New Grower Shady's Micro Grove: Twisted Trees, Aliens, and Nectar. First Journal, Second Grow.

[ShadyGrove]

Days 44 - 54
*Environment (day/night):*
82-85F / 70-74F
55-60rh
Lights @ 20/4

We got trichromes and the buds are starting to fatten up! We've also got some nutrient deficiencies (I think?). AMR seems to have an Mg def while TM looks like it has a P def. I have been feeding a little above the recommended rates, not sure whats happening, but hopefully they can make it till the end! Surprisingly not really any smells yet, hopefully they will come soon.

Performed another slurry test this week, and the numbers look right where they should be:

| Day | Starting  | TM        | AMR       |
|-----+-----------+-----------+-----------|
|  12 | 6.5 / 211 | 6.5 / 379 | 6.5 / 480 |
|  28 | DISTILLED | 6.7 / 340 | 6.7 / 288 |
|  46 | DISTILLED | 6.8 / 456 | 6.3 / 557 |

Day 44
Feed 2 cups each (recipe per gallon):

| Medusas  | 1tsp  |
| Gaia     | 2tsp  |
| Athenas  | 2tsp  |
| Demeters | 2tsp  |
| Kraken   | 2tsp  |
| Hygeia   | 2tsp  |
| Herc     | 6tbsp |
| Zeus     | 2tsp  |
| SLF100   | 1tsp  |

Water @ 6.7 pH / 709 ppm

Day 45
Feed 2.5 cups each

| Medusas  | 1tsp  |
| Gaia     | 2tsp  |
| Athenas  | 2tsp  |
| Demeters | 2tsp  |
| Kraken   | 2tsp  |
| Hygeia   | 2tsp  |
| Herc     | 6tbsp |
| Zeus     | 2tsp  |
| SLF100   | 1tsp  |

Water @ 6.6 pH / 776 ppm

TM on the left, AMR on the right:

Day 46
Slurry and calibrate pH and ppm pens.

| Starting  | TM        | AMR       |
+-----------+-----------+-----------|
| DISTILLED | 6.8 / 456 | 6.3 / 557 |

Tea 3 cups each

| Hygeia    | 2tsp |
| Aphro     | 3tsp |
| Photo+    | 2tsp |
| EZBloom   | 2tsp |
| Fish Sh!t | 1tsp |
| SLF100    | 1tsp |

Day 48
Feed 2 cups per plant:

| Medusas  | 1tsp  |
| Gaia     | 2tsp  |
| Athenas  | 3tsp |
| Demeters | 2tsp  |
| Kraken   | 2tsp  |
| Hygeia   | 2tsp  |
| Herc     | 6tbsp |
| Zeus     | 2tsp  |
| SLF100   | 1tsp  |

Water @ 6.5 pH 803 ppm

Defoliate some fan leaves blocking bud sites and to help airflow in the middle of the plants.

AMR flower:

TM flower:

Day 49
Feed 2 cups per plant:

| Medusas  | 1tsp  |
| Gaia     | 2tsp  |
| Athenas  | 3tsp |
| Demeters | 2tsp  |
| Kraken   | 2tsp  |
| Hygeia   | 2tsp  |
| Herc     | 6tbsp |
| Zeus     | 2tsp  |
| SLF100   | 1tsp  |

Water @ 6.7 pH 771 ppm

Day 51
Flush
2.5 cups per plant:

| Hygeia | 2 tsp  |
| Aphro  | 3 tsp  |
| Herc   | 6 tbsp |
| SLF100 | 1 tsp  |

Starting to show some deficiencies here:

Day 53
Feed 2 cups per plant (recipe per gallon):

| Medusas  | 1tsp  |
| Gaia     | 2tsp  |
| Athenas  | 3tsp |
| Demeters | 2tsp  |
| Kraken   | 2tsp  |
| Hygeia   | 2tsp  |
| Herc     | 6tbsp |
| Zeus     | 2tsp  |
| SLF100   | 1tsp  |

Water @ 6.2 pH 845 ppm

Can see the purple TM leaves a bit better here:

Day 54
Feed 2.5 cups per plant (recipe per gallon):

| Medusas  | 1tsp  |
| Gaia     | 2tsp  |
| Athenas  | 3tsp  |
| Demeters | 2tsp  |
| Kraken   | 2tsp  |
| Hygeia   | 2tsp  |
| Herc     | 6tbsp |
| Zeus     | 2tsp  |
| SLF100   | 1tsp  |

Water @ 6.4 pH 740ppm

 

[DCLXVI]

Right on! Glad to see an update. From those close up leaf shots the plants must be loving what you're doing. I mean, heck, that's pretty frosty looking and it's allllll just leaf still. Can't wait to see how insane the actual buds are going to get.

 

[ShadyGrove]

Right on! Glad to see an update. From those close up leaf shots the plants must be loving what you're doing. I mean, heck, that's pretty frosty looking and it's allllll just leaf still. Can't wait to see how insane the actual buds are going to get.

Thanks! This is actually about a week behind of where I actually am (been super busy!), and things are getting even frostier! They are showing a bit more fading/deficiencies than I would like, considering how much I'm feeding them, but hopefully things will finish up strong.

 

[ShadyGrove]

Days 55 - 64
*Environment (day/night):*
82-85F / 70-74F
55-60rh
Lights @ 20/4

Things are really starting to fatten up and smell good now! Things are fading a bit faster than I had expected, but despite the crappy slurry numbers, the buds just keep getting bigger and frostier.

Some notable things this time:
- Went away for the weekend (Hoxyville music fest!), used blumats, and when I came back plants were happy.
- Amended soil with some more One Shot.
- Starting to use Tritons Trawl. This is fish bonemeal that is supposed to help promote more terpenes.
- High slurry numbers

I have apparently been overfeeding a lot, because my ppm's almost doubled since last slurry! Note that I am using E.C. x 500 here. Apparently all the NFTG documentation is E.C. x 700. This is probably partly due to the One Shot, but I dont think they should be this high. After this I will do at least another few days of flushes/teas.

| Day | Starting  | TM        | AMR       |
|-----+-----------+-----------+-----------|
|  12 | 6.5 / 211 | 6.5 / 379 | 6.5 / 480 |
|  28 | DISTILLED | 6.7 / 340 | 6.7 / 288 |
|  45 | DISTILLED | 6.8 / 456 | 6.3 / 557 |
|  55 | DISTILLED | 6.5 / 330 | 6.5 / 347 |
|  63 | DISTILLED | 6.5 / 687 | 6.6 / 613 |

Day 55
Slurry

| Starting  | TM        | AMR       |
|-----------+-----------+-----------|
| DISTILLED | 6.5 / 330 | 6.5 / 347 |

Day 56
Amend 4tbsp of One Shot each
Feed 2.5 cups per plant (recipe per gallon):

| Medusas  | 1tsp  |
| Gaia     | 2tsp  |
| Athenas  | 3tsp  |
| Demeters | 2tsp  |
| Kraken   | 2tsp  |
| Hygeia   | 2tsp  |
| Herc     | 6tbsp |
| Zeus     | 2tsp  |
| SLF100   | 1tsp  |

Water @ 6.4 pH 700ppm

Set up blumats
1 gallon of water with:

| Fish Sh!t | 1tsp |
| Photo+    | 2tsp |
| SLF100    | 1tsp |

Water @ 6.5 pH

Out of town for days 57 and 58, Blumats should keep things alive hopefully.

Day 59
They survived the weekend at Hoxeyville! It may be my imagination but it looks like they got a bit frostier.

Feed 2 cups per plant

| Hygeia   | 2tsp |
| Gaia     | 3tsp |
| Athenas  | 2tsp |
| Demeters | 2tsp |
| Kraken   | 2tsp |
| Herc     | 6tsp |
| Zeus     | 2tsp |
| SLF100   | 1tsp |

Water @ 6.2 pH

Day 60
Feed 2 cups per plant

| Hygeia   | 2tsp  |
| Gaia     | 3tsp  |
| Athenas  | 3tsp  |
| Demeters | 2tsp  |
| Kraken   | 2tsp  |
| Herc     | 4tbsp |
| Zeus     | 2tsp  |
| SLF100   | 1tsp  |

Water @ 6.4 pH 657 ppm

Day 61
Feed 2 cups per plant

| Hygeia   | 2tsp  |
| Gaia     | 3tsp  |
| Athenas  | 3tsp  |
| Demeters | 2tsp  |
| Kraken   | 2tsp  |
| Herc     | 4tbsp |
| Zeus     | 2tsp  |
| SLF100   | 1tsp  |

Water @ 6.6 pH 672 ppm

Day 62
Flush / Tea
2 cups per plant:

| Hygeia    | 2tsp  |
| Aphro     | 3tsp  |
| Herc      | 2tbsp |
| Tritons   | 2tbsp |
| SLF100    | 1tsp  |
| Fish Sh!t | 1tsp  |

Water @ 6.4 pH 447ppm

First time using Tritons Trawl. Along with calcium, it also provides an additional source of amino acids. Its even supposed to help terpene development, I plan on using it the last few weeks of the grow.

I just re-read in the NFTG Bible that they recommend doing a ration of 2:1 Herc to Tritons, so I will start doing it at that ratio from now on.



Day 63
Slurry

| Starting  | TM        | AMR       |
|-----------+-----------+-----------|
| DISTILLED | 6.5 / 687 | 6.6 / 613 |

Slurry numbers are high, will do another flush / tea or two, and check again in a few days.

Day 64
Flush / Tea
3 cups per plant (recipe per gallon):

| Hygeia    | 2tsp  |
| Aphro     | 3tsp  |
| Herc      | 2tbsp |
| Tritons   | 1tbsp |
| EZBloom   | 1tbsp |
| SLF100    | 1tsp  |
| Fish Sh!t | 1tsp  |

Water @ 6.5 pH 737 ppm

TM bud:

AMR bud:

 

[olbobcat]

Any updates.
I am growing with Nectar indoors myself. Just finished outside with Nectar. Was not worth it because I was in 25 gallon pots and it cost me a fortune. I was following you as a partial guide. Seems like they were doing alright with it.

 

[ShadyGrove]

Day 66 - 71

Sorry for the lack of updates, I have been super busy! Google deleted the last 2 weeks of notes for my grow, so here is what notes I had transferred over to my computer. They both really started fading here, TM especially. It was pretty finicky looking the whole grow, but the flowers still look nice and frosty!

Day 66
Feed
Feed 2 cups per plant

| Hygeia   | 2tsp  |
| Gaia     | 1tsp  |
| Athenas  | 3tsp  |
| Demeters | 1tsp  |
| Kraken   | 1tsp  |
| Herc     | 2tbsp |
| Tritons  | 1tbsp |
| Zeus     | 2tsp  |
| SLF100   | 1tsp  |

Forgot to write down pH and ppm (it was 6.4 - 6.6 pH and 4-500 ppm I believe though)

Day 67
Slurry

| Starting  | TM        | AMR       |
|-----------+-----------+-----------|
| DISTILLED | 6.4 / 798 | 6.4 / 579 |

Slurry numbers still very high! Will continue to give flushes and teas for the next week or so...maybe even until harvest?


Day 69
Flush
3 cups per plant (recipe per gallon):

| Hygeia  | 2tsp  |
| Aphro   | 3tsp  |
| Herc    | 2tbsp |
| Tritons | 1tbsp |
| SLF100  | 1tsp  |

Water @ 6.4 pH (forgot to get ppm)

Day 71
Flush
3 cups per plant (recipe per gallon):

| Hygeia    | 2tsp  |
| Aphro     | 3tsp  |
| Herc      | 2tbsp |
| Tritons   | 1tbsp |
| SLF100    | 1tsp  |
| Fish Sh!t | 2tsp  |

Water @ 6.5 pH 431 ppm

 

[ShadyGrove]

Day 74 - 90 (HARVEST!!!)

I sadly lost the notes of what I was feeding the last few weeks here, but I have the pictures at least!

Some notes:
- AMR was ready before TM, but I need to harvest both at the same time, so I waited a bit until TM was ready.
- Smells near the end were very sweet, kushy, and hints of other dank type things (chem maybe?)
- They were both eating themselves alive near the end, TM especially, but it was kind of finicky the whole grow.
- I did not mean to harvest on day 90, it just sort of happened that way!

For feeding, I started doing feed/feed/flush(w/ added fish sh!t) until about day 81 or so, watering every 2-3 days. For the last week I did 2 more "flushes", turned the lights off on day 88, and harvested on day 90.

For drying environment, they are staying in the tent at:
68-70F
55-60 rH

I wish I could get lower temps but c'est la vie! Hopefully that is "low and slow" enough to get some nice terps.

On to the pics!

Day 78

Day 80

Day 86

Day 87

Day 90
Harvest Day!!!
TM on left, AMR on right

Alien Moonrocks!

Twisted Menagerie!

 

[YoungGrassh0pper]

Nice! Your Drying environment should be fine. My tent is usually around those numbers. I usually trim around Day 7. You can also buy a wood moisturizer reader. They're like $20 on Amazon. I use one with Grove Bags for curing.

 

[ShadyGrove]

Any updates.
I am growing with Nectar indoors myself. Just finished outside with Nectar. Was not worth it because I was in 25 gallon pots and it cost me a fortune. I was following you as a partial guide. Seems like they were doing alright with it.

This is my second grow with nectar and I have had pretty good success so far with it! I can't imagine how much it would take to water 25 gallon pots...I typically did a half gallon per watering, and my plants didnt even need the whole thing!

 

[420Forever]

Day 74 - 90 (HARVEST!!!)

I sadly lost the notes of what I was feeding the last few weeks here, but I have the pictures at least!

Some notes:
- AMR was ready before TM, but I need to harvest both at the same time, so I waited a bit until TM was ready.
- Smells near the end were very sweet, kushy, and hints of other dank type things (chem maybe?)
- They were both eating themselves alive near the end, TM especially, but it was kind of finicky the whole grow.
- I did not mean to harvest on day 90, it just sort of happened that way!

For feeding, I started doing feed/feed/flush(w/ added fish sh!t) until about day 81 or so, watering every 2-3 days. For the last week I did 2 more "flushes", turned the lights off on day 88, and harvested on day 90.

For drying environment, they are staying in the tent at:
68-70F
55-60 rH

I wish I could get lower temps but c'est la vie! Hopefully that is "low and slow" enough to get some nice terps.

On to the pics!

Day 78
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Day 80
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Day 86
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Day 87



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Day 90
Harvest Day!!!
TM on left, AMR on right
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Alien Moonrocks!
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Twisted Menagerie!
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don't forget to tag me with the final dry weight, so me can give u a shiny lil badge :smoking: ppp