Melting Dragon Gelato
Grow
Phasen
Umgebung
Medium
Typ
Notizen
50% fresh 50% Reused (sterilized in the oven) Biobizz light-mix
Diagramme
Gießmenge
Aktionen • l
54 Messwerte
Letzter
1 l
Durchschnitt
0.38 l
Min
0.09 l
Max
1 l
Aktionshäufigkeit
Wiederholte Aktionstypen im Grow
132 Aktionen
Kommentare
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This yield was also unconcentrated as even the greatest leaves had very sparse thrycome development, therefore buds had much less resources to develop and the plant concentrated less the production of its thrycomes.
This strange growth possibly stems from the stress that the early sprouting seedling suffered that I explained at the start.
From this, I learnt once again how critical the earliest period of growth is for an healthy development down the line.
Which forced me to trim her heavily to improve air circulation as i'm nearing the end of the thrycomes development, which is the most critical time to prevent mold development, which I learned on my own expenses with "Neon Light".
I have to say it was a true nightmare to trim, as it took me almost 2 hours to finish.
As of now I will let the plant finish developing its flowers without wasting any more nutrients, simply because I don't like how it's using so many resources to keep growing these massive leaves.
I have to trim it again this weekend.
I didn't feed it nutrients this time as the plant seems to have slowed down its development, I took some photos of the thrycomes to check when I should flush.
This is not acceptable, so I won't be turning off the exhaust fan at night from now on.
Heavy trim to reduce as much as possible RH.
RH: 85% at night 55% at day
Outside Temp: 1.3 C°
I'm increasing the air circulation fan speed to lower the chance of mold forming due to the high humidity at night, which is because I'm turning off the exhaust fan at night since the outside temperature is too cold and would lower the temperature of the room too much for my health.
There is a bit of discoloration on the lowest skirt of leaves, this is due to me lowering the nitrogen content by halving Bio-Grow to make it take on some color and supposedly improve taste by lowering clorophil levels in the leaves.
I didn't expect the plant to increase its water absorbtion so drastically after switching to flowering.
Duly noted.
RH: 60%
I'm also noticing some growth on this plant has gone a bit wrong, like double flowers on the same stem that overlap and weird, extremely concentrated flower spots under a top.
Nothing alarming, just something unusual.
I've photographed both of these strange growths.
This could be the norm for this plant's genetics but as this plant has been anything but normal up until now I sincerely doubt this to be "as intended".
Light defoliation for light penetration + lower RH
As "Neon Light" has finished drying I moved the fan back in the tent, bringing back the much needed circulation of air.
Temperature: min 20.6 max 22 C°
Flowers are developing pretty fast.
Just pruning lower flower sites by pinching them as if they are suckers of a tomato plant. This will in theory reduce overall yield but increase the size of the buds that do get the light they need to properly develop.
Spacing out the early flowers that were touching each other to lower RH
Removing the air circualtion fan and changing the light cycle from 16/8 to 24/0
Heavy defoliation, to keep RH as low as possible
Brought back Melting Dragon Gelato in the tent and light cycle changed to 12/12 to accomodate its flowering. If I don't see any signs of flowering in 5 days I will switch it to 18/6 so that Neon Light can develop bigger flowers.
Since it has yet to flower, I will place it in total darkness for 48 hours and I won't water it either, after which the plant should be susceptible to flowering cues like a Photoperiod, as such I will set the light schedule to 12/12 when I place it back in the tent.
It seems the other plants I grew didn't mind this small amount of light leak, but this one is more sensitive.
To help her flower I'm manually unplugging the light at night and plugging it back in in the morning.
Hopefully this will make her flower, if it doesn't I'll wait for a bit but then if it still hasn't started flowering, I'll cut my losses and kill her.
As there is a possibility it won't flower, I will also stop feeding her nutrients until I see her start flowering.
Light defoliation and tucking
Supposedly Autos should be able to flower even on a 24h a day schedule, but MDG ("Melting Dragon Gelato") has yet to start flowering and it suffered this drastic light schedule change.
Hoping for the best.
This could be because when i switched my light timer from analog to digital I set it up incorrectly, so the light remained on 24h a day, this lasted a week or so, right after "Neon Light" started flowering.
"Neon Light" didn't seem to mind, probably because it switched to flowering succesfully, but it seems that with "MDG" it disrupted it right as it was about to flower, and it still isn't showing any sign of early flower formation.
I will lower the light cycle to 14/8 from 16/8, hoping that it will induce flowering.
Third stage LST
Gentle Lollipopping
Second stage LST
Gentle defoliation for light penetration since i'm doing LST.
Since "Neon Light" reached the light, and the leaves touching the light would end up burned, I had to lower both plants.
Pouring water around the plant.
First round of LST
Pouring water around the plant.
Pouring water around the plant.
Pouring water around the plant.
Pouring water around the plant.
Pouring water around the plant.
Pouring water around the plant.
Adding a bit of water since the leaves are drooping a bit. I will also increase the planned watering amount in the schedule.
Pouring water around the plant.
I'm waiting for the soil water retention to increase due to a more established root structure.
Pouring water around the plant.
Pouring water around the plant.
Though I expect it will yield less than optimal harvest as its day-by-day growth is still slow compared to "Neon Light".
I chose these two seeds since they were supposed to mature at the same rate, but it seems I will inevitably have to prioritize one other the other when choosing when to harvest.
As such, from now on the feeding schedule will not be optimized for her, but, for my convenience when I'm feeding, it will be dictated by the pace of "Neon Light".
Hence, I will change the feeding schedule, as "Neon Light" is entering early vegetative growth and requires it.
Waiting for "Melting Gelato" to catch up would damage my overall yield by impairing the more capable "Neon Light".
Pouring water around the plant.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Relative Humidity still stable between 60 and 75%.
But the plant seems to have bounced back as their new set of leaves look healthy, I deduce that it stopped developing the leaves that had burnt tips and focused on developing new leaves.
Still hoping it won't have the same turnout of "Midget Hulk".
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
I lowered the plants 10 cm from the light to bring down at least a bit the temperature, but I can't do anything more about it.
I removed the plastic bottle domes as the humidity of the tent is stable at 60-75% and the seedlings have progressed enough that they don't need above 80% RH and also because it will lower the chance of mold forming, as it could be disastrous at this stage.
I'll be leaving the plants to someone else for the next 5 days so even if it is still a few days early for both plants to be fertilized I will fertilize the water that this person will use to water them, as 5 days from now they should've received nutrients already.
I expect the low concentration of nutrients from the first round of feeding won't be enough to harm the plants even if it's a bit early to start.
After researching why this can happen these are all the possible factors:
-Temperature too high
-Light too powerful/24h light cycle (light always on)
-Nutrient burn/Lack of nutrients
-Tap water used for irrigation contains too much Chlorine
Ruling out nutrient burn because i haven't fertilized it, also ruling out lack of nutrients as the soil I'm using on top (the 50% that is new) is designed to have enough nutrients to sprout a seedling and finally ruling out light too strong as my light is not powerful by any means, in fact it is too weak (50w and offbrand light).
It could be because I watered it with water that I didn't let rest for a few days (or boiled for 15 minutes) to lower its chlorine (harmless to human but harmful to plants and bacteria), but since the other plant ("Neon Light") isn't showing any symptoms I will also partially rule this out.
Going forward I'll still let the water rest, as I've done in my last grow, to minimize any possible issues with chlorine buildup in my soil.
The last 2 possible causes are related, I've tried a 24h light cycle (always on) since I planted them, as I didn't want to repeat what happened with "Midget Hulk" (it happened anyway because i HAD to turn off the light).
Since a few days ago I transitioned to a 18h light cycle, and so I expect that I kept the 24h light cycle too much as I should've switched to a 18h light cycle around 3 days after sprouting instead of more than a week later.
And the last issue is the temperature being too high as I have already mentioned, but I can't do anything about it, but switching to a 18h light cycle brought it down a bit as the main source of heat is still the light.
Misting water around the plant and in the plastic bottle dome.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Misting water around the plant and in the plastic bottle dome.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Misting water around the plant and in the plastic bottle dome.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Since it is getting too hot inside without any ventilation, I decided to turn on the exhaust fan, will check tomorrow the drop in temperature.
Misting water around the plant and in the plastic bottle dome.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Misting water around the plant and in the plastic bottle dome.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Hopefully the consequences won't be as bad.
A little bent because of the experience hence the name.
Added a plastic water bottle cut in half as a dome with holes cut on top for minimal air flow to keep humidity high.
Misting water around the plant and in the plastic bottle dome.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Misting water around the plant and in the plastic bottle dome.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Misting water around the plant and in the plastic bottle dome.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.
Pouring water around the plant and misting the walls of the tent to mantain high humidity.