Con1ey's Viparspectra V900 grow journal. Blue Cookies

March 4th.

Here we are at harvest time. I have been watering daily with pH balanced dechlorinated tap water with ppm 150. Everyday my runoff ppm went from 750ppm to 550ppm to 350 and today got 150ppm. The fan leaves have started to yellow a tiny bit. I started the flushing process at week 7 with the first signs of amber trichomes on the sugar leaves. Now it's perfect where I like it, with little amber present on any of the buds, and all flushed.

This is the nutrients I used. I feel you you almost have to be a chemist to grow with synthetic nutrients. I fed at 900ppm - 1300ppm through flower depending on how much it was up taking. I would measure runoff ppm and pH the whole grow to make sure everything was on check and a lockout didn't occur.

Please excuse any mess.



I highly recommend the API pH test kit over the cheap electronic pens. You know you are getting accuracy with the drops.



I dechlorinate using 5 gallon buckets with holes drilled in the lids. I use just a $12, 2 line air pump from Walmart with 6 in. air stones. I also use Clorox OTO drops to test for any presence of chlorine. It takes 2-3 days to dechlorinate 5 gallons of tap water.

Anyone may feel free to comment.

I use Fox Farm Ocean Forest. One bag will fill one of my 10 gallon fabric grow pots. After using this soil for a few grows and rigorous testing, I have found a few downsides to using this soil. First it is loaded with nutrients. Runoff ppm starts at 2000ppm and will maintain this level for much of the veg period. A month later ppm's would have slowly dropped to below 1000ppm and could add one or two doses of Grow Big before flipping to flower. The second problem is that peat moss is acidic by nature. So of course runoff pH is very low at start. I water with unadjusted pH 7.6 dechlorinated tap water at start. And still get very low pH in runoff, in the 5's. A month later right when you are ready to flip to flower everything stabilizes including pH. Beware of high ppm and low pH runoff early on.

I got it all cut and hanging out to dry. This time I will be removing the fan leaves wet, then doing a dry trim on all the sugar leaves. I got so much pot! This was a successful harvest!

I aim for 16 days at 60 degrees and 60% humidity. I can never get it exactly that being in my basement but try to get it as close as possible (68 degrees and 50% rh in my ao). When the colas snap I put them in Mason jars with 62% Boveda packs and mini hydrometers to monitor the humidity.

Ended up getting 340 grams or exactly 12 ounces of dried cured bud.

Was using 774 watts.

If I am calculating right that would be 340 / 774 = .44 gram per watt.

I promise better efficiency this time and have started a new grow with the 500w KS5000 grow light with 2 plants instead of 1. You can check it out here .