Sweet Seeds Yozhik's First Grow: Sweet Seeds Cream Caramel, Cream Mandarine, Devil Cream and Killer Kush

[Yozhik]

DAY 9:

Temperatures: ... Under HPS 29 ℃ ... Ambient Room 26 ℃
Humidity RH%: ... 55 [+/- 5%]
Lighting: ... 1 x 600w HPS ... 30" from plants
Schedule: ... 20/4
Nutrients: ... B-52, Piranha, Voodoo Juice, Rhino Skin, Mr Roots, Sensi Grow A and B ... all @ 1ml/l
Feeding: ... changed feeding as er suggestions in Infirmary; i.e. pH adjusted to 6.5 from earlier 6.1-6.3 and changed from 2 x micro feeds @ 75ml-100ml each, to one larger watering to ensure feed is travelling further down into Airpots, and to provide a more homogeneous medium.

The biggest issue here is water quality.
Tap Water pH is 8.0-8.4 with EC of 0.6.

With the Advanced Nutrients 'pH Perfect' range, tap water is regulated to 6.1-6.3 by the nutrients, without my input.
What I might experiment with is adjusting the pH of the tap water PRIOR to adding the AN pH Perfect products.
From information available, the pH Perfect is designed [and the guarantee is premised on] to operate within a very specific pH and EC range.
My tap water falls outside that range on both counts.

I'm going to try using something like 'Canna pH Down' to bring the base water within the working pH range of the pH Perfect products ... then add the nutes, and allow them to then adjust them as designed. Target pH is 6.5.

Monitoring closely and will adjust as and when required.

The 3 x Cream Caramel, the 1 x Cream Mandarine and the 3 x Killer Kush all appear to be happy and progressing well with no concerns.
New growth, height, etc on the Devil Creams doesn't appear to be impacted in any negative way, so I'm confident once we get the pH tweaked, all will be paradise in the garden.

Main focus now is on the Devil Creams, and to determine whether lime green colouring and wavy leaves is down to a form of pH sensitivity, and/or non-optimal watering.

In other words, 'operator error'.


Cream Caramel #1

Cream Caramel #2

Cream Caramel #3

Cream Mandarine #2

Devil Cream #1

Devil Cream #3

Killer Kush #1

Killer Kush #2

Killer Kush #3

 

[Sweet Seeds]

Cheers my friend!

All looking good, thanks for sharing

Sweet smokes!

tommy

 

[Yozhik]

Cheers my friend!

All looking good, thanks for sharing

Sweet smokes!

tommy

thanks for stopping by Tommy!

 

[Yozhik]

DAY 10:

Temperatures: ... Under HPS 29 ℃ ... Ambient Room 26 ℃
Humidity RH%: ... 50 [+/- 5%]
Lighting: ... 1 x 600w HPS ... 30" from plants
Schedule: ... 20/4
Nutrients: ... B-52, Piranha, Voodoo Juice, Rhino Skin, Sensi Grow A and B ... all @ 1ml/l
Feeding: ... no feeding required this morning - medium is still damp from larger watering on Day 9. Going to try to resist the urge to over-managing and hold of watering until Day 11.

In anticipation for the next feed, tap water has already been drawn and is 'settling'.
Will be pH'd to 7.0 PRIOR to addition of AN pH Perfect nutes.

The plants look noticeably bigger this morning - at least to my eyes.
Don't know if it was due to a heavier watering, or the recent addition of the Sensi Bloom A+ B, or the combination of both ... whatever the reason, they appear to have responded very well.

Main focus is still on improving the appearance and colour of the Devil Creams.

Cream Caramel 1 [lower middle], Cream Mandarine [upper left] and Devil Cream 1 [upper right] in 6L Airpots.

Cream Caramel 2 [upper middle], Cream Caramel 3 [lower left], and Devil Cream 3 [lower right] in 6L Airpots.

Killer Kush 3 [top], Killer Kush 1 [middle], and Killer Kush 2 [lower] in 20L, 25L and 20L Airpots respectively.


Cream Caramel #1

Cream Caramel #2

Cream Caramel #3

Cream Mandarine #2

Devil Cream #1

Devil Cream #3

Killer Kush #1

Killer Kush #2

Killer Kush #3

 

[Sweet Seeds Jay]

Looking sweet! you have a great selection of our varieties
Keep up the nice work!!
J.

 

[Yozhik]

Looking sweet! you have a great selection of our varieties
Keep up the nice work!!
J.

Cheers J.

Thanks for stopping by and the encouraging words.

 

[Yozhik]

Couldn't help myself ... had a sneaky look into the tent through the 'sensor' window.
Needed to calm my over-management tendency and paranoia, to ensure the girls were doing OK having skipped their micro-watering this morning.

I caught them having a private Evangelical prayer meeting, with arms raised in collective worship to their HPS God, gently swaying in the breeze;

... they're doing just fine without me ...

'Lights Off' period soon, so I assume they're saying their bedtime prayers before being hurtled into the uncertainty of enforced darkness.

 

[Yozhik]

Of all the kit I purchased for this virgin grow, THIS is the one which has brought the most peace of mind, and the one I am most thankful for;

It's a simple digital temperature controller, with 2 relay switches - one for heat, one for cooling.
I have 2 x 120w tube heaters as the heating device and the extraction fan as the cooling.

The tent temperature [TT] is set at 26 C, with cooling set to kick in at TT +1 C and heating to turn at at TT -2 C.
This results in the environment being perfectly regulated to keep temps between 24 - 27 C.
Hysteresis can be set tighter or wider - it's up to you.

Great piece of kit.
No temperature related stress.

 

[Yozhik]

DAY 11:

Temperatures: ... Under HPS 30 ℃ ... Ambient Room 26 ℃
Humidity RH%: ... 50 [+/- 5%]
Lighting: ... 1 x 600w HPS ... 30" from plants
Schedule: ... 20/4
Nutrients: ... B-52, Piranha, Voodoo Juice, Rhino Skin, Sensi Grow A and B ... all @ 1ml/l

Something interesting must have happened in the tent overnight after their feeding ... maybe a little sorority shindig I wasn't privy to.

Killer Kush 3 has had an explosion of growth - at least to my eyes.
Caramel Cream 2 looks to have over indulged, and is nursing a bit of nute burn [?] on the tip of one leaf ...
although why only on one tip, on one leaf, on one plant confuses me. Will watch closely. might be something as simple as water on the leaf tip when I watered them, that then fried under the HPS.

Devil Creams still on the yellow side of green - hoping for some gradual improvement with the slightly higher pH of the feedings.

Caramel Cream 1 has given up her dreams of being the Leaning Tower of Canna, and is now standing tall and straight. She seems to have had a measurably positive response to the changed watering regime.

Caramel Cream 3 is a big leafed girl - spilling out of her surroundings. She's the biggest/widest in the tent. Interested to see if that transfers into eventual yield.

Cream Mandarine has developed teenage acne. A little blotchiness on here otherwise perfect complexion. I think a little over indulging and 'pigging out'. Pretty sure if I back off on the turbo nutes, her leaves will return to perfect.

I'm really digging the Killer Kush.
Consistent development across the 3 plants.
No complaining from the babies.
Nice structure.
As a novice, this is the kind of strain that gives grower confidence.
While other strains might have their little idiosyncrasies and require a little tweaking here and there, Killer Kush just gets on with the job. It's not a monster, and I have no idea what the yield potential is, but for a virgin indoor grow, this is the kind of strain that's perfect to earn your stripes with.



Cream Caramel #1

Cream Caramel #2

Cream Caramel #3

Cream Mandarine #2

Devil Cream #1

Devil Cream #3

Killer Kush #1

Killer Kush #2

Killer Kush #3

 

[Yozhik]

Just goes to show how each baby has its own personality.

There are 3 x Caramel Cream in this grow.
Same tent.
Same size Airpots.
Same light.
Same medium.
Same feeding schedule, from the same watering can.

Caramel Cream numbers 1 and 3 are loving it ... Cream Caramel 2 is showing signs of nute burn.

Go figure ...