Lunari's indoor-noob grow

MustGro said:

Your plant looks great @lunari . Do you have any idea how much chlorine is in your tap water? I don’t let mine sit out to dechlorinate, but it’s ok to do that if you think it’s high. Cannabis does need tiny amounts of chlorine though.
You’re running a pretty high ppm up around 1000, but your leaf tips look good so it seems to be ok. Do you fert and then water, or are you feeding her every time you put fluids on?

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Thanks for stopping by my grow journal. I don't know how much chlorine is in my water. I like to fill my 2, 1 gallon jugs I use with tap water right after watering and let them sit out until I need to water again. I haven't been super consistent with it though lol.

I feed every watering, growing in coco and perlite. I water a small amount, let it soak in for a few minutes, then water until runoff. I use a low tech approach to removing the runoff, a turkey baster lol.

Wednesday, September 1st (Flower day 27)

The buds continue to grow and the sugar leaves are getting frostier by the day. Tomorrow might be a water day but she's still feeling heavy today.

Wednesday, September 8th (Flower day 34)

Things are still going well. I haven't posted to my journal in a week so I figured I would give an update. The other day I noticed the smell starting to get more pronounced so I hooked up the carbon filter. No more smell lol. I'm really surprised by the low odor this phenotype of Triple Cheese has. The solo cup bagseed clone is still much smellier.

Last watering I noticed small white jumping bugs in the runoff of the clone, I did some googling and think they are harmless springtails. I haven't seen any sign of them in the Triple Cheese's coco. The cutting I took around the time I switched to flower is still rooting. I think the fact that I swapped out the plain water for nutrient solution may have slowed down the rooting.

The Triple Cheese is showing some minor signs of unhappiness (burnt tips and edges here and there) but the solo cup clone that gets it's leftovers after the Triple Cheese is watered is perfectly happy so I'm not too concerned that the mix is way too hot or ph is way off. I may back off on the nutes a hair, flush next watering with a light mix of nutrients, or continue as usual but pH lower (I've been pHing down to 6.3-6.4 but maybe aim for 6 instead).

Great post .. especially for us newbies

Big head 99 said:

Great post .. especially for us newbies

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Thanks for checking out my grow If you have any questions about my setup feel free to ask

Friday, September 10th (flower day 36)

So, I think I've been underwatering my plant. I was reading that if you let your coco dry out too much things go out of whack. I've been letting it go until the planter feels really light and it takes nearly 2 gallons to fertigate my 5 gallon grow bag. The solo cup clone gets fertigated to true runoff with the dregs of the jug that are left after the triple cheese achieves true runoff.

I am fascinated by this little solo cup bagseed clone. It is taking everything I have thrown at it like a champ. No signs of stress or burnt tips while the big ol triple cheese is starting to look a little crispy around the edges. Last feeding I pHed down to 6.3-6.4 instead of 6.5 and even that little bit more pH down put me at over 1300 ppm!! I am considering lightening up on the nutrients but I am thinking maybe the triple cheese is just more sensitive to nutrients.

I wanted to be sure to have a clone of the triple cheese to preserve the genetics in case it turns out to be a really good phenotype. I had two cuttings I took before flipping to flower but gave one to my neighbor awhile back. My one cutting that was left still hasn't rooted 36+ days later, while I've been multiple basil harvests root on my kitchen table in the meantime. This one might be a dud so just in case I took two more cuttings yesterday of some lower tops that didn't make it all the way up. I tried some rooting powder this time so it will be fun to see how much faster it goes and also essentially making a monstercropped bonsai mother plant from reverting the flowering cutting.

The first two pictures mainly feature the solo cup clone. The rest is of the triple cheese with the last picture showing an example of it's crispiness.

The last pic looks K deficient. Burnt leaf edges are the sign.

MustGro said:

The last pic looks K deficient. Burnt leaf edges are the sign.

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Thanks for your input. I'm doing some reading on it and I think you might be right.

Here’s a pic of one of mine, it looks similar.

Wednesday, September 15th (flower day 41)

I took advantage of the sunlight coming in my window this morning to take some pictures. She is getting really frosty and the buds are getting fatter.

Friday, September 17th (flower day 43)

I took some shots today holding a small magnifying glass up to my phone's camera (exif data removed before posting). The shot where the glass is visible is a solo cup clone from an unknown dispensary bagseed mother. The other macro shot is the Barney's Farm Triple Cheese. Being new to growing I am very happy with how it's turning out so far.

I did end up going down to 1/2 dose of flower fuel instead of 3/4 last watering. Other than flushing after stopping doing the cal-mag (you don't need it with Masterblend and it was just adding ppms for no reason), adding a little flower fuel since the start of flower, I haven't had to change up my mix. The same strength from seed until late flower now. My houseplants and kratky herbs, and kratky jalapeno, get the same stuff minus the flower fuel. I think next time I want to do some kind of comparison of using the flower fuel or not. I would like to do a drip system maybe in the future and the flower fuel doesn't dissolve completely. I think I have used maybe a few dollars worth of nutrients this whole run!! Masterblend 4-18-38 (2g per gallon), Epsom Salt (1g per gallon), Calcium Nitrate (2g per gallon).

I ordered my Masterblend as a kit on amazon. I got a 5lb kit (second smallest from the seller I got it from) for $30 but it gets much cheaper the more buy. You can barely tell I've used any and it has sustained many other plants for months before starting this grow along with this whole grow.

Big price difference between liquid and powdered nutes isn’t there. Cost me about $15 to flower my last crop out.

MustGro said:

Big price difference between liquid and powdered nutes isn’t there. Cost me about $15 to flower my last crop out.

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For sure! I got started by doing kratky jars. Dry nutrients are really common in that circle due to their cost. They work really well also. I use my same stuff at the same strength for all the following, this grow, monsterra in coco/perilte, genovese basil kratky, mint kratky, green onion kratky, lemon basil kratky, bonsai mother plant krakty, snake plant in unknown grow medium it came in, crown of thorns, outdoor fruiting jalapeno krakty, 4 different flowering coleus plants that have taken up a whole window in kratkys, seedlings, clones, full grown plants, they all love it.

Tuesday, September 21st (flower day 47)

We're getting there!! I have continued feeding Masterblend + 1/2 dose of Flower Fuel with tap water. I am pHing down to 6.4-6.5 and in the high 1300s for ppm. I have been experimenting with using my Swiss Champ pocket knife strapped to my phone for taking trichome shots. It works pretty well, the last picture is one using it I took on Saturday.

Thursday, September 23rd (flower day 49)

The smells are very interesting from the Triple Cheese. If you brush up against a bud your hand comes away smelling fruity and citrusy while still being earthy. It fades to a breakfast sausage smell. The breakfast sausage smell also emanates from the fallen leaves. The bagseed flowering in the solo cup has more of a straight up skunk smell. A week or two more maybe? I think I'm at the mostly cloudy stage right now and am planning on harvesting once I start seeing a good bit of amber.

On to the pictures! But first a tip. If you are posting pictures from your phone don't forget to remove the exif data otherwise your gps location will be attached to the photos!!

Picture 1: It's just looking into the tent out of focus through the magnifying glass. I thought it looked cool.

Pictures 2-3: bagseed solocup clone magnified

Pictures 4-6: triple cheese magnified

Tuesday, September 28th (flower day 54)

There has been a bud that didn't reach the second net and was flopping over getting trichomes all over the side of my tent and kept getting in my way so I took that branch as a tester yesterday (pic 1). You can see the trichomes it was leaving on the side of the tent in picture 2. I quick-dried it on my LED driver.

The rest of the pictures are from today. Picture 5 is triple cheese buds, picture 6 is the solo cup bagseed clone.

Thursday, September 30th (flower day 56)

I'm starting to see foxtails which is a genetic trait of the Blue Cheese that makes up half of the Triple Cheese. I was reading that a lot of people get them in the last two weeks with Blue Cheese. Nothing else to report, everything going smoothly.

Monday, October 4th (flower day 60)

Lots of foxtailing now. I think she is getting close to ready. Another week or so to do?

I really wanted to get a second tent to get some kind of perpetual harvest going on. I live in an apartment so space is limited and didn't want to spend as much as I did on my Mars Hydro setup (that I love). I really would have liked to get a 2x4 (no space for it) with a Kingbrite 240w ($200 with shipping on Alibaba).

Then I came across the Maxsisun MF2000 230 watt light ($140 flash deal), a Vivosun 32"x20"x63" tent ($65), Vivosun filter and fan kit ($65). Now to decide what to do with it. Grow more photos? Try some autos?