Inkdot
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Welcome to my grow journal of Arjans Haze #3. This will be my third time growing, all using similar setup in a small closet.
My previous grows were a mystery sativa that grew long and I had to continuously tie her down mid flower and she ended up looking like a corkscrew. Because of lack of knowledge and experience I harvested the mystery sativa probably 1-2 weeks early but the grow overall went very well and the smoke turned out really nice but with a 'green' taste.
My other grow were of the dutch strain Tangerine Dream that went really well initially but I had problems with light burns and nutrient intolerance so I had to kill them 1-2 weeks early as well because all the leaves were dying basically. Not a strain I recommend unless you are an expert grower and wanna go thru the hassle of raising several plants just to find a stable phenotype mother. Fantastic to smoke, horrible to grow. Despite all my troubles I got some nice bud but pretty low yield and very little smell because I harvested early.
Strain:
Arjans Haze #3 from Greenhouse in Holland. The strain is a cross of a haze plant and a laos plant. It is 70-80% sativa genetics but very short and ideal for indoor growing. It is a strain with medium/moderate THC (~13%) but with relative high CBD and very high CBN. I chose this strain because it looks perfect for my casual smoking style, light and giggly with little to no paranoia due to the CBD.
Lighting:
1x Blackstar Hydro 240 W LED panel (made of 3W chips but only draws about 120 W so the chips are not run at full capacity), 2x 65W CFL (one 2400K and one 5700K)
Medium:
Bog standard potting soil (local brand) 47% light peat moss, 47% dark peat moss, 6% sand and some inorganic nutrients and a bit of lime added by the manufacturer. I also added a but of pulverized chicken-egg shells to keep the pH from dropping and providing a slow release of calcium and magnesium.
Nutrients:
Biobizz line (Biogrow, Biobloom, Bioheaven, RootJuice and Topmax). Decided to keep the ferts down to a bare minimum this time and see what happens, since my last plants were super sensitive to nutes I wanna try and do it almost organic this time using mostly pure water.
Day 1
Watered with 2-3% Root Juice as additive. For the next 20 days the plant only received pure water.
Day 12
Up untill this point only the two CFLs have been on. I rotated the plants so each got a little bit of the blueish 5700K light that you can see on the left. Still too early to tell for sure whether I have the same pheno or different ones.
Day 17
I love the point when seedling start getting some leaves and just in a few days the size of the plant doubles as a result! The bigger plant in the back has some cupped leaves, probably due to the medium being too wet still from last watering.
Day 23
My medium holds moisture well so unless the plants drink alot it takes a long time for it to dry out. I let the medium dry for over a week since last watering and then gave the plant their first mild feeding of NPK nutes (Biogrow and a little but of Biobloom and Bioheaven). Afterwards I noticed that the growth accelerated a bit.
Day 25, present time
In the overhead shots you can clearly see that I got two separate phenos with different leaf structures. Gonna be exciting to see how the differences manifest during flowering.
My previous grows were a mystery sativa that grew long and I had to continuously tie her down mid flower and she ended up looking like a corkscrew. Because of lack of knowledge and experience I harvested the mystery sativa probably 1-2 weeks early but the grow overall went very well and the smoke turned out really nice but with a 'green' taste.
My other grow were of the dutch strain Tangerine Dream that went really well initially but I had problems with light burns and nutrient intolerance so I had to kill them 1-2 weeks early as well because all the leaves were dying basically. Not a strain I recommend unless you are an expert grower and wanna go thru the hassle of raising several plants just to find a stable phenotype mother. Fantastic to smoke, horrible to grow. Despite all my troubles I got some nice bud but pretty low yield and very little smell because I harvested early.
Strain:
Arjans Haze #3 from Greenhouse in Holland. The strain is a cross of a haze plant and a laos plant. It is 70-80% sativa genetics but very short and ideal for indoor growing. It is a strain with medium/moderate THC (~13%) but with relative high CBD and very high CBN. I chose this strain because it looks perfect for my casual smoking style, light and giggly with little to no paranoia due to the CBD.
Lighting:
1x Blackstar Hydro 240 W LED panel (made of 3W chips but only draws about 120 W so the chips are not run at full capacity), 2x 65W CFL (one 2400K and one 5700K)
Medium:
Bog standard potting soil (local brand) 47% light peat moss, 47% dark peat moss, 6% sand and some inorganic nutrients and a bit of lime added by the manufacturer. I also added a but of pulverized chicken-egg shells to keep the pH from dropping and providing a slow release of calcium and magnesium.
Nutrients:
Biobizz line (Biogrow, Biobloom, Bioheaven, RootJuice and Topmax). Decided to keep the ferts down to a bare minimum this time and see what happens, since my last plants were super sensitive to nutes I wanna try and do it almost organic this time using mostly pure water.
Day 1
Watered with 2-3% Root Juice as additive. For the next 20 days the plant only received pure water.
Day 12
Up untill this point only the two CFLs have been on. I rotated the plants so each got a little bit of the blueish 5700K light that you can see on the left. Still too early to tell for sure whether I have the same pheno or different ones.
Day 17
I love the point when seedling start getting some leaves and just in a few days the size of the plant doubles as a result! The bigger plant in the back has some cupped leaves, probably due to the medium being too wet still from last watering.
Day 23
My medium holds moisture well so unless the plants drink alot it takes a long time for it to dry out. I let the medium dry for over a week since last watering and then gave the plant their first mild feeding of NPK nutes (Biogrow and a little but of Biobloom and Bioheaven). Afterwards I noticed that the growth accelerated a bit.
Day 25, present time
In the overhead shots you can clearly see that I got two separate phenos with different leaf structures. Gonna be exciting to see how the differences manifest during flowering.