So at around day 35 you start using your AN nutes? Or do you start a little sooner but with a diluted dose? I use the AN pH Perfect line as well, also use Rhino Skin to give the stalks extra strength, helps support big buds! But I use ProMix not FF soil, altho thinking of changing for next run with new autopot system getting for Xmas! Finish using the AN stuff on outdoor plants this summer.
Looking good for 4 weeks, youâll get a nice harvest off of those!
tragedy hits the tent in more ways than one
Weâre about 15 days in from transplant everythingâs looking really good but I made a huge huge rookie mistake. And used to advance nutrients pH perfect system. You basically donât even check the pH when using the pH perfect system.
Although Iâve been documenting all of my runoff numbers I wasnât paying attention to them. On the morning water I noticed that the runoff pH had dropped a 4.7 I quickly review the numbers from the few previous waterings and noticed that I had the dreaded Fox farm Happy Frog pH swing.
Basically Happy Frog soil had some serious issues in certain runs where the pH dips very low regardless of you controlling the 6.5 pH level going in. Although my girls werenât quite affected yet it was only a matter of time before everyone got sick and a disaster was coming. I immediately start to research this as I have had nothing but success in the past and never experienced this problem.
There were very few solutions and most of them didnât work from what I was reading it seemed that lime added to the soil could help but only in about 20% of the cases. These are autoflowers theyâre unforgiving to certain things and I felt this would be one that could tragically hurt the girls by locking them out of everything.
I went with my gut feeling that the only way to get on top of them was to flush the pre-charged soil and start my own nutrients and let the pH perfect system do its thing. The gamble paid off 
I was able to discharge down to 1800 PPM and about 6.1 runoff pH this would allow me one or two more just Waters before I started adding my nutrients and to see if the pH stayed up.
Luckily everything worked out and now weâre 30 days into the grow and everything is looking beautiful the girls are getting extremely bushy
Typically youâre correct. At about 35 days watering normally you would run off all of your pre-charged nutrients from Happy Frog soil. However, me personally I want to start the nutrients that I want to put in the plant a lot sooner so from the minute I transplant I run off every feed making my pre-charged soil only last about 2-1/2 weeks
When the ppms of my runoff hit 800 to 900 I will start feeding them reduced doses of advanced nutrients. Basically I utilize the runoff and that tells me how much I can feed it on the next feed. It becomes nothing but a mathematical process.
Okay I wanted to leave this part out but I guess I got to put it out there anyway. Most of you know me Iâm a clumsy person. If itâs going to happen and youâre grow itâs going to happen to me!
I was about 10 days into the grow and if you notice from the above list of plants that I have Chemdawg was the one that I really wanted badly. It is such a wonderful stain.
So weâre at 2 weeks into the grow. itâs early in the morning I got a lot going on in the tent Iâm at a coffee. Iâve got the plants pulled out to water them and inspect them Iâm dealing with limited space I generally sit on a black milk crate to do all my work in the tent
I go to sit on the Black milk crate and the crate felt spongy and my A$$ felt wet. You guessed it I sat on the damn plant. I smashed it flat as a pancake and it let off a dank smell of weed that stretched two blocks. So Iâm assuming the weed smell of dankness is simply a defense mechanism for the plant?
I used every three and four letter word you could possibly imagine I was so pissed off I get up I look at the plant the fact that she was approximately 15 days old her stems hadnât hardened yet they were still flexible so nothing physically broke in half I basically super cropped every stem in her body.
Not giving up I apologized to her I even bought her a toy. I gave her a little kiss and put her back in the tent. 2 days after I sit on her I started seeing White hair. Yep I forced her into flowering!
There is a bright side. She lived she bounced back she is stunted she is flowering but sheâs alive happy and healthy
Say hello to my little friend
What a wild ride catching up. Lol. I havenât sat on a plant, but Iâve put heavy things on top of them before. They bounce back fairly quickly, and youâd never know unless I told you. The plants are very resilient.
Awesome journal so far, Iâm definitely strapped in for the ride, Iâm sure there will be more excitement in the future, but hopefully not for your sake. Lol.
Happy growing! 
Okay, weâre not even 30 days into this grow and we done went to hell & back.
Letâs get into some positivity I want to take you back to yesterday all the girls have been happy and healthy theyâre 29 days old everybody was looking good. Bushy as can be getting ready for the stretch this is where I like to take the opportunity to Tea-Bag the girls (I believe you call it lollipopping)
I know a lot of people like to wait until after the stretch I like to do it before the stretch as I can hit them with some adjusted low stress training and lollipopping all in one sitting.
Some may say why would you do all that one time possibly having a threat of stressing them out. Thatâs a great question. One would think itâs a little much nonetheless Iâve not had any plants stress in doing these two procedures if doing it right at 30 days and the veg.
(Did I just ask myself and answer my own question?) Lord help me 
Okay so here we are day 29 today weâre all caught up on the first part of my grow!
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Okay guys hereâs where I need your opinion. This is a little thing but it can get confusing.
My seeds pop dirt on November 23rd (exactly 29 days ago today) I have no idea what week of what stage my girls are in. Iâve got a couple that have been flowering for 2 weeks now some that are in pre-flower some that havenât even began to flower.
This is what I consider it (and Iâm sure itâs wrong but I want your feedback)
Seedling stage.
starts when I put it in a Solo cup to soak. I call it seedling stage ended the day I transplanted???
Vegetation stage.
Vegetation stage starts the second the seed is transplanted???
Flowering stage
I consider flowering stage starting four to five weeks after veg or once you have some bud sites forming LOL ???
Help me out with this guys
Haha guess only time will tell!
In all sincerity I donât really care when the stage starts begins or ends. When I feed my plants I donât feed them as what stage theyâre in. I feed them is how much they want to eat.
The only reason I need to know how many weeks are they in flower is because you know dog gone well as soon as I ask somebody about my trichomes theyâre going to say âhow many weeks of flower is itâ⊠LOL
Bud sites forming, takes about 2 weeks. (Some 1.5 weeks but letâs keep it simple)
After that two week of stretching, and putting out pistils, I would count week 1 of flowering after all pistils emerged, and stretch is complete.
I know itâs not exact, this is my opinion. Others may have different input.
Itâs one of those questions that is never really been proven to be accurate. Iâve always been told three to four different methods of telling and none really is worse than the other.
In the nutrients that I use some are to be used during certain weeks some are used during just flower. So I came to the conclusion that it canât hurt when you think youâre in the last week of veg continue to veg for an extra week.
It can always be made up in flower
Thatâs fair. Different way of putting it.
Youâre right though, everyone has their own perspective and Iâve learned to appreciate everyoneâs different viewpoints.
Going through the Happy Frog dreaded soil PH drift set the grow back ever so slightly.
Once you flush/discharge the pre-charged soil you have to replenish it. Weâre talking nutrients, fungi, and microbial life. Iâve only had three feeds since correcting the issue.
First I had to replace the microbial life then I had to feed the microbial life and I had to get some slight nutrients back in the girls that was on the first feed.
The second feed I had to continue with the microbial life and the fungi also providing food for the fungi in microbial life that theyâll thrive on
By doing these things to the soil which I find most important and priority you canât get a lot of Base nutrient feed into your mix or your risk overfeeding as the EC would be much higher than it should so the plant takes some sacrifices to get the microbial fungi and soil all back to normal and thriving.
This morning feed I concentrated on just base nutrients. After going through a traumatic event with the soil a strong base nutrient only feed was well needed and much appreciated by the girls.
They wonât eat again until Sunday possibly Monday where theyâll get Cal mag and base nutrients only.
Once that feed is over Iâll be back on a normal schedule, the girls should be happier than ever, and I can start adding some of my additives that they have not had yet.
The moral to this story, be very vigilant of Happy Frog soilâs pH runoff. When you see the numbers swinging. Seek help
Im glad to say for a multitude of reasons my shit show is coming to an end at leastvthe auto flower part of it anyway
Congratulations on your harvest 
Finally someone else likes the dyno!! Im inđ.
@Lostgirl Tagging along for the show! Not sure I did the tag the right way. Still figuring out the ins and outs of a forum.
Do you ever top your autos? I go from water until tail, to final pot of soil, and top ~20 days above groundâŠseems like thatâd be a timing issue with transplanting 
