1st grow - Humboldt

GeezandDraht All 9 plants have surrived their first week. We transplanted on day 5 into 1,5 liter pots. The soil-mix is: 40% biobizz light mix 30% biobizz coco mix 20% biobizz wormhumus 10% plagron perlite And a sprinkle of mycorrhizae directly onto the roots. Watered them in with dechlorinated tapwater. We added a AC Infinity humidifier on day 4, then took of the dome. Goal VPD: 0.8

GeezandDraht As week two is now in the books we gave the plants their first feeding and added Cal-Mag. Maybe we should have added Cal-Mag before as some of the plants, especially the Pineapple Upside Down Cake, have shown a visible deficiency lately. We also lowered the light to 50cm and upped the intensity to 30%, which puts the PPFD to about 400. The VPD on the humidifier was also changed to 0,9. We can already see some big differences between the ladys, as the Hella Jelly (left) seem to be the most vigorous plants. The Blueberry Muffin (right) are all well developed but overall more delicate plants and the Pineapple upside down cake (midd) all show some deficiencies and are a little behind the others in development (except pheno #2). Lets hope they will enjoy their first feast and start into week 3 fully charged 💚

GeezandDraht Week 3🌿 Two days after the first feeding we decided to transplant into our 19 liter fabric pots as the roots started to grow out of the bottom of their 1,5 liter homes. Substrate: 40% biobizz light mix, 30% biobizz coco mix, 20% biobizz wormhumus and 10% perlite. Plus some Mycorrhizae directly on the roots. Watered in with 1/4 feeding and 0,25ml CalMag per liter. Everyone got 3 liters to saturate the substrate fully, no run of, just a little dampness at the bottom. The following days the presumable CalMag deficiency got worse, as you can see at day 20 in the pictures above. We checked the PH of our soil: 6.5 and watered again with just 250ml water plus CalMag and PH down to 6.3. Orderd a second LED for better light coverage. I guess its best to wait a couple more days to see if they will get better soon... Not sure if I should wait to top them until they look healthier or top soon as most of them have now developed 5 or 6 nodes. Any tips appreciated! 💚

GeezandDraht Week 4 🌿 The deficiency problems got better day by day! We installed the second LED (TWS 2000) to get a better light coverage on Day 23. Day 24: Topping-Day The plants looked healthy enough to get topped. We cut the stem above the 5th node for all Blueberry Muffins, Hella Jelly #1 & Pineapple upside down cake #2. For HJ#2&3 we cut above the 4th to get them leveled to the rest of the forming canopy. With Pudc#1&3 we decided not to top them to give them a chance to catch up with their new, healthy looking growth (for the first time). Two days later the ladies looked well recovered so we did a little defoliating to expose the new sprouts to the light. Day 28: Feeding time. The pots where light enough for us to feed again. We watered with 500ml per plant + CalMag, Iguana Grow and Voodoo Juice plus. Ph 6,2 - no regulation needed. To end the week the plants look happy, healthy and slick 😁 can't wait to see them grow further💚

GeezandDraht Week 5 🌿 This week we went through some ups and downs... Starting off healthy we did a bigger defoliation on day 31 and upped the PPFD to 520 in the center. A day later the top 2cm of soil where dry and the bags felt light. We watered with 500ml per plant plus 2ml Iguana Grow and 0,5ml CalMag per Liter, PH to 6,3. The following days things got tricky... the leafes began to hang, especially with the bigger plants and deficiencies started to show up again. Looking like a lack of Calcium and Magnesium. After some worried research we found out: our tapwater contnains very little minerals! We need more Cal-Mag than the bottle says! 🙈 and we found out that 500ml is not enough water. We watered again with 1 liter per plant and 2ml Iguana Grow plus 1ml CalMag per liter. We also noticed that some roots where already growing out from the bottom of the pots. A few hours later the leafes started to slowly lift up again... hopefully this solves our problem and we can start into the last week of Veg. on good terms 💚

GeezandDraht Week 6 🌿 Another week went by and the deficiencies still show. Most visible in the biggest plants, the Hella Jelly. Originally we wanted to flip them this Saturday but decided not to and wait until the plants are healthy again. We fed them every third day with 1,5 liters each and the full ratio of nutrients plus CalMag. Next week we want to try epsom-salt in a leaf-feeding to conquer the Magnesium deficiency. On Day 37 we removed the most damaged leafes, especially Hella Jelly 2 lost a lot of foliage here. A couple days later even more of her leafes had brown spots. Maybe we removed the damaged leafes to soon? Day 42: overall the ladies seem to have gotten back some green color and are less yellow. However Hella Jelly 3 ist still very yellow and even red at the edges of her leafes, also showing more and more clawing. We checked the EC of our nutrient solution and it was 1,9 (supposed to be 1,2-1,4). We will lower the nutrients next time and check the EC from now on 🙈

GeezandDraht Week 7 🌿 Well, I think this week we learned a lot! On Day 43 we did a top-dress with our substrate plus 50% wormhumus and watered it in with 1,5 liters and the full nutrient ratio (50%grow/50%bloom). On the last mixture we decided to measure the EC for the first time this grow....and it was to high! 1,9 it said, should be 1,2-1,4 though. This will be measured in future feedings. We put the Hella Jelly to the far right and adjusted the light distance and intensity for all plants. On Day 44 we did a round of leaf-feeding with epsom-salt to conquer the magnesium deficiency. Ond Day 46 we did a last defoliation before we have to flip them to 12/12, removing some of the most damaged leafs. On Day 48 we watered with only CalMag and pH 6,3 water. EC was 0,56 for this feeding. We decided to measure pH and EC in the run-off of a plant showing yellow leafes: EC: 1,28, pH: 7.1! No wonder we have all these plants with Magnesium deficiency not getting better. In this pH it can't be absorbed by the plants. Allthough we water with pH 6.3 constantly the Microbes in our soil seem to push the pH a lot higher with their activity. We want to adjust the pH down over the next feedings by watering with pH 6.0 and measure the drain once a week.