High Everyone 
This will be my second journal...the first one of which I'm sad to say was abandoned as I had some drainage issues and the plant died. But both grows have been in my high-rise condo that is fortunate enough to have ridiculous amounts of natural sunlight, privacy, and space. I kind of stumbled upon finding some seeds last year, and thought it would be fun to try and grow with as little money as possible. While she actually grew amazing to start, after we transplanted she eventually died because of drainage problems with the new pot (confirmed once the autopsy was done, the roots became rotten.
Nonetheless, had a friend who had a clone he was willing to part ways with this winter - and so we (roomie) decided to go again, this time with a slightly larger budget, increased from $20 - to about $150 (plus electricity costs). As is still the case, we planned on using a hybrid of indoor lights + natural sun while available, maximizing light and minimizing costs.
Storm Trooper Strain (Crystal Storm X + Jedi 41 Y)
Coco Coir
CANNA Coco Nutes, CALMAX, AZOS, Mykos for Veg State
Bud Candy added during Bloom for first trial
PH 5.9, Alternating between just PH balanced water and Nutes every 3 to 4 days.
3 x 24w CFL Full Spectrum bubls, + 1 45W LED (1/3 Blue to 2/3 Red)
Grow Box made of U-Haul Wardrobe Box, lined with emergency mylar blankets).
When we got her as a clone:
About a week and a half later, only under artificial light.
One more week - we gave her a haircut, and then put her into 12/12.
About a week and a half into bloom - starting to show her pistils.
Here's our very budget friendly grow box! - $10 at U-haul for their wardrobe box, and $8 in mylar emergency blankets from outdoor sports store. Complete with wire hangers to hang the lights. This box also helps to maximize the sun while it's out (especially during the low-light months).
Then the addition of the LED light about a week later (already into bloom stage - not ideal, but hey, on a budget right?).
Flowers coming in full force, 3 weeks after bloom.
You can see her size - not too much bigger than when we started blooming her.
About 2 weeks later, 5 weeks, into bloom, only about 3 more weeks until harvest
Buds starting to fill out, and trichomes really starting to get thick on the leaves a few days later.
A week later.
And right before we cut the tops off, we then let the bottom colas go about a week longer as the trichs weren't quite done.
After the tops cut off.
In total, we got about 1.5oz of solid buds, and about 3/4 oz smaller but smokeable buds.
And then all done. Planning to reveg, I left a number of bud sites intact on the bottom 3 branches.
So..now on to the fun part, the reveg. We pulled out the plant, trimmed all the roots down to a 3 inch wide root ball and gave her new soil, and put her back into 18/6 lighting.
Started with a quarter strength fertilizer that had a little bit of both veg and bloom nutes. We weren't quite sure what to expect with the reveg, but knew that we would soon be receiving an absurd amount of sunlight that would help in our efforts.
After a few weeks of not seeing any developments except decaying of old leaves, some new ones finally started to show on one of the branches.
We started giving her full strength nutes and she began getting much more sunshine after a rainy/snowy spring. She pretty much stayed the same, with the addition of a few mangy leaves every once in a while. The pic below is two weeks later.
But then, she flipped the switch so to speak and began to grow at an exponential rate. 7 days later...
3 days later
2 days later
4 days. We are now a month and a half from the original harvest, and one month from the sign of the first revegged leaves.
Now, I could see that she was growing healthy, but damn.
3 days later..
Pistils already coming in!
4 days later, even during some rainy days she was growing and bulking up.
We decided at this point to clone her, and cutting off some of the top colas to help it canopy.
How she looked after the cloning.
6 days after cloning and topping, she didn't slow down at all.
4 days later, she's becoming a monster. She's now at least twice the size of when we originally put her into bloom. We are now exactly 2 months from harvesting originally.
LOOK AT THAT NEW GROWTH ON THE TRUNK!!!
It has nearly completely enveloped where we cut her off before revegging her. The trunk itself has tripled in diameter in only 30 days.
So that's it for now! I'll definitely keep this thread going, and let you know the difference from the original harvest vs. the reveg harvest. We are planning to start the bloom cycle in about 3 weeks - by then we expect she'll be over 60 inches tall given her current growth rate of nearly an inch a day! And then she will be enjoying that hot long summer sun to give her ridiculous buds this time around.
Thanks for reading, and stay posted! Anyone else have similar experiences revegging??
This will be my second journal...the first one of which I'm sad to say was abandoned as I had some drainage issues and the plant died. But both grows have been in my high-rise condo that is fortunate enough to have ridiculous amounts of natural sunlight, privacy, and space. I kind of stumbled upon finding some seeds last year, and thought it would be fun to try and grow with as little money as possible. While she actually grew amazing to start, after we transplanted she eventually died because of drainage problems with the new pot (confirmed once the autopsy was done, the roots became rotten.
Nonetheless, had a friend who had a clone he was willing to part ways with this winter - and so we (roomie) decided to go again, this time with a slightly larger budget, increased from $20 - to about $150 (plus electricity costs). As is still the case, we planned on using a hybrid of indoor lights + natural sun while available, maximizing light and minimizing costs.
Storm Trooper Strain (Crystal Storm X + Jedi 41 Y)
Coco Coir
CANNA Coco Nutes, CALMAX, AZOS, Mykos for Veg State
Bud Candy added during Bloom for first trial
PH 5.9, Alternating between just PH balanced water and Nutes every 3 to 4 days.
3 x 24w CFL Full Spectrum bubls, + 1 45W LED (1/3 Blue to 2/3 Red)
Grow Box made of U-Haul Wardrobe Box, lined with emergency mylar blankets).
When we got her as a clone:
About a week and a half later, only under artificial light.
One more week - we gave her a haircut, and then put her into 12/12.
About a week and a half into bloom - starting to show her pistils.
Here's our very budget friendly grow box! - $10 at U-haul for their wardrobe box, and $8 in mylar emergency blankets from outdoor sports store. Complete with wire hangers to hang the lights. This box also helps to maximize the sun while it's out (especially during the low-light months).
Then the addition of the LED light about a week later (already into bloom stage - not ideal, but hey, on a budget right?).
Flowers coming in full force, 3 weeks after bloom.
You can see her size - not too much bigger than when we started blooming her.
About 2 weeks later, 5 weeks, into bloom, only about 3 more weeks until harvest
Buds starting to fill out, and trichomes really starting to get thick on the leaves a few days later.
A week later.
And right before we cut the tops off, we then let the bottom colas go about a week longer as the trichs weren't quite done.
After the tops cut off.
In total, we got about 1.5oz of solid buds, and about 3/4 oz smaller but smokeable buds.
And then all done. Planning to reveg, I left a number of bud sites intact on the bottom 3 branches.
So..now on to the fun part, the reveg. We pulled out the plant, trimmed all the roots down to a 3 inch wide root ball and gave her new soil, and put her back into 18/6 lighting.
Started with a quarter strength fertilizer that had a little bit of both veg and bloom nutes. We weren't quite sure what to expect with the reveg, but knew that we would soon be receiving an absurd amount of sunlight that would help in our efforts.
After a few weeks of not seeing any developments except decaying of old leaves, some new ones finally started to show on one of the branches.
We started giving her full strength nutes and she began getting much more sunshine after a rainy/snowy spring. She pretty much stayed the same, with the addition of a few mangy leaves every once in a while. The pic below is two weeks later.
But then, she flipped the switch so to speak and began to grow at an exponential rate. 7 days later...
3 days later
2 days later
4 days. We are now a month and a half from the original harvest, and one month from the sign of the first revegged leaves.
Now, I could see that she was growing healthy, but damn.
3 days later..
Pistils already coming in!
4 days later, even during some rainy days she was growing and bulking up.
We decided at this point to clone her, and cutting off some of the top colas to help it canopy.
How she looked after the cloning.
6 days after cloning and topping, she didn't slow down at all.
4 days later, she's becoming a monster. She's now at least twice the size of when we originally put her into bloom. We are now exactly 2 months from harvesting originally.
LOOK AT THAT NEW GROWTH ON THE TRUNK!!!
It has nearly completely enveloped where we cut her off before revegging her. The trunk itself has tripled in diameter in only 30 days.
So that's it for now! I'll definitely keep this thread going, and let you know the difference from the original harvest vs. the reveg harvest. We are planning to start the bloom cycle in about 3 weeks - by then we expect she'll be over 60 inches tall given her current growth rate of nearly an inch a day! And then she will be enjoying that hot long summer sun to give her ridiculous buds this time around.
Thanks for reading, and stay posted! Anyone else have similar experiences revegging??
6 weeks into bloom!
