Radogast's First Indoor Seed Grow - In Search of Mothers

[Radogast]

Love the family.

I went to work with plant left to trim.
I came home to a tray of trimmed branches to hang and washed trim scissors to put away.

What a fun trimming team !

 

[Lester Freeman]

Congrats once again! I am so happy for you! The buds look really great and wonderful. I am sure anybody who uses them is going to be one happy camper

Great job.

 

[shuffledemon]

Well done!

 

[Radogast]

Post harvest observations


#1 - root ball looks fine, she was a 17 week, 41 inch tall, 25 inch wide plant. Expected yield 40 grams.
I think 5 gal could grow a 20% larger plant.

#2 - Staples worked just fine for stem repair. No rust. No shifting. In place for 8 weeks of flower.

 

[Graytail]

Excellent work!

 

[Radogast]

Wait wait !!! We're not done yet.

The final plant from my first grow, White Widow Bellatrix is 17 weeks old, 8 weeks in flower.


I plan to grow her out 3-6 more weeks. I want Amber trichomes

 

[Radogast]

First Harvest: First Bud Washing


It's great how FAST it goes, at 30 seconds per bucket, once you are set up, you can do three ounces of bud in 4-5 minutes.-


I used-
Bucket 1 - one cup baking soda, one cup key lime juice, hot/warm water
Bucket 2 - hot tap water-
Bucket 3 - cool tap water


All three of my harvested plants are smoking Very smooth as oven dried nugs.
The Carmelicious is so smooth that the smoke through a bong creeps until your lungs are FULL.-
Smokes to gray/white ash that blows out of the bowl leaving it clean.-

I am pleased beyond hope at how magnificent my first bud tastes-

 

[KingJohnC]

Congratulations on your harvest!

 

[Chinnubie]

That's one purty cola Rad. I'm gonna wash my buds when I harvest the next batch.

 

[Radogast]

That's one purty cola Rad. I'm gonna wash my buds when I harvest the next batch.

The daughter trimmed that stem. She's grown attached to it

 

[Greenthumb J]

the drying room looks amazing Rado! So happy to hear you have an entire Green family. Time to get the kids growing their own plants now!! Heres some beans kids... stay the hell away from mom and dads stash!!! haha

 

[Greenthumb J]

how your clones looking Rado?

 

[Radogast]

how your clones looking Rado?

My drying room is just two strings near the ceiling of my flowering room :lol:

My clones are looking, well... alive.

They are about 1.5" canopy. They had been 3-4" fan leaves, started growing new leaves, then didn't grow for 5 weeks.
Then the fan leaves feel off, and they but gnats.

I sprinkled diotomaceous earth on the ground surface (feels like baby powder) and 30 gnats went to 2 gnats in one hour.

 

[KingJohnC]

For soil insects I use diatomaceous earth on top of the soil as a barrier, it cuts them as they move through it. I bought my diatomaceous earth from an animal feed store, do not use the type meant for pool filters. Diatomaceous earth can also be placed into a squeeze bottle and puffed onto leaves and stems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous earth

 

[Greenthumb J]

For soil insects I use diatomaceous earth on top of the soil as a barrier, it cuts them as they move through it. I bought my diatomaceous earth from an animal feed store, do not use the type meant for pool filters. Diatomaceous earth can also be placed into a squeeze bottle and puffed onto leaves and stems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous earth

suggestion for gnats/insects in hydro?

 

[KingJohnC]

suggestion for gnats/insects in hydro?

You can try several things to kill fungus gnats in hydroponics. You can try a 5 millilitre per gallon of 3% hydrogen peroxide nutrient solution your reservoir to kill fungus gnats in your reservoir. Mosquito dunks can be used in a hydroponic nutrient solution.

https://www.homedepot.com Mosquito Dunks 6 Pack

 

[trichomes]

great harvest RADO i'M CURRENTLY GROWING MY FIRST, oops WhiteWidow now.

i like the bud wash share, too

 

[trichomes]

RADO, HAVE YOU LOOKED AT YOUR TRICHOMES AFTER WASHING?

i'D LOVE TO KNOW IF THEY GET BEAT UP IN THE WASH,

OR DO THEY LOOK THE SAME AFTER WASHING???? VERY MUCHO

 

[Greenthumb J]

For soil insects I use diatomaceous earth on top of the soil as a barrier, it cuts them as they move through it. I bought my diatomaceous earth from an animal feed store, do not use the type meant for pool filters. Diatomaceous earth can also be placed into a squeeze bottle and puffed onto leaves and stems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous earth

Seen a close up of a fungus gnat.. not what i have.. they look more like shore flies, which upon reading is much less harmful than the gnats! thank god!. any ideas for eradication of these buggers? i've only seen one, maybe 2 flying around near the plants and out from the root mass. no more than that.

 

[KingJohnC]

I would use yellow sticky traps for the adult flies and either 5 millilitre per gallon of 3% hydrogen peroxide nutrient solution in your reservoir to kill the flies in your reservoir or Mosquito dunks.