My First Growth Journal

That’s a female all the way my friend

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@garrigan62 are mites absolutely avoidable with hydro

Not really, you can bring them in your dog or friend. I have brought them in from working in the yard.

Here are pics from a few hours ago and would like any feedback as there are a couple areas of concern I have and am looking for advice on my next course of action.
Soil grow using compost tea and other amendments as top dressing.
Temps high 82 low 73
Humidity high 43 low 34
HLG 600h light 22” above at 75% power
C02 ranges 800-1500 during day using propane heater to up it. Still dialing that in using airflow to other rooms (doors open or closed etc)
Still having some fungus rust on fan leaves and sugar leaves and will foliar treat again soon with Serenade.
First pics are the WWX

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Pinapple express is the later pics above and worried about yellowing and if I need to add some nitrogen or what? I have several options to add nitrogen such as Neem meal 6-2-1 ? making a tea or Alaskan fish fert 5-1-1 in water and so on.
I watered using the PreStop solution on Saturday Night.
I did just top dress some Epsom salts that will be watered in next time.
Any concerns I should address? 4 weeks since flip to 12/12.

I’ve also been removing leaves that are 50% yellowed or dying as I go. Is this an ok practice within reason of course.

@garrigan62
@ whomever else might offer good direction / next step

Thanks

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Pineapple Express

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Here are pics of the pineapple first and then the WWX today about 24 hours from previous pics.
The pineapple has many leaves with browning edges and the WWX showing strange colors on edges of the sugar leaves up top near bud tops and not sure what they are asking for me to do for them.


Any thoughts suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
HAGD

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Looks like both my Waikiki clones are going to make it! Whoop Whoop
The one I wasn’t sure about seems to have set roots and is greening up a bit. The other is coming right along too. The 2 pineapple clones are looking good. The seedlings 2 Medi and 2 WWX look healthy. All are in 1 gallon fabric pots with a bottom mix of 2 parts FF coco loco 1 part FFOF and the top 1/3 filled with FFLW and worm manure and mycorrhizae inoculate.

Looking forward to getting these pots fully rooted to repot them in their 5 or 7 gallons pots. Not sure maybe some of each?

Thanks for tuning in
HAGD

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They look good from the pics… awesome to hear no Hermie or pollination happened. They are what about a month/6 weeks or so from wrapping up? Your 4 weeks into flower, right with me if I remember correctly… I have small browning on some leaves, I just did straight pH’d water last watering to make sure.

Do you use Cal mag?

Thanks @LoCoRock yea glad she was all woman lol
That makes the 2 clones of hers good to go and looks like both are gonna make it too.
Yep I’m about 4 1/2 weeks since the flip.

I have been reading True Living Organics By The Rev and realize how little I know and how far I have yet to go. He recommended these 2 products that are TLO friendly so I went ahead and ordered some. Before I had been using eggs shell powder and Epsom salt as my CaMg source.

Good to hear your getting the mites under control…what a RUSH that must have been!

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Well I needed to modify the stock hanging cables on my new HLG 600h light as the provided cables were too long as I needed more headroom to be able to raise the fixture as needed because with the stock cables I had already ran out of up adjustments. Had some chain around from another project. Gives it more of a Highlander (the movie) look chains and all…lol


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There Can Be Only One!
Or 3 or 8 with these ladies.

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Some pics from this evening. Waikiki looking great. The other 2 are Ok but stressed a bit.

The CO2 levels have been in the 550-800 range without using my buddy propane heater. Just the Exhale bag and being in the basement helps increase levels too.


The temps of the HLG driver - not bad running around 70% power.

Some bud porn using my phone and a 5x app. Will be able to get better pics next week with new toy.

The clones and seedlings are doing great.
Will post new pics soon.
When ready they will be going into both Kind Soil and The Revs recipe 2.1 mix one of each strain in each mix to see which responds better. Just need to factor in the human wild card lol. Need to start my mix tomorrow so it can cook for 2-4 weeks and be ready when potting up from the 1 gal they are in now.
Thanks for tuning in!

HAGD

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Hey @Skydiver there us a gr8 grow journal on here somewhere with a kind soil grow. If I remember correctly it went quite well 4 the grower. I remember several times him mentioning how little effort it consumed and was overall a very easy grow…

Thanks @LoCoRock I had read a good part of that grow. I’ve had the kind soil in the basement for a couple months now waiting for the next cycle. Since then reading various articles and books I am excited to also make my own super soil mix too. Not my recipe but looking forward to trying it out side by side with the store bought one. At least I’m confident in having 4 of the 8 plants cruise the grow and well the other 4 with my mix (The Revs recipe from his book using layers and spikes and global mixing as well) will be fun!
Need to get the mix going tomorrow for it to have enough time to cook so it’s ready when the plants are for bigger pots.

Hey @Skydiver, so I got some new bird guano sent to me and did a PPM test.

With 10grams of this new bird quano I got sent to me the PPM went from 200 water to 519 PPM.

So my other guano I get from a so called reputable company didnt produce any results… now that’s a concerning thought!

But I tested rock phosphate?
Bird Guano would be different wouldn’t it? @GreenCoat

So @GreenCoat in conclusion - the reputable company’s don’t know shit…lol

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Well I had an old friend stop by today to return a tool and he brought his grandson with him who has been growing now for 5 years or so and he gave me some great insight on things AND he brought me a book as a gift True Living Organics LOL I was pleasantly surprised and it has 100 more pages than the digital version I have with more info! He is also an organic grower so we had much in common on that path
Well after they left I decided to do more LST all of them as he had described and the first one went well…


It is now just under 1 foot tall from dirt!
The second one went well too but didn’t take a pic
The third one wasn’t a charm lol
I knew this one would be a challenge as the ones I wanted to get lower were pretty well rigid where they were and while lowering just a bit on each side I heard a crack… live and learn…will tape her up.
Does anyone think that she will heal on her own without any tape? It’s a clean break and I would think it will heal on its own but again I’m not sure…and I have tape lol

Have a tea brewing 24 hours so far and just added worm poop for the 2nd 24 hours brewing from a recipe for flowering from the book TLO by The Rev. they will be ready for the critter tea tomorrow evening.
I also put bark mulch on top of all the plants soil yesterday along with a small amount of blood meal (small amount) as I understand it the critters that will break down the mulch are nitrogen addicts. This will also entice the critters up higher as well as the plants roots and this top layer is full of organic nutes that I have been top dressing for most of the grow so I hope that tip from the Rev pays off on my 3 oldest and I’m sure the young ones will benefit as there is plenty of time for them to get there.

Thanks for tuning in!

HAGD

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