Grumpy Toad's Fall Fruity Fiasco

[Grumpy Toad]

End of week three

Four of the original seeds are doing great (Lemon Jeffery, Orange Runtz Cake, Strawberry Gelatti and Midnight Moonlight). The second Orange Gasm seedling is looking good too. The Indiana Bubblegum seed came up mutated (photo below). I pulled mutated the seedling and started soaking another seed. This is a freebie from Ethos, Mandarin Cookie Haze R1. If this one takes a dump I will be good with five plants.

I've stopped doing any daily top watering on the four larger plants. I figure the tap root has now made it's way to the reservoir and we are on auto pilot. I'll nurse the other two until they don't need it. I added a layer of expanded clay pellets to each bucket. Pellets were well rinsed before using.

I started a humidifier in the lung room. The RH in my tent had dropped under 45% and I felt it needed to be higher. It is now running 51-55% RH. This brings things closer to VPD sweet spot. I'm feeding at 0.8 – 1.0 EC.

I'm not sure how I will train these yet. I'm going to wait a few weeks and see if they dictate how they want to grow.

Mutant:



Rest of the girls:

[Marcus]

Looks like I've popped in just as stuff starts growing!

Good luck Grumpy! Give TerpDog a kiss from me.

I'm rootin for the mutant!

[Grumpy Toad]

Looks like I've popped in just as stuff starts growing!

Good luck Grumpy! Give TerpDog a kiss from me.

I'm rootin for the mutant!

The mutant is pushing up daisies. Mandarin Cookie Haze R1 is taking her spot.

[Grumpy Toad]

End of week 4

I have all six buckets going now after several failed starts. The original 4 are doing well and the two late bloomers are catching up. No changes in feed or environment. I still haven't decided on topping/training yet. Here's a couple photos:

[Wrh]

Your girls look lovely grumpy no red stems and proper perky great start in life I'd say

[Grumpy Toad]

An update to the grow. I have one plant, Strawberry Gelatti, that has curling on the leaf edges. All the others are fine. I guessing this strain has some need the others don't? My feed for all the plants has been Advanced Nutrients Rhino Skin (silica) mixed in the night before anything else. Advanced Nutrients base (8 ml/G), CalMag+ (2ml/G), Hydroguard (2ml/G), Mammoth P (.5ml/G). Environment has been rock solid. 79-81F and 55% RH with lights on and 74-75F and 55% RH with lights out. I've had a couple spike on both temp on RH. 82F and 62% RH for highs, 70F and 45% RH for lows. Anyway I'm baffled. Lights are a meter above the plants and there isn't any hard air blowing on the plants. So..............WTF? Warts and all!

Edit: I just fed yesterday with fresh nutes. So I'm thinking wait a day and see if it is the same or worse. If worse I'll mix up a weak batch of nutes, make sure ph is good and re-fill the reservoir.

Edit #2: I used my laser thermometer to check leaf surface temps and all are 71 - 72F.

Edit #3: ph of nutrients was 6.4 and EC was 1.16.

[Grumpy Toad]

End of week 5


I topped the Lemon Jeffery, Strawberry Gelatti and Orange Runtz Cake. All were topped above the 6th node. The other plant from the original four is Midnight Moonlight and it is really short and squat. I think it will just get some LST. The Orange Gasm is really picking up speed. The youngest and smallest is the Mandarin Cookie Haze. It's looking good but needs some catch-up. I've added LST clips here and there, where I think they will do some good.

The plants are now using up enough feed to start feeding every fourth day, instead of every 5th day. I'll monitor runoff and adjust schedule to try and maintain around 10%.

Sticking with same feed, lights, etc. The only change is I have stopped using the humidifier. The RH is running about 57% on average without any inputs. I'm sure the dehumidifier will be coming into play soon. I cleaned the screen on the dehumidifier after having it get clogged up on my last run. I am not really chasing VPD but my target temps and humidity seem to hover around that zone. I've got some screenshots from my AC Infinity app showing the temps, relative humidity and VPD for the last week. Close enough for me.

[seymore_budz]

Lovely looking plants Grumpy! The hempy bucket method is awesome right? :) The curling at the edge of those leaves looks like heat stress to me. Nothing to worry about and if you're in the UK it's probably due to this late heat we're experiencing.

Good luck with the grow!

[Grumpy Toad]

Lovely looking plants Grumpy! The hempy bucket method is awesome right? :) The curling at the edge of those leaves looks like heat stress to me. Nothing to worry about and if you're in the UK it's probably due to this late heat we're experiencing.

Good luck with the grow!

I'm pretty much sold on Hempy Bucket. I been having decent success so far.

[wutang]

An update to the grow. I have one plant, Strawberry Gelatti, that has curling on the leaf edges. All the others are fine. I guessing this strain has some need the others don't? My feed for all the plants has been Advanced Nutrients Rhino Skin (silica) mixed in the night before anything else. Advanced Nutrients base (8 ml/G), CalMag+ (2ml/G), Hydroguard (2ml/G), Mammoth P (.5ml/G). Environment has been rock solid. 79-81F and 55% RH with lights on and 74-75F and 55% RH with lights out. I've had a couple spike on both temp on RH. 82F and 62% RH for highs, 70F and 45% RH for lows. Anyway I'm baffled. Lights are a meter above the plants and there isn't any hard air blowing on the plants. So..............WTF? Warts and all!

Edit: I just fed yesterday with fresh nutes. So I'm thinking wait a day and see if it is the same or worse. If worse I'll mix up a weak batch of nutes, make sure ph is good and re-fill the reservoir.

Edit #2: I used my laser thermometer to check leaf surface temps and all are 71 - 72F.

Edit #3: ph of nutrients was 6.4 and EC was 1.16.

I've got exactly the same.

Mine maybe light or maybe the heat weve had. Its not gone above 28c in temps though - not sure, as they've grown right up to the LED board (my fault)

Could be my feeds as I've gone up to 3ml a and b with the pk and buddy added. I use the coco range.

I have increased my lights from 70% to 80% power from 245 to 300w - so I'll see if that's potentially the cause if it makes it worse.