Sad news guys just found out today, that this grow is indeed a male, but at least the Durban gold supposedly looks like a female for now I hope. I’m chopping it down and disposing of it immediately.

a year ago

***MAJOR UPDATE*** It’s been 3 days since I spoke with a pro who is used to doing many grows with the pyramids, and he told me that I broke the first rule, which was never use nutrients at full strength, IK rookie move, my fault. It’s been so long since the shift from hydroponics to the pyramids has been a learning curve. That explains the nutrient burn so what i ended up doing was dumping out the last couple gallons of nutrients, cleaned out the res and filled it up with 10 gallons of water and I let my air bubbler agitate it for two days and then I pH treated it. (we are in the sweet spot of 6.2) From there I used RO water to flush out the pyramids and waited until the blocks dried out, so they would be ready for the next feeding Which is today.  So I took the pros advice and ended up using 1/2 strength for bloom, and in the future use 1/4 strength for veg & use my judgment to see if I need to bump it up to 1/2 strength. I know it’s not looking good right now, but everything so far has worked in my favor I believe because I left the fan leaves on that we’re getting yellow/brown with the curved tips so the bud sites wouldn’t be affected. I defoliated what little I could without stressing out the plant too much while it’s “drinking”, and Lolipopped, the next step will be to get the trellis net up soon if I can but hopefully it’ll bounce back with the added supplements of Cal mag in a bloom booster along with the recalibrated have strength nutrients in here they are below. NECTAR OF THE GODS: 1/2 STRENGTH Medusa’s Magic = 50mL Gaia Mania = 50mL Herculean Harvest = 25mL Zeus Juice = 25mL SUPPLEMENTS/BOOSTERS: 1/2 STRENGTH CalMag (Bloom Phase) = 15mL Technaflora Awesome Blossoms = 12.5mL Hydroguard = 20mL (FULL STRENGTH) Great White = 1 Scoop (FULL STRENGTH) CURRENT RESERVOIR NUTE SETTINGS: pH = 6.21 PPM = 1070 Temp = 76 RH = 56.5% VPD = 1.31 kPa My fingers are crossed and I can tell the plants were thirsty bc I can hear crackling noises while watering 

a year ago

The plants are drinking a lot more now, and it has been decided instead of tomorrow today will be the day to move to flowering.(12:12 schedule) I am shy of day 60, but 59 days is good enough. I will be adding a little bit of a stronger nutrient solution since the leaves are starting to show some sort of deficiency in a lighter color, and not the burnt tips. Plus, I will be adding some blooming nutrients for the flower.

a year ago

I will probably switch over to a 12 hour lighting schedule in about 10 days but it might go a little longer so the other plant (Durban gold) can catch up. It seems that diluting the nutes seem to have a good effect on this plant so far will defoliate the younger plant soon.

a year ago

Did some light defoliation and use the LST clips on the bud sites to move them out into the light. So far I think this plant is about to bounce back. Another thing I’m going to do for the refilling of the reservoir (currently have 4-5 gallons left) to prevent nute burn is that I’m just going to fill it with RO water and it should dilute the nutes and just add more hydroguard and Great White Mycorrhizae (since I read, it’s inert it won’t hurt the growth)

a year ago

It’s been 6 days since it’s been topped. Chickened out doing the LST since it’s pretty far along IMO. (But I have put a clip at the topped site to see if anything happens when it does decide to grow again?) So far there has been no growth. Its been stagnant so I’m assuming that would be from the topping. Hopefully it recovers from the topping and starts to grow again?

a year ago

QUICK QUICK UPDATE: I’ve topped the plant 2 days ago and my LST clips came in from Etsy. Since I’m not sure what I’m doing I put the clips on the branches that look like they’ll have flowers to get out of the foliage and exposed to some light. I tried to put a clip on the main apical branch and chickened out. Hope I didn’t damage anything and it should bounce back? (I hope). As of right now I’m out of my comfort zone but having fun learning as I go. If anyone has any input please don’t hesitate to let me know. I’m half excited/half concerned at this point. :-/

a year ago

QUICK UPDATE: Finally did my research. Counted 6 nodes. And topped. We’ll see how this goes as this is my first time topping an auto. Another thing I’m looking forward to is the LST clips I’ve ordered off Etsy. I’ll wait a few days for the plant to bounce back before putting on the clips.

a year ago

So far the plant seems to have bounced back, especially with the tips that were being slightly discolored. Are now not receding any more on the leaf. The plant is now taking in more water and the growth is about to start exponentially. I am currently waiting for LST clips to come in by next week so I can start the training I am still doing research. I am not sure when to top they usually say after 4 to 5 nodes but I’m currently sitting at four (nodes) i think. I’ll wait until the LST clips get in to have a better field of you once everything is set.

a year ago

It’s been six days with this one and I’m just concerned about the tips being discolored maybe it might be nutrient lockout or it could be the light being too low I’m not too sure. Another thing that has me concerned is that the pyramid has some sort of I guess salt or white color on it. I’m not sure what, and I’m going to attribute it to being may be the salts from the solution. Either way we’re going to figure this out and maybe I’ll make the next batch of the solution to be half strength and see what happens from there. If anybody else sees this, maybe they could give me their two cents and see what may be causing this ??

a year ago

Raise the light up some so the leaves don’t get burned. So far everything is looking OK I’m planning on trying to do LST when appropriate.

a year ago

So I just found out that using these ez plug blocks and pyramids, the plant will experience some transplant shock, so it’s not quite full-proof as they say.  As you can see here, it’s been the next day and the plant is back to normal, and even with the darker shade of green, so that tells me that the nutrients in the root system is actually working very well . I am trying not to use the oscillating fan as much on the block which will dry it out quicker as the plant is still establishing a new route system throughout the pyramid. So the fan is aimed towards the wall and hopefully at a certain angle that it should bounce back and help the plant establish a strong stem throughout. And a humidifier is helping the blocks in retaining the moisture. I’ve gotten the Reservoir under control since I mixed the nutes at full strength and was concerned that the air stone bubbler was making everything bubble out. This was resolved by turning down the air stone a little bit and now the reservoir is under control. I might implement the refrigeration unit if anything else comes up but I think for right now we will watch and see what happens.

a year ago

Transplant day! First grow in 3 years since I breeded a couple strains. Had to really clean the grow room and rethink my approach to this grow. Instead of using straight hydro (RDWC). Did my due diligence and decided to use the EZ Plug Pyramid this grow. Rapid Rooter/EZ Plug Block->Pyramid. Finally switched over to nutrient soln (from Zero Water filter) that will be manually watered every 3-8 days 10GAL Reservoir: Hydroguard 2ml/gal = 20ml GW Mycorrhizae 5ml/10gal = 1 scoop Nectar of the Gods: Medusa’s Magic 10ml/gal =100ml Gaia Mania 10ml/gal =100ml Herculean Harvest 5ml/gal = 50ml Zeus Juice 5ml/gal = 50ml

a year ago

Getting the nute solution ready and about to transplant to the bigger pyramid block

a year ago

Roots are starting to branch out into the EZ Plug Block. It’s healthy and going strong

a year ago

Bought from Hawaii.  Fed only water until transplant to EZ plug pyramids

a year ago