New Grower The Hazzle's first grow

[jingo]

My inexperienced eyes are telling me that the flushed plant seems to be coming along a little faster than her sisters. Maybe il flush between veg/grow switch from now on.

I know a few guys who swear by that veg/flower flush. I think it's a good idea on auto water because you get water channels in the Coco after awhile, not sure about hand water.

 

[thehazzle]

I know a few guys who swear by that veg/flower flush. I think it's a good idea on auto water because you get water channels in the Coco after awhile, not sure about hand water.

I'm in airpots and do find the water tends to pool in the middle as it comes out the sides sometimes when watering close to the edge and my tent so cramped hard to get around in there to water properly.

 

[Proph]

Awesome growing!

 

[thehazzle]

Day 71 F38
Watered all between 700-1500ml all until small amount of run off. As they are getting more frequent feedings if I carry on in the future would possibly go water only every other day.

Think in the beginning I was over watering per water but less frequent.

They are smelling so good I can't wait. Not sure what I should do with the popcorn buds at the bottom of the plant.

Is it worth me removing them so the plant send more energy to the main buds?

 

[thehazzle]

Awesome growing!

Thanks dude def learning loads on this grow.

 

[Proph]

I appreciate how detailed your journal is! Thank you for that! It makes things soo much easier to read through and catch up on! You can read up on "lollipoping" your plants. That will get rid of all popcorn buds. But at 71 days, Id say it way to late to start that process. A couple of other options are to either use the popcorn buds for hash.. Or you can harvest in stages when the plant is ready to chop. Meaning, that when you are ready to harvest, chop off all the main colas and mature buds.. Then leave the popcorn buds on the plant and under the lights for another 2 weeks or so and let the "popcorn" buds fully mature. They are only popcorn buds because they are soo low and arent getting enough light. I throw any immature buds into my hash/trim pile.

 

[thehazzle]

I appreciate how detailed your journal is! Thank you for that! It makes things soo much easier to read through and catch up on! You can read up on "lollipoping" your plants. That will get rid of all popcorn buds. But at 71 days, Id say it way to late to start that process. A couple of other options are to either use the popcorn buds for hash.. Or you can harvest in stages when the plant is ready to chop. Meaning, that when you are ready to harvest, chop off all the main colas and mature buds.. Then leave the popcorn buds on the plant and under the lights for another 2 weeks or so and let the "popcorn" buds fully mature. They are only popcorn buds because they are soo low and arent getting enough light. I throw any immature buds into my hash/trim pile.

Ha it's because if i didn't I'd never be able to go through my notes to learn otherwise. To me this whole growing thing is like a science experiment. I want to eek out the most quality yield with my Space while also costing the least in energy. It's going to be fun improving each grow

 

[thehazzle]

Day 72 F40
Tested Ph of nutes I made up 2 days ago and it had risen to 7. Not sure whether this is an indicator of the true settled PH of nutes and I'm feeding too quickly after mixing? Should I mix nutes and then leave a day before feeding? Normally I do it all in one go, mix, test ph, adjust then feed.

700-1L watered. Seems like they not drinking as much. Ordered a 60w quantum board for the veg tent. Got about 400 wall watts in flower tent currently, hoping the buds fatten up a lot more. Not sure how long I have left but almost finished week 6 so will feed all week 7 and then go water only.

Removed the blurple 130w LED back into the veg tent as I only had a 50w 6500k on the veg plants and they were stretching like mad and growing proper slow. They are almost 4 weeks in from seed and want them to be a decent size before putting them into the flower tent when this lot are done. Hopefully the QB will arrive soon and I can get the blurple back in there.

So now only have around 270w on them, hopefully still fatten them up.

 

[thehazzle]

Forgot to mention my 2L dehumidifier arrived today. Removes up to 750ml I've set it to 50% so we will see how that goes.

 

[jingo]

I set my pH and water straight away, then I know it's correct going in. Never checked a few days later, but then I've not had a problem. To be honest once I get going I don't check pH or TDS unless I make nute
changes, I'm so used to my setup.