Seaweed Farms
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Hello 420,
I have started my first grow, yay! I started this grow back in March or so. I first ordered seeds.
Strains: Green Crack, Amherst Sour Diesel, and Blueberry.
All but the ASD died shortly after germ or didn't germ at all. I found out later this was due to me drowning them.
So starting in April I had 1 Amherst Sour Diesel. I vegged this poor girl under a 25 w LED. Its safe to say I was poor and as inexperienced in this as it gets.
In June I'm still vegging this one ASD plant that won't give up, bless her leaves she's looking good too. I received 2 Gorrila Glue and 2 Bruce banner clones from a friend as well as a seed that I believe to be Capers. I bought a "1000 watt LED"(actual draw is something like 137w but it was very very cheap so I'm not mad.) I bought a 4x4x7 grow tent, some smart pots and all the other essentials.
Mid July comes and the Gorrila Glue and the ASD are finished vegging. Due to finacial restraints I couldn't start flower until almost August when I bought a 1000 watt ballast, 1000 w hortilux super lumen, and a cool tube reflector.
After I had everything set up I put the Gorrila Glue and the ASD into the tent to flower and I put the Bruce Banner and Capers into my closet with the LED to veG.
August 18th 2016- I am on day 20. The Gorrila Glue has stretched magnificently. The ASD is actually quite short and squat but I'm not concerned, just showing some of her indica genes I suppose.
I should take this time to say, that the ASD is actually not like the classic Sour D that we all know and love. While Sour D has some amazing sativa affects the Amherst Sour Diesel actually leans indica. About 60/40 according to HSO's website. Its a cross of pre-90's chemdawg and Amherst Super Skunk
2 main phenos seem to come from this strain, one heavy producer with decent resin production and an amazing smell. The second is a less productive, more resinous pheno used in breeding.
Since the beginning, I've been using Michigan Made Mix M3 super soil. As a beginner I put all my faith into this company and their product and so far, I have zero complaints. Aside from the obvious lack in control you have over what you feed your plant, things have been rolling really smoothly. Every deficiency I've seen has been due to lack of soil or messed up pH. I've read a few posts about people using this soil and needing amendments towards the end. I'm starting to see some evidence of this, but I'm not convinced it isn't caused by an ongoing problem I'm working on with my ph.
The 2 Bruce Banners and the Capers are doing really really well. All three are growing Too fast for my schedule, I'll have to find a way to flower all 6 at once or veg the 3 in a bigger area. The Bruce Banners sit at about 16" with LST. The capers are maybe 6"-10" tall, however I did some massive LST a few weeks ago. She's loving it though, in the last 2 weeks all of her leaves have quadrupled in size and her branches have doubled their length.
I've done a mixture of topping and LST to all my plants to try and increase my yield. I however, have not done much defoliation. Too many times I've seen posts about extreme defoliation really kicking you in the teeth at harvest. In almost all really successful harvests I've seen, there is not an extreme amount of defoliation.
Not much else I can think of. I'm on day 20 of flower. They're starting to get frosty, and everyone is looking pretty healthy.
Here is the most recent pic of my flower tent, I believe this was something like day 15.
I will post pics of each plant and veg/flower area later.
Advice, questions and general discussion are all very much welcomed and enjoyed.
I'm terrible at documenting things but this is something I care about and want to improve constantly so I will be doing my best to add to this journal daily, if nothing else but with some bud pics and replies.
Sent from my VS985 4G using 420 Magazine Mobile App
I have started my first grow, yay! I started this grow back in March or so. I first ordered seeds.
Strains: Green Crack, Amherst Sour Diesel, and Blueberry.
All but the ASD died shortly after germ or didn't germ at all. I found out later this was due to me drowning them.
So starting in April I had 1 Amherst Sour Diesel. I vegged this poor girl under a 25 w LED. Its safe to say I was poor and as inexperienced in this as it gets.
In June I'm still vegging this one ASD plant that won't give up, bless her leaves she's looking good too. I received 2 Gorrila Glue and 2 Bruce banner clones from a friend as well as a seed that I believe to be Capers. I bought a "1000 watt LED"(actual draw is something like 137w but it was very very cheap so I'm not mad.) I bought a 4x4x7 grow tent, some smart pots and all the other essentials.
Mid July comes and the Gorrila Glue and the ASD are finished vegging. Due to finacial restraints I couldn't start flower until almost August when I bought a 1000 watt ballast, 1000 w hortilux super lumen, and a cool tube reflector.
After I had everything set up I put the Gorrila Glue and the ASD into the tent to flower and I put the Bruce Banner and Capers into my closet with the LED to veG.
August 18th 2016- I am on day 20. The Gorrila Glue has stretched magnificently. The ASD is actually quite short and squat but I'm not concerned, just showing some of her indica genes I suppose.
I should take this time to say, that the ASD is actually not like the classic Sour D that we all know and love. While Sour D has some amazing sativa affects the Amherst Sour Diesel actually leans indica. About 60/40 according to HSO's website. Its a cross of pre-90's chemdawg and Amherst Super Skunk
2 main phenos seem to come from this strain, one heavy producer with decent resin production and an amazing smell. The second is a less productive, more resinous pheno used in breeding.
Since the beginning, I've been using Michigan Made Mix M3 super soil. As a beginner I put all my faith into this company and their product and so far, I have zero complaints. Aside from the obvious lack in control you have over what you feed your plant, things have been rolling really smoothly. Every deficiency I've seen has been due to lack of soil or messed up pH. I've read a few posts about people using this soil and needing amendments towards the end. I'm starting to see some evidence of this, but I'm not convinced it isn't caused by an ongoing problem I'm working on with my ph.
The 2 Bruce Banners and the Capers are doing really really well. All three are growing Too fast for my schedule, I'll have to find a way to flower all 6 at once or veg the 3 in a bigger area. The Bruce Banners sit at about 16" with LST. The capers are maybe 6"-10" tall, however I did some massive LST a few weeks ago. She's loving it though, in the last 2 weeks all of her leaves have quadrupled in size and her branches have doubled their length.
I've done a mixture of topping and LST to all my plants to try and increase my yield. I however, have not done much defoliation. Too many times I've seen posts about extreme defoliation really kicking you in the teeth at harvest. In almost all really successful harvests I've seen, there is not an extreme amount of defoliation.
Not much else I can think of. I'm on day 20 of flower. They're starting to get frosty, and everyone is looking pretty healthy.
Here is the most recent pic of my flower tent, I believe this was something like day 15.
I will post pics of each plant and veg/flower area later.
Advice, questions and general discussion are all very much welcomed and enjoyed.
I'm terrible at documenting things but this is something I care about and want to improve constantly so I will be doing my best to add to this journal daily, if nothing else but with some bud pics and replies.
Sent from my VS985 4G using 420 Magazine Mobile App
