Brazilian Diary

I was gonna post only after one week, but the summer is coming and temperatures are climbing as much as a speed climber on Everest!!
External temperatures (max/min): 29/24ºC
Internal temperature (max/min): 31/23ºC

The main situation is some fox tailing happening on all buds, to diminish this effect I lowered down QB power to 80% and will harvest with 20% amber trichomes, but not even one has turned amber (it’s the first day of week 8).

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Problems ahead, maybe… Recently one of the plants has shown dead spots as shown, would it be Calcium Deficiency? It’s strange because onpy one out of 4 plants is like this. Another thing is that I started to omly water feed them for the past two weeks and they are showing overfeed brown tips??? Is this common to happen? pH of water is 6.3

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Another plant for comparison of burned tips

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They are at end of week 8.

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End of week 9 and we are facing high temperatures due to Brazilian summer approaching.
I have been only watering them for the last 3 weeks and all kind of symptoms are showing up, it’s great to learn a bit more of how long it takes them to develop Calcium, Nitrogen, Phosporous or Potassium deficiencies… I also got a little bit of burned tips until now, maybe due to heat stress. Who knows?

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I don’t know if the foxtails are from the heat, or they’re getting a second-wind using up the stored energy, but they look great :grinning:

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It’s good to have some fox tailing as I let them veg less than they really needed :relaxed:

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Getting nervous about my bad timing considering my vegging plants are screaming for another pot. They have been in a 400mL pot for 6 weeks and had to top them again to keep them low…

Meanwhile the flowering plants keep going, I’ll take some close up shots after work.

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Welcome again @zen
Are you using any kind of fertilizer?

This is how I do it, along with companion crops, with great results:

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Looks kinda like a white widow cross. WW has been around forever, soo you could have some decent old school stuff there…white widow, if you breed with this plant be careful as white widow isn’t the best to breed with. The genes are very strong and over several generations most of the crosses end up coming out like white widow.

Edit: typically in breeding, white widow is only used in outcrosses to isolate a specific trait. Because white widow is so “true breeding” it is very well suited for this…

:four_leaf_clover::four_leaf_clover::four_leaf_clover:

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I was using some solid fertilizers with good results, but stopped to give them any nutrient for more than a month now. I’ll cut them in 2 days (lights will be off for 48h)

Thanks for the tips, I didn’t had success this time, had some pollen from the last grow in the freezer, but they had +6 months and my freezer ocasionally was used when friends came over to drink and have a bbq, the temperature variation may have made them spoil…

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A shot from the smallest plant that was at a 700mL pot

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The other 3 plants, it is start of week 12 of flowering and they will be cut in 2 days. Buds are heavy despite of foxtail formation, obviously airy. They have a very energetic vibe, got some small popcorns during the cycle :grimacing:

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One of them after approx. 12 weeks, all of them had 300g when cut. I think I’ll get around 100g dried.

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Another shot

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Looks like they would have kept going if you had a mind to do so. I like my smoke on the early side as well. Looks like it could have gone another 2-4:weeks. What do you think? Indica in there or not? Nice looking plants. Must be some decent brick you are getting. Nice job…

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They flowered for 12 weeks and temperatures are getting higher as Brazilian summer temperatures are ranging 30-35ºC, for sure they could go for more two weeks. Although, there is another batch to go in flowering tent as I wasn’t expecting long flowering from this apparently sativa hybrid.

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I took those 400mL cups out of vegetative closet and put them into flowering box, instead of using pots I made a simple bed with the thing you can see at the photo and it has approx. 50L of soil for 12 plants, hopefully some of them will reveal to be males and will be taken out after. I’ll collect some pollen and do a inbreed pollination and also anothe pollination with pollen sent from a guy who I don’t remember the name now.

These as posted before has been inside 400mL cups since 17th September and were transplanted at 22nd November.
Light schedule is 17/7 due to high temperatures during the day.

Some has already popped some pistils… Not planned…

Each plant were topped twice, so I have 4 main buds.

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Good luck and finding a male in the group.

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