PatMySwayze
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Welcome to my first journal, the name is PatMySwayze and the name of the game for this grow was how fast and easy can I grow a small personal stash of high quality bud indoors.
Strain:
So I chose Bomb Seeds THC bomb auto which boasts "finishes flowering in only 65 days from seed indoors."
This is my first auto I have ever grown but after reading the following from their site I was sold:
"THC Bomb Auto is a classic in the making; a fast finishing, super potent, autoflowering white strain."
And claimed THC levels of "Very High (18-22%)" So with that it ticks all the boxes fast and potent I'm sold.
Growing medium:
I used the "Promix" organic from my local grow shop.
Promix Organic consists of: (50% Coco 50% Perlite)
Coco Peat, Perlite, Turbo Grow, Dolomite Lime, Rock Phosphate, Powdered Kelp, Mycoroot, Diatomaceous Earth, Trichoderma & Worm Castings. Plants are in 30cm (Approx. 10L) pots
Nutrients:
I used Bio Bizz organic grow fertilizer Bio-Grow and Bio-Bloom.
Grow Area:
Here I chose a Mars Hydro grow tent and went with the smallest one they offered it stands 160cm tall (5,4ft) and 70cm x 70cm (2.3 x 2.3ft) I went with the mars hydro because that's what my local shop stocks but that being said apart from a small bit of loose stitching I had to fix the tent seems pretty decent quality and setup is super easy. I am using a 120mm PC fan to extract and another to circulate air and passive air intake from vents in tent.
Lighting:
2 x Bridgelux Vero29 50W COB LED's
1 x Mars Reflector 48
So I stared with a Mars Hydro 48 Reflector it came with the tent on special at a okayish price. The light is pretty decent quality and again just plug in and go very easy. The Mars reflector has 48 x 5 watt Epistar LED's which comes in at 240 watts but the actual wattage at the wall @220V is 100 watts.
Then I added two 50 watt Bridgelux Vero29 COB LED's 3500K This is the first time I have grown under COB LED's but after seeing the vigorous growth first hand in anther grow set up I was instantly sold.
To start I dropped the seeds in a glass of water for 24Hrs and then moved them to paper towel for another 24hrs at this point all 3 seeds had a small tap root already growing. I then planted the seeds straight into the pots with the small tap root pointing down. At this point I was only using the Mars reflector for lighting which will run 18hrs of light 6hrs Dark from start to finish.
Then only 4 days from being dropped into that glass of water the little guys popped the surface.
4 Days from seed:
7 Days from seed:
Week 1 done and everything is looking good
10 Days from seed:
16 Days from seed:
COB LED'S have been turned on and plants seem to be going strong.
21 Days from seed:
Started noticing the yellowing of the fan leaves with darker green veins which from everything I have read is magnesium deficiency which should not be happening so early because the coco should have tons of magnesium. The coco should have being buffered in Cal-Mag and the worm casings I believe should help with the magnesium too. But I still misted and watered with Epsom salt solution.
26 Days from seed:
Plants still showing signs of magnesium deficiency even after being treated with Epsom salts. I read online that if your PH is really out you can have these magnesium deficiency problems so I bought a PH tester and made sure I PH'ed the nutrient solution to between 5.8 and 6.0 before watering water coming out the other side water was Ph 6.0 - 6.5 In previous outdoor grow attempts I never had to PH the municipal water as it was just naturally around the 6.0 PH mark after adding nutes, but where I currently live (A nature reserve/estate) all the houses water comes from a underground well and I have a sneaky suspicion this is causing a few problems for me ph wise and its also a little salty which might be causing a issue. I have started adding Cal-Mag to each nutrient feeding. Notice the colour difference between the back plant and the other two.
31 Days from seed:
New growth is looking better magnesium deficiency signs seem to have stopped but obviously old damaged leaves don't recover.
35 Days from seed:
Looks like flowering has started up in the last 24Hrs and you can see the different phenotype's starting to become apparent.
40 Days from Seed:
Flowering is in full force and plants looking okay. New growth is nice and green but older fan leaves slightly yellow/pale green upping the nutrient strength. One plant showing sativa dominance other two much more indica dominant.
50 Days from seed:
The speed these things are growing at this point is impressive. I moved the tall girl (Sativa dominant) to the back because she is much taller than the other two and making it hard to adjust the lights evenly.
57 Days from seed:
Flowering is coming along buds are really filling in nicely. Plant in the back is so different from the other two.
60 Days from seed:
2 months down and according to seed breeder only 5 days to go but by the looks of it the claimed 65 days from seed might be a bit off. I lifted the lights because I started to notice a yellowing and cupping of the top most leaves under lights must have been due to light burn these COB's are powerful they where 30cm from plants I thought that as long as it wasn't hot if you held your hand by the plant then it should be fine but apparently just the intensity of the light from that distance was a bit too much for them lesson learned. I moved the lights to 40cm from the top of the plants.
65 Days from seed:
So the moment we have all been waiting for! Well at least the moment I have been waiting for. Today is Day 65 from seed this should be the day to harvest according to breeders specs but alas plants are not ready, probably the magnesium/ph issues I had in the beginning, that or they just lied about the grow times which I'm sure no seed breeder would ever ever do (I cant find the skeptical hippo eyes emoti)
So now lets see how many days it will actually take till harvest time. Hopefully they will be done in 70 days from seed because that will be the 25th of December and I couldn't think of a better thing to find under the Christmas tree than a ready to harvest cannabis tree. A few white "hairs" are starting to turn brown/orange and curling inwards so we going in the right direction.
69 Days from seed:
More stigmas or "white hairs" are turning brown/orange. The plant on the right and the one in the back are showing allot of brown "hairs" but the plant on the left has no brown "hairs" all still white. Looks like just a few days to go for two plants at least. This brings me to one of my concerns I have not flushed the autos because of the speed they grow and the frequency in which I have been able to water without over watering. If I stopped giving nutrients a week ago to flush they would be completely yellow by now and perhaps would have affected yield. Tomorrow might be the last watering for at least two of the plants so I will make that plain water. So just a couple days left.
I am going to update tomorrow or the next day with some high res pics from my digital camera I cant find my magnifying loupe so going to use macro mode on high res camera to check out trichomes.
Strain:
So I chose Bomb Seeds THC bomb auto which boasts "finishes flowering in only 65 days from seed indoors."
This is my first auto I have ever grown but after reading the following from their site I was sold:
"THC Bomb Auto is a classic in the making; a fast finishing, super potent, autoflowering white strain."
And claimed THC levels of "Very High (18-22%)" So with that it ticks all the boxes fast and potent I'm sold.
Growing medium:
I used the "Promix" organic from my local grow shop.
Promix Organic consists of: (50% Coco 50% Perlite)
Coco Peat, Perlite, Turbo Grow, Dolomite Lime, Rock Phosphate, Powdered Kelp, Mycoroot, Diatomaceous Earth, Trichoderma & Worm Castings. Plants are in 30cm (Approx. 10L) pots
Nutrients:
I used Bio Bizz organic grow fertilizer Bio-Grow and Bio-Bloom.
Grow Area:
Here I chose a Mars Hydro grow tent and went with the smallest one they offered it stands 160cm tall (5,4ft) and 70cm x 70cm (2.3 x 2.3ft) I went with the mars hydro because that's what my local shop stocks but that being said apart from a small bit of loose stitching I had to fix the tent seems pretty decent quality and setup is super easy. I am using a 120mm PC fan to extract and another to circulate air and passive air intake from vents in tent.
Lighting:
2 x Bridgelux Vero29 50W COB LED's
1 x Mars Reflector 48
So I stared with a Mars Hydro 48 Reflector it came with the tent on special at a okayish price. The light is pretty decent quality and again just plug in and go very easy. The Mars reflector has 48 x 5 watt Epistar LED's which comes in at 240 watts but the actual wattage at the wall @220V is 100 watts.
Then I added two 50 watt Bridgelux Vero29 COB LED's 3500K This is the first time I have grown under COB LED's but after seeing the vigorous growth first hand in anther grow set up I was instantly sold.
To start I dropped the seeds in a glass of water for 24Hrs and then moved them to paper towel for another 24hrs at this point all 3 seeds had a small tap root already growing. I then planted the seeds straight into the pots with the small tap root pointing down. At this point I was only using the Mars reflector for lighting which will run 18hrs of light 6hrs Dark from start to finish.
Then only 4 days from being dropped into that glass of water the little guys popped the surface.
4 Days from seed:
7 Days from seed:
Week 1 done and everything is looking good
10 Days from seed:
16 Days from seed:
COB LED'S have been turned on and plants seem to be going strong.
21 Days from seed:
Started noticing the yellowing of the fan leaves with darker green veins which from everything I have read is magnesium deficiency which should not be happening so early because the coco should have tons of magnesium. The coco should have being buffered in Cal-Mag and the worm casings I believe should help with the magnesium too. But I still misted and watered with Epsom salt solution.
26 Days from seed:
Plants still showing signs of magnesium deficiency even after being treated with Epsom salts. I read online that if your PH is really out you can have these magnesium deficiency problems so I bought a PH tester and made sure I PH'ed the nutrient solution to between 5.8 and 6.0 before watering water coming out the other side water was Ph 6.0 - 6.5 In previous outdoor grow attempts I never had to PH the municipal water as it was just naturally around the 6.0 PH mark after adding nutes, but where I currently live (A nature reserve/estate) all the houses water comes from a underground well and I have a sneaky suspicion this is causing a few problems for me ph wise and its also a little salty which might be causing a issue. I have started adding Cal-Mag to each nutrient feeding. Notice the colour difference between the back plant and the other two.
31 Days from seed:
New growth is looking better magnesium deficiency signs seem to have stopped but obviously old damaged leaves don't recover.
35 Days from seed:
Looks like flowering has started up in the last 24Hrs and you can see the different phenotype's starting to become apparent.
40 Days from Seed:
Flowering is in full force and plants looking okay. New growth is nice and green but older fan leaves slightly yellow/pale green upping the nutrient strength. One plant showing sativa dominance other two much more indica dominant.
50 Days from seed:
The speed these things are growing at this point is impressive. I moved the tall girl (Sativa dominant) to the back because she is much taller than the other two and making it hard to adjust the lights evenly.
57 Days from seed:
Flowering is coming along buds are really filling in nicely. Plant in the back is so different from the other two.
60 Days from seed:
2 months down and according to seed breeder only 5 days to go but by the looks of it the claimed 65 days from seed might be a bit off. I lifted the lights because I started to notice a yellowing and cupping of the top most leaves under lights must have been due to light burn these COB's are powerful they where 30cm from plants I thought that as long as it wasn't hot if you held your hand by the plant then it should be fine but apparently just the intensity of the light from that distance was a bit too much for them lesson learned. I moved the lights to 40cm from the top of the plants.
65 Days from seed:
So the moment we have all been waiting for! Well at least the moment I have been waiting for. Today is Day 65 from seed this should be the day to harvest according to breeders specs but alas plants are not ready, probably the magnesium/ph issues I had in the beginning, that or they just lied about the grow times which I'm sure no seed breeder would ever ever do (I cant find the skeptical hippo eyes emoti)
So now lets see how many days it will actually take till harvest time. Hopefully they will be done in 70 days from seed because that will be the 25th of December and I couldn't think of a better thing to find under the Christmas tree than a ready to harvest cannabis tree. A few white "hairs" are starting to turn brown/orange and curling inwards so we going in the right direction.
69 Days from seed:
More stigmas or "white hairs" are turning brown/orange. The plant on the right and the one in the back are showing allot of brown "hairs" but the plant on the left has no brown "hairs" all still white. Looks like just a few days to go for two plants at least. This brings me to one of my concerns I have not flushed the autos because of the speed they grow and the frequency in which I have been able to water without over watering. If I stopped giving nutrients a week ago to flush they would be completely yellow by now and perhaps would have affected yield. Tomorrow might be the last watering for at least two of the plants so I will make that plain water. So just a couple days left.
I am going to update tomorrow or the next day with some high res pics from my digital camera I cant find my magnifying loupe so going to use macro mode on high res camera to check out trichomes.
Their prices are not horrible either... just slightly higher than MCSB
