manifold guide. I'm following LBH's Famous ScrOG Tutorial; http://www.growweedeasy.com/scrog-tutorial

 

[Cocho]

I've been keeping an eye on this girl for a few days now, because of some "claw" like leaves starting to form.
And I wanted to accurately be able to predict what was causing it, and my bet fell on light underwatering. Because it could not be Nitrogen toxicity, nor too much water.
So I did a judgement call, and decided to water her again today (with pure water), even tho she is not due for another day or two.
This time I figured I would water her enough for some run off, because I wanted to measure the pH.

And that is when I found out about something horrible. The run off came out at an crazy 4-5 pH, and the soil is 6-6,5 and my tap water is close to 8.
So with nutrients mixed in to the water, it comes out about 7. So this makes no sense at all! Why would the run off be as low as 4-5, when everything else is higher?

So what I did was preforming a flush. And I'm still working on it, because a 15 liter pot need a lot of water to get a proper flush.
The run off is closing in on 5 something pH. I will run a few more cans of water through the mix, and call it a day.
Because I guess continuing watering her with water around 7 pH, will eventually correct the wrong in the long run, right?
Because nothing I've added to the mix should make it go so low as 4-5 pH. So I blame myself for not watering her more, making sure to get some run off every time.
Guess it's salt and crap, that has been building up in the bottom of the pot. Even tho I've only watered her 2 times.

What do you think?