First grow: Blue Widow

Today is day 19 since germination pop. Roots ate spiking out tremendously and plant is really taking off over night… literally. Here’s some pics from oldest to most recent of this morning.

Note that leaves look burnt. Not too sure why they are burning in more recent pics but I’m fine with loosing the very bottom leaves if need be and have considered cutting them to prevent possible spread.
What i find fascinating is the rapid growth over night. If you notice in the most current pics, one pic shows the bigger leaves touching the coco tray while the next pic shows almost a quarter inch (guessing by eyeball) between leafe tip and tray.

I once read a study back roughly 10-12 years ago when i was in high school trying to pop my first seed, (sounds naughty), and read that music can influence the health and the grow of plants such as tomato plants and other flowering and fruit bearing plants. During my junior year in high school, i became very interested in the study of cannabis (keep in mind I’m still green and most info learned has since been replaced with other areas of knowledge) and elected into horticulture along with my agricultural class where i grew… you guessed it, tomatoes…Considering the known fact that cannabis and tomatoes are basically cousins and share similar genealogy and traits, most of anything that you can do with a tomato, you can do with a plant.

To get to the point, i played symphony type music on one tomato and metal on another and for my third, i played a tone if bass, not music but just bass… symphony music and pure bass type tones produced a happier and bigger plant while bass won the charts… my study and conclusion is that since bass sends more vibrations in the sound waves, it affected the plant by strengthening and lightly vibrating the plant further beyond what my eyes could visually see. When you vibrate things, you tend to loosen its structural integrity. When you continually vibrate a growing living organism such as a plant, you loosen the cells allowing more internal flow while strengthening. Consider fans and wind moving plants ans strengthening them in this situation and replace it with vibrations…

Starting next week i will begin experimenting that same study on this blue widow to see how it does.
Study would work better with two grobo units with the same strain and recipe started at the same day. One with music and one without. This would yield better study results for comparison.

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looks good. What kind of water you use

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Currently i am using regular tap water on my refills.

Due to covid and post covid, it has become a chore to find distilled water available at local stores.

Just cut off the dying leaves no point in keeping them they’ll never recover :+1:. Looks okay otherwise

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Youll continue to get leaves like that. If your going to continue buy a water filter jug for your fridge and use that but dont put in your fridge do room temp

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I’m not too concerned over using tap water but i do want to get a filter so i can filter out the chemicals. Next grow i will use that water specifically made for hydroponics.

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Is that what caused that?
I was thinking nutrient burn at first then noticed very small gnat looking flies in my grobo. (I wish it were more airtight andre light tight for the money and less flimsy). I was thinking they might have infected it or spread something. After flushing my system last night, i noticed water on the tray from wetting the coco pod and thought it would dry so i left it. Checked it this morning and leaf tips were sitting in it. (Only a small amount). Water doesn’t seam to evaporate very well which is a good thing for humidity. Here in Texas it’s a drier climate so im not used to moisture lasting as long as it does inside the grobo

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Looking better

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What do you guys think about trimming?
Should i top, lollipop or thin it out right now or should i wait a little more?
Looks like the top bigger gan leaves could go to allow more light to lower branches along with removing a few lower leaves to give more room.
Also, it is day 27

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Yeah you can get rid of the lower growth, and if it’s not an auto you typically want to top it at the 5th node, which you have so I would go ahead and trim/top and extend your veg for another 2 weeks :+1:

Thanks Russell!
I’ll do so when i gett of work

Well… i think i messed it up. What do you guys think?
Heres a before and after.

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:eyes:!!!

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Lmao. When it comes to pruning; it never was my stronghold.

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Took these on 7-14-20 at day 49. Does this look like average height? I would have like to do vegetative phase a bit longer but couldn’t figure out how.

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Go to Maintenance 》Shift Schedule 》Extend

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Just extending it by 7 days. Figured i was too far into the transition stage to go back to veg stage since its been on a 12 hr light schedule for a while. I had no idea that this option was on here… my grobo didn’t come with a manual.

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Yeah, I spent hours on here before pulling the trigger and it made things that much smoother. You know now tho, better late than never! Btw, search the forum and elsewhere on extending during Transition. Some people advise against it, but ultimately we’re all working with different variables and what might be or seem true for one grow may not necessarily apply for another. Either way it’s good to know the general consensus going in.

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This is where i am currently at. Trimmed last night andadded pics from this morning. I am at day 58 and have previously increased the transition stage by 7 days. Is my plant height normal?

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