Mephisto- Strawberry Nuggets

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Hello All,

I am going to start a grow journal on this run of Mephisto's Strawberry Nuggets. If you are curious of my set up, please check out my other blog regarding my grow space. I will mainly just be posting pictures over the course of this one, but if you have any questions, feel free to ask. Happy growing peeps!

Day 7

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Day 14- Spread your leafs!

Day 14

So I am working to figure out this blog stuff in order to better present and organize my post. So I know I tried to update the original post just 2 days ago, but following this guide, I am thinking this feature is the way to go. But below is the update pics of my garden along with 2 pics of a Strawberry vs Blueberry freebie from last grow. Enjoy!
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Weekly refresher

Just finished her weekly change. Complete reservoir flush, peroxide wipe down, rinsed out the filters, refilled, PH'd and than added about 130g of MegaCrop. The girls always love the fresh feeding. I cant prove it lol, but I feel like it gives them a little kick every time.

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Constantly learning....

So without falter, there is always something isn't there lol. So looking at my last pics and just inspecting my ladies, I noticed to see some of this.


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So, I have seen this in the past and it has always been genuinely mild and corrected itself. Just to be cautious of it, I have been raising my lights and other than that leaving everything else the fuck alone. Well after I got them up above 24" and they looked like they did today (the picture above) I was like nope, this is across multiple plants and is not correcting itself.

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So if its not light stress, I'm thinking what has been any different from any of previous grows? I start trying to diagnose, and what I arrived too was below.

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And it wasnt so much the vpd range, as this was due to me making some humidifier changes and the previous 6 days they have been in actual range. It was actually the temperature that caught my eye. So for most of the grow, the temp has been sitting around 81-83 degrees and I have just been pounding it with my humidifier to keep the RH% optimum. But it dawned on me..... in all my past grows, I never let the temp get above 75. So what I believe what we are seeing is heat stress. It's just hitting the leafs closest to light the most as the temp is warmer. So I found a temp solution for the meantime to try to get some colder air into the room. (Below) I just took a air duct to another part of the basement and redirected to blow toward my passive air intake.

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What I am thinking in theory of all this, is if I can keep the temp lower and stay in VPD range, I can get the lights closer. Closer lights = more PPFD = more DLI = more photosynthesis. Maybe I am completely wrong, but I fell like without CO supplement, the key maybe to grow them a bit colder so you can optimize your light.

Day 20 - Better late then never

I have been behind in school and work, one of the few reason's I was hesitant to make a journal on this one, but I am getting there. I had played around with the VPD ranges, air temps, fan controls etc all in effort to stop this damn leaf curl but to no avail. I believe it has got better on some but in my next update I am going to post after this one you will see, the taller ones especially, it is still happening.

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Day 26- The stretch has begun!

Ahhhh. I love this part of the grow. I feel like this is when they go from being house plants to crops lol. So I definitely have 2 different pheno's at the least. I have 2 of them that are branching out like Sativa's and the other 4 are staying short and bushy. These bushy girls are a whole different animal I am not use to, and the fact that I have opted out of topping and LST this grow makes it even more difficult to manage. There is just jungle inside of them, it is taking everything I have to not try to tame the girls. The most I have done is reached in and pulled the branches apart and allow the leaves to move around a bit, I have plenty of air movement but I still worry about vapor lock on overlapping leaves. Well thats it for now. Lets see what she does, going into flower the next couple weeks. Happy Growing Peeps!

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Day 31- Pre-Flower Time

Yo, yo, yo. Here we are officially in pre flower. I relocated the sativa dominant to one side to control light height. Additionally, I am still get some leaf curl but I do not think as much. Maybe I was just pushing them to hard as youngins. I guess we will see. I have also officially switched from adding humidity to dehumidifying, which ironically tends to correspond with flowering it seems. I actually did add a little PK boost the last feeding, but only added MC in my topping of the reservoir. So between Sunday and today they drank 10 gals, which is roughly 3 gallons a day. I expect we will be up to 5-6 in no time at this rate. Anyways, thank you for following along for those that have. I am excited to see what they do especially since this might be my last grow if I end up relocating.
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Day 40- What a Damn Jungle

Hello All.

So I dont have to much to report on. Its insane what these girls do when you do no pruning or LST. A bunch of wild weeds lol. It definitely does make them very esthetic or eye pleasing, but I think they are beautiful.


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Day 59!

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Pre-Harvest

Just some quick ones I took with my good camera before the chop
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Like2Learm
do u just sprout the seeds in those rapid rooters? i wonder how autos would do in a flood and drain table lol
 
Mushinronsha
Like2Learm said:
do u just sprout the seeds in those rapid rooters? i wonder how autos would do in a flood and drain table lol
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Welcome and thank you for the question. I originally did on previous grows, I would place the rapid rooter plugs in the table, drop a seed in and cover them until I saw them sprout. However, while this was the easiest method, it was not the most successful. I almost always had 1 or 2 not pop or get stuck upside down and spend a few days behind. Some of them got water logged over this and just died, so I would end of with a few like a week behind. It kind of sucked.

So my new method is just as easy and have had 100% success with it. I throw the seed's in a wet paper towel and place it between 2 plastic plates in my grow room. 48 hours later they all have nice little tails. I then cut the rooter plugs half way through to the middle lengthwise, place my little tadpole inside, tap root down :mrgreen: . Then place them in the table on a regular flood cycle. Works like a charm!
 
Marklar
High-Dro Mephisto said:
Welcome and thank you for the question. I originally did on previous grows, I would place the rapid rooter plugs in the table, drop a seed in and cover them until I saw them sprout. However, while this was the easiest method, it was not the most successful. I almost always had 1 or 2 not pop or get stuck upside down and spend a few days behind. Some of them got water logged over this and just died, so I would end of with a few like a week behind. It kind of sucked.

So my new method is just as easy and have had 100% success with it. I throw the seed's in a wet paper towel and place it between 2 plastic plates in my grow room. 48 hours later they all have nice little tails. I then cut the rooter plugs half way through to the middle lengthwise, place my little tadpole inside, tap root down :mrgreen: . Then place them in the table on a regular flood cycle. Works like a charm!
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I've seen a lot of people doing the cut up the middle thing lately and I love it. I'm going to try it next chance I get.

I'm curious about your setup. It looks like an aquarium pump or something similar cycling the water through a filter. I'm not very familiar with hydro so forgive me if this should seem obvious.
 
Like2Learm
High-Dro Mephisto said:
Welcome and thank you for the question. I originally did on previous grows, I would place the rapid rooter plugs in the table, drop a seed in and cover them until I saw them sprout. However, while this was the easiest method, it was not the most successful. I almost always had 1 or 2 not pop or get stuck upside down and spend a few days behind. Some of them got water logged over this and just died, so I would end of with a few like a week behind. It kind of sucked.

So my new method is just as easy and have had 100% success with it. I throw the seed's in a wet paper towel and place it between 2 plastic plates in my grow room. 48 hours later they all have nice little tails. I then cut the rooter plugs half way through to the middle lengthwise, place my little tadpole inside, tap root down :mrgreen: . Then place them in the table on a regular flood cycle. Works like a charm!
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ahh interesting im sure this method can be used without any pumps by just daily wetting the bottom of rapid rooter to wick moisture ?
 
Mushinronsha
Like2Learm said:
ahh interesting im sure this method can be used without any pumps by just daily wetting the bottom of rapid rooter to wick moisture ?
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Yea, I don't see any reason why not. That would just be a bottom feed method. One of the main benefits of doing ebb and flow, is how much oxygen you get to the root zone. As it floods, it forces all the old air out and as it drains, it works to provide clean fresh air to the substrate. Using the hydroton is nice because nutrients collect on the groves of the pebbles and provide nutrients when the plant wants them. So they have all the air they want, and can drink whenever they want.
 

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Overview Day 14- Spread your leafs! Weekly refresher Constantly learning.... Day 20 - Better late then never Day 26- The stretch has begun! Day 31- Pre-Flower Time Day 40- What a Damn Jungle Day 59! Pre-Harvest View full entry

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