Aloha there, here's the other grow journal I promised - two Lemon Kix in 60x60x160cm tents (2x2x5.3ft or so), after My tiny Forbidden Cherry journal.
These guys have been growing for precisely 60 days today, counting from the day I first took the seeds out of the fridge and put them into a cup with distilled water.
They appear to be two very different phenos, one tiny, rather on the Indica-side leaning - that has suffered my stupidity, and one pure, big, strong Sativa, that's also stupid and doesn't mind me.
I messed them up a bit in the early stages, due to (as far as I see it anyway) first over-, then underfeeding. They, especially plant A, got very yellow, and had to be rescued by adding some Canna Mono Trace Mix, before switching to stronger normal fertilization (without Mono etc.), and removing the dead leaves. Both recovered fully (?) within about a week, but still, stupid mistake. It appears the AFCs really love a strong feed, even early on - or there was some other reason. But so far, more fertilizer has always solved all problems I had with those plants.
Oh yeah and I messed up plant A a second time by insisting on trying to SCROG it while it was already too late for it - the plant was rather kind in dealing with it ok-ish, but that is something I'd definitely not recommend or do again. Live and learn.
Last but not least, I broke some branches on A and B, this being my first SCROGing attempt. But all, except for one on A, healed up fine. The one is the one held by the white string in the pictures.
As a matter of fact, the branch that I broke the second worst (imho) is now by far the fattest branch, and not just around the break but the entire branch - almost as fat as the main stem on B. So... interesting. Didn't know that... or maybe coincidence. Need to verify at some point.
As for the setup, I'm of course trying to follow (more or less) 420autoflower's method, just adapted for my needs. I read about the method too late, while they were already growing, so I topped them twice, but it doesn't seem to be much of an issue - except maybe for the smaller left one, plant A - who knows, maybe it would have gotten a lot bigger without the topping, that may have been a mistake for her. B is fine however. They've shared the same feed from day one; I checked the runoff, but that allowed for it since they were close enough.
First, my beloved old Mars Hydro lamps - not giving them up yet, they've served me well for many years and still yield heavily, when hung low and in a small space - perfect for SCROGs. They're supposedly 240W lamps, according to the sticker (48 5W LEDs), but the LEDs only get driven with slightly below 2W each, so it comes to 90W per lamp, aka per tent. That was a feature, not a bug, they said back then it was for higher efficiency... not sure if their 150W LEDs these days are actually 150W then or even lower wattage than mine???
Below the nets I added some 20W (?) Amazon craplights, just because I had them lying around not being used, and have no money to spend on extra lamps right now. So trying to see if they do anything at all, if moved very close.
Given the much smaller space, much lower wattage etc. this will get absolutely nowhere near what 420AF pulls of his plants - but it should allow me to optimize my space nicely, and I'm hoping for a personal record from plant B. Plant A will yield much, much, much less, but be done soon, so hey, there's that
Then, as for the plants - I only started taking pictures of them on day 32, and from day 36 on I took one every two days, of both plants - so you can follow along with the growth pretty nicely.
Plant A:
Day 32, immediately after second topping:
Day 36, immediately after adding trace elements:
Day 38, starting to get dark green leaves again:
Day 40, immediately after removing some of the dead/dying leaves:
Day 42, immediately after removing the rest of the dead/dying leaves:
Day 44, right before applying LST:
Day 46, right after schwazzing and SCROGing:
Day 48, recovering, growing skyward again and filling back up:
Day 50, after adding under-net-lighting and industrial (really high speed) PC fans; threw out old, clogged air stone for temporary replacement
Day 52, after another generous round of leaf stripping:
Day 54, supercropped joints are looking pretty thick:
Day 56, buds starting to get thicker:
Day 58, right after removing the support/SCROG-net - mostly just to see if that would work; I like to test and try stuff out:
Day 60 (height 26cm above DWC pot):
Oopsie, apparently I can only add 15 pictures per post - rest in the next one
These guys have been growing for precisely 60 days today, counting from the day I first took the seeds out of the fridge and put them into a cup with distilled water.
They appear to be two very different phenos, one tiny, rather on the Indica-side leaning - that has suffered my stupidity, and one pure, big, strong Sativa, that's also stupid and doesn't mind me.
I messed them up a bit in the early stages, due to (as far as I see it anyway) first over-, then underfeeding. They, especially plant A, got very yellow, and had to be rescued by adding some Canna Mono Trace Mix, before switching to stronger normal fertilization (without Mono etc.), and removing the dead leaves. Both recovered fully (?) within about a week, but still, stupid mistake. It appears the AFCs really love a strong feed, even early on - or there was some other reason. But so far, more fertilizer has always solved all problems I had with those plants.
Oh yeah and I messed up plant A a second time by insisting on trying to SCROG it while it was already too late for it - the plant was rather kind in dealing with it ok-ish, but that is something I'd definitely not recommend or do again. Live and learn.
Last but not least, I broke some branches on A and B, this being my first SCROGing attempt. But all, except for one on A, healed up fine. The one is the one held by the white string in the pictures.
As a matter of fact, the branch that I broke the second worst (imho) is now by far the fattest branch, and not just around the break but the entire branch - almost as fat as the main stem on B. So... interesting. Didn't know that... or maybe coincidence. Need to verify at some point.
As for the setup, I'm of course trying to follow (more or less) 420autoflower's method, just adapted for my needs. I read about the method too late, while they were already growing, so I topped them twice, but it doesn't seem to be much of an issue - except maybe for the smaller left one, plant A - who knows, maybe it would have gotten a lot bigger without the topping, that may have been a mistake for her. B is fine however. They've shared the same feed from day one; I checked the runoff, but that allowed for it since they were close enough.
First, my beloved old Mars Hydro lamps - not giving them up yet, they've served me well for many years and still yield heavily, when hung low and in a small space - perfect for SCROGs. They're supposedly 240W lamps, according to the sticker (48 5W LEDs), but the LEDs only get driven with slightly below 2W each, so it comes to 90W per lamp, aka per tent. That was a feature, not a bug, they said back then it was for higher efficiency... not sure if their 150W LEDs these days are actually 150W then or even lower wattage than mine???
Below the nets I added some 20W (?) Amazon craplights, just because I had them lying around not being used, and have no money to spend on extra lamps right now. So trying to see if they do anything at all, if moved very close.
Given the much smaller space, much lower wattage etc. this will get absolutely nowhere near what 420AF pulls of his plants - but it should allow me to optimize my space nicely, and I'm hoping for a personal record from plant B. Plant A will yield much, much, much less, but be done soon, so hey, there's that
Then, as for the plants - I only started taking pictures of them on day 32, and from day 36 on I took one every two days, of both plants - so you can follow along with the growth pretty nicely.
Plant A:
Day 32, immediately after second topping:
Day 36, immediately after adding trace elements:
Day 38, starting to get dark green leaves again:
Day 40, immediately after removing some of the dead/dying leaves:
Day 42, immediately after removing the rest of the dead/dying leaves:
Day 44, right before applying LST:
Day 46, right after schwazzing and SCROGing:
Day 48, recovering, growing skyward again and filling back up:
Day 50, after adding under-net-lighting and industrial (really high speed) PC fans; threw out old, clogged air stone for temporary replacement
Day 52, after another generous round of leaf stripping:
Day 54, supercropped joints are looking pretty thick:
Day 56, buds starting to get thicker:
Day 58, right after removing the support/SCROG-net - mostly just to see if that would work; I like to test and try stuff out:
Day 60 (height 26cm above DWC pot):
Oopsie, apparently I can only add 15 pictures per post - rest in the next one
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And thanks, the pictures don't quite capture it all too well, I always have to adjust colors via GIMP too, which makes everything look a bit weird... but (s)he really is a beaut, IMHO anyways.
But no chance to get to it now without ripping the whole branch off.
