Grow Diaries [Completed] Mimosa and Purple Punch grow

Welcome to Percy's @SausaG, we're glad you made it. You picked a nice strain, imo lol, good luck and let us know if we can help. 

@SausaG Welcome to an awesome grow-space!  Good to see you have started a diary. Excellent strain choices. I have some mimosa autos in my lineup, and I may have one started in a micro grow about the same time as yours! Ask if you need any help. I've made a lot of mistakes and received a lot of help from the great people around here.

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Welcome @SausaG to Percy’s. Purple punch is on my top 10 favorite strains can’t wait to see how they turn out.

Welcome to percys mate

I got some purple punch seeds to grow so I will be keen see how you get on

Any problems lots of lovely people to help you / us out 

Alright! 

Just one day later and we are looking great! Everything is looking A'okay! Just gave'em some PH:ed water from the bottom and sprayed the top (PH:ed water and the tiniest amount of rhizo). All the girls seem to be up and looking for light.

I'm still only using a single small led because my fs1000 for the VEG tent hasn't arrived yet. Temps and humidity as shown, keeping it high for now. it gets a little warmer but I was letting some moisture out of the room hence it got a bit colder. Main grow in main tent is in the third week of flower and is transpiring so much water right now.

Well, we'll see how it keeps on going, I'm really focused on making sure the roots get water when they need it with autos because last time I felt they never really grew much length. Although it didn't matter as in the end per plant yield was approx. 70g which was really nice considering they where tiny!

I found a picture of my first grow last year, or of the harvest. There was a third plant aswell. Here is one Mimosa Auto and one Purple Punch Auto. I made alot of mistakes with these girls but the were an amazing smoke nonetheless! Hopefully this time they are double in size!

Allright! It’s been 11 Days since I placed the tap root seeds into coco. I haven’t been without problems. Thankfully nothing critical yet, except for one plant. One of my Mimosa seedling accidentally got it’s head ripped off😭 This is just tragic, but it happend and it can’t be undone. Here is a photo of the be-headed baby..

Now i also had some small problems with my plant streaching. This hasen’t been a problem for me before. But this round of plant i actually did alot differently than normal because of special circumstances. For one i only used a bad smallish LED because I am waiting for my TS1000 to come for this tent (It should be arrieving tommorrow). And for some reason that I dont know I havent been giving them any nutes in their feeding water. Also I was away from home for friday and saturday and had a friend come over to water and feed all my plants, they are the ones that noticed the strech and tipping over.

Now i have moved a 50w growing LED from my main tent into this tent to help with the light levels. And started to feed a ~0.8EC feed. Our water here is about 0.3..

Well, we’ll see what happens here in a couple of days. I’ll take tips from anyone but I think we’ll be fine soon. I’m gonna use the grow medium from the dead seedling to backfill a bit of the others so there not as tall and lanky.

Ouuuuyeahh! We’re back!

Well we are on day 21 from seed and after some hiccups in the begining, now we are looking strong! The baby’s have grown up a bit. I backfilled all my pots with coco from the dead Mimosa pot (RIP Mimosa baby). Now everything is looking good and healthy. Only one of my photoperiods in the tent stretched an excess amount, now the others look fine after adding the coco!

I’ve been feeding 1.3EC at 5.5-5.7ph when I feel the need to. Some from the top and some from the bottom. Im also spraying the plants daily with some water that has some rhizo and canna boost just for shits and giggles😬

I also recieved the TS1000 in the post and it has been added to the VEG tent💪🏻 I have it set to about 25-30% and roughly a meter away right now. Im always a little unsure about the distance, and for my next grows I will be investing into some more sensors and equipment. As this is also R&D into my ADHD-Cannabis-Dream future. 

But here are some photos of the babies so far, looking good! 

Alrigthy then!

We’re at day 30 and the girls are looking good! Been feeding 1.2-1.3 EC at 5.5-5.7 pH. I’ve topped the 4/5 plants on 02.01.23 and the last a couple days later. Here are some pictures of that.

Now I’ve let the girls do their thing for about 3 weeks and now a couple of days ago i started LST because I know these stems grow pretty fast and i dont want to bend them too much after they thicken up a bit. But just bending them to the side for now, I will start tieing down branches once thay start growing more. Now I am wondering how come my fan leaves are getting so huge but im not worrying about it too much. Here is a overview of how the tent is looking now, i had to untie the top right plant as I started LST a little soon there and i felt like it need a couple more days. The fan leaves on the middle top (Mimosa) are looking huge in my opinion. I do spray the foliage atleast once a day with pH:d water, calmag and rhizotonic. The plant seem to like it👍🏻 This photo is from today.

And for the curious I did repot my other photoperiod in this tent. The other one is going to a friend since i dont have the space.

I seem to have missed most of your diary. RIP miss Mimosa      's head clean off!! haha Unlucky man, sometimes we lose one or two along the way, but the rest of them are looking good. Nice work man. I see your diaries been linked too so you'll get your bling soon 🙂 

Well a day later and I have some updates!

I noticed yesterday that two plant in this tent had some funnyness going on with some fan leaves. Maybe a deficiency, maybe a fertifation strategy problem. But heres how im going to attack it! 

first off, I have now made it possible for me to fertigate till runoff. As pictured bellow I have added a layer of steel mesh that is slightly angled twords the door of the tent by pitching up the back end with a strip of oak I had lying around. The point of this is now as runoff occurs I can have my pots a little bit twords the back of the trays but the water will hopefully still always land into the tray😬 As the trays I have are quite small and I coulden’t really see under the pot if it was just centered ontop.

Now that runoff is not a problem I can start to fertigate the ”correct” way for coco. Daily till 20% runoff. So hopefully if the problem with the fan leaves is a deficiency, then this should give the plants more nutrients to feed on. Also I was mixing into my fertigation water possibly an excess of cannazym and rhizo as so my EC was built not only of A+B but also these. And so possibly leading to a deficiency in lack of base nutrients. 

Now I will follow the advice recieved and fertigate with a 5.8pH and 1.0 EC consisting of A+B for now.

Those changes sound on point. Once the root zone is fully built they should start taking off. 🤞

Good day my friends!

Four days have come and gone since we last spoke. Were on day 35 from sprouting. Seems the girls have set there roots more or less and are only going up now! Been watering daily now till about 10-20% runoff (about 300ml yesterday). EC sticking it at 1.0-1.1 pH 5.9-6.0.

Seems that one of my Mimosa babys understood that her sister got decapitated, and started growing like a horse compared to the others! I mean look at these leaves!

One Purple Punch also seems to be a great phenotype as its almost as tall as the Mimosa baby!

But overall for these autos in this tent everything is looking great now! I have a very very good feeling about these girls as last time I grew these it was in living soil and I did absolutely everything wrong and still ended up with about 240g from three teeny tiny autos👍🏻

Heres an overview of the tent as it stands. Seems my big potted photoperiod is still undergoing some shit. I’ve started epsom salt foliar spray yesterday and hope this will help. 

Only thing im doing today is cutting just a couple fan leaves off the girls that are always touching the medium. And only cutting ones that are also touching coco but also coverd by another fanleaf so I dont lose any coverage!

Looks cool

kinda wish I hadn’t given my purple punch freebie away sounds better than I read 

enjoy the grow bud 😋

Good evening all!

Heres another update! Nothing crazy has happend. All the girls are doing great, some a little taller and some a little bushier. But all in all everything has gone super smooth so far.

Ive kept the environment quite stable through out this grow. Temps are at 22-24c and RH at 60-70%. Im still keeping my feedings at EC 1.0-1.1 and pH 5.8-5.9.Heres a general view of the tent so far.

Ill probably be topping one Mimosa and one Purple Punch as the top middle and bottom left girls are growing faster than the others and i want to keep that canopy level even.

Every day when I first check up on the girls im so happy to see how well theyre growing. This is by far the most vigerous growth ive had personally! Soon my main tent is going to be harvested and dried. Then I can move this grow into the big tent💪🏻

Well thats all I got to report for now! Ill keep you updated after topping👍🏻