BigBlue's Organic Daiquiri Lime

[LoSBigBlue]

Day 11 - She should be ready for transplant tomorrow.

 

[LoSBigBlue]

She has moved! So after giving it some thought I changed my original plan of transplanting straight to the 7 gallon and opted for transplant to a 1 gallon first. She has taken it just fine and 12 hours later she is in need of a drink, that however will wait till tomorrow, Week 1 veg here we come!

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Week 1 Veg is here, she is doing great. Bumped lights to 450µmol / 32 DLI, took 500mL 6.0pH, BioBizz WK 1 schedule at 1/8th.

 

[LoSBigBlue]

22 Nov - In the tent this morning got first whiff of her scent she is now putting out, smelling good!

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Heat in the room that the tent is in was starting to be an issue. It's a spare bathroom with no ceiling insulation and a window that has no glass, just screen and wooden shutter (live in the tropics), a portable AC is in the room and is cranking all its got but the lack of insulation is a problem.

Prior to the grow I did seal the window and attempt to create a cool zone with the use of a thin insulating material about 3mm thick that has mylar on one side. It worked ok when the outside temps were below 32c but the AC needed to be set at its lowest, 17c just to get 30c.

So got 4 rolls of R24 on the way, that should do the trick.

As for the girl, she is doing just fine, 4th set coming along and #5 is on the way. On track to be in the 7 gal sometime this weekend.

 

[Bill284]

Heat in the room that the tent is in was starting to be an issue. It's a spare bathroom with no ceiling insulation and a window that has no glass, just screen and wooden shutter (live in the tropics), a portable AC is in the room and is cranking all its got but the lack of insulation is a problem.

Prior to the grow I did seal the window and attempt to create a cool zone with the use of a thin insulating material about 3mm thick that has mylar on one side. It worked ok when the outside temps were below 32c but the AC needed to be set at its lowest, 17c just to get 30c.

So got 4 rolls of R24 on the way, that should do the trick.

As for the girl, she is doing just fine, 4th set coming along and #5 is on the way. On track to be in the 7 gal sometime this weekend.

I'm sorry to hear about your heat issues.
Unfortunately you will have to address that before flower.
Those temps are too high in combination with high rh I imagine.
So I looked out the kitchen window at 5am this morning expecting SNOW.
New house our windows aren't the greatest but better than shutters.
You have time.
Stay safe, and cool.
Bill

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Week 1 Day 5 - Room heat situation is much better since doing some prep work for the still to arrive 4 rolls of R24 insulation, room temp down to 24 with tent at 27 with the AC set to 18. So looking forward to the R24.

The girl is doing great, 4 nice nodes with some growth popping out on the nodes below. Her smell is divine. 500mL with 1/4 dose BioBizz Root Juice, 6.2pH, last night her first drink in 3 days. Her top right now is soaking up 485µmol / 36DLI on 20/4.

This morning looking nice.

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Week 1 Day 7 - She is doing great, temps are around 26c° 60% RH. About 2-3 days away from transplanting her to the 7 gal pot. Water every other day at the moment.

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Week 2 Day 1 - She was ready for some water this morning, 500mL pH?, Week 2 BioBizz sched @ .25%. Yeah the question mark after the pH is not a typo, hung over from a going away party last night I totally spaced checking the pH. Oh well should be alright, I hear that with organics it is not that big of an issue but I still want to be in the 6.2 ballpark, I know my tap water runs about 7.4ish so thats what she got plus or minus whatever the BBzz contributed.

So 3 hours after lights on she is looking just fine, a bit droopy but she always is after her 4 hour dark period. 6th set is on its way and plenty of growth is popping out in the lower branches. If there is an issue with the pH blunder I think it would of shown by now, 12 hours later.

Week 2 Day 2 - doing fine, she will be ready for transplant tomorrow into the 7 gal.

Will be hanging the insulation today which will be a huge help to the electric bill, currently able to maintain 25C° in the tent, 21C° for the room with the AC set to 18C°, RH running 55%, lights 500µmol / 36DLI

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Week 2 Day 2 PM - Decided to transplant this evening, she was in need of a drink. Into the 7G she goes, 1000mL 6.2pH. Her rootball looked very healthy so I am very pleased with the results of transplanting an autoflower, now twice.

Day 3 - Looking good this morning, a bit droopy perhaps from her new home and that she is a bit dry so 1000mL 6.2pH water she got. 28C° 60%RH 565µmol 40DLI.

Her lime essence is really putting out now, smells awesome!

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Week 2 - Day 3 - Day 4 - Started a time lapse of her just after her 1L drink of water and let it run for 24 hours. Really interesting to observe the push she gives near the end right before she gives me the drooping sign, 'Hey feed me another 1L of water please'. 6.2pH

Week 2 Day 4 - As mentioned above, right at the end of the time lapse she was ready for a drink. After her 1L 6.2 refreshment it is time for her to enter LST.

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Week 2 Day 5 - She had another LST session today and the usual 1000mL she has been taking daily lately, this time another round of BioBizz WK2 @.25%, 6.3pH.

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Week 2 Day 6-7

Day 6 was a rest day for her, been through a lot this week and her vigor was slowing a bit. She got transplanted, started LST, and got 2 doses of BioBizz WK2 @.25% this past week.

Day 7 the new growth as a result of the LST is coming along nice.

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Week 3 - Day 1 Minor LST & 1500mL water 6.2pH, 24C° 50%RH 575µmol 40DLI

Insulation in the room last week has made a huge difference in the efficiency of the AC unit in the room, tent temps are ranging 22-27C°.

Later this week she will get a dose of BioBiz week 3 schedule at 33%. BioBiz has a couple of schedules, the one I am following is their All-Mix sched, adjusted for autos. WK 1 was dosing @ .125%, WK2 @ .25%, .33% this week and will get up to .5% in 2 weeks. Dutch Passion calls out this strain as not reacting well to sudden dose increases, thus the effort to take things slow.

Week 3 Day 2 - LST adjustments continue, growth sites all over her and working to keep the canopy as level as possible.

 

[NOOOBIENOT]

Hello , just a heads up , bio bizz is not a organic nutrient , it is organic based and chelated with salts , humic ,fulvic acid etc , these kill your fungi and bacteria that make the ingredients in your soil available to your plants , this is a great marketing scam by the nutrient companies , there is no omri sticker on a bottle of liquid nutes , they need these acids , salts to make the product shelf stable to sit on a store shelf for a year .

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Hello , just a heads up , bio bizz is not a organic nutrient , it is organic based and chelated with salts , humic ,fulvic acid etc , these kill your fungi and bacteria that make the ingredients in your soil available to your plants , this is a great marketing scam by the nutrient companies , there is no omri sticker on a bottle of liquid nutes , they need these acids , salts to make the product shelf stable to sit on a store shelf for a year .

Thanks for the input. Yes bottled nutrients are not TOL, but as you said organic based. As far as killing off microbes, yeah makes sense, some might suffer but I would think that the kill off is not even anywhere close to that of synthetic's. Their scam can't be that good to still have the the business they do, or is it?

I find the apartment living where I live a bit difficult in regards to dealing with teas, compost, and such, plus very limited options for any products in the country I live in so BB works for me. So let's say 'Big Blue's Organic Based Daiquiri Lime'

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Week 3 Day 3,4,5 - She has been drooping more and more lately, this since her transplant and the LST. So aside from pausing LST for a bit I have been going through other things to eliminate the possible causes. On the night day 2 I adjusted the fan to ease the wind she was were getting, she was looking much better the morning of day 3, still drooping slightly.

On day 4 she was ready for a drink, first in 3 days, 1000mL, and a dose of BioBizz at 33%.

She could of used a drink several hours prior to this point but wanted to make sure the over watering is not a cause to the droops.

10 hours later on the morning of day 5 she was almost back to normal, but she once again started to droop by mid day.

The water she had the night before helped but not fully so I am next going to look into the health of the soil she is in.
I got a soil organic matter test kit developed by a university on the way to hopefully let me know the state of the microbe activity. Could Mr NoobieNot be spot on from his comments above?

Another thought is; most everyone advises for auto flowers to lower the nutrient level in feeds from the label. To me that makes sense for synthetics but what about organics where the nutrients are feeding the soil not the plant, could I be underfeeding the soil by cutting the BioBizz doses way back?

First timer here so working through this, I think the soil test will shed some light on the issue.

On the plus side she is still growing and putting out an awesome smell, yummy.

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Week 3 Day 5 evening I gave her a foliar of BioBizz Alg-A-Mic @ 1mL/L and in the morning of day 6 see was looking pretty good. Trimmed off a few leaves and gave her a bit of LST. 8 decent looking flower sites are starting to stretch quickly.

Day 7 - Got the organic soil test kit in and as sort of suspected, the result was relatively low on their scale indicating that the soil was underfed. This coincides with some research I did for people using BB with autos, I found plenty of people dosing at 100% the label with excellent results. Not going to jump to 100%, but am bumping todays feed up to 50% the week 3 sched with the addition of a 2mL/L dose of Root Juice to liven up the soil.

Here she is right after lights on and right after her feed, 1000mL, 6.1pH, soaking up 630µmol / 45DLI

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Week 4 Day 1 - In the morning she looks great, very healthy looking. The boost in nutrients to the soil looks like a good move, next day or so should show some significant growth as she is now really starting to sky rocket.

Later in the week when it is time for another nutrient feed, I will be on the BioBizz WK 4 sched @ 75%.

 

[LoSBigBlue]

Week 4 Days, 2,3,4 - She is just cruising right along, reasonably sure that I have the soil and nutrients headed in the right direction. Today day 4, she had 1500mL with BB week 4 sched at 75%.