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Grow Diaries Sweet Gelato auto with guidance from twisted

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Sake min. 

What a great surprise upon starting my diary. 

My s9 has a habit turning itself off at 5% making me lose 2 hours worth of typing shit out. Arghhh I feel like snapping my phone in half.

And how am I going to remember what I said anyway. Tooooo hours tooooooo fking hours 😩

I'll do it another way instead. More pictures less chat. 

Before I start. I'd like to say huge thank you to twisted1 for allowing me to do a diary under his wing and thanks to percys growroom for being the perfect host. 

I'm so excited.

Atm we are near the end of day 2.

I wanted to follow the Germination method upon using jiffy plugs as you spoke of twisted dude, I couldn't get them locally anywhere and I'm put off by ordering stuff online atm. Because of royal mails delay with covid 19, it took the seeds long enough to get to me. 

I usually find that Germination is very easy with a 12 hour soak and then planted directly in soil. I've never had success with kitchen towel method. But I'm definitely going to get jiffys for the future.

So far they have only been getting fed Cooled boiled water. I can't even get what I'd prefer to buy an that is the ashbeck mineral water that tesco sell with its pH of 6.2.

Earlier today I received my shipment order that surprisingly only took 5 days to get to me. I've got everything I need apart from a 6 inch exhaust, some ducting and clips. 

Here is everything I have for this grow so far. We've gone from 

The end of day 1 

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4 x Sweet seeds Auto gelato 

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Jack's magic & perlite 

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12 litre Black plastic square pots 

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Attic grow space 
1.2 x 1.8 x 1.6

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4 x 23w 4000k led lights. 

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Invisible sun 4 x ISH120 wired in series 
Dimmable Meanwell ELG 240 c21000a 

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Water I prefer to use

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Plant magic Bio silicon

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Plant magic Bloom

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Vitalink calmag

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Bonemeal

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Ecothrive charge

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PH & EC pen

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Temp and humidity metre as seen via a wireless camera. 

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PH buffer 7

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PH down

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Conductivity liquid 

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Lst ties 

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12inch oscillating and 6inch clip on fan

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Things to get. 

4 or 6 inch exhaust fan with ducting. 

Plan for the grow:

I can't remember what twisted wanted to do here. I think the plan is to keep it basic, top once or twice and perform low stress training. 

Anyway that should be it. 

Need to figure out how to use the pH pen. It says how I've to leave it over night in the calibration solution. Bit ill leave that top tomorrow. I've got a can of tennents super lager in the fridge and enough for a big pipe. So I'm way to get stoned. Thanks again

 

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Epic start mate!! Really looking forward oto this! Youre gonna do great man. Nice lighting too 😉 

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You’re in really good hands Stars. Good luck on the run man. Lmao at loosing the post, been there  🤣🤣

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Good job man! Gonna be a fun run! Not sure how much more water your gonna wanna buy....they're gonna get big later and very thirsty lol. Dial in your tap water if possible but above all....follow twisted advice. Good luck man! 

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Good job man! Gonna be a fun run! Not sure how much more water your gonna wanna buy....they're gonna get big later and very thirsty lol. Dial in your tap water if possible but above all....follow twisted advice. Good luck man! 

Yea dude. I think twisted will have me using tap water instead of wasting money on mineral water. It makes sense. I'd just feel apprehensive about using tap water even after it's been sat for 24 hours for the nasty stuff to evaporate.

Hold on... I'm Forgetting I've got a pH pen kit that came in the post yesterday. I'll need to go an calbirate it and measure the water how exciting. 

But how do I use it. 

OK so apparently I'm meant to leave the metre in a solution of potassium chloride. 

I don't know much about this 

I went and just calibrated the pen using pH buffer 7. Afterwards I measured my tap water which came out at ph8.5 

I had a bucket of water in my shed that contained tap water that had been there for a few days.  I was surprised to read a ph of only 8.2. 

As an experiment i put more than a few drops of vinegar in another pint glass of water. Gave it a stir and there was a reading of pH 4.8. 

I feel like going out now an testing the rain water. Which I'll catch in a bucket to test later. Its actually very interesting the science behind potential of hydrogen. 

 

 

 

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Cheers 🍺🍻🍾🎉

Here's my first update 

I encounter problems already.

Stretching seedlings that toppled over with the aid of my over enthusiastic placement of the clip on fan.

I could maybe drop my 23w lights closer too..Thankfully I always fill my seedling pots up 3 quarters fill as I usually encounter a bit of stretch with seedlings and I can always top up the pots with more soil to give the seedlings a bit more stability. So I hope that's regarded OK to do. 

Earlier I gave them a sprayed watering and small bottom watering Hope that works. 

Here are some close up pics (fuk a should be in ma bed) they look well on there way. Aww I've never tasted gelato weed before it sounds yummy 🥵 sounds even better when this sweet seeds auto gelato is an F5 🤯 oh and I think because its a diary I'm supposed to mention a bit about the strain characteristics. I somehow want to grow this all the time. But we'll see. 

A bit about this amazing looking strain. 

5th generation autoflowering strain version of one of the most powerful and famous lines, coming from the San Francisco Bay (California): Gelato (Sunset Sherbet x Girl Scout Cookies “Thin Mint”) is one of the most appreciated exponents of the Cookies family, featuring excellent aroma and high production of THC.

 

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@thestars good luck man, twisted for a mentor u lucky man 😉

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A small update for today. 

Nothing to report apart from the humidity, as its quite low. Christ the temp might be a tad too high too. 

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So maybe a humidifier is another for the wish list. 

As already mentioned in a reply  with colacody about the water. 

I tested the pH of my tap water and I expected to see alkaline water with the pH of 8.5

Dechlorinated water came out at 8.2

Mental how adding a good few drops of vinegar lowered the pH to 4.8

The rain water came off at 7.4 (not shown) 

I now see why there isn't a need for pH up. So you saved me a fiver there macky.

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Just received a second hand Samsung s9. I thought the pictures would come out better than these. Nevermind. Some of them seedlings look like they have trichomes on them, or are they eggs.? 

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Posted by: @thestars

Some of them seedlings look like they have trichomes on them, or are they eggs.? 

could be trichomes but you will see in a few days - no need to worry looking good

just listen to macky

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@james I 2nd that. Looks good so far man. It's a tedious painful time the seedling stage....its looking alright so far tho man. @twisted1 will keep you on the right track

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Thanks you James. I might need macky to step in until twisted arrives. Or maybe you'll keep me right cola 😉

I'm at a stage where I could be using the bio silicon. But I'm going to wait and see if twisted would even want me using it. 

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@thestars your excitement is understandable but now is the time for patience. Everything looks good, wait for your mentors input before changing or adding nutrients mate. At this stage just relax and enjoy your new baby growing. 

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That's a funny one. I liked the above post but the green thumb ain't going green. 

Nevermind. 

Cheesus daily updates for this one. I'm never this enthusiastic without weed. And I have never felt better. Growing weed used to be stressful when you don't have any. I think with the amount of problems I've occurred over the years while growing it has hardened me up. I'm at a stage now where growing might not be for me.

And I'm ready to stop for good. 

But for just one last attempt... Just one last fucking attempt, alongside someone who knows what there doing. Damn I should know what I'm doing as I've been growing for almost a decade 😳

The whole thing frustrates me a tad as away back in 2012 or so.. I was mentoring a friend with his first grow. He ended up with a good 2 oz and the smoke was brilliant. I gave him a loan of my 2 x 125w dual spec cfls and gave him 1 seed of the sugar black rose auto by delicious seeds. I didn't use nutrients back then. It was just what was in the soil.. I remember wanting to buy some of his weed but he wouldn't sell any lol. Poor cnut is dead now. 

I think age has gotten to me. I've forgotten how to dj and I used to love djing. I can't even remember how on earth I managed burn mp3s onto cds. 

But you know what I'm not going to let that bother me. I could be alot worse off still fucking frustrating though.

Anyway it's good to talk shit now an then. 

Here are today sweethearts on day4  nothing to report. 

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My outdoor grow diary will be coming soon too. Seeds are ordered, Just waiting on next week's Scottish weather to be like Spain again so I can get out and start hacking down bushes and setting booby traps lol. 

Cheers one an all

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@thestars looking good man. I think this run will be good for you man. Never give up and if your unsure of something you've always got us and I'm sure @twisted1 will guide you the right way buddy...those little sticks are looking good tho....future looking smokey!

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Good morning / afternoon / evening

Where are we. 

I feel like I've got the corona virus. But I don't have a temperature an I haven't lost my sense of smell however I feel fucking awful.. And it's very hard for me to update my diary at this time.

Anyway just a quickie 

Nothng much to report other than the roots of all the seedlings are coming out the holes in the pot. So I don't know if that means time to pot them up into their final pots. 

It's day 6 or 7 and so far I think everything is looking good.

No nutes yet just plain Phd water.

Temps are stable and the rh is around 60% which is the highest I can achieve atm. 

And now time for some pictures.

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Cheers an all the best. 

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Id wait a week  let them bid more root mass then re pot them  looking good though brother

 

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Good evening percy growers. 

It's been a very difficult past few days. Started to believe that I had caught the fucking virus. As I've never felt so ill in a long time. 

I've not even been up in the attic for 4 days as I don't feel capable upon getting up there. So I had my partner helping me out. Asked her to take some pictures for me.

I think everything is looking good especially now that it's day 8 or maybe day 9. I've lost track 

Anyway she only took one picture. So here is where we're at.

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 Cheers an all the best. 

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Oh I also forget to add to my post.

Has anyone used that eco thrive charge. I got it free with a recent order.

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 Any thoughts 🤔

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Damn mate! hope you feel better soon man, glad you got some one to look after you, and the plants. 

Eco thrive is good man, but dont use too much of it.

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Good afternoon / evening.

I feel so much better today. There is a lot of shit on the go atm other than the fucking corona virus. It's starting to piss me off how they are saying if you have a sore throat you've got covid. A sore cock. Sore asshole. Fucking diarrhea too means you might have covid. I must admit it's worrying when your off smoke.

I'm going to try ever so hard to refrain from smoking weed for the rest of the year. It'll be hard but worth it. 

Any fuck covid 19.

So yea today I feel full of energy. I wonder if It was down to my craving for pickled onions and English mustard. 

Right enough of that. 

It's day 9 and I'm very happy with how these sweet seeds sweethearts are coming on. It's got to be getting close to potting them up.

I've got my 12 litre pots filled an there currently awaiting their new arrivals. 

I think that's about it. 

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Cheers and all the fucking best 

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@thestars coming along VERY nicely man. Very healthy looking🙂

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