What up guys starting a grow journal for my 2nd grow, first one is in the signature. This grow has been in the making for a while. I got a clone and started a seed mid flower from my first grow, but i am just now (today) starting flower. I wasnt at school so i wasnt able to take care of my two plants so my friend watched them with his own and they got pretty big. My set up: 2.5x2.5x5ft tent 5" inline fan 2x 150watt hps small computer fan for intake unsure of soil, unfortunately it seems to be a not great soil with poor drainage but it will work im running foxfarm big bloom and tiger bloom as well as supplimental cal mag Ill be updating periodically, im thinking pictures once a week to help me keep better track of my grow Pictures! These are from day 1 flower 1/30/11 exhaust ducting wrapped around the back for light trapping Intake ducting wrapped for light with a computer fan inside Grand Daddy Kush from clone Master kush from bag seed Here are a few pictures from harvest day of the GDP started to turn purple and it could have gone another week or so but i didnt have time to wait ended up with a half ounce and like a gram or so of some pretty dank trim hash Looking forward to another successful grow and journal next update will be tomorrow, im trying to update once a week
Little update because i took these pictures and wanted to post them I got a titanium skillet and hash bell as an early valentines day present from my girlfriend and to go along with it, some homemade iso hash from the trim of my first harvest. The hash came out the best ive ever made. I froze the trim first and only shook it for 30 seconds. Very clean smoke especially with the skillet
Subb'd for the next grow! Can't wait to see your yield this time around, those 2 150s should do work!
thanks man, im pretty stoked. Problem is the 2 plants got a little over vegged so theyre a bit out of control. Tied them down good but the canopy is definitely uneven. Got the lights focused on a few good budsites right now though so as long as those come out hella good ill be happy
Dude the soil is from the nursery down the street lol and damn man they're lookin good but you should probably post new pictures haha its been a few days... and you should post the pictures I sent you on your Norcal PickUps thread lol
i didnt check that thread, i hella got lazy and never updated it since i went home over break and didnt really get any good club shit. Im posting new pictures tonight, waiting to use an actual camera
UPDATE Day 11 Flower Master Kush Grand Daddy Kush The Grand Daddy kush really shows the difference between topping and not topping. It has about twice if not more bud sites compared to the master kush. Finally getting little budsites makes me miss my GDP. Cant wait till they fatten up and get frosty
Ive been noticing a lot of yellow and dying leaves down in very low light areas. I also noticed the plants themselves seem to be a lot lighter in color and i remember my last grow. Im suspecting they may not have gotten enough nitrogen either in the soil or in general and now have a slight deficiency. The overall plant seems very healthy and responds well to watering and nutrients, however the light leaf color and yellowing of lower leaves and large fan leaves worries me Should i go ahead and maybe feed with a 1/4 strength veg nutes along with my usual half strength big bloom and tiger? Or am i better off bumping up to full strength and seeing if bloom and tiger can supplement them enough since they have .1 and 2 nitrogen in them respectively. any thoughts? would appreciate some feedback
Sorry about the lack of updates, ive been going through hell trying to figure out whats wrong with my Grand daddy kush. I trimmed a lot of the master kush, took a bunch of little budsites off and it now looks a lot better. Its stopped losing leaves as well which is a good sign and its overall health appears to be good I am noticing some powdery mildew on the masterkush. I cut the leaves off that had it worst (it was mostly a few small fan leaves) Ive been keeping an eye on it and it appears to be just a few small patches on some random leaves (very minimal) however i have adjusted the fan to increase airflow on my main cola as well as increased temps to around 78 during the day (its been cold and temps rarely get over 76 tend to be 72-75). Im hoping the increased day time temps as well as reduced humidty and increased air flow help neutralize the problem or at least prevent it from spreading. any tips or info i should know about powdery mildew? How screwed am i if i notice it on buds/ how attentative should i be about mildew on my buds? I definitely dont wanna be smoking some mildew buds, like i said its very minor but im curious for some feedback. As stated before, the grand daddy kush is driving me crazy. My only thoughts are it has to be nitrogen or ph related. I planned to do a heavy flush but then i left for the weekend so i had a friend water fmy plants. He hit them with a jug of water that was like 8+ ph and had a heavy dose of cal mag in it with god knows what else. It was from my previous grow i just never got around to tossing it. He also hit them with tap water fresh from the tap so as you can guess ive been quiet worried. Plants were wated saturday and it was clear sunday which one got the full jug of old water and which got the tap. The GDK was the victim and a lot of leaves were goin yellow quick and had brown burn spots all over them. I took her out and put her in the bathtub and ran 2 gallons of fresh 7.0 ph water through the pot. I got a good amount of run off and im hoping that fixed the problem. Today she looks the same as before although the yellowing appears to have not spread to other leaves and is just taking out the already affected leaves this is a problem though because im already pulling hella leaves while trying to figure out if i have a nitrogen deficiency. Moral of the story is my grow is full of problems and its driving me crazy plan to hit the GDK with some growbig along with tappering back the tiger bloom and big bloom back to 1/4 strength. I dont wanna do more damage by over feeding vs underfeeding. I plan to hit it with whats recommended of Foxfarms as far as nitrogen goes because i cant afford to lose many more leaves. Im sure yield and potency will be affected but w.e 2nd grow shit happens. I just cant wait until i can finally do a grow from seed to smoke without anyone elses help or effort. Last grow i was using an automated watering system and harvested early for the last 3 weeks or so. It had so much potential 2nd grow, friend vegged it ect, other friend watered it with the wrong water (not his fault still sucks), and im having all kinds of nutrient issues. Bleeeh shit happens at least im growing legally right?
Week 5 almost 6 update Fighting powdery mildew daily now, its not bad by any means its just hard to find it on the leaves and its slowly creeping towards my buds. Its mostly on the plant on the right side which sucks because hte main cola on that thing is huge (master kush) the GDK got burned pretty bad from watering with the wrong jug of water (shitty) but the buds themselves are getting pretty fat already and im starting to see some purple come out. This is all flowered with 2 150watt hps lights
I started flushing my GDK today, master kush appears to need another week i think. I watered them both today with plain water. Planning on getting some molasses to finish both out. I think im going to water the master kush one more time before i start the flush. It seems to be getting fatter so i dont think shes quite ready yet pictures eventually, 1 plant will harvest in 2 weeks from today
today marks the start of week 7. Ive decided to go ahead and flush the masterkush as well so both will be harvest in 2 weeks. My plan is to harvest the GDK first get it all trimmed and hung up in its own box to dry. After its dry im going to chop the Master kush either the same day or if i can let it go longer if it needs it. The battle against PM rages on. I thought i had it contained but the sneaky shit is now slowly making its way back. To start it was only on fan leaves and was easy to spot. Now unfortunately it has come back but all over the place and very very lightly dusted on the leaves. I have to get down low and look at all the leaves at eye level just to see the faint glimmer of it in the light. Its all over the place but not too bad and i have been able to hit most of it with my fungicide. Ive also noticed the PM is now spreading to the small little leaves on the buds that normally youd just trim the tips off of. This is what has led me to want to chop the master kush a little earlier than planned. Mostly because these small bud PM spots are on the lower part of my ps3 controller sized bud which is basically 75% of the crop ill get from this plant. Ive also noticed it slowly showing up on the lower light areas of my grand daddy kush however im not as worried about it spreading in two weeks there. Wish me luckguys, im hoping to fight this shit for another 12 days until i harvest. Its getting to be a pain checking my plants for 30+ minutes every morning only to find morePM later in the day. Definitely growing PM resistent strain next time around
unfortunately today i found more powdery mildew on the actual buds of my master kush. I sprayed everything i could see but this masterkush is basically a lost cause in my opinion. Going to let her ride out the next 11 days but i think im going to end up losing a large % of my harvest from that plant due to the PM. That plant itself was nothing but crap anyways since i started flowering it. Stretched way too much in veg and ended up with only like 3 respectable buds and one massive cola which wasnt even that nice looking. Not very many crystals at all. Oh well GDK looks great as usual although i found a few spots of PM today on a bud site i moved closer to the light. I sprayed it and it should be fine. Otherwise the GDK is healther *knock on wood*
The GDK looks amazing, buds are not that long but they are fat as hell. Been checkin the trichs every other day. I started my flush at the perfect time. Im lookin at about 10-20% amber trichs with 9 days (if you include today) until harvest. Should harvest with the trichs look just how i want. I harvested a little early last time and got a more heady high so im glad this strain matured a lot sooner than the GDP did The masterkush is straight shit. The buds are all airy, hairs are still pretty white and the mildew has caused me to burn a few budsites unfortunately. I really dont expect much out of this plant. Wish i had just bought a starter plant from the dispensary instead of trying to grow an outdoor bag seed of some shitty 20$ 1/8th. Oh well live and learn right? still thinking of harvesting this on the same day but it depends on the weather. Humidity has been high recently due to the weather so the mildew has been hittin back hard Lack of pictures is due to the lack of responses in the thread. Not worth taking the time to take, upload and post them if no ones really looking. Ill be posting final preharvest pictures and post harvest pics though for sure
I had the same problem with one of my plants, powdery mildew + an outbreak of spider mites a week before harvest. I threw it outside and let the trichs fully mature, processed it separately from the other 2 plants and turned her into 2 grades of ISO hash (1 for buds and 1 for trim). Let me tell you I'm glad I went that route, got quite a few batches of DANK hash out of that poor ravaged plant. Don't know if it's very humid in your area but the most important thing to keep powdery mildew at bay is lots of airflow.
Humidity has been in the 60-70 range in northern cali the last few days from the rain. It was really cold last night which helped a lot and i finally got my humidity down to about 42-50 for the night which is what it had been right after i first spotted the PM after a few days of high humidity due again to rain. The low humidity was helping a lot to keep it from growing crazy however this recent 2-3 days of high humidity hit my girls hard. I should have moved the one with it out of the tent to avoid cross contamination but honestly it was already in the tent im sure i was screwed Just went through and trimmed a bunch of leaves on the GDK that had slight PM, nothing too crazy and its all on the leaves. I dont expect to lose any buds from the GDK except MAYBE for a few small ass popcorn buds that i was too lazy to trim out from the lower middle of the plant when it first started flowering. Ill just throw it into my trim and hash it. As for the masterkush, just went over it again now that the lights have been on (PM shows up after about 2-3 hours of light on for me) and its really next to impossible to tell what is PM whats trichomes, and whats burned trichomes from previous sprays. I plan to hit it with the H2o2 at harvest and just do my best to save what buds i can. Im glad the shitty bag seed is the one that got messed up the most, i dont feel as bad about losing some crop considering the buds look like shit. I may end up hashing even the good buds just because they look so airy already. Next grow I plan to clean my tent several times with h202 and water and possibly a bleach solution as well. Going to clean all my equipment lightly as well and im getting some mildew resistant seeds from TGA at my local dispensary so I can not worry about the spores that may have stuck around. Im also going to add a fan in the back of my tent on the ground pointed up to help move air in the back around. considering adding a 2nd exhaust fan as well to get some negative pressure going in the tent because currently i have more air coming in than is getting pulled out which i think is not helping my cause.